Wonderful pairing of AQSs from British aviation pioneers Gustav Hamel and Claude Grahame-White on an off-white 7.5 x 6 album page: "'Twinkle Twinkle little Bat, How I wonder what you're at, Up above the the world so high, Like a teatray in the sky,' Gustav Hamel, 25th April 1913" and "I'll eat with you, I'll drink with you. I'd drink the ocean dry for you, I'll lie for you & possibly might die for you, But I'll be d—d if I could fly with you. Claude Grahame-White, January 18th, 1911." In fine condition, with light toning and soiling.
Hamel (1889-1914) was a British aviator who was prominent in the early history of aviation in Britain, and in particular that of Hendon airfield, where Graham-White was developing and promoting flying. Hamel disappeared at the age of 24 over the English Channel on May 23, 1914, while returning from Villacoublay on a new 80 hp Gnome Monosoupape engined Morane-Saulnier monoplane he had just collected, and was to compete with in the Aerial Derby the same day. Grahame-White (1879-1959) was an English aviator and the first to make a night flight, during the Daily Mail-sponsored 1910 London to Manchester air race.
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