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Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
IMPERIAL AIRWAYS / THE MOST LUXURIOUS FLYING BOAT IN THE WORLD. Circa 1936. 243/4x39 inches. Ben Johnson & Co., London. Condition B+: repaired tears in margins; vertical creases in image. Matted and Framed. An intricate and informative image from the Golden Age of travel, showing in full, first-class, detail a cross section of The Canopus (S. 795 G-ADHL). In 1934 British Imperial Airways ordered 28 of the flying boats and here we are shown both the inner and outer wonders of the craft and told many of her statistics.
