Fine Arts · Lotto 4995
[Aviation]. Lot
of ±60 photographs of scenes on board aircraft carriers and showing various fighter aircraft with details of the gunner's cockpits or the gunner's position in the aircraft, between 10,5x6 cm. and 24x19 cm., mostly ±1940-1950 and mostly press photos w. stencilled clipping pasted onto back.
- Lotto
- 4995
- Sezione
- FINE ARTS - PHOTOGRAPHS
- Stima
- 70 € – 90 €
- Aggiudicato
- 100 €
- Foto
- 2 foto
Note
Inluding many pictures of aircraft carriers and planes active in Asian seas. Photographs show i.a. F-84 Thunderjets on board the U.S. Navy Aircraft Carrier "Sitkoh Bay", a Walrus seaplane landing on the deck of a carrier, various merchant ships converted into miniature aircraft carriers, H.M.S. Victorious, H.M.S. Formidable, a crash landing of a Seafire on a British carrier and a Fairy Swordfish flying above a carrier. Also incl. several British aircrafts, i.a. Wallace aircraft, Beaufighter, Fairy Firefly two-seater reconaissance plane, Boulton Paul "Defiant" MK1, and Blackburn "Roc".