Aviation | The Centenary of the Ross & Keith Smith flight and the 50th Anniversary of the Moon Landing (#450) Closed Auction Info PDF Prices Realized View ▼ Items per page 102550100 Sort by DefaultTime LeftLot#Lot NameNewestHighest PriceLowest PriceBids (Low - High)Bids (High - Low)Views (Low - High)Views (High - Low)Relevance Filter By Categories Category match ANY of the aboveALL of the above Featured Exclude closed lots Price Lot Number Results: Viewing items 1-34 of 34. Previous|1|Next Lot #12 [PHOTOGRAPH] A Gas Bag That Bored The Huns, [HMA "23", Vickers Airship], 1917. Vintage silver gelatin photograph, titled in pencil with various annotations in pencil and crayon verso, 50.5 x 60cm. View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,250StatusCLOSED! Lot #13 Qantas co-founder P.J. McGINNESS' WWI military service memorabilia comprising Anzac Medal inscribed 'P.J. McGINNESS' with presentation box, plus Anzac lapel badge, dog tags, hatband, buttons, patches, and Saoirse Creidim 1829-1929 Liberty Bell pin. View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Price Realized$1,600StatusSold Lot #14 1919-20 London to Adelaide framed Air Race Flag (300x235mm) in brown and gold on beige, fringed on three sides, illustrated with Vickers Vimy 'G-EAOU' Biplane, signed by Ross Smith, Keith Smith, J.M.Bennett, & W.H.Shiers, together with a photo-postcard of the flag being displayed at the 1938 Air Mail Exhibition at Christchurch, and a letter of thanks to the owner. View details Estimate$4,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold Lot #15 Mar. 23 1920 Adelaide 'Welcome Home' invitation and programme dedicated to 'To Captain Sir Ross Smith and Crew', 'Tendered by Members and Friends of the 3rd Light Horse Regiment', held at the Tivoli Theatre, Grote Street, Adelaide. SymbolD View details Estimate$250 - $300Price Realized$220StatusSold Lot #16 1920 John Martin & Co (Department Store, Adelaide) advertising fan produced to commemorate Ross & Keith Smith's "AERIAL FLIGHT/ENGLAND to AUSTRALIA/1919" showing map of route and flight schedule with inset images of Ross & Keith Smith, some minor edge blemishes and very light spotting. Rare survivor. View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$440StatusSold Lot #17 1920 official souvenir programme for the "The Sir Ross Smith Flight" printed in sepia with the original pictorial cover (small blemishes & spotting, edges reinforced with tape), 8pp staplebound, illustrated with two full page photographic portraits of Ross & Keith Smith plus vignette photographs of Shiers & Bennett, the Vickers Vimy aircraft and scenes from the flight taken from the air, on the inside back cover is a timetable of the flight; SymbolL View details Estimate$150 - $250Price Realized$260StatusSold Lot #18 "The First Aeroplane Voyage from England to Australia" by Sir Ross Smith published by Angus & Robertson (Sydney, 1920) with 27 Aeroviews of Sydney and NSW towns by Capt. Frank Hurley, signed by Ross Smith, Keith Smith and Frank Hurley at a farewell lunch held at Sydney's Metropole Hotel, some staining & blemishes to cover and page edges. Signed examples are extremely rare. SymbolL View details Estimate$300 - $400Price Realized$600StatusSold Lot #19 "The First Aeroplane Voyage from England to Australia" by Sir Ross Smith published by Angus & Robertson (Sydney, 1920) with 27 Aeroviews of Sydney and NSW towns by Capt. Frank Hurley, minor cover blemishes. SymbolL View details Estimate$150 - $200Price Realized$120StatusSold Lot #20 24 April 1921 Ross Smith signed letter headed "76 Jermyn Street/S.W.1" to a Mrs Tweedie asking for advice on expanding the article he wrote for The National Geographic Magazine about his England to Australia flight into book format and requesting suggestions as to how to source a publisher. Ex Frommer. SymbolD View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$340StatusSold Lot #21 "The Mechanical Principles of the Aeroplane" published by Macmillan (New York, 1921), a scarce technical manual on the physics of aviation with plenty of mathematical detail