Auction Catalogue

1 March 2000

Starting at 1:00 PM

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Ancient, Celtic, British and World Coins. Historical and Art Medals. British and World Banknotes

The Regus Conference Centre  12 St James Square  London  SW1Y 4RB

Lot

№ 935

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1 March 2000

Hammer Price:
£60

Medals Related to Aviation, France, Oser!, 1922, a bronze plaque, unsigned, for the 1st Congrès Experimental Français d’Aviation sans Moteur, held by the Aero-Club d’Auvergne, view of Clermont Ferrand and the Puy de Dome, reverse glider above legend in seven lines, 59 x 50mm (cf. BDW 18, 495). Very fine (£40-50)

After early experiments by pioneers such as Otto Lilienthal and the Wright brothers before the advent of powered flight, interest in gliding revived in the early 1920s, when German designers created more efficient machines characterised by extremely long-span slender wings which could produce greater lift at lower speeds, allowing the glider to travel further horizontally for a given drop in altitude