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Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,000
HARALD 2e. GRANDE SEMAINE D'AVIATION DE LA CHAMPAGNE. 1910. 40x29 1/4 inches. Condition B: expertly replaced top margin; vertical and horizontal folds. A brown eagle, shadowed in black, is flying past the slate gray silhouette of the Reims' cathedral, followed by a fleet of similarly colored planes; lettering in dark blue. Advertising the second annual flying tournament at Reims the image "offers a lordly eagle as symbol of man's newfound supremacy in the heavens" (Villard/Allen p. 61), but can also be interpretted to represent mankind following mother nature into the sky!
