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A collection of aviation-related display items comprising: -…
See original version (French)
143
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A collection of aviation-related display items comprising: -…
See original version (French)
Estimate €50 - €80
Voluntary lot
Description
A collection of aviation-related display items comprising:
- A glazed plaster ashtray in the shape of a question mark, surmounted by a jointed bust of the pilots Coste and Bellonte, signed ‘A.VINCENT’ on the rim and marked ‘3A’ beneath the base.
Height: 22 cm – Width: 15 cm
Note: Pilots Coste and Bellonte, Polish aviators, completed the first Paris–New York flight in 1930, crossing the Atlantic in 37 hours. They crashed whilst flying their Breguet 19 TR ‘superbidon’, better known as the ‘Question Mark’.
- Decorative piece featuring the Air France logo in steel, marked ‘Concorde Air France’ in the bottom right-hand corner.
Length: 11.5 cm – Width: 6 cm
- Two Air France ashtrays, one an octagonal clear glass ashtray (chipped) and the other a circular blue ceramic ashtray. Both marked with the Air France logo.
Diameter: 11 cm
Diameter: 7 cm
- A leather-covered steel tabletop petrol lighter featuring the Transport Aérien International logo (stained, functionality not guaranteed); a small promotional Airbus lighter is included.
Height: 6 cm – Width: 8 cm
- Small patinated bronze bust by Mohon depicting Captain Saint-Exupéry, marked on the base ‘Aéroport de Saint-Exupéry’, dated 29 June 2000 and numbered 600/601.
Height: 15.5 cm
- Stainless steel aircraft turbine blade bearing a serial number.
Length: 7 cm - Width: 7 cm
- Patinated bronze commemorative medal marking the east-west crossing of the North Atlantic by Coste and Bellonte.
- A patinated bronze commemorative medal bearing the effigy of Jean Mermoz (1901–1936), mounted in a frame of veined black marble.
Diameter: 9.5 cm
- AIR INTER Airbus A330 stickers.
- Air France leaflet, ‘Air Services from Paris’, including agency addresses and flight departure times for the period from 3 October 1937 to 26 March 1938.
- Trans-World Airlines promotional booklet ‘La Migliore Flotta Area Del Mondo’, illustrated with photographs from the 1930s.
- Map of Air France routes in Europe, the Middle East and North Africa.
A globe-shaped lamp is included.
A modern piece.
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