Germany, Luftwaffe. A Photo Album Depicting High Officials Inspecting a Prototype Aircraft, Hermann Göring Collection

Item #M0415-4

$675
(Luftwaffe Fotoalbum). An interesting and well-presented private photo album, constructed of a heavy card stock binding with a faux textured leather exterior liner, the interior with 51 off-white card stock pages pasted with 45 black-and-white razor-sharp images depicting then-General der Flieger Albert Kesselring and other high-ranking Luftwaffe officials inspecting one of only nine working examples of the Ago Ao 192 Kurier (consisting of three prototypes and six operational production aircraft), all printed on period original matte Agfa-Brovira paper, supplemented by a Third Reich-period postcard showing a sketch of a Luftwaffe aircraft under construction, the cover page bearing a handwritten inscription and date of 21 June 1939, notably pasted with the personal bookplate of Hermann Göring indicating that the album was retrieved from his archives, measuring 330 mm (w) x 248 mm (h), in extremely fine condition.