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RELIC CHEST MADE FROM PARTS ATTRIBUTED TO ‘OLD CHARLES No.
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RELIC CHEST MADE FROM PARTS ATTRIBUTED TO ‘OLD CHARLES No.
See original version (French)
Estimate €2,000 - €3,000
Voluntary lot
Description
RELIC CHEST MADE FROM PARTS ATTRIBUTED TO ‘OLD CHARLES No. 1’, ONE OF AS GEORGES GUYNEMER’S AIRCRAFT
Made of ash, aluminium and brass, decorated with ribbons, laurel leaves and a butterfly.
Rectangular base bearing an old handwritten label on the underside: ‘Made by my (…) from the wreckage of the Nieuport fighter “Le Vieux Charles No. 1” belonging to Sergeant Guynemer ….
Vadelancourt, March 1916.
(…) from the wing – a natural fragment of the propeller, aluminium and mahogany from the cowling’.
Apart from the aircraft’s number cut out from the (…)”
H.: 44.5 cm
W.: 76 cm
A reliquary made from parts attributed to the ‘Vieux Charles No. 1’, one of the aircraft flown by the ace Georges Guynemer
Provenance: - Marielle de Ferré de Péroux, war godmother and volunteer army nurse;
- Then passed down through the family.
See original version (French)
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