Apr 17, 2012 - Sale 2276

Sale 2276 - Lot 227

Price Realized: $ 1,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 2,000
(AVIATION.) WRIGHT, ORVILLE; AND GLENN L. MARTIN. Photograph Signed, by both, 3/4-length standing portrait, showing Wright and Martin standing beside American Export Airlines president William H. Coverdale, who additionally signed. Each signed in the blank lower margin, below the relevant portrait. 6 1/2x8 1/2 inches (image), 8 1/2x11 inches overall; date inscribed in an unknown hand in right lower margin, in pencil. Np, [1936-37?]
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This image may have been taken on the occasion of Orville Wright's visit to Martin's Baltimore factory in November of 1936. In the following year, Pan American Airways, for which the Glenn L. Martin Company built trans-ocean aircraft, was competing for a share of the international travel market against companies such as American Export Airlines.