Gabon, Tsogho / Vuvi / Fang
3050958
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French Private Collection L: 20.9 inch 800 EUR / 1500 EUR
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George Withers (1946-2023), Bath, United Kingdom H: 21.3 inch 8000 EUR / 16000 EUR
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Louis Serin, Bordeaux, France, coll. in situ before 1917 (d.)
By decent in the family
Renaud Vanuxem, Paris, France
L: 6.7 inch 1500 EUR / 3000 EUR
D. R. Congo, Kongo-Woyo
3051580
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Belgian Private Collection, Ghent H: 9.4 inch 1500 EUR / 3000 EUR
D. R. Congo, Basikasingo / eastern Bembe / Buyu
3050969
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Paul Grob, Tegerfelden, Switzerland H: 28.3 inch 3500 EUR / 8000 EUR
D. R. Congo, Holo
3051575
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Cologne Collection, Germany H: 13.4 inch 1500 EUR / 3000 EUR
D. R. Congo, Western Kasai, Central Congo, Kuba
3051454
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Lempertz, Brussels, 29 January 2020, Lot 163 H: 19.1 inch 1500 EUR / 3000 EUR
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Belgian Collection M: 21.3 inch x 50.4 inch 1000 EUR / 2000 EUR
D. R. Congo, Kuyu
3051060
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Kempf, Antiquitäten, Munich, Germany H: 19.5 inch 4000 EUR / 8000 EUR
D. R. Congo, Lega
3050734
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Ludwig Bretschneider, Munich, Germany (1986) H: 36.6 inch 3000 EUR / 6000 EUR
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Marc Leo Felix, Brussels, Belgium
Jay T. Last, Los Angeles, USA
Raquel Montagut, Barcelona, Spain
H: 6.4 inch 5000 EUR / 8000 EUR
3051445
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H: 13 inch 800 EUR / 1500 EUR
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H: 5.3 inch 1000 EUR / 2000 EUR
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Belgium Private Collection H: 4.4 inch 800 EUR / 1500 EUR
D. R. Congo, Northeastern Congo, Lendu
3051455
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Belgium Private Collection H: 38.6 inch; B: 14 inch - 10.6 inch 1500 EUR / 3000 EUR
D. R. Congo, Luba
3051459
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Belgian Collection H: 7 inch 800 EUR / 1600 EUR
D. R. Congo, Luba
3051501
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New York Collection, USA
Folkhart Neidigk, Stuttgart, Germany
Zemanek-Münster, Würzburg, Germany, 15 November 2008, Lot 450
H: 4.7 inch; L: 6.7 inch 400 EUR / 800 EUR
D. R. Congo, Luba - Zela - Tabwa
3049516
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Arcade Gallery, London, Great Britain H: 13.2 inch 2000 EUR / 3000 EUR
D. R. Congo, Luba
3051039
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Paul Gilman, Liege, Belgium
Lucien Van de Velde, Antwerp, Belgium
Austrian Private Collection
Sotheby's, Paris, 16 December 2022, Lot 107
H: 9.1 inch 5000 EUR / 10000 EUR
D. R. Congo, Luba
3051552
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Sotheby's London, 23 June 1981, Lot 123 L: 12.6 inch; H: 5.7 inch 2400 EUR / 5000 EUR
D. R. Congo, Luba
3050977
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German Private Collection H: 3.3 inch 800 EUR / 1600 EUR
3051043
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German Private Collection H: 3.9 inch 4500 EUR / 9000 EUR
D. R. Congo, Luba / Rungu
3051579
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Belgian Colonial Collection H: 21.7 inch 2000 EUR / 4000 EUR
D. R. Congo, Mangbetu / Azande, Uele, "Master of the T-shaped brow"
3051038
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Felix Lauwers (1924-2002), Antwerp, Belgium
Charles Meur et Michèle Bavoillot, Brussels, Belgium
Samir Borro, Brussels, Belgium
Austrian Private Collection
H: 37 inch 7000 EUR / 15000 EUR
D. R. Congo, Uele, Mangbetu
3051061
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Margret (1907-2001) & Ludwig Werner Fusbahn (1905-1958), Basel, Switzerland (collected during air expedition to Ethiopia 1932-1933)
Ludwig Werner Fusbahn's heirs (2021)
Galerie Walu, Basel, Switzerland

Rosa Margaretha Billwiller was born on 14 July 1907 in St. Gallen (Switzerland). At the age of 20, she enrolled at the Böblingen flying school, where she became the first woman to obtain a pilot's licence in 1928. Immediately afterwards, her husband Ludwig Werner Fusbahn, whom she inspired to fly, also obtained his licence.

In April 1930, Margret Fusbahn celebrated her first major flying success with her husband as a passenger. At that time, she reached an altitude of 4,900 metres in a Klemm light aircraft, breaking the international altitude record for small aircraft in class C.

