Beschreibung:

Aviation Postcards. A loose-leaf postcard album of approximately 86 postcards, early 20th century, contained in transparent pockets (1 or 2 per pocket), the 1st pocket containing an admittance card for the October 1911 Concours d'Aeroplanes Militaires de Rheims, the collection comprises monochrome photographic images of the Concours, including the hangars, the aerodrome, onlookers, and the various aircraft and pilots involved, plus numerous other monochrome images of early French aviators and aircraft, including: Roger Sommer, a Maurice Farman biplane, Louis Bleriot, a Bleriot monoplane with Gnome 100 HP engine and another with a Gnome 140 HP engine, several postcards recording the death of Rene Bedel (with newsclipping adhered to one verso), Voisin biplanes, Hubert Latham, Maurice Prévost in the monoplane 'Deperdussin', Jules Védrines, Charles Terres Weymann in the monoplane 'Nieuport', and in a Farman biplane, the 'monoplane cuirasse Antoinnette' or Antoinette military monoplane, a Breguet biplane, a Hanriot monoplane, the Paulhan triplane, a Wright biplane, the airship 'Colonel Renard'a hot air balloon, and other similar images, many unidentified, some appear to be original photographs, one with postage stamp on image side (not unusual for the time) and ink manuscript on verso, most unused, some spotted or with variable surface damage, a few with brown stain to lower edges, the album lacking its front cover (Qty: 1)