Medals price surprises
NZPA-Reuter London Medals awarded to an eccentric millionairess who helped finance the first plane flight over Mount Everest have fetched more than five times their expected price at a London auction. Dame Fanny Houston was awarded the silver medals in 1933 for her part in providing funds for two small aircraft to fly over the world’s highest peak. The London auction house, Sotheby’s, expected the medals to go for about £350 (about 5850), but the Royal Air Force Museum in London paid £1760 (about $4260). “The Times” in London issued the medals, which disappeared in 1936, the year Dame Fanny died, but were discovered on a London market stall nearly 30 years later. An actress in her youth, Dame Fanny inherited £7 million when her third husband died.
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Press, 6 March 1985, Page 6
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