Pioneer Aviation. An Art Nouveau desk compendium circa 1910, the aeronautical presentation desk piece in the Kaysertsinn style, depicting a fine representation of a “Taube” type monoplane surmounting a pedestal flanked by twin covered tapered-square concealed inkwells with generous frontal pen tray; of variously white-metal and other metal formerly silver plated, the well detailed aeroplane having rotating propeller, pilot in cockpit and fluted ribbed wings, the central escutcheon decorated with fruiting swags and with engraved inscription in Cyrillic or Eastern European language suggesting a trophy for an aviation event, stamped no. 288 to underside, shows age-wear and oxidation to plating and loss to wing-bracing, lacking glass ink-wells
Pioneer Aviation. An Art Nouveau desk compendium circa 1910, the aeronautical presentation desk piece in the Kaysertsinn style, depicting a fine representation of a “Taube” type monoplane surmounting a pedestal flanked by twin covered tapered-square concealed inkwells with generous frontal pen tray; of variously white-metal and other metal formerly silver plated, the well detailed aeroplane having rotating propeller, pilot in cockpit and fluted ribbed wings, the central escutcheon decorated with fruiting swags and with engraved inscription in Cyrillic or Eastern European language suggesting a trophy for an aviation event, stamped no. 288 to underside, shows age-wear and oxidation to plating and loss to wing-bracing, lacking glass ink-wells
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