HARRY FURNISS (1854-1925); CLAUDE GRAHAME-WHITE (1879-1959) & LOUIS WAIN (1860-1939)

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HARRY FURNISS (1854-1925); CLAUDE GRAHAME-WHITE (1879-1959) & LOUIS WAIN (1860-1939)
Autograph letter signed ("Harry Furniss") to ("my dear Callick"), 3 pages, 8°, integral blank, Jermyn Court Hotel, London, 11 April 1913, inviting him for lunch, with a caricature self-portrait on the third page inscribed: "so glad I am not quite what you expected to see!"
Two photograph postcards of Claude Grahame-White, the first an informal three-quarter length portrait, the image signed ("Yours sincerely Claude Grahame-White, July 1910"), the second showing him in an aeroplane with caption "Mr. Grahame-White ready to fly over the fleet in Torbay," the image signed ("C. Grahame-White").
Louis Wain's visiting card, the verso signed ("Louis Wain, Aug. 11.1912"), under a two-line poem in Wain's hand.
With a quantity of clipped signatures.
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Claude Grahame-White founded the first British flying school at Paris in 1909, was the first Englishman to be granted a British certificate of proficiency in aviation (1910), and helped to establish the London Aerodome at Hendon (1911).

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