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Frank Hawks

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Autographs Start Price:NA Estimated At:150.00 - 200.00 USD
Frank Hawks

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Auction Date:2010 Jun 16 @ 10:00 (UTC-05:00 : 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
Bid online at www.rrauction.com. Auction closes June 16.

American aviator (1897–1938) who set numerous speed and distance records in the 1920s and 1930s and was killed in an airplane crash at the age of forty-one. Vintage sepia glossy 8 x 10 photo of Hawks inspecting a Wright Whirlwind engine of the Texaco Sky Chief, signed and inscribed in fountain pen “To Mr. and Mrs. N. B. Ellis, a big ‘73,’ Sincerely, Frank Hawks.” In very good condition, with scattered creasing, edge toning, a couple of border chips, mounting remnants on reverse, and Hawks’s signature a shade or two light, but completely legible.