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We are delighted to be able to offer you an extremely attractive limited edition golden WIPA block from 1933 from Austria at the 61st auction. Issued in 1933, this WIPA block is presented in 900 fine gold. With a total weight of 159.7g and measuring 9.2cm x 8.4cm x 2-3mm, it belongs to a limited edition - it is number 249 of a total of 800 bars. An extremely attractive and top-class collector's item that will impressively enrich any large WIPA or Austrian collection.
A total of 88 provisional “1 Att.” on 64 Att. with the portrait of King Chulalongkorn (Rama V) decorate this comparatively heavy-weight cover from Bangkok to London from 1895. It was sent by registered mail with advice of delivery (“A.R.”) and took around 4 weeks to reach London.
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2023 – Week 4 Hero(ines) in Wilhelmine Germany Did bourgeois nationalism in Wilhelmine Germany displace women? At least not in the care of the wounded and sick. For this purpose,…
2023 – Week 3 A Vickers Vimy, G-EAOU (nicknamed curiously "God 'elp all of us") landed on bamboo mats and the pilots were knighted On 12 November 1919, Captain Ross…
2023 – Week 2 The Margrave's water landing Marquis Francesco de Pinedo (1890-1933) was a famous Italian pilot. In February 1927, De Pinedo and his co-pilot Carlo del Prete started…
2022 – Week 51 A somewhat premature telegram from the king Lt. Harry George Hawker, former chief test pilot of the Sopwith Aviation Company, and his navigator Lt. Cmdr. Kenneth…
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