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Ticket- Lindbergh Trial Bruno Richard Hauptmann

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Transportation Start Price:75.00 USD Estimated At:300.00 - 350.00 USD
Ticket- Lindbergh Trial Bruno Richard Hauptmann
<B>Ticket to the Lindbergh Trial of Bruno Richard Hauptmann,</B></I> 4.5" x 3.5", Flemington, New Jersey, January 25, 1935. Printed on heavy card stock and signed in print by John H. Custiss, Sheriff of Hunterdon County, this card is inscribed "<I>Admit Two</B></I>". Moderate wear with creases slanting diagonally along lower corners. Very good condition. The ticket is enhanced by a letter (with cover) to its recipient, a Mr. N. Botwin of Perth Amboy, New Jersey, from one Norman Anderson of Flemington. It reads in part: "<I>…The tickets are very limited and the best I could do on the price is $10.00 each. Will you let me know as soon as possible either one way or another what you wish to do on the matter…</B></I>". Bruno Haputmann's kidnapping and murder of Charles Lindbergh's son was perhaps the single most notorious crime of a violent decade marked by gangsters and the rise of fascism. That Hauptmann's trial was a media event of the highest order can be seen in the ticket prices quoted in the letter offered here. Ten bucks could buy a lot of groceries during the Great Depression.<BR><BR><b>Shipping:</b> Small Flat (<a target="_blank" href="http://www.heritageauctions.com/common/shipping.php">view shipping information</a>)
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