Aviation original Autograph of Robert de Lesseps Monoplan La Fregate 1911 TOP

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Tous les autographes d'aviateurs sont des originaux, il n'y a pas de copie -
All airmen autographs are originals, there are no copies
Je vends une collection originale d'autographes de pionniers de l'aviation entre 1909 et 1912 issue d'un admirateur français, contemporain des aviateurs
, nommé Marcel Silvain
Ces cartes postales étaient signées directement par les pionniers lors des meetings aériens ou bien elles étaient envoyées pré-timbrées à l'aviateur en lui demandant de la retourner contresignée.
Comte Robert de Lesseps (1882-1916)
A Frenchman, born in Paris in 1882, died during War 1916. One of the 13 surviving children of Ferdinand de Lesseps (1805 - 94), who was responsible for the construction of the Suez Canal.
Robert was an early aviator but it was his brother, Jacques, who was the second ever (Bleriot being first) to fly a plane across the English Channel.
The Monoplan "La Frégate", with a wingspan of 10 meters, a length of 6.5 meters and an empty weight of 210 kilos, had a very particular shape with curved wings reminiscent of the wings of a bird. . Mr. Robert de Lesseps had ordered from an aircraft construction company an airplane of an unprecedented type which had been baptized La Frégate by paying a deposit of 5,000 francs in advance.
When the construction of the device was completed, Mr. Robert de Lesseps entrusted the test to his brother, but it happened that for a cause that could not be determined, the aeroplane, after having taken off in a prodigious leap, came crashing down on the ground where it broke
From Kinwintt : "Robert was recruited at Châteauroux as a lieutenant in the cavalry of the 27th regiment of Dragons, later he was seconded to the 7th armored cars and cannons." Died in the Battle of the Somme. That website has fully investigated all the de Lesseps brothers and is well worth a visit.
- See scan double side
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newspaper clippings pasted on postcard and real signature
- Good condition - Dated 1911
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Un trait de couleur peut apparaitre sur l'image, il s'agit d'un défaut de mon scanner, le trait n'existe pas sur la carte postale - A color line may appear on the picture, it is a defect of my scanner, it does not exist on the postcard