Auction 333-341 Europe & Overseas - Day 5

1870/71: Pigeon Post / Ballon Monté from beseiged Paris; Micoscopic photographic microfilm of Gazette Des Absents inset into printed grey card (159 x 239 mm.) with fancy embossing of Pigeons above a tower with surround "Aux Heros des Postes,Telegraphes et Chins de Fer / Souvenir de Participation / Au Monument des Aeronautes du Siege de Paris 1870-1871" and below stating the attached was a "Specimen Identique aux pelligules du Siege" and imprinte at base of A. Bartholdi, believed produced by René Prudent Patrice Dagron. Rare.