Object Details
- Physical Description
- Stick pin with 3-dimensional dark or burnished gold colored biplane (Voisin Biplane). Stick is soldered approximately where landing gear would be. Fuselage frame is visible, rib markings on top of upper wing and top and sides of tail.
- Summary
- 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 Voisin Biplane.
- ca. 1910
- Inventory Number
- A19840703000
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- AWARDS-Miscellaneous
- Materials
- Overall: Metal (gold alloy)
- Dimensions
- 3-D (1g): 6.3 × 1.4 × 0.9cm (2 1/2 × 9/16 × 3/8 in.)
- Country of Origin
- France
- See more items in
- National Air and Space Museum Collection
- Location
- National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC
- Exhibition
- Wright Brothers & The Invention of the Aerial Age
- National Air and Space Museum
- Record ID
- nasm_A19840703000
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nv95d193add-13c8-46b7-a369-16a2981d081a
