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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 stick pin is of a Bleriot 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

United States of America

Type

AWARDS-Insignia

Physical Description

Bleriot Monoplane stick pin; one piece stamped silver. No maker marks.

Dimensions

3-D (2g): 4.5 × 2.7 × 0.5cm (1 3/4 × 1 1/16 × 3/16 in.)

Materials

Overall: Silver

Inventory Number

A19951528000

Credit Line

Found in collection. Donor unknown at this time. Found on NASM premises

Data Source

National Air and Space Museum

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