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Auction: 313 - Numismatic Collector's Series - Ft. Worth, TX
Lot: 1508

World War I: French Aviation Exceptional group featuring early French aircraft and pilots. Includes five Photographs of French ace GM Guynemer, 1917, one posed with Georges Clemenceau beside a an aircraft. With folio menu from the dinner of the 203rd air squadron, December 6, 1917, with image of a French cannon firing at a German plane, Signed on verso by ten French aviators, including Col Wateau, later head of the French Aviation Mission to the US. Other photos depict air acrobat Barker (creator of the ´Circle of Death´) in early plane; several others show early planes in flight, one inscribed and signed on verso by pilot. With group photo of a dinner, inscribed and signed by Emile Regnier and the Count de Chateaubrun. With an interesting photo of US Lt Col Myron S Prissy, the first to explode a bomb from an aircraft, along with Philip Parmalee, together in an early airplane. Additional items include a notice of armistice, an order signed in type by Gen Philippe Petain, and a DS of the commander of Escadrille 29, November 5, 1914, concerning a French plane with Sgt Robinet as pilot and Lt Wateau as gunner, the shooting down of a German fighter in October 1914, and a report of various air battle engagements. All in all, a fascinating and varied group worth viewing. VG. [20]

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