Aerial Bomb Projectile Aviation 2 Men Bowler Hats France c1910s Photo For Sale

Antique & Vintage Photographs
Premier CollectionEST. 1998 Aerial Bomb Projectile Aviation 2 Men Bowler Hats France c1910s Photo

This is a silver gelatin photograph that is unmounted and is 8 x 5½ inches (204x142mm).

It shows an older man with a moustache wearing a bowler hat, overcoat, and bow tie, holding up a finned, cylindrical object with a pointed end that resembles an early aerial bomb or projectile. A younger man stands to the right, wearing a bowler hat and overcoat while smoking a pipe. The background features a grassy area, a small tree, and the base of a large metal tower structure.

The reverse has handwritten sizing marks and measurements in blue ink, including '78 mm', '108 mm', '779', and '18-145', along with drawn crop lines.

This photograph comes from a privately curated collection assembled over more than fifty years by an experienced collector. The images were individually sourced from galleries, dealers, sales, and other collections, with a consistent focus on strong composition, atmosphere, and historical interest.

Each photograph offered has been selected on its own merits from that wider collection. The result is a group of images that are both individually compelling and part of a coherent, carefully built body of work. For collectors, this offers an opportunity to acquire materialselected by adiscerning eye, whether to strengthen an existing collection or to begin a new one.

This collection is being dispersed in stages, with several hundred additional photographs being listed each month.

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