A wooden four bladed propeller boss, cut to be a free standing clock case and fitted with a rim-wind 12 hour clock movement, signed 'Seth Thomas' with a pencil note on the history of the propeller boss; a heavy glass lens, (chipped), believed bullet proof, from a round observation port fitted to the underside of an FE 2G night bomber, (believed to be from the same aeroplane as the propeller boss); and a mounted, framed, original b/w photograph of another FE 2G bomber taken by floodlight at night (3)

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A wooden four bladed propeller boss, cut to be a free standing clock case and fitted with a rim-wind 12 hour clock movement, signed 'Seth Thomas' with a pencil note on the history of the propeller boss; a heavy glass lens, (chipped), believed bullet proof, from a round observation port fitted to the underside of an FE 2G night bomber, (believed to be from the same aeroplane as the propeller boss); and a mounted, framed, original b/w photograph of another FE 2G bomber taken by floodlight at night (3)

Lot Essay

The propeller boss was given to the vendor by 2nd Lt J.W. Parnell who was the pilot of the FE 2G aircraft which was damaged by ground fire during the bombing of the Zeppelin shed at Gontrode, Belgium, during the night of 30th September 1917

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