Auction Date:2013 Nov 21 @ 18:00 (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
Partly-printed DS, signed “Glenn H. Curtiss,” one page, 8 x 13, February 15, 1917. Curtiss transfers rights to an invention from himself to his company. In part: “I, Glenn H. Curtiss, of Buffalo, N. Y., do sell and assign to Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Corporation…the improvements in Hydro-Aircraft invented by me, and the application for United States Patent therefor executed concurrently herewith.” Document is held within its original folder and bears a US Patent office transfer form at the top, retaining its original seal and ribbon. In fine condition. Accompanied by three period photos, two of the Curtiss NC-4 and one of its engine.
Born and raised in Hammondsport, New York, on the south end of Keuka Lake, Glenn Curtiss combined his interest in sky and sea in his groundbreaking design of the first viable hydro-plane. Having already found great success in the air with his June Bug, he began reconstructing a plane to have the hull of a boat, quickly developing a plane that could take off from and land in the water; his achievement grabbed the attention of the US Navy, who, in 1917, commissioned him to design a long-range flying boat to hold a crew of five. Transferring his individual ownership of the rights to the Hydro-Aircraft to his Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Corporation, this historic document marks the year that he would produce the first series of floatplanes for the Navy, one of which—the Curtiss NC-4 Flying Boat—would go on to become the first aircraft to successfully cross the Atlantic Ocean two years later in 1919.
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