Margret and Ludwig Werner Fusbahn were described by the press as the "flying couple". Soon they were no longer satisfied with flying at home and wanted to conquer foreign countries and continents. In 1932/1933, they took part in the Abyssinia flight, a long-distance flight between Egypt and Abyssinia, now Ethiopia, which was unusual for the time. The flight turned out to be extremely adventurous, not only because of the gusty headwinds, which demanded a lot from them physically when holding the control stick, but also because of the dangers posed on the ground by the tribe of the supposedly "wild" Dankali in the event of an emergency landing. But the flying adventure had a happy ending.

The Fusbahn couple divorced in 1938. On 12 March 2001, Rosa Margaretha Rodrigues, as Margret Fusbahn was now known, died in Sintra (Portugal) at the age of 93.
H: 10.8 inch 10000 EUR / 20000 EUR
D. R. Congo, Mbala
3051058
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Marc Leo Felix, Brussels, Belgium ("FX 93143")
Fred Jahn, Munich, Germany
Thomas Olbricht, Essen, Germany
Van Ham, Cologne, "The Olbricht Collection", 23 June 2021, Lot 847 (four items)
H: 8.5 inch 800 EUR / 1500 EUR
D. R. Congo, Mbala
3050951
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Coll. Iperen, Maastricht, The Netherlands
Karl-Heinz Steffen, Essen, Germany
H: 8.5 inch 400 EUR / 800 EUR
3050970
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German Collection
Dorotheum, Vienna, 28 June 2023, Lot 34
H: 36.6 inch 1500 EUR / 2500 EUR
D. R. Congo, Lower Ubangi, Ngombe
3051054
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Old UK Collection H: 6.7 inch; B: 5.9 inch 800 EUR / 1200 EUR
3051133
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Belgian Private Collection H: 2.6 inch 1500 EUR / 3000 EUR
D. R. Congo, Eastern Congo / South Kivu, Shi
3051451
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Belgian Colonial Collection H: 13 inch 1200 EUR / 1500 EUR
D. R. Congo, Songye-Tetela
3051072
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German Private Collection
Adrian Schlag, Brussels, Belgium
H: 16.5 inch 10000 EUR / 20000 EUR
3051071
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American Private Collection
Adrian Schlag, Brussels, Belgium
H: 22.4 inch 8000 EUR / 15000 EUR
3051448
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John & Nicole Dintenfass, New York, USA H: 3.3 inch 500 EUR / 1000 EUR
3051574
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Michael Graham-Stewart, London, Great Britain H: 14.6 inch 1200 EUR / 2500 EUR
D. R. Congo, Ubangi
3051446
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Marc Leo Felix, Brussels, Belgium H: 9.3 inch 1800 EUR / 3000 EUR
3051008
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H: 8.5 inch 800 EUR / 1500 EUR
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Helmut Zake, Heidelberg, Germany H: 25.2 inch 1500 EUR / 2500 EUR
D. R. Congo / Angola (Northern), Zombo
3051450
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Fernando Moncada, Lisbon, Portugal H: 7.5 inch / 16.9 inch (with grass fibre cuff) 1200 EUR / 2000 EUR
Angola, Chokwe
3051458
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Patric Claes, Brussels, Belgium H: 17.1 inch 1500 EUR / 3000 EUR
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Lewis Morley (1925-2013) Collection, Sydney, Australia
Andrew Whitehead, Canberra, Australia
H: 22 inch 1200 EUR / 2000 EUR
3051457
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L: 21.3 inch 800 EUR / 1500 EUR
3050966
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German Private Collection, Nürnberg D: 14.2 inch 200 EUR / 400 EUR
3051565
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Werner Kißling (1952-2020), Heltersberg, Germany H: 8.5 inch 2000 EUR / 5000 EUR
South Africa, Zulu / Zimbabwe, Shona
3051369
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South African Private Collection, Harare, Zimbabwe
Udo and Wally Horstmann Collection, Zug, Switzerland (1971)
Dorotheum, Vienna, 15 December 2020, Lot 43
L: 20.5 inch 600 EUR / 1200 EUR
South Africa, Zulu
3051577
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Serge Le Guennan, Paris, France B: 18.1 inch; H: 6.3 inch 1500 EUR / 3000 EUR
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Erwin & Susanne Melchardt, Vienna, Austria L: 24.8 inch 2500 EUR / 5000 EUR
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Erwin & Susanne Melchardt, Vienna, Austria L: 25.8 inch 2000 EUR / 4000 EUR
Afghanistan / Pakistan, Gandhara Style
3051256
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Erwin & Susanne Melchardt, Vienna, Austria H: 3.5 inch 800 EUR / 1600 EUR
Indien - Arunachal Pradesh, Kulu Region
3051103
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Erwin & Susanne Melchardt, Vienna, Austria H: 8.5 inch 1000 EUR / 2000 EUR