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Richard E. Byrd

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Richard E. Byrd

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Auction Date:2010 Nov 10 @ 19:00 (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
Souvenir TQS, signed “R. E. Byrd,” on an off-white 5.25 x 7.5 card. In full: “It is a confusing place, this imaginary point, the South Pole. All time meridians converge there. A few minutes after the turn I opened the trap door and dropped over the calculated position of the Pole the small flag which was weighted with the stone from Bennett’s grave. Stone and flag plunged down together. The flag had been advanced 1,500 miles father south than it had ever been before our expedition reached the Antarctic. June radioed the following message to Little America: ‘My calculations indicate that we have reached the vicinity of the SOUTH POLE. Flying high for a survey. Byrd.’” Signed underneath in fountain pen with the typewritten date November 1929. Missing small upper right corner tip, otherwise fine condition. Fabulous quotation as the explorer recalls his famed adventure.