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CHARLES A. LINDBERGH Color Print Portrait and Cancelled Stamps 50th Anniversary

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:150.00 USD Estimated At:200.00 - 300.00 USD
CHARLES A. LINDBERGH Color Print Portrait and Cancelled Stamps 50th Anniversary
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Magnificent Charles Lindbergh Portrait with Cancelled “First Solo Transatlantic Flight” Commemorative Stamps
(Charles A. Lindbergh) Special Commemorative Print with Two Air Mail Stamps and 50th Anniversary Solo Transatlantic Flight Stamp at Roosevelt Field Station, New York, Presentation Album, Choice Near New.
May 20, 1977-Dated, Color Print Portrait of Charles A. Lindbergh with his Printed Facsimile Signature in blue below, and two special cancelled U.S. Airmail Stamps affixed including U.S. 10 cent Lindbergh Air Mail stamp and 13 cent Commemorative 50th Anniversary Solo Transatlantic Flight stamp, with First Day of Issue special cancellation, postmarked: May 20, 1977 at Roosevelt Field Station, New York, in a brown leatherette style 11" x 14" presentation folder.

Right page reads: “Charles A. Lindbergh (1902-1974) The youthful American Aviator who flew the first solo flight of the Atlantic from New York to Paris in the Spirit of St. Louis. A Milestone in the History of Flight. Built in San Diego, the Spirit of St. Louis was first flown April 28, 1927, with Lindbergh at the controls. Seconds seemed like hours as the Spirit of St. Louis, heavily laden with fuel, lumbered aloft into an uncertain destiny from Roosevelt Field, New York, May 20, 1927. After thirty-three and a half hours of flight a tired, chilled, and dazed Lindbergh arrived at Le Bourget Aerodrome, Paris. There, engulfed by a floodlit human sea, he was as a winged god descended to the earth, May 21, 1927. This commemorative piece was issued by the International Aerospace Hall of Fame on the precise fiftieth anniversary of the beginning of Lindbergh’s epoch flight.” Below is a printed map of the plane’s route.