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Auction: 4020 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 52

A scrap-book of Aviation Events in 1910 An album, with cloth cover 121/4 in. x 10 in., containing 30 pages all copiously mounted / interleaved with newspaper cuttings from July / August 1910, including the Bournemouth, Blackpool and Lanark Meetings, deaths, notably that of the Hon. C.S. Rolls, many crashed aircraft and injuries, the Tsar of Bulgaria becoming the first monarch to fly, complaints about "deadheads" (spectators who watched aviation meetings without paying the entrance fee), experiments in aerial bombing (using oranges) and news of the planned formation of a military aviation service Estimate £ 40-60

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£90