Oct 14, 2014 - Sale 2360

Sale 2360 - Lot 40

Price Realized: $ 5,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
HAROLD MCCREADY (DATES UNKNOWN) IMPERIAL AIRWAYS. 1929.
30x19 3/4 inches, 76x50 cm. John Horn Limited, London & Glasgow.
Condition A-: repaired tear through bottom edge into image; minor creases, abrasions and restoration in margins and image.
Pictured at London's Croydon Airport is the Armstrong Whitworth Argosy Mk I, The City of Wellington, which operated for Imperial Airways between 1926 and 1935. The plane initially flew the London to Paris route. Only three of these particular three-engine aircraft were ever constructed. L'Histoire de l'Aviation p. 110.