August 12th Auction of Rare Autographs, Manuscripts, Sports
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 8/12/2021
Chicago to St. Louis, April 15, 1926. Air Mail envelope, signed by Lindbergh on front, for the inaugural air mail flight from Chicago to St. Louis; co-signed by Postmaster William H. Conkling; including a doodle of a U.S. Mail plane at top in an unknown hand. Mounting residue on verso; opened. 4 1/16 x 9 1/2 in. (103 x 241 mm).
An early Lindbergh envelope signed while he was still an air mail carrier, a little over a year before his historic transatlantic flight aboard the Spirit of St. Louis.
Charles Lindbergh Signed First Flight Cover
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