Auction Date:2012 May 23 @ 18:00 (UTC-5 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
Four items: ALS in pencil signed “O. Wright,” one lightly-lined page, 8.25 x 5.5, Hotel Gassion letterhead. Wright writes to his student, Mr. Tissandier, in full: “We are not going to camp till afternoon”; and three vintage pearl-finish photos, ranging in size from 3.25 x 4.5 to 6.5 x 4.75, one featuring Wilbur Wright, Mr. Tissandier, and two unidentified men; one capturing Orville Wright teaching Count de Lambert how to fly as Paul Tissandier looks on; and the third of Mr. Tissandier and an unidentified man standing by the plane. In very good condition, with two vertical creases and light toning to the letter, and some mild creasing and silvering to the photos.
M. Paul Tissandier was the Wright brothers’ student pilot at Pau in the south of France, where they spent the spring of 1909. Pau, a posh resort town at the foot of the Pyrenees, was once a favorite vacation spot of King Edward VII, but tourism fell sharply when the king began to take a liking to Biarritz instead. Seeking a new attraction for tourists, Pau recruited the Wrights to fly at Pont-Long, where Wilbur made 64 flights and trained the first French airmen between February and March 1909. Orville and Katharine were given complimentary lodgings in a sumptuous hotel, the Hotel Gassion, while Wilbur slept in the flying shed, his meals provided by a French chef selected by the mayor. A splendid grouping from the Wrights’ sojourn, with a truly exceptional photograph of Wilbur teaching Tissandier how to pilot the Wright Flyer.
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