World - The Tom May Collection
Lot 4053 Session 13 (2.30pm Thursday) World - The Tom May Collection
Estimate $120
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $240
FRANCE, Dirigible Balloons Experimental Establishment, de Chalais-Meudon, 1885, in bronze (72mm) by A.Paty, obverse, figure of Science seated right pointing to a dirigible in the sky, reverse, Daedalus prepares Icarus for flight. Extremely fine.
See 'Australasian Coin and Banknote' magazine, Aug 2010, pp64-65.
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