A very rare piece, this Dinner Plate is one of the original British Airways Concorde in-flight service items used on the very fist Concorde service in the late 1960's and early 1970's.
The Dinner Plate is made for British Airways by Royal Doulton, and is in a very fine white porcelain with a blue band around the circumference. This band is embelished with yellow/gold coloured stylised 'droop-nose delta-winged Concordes' around the whole bowl. Unmistakably Concorde, and in a style so typical of that era.
In superb 'flown' condition, this bowl would have made several trips at twice the speed of sound, possibly used by dignitaries and celebrities who could afford the luxury of crossing the Atlantic in just over 3 hours!
Plate is 7 inches in diameter and carries the Royal Doulton factory mark, plus the British Airways (1960's) Logo/Script and a BA item code of UCCH8009. The plates are one of the hardest to obtain pieces, and absolutely essential for the collector trying to put together a 1960's service.
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