Oct 15, 2015 - Sale 2393

Sale 2393 - Lot 53

Price Realized: $ 3,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
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The Wright Brothers' flying glider as a kite. Air-brushed silver print with ink highlights, 4 3/4x7 inches (12.1x17.8 cm.), on a period mount, with various handwritten notations, in pencil and ink, on mounts recto and verso, and a hand stamp on mount verso. 1900
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This rare and famous photograph depicts the first glider ever designed and built by the Wright Brothers, known as The 1900 Glider, in flight.

With a loose, typed caption reading, "The Wright 1900 glider flying as a kite. See plate 14 - Diaries." A handwritten note on mount recto delineates a return address for the photograph, belonging to the controversial author of "The Wright Brothers: Fathers of Flight," John R. McMahon, about whom Orville Wright is noted as having said "He had no right to publish it. It was an unauthorized publication and is extremely inaccurate."