This cigarette case was given to the present owner's father by Charles Kingsford Smith, in Western Australia. By repute, the case was a gift to Kingsford Smith from his friend and fellow aviator, Charles Ulm. In 1927, the pair circumnavigated Australia in a Bristol Tourer in ten days and five hours, halving the established record. In 1928 they became heroes with the first trans-pacific flight from the USA to Australia in a borrowed three engined Fokker, later named the Southern Cross. The pair went on to form many other businesses and achieve record breaking flights. Ulm was lost (between California and Hawaii) in 1934 when he disappeared on a trans-pacific flight and Kingsford Smith disappeared over the Indian Ocean on a flight from England to Australia the following year