Auction 77
Collector Series
Airmail
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Lot 100 |
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 Airmail, 1911, two vintage postcards featuring Calbraith Perry Rodgers and his "Vin Fiz" pioneer airplane. The first card shows Rodgers' plane leaving New York; the second card features Rodgers with a cigar characteristically clenched in his jaw in a car provided for his family by Vin Fiz. Estimate $75 - 100 Calbraith Perry Rodgers was the first man to fly across the United States. He undertook this flight in 1911 to win the $50,000 prize offered by William Randolph Hearst. Rodgers' effort was supported by the Armour Company and Rodgers named his plane after their new grape soda, Vin Fiz. Armour's support allowed for construction of a special Wright plane, mechanics, and spare parts transported on a special train that followed below the airplane. The spare parts were essential because Rodgers crashed repeatedly. He did complete the transcontinental flight on December 10, 1911, but not within the time limit set for the Hearst prize. Sadly, Rodgers' met his demise in a fatal crash in his backup plane in Long Beach Harbor on April 3, 1912. View details and enlarged photos | Realized $350 |
Lot 101 |
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Airmail, 1928-39, an interesting selection of items relating to Clara Adams, an early aviation enthusiast. Including a piece of the original fabric from the envelope of the Graf Zeppelin (she noted "it made the world flight"); also includes her luggage tag from her trip board the Graf Zeppelin in cabin no. 7 on October 29, 1928 as the first woman to fly across the Atlantic. Plus two signed picture post cards one of which is addressed to the Associate Editor of the Air Post Journal, Florence Lamport, the other commemorates her unofficial record for passenger travel around the world via commercial air travel, the trip lasted sixteen days and nineteen hours and covered 24,609 miles. Lastly there is a flight schedule for Luft-Expressgut which she posted to Florence Lamport. This is an interesting array of items from an aviation enthusiast who pioneered modern day air travel. Estimate $350 - 500 Clara Adams, known as the "first flighter" and the "maiden of maiden flights", was an aircraft passenger and enthusiast who set a variety of flying records and probably should have gotten frequent flyer miles. View details and enlarged photos | Realized $280 |
Lot 102 |
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Rocket Mail, 1935-46, a selection of 4 items, including 1935 Experimental Parachute Airmail, Newark to New York, on a tiny cover to the Netherlands, and an unused example; and the signatures of famed Rocket scientist Werner von Braun on two blocks of the 1946 issue, Very Fine. Estimate $75 - 100. View details and enlarged photo | Realized $90 |
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