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Roscoe Turner Pop Cleveland Signed Letters Photo

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:25.00 USD Estimated At:100.00 - 125.00 USD
Roscoe Turner Pop Cleveland Signed Letters Photo
<B>Roscoe Turner Typed Letter and Photograph Signed to pioneer pilot Ephraim W. “Pop” Cleveland.</B></I> Comprises: <B>1) Photograph inscribed</B></I> “<I>To our old/ Pal 'Pop' Cleveland/ from/Roscoe/ &/ Gilmore/ 'The Flying Lion'/ 1932.</B></I>” Turner had convinced the Gilmore Oil Company to sponsor him and acquired a lion (Gilmore's logo) who accompanied him on his flights, including two transcontinental speed records in 1930. Adequate contrast. Minor surface dents, small abrasion at lower blank margin. <B>2) Typed Letter Signed</B></I> “<I>Roscoe,</B></I>” one page, 8.5” x 11”. Indianapolis, Indiana, August 14, 1951. In part “<I>You're the greatest guy in aviation in my book…Pop, I just hope you live to fly another forty years…</B></I>” Less than a year later, on August 6, 1952, 63-year-old Pop Cleveland and his wife were killed when the Beech Bonanza he was piloting struck the base of Mt. Baldy, southeast of Seattle. <B>3) Pop Cleveland Signed Photograph greeting card,</B></I> 3.5” x 2.5” image, 4” x 5.5” overall, printed 1945/1946 Christmas New Year greeting picturing Pop and his plane signed “<I>'Pop' Cleveland.</B></I>” Glue stains not on sepia image or signature, mounted on paper. Three items.<BR><BR><b>Shipping:</b> Flat Material, Small (<a target="_blank" href="http://www.heritageauctions.com/common/shipping.php">view shipping information</a>)
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