COLOMBOPHILIA / Manuscript of a military pigeon fancier's ma - Lot 191

COLOMBOPHILIA / Manuscript of a military pigeon fancier's manual, 53-page notebook written in the 1930s (covers are pasted with 1936 Central Committee Against Tuberculosis vignettes): presentation of military pigeon fanciers, the engineering officers responsible, wartime organization, operation of mobile pigeon lofts, delivery of pigeons to troops, renewal of pigeons at posts, delivery by carrier pigeons, how to draw up a colombogram, operation of mobile pigeon lofts during an advance, operation of fixed pigeon lofts, aims and principles of carrier pigeon training, adduction of old pigeons, exercise flights, training, duties of the pigeon fancier, pigeon care, marking of feathers, etc.