b'117818POSTERS819817Maurice SCHLESINGER (Australia, 1938 -) Nouma, New Caledonia. Fly There By Qantas, 819Australias Round-the-world Airline The Great European Visit Memorial Flight Gamec1970 colour screenprint,101.5 x 77.5cm. Linen-backed. 1925 colour process lithograph with text in Japanese,Schlesinger created several posters for Qantas in the 1960s54.3 x 78.5cm. Linen-backed.and 70s. This attractive map and game board celebrates a trip by air from The Noumea poster is rarely seen. He was born in Egypt andTokyo to the major cities of Europe - a moment of Japanese arrived in Australia in 1952 as a teenager. He studied sculpturenational pride and a landmark event in Japanese aviation. It was with Tom Bass, and painting and drawing at the Julian Ashtonpublished folded, as a supplement to the Asahi Shinbun issue of Art School. December 10, 1925. The trip was sponsored by that newspaper, $8001,000one of Japans oldest and most respected. In 1925, the paper had purchased two Breguet 19 French bi-planes, fitted them out with additional fuel tanks for long-range flights, named them 818 Hatsukaze (First Wind) and Kochikaze (East Wind), and selected pilots and flight engineers. On July 25, 1925, the planes took SPEY-ROYAL WHISKY FRAMED ADVERT,depicting soldiers in desert with pyramids, off from Tokyo. Flying by way of China and Siberia, they visited scene titled A HALT FOR PURE MALT., Moscow, Berlin, Paris, London, and Brussels, arriving in Rome, W. & A. GILBEYS/ HIGHLAND DISTILLERIES. their final stop, on October 27. They travelled 16,565 kilometres framed & glazed, overall 60.5 x 75cm. (more than 10,000 miles) in a little under 111 hours of flying time.$150250 $1,0001,250'