140* Cotswold Aero Club. A group of photographs depicting Clubhouse and Members with their Aeroplanes and cars, c.1930s, comprising four double-album pages with appended photographs and snapshots featuring Club DH ‘Moth’ GABER and Desoutter Monoplane G-AAPU, ‘celebrity’ aviators Dee Bissett and Cliff Dredge, Dick Northway’s 30/98 Vauxhall and others, variously captioned and dated, believed possibly Staverton, together with a further group of unrelated pre-war Aero club and aviation snapshots etc. (-)
£100-150
Lot 142 142* Early Aviation. A group of twentyseven quarter-plate film negatives, c.1910, depicting aviators, aircraft, officials and spectators at an early air race/exhibition in Belgium, each 9 x 7.5cm, together with a group of sixteen modern black and white photographic prints made from these negatives (43)
141 Early Aviation. An album containing twenty-nine window-mounted and loose early aviation snapshots, including Lanser, Namur 1910, monoplan Franchomme, Berchem 1911, an aeroplane constructed by Marcel Gourmont and another photograph signed by him, and including some photos of airships, approx. 8 x 10.5cm and smaller, some ink annotations to versos and pencil annotations in French to mounts, contemporary cloth, rubbed, 8vo (1)
£150-200
£300-500
143* Early Aviation. A group of seventeen vintage gelatin silver print photographs of grounded biplanes, mostly by Aircraft Manufacturing Company Ltd and F.N. Birkett, occasional spotting and soiling, creasing and marginal tears, 22 x 28.5cm, together with six smaller vintage photos, one of a de Havilland seaplane, the others showing a propeller workshop, each 11 x 15cm, plus an early motoring photograph, framed and glazed (24)
£150-200
144* Hendon Aerodrome. A group of early 20th-century original photographs including “Hendon Aerodrome 22nd May 1911”, a group of original contact print-sized studies taken by Major Henry BannermanPhillips for the Scientific American Journal magazine in 1911, including Gustav Hamel and Horatio Barber, Bleriot and Valkyrie aircraft types, each captioned in pencil verso, together with a further group of pioneer period photographs taken at Hendon Aerial Derby 1913 including some with press and photographer’s wet-stamps (FN Birkett and others), and with a further group of later black and white images of French aviators, c.1920-30s, captioned verso, contained in two ring-binder folders, together with Hendon Aerial Derby, c.190119, a quantity of early flying programmes and ephemera including entry-forms, prints, press releases, promotional flyer for Daily Mail and Evening News, “Waterplane Tour” by Claude Grahame-White, and promotional sales brochure for GrahameWhite Aircraft Commercial and Pleasure Machines dated 1919, and related material (-)
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£150-200