£1,400 - £2,000
EARLY/PRE WWI AVIATION HISTORY: A remarkable 1908-10 range of used & unused PPCs mounted on annotated leaves in box file inc. 1908 posted card depicting a balloon accident in Nancy; 1908 posted card depicting a Farman biplane on a Camp de Chalon to Reims flight, plus 4 others with different views; 1909 cards depicting flights & the pilots Paulhan, Latham, Tissandier, and Lambert; 1910 Semaine or Fetes d'Aviation cards for Miramas, Niort, Nice, Lyon, Vesoul, Reims, Marseille, Nantes, Rouen, Caen, Le Havre, Bordeaux, Dijon, Cognac, or Bourges; a set of 6 cards depicting the Amberieu Inauguration of Aerodrome; 14 cards for the Circuit de l'Est; 2 real photograph PPCs (contemporary notes on front) showing the monoplane flown by Moisant for the first Paris to London Flight; 8 cards of the Dijon Fetes d'Aviation inc. 2 of a crashed plane both with large purple ringed "AERODROME/22,23,24,25/Septembre/1910/DIJON-AVIATION" cachets on front, one with label for the event adjacent; and other related examples. Many with event labels and/or cachets. Very comprehensive difficult to replicate group in v. fine condition. (147 cards) Cross Reference: AIR MAIL COVERS, AIRCRAFT, AIRSHIPS/BALLOONS
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