Auction Date:2013 Nov 21 @ 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
Vintage glossy 9.75 x 8 photo of Wright meeting with nine young pilots known as the ‘Sky Fleet,’ signed in ink by all pictured, with Wright signing diagonally in the center below his image. Among the other signers are “Lt. Sheldon B. Yoder,” “Lieut. A.F. Kalberer,” “Lieut. A.C. Lybarger,” “Lieut. Horace J. Reid,” “Lieut. J.S.B. Harvey,” and “E.E. Seward.” In very good condition, with moderate to heavy scattered creases, a tear to the upper border (which could be matted out), and a few of the other signatures a bit light. The ‘Sky Fleet,’ sponsored by the General Tire and Rubber Company, set out on a nationwide tour in 1929 to promote commercial aviation. A November 1929 article headlined, ‘‘Sky Fleet’ Fliers Meet Orville Wright,’ described this meeting: ‘They had been received by President Hoover at the White House, they had been greeted by Vice President Curtis, United States senators, congressmen, governors, and multi-millionaires galore. Most of them said, however, that they were prouder to have met Orville Wright because of the fact that he had started the industry in which they were engaged. The kindly eyes of the slender, erect man to whom, with his brother, the world owes today’s vast aeronautic industry, sparkled as the young fliers grouped about him, plied him with questions about the early days of aviation and how the tailspin was first conquered.’ A one-of-a-kind image from a historic moment in early aviation.
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