23rd Mar, 2022 10:30 GMT/BST
Militaria & Ethnographica
3086
Squadron Leader Cecil Arthur Rea A.F.C., Royal Air Force Test Pilot Interest:- a silver mounted glass inkwell, the hinged cover engraved with a monogram and presentation inscription 'From B & P Flight Shed Staff, Sept. 1929', a silver cigarette box with engraved inscription 'Presented to Sq.Ldr.C.A.Rea, A.F.C. from his fellow directors and the members in appreciation of his valued services to the Club, May 1938', together with numerous newspaper cuttings, letters, photographs and related ephemera.
Footnote:- Squadron Leader Cecil Arthur Rea was a test pilot with the RAF and Marine Aircraft and Experimental Establishment test flying marine aircraft. In 1926, at the end of his RAF service, he joined the company of Boulton& Paul as full-time test pilot until 1934, when the aircraft department was sold to Sir Charle Hayward's Electic and General Industries Trust and moved from Norfolk to Wolverhampton. Rea then started his own aircraft components business. During his time at Boulton & Paul he took part in a competition held by Norwich and Norfolk Aeroplane Club in aid of a Norwich hospital. The competition was a 70 mile race between twelve racing pigeons and an aeroplane flown by Squadron Leader Rea without the aid of compass or map. He won the race by 15 minutes. The newspaper cuttings from 1932 relate to this competition.
Sold for £100
Estimated at £100 - £150
Auction: Militaria & Ethnographica, 23rd Mar, 2022
Militaria and Ethnographica Sales encompass items across diverse areas of collecting, from European and Eastern armour to 18th and 19th century firearms, military uniforms and documents, edged weapons, World War I and World War II ephemera, masonic regalia and medals.
Also included are a vast range of objects created in the early 20th century or earlier by indigenous cultures around the world, from early American civilisations to African tribes and Polynesian island cultures, incorporating religious idols, domestic and ritual objects, figurative sculpture, jewellery and weapons of all descriptions.
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