Irish Coins & Historical Medals

Ost-West-Ozeanflug der Bremen [First East-West Transatlantic Flight of the Bremen], 1928, silver medals by the Prussian mint (3), conjoined busts of Fitzmaurice, Köhl and von Hünefeld right, rev. aeroplane above the waves, 36mm (FMB 211; Kaiser 927). Extremely fine or better £30-£40

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Irish Historical Medals, the Property of a Gentleman.

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Provenance: DNW Auction M2, 11 July 2006, lot 2731 (part).

The sensational flight on April 12-13, 1928, was from Baldonnel Airport, Ireland to Greenly Island on the borders of Labrador and Quebec where the plane landed on ice. The crew included the Irish Major James Fitzmaurice, as first pilot, flying a Junkers W-33, named Bremen. All three received the Freedom of the City of Dublin for their achievement