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For more information, additional images and to bid on this lot please go to the auctioneer's website, www.noonans.co.uk Samuel, Charles (Belgian, 1862-1938); b. Brussels, and Fisch & Cie (Brussels, 1853-present) BELGIAN CONGO , Première liaison aérienne Belgique-Congo [First Flight from Belgium to Belgian Congo], 1925 [struck 1937], a bronze medal by C. Samuel for Fisch on behalf of the Amis de la Médaille d’art, standing Congolese and Belgian females clasping hands, maps of the Congo and Belgium behind, aeroplane in clouds above, rev . juxtaposed views of huts, palm trees and a radio pylon at left, Brussels cityscape, the Town Hall, Sts-Michel-et-Gudule, the Palace of Justice and a radio pylon at right, edge impressed fisch & cie , 70mm, 152.75g (Vancraenbroeck 130; cf . Elsen 163, 2824; cf . Schulman 374, 723; cf . Silich I, 359). About extremely fine £60-£80 --- Provenance: Baldwin Auction, 5 November 2016, lot 705. The first flight between Brussels and Léopoldville was made by Edmond Thieffry (1892-1929), a Belgian air ace in World War I; a flight which should have taken a week, but because of bad weather and mechanical problems, lasted from 12 February to 3 April 1925. The reverse signifies the first radio link established between the two countries