Search Results for: Picture postcards
Lot Number: 713
| Date: Picture postcards Est. price: £15.00 Category: Ephemera Description: 1919, attempted non-stop Atlantic crossing, unused original B&W PPC showing Harry Hawker's in civies with his wife and two colleagues. On May 18, 1919 – Harry Hawker and Lieutenant Commander Kenneth Mackenzie-Grieve attempted a non-stop Atlantic crossing but were forced to ditch their aircraft only 2,253 km (1,400 miles) after leaving Newfoundland. London's Daily Mail newspaper awarded them a prize of £5,000 for their attempt anyway. |
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Lot Number: 714
| Date: Picture postcards Est. price: £20.00 Category: Ephemera Description: B.C. Hucks in Bleriot Monoplane, and in his aircraft looping the loop. An original unused sepia PPC. Following his demonstration flights in the north of England early in 1913, he carried out the series of flights advertising the product of the Robert Sinclair Tobacco Company Ltd and, subsequently trained purposefully to fly upside-down. His career ended when he was killed in the First World War. |
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Lot Number: 715
| Date: Picture postcards Est. price: £15.00 Category: Ephemera Description: British Airways purple/yellow/grey/black repro poster card showing BA hostess dressed in smart c1938 uniform and 'Paris-Germany-Denmark-Sweden' text. |
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Lot Number: 716
| Date: Picture postcards Est. price: £15.00 Category: Ephemera Description: DH Dragonfy, G-ADNA, in flight, original unused Valentine's B&W photocard. 14x9cm. |
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Lot Number: 717
| Date: Picture postcards Est. price: £18.00 Category: Ephemera Description: Gustav Hamel standing by his machine comma original unused B&W PPC. |
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Lot Number: 718
| Date: Picture postcards Est. price: £16.00 Category: Ephemera Description: Henri Salmet in the cockpit of his Bleriot monoplane taken during the Daily Mail Circuit of Britain 1912, original unused B&W photocard. |
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Lot Number: 719
| Date: Picture postcards Est. price: £15.00 Category: Ephemera Description: Imperial Airways liner Heracles about to Land with Royal Mail car waiting on tarmac in the foreground,attractive colour PPC of an original poster by Richard Blake. |
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Lot Number: 720
| Date: Picture postcards Est. price: £10.00 Category: Ephemera Description: Imperial Airways "Ensign" air liner in flight, fine original Valentines B&W PPC, unused. Armstrong Whitworth's third airliner type, the Ensign, was the largest machine built in pre-war days for Imperial Airways Ltd. and, like the Atalanta, was a four-engine high-wing cantilever monoplane |
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Lot Number: 721
| Date: Picture postcards Est. price: £15.00 Category: Ephemera Description: Imperial Airways Heracles on tarmac at Croydon Airport, 1929, B&W Pamlin PPC, unused. |
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Lot Number: 722
| Date: Picture postcards Est. price: £20.00 Category: Ephemera Description: Imperial Airways, original B&W photocard showing luxurious interior of the lying boat Scylla, unused. Imperial Airways used the Scylla for scheduled flights from London to Paris and other European cities. Two aircraft were built, Scylla (G-ACJJ) and Syrinx (G-ACJK). Both served with the airline until its merger into BOAC in 1939 and both were taken out of service the following year. |
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Lot Number: 723
| Date: Picture postcards Est. price: £15.00 Category: Ephemera Description: Jersey Airways DH88 on the tarmac, original Tuck's sepia PPC, used. |
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Lot Number: 724
| Date: Picture postcards Est. price: £15.00 Category: Ephemera Description: London International Air Post Exhibition 1934, souvenir postcard depicting the 1911 Coronation Aerial postcard with Ariel Post Box Closed design, unused. |
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Lot Number: 725
| Date: Picture postcards Est. price: £40.00 Category: Ephemera Description: Syndicato Condor "Via Condor" promotional New Year and festive season concessionary colour PPC, light/dark blue PPC showing plane silhouette over South Atlantic with "Boas Festas" and Xmas candle flown from Brazil, 31/12/1936, to Germany, circular black 'Transoceonica/Condor Zeppelin Lufthansa/Brasil-Europa' flight cachet. Scarce. |
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Lot Number: 726
| Date: Picture postcards Est. price: £15.00 Category: Ephemera Description: The Mayo Composite Aircraft 'Maia' at moring c1938, B&W Foynes Flying Museum photocard. |
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Lot Number: 727
| Date: Picture postcards Est. price: £15.00 Category: Ephemera Description: Wilson Airways, unused reproduction PPC taken from an original WA red/blue/black and cream poster, showing artist's impression of DH biplane VP-KBA flying over palm trees. The same poster was chosen to illustrate the front cover of Bill Colley's "East African Airmails". |
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