Nov 15, 2010 - Sale 2230

Sale 2230 - Lot 86

Price Realized: $ 3,360
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,000
JAMES GARDNER (DATES UNKNOWN) IMPERIAL AIRWAYS / ROUTES [WORLD MAP.] Circa 1939.
23 3/4x38 inches, 60 1/2x96 1/2 cm.
Condition B+ / B: repaired tears and restoration in margins and image; trimmed.
Pictured are the Centaurus, a Short Empire Flying Boat that was transferred to the Royal Austalian Air Force in 1939, and the eponymously named Armstrong Whitworth AW27 Ensign, which Imperial Airways first put into service in 1938.