FIRST SUCCESSFUL TRANSATLANTIC FLIGHT EAST TO WEST 1928 COLLECTION OF 14 BUTTONS.
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Winning Bid:
$298.54 (Includes 18% Buyer's Premium)
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Tuesday, November 19, 2024 9:00:00 PM (20 Minute Clock Begins At Tuesday, November 19, 2024 9:00:00 PM)
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#242 - Session 1
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Item Description
1.25" each. 12 w/out back paper and row 3 #4 has Joe Hizer Novelty, Phila. paper and row 4 #1 has W&H paper. The Bremen was a Junkers W33 aircraft. It left Baldonnel Aerodome, Ireland on April 12 and landed, in a peat bog, on Greenly Island, Canada April 13. Quickly some 60 journalists crowded on the tiny island to report the event. The fliers tried for two weeks to repair their airplane, but failed, and thus arrived in New York City for their tickertape parade on April 30 where the majority of these buttons were sold as souvenirs. Pictured in the top row is Major James E. Fitzmaurice, the Irish navigator. Pictured on row #2 buttons are the owner Ehrenfried Gunther Freiherr von Hunefeld, a wealthy German aristocrat, and Captain Hermann Kohl, the pilot. The final eight buttons picture all three. Conditions are VF to NM and most are Exc. Tiny age trace on first button. Rest no stain and all high gloss. The most extensive collection known to us.
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