Auction Date:2012 Nov 14 @ 18:00 (UTC-5 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
Collection of 42 vintage ink and pencil signatures of early aviation pioneers on an off-white 8 x 10.75 sheet labeled “Autographs,” at the top. Signers include: designer Glenn H. Curtiss; three crew members of the famed Navy NC-4 flying boat flight of 1919, Albert Cushing Read, Elmer Fowler Stone, and J. L. Breese, Jr.; Naval aviator John Tower; Rear Admiral David W. Taylor; automotive pioneer John Willys; British Air Commodore Lionel Charlton; author Irvin S. Cobb; Doubleday president Herbert S. Houston; and several men who worked with Curtiss including W. W. Mountain, Henry Kleckler, C. H. Connor, Harry Evers, John P. Tarbox, J. Allan Smith, and Beckwith Havens. In fine condition, with a bit of scattered mild toning. Accompanied by 14 pages of photos and text selected from the book World in the Air by Francis Trevelyan Miller, 1930.
Full list of signers: Ernest Ballard, L. T. Barin, Russ Bellinger, Chester H. Braselton, J. S. Breese, Jr., Lionel Charlton, Irvin S. Cobb, A. G. Coburn, C. H. Conner, Glenn H. Curtiss, J. P. Davies, J. A. Davis, James C. Dayton, A. F. Duleich, Harry Evers, E. K. Gordon, Beckwith Havens, Herbert Sherman Houston, J. C. Hurister, Luis Inley, N. E. Irwin, Henry Kleckler, H. S Leaycroft, C. W. Legind, K. B. MacDonald, O. H. McCullock, Bradford Merrill, L. B. Moore, W. W. Mountain, Finley R. Porter, Albert Cushing Read, Frank G. Smith, J. Allan Smith, Edward B. Steel, Elmer Fowler Stone, V. Syminton, John P. Tarbox, David W. Taylor, John Tower, Edward J. Wheeler, John N. Willys, and C. C. Witmer.
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