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Lot 342
Sale 1344 - American Historical Ephemera and Photography
May 31, 2024
10:00AM ET
Live / Cincinnati
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Estimate
$500 -
700
Price Realized
$889
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Lot Description
[TRANSPORTATION - AVIATION]. SOLON, Albert, artist. Lignes Aeriennes Farman / De L’Antiquite a Nos Jours. Paris: Publicite Ch. Egler, ca 1920s.
26 1/2 x 18 in. (sight) poster, framed, 29 1/4 x 20 1/2 in. (toning, some staining, creasing, few repaired tears near top and right margins, unexamined outside frame). Signed lower right in the print by Albert Solon, who designed several aviation posters for Farman Airlines as well as Air France.
RARE: Only one other copy has sold at auction; only one institutional copy has been located at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum.
French aviation pioneer Henri Farman (1874–1958) and his brothers founded Farman Airlines in 1919, which later merged with Air France in 1933.
Property from the Collection of Dr. K. William Harter, Alexandria, Virginia
This lot is located in Cincinnati.