Lot 1172

Description

Sir Charles Kingsford Smith collection, includes small piece (41x9mm) of his aircraft, Southern Cross, used in the Trans-Pacific and -Tasman flights, in an envelope marked, 'From: Major Ian Vickery to Capt Ken Taylor (17th Bn)'; the following books - Story of "Southern Cross" Trans-Pacific Flight 1928 by C.E.Kingsford-Smith and C.T.P.Ulm, 1928 first edition, pp228; My Flying Life prepared under supervision and from diaries and papers of the late Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith, 1937 first edition, pp284 + 31; Charles Kingsford Smith, Smithy, The World's Greatest Aviator by Pedr Davis, 1977, this edition 1988, 157pp + index, with foreword by Nancy-Bird Walton and personalised by her and with her signature; large coloured postcard of Sir Charles Kingsford Smith and Charles Ulm from an oil on canvas by William Dargie; 45 RPM record, The Immortal Southern Cross by Jonnie Russell, 1991 and on flip side, Solo Woman; large photograph by Chas H.Butterworth of the De Havilland "Canberra" c1930 which was used in the search for Smithy when his flight disappeared over the Andaman Sea in 1935; newspaper cuttings of obituaries for Lady Kingsford-Smith and also Rollo Kingsford-Smith, nephew of Smithy. The first two books with foxing, overall fine - very fine. (8)

Major Ian Vickery, AAMC, was killed in action 27Nov1942 in Papua. Nancy-Bird Walton (nee Nancy Bird) was a pioneering Australian aviator who was given flying lessons by Charles Kingsford Smith and knew him personally. She was the founder and later patron of the Australian Women Pilots' Association. She was declared a National Treasure by the Australian government in 1997.