?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,000
RAYMOND TOURNON PORT AVIATION GRAND QUINZAINE DE PARIS. 1909. 63x47 1/4 inchs. Bougard, Paris. Condition B+: repaired tears, creases and minor losses along vertical and horizontal folds and in margins. "The propellers had scarcely stopped turning at the world's first great aviation meet at Rheims in August 1909, when an October Fortnight was held at the town of Juvisy's self-styled Port-Aviation some nineteen kilometers south of Paris. Shown in this poster are a high-winged, two-seater Bleriot Model XII monoplane . . . and an early-model Wright biplane preparing to take off." (Looping the Loop p. 48). Looping the Loop pl. 30.
