New York I September 17, 2019 New York The Air and Space Sale Air The The Air and Space Sale I New York I September 17, 2019 25262 The Air and Space Sale New York | Tuesday September 17, 2019 at 1pm BONHAMS BIDS INQUIRIES CLIENT SERVICES 580 Madison Avenue +1 (212) 644 9001 San Francisco Monday-Friday New York, New York 10022 +1 (212) 644 9009 fax Adam Stackhouse, 9am-5pm bonhams.com [email protected] Senior Specialist +1 (212) 644 9001 +1 (415) 503 3266 PREVIEW To bid via the internet please visit [email protected] REGISTRATION Saturday, September 14th, www.bonhams.com/25262 IMPORTANT NOTICE 12-5pm New York Please note that all customers, Sunday, September 15th, Please note that bids should be Ian Ehling irrespective of any previous activity 12-5pm summited no later than 24hrs Director with Bonhams, are required to Monday, September 16th, prior to the sale. New Bidders New York complete the Bidder Registration 10am-5pm must also provide proof of +1 (212) 644 9094 Form in advance of the sale. The Tuesday, September 17th, identity when submitting bids. form can be found at the back 10am-12pm Failure to do this may result in Tom Lamb of every catalogue and on our your bid not being processed. Director of Business website at www.bonhams.com SALE NUMBER: 25262 Development and should be returned by email or Lots 1 - 156 LIVE ONLINE BIDDING IS +1 (917) 921 7342 post to the specialist department AVAILABLE FOR THIS SALE [email protected] or to the bids department at [email protected] CATALOG: $35 Please email bids.us@bonhams. com with “Live bidding” in Darren Sutherland, Specialist the subject line 48hrs before +1 (212) 461 6531 To bid live online and / or ILLUSTRATIONS the auction to register for this [email protected] leave internet bids please go to Front cover: Lot 34 service. www.bonhams.com/auctions/25262 Inside front cover: Lot 90 Tim Tezer, Junior Specialist and click on the Register to bid link Inside back cover: Lot 22 Bidding by telephone will only be +1 (917) 206 1647 at the top left of the page. Back cover: Lot 92 accepted on a lot with a lower [email protected] estimate in excess of $1000. AUCTIONEER Mary-Kate Grohoski, Senior Administrator Matthew Girling - 1236798-DCA Please contact client services with any bidding inquiries. +1 (917) 206 1608 [email protected] Bonhams & Butterfields Please see pages 75 to 79 for Auctioneers Corp. Leslie To, Administrator 2077070-DCA bidder information including Conditions of Sale, after-sale +1 (917) 206 1661 collection and shipment. [email protected] All items listed on page 79 and/or noted as W next to the Los Angeles lot number will be transferred to Dr. Catherine Williamson off-site storage, if not removed Vice President, Director by 5pm on Wednesday, +1 (323) 436 5442 September 18th. [email protected] Bonhams © 2019 Bonhams & Butterfields Introduction Welcome to our 2019 Air and Space auction. This year Our final and largest section is that of the United States marks the 50th Anniversary of the first manned Moon landing Space Program. Highlights include a rare Gemini 1/8 and we have put together an auction that celebrates that scale model (lot 69); a collection of ILC, Dover Beta cloth achievement, the many steps that preceded it, and the rubber stamps that include most of the astronauts from the developments that followed. Our star lot, a Sputnik-1 EMC/ Apollo Program (lot 81); and a selection of Lunar Module EMI lab model manufactured in February 1957, dates from contractor’s models (lots 85-87) that includes 2 prototypes. one of the most important events in the history of space Of course, we have a selection of items from Apollo 11: exploration. The Sputnik program created the urgency a partial transcript of the first telephone call to the Moon and focus necessary for the United States space program; (lot 90) signed by Armstrong, Aldrin, Collins and Richard without it, we might never have made it to the Moon so Nixon; a flown Lunar Module checklist (lot 91); a Beta cloth quickly. emblem signed by the crew (lot 92); a photograph of the crew signed by all and inscribed by Armstrong (lot 93); and a nice selection of photographs, charts and other items. The We open the sale with Aviation & Beyond, which includes remaining items in the section include an Apollo Command materials from pioneers and heroes like the Wright Brothers Module window (121); an Apollo 17 flight plan flown to the and Charles Lindbergh, plus a 50-year aviation photography lunar surface; and a petition to President Ronald Regan for archive from Henry Woodhouse, the founder of the Space Station Freedom signed by 19 astronauts. magazine Flying (lot 4). The