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Auction: 4020 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 58

The Pilot's Badge of Mrs Catherine de Beauvoir Stocks A unique and exceptionally fine badge, the silver backing-plate (HM B'ham 1911) engraved on the reverse MRS C. DE BEAUVOIR STOCKS / Licence Nº 153 / London Aerodrome / 7th Nov 1911, the obverse of pale blue enamel mounted with the Arms of the City of London in white metal and enamel, within a laurel-wreath bearing deep-blue enamelled scrolls inscribed CERTIFICATED PILOT / GRAHAME-WHITE. AVIATION SCHOOL (minor damage to enamel on the City Arms) Estimate £ 1,000-1,500

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