Auction 103

George Withers (1946-2023), Bath, United Kingdom

Louis Serin, Bordeaux, France, coll. in situ before 1917 (d.) By decent in the family Renaud Vanuxem, Paris, France

Belgian Private Collection, Ghent

Paul Grob, Tegerfelden, Switzerland

Cologne Collection, Germany

Lempertz, Brussels, 29 January 2020, Lot 163

Belgian Collection

Kempf, Antiquitäten, Munich, Germany

Ludwig Bretschneider, Munich, Germany (1986)

Marc Leo Felix, Brussels, Belgium Jay T. Last, Los Angeles, USA Raquel Montagut, Barcelona, Spain

Belgium Private Collection

Belgium Private Collection

Belgian Collection

New York Collection, USA Folkhart Neidigk, Stuttgart, Germany Zemanek-Münster, Würzburg, Germany, 15 November 2008, Lot 450

Arcade Gallery, London, Great Britain

Paul Gilman, Liege, Belgium Lucien Van de Velde, Antwerp, Belgium Austrian Private Collection Sotheby's, Paris, 16 December 2022, Lot 107

Sotheby's London, 23 June 1981, Lot 123

German Private Collection

German Private Collection

Belgian Colonial Collection

Felix Lauwers (1924-2002), Antwerp, Belgium Charles Meur et Michèle Bavoillot, Brussels, Belgium Samir Borro, Brussels, Belgium Austrian Private Collection

Margret (1907-2001) & Ludwig Werner Fusbahn (1905-1958), Basel, Switzerland (collected during air expedition to Ethiopia 1932-1933) Ludwig Werner Fusbahn's heirs (2021) Galerie Walu, Basel, Switzerland Rosa Margaretha Billwiller was born on 14 July 1907 in St. Gallen (Switzerland). At the age of 20, she enrolled at the Böblingen flying school, where she became the first woman to obtain a pilot's licence in 1928. Immediately afterwards, her husband Ludwig Werner Fusbahn, whom she inspired to fly, also obtained his licence. In April 1930, Margret Fusbahn celebrated her first major flying success with her husband as a passenger. At that time, she reached an altitude of 4,900 metres in a Klemm light aircraft, breaking the international altitude record for small aircraft in class C. Margret and Ludwig Werner Fusbahn were described by the press as the "flying couple". Soon they were no longer satisfied with flying at home and wanted to conquer foreign countries and continents. In 1932/1933, they took part in the Abyssinia flight, a long-distance flight between Egypt and Abyssinia, now Ethiopia, which was unusual for the time. The flight turned out to be extremely adventurous, not only because of the gusty headwinds, which demanded a lot from them physically when holding the control stick, but also because of the dangers posed on the ground by the tribe of the supposedly "wild" Dankali in the event of an emergency landing. But the flying adventure had a happy ending. The Fusbahn couple divorced in 1938. On 12 March 2001, Rosa Margaretha Rodrigues, as Margret Fusbahn was now known, died in Sintra (Portugal) at the age of 93.

Marc Leo Felix, Brussels, Belgium ("FX 93143") Fred Jahn, Munich, Germany Thomas Olbricht, Essen, Germany Van Ham, Cologne, "The Olbricht Collection", 23 June 2021, Lot 847 (four items)

Coll. Iperen, Maastricht, The Netherlands Karl-Heinz Steffen, Essen, Germany

German Collection Dorotheum, Vienna, 28 June 2023, Lot 34

Old UK Collection

Belgian Private Collection

Belgian Colonial Collection

German Private Collection Adrian Schlag, Brussels, Belgium

American Private Collection Adrian Schlag, Brussels, Belgium

John & Nicole Dintenfass, New York, USA

Michael Graham-Stewart, London, Great Britain

Marc Leo Felix, Brussels, Belgium

Helmut Zake, Heidelberg, Germany

Fernando Moncada, Lisbon, Portugal

Patric Claes, Brussels, Belgium

Lewis Morley (1925-2013) Collection, Sydney, Australia Andrew Whitehead, Canberra, Australia

German Private Collection, Nürnberg

Werner Kißling (1952-2020), Heltersberg, Germany

South African Private Collection, Harare, Zimbabwe Udo and Wally Horstmann Collection, Zug, Switzerland (1971) Dorotheum, Vienna, 15 December 2020, Lot 43

Serge Le Guennan, Paris, France

Erwin & Susanne Melchardt, Vienna, Austria

Erwin & Susanne Melchardt, Vienna, Austria

Erwin & Susanne Melchardt, Vienna, Austria

Erwin & Susanne Melchardt, Vienna, Austria

Erwin & Susanne Melchardt, Vienna, Austria