Feb 11, 2010 - Sale 2202

Sale 2202 - Lot 7

Price Realized: $ 1,320
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
FIRST MAN TO FLY ACROSS THE ENGLISH CHANNEL BLÉRIOT, LOUIS. Photograph Postcard Signed and Inscribed, "à M. Charles Frelat / L. Blériot," image showing the aviator standing in the cockpit of his monoplane waving to a crowd. Signed in the image at top left. Approximately 3 3/4x5 1/2 inches; postage stamps on verso. Np, nd

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Blériot (1872-1936) was a pioneering aviator and engineer, who built the monoplane in which he became the first to cross the English Channel in a heavier-than-air machine.