Dec 01, 2011 - Sale 2263

Sale 2263 - Lot 710

Price Realized: $ 281
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
(ZEPPELINS--AMERICAN and BRITISH.) Group of 4 images of American and British airships, including vintage photographs. Various sizes, condition noted; framed. not examined out of frames. Vp, vd

Additional Details

"Los Angeles." Image of the airship standing vertically, 11x14" format silver print "Los Angeles." Lovely tinted silver print of the airship moored in a barren landscape, by Clements, 9x16 1/4" sight size. 1925 "Los Angeles." "Leaving Hangar, Naval Air Station, Lakehurst, N.J. Oct, 1923." Panoramic tinted silver print, by Clements, 30x5 3/4" sight size; minor dampstaining along right edge British R-100 at St. Hubert Airport, Canada. 10x13 1/2" sight size; Royal Canadian Air Force insignia in the negative. Circa 1930.
It is interesting to note that the "Los Angeles" was actually constructed in Germany under the guidance of Eckener as the LZ126. It was built for the United States Navy as part of the German war reparations.