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Medals Related to Motoring & Motor Sport, France, Automobile Club de France, silver prize medal (with traces of gilding), 1894-1895, to “Deschamps”, legend, reverse woman seated in chariot among clouds, 68mm, cased (Gaz. Num. 1898, p. 23, 57). Extremely fine, lightly cleaned (£50-70)

Deschamps, a member of a company specialising in the building of speed boats, participated in the 1905 Folkestone to Boulogne race.