Vintage original aviation travel advertising airline poster nouveau deco 1909

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Vintage original aviation travel advertising airline poster nouveau deco 1909:
$9995.00

Grande Semaine d\'Aviation. 1909Ernest Montaut (1879-1909)
Original, exceedingly rare vintage French advertising poster, measuring 28.75x41 inches or73x104 cm. Roughly equivalent to a U.S. one sheet and the most practcal format in which this poster was printed.
This poster is 107 years old.
The true ancestor of the aviation poster genre can be traced to . . . Montaut . . . for his portrayal of the trailblazing assembly at Rheims. Soft tints in the sky indicate that sunset is near, a time of day when the wind was apt to drop and flying was considered to be safer. A svelte female spectator, back to the viewer, lifts her arm in salute to an armada of aircraft rising like a swarm of bees . . . The curving zebra stripes of her costume--fully consonant with an impression of motion and speed, which after all was the crux of the message delivered by the newfangled flying machine--resonate as effectively as the determined look on the face of the nearest pilot. The Grande Semaine brought together for the first time the world\'s greatest fliers. Among them were Louis Bleriot, Henry Farman, Leon Delagrange, Hubert Latham, count Charles de Lambert, Louis Paulhan, Roger Sommer, and the American entry, Glenn Hammond Curtiss . . . Parisians streamed to the event enthusiastically , three thousand Britons came from London by special excursion, and two thousand Americans turned up to root for the single representative of their country. Rheims was a watershed in the history of flight. Aviators who had flown \'before Rheims\' were regarded as veterans compared with those who learned to fly later. It dramatically demonstrated the progress made in aviation and provided an incalculable stimulus for the design and production of aeroplanes
In completely unrestored, original condition with some signs of age and wear. These include closed tears, especially into the woman\'s hat and at the upper centre border. There are some stains in the border that I\'m confident will come when the poster is cleaned and linen backed, and a closed tear of a couple of inches towards the centre of the poster. Also a tiny hole beneath the \'on\' in \'Montaut\'. Otherwise just the expected bits of fold wear and a tax stamp that I think ought to be left in place. In a couple of places the paper is folded back at the edges of the borders but IS almost all there. Please look closely at the images as these and the other lesser flaws are evident and well represented in the images. This poster will linen back very well for two important reasons: 99.9 % of the paper is there, especially in the important areas (i.e., the image itself) and the colours are 100% strong/unfaded. Any decent restorer will make this poster sing and dance with minimal fuss and expense. A rare survivor, in any condition. Measures 120x160 cm.
Please note, this poster will be fairly expensive to ship internationally, though I may be willing to help out depending on the price achieved.
Shipping is via whatever means the buyer prefers, however MUST be entirely trackable.