A silver & enamel cigarette case presented to the aviator Amy Johnson by the Lady Members of the Australian Golf Club in 1930, the gilt-interior lid i

A silver & enamel cigarette case presented to the aviator Amy Johnson by the Lady Members of the Australian Golf Club in 1930, the gilt-interior lid inscribed MISS AMY JOHNSON, FROM THE LADY MEMBERS, OF THE, AUSTRALIAN GOLF CLUB, SYDNEY JUNE 1930, the enamel decoration with a view of Venice from the lagoon, 9 by 7.5cm., 3 1/2 by 3in. Amy Johnson, born in Kingston-upon-Hull in 1903, was a pioneering English aviator flying solo or with her husband Jim Mollison and set a number of long distance flying records during the 1930s. Her exploits drew worldwide attention in 1930 when she became the first woman to fly solo from England to Australi in her Gipsy Moth ''Jason.'' She left Croydon aerodrome on 5th May and landed at Darwin, Northern Territory, on 24th May after flying 11,000 miles. Her aircraft for this flight is preserved at the Science Museum in London. She travelled onto Sydney arriving in the city on 4th June and where she was given a full civic reception. Amy Johnson stayed to 13th June and evidently visited The Australian Golf club in Rosebery, Sydney, NSW, where she received this gift from the Lady Members to mark her visit. During the Second World War Amy Johnson joined the Air Transport Auxiliary and was tragically killed when she bailed out of aircraft (out of fuel) in the Thames Estuary during poor weather on 5th January 1941. Her body was never found.