Stanley Aerial Navigation Company (CA), $1 shares San Francisco 1901, GVF
£120.00
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Stanley Aerial Navigation Company (CA), $1 shares San Francisco 190[1], ‘Justice’ seated in centre, black, green underprint, gold seal. GVF.
Company formed in 1899 to build an airship to Charles Stanley’s design, then the largest ever to be built, 450 feet long and 36 feet in diameter. On its maiden flight in 1908 the airship crashed injuring most people on board.
