Reunion of two medals on the theme of aerostation: - Lot 48

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Reunion of two medals on the theme of aerostation: - Lot 48
Reunion of two medals on the theme of aerostation: - Silver medal of the Société Aéronautique de Versailles, rally-ballon 1913. Obverse: a plane, a biplane and an airship flying over a city, monogrammed AD lower right. Reverse: within a wreath of laurel and oak leaves: SOCIETE / AERONAUTIQUE / DE VERSAILLES / RALLYE BALLON / 1913, a blind cartouche below. Weight : 30 g - Diam. : 40 mm - In its case. - Bronze medal (refrappe), commemorating the first flight of the Montgolfier brothers. Obverse: jugate heads of the two brothers in left profile. JOSE. ET ETIEN. MONTGOLFIER / for making the air navigable. signed N. GATTEAUX on neck edge. Reverse: ANTONITUS ORBIS TERRARUM / ITINERE PER AURA FELICITER / TENTATO ANNO / MDCCLXXXIII. View of a genie-fed baloon greeted by a woman on the ground, leaning against a lion. Signed GATTEAUX lower right. Diameter: 40 mm - In its case.
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