Auction e-002

10 January 2025

AIRMAIL
Lot 7008
Lot 7008
Opening bid
2.000
BF
1859, professor T. S. C. LOWE, US-More american aeronauts, aviation Pioneer, famous balloonist and designer, later in the civil war from abraham lincoln inserted Leader the military balloon and aerial clarification, letter from Oneonta NY 11.11.59 with 3 C at professor T. S. C. Lowe from the time, in the he his reckless Atlantic crossing prepared, addressed at". T. S. C. Lowe, crystal Palace Grounds", where the with more then 31 m in the diameter huge balloon "city OF NEW YORK" built became and early November 1859 for a first test flight with fluid filled became, the liftoff must however because to small delivered gas volume to be broken off, the second mutilation resulted in spring 1860, the idea the transatlantic crossing was however by the civil war finished. Very early aeronautical document, in the direct temporal frame to the liftoff of the astonishing project of particular importance, besides on face with delivered reply note of the professor
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