31st Jul, 2020 11:00

Books & Works on Paper including Aviation & Transport
 
Lot 133
 

Etrich Taube monoplane.

Etrich Taube monoplane.-

A flying scale model of an Etrich Taube monoplane, two-seater wooden cockpit, with model pilots, fabric-covered wooden fuselage, decorated with German insignia in chalk, soiled, wings adjustable by bracing wires, one partially detached, rubber-tyred main undercarriage, tail skid, motor with dummy engine and vertical exhaust stacks, wooden propeller, wing span 1290mm, length 1030mm.

***In 1911, Italian aviator Giulio Gavotti dropped the world's first aerial bomb from his Taube monoplane, over the Ain Zara oasis in Libya.

Sold for £156

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