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In the first decade after the Wright brothers' first successful flights in 1903, public fascination with aviation grew. The airplane soon became part of popular culture. Airplanes and flight related themes began to appear in jewelry, clocks, games, decorative boxes, postcards, and more. This small decorated box depicts an Antoinette Monoplane.

Display Status

This object is on display in Wright Brothers & The Invention of the Aerial Age at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC.

Wright Brothers & The Invention of the Aerial Age

Object Details

Date

ca. 1910

Country of Origin

France

Type

MEMORABILIA-Popular Culture

Artist

Hubert Latham, 1883-1912

Physical Description

Circular metal box with monoplane (Antoinette Monoplane) and pilot in a cloudy sky painted on the lid. Image surrounded by narrow gold border. Sides and bottom metallic red with ornmental gold border pattern on side edge of lid. Interior plain, silver tone. No maker marks on box or lid.

Dimensions

3-D (16g): 2.7 × 5.5cm (1 1/16 × 2 3/16 in.)

Materials

Overall: Enameled Brass

Inventory Number

A19840704000

Credit Line

Gift of Henry S. Villard

Data Source

National Air and Space Museum

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