Category Archives: Concepts
Checklist For Wills’s Cigarettes Aviation 1912 – 85-Card Series
The Checklist For Wills’s Cigarettes Aviation 1912 – 85-Card Series, is like the 75-card series that features 79 different cards, only this actually has 89 cards – four extra depictions due to variances between the two tobacco brands publishing this … Continue reading
Posted in Aviation Art, Balloons, Concepts, Failures, Gliders, Heavier-Than-Air, Lighter-Than-Air, Myth, Pilots, Seaplanes, Tobacco Card, Zeppelins & Dirigibles
Tagged 1912 aviation cards, Capstan Navy Cut Cigarettes, Vice Regal Mixture Cigarettes, Wills's Aviation Cards - 85-Card Series List
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1930s French Trading Cards
What we have here are aviation cards offered by Chocolat Pupier Jolies in 1930 and 1937. The plain cards denoting: Avion (flying), Un Monoplane (A monoplane), and Un Hydravion (a sea plane) are from 1930, and are part of a … Continue reading
Checklist For Wills’s Cigarettes Aviation 1911 – 75-Card Series
The Checklist For Wills’s Cigarettes Aviation 1911 – 75-Card Series features 79 different cards, owing to different brands/backs opting for different aircraft/people to be featured on four cards: Cards No. 63. (2x); No. 69 (2x); No. 73 (2x); and No. … Continue reading
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Tagged aviation art, Balloons, Concepts, Failures, Firsts, Gliders, Heavier-Than-Air, Helicopters, Lighter-Than-Air, Motors and Engines, Parachute, People, Pilots, Tobacco Card, Zeppelins & Dirigibles
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Wills’s Aviation Card #65 – M. Henri Farman.
History Behind The Card: M. Henri Farman. Card #65 of 75, W.D.& H.O Wills, Aviation series 1911, Capstan Navy Cut – Black-back issue Henri (Henry) Farman, May 26, 1874 in Paris, France — July 17, 1958, Paris, France; Maurice (Morris) … Continue reading
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Tagged 14-bis, Aérocentre, Avions Farman, Bertram Cockburn, Farman Aviation Works, Farman I, Farman III, Gabriel Voisin, Gnome Omega motor, Gordon Bennnet Cup, Grand Prix d'Aviation, Henri Farman, Henry Farman, J.T.C. Moore-Brabazon, Leon Delagrange, Maurice Farman, Richard Farman, Roger Sommer, SAUF, SNAC, Société Anonyme des Aéroplanes G. Voisin, Société Anonyme des Usines Farman, Société des Moteurs Gnome, Société Nationale de Constructions Aéronautiques du Centre, Voisin, Voisin 1907 biplane, Voisin aeroplane, Voisin II, Voisin-Farman I
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Historical Look At Japan’s First Dirigibles
I was finally catching up on my reading the other day, when an article from the New Zealand newspaper, Clutha Leader dated September 26, 1911 – page 2, I discovered some information on Japan’s attempt to build the world’s then-largest … Continue reading
Wills’s Aviation Card #60 – “Dunne V.” Biplane.
History Behind The Card: “Dunne V.” Biplane. Card #60 of 75, W.D.& H.O Wills, Aviation series 1911, Vice Regal Mixture – black back issue Captain John William Dunne, XXXX, XX, 1875 in Curragh Camp, County Kildare, Leinster, Republic of Ireland … Continue reading
Posted in Concepts, Failures, Gliders, Heavier-Than-Air, Motors and Engines, Tobacco Card
Tagged Aster Engineering Company, Blair Atholl Aeroplane Syndicate, Colonel Clapper, Dunne-Huntington Triplane, Green Engine Company, Griffith Brewer, J.W. Dunne, Orville Wright, Photography, S.K. Huntington, Short Brothers
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Wills’s Aviation Card #57 – “Givaudin II.” Triplane.
History Behind The Card: “Givaudin II.” Triplane. Card #57 of 75, W.D.& H.O Wills, Aviation series 1911, Capstan Navy Cut issue Claude Givaudan, September 16, 1872 in Caluire-et-Cuire, a suburb of Lyon, France – October 30, 1945 in France. It’s … Continue reading
Wills’s Aviation Card #54 – “Piquerez” Biplane.
History Behind The Card: “Piquerez” Biplane. Card #54 of 85, W.D.& H.O Wills, Aviation series 1911, Capstan Navy Cut black reverse Paul Jules Jean-Jacques Koechlin, in Mulhouse (Haut-Rhin), France, May 7, 1881 – August 17, 1916, Étinehem, France. Alfred Ritter … Continue reading
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Tagged 1908 Koechlin No. 1 Biplane, Alfred de Pischof, Alfred de Pischoff, Anzani engine, Captain Walter George Windham, Dutheil-Chalmers engine, Lucien Chauvière, Marthe Niel, Paul Koechlin, Pischof Autoplan, Pischoff 1907 Biplane, Pischoff and Koechlin monoplane of 1908, Pischoff-Koechlin, Prix de Lagatinerie, Voisin aeroplane, Windham Pischoff Flyer
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