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[AVIATION]: An unusual printed 4to page reserved for autographs, evidently removed from a menu for an Aviation Dinner, most likely associated with Hendon Aerodrome, c.1910, bearing forty signatures by various individuals, several of them pioneer aviators, including Stanley Spooner (1856-1940; English Journalist, creator and editor of Flight, the first aeronautical weekly magazine in the world), 5th Earl of Lonsdale (1857-1944; English Peer and Sportsman), Edward Seymour (1840-1929; British Admiral of the Fleet), Colonel Henry C. L. Holden (1856-1937; English Inventor of a motor-propelled bicycle with a four cylinder engine, 1895), William Joynson-Hicks (1865-1932; English Politician who served as Home Secretary 1924-29), Arthur Du Cros (1871-1955; British Industrialist & Politician, associated with the manufacture of pneumatic tyres), Samuel Samuel (1855-1934; British Businessman & Politician, one of the founders of the company that would become Royal Dutch Shell), Francis Willey (1841-1929; English Wool Merchant), H. G. Wells (1866-1946; English Writer of Science Fiction novels whose works included The Time Machine and The War in the Air), Pierre Verrier (French Pioneer Aviator), Louis Noel (1872-1939; French Pioneer Aviator & Military Pilot), Lieutenant-Colonel John Norton Griffiths (1871-1930; English Engineer & British Army officer known as 'Empire Jack'), C. J. Fairfax Scott (Secretary of the Imperial Air Fleet Committee), Arthur Stanley (1869-1947; British Politician, Chairman of the Royal Automobile Club 1905-36), Herbert Vane-Tempest (1862-1921; British Director of Cambrian Railways, a first cousin once removed of Winston Churchill , Charles Henry (1860-1919; Australian Merchant and Businessman who lived mostly in Great Britain), Baden Baden-Powell (1860-1937; British Military Aviation Pioneer, President of the Royal Aeronautical Society 1900-07. Brother of Robert Baden-Powell), James Valentine (1887-1917; English Pioneer Aviator, one of only four airmen to complete the Circuit of Britain race, and the only British aviator to complete the Circuit of Europe race. A Lieutenant-Colonel with the Royal Flying Corps, Valentine died aged 29 during World War I), Ernest T. Willows (1886-1926; Welsh Pioneer Aviator, regarded as the 'Father of British Airships'), Lewis W. F. Turner (English Pioneer Aviator), Atherton Fleming (1881-1950; Scottish Journalist, husband of the English crime writer Dorothy L. Sayers) etc. All of the signatures are in bold indelible pencil. Neatly inlaid. About