AUTOGRAPHS, LETTERS & MANUSCRIPTS
By International Autograph Auctions
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Dec 3, 2020
Urbanizacion El Real del Campanario. E-12, Bajo B 29688 Estepona (Malaga). SPAIN, Spain
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LOT 646:
AVIATION: A vintage postcard photograph depicting Roger Sommer seated in a Farman biplane on an airfield ...
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Sold for: €130
Start price:
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150
Estimated price :
€150 - €200
Buyer's Premium: 25.5%
VAT: 17%
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AVIATION: A vintage postcard photograph depicting Roger Sommer seated in a Farman biplane on an airfield, individually signed in pencil to the verso by four pioneer aviators comprising Roger Sommer (1877-1965, French Aviator who broke the record for flight duration in 1909), Hubert Le Blon (1874-1910, French Aviator; died at the young age of 36 in an exhibition flight in Spain), Samuel F. Cody (1867-1913, American Aviator, the first man to fly an aeroplane built in Britain, 1908) and Louis Schreck (1874-1941, French Aviator & Industrialist). With an ink annotation in an unidentified hand indicating that the signatures date from October 1909 (and were therefore most likely obtained at the first Aviation Meeting at Doncaster in 1909). Some light age wear and a minor tape stain to the upper white border of the image, G
