FRANCE / AVIATION ANNIVERSARY : SPECIAL COMMEMORATIVE... Lot 217

FRANCE / AVIATION ANNIVERSARY : SPECIAL COMMEMORATIVE FLIGHT for SAIGON / INDOCHINA on the occasion of the CINQUANTENAIRE of the 1st MECHANICAL FLIGHT at Satory on October 14, 1897 by Clément ADER and the national exhibition, AILES BRISEES, of aeronautical souvenirs and airmail in Paris Musée Galliera from November 13 to December 1, 1947 - postage at six francs and SPECIAL OBLITERATION of November 11, 1947 illustrated with the bat symbolizing Ader's EOLE airplane. - Traveling envelope, numbered, addressed to the Director AIR FRANCE - SAIGON VERSO: special thirty-franc vignette for payment of the airmail surcharge. Serrated vignette, 30 x 52 mm, intaglio printing in blue, drawings by Louis, engraving by Cortot, portrait of Clément ADER and his plane + vignette 0 TRENTE FRANCS DES ailes brisées bearing the effigy of Jean DAGNAUX (1st flight Paris / Madagascar). Arrival stamp SAIGON R.P. December 19, 1947 - envelope with minor traces of circulation.