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<p><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:windowtext'>[PIONEER AVIATORS] </span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial; color:windowtext'>Collection of six early aviators. Their large, boldly penned signatures on both pages of beige album leaf, 7½"x9¼". Included are famed aviatrix </span><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:windowtext; text-transform:uppercase'>Amelia Earhart</span></b><span style='font-size: 12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:windowtext'> (1898-1937), adding “<i>September 8, 1931</i>”; round the world pilot </span><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:windowtext;text-transform:uppercase'>Wiley Post</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial; color:windowtext'> (1899-1935) and his navigator </span><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family: Arial;color:windowtext;text-transform:uppercase'>Harold Gatty</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial; color:windowtext'>, who adds “<i>July 28th 1931</i>”; </span><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:windowtext;text-transform:uppercase'>Blanch Wilcox Noyes</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Arial;color:windowtext'>, adding “<i>Cleveland Ohio / June 5, 1931.</i>” She raced in nearly every women’s national air race, the only woman for many years who was allowed to pilot a government aircraft. Also signed by early Army Air Service pilot </span><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family: Arial;color:windowtext;text-transform:uppercase'>L. Ponton de Arce</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial; color:windowtext'> (1900-1970), who flew American Airlines initial run and was instructor of distance record setter Johnny Polando, adding ‘<i>Bon Bon’</i> beneath his signature. Signed on verso by </span><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family: Arial;color:windowtext;text-transform:uppercase'>Tien Lai Huang</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial; color:windowtext'>, called the “Chinese Lindbergh,” adding “<i>Shanghai China</i>” and his name in Chinese characters at left of his autograph beneath “<i>May 1, 1931</i>” and sentiment in Chinese, “<i>Wishing you a long life, much happiness, good health and prosperity in many generations.</i>” Fine.</span></p>
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