Aviation

378. Amelia Earhart Lockheed Vega 5B Wing Fabric. Flown fabric

presentation created by the Smithsonian Institution National Air and Space Museum featuring an affixed dark red 2 x 2 swatch excised from Amelia Earhart’s Lockheed Vega 5B, which helped Earhart become the first female pilot to fly solo nonstop across the Atlantic. The swatch is affixed to its original 15 x 20 informational poster. In fine condition. Starting Bid $200

graph. Vintage matte-finish 8 x 10 photo of Charles Lindbergh outside Louie’s Lunch Room at Lambert Field, St. Louis, on May 11, 1927—just before his historic New York-to-Paris flight—nicely signed in fountain pen, “C. A. Lindbergh, Feb. 20, 1928.” Reverse bears the credit stamp of Mario Cavagnaro, a photographer who worked for the St. Louis Star. In fine condition, with faint silvering to darker areas of the image. Starting Bid $300

380. Charles Lindbergh Signed Book Presented to Astronaut Gordon Cooper. Signed book: The Spirit

of St. Louis. Later printing. NY: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1953. Hardcover with dust jacket, 6 x 8.5, 562 pages. Signed and inscribed on the title page in black ink, “To L. Gordon Cooper, with best wishes, Charles A. Lindbergh.” In fine condition, with scattered small areas of surface loss to the dust jacket. A desirable association piece between two legends of aviation. Starting Bid $200

381. Charles Lindbergh Autograph Letter Signed. ALS, in pencil, signed “Father,” three onionskin pages, 8.25 x 10.75, January 29, 1960. Handwritten letter from Switzerland to his son. In part: “Yesterday, I enrolled you in the International School of Geneva, Switzerland…Mr. Forbes was quite impressed by the record you made at camp last summer...He thought you might be able to take the school’s advanced course in mathematics next winter if your marks in that subject stay up this year…There is talk about a mountain-climbing expedition on Mt. Etna next winter (vacation time) and a choice between this and skiing for boys who don’t go home for Christmas. But this is only a possibility, and may depend on a reasonably good scholastic standing! I don’t know about the girl supply; but there are some pretty good looking ones in French Switzerland.” Lindbergh adds another notation on the first page, “If you like the school, which I think you will, you have your mother to thank for finding it.” In fine condition, with light creasing, a paperclip impression to the upper left corner, and minor edge loss to the last page. A seldom-seen side of Lindbergh as father rather than as aviator. Starting Bid $200