Oct 17, 2013 - Sale 2325

Sale 2325 - Lot 25

Price Realized: $ 3,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
(WRIGHT BROTHERS)
Wilbur in the seat of an early glider. Silver print with highlighting, 6x9 inches (15.2x22.9 cm.), with a caption label with J.R. McMahon's name, on mount recto, as well as various notations and retouching for publication, in pencil and in ink, on the print and mounts recto and verso. 1902

Additional Details

From a Private West Coast Collection.
McMahon wrote the first book on the Wright Brothers, which was published in 1930 by Little Brown (in an unauthorized edition). This print was originally in the Wright Brothers' Collection. It was published in a series McMahon wrote for a popular magazine in 1930.