May 23, 2013 - Sale 2316

Sale 2316 - Lot 22

Price Realized: $ 4,080
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,500 - $ 5,000
(ASTRONAUTS.) ARMSTRONG, NEIL. Photograph Signed and Inscribed: "To Allan Sanford-- / With the Best Wishes of the Photographer / Neil A'g / Apollo 11--," showing four shots of Aldrin as he descended the Lunar Module toward the Moon's surface. Inscribed on the mount below the image. 7 1/2x7 1/2 inches (image), 11x9 inches overall; extreme bottom of signature truncated at bottom edge; matted and framed. [Dayton, 1977]

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with--A signed letter from Allan Sanford explaining that the present autograph is one of the pages from a mock up of a book proposed by Sanford, who brought it in 1977 to Armstrong in Dayton, OH, for review, where he signed the page as a memento.