2001 Early Balloon Flight, Rockwell Publishing, England, Airplane Cards

2001 Early Balloon Flight (small)
Rockwell Publishing, England

Set Overview

Series Title: Early Balloon Flight
British Trade Index No.: n/a
Issued by: Rockwell Publishing, England
Issued via: Online Retail Sales
Country: England
Number of Cards: 10
Card Numbering: One to Ten
Type of Card: Commercial retail sets
Card Dimensions: 38.1 × 70.7 mm (small)
Circa: 2001
Checklist: Download

During 2001, Rockwell Publishing issued a two sets of Early Balloon Flight commercial retail historic balloon trading cards. This first set is cigarette-card sized and measures 38.1 × 70.7 mm.

The fronts of the ‘Early Balloon Flight’ cards feature portrait (vertical) color artwork of famous balloons from the first Montgolfier Brothers hot air balloon up through Salomon Andree’s ‘Eagle’ which he used on a Polar Expedition. The cards fronts feature in-flight balloons busting through a thin rectangular borderline on the card front. The set title ‘Early Balloon Flight’ is shown in the upper margin, while the title of the card is shown in the lower margin. The set features very attractive color artwork. Both the card fronts and backs are presented in a portrait (vertical) format.

The card backs use a light blue exterior margin/border with symmetrical bulges in the border to simulate the shape of the balloon on the front side of the card. The backs of the cards are quite busy with their own version of information overload. The card backs are divided into the following vertical data stack of eight elements:

The series title: Early Balloon Flight
The Card Title: i.e. Salmon Andree
The card number and set length: Number ten in a set of ten
Descriptive text: A small print descriptive text of the history and accomplishments of the featured balloon.
Notation: Issued by
Mfg.: ROCKWELL PUBLISHING
url: www.rockwellcards.co.uk
Location and copyright; Made in England / ©Rockwell 2001

The following reference card shows the fronts and backs of a typical 2001 Early Balloon Flight card. Click on the card images to reveal full-size computer enhanced 600-dpi images of the card.

Image-Guide

2001 Early Balloon Flight Retail sales, 10-Airplane Cards ORIGINAL SCANS
1 1b	2 2b	3 3b	4 4b	5 5b	6 6b	7 7b	8 8b	9 9b	10 10b

Checklist

2001 Early Balloon Flight Rockwell Publishing, 10-Cards, England CHECKLIST
№	x	Card Title
1		The Montgolfier Bros.
2		Jacques Charles
3		Vincenzo Lunardi
4		Blanchard & Jeffries
5		de Rozier and Romain
6		Charles Green
7		John Wise
8		Nadar
9		Gaston Tissandier
10		Salomon Andree

References

John A. Shupek: Card images via the Skytamer Archive Digital Image Database.