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Auction: 4020 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 53

A Set of Magic Lantern Slides Eight metal-framed slides, numbered 17 to 24, illustrating Chapter III of The Conquest of the Air, together with a printed commentary, the coloured slides depicting respectively the Wright biplane, an Antoinette, Blériot's monoplane landing at Dover, Farman's Voisin at Blackpool, M. Paulhan at the controls of a biplane, the Hon. C.S. Rolls over Dover Castle, an imaginary naval battle showing aircraft attacking warships, and another imaginary scene, of aeroplanes and dirigibles in flight above Trafalgar Square, the slides approximately 31/4 in. square overall, in their original cardboard box Estimate £ 80-120

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