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France, Ministère de l’Air, 1936, a gilt-bronze presentation ballooning medal by M. Betannoy, a tethered balloon, another, behind, in free-flight and a gyrocopter, service trucks below, rev. CONCOURS D’HONNEUR DE L’AEROSTATION, named, (Epreuve de Ballon Libre 1er Prix, Commandant Guyard, de la 52e Demi-Brigade 1936), 80mm (Malpas –). Extremely fine and rare; in fitted leather case of issue, lid blocked [Ministère de l’Air] (£120-150)
Perhaps the earliest medallic representation of a gyrocopter
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