section also includes a wonderful selection of contractor’s models with examples rarely seen on the market. This is just a sampling of the auction highlights. We encourage you to take a closer look in the following pages and stop by our preview if you are in the area. Please do not The Soviet/Russian Space Program section begins with hesitate to contact me with questions a letter from the father of Soviet rocketry, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (lot 33). The Sputnik-1 EMC/EMI lab model (lot 34) formerly owned by Dr. Mikhail Ryazansky, director of ADAM STACKHOUSE NII-885, the Soviet facility responsible for the transmitter Senior Specialist inside the Sputnik-1, follows. This example was previously on display at the Deutsches Technikmuseum in Berlin. The section also includes a selection of items from the great manned (and womanned) Soviet spaceflights. ORDER OF SALE: Aviation & Beyond 1-32 Soviet/Russian Space Program 33-58 United States Space Program 59-156 Aviation & Beyond Lots 1 - 32 2 1 3 1 2 WRIGHT BROTHERS: FABRIC SEGMENT FROM THE 1903 WRIGHT, WILBUR. 1867-1912. KITTY HAWK FLYER. La conquete de l’air. Collotype photographic postcard, 90 x 140 mm, Original sample of fabric from the 1903 Wright Flyer, measuring depicting Wilbur in flight at Le Mans, [August, 1908], captioned at the approximately 1 1/4 inches square, affixed to an 8 x 10 inch top L’aéroplane de l’Aviateur américain Wright au début de l’essor certificate with image of the flyer taking off at Kitty Hawk, printed de vol plané ou il va parcourir une distance de 10 kilomètres, a une with a statement of authenticity reading “ORIGINAL FABRIC FROM hauteur moyenne de 20 mètres, and SIGNED (“Wilbur Wright”) in the KITTY HAWK ‘WRIGHT FLYER’ CERTIFICATION For Henri Bouche ... center of the image over the roof of the hangar. Tape residue at top I certify that this piece was used in the first successful flight in history edge, slight soiling. by Orville Wright on December 17, 1903 at Kitty Hawk, N.C.” bearing the signature of Lester D. Gardner. One of Wilbur’s earliest flights at Le Mans in 1908, with the hangar in WITH: A piece of wood from the Wright’s hangar at Kitty Hawk, on the background, which was Wilbur’s base of operations at Le Mans. a small souvenir card bearing a photo of the hangar, printed “THE The hangar also served as Wilbur’s primary residence during his stay, FIRST HANGAR — KITTY HAWK. A true piece of the First Airplane outfitted with cooking utensils and a pantry full of canned foods. Hangar in the World.” Wood approximately 1/2 x 1/4 inches. Also included is a Letter Signed by Lester Gardner to Henri Bouche $3,000 - 5,000 regarding the souvenir. 3 Orville Wright reassembled the Kitty Hawk machine for its first public exhibition in 1916, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. WRIGHT, WILBUR. 1867-1912. Finding the original fabric could not be used, he substituted new La conquête de l’air. Collotype photographic postcard, 90 x 140 fabric and kept some of the original fabric. On his death in 1948, mm, depicting Wilbur in flight at Le Mans, captioned at the top Orville’s executors discovered the fabric and asked Gardner, who had L’Aéroplane Wright et son pylôn de lancement...., and SIGNED also been on the board of M.I.T., to distribute sections to aeronautical (“Wilbur Wright”) below caption at upper right, and dated 8 luminaries. Henri Bouche was a French aviation pioneer serving December, 1908. Tape residue at top edge, slight soiling. in World War I and later publisher of L’Aeronautique and a board member of Air France. Here Wright’s flyer is depicted with the derrick apparatus that was used to launch the plane by quickly pulling it to a takeoff velocity. The cables running from the derrick to the underside of the plane are $6,000 - 8,000 clearly visible. $3,000 - 5,000 4 | BONHAMS 4 EARLY AVIATION PHOTOGRAPHY ARCHIVE. and includes images as early as the earliest published photographs CHRONICLING 20TH CENTURY AVIATION FROM THE EARLIEST of the Wright Brothers Flyer taken by Jimmy Hare, to many other WRIGHT BROTHERS IMAGES THROUGH TO COMMERCIAL AND early aviation pioneers, World War I and World War II aviation, gliders, MILITARY APPLICATIONS. commercial aircraft, dirigibles and balloons, seaplanes, aviators, Over 1300 photographs, generally silver gelatin prints, approximately air shows, the Curtiss factory, aircraft engines, aircraft expeditions, 13 1/2 x 10 1/4 inches through 2 3/8 x 3 3/8 inches, early 1900s around-the-world flights, and even a group of photographs of through c.1945, many with editor’s marks, publication stamps on American rocket pioneer Robert H.