and diagrams, an aviation-related bookplate pasted to the inside front page, 277pp octavo-sized hardbound with gilt-lettered cloth cover. SymbolL View details Estimate$200 - $250StatusCLOSED! Lot #22 27 May 1924 Goble & McIntyre circumnavigate Australia commemorative menu for a dinner at Menzies Hotel, Melbourne "To Honour Wing Commander S.J.Goble and Flight-Lieutenant I.R. McIntyre and to commemorate their Circumnavigation of Australia by Seaplane April 6th to May 19th, 1924." With a tipped-in itinerary of the flight which covered 8446 miles in 92 hours, 50 minutes flying time. [See AAMC.70 - no known covers]. SymbolD View details Estimate$200 - $250Price Realized$160StatusSold Lot #23 CELEBRATING BERT HINKLER'S FLIGHT FROM ENGLAND TO AUSTRALIA, 1928 A Columbia 78 rpm recording, both sides devoted to Hinkler speaking about 'Incidents of my Flight' & 'Hinkler's Message to Australia,' recorded 13th March, 1928, two weeks after his triumphant arrival. Signed by Hinkler in the dead wax on both sides; accompanied by sheet music for a fox-trot titled 'Hustling Hinkler,' Lyric by L. Wolfe Gilbert; Music by Abel Baer. (2 items). "Hustling Hinkler up in the sky Fair or windy he's flyi View details Estimate$400 - $500Price Realized$460StatusSold Lot #24 SHEET MUSIC CELEBRATING THE TRANS-PACIFIC FLIGHT OF 1928 'The Southern Cross Descriptive March,' by Harry J. Lincoln. Dedicated to Capt. Kingsford Smith & Mr C T P Ulm; & "Kingsford Smith Aussie's Proud of You" words & music by Jack O'Hagan. "It's a long long way from Frisco Bay, To Aussie's distant shore, And yet one day there flew away A plane with a crew of four..." SymbolD View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$240StatusSold Lot #25 An original albumen photograph of The Southern Cross about to depart from California (22x29cm) mounted, framed & glazed together with a card with the hand-written dedication "To: Billy Beausang, With Best wishes, From "Chas" C.T.P. Ulm, 1928". Overall 48 x 54cm. William (Bill or Liam) Beausang was born in Youghal, County Cork, Ireland on 22 May 1900. He travelled to Australia in 1924 after distinguished military service and began working with Kingsford-Smith as an engineer in the late 1920s. SymbolD View details Estimate$750 - $1,000StatusCLOSED! Lot #26 1928 sheet music for a fox-trot titled "Hustling Hinkler" celebrating Bert Hinkler's 1928 flight from England to Australia, lyric by L.Wolfe Gilbert, music by Abel Baer, one internal page torn, some spotting & cover blemishes. SymbolL View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$60StatusSold Lot #27 P.H. "Skip" Moody pioneer aviator typed biography with signed photograph endorsed "Personal regards/to Ernie Crome,/P.H. "Skip" Moody", photo of Moody's Puss Moth seaplane and two others photos showing Qantas DH 61 Apollo VH=UJB airplane from the inaugural flight of the 1929 extension of Qantas service from Brisbane to Charleville service with first passenger Alexander Kennedy, plus flight cover (AAMC.132) carried on the flight signed by Moody on front and on reverse. Ex Frommer. SymbolD C View details Estimate$300 - $400Price Realized$380StatusSold Lot #28 AMY JOHNSON'S FLIGHT FROM ENGLAND TO AUSTRALIA A Columbia 78rpm recording of Amy Johnson talking about her flight 'The Story of My Flight,' recorded in Sydney in 1930. and signed A. Johnson on the label; a press photo, with citation describing Johnson as first the woman to obtain the Air Ministy's ground engineer licence; 2 photographs of Johnson at Kyancutta, SA, 2 July 1930; & a pin back badge for Amy Johnson's visit to Kyancutta, 1930. (5 items). View details Estimate$400 - $500Price Realized$380StatusSold Lot #29 Amy Johnson - 1930 oval plaque (130x95mm), depicting "Amy Johnson - Heroine Of the Air" and her De Havilland DH.6 Gipsy Moth G-AAAH in flight over a coastal scene; minor blemishes in no way detract. Lovely memento. Ex Frommer. View details Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$220StatusSold Lot #30 8th Feb. 1935 Aero Club of NSW 1st Prize Award: Silver Propellor with Blue Enamel Aero Club