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Auction: 20025 - Historical Documents, Postal History and Autographs
Lot: 732A

Italy
Italian Aeronautical Ephemera
A large collection of archival photographs (c.1,000 different photographs) housed in 16 folders and well organised, Ex. the Ala Littoria airline, most with corresponding official archival envelopes. Highlights include photographs (3) of the Princess and Maharaja (Krishnaraja Wodeyar IV) of Mysore, the 'Volta Conference' (7), Carlo Celcroix visiting the hangers after his accident resulting in his blindness (5), the future King Hassan II of Morocco as a child and his father, future King Mohammed V of Morocco, photographs with Japanese officials inspecting an airplane named Kamikaze, a series showing the Sorci Verdi (Green Mice - S.M. 79 'Sparviero') planes, a large number of air to ground photographs from visits to Africa and Egypt - one album of which complete with negatives, and one album of Society Aerea Mediterranea photographs

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£1,000

Starting price
£1000