BALLOON MAIL
Auction 198 | Lot 1185
Opening bid
300
€
1820, handwritten debenture from CHARLES GREEN at ROBERT COCKING from 1820 over the sum from 19 pound for performed work, reverse a little reinforced, Green was the seeming most important British balloonist of its day, the in his live round 500 balloon trips undertook, beneath 1836 a record Distance trip to Weilburg in Nassau with the balloon \"Royal Vauxhall\", Robert Cocking was already multiple with parachute jumped off, fell however 1837 by a descent from the from Charles Green steered balloon \"Nassau\" in the Death, rare document same of two early, famous balloonist
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