of New South Wales Logo mounted on a plinth. Engraved on a silver plaque on the plinth: "Royal Aero Club of NSW General Flying Competition - February 8th 1935: Advance Grade 1st - J.C. Pollock. Pollock went on to join QANTAS after WW2 and was captain of the Constellation VH-EAC "Harry Hawker" that inaugurated the route to London via Bangkok in November 1953. [See AAMC.1331] View details Estimate$200 - $250Price Realized$280StatusSold Lot #31 ANA related memorabilia from the estate of former air hostess Nancy Grant (nee Danne) with album of 1930s-50s photographs incl. pilots, hostesses and aircraft of the era, scrapbook of 1937-40s newspaper cuttings related to record breaking flights, incidents & the hostess lifestyle, plus correspondence between ANA & Nancy incl. letters of appointment; also books "Up here and Down there" by Nan Whitcomb a former ANA colleague of Grant, signed by Whitcomb & Grant SymbolL View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$140StatusSold Lot #32 Feb. 1945 Qantas Empire Airways, Long Range Operations illustrated certificate for "Elevated Order of the Longest Hop" awarded to Mr R. Ronaldson for flying the Indian Ocean by the "Kangaroo" air service in a time of 17hrs 20mins, trivial blemishes/soiling, fine condition overall. SymbolC View details Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$280StatusSold Lot #33 WW2 period P-38 LIGHTNING BC 608A "PIPSQUEAK" contactor unit with rare clock dial railway time keeper, 8.5cm high View details Estimate$150 - $250Price Realized$120StatusSold Lot #34 c.1960s three vintage airline carry-on bags, PAN AM, NAC and AIR INDIA. View details Quantity3Estimate$100 - $200StatusUnsold Lot #35 LAUDA AIR (1:45 scale) Boeing 767-300ER, on chrome swivel stand, 136cm long, 122cm wingspan View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot #36 BRITISH AIRWAYS (1:24 scale) BAC 1-11 in Landor colours by Space Models on chrome stand with original box, 137cm long, 123cm wingspan View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot #37 ALITALIA (1:50) DC8-42 display model B on stand by Belplast-Milano, 94cm long, 84cm wingspan View details Estimate$600 - $800Price Realized$460StatusSold Lot #38 ROYAL JET (1:25) Gulfstream G300 display model by Curuature UK on timber base, 56cm long, 47cm wingspan View details Estimate$250 - $350Price Realized$340StatusSold Lot #39 CONCORDE: Promotional display colour photograph poster, block mounted, circa 1970s, 104 x 113cm View details Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$240StatusSold Lot #40 QANTAS: c.1960 group of 17 in-flight menus in two sizes (20.50 x 18cm or 25.50 x 20cm), each with a tipped-in facsimile view of Sydney from the mid 19th century, the insides showing a contemporary photographic image of the same view. View details Quantity17Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$220StatusSold Lot #41 Late 20th century aviation safety instruction cards, QANTAS, EMIRATES, AMERICAN AIRLINES and others. View details Quantity28Estimate$80 - $100Price Realized$60StatusSold Lot #42 Eleven assorted aviation T-shirts including ANSETT, RYAN AIR, US AIR, CONTINENTAL AIRLINES and BOAC. View details Quantity12Estimate$80 - $100Price Realized$60StatusSold Lot #43 "Sir Hubert Wilkins M.C. 1888-1958" by aviation historian E.A. Crome (1983) an original manuscript/typescript being copy No 2 of only three compiled, hardbound with 51 single-sided typed and illustrated pages. A fascinating biography on the life of Wilkins as a war correspondent, photographer, polar explorer, naturalist, geographer and aviator. The only example we have seen. SymbolL View details Estimate$750 - $1,000Price Realized$1,400StatusSold Lot #44 A small library of aviation books, (23 items) View details Quantity23Estimate$60 - $100Price Realized$40StatusSold Lot #261 A RELIC OF THE FIRST EVER HUMAN ROBOTIC-RETURNED SAMPLE FROM ANOTHER COSMIC BODY, ACHIEVED BY THE SOVIET RUSSIAN LANDING ON THE MOON - SEPTEMBER 1970 View details Estimate$500,000 - $750,000StatusUnsold Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next
