Auction Date:2012 May 23 @ 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
Remarkable and historically significant ALS written in pencil, signed “Charles A. Lindbergh,” one page, 8.25 x 6, dated at the bottom March 2, 1932. Lindbergh writes, in full: “Due to the fact that our roads are blocked and communication made extremely difficult under present circumstances I am asking that everyone leave our farm. I am requesting your cooperating in this situation, as it is of extreme importance to us.” Intersecting folds, one lightly grazing a single letter of the signature, and a moderate block of toning to sheet, otherwise fine condition. Accompanied by a copy of the original letter of provenance from Karl Bickel, signed “KAB,” which states, “Personally given to me early (8 a.m.appasx) on morning after kidnapping in order to get large body reporters off lawn so that possible conversation with kidnappers could be made. Request agreed too.”
Lindbergh desperately wrote this letter just 12 hours after his twenty-month old son, Charles Jr., had been taken from the second floor nursery of the aviator’s New Jersey home; a ransom note was left on the window sill of the nursery demanding $50,000 for the child’s safe return. Bombarded by the press and curious onlookers, the distraught father handed this plea to United Press International president, Karl A. Bickel, hoping to clear the property in an attempt to establish communication with the kidnapper. This hastily scribbled note harkens from the darkest time of Lindbergh’s life, direct from the scene of the most horrendous crime.
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