AVIATION INTEREST - A EURASIA-AVIATION CORPORATION SILVER BEAKER AND OTHER EPHEMERA, the beaker of plain tapering cylindrical form, engraved 'EURASIA-AVIATION CORPORATION', along with the same emblem as found on the company's 1930's aircraft livery.
Sold together with period EAC luggage/mail tag and label, a period black and white photograph of an EAC single-engined Junkers aircraft, a c.1931-45 Manchuria Aviation Company luggage sticker, 1930's trans-Siberia bag labels, a 1930's ticket holder from the wagons-lit office in Harbin, Bhutanese and Laos airline material and an early 20th century 'Ernst Udet - Lessing 25 Zigaretten' tin,
Notes:
Eurasia Aviation Corporation was a joint venture established in 1931, between Lufthansa (Germany) and the Chinese government.
Manchuria Aviation was the Japanese state-owned airline, in which the company Sumitomo Zabatsu (today, owners of Mazda) were sizeable shareholders.
Ernst Udet was a WW1 German fighter pilot, who, after Manfred vo Richthofen, scored the highest number of kills among German pilots.