AVIATION PRECURSORS - ERINNOPHILY / CARTOPHILY. CIRCUIT DE L' EST D' AVIATION - Meeting of August 1910, 1st stage PARIS-TROYES. Postcard no. 12, nice shot of "the crowd cheering the aviators"; above the lawn Blériot Antoinette airplane - VIGNETTE HOLDER OF THE ARRIVAL AT TROYES (August 7-8-9). large serrated vignette, ultramarine blue, 39 x 54 mm, city profile and commemorative inscriptions of this stopover city (Silombra V 6). vignette lithographed by Paton in Troyes, design by Demeurles, engraver Brunelair.

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