Price: $12,500 Apollo XI. Signed Photograph of the Apollo XI lunar astronauts crew posing in their space suits against a lunar background, Inscribed by Armstrong and Signed on the mount below, “Best Wishes To James E. Rogan / Neil Armstrong “. Also Signed by M. Collins and Buzz Aldrin. The color photograph measures 14 inches … [ Read More ]
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Aviation
Price: $1,250 Cover Signed by the four crew members of the NC-4, bearing the imprint “Carried by U.S. Navy seaplane NC-4” with the post mark, November, 1919. Signed by Al Reed, M.S.N; James L. Breese U.S.N.R.F; E. S. Rhoades, U.S.N.; & Walter Hinton in the top left portion of the envelope. The NC-4 was the … [ Read More ]
Lawrence, T E
Price: $9,500 Lawrence of Arabia. British archaeologist, soldier and writer. Document Signed, T.E. Shaw A/c, two pages, quarto, September 6, 1933. A Royal Air Force engine test form, recording data concerning oil pressure, water and oil temperature, and fuel consumption. The sheets were used in the testing of marine engines that powered dinghies used to … [ Read More ]
Lindbergh, Charles A
Price: $27,500 American aviation pioneer. Manuscript Signed, one page, quarto, May 27, 1927. Six days after his historic non-stop flight across the Atlantic, Lucky Lindy signs a poem written in his honor, in French, by poet Anna de Noailles. This morning, seeing a bird flying in the sky,/ I said to myself, ‘how clumsy he … [ Read More ]
Sikorsky, Igor
Price: $9,500 Russian-born American aeronautical engineer, Igor Sikorsky; developed the helicopter. A collection of two contracts and five typewritten letters signed, as well as five documents and 26 letters, typewritten and carbon copies of letters, memos and financial papers, all concerning the publication of his book, The Story of the Winged-S, and its revised editions, … [ Read More ]
Wright, Orville
Price: $12,500 American aviation pioneer. Typewritten Letter Signed Orville Wright, one page, quarto, Dayton, Ohio, April 3, 1938. On his name-imprinted stationery, to Fred L. Black at the Edison Institute in Dearborn, Michigan. “I received this morning, Sunday, the following cable from Mr. Brewer: ‘I find your kindness irresistible. Sailing Europa, Thursday, arriving New York, … [ Read More ]
Wright, Orville
Price: $15,000 American aviation pioneer. Typewritten Letter Signed, one page, quarto, Dayton, Ohio, December 21, 1937. On his name-imprinted stationery, to Henry Ford in Dearborn, Michigan. “Please accept my thanks for your telegram of greetings and congratulations on the thirty-fourth anniversary of our first flight.” The Wright brothers made history’s first powered, sustained, and controlled … [ Read More ]