Aviation Postcards. A well-presented collection of 234 mostly real photo postcards of aeroplanes and aviation interest, mostly published c. 1940s and earlier, covering the history of aviation from the earliest flights including inventors and designers of flying machines prior to the First World War, featuring machines such as Cocking inverted parachute 1836, Henson's Aerial Courage, 1842, Orville & Wilbur Wright, Count von Zeppelin, Maxim's Flying Machine, Cody's Cathedral biplane, etc., and continuing with aircraft manufactured up until the end of the Second World War, including British, American, French and German fighters and bombers, postally unused with Real Photographs Co. stamps and similar to versos with pencil ID, all with neat manuscript trimmed ID stickers to blank margins of front of postcards, neatly arranged in chronological order in sleeves and 2 plastic postcard ring binders The collection was compiled and used by the Royal Observer Corps (ROC) Gaydon, Warwickshire from the end of the Second World War through to the late 1960s and covering the Cold War period.
Aviation Postcards. A well-presented collection of 234 mostly real photo postcards of aeroplanes and aviation interest, mostly published c. 1940s and earlier, covering the history of aviation from the earliest flights including inventors and designers of flying machines prior to the First World War, featuring machines such as Cocking inverted parachute 1836, Henson's Aerial Courage, 1842, Orville & Wilbur Wright, Count von Zeppelin, Maxim's Flying Machine, Cody's Cathedral biplane, etc., and continuing with aircraft manufactured up until the end of the Second World War, including British, American, French and German fighters and bombers, postally unused with Real Photographs Co. stamps and similar to versos with pencil ID, all with neat manuscript trimmed ID stickers to blank margins of front of postcards, neatly arranged in chronological order in sleeves and 2 plastic postcard ring binders The collection was compiled and used by the Royal Observer Corps (ROC) Gaydon, Warwickshire from the end of the Second World War through to the late 1960s and covering the Cold War period.
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