EARHART AMELIA; AND MANTZ PAUL Photograph Signed by each

Sale 1930 - Lot 41

Price Realized: $ 6,210

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Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 7,000

EARHART, AMELIA; AND MANTZ, PAUL. Photograph Signed by each, image of the two in casual clothes standing in front of her 1932 Lockwood Vega plane. 10x8 inches; minor light yellow stain in the photograph, paper-backed. Np, circa 1932

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Earhart hired famed Hollywood stunt pilot Paul Mantz as a technical advisor to her 1932 trans-Atlantic flight. In preparation for her 1937 around-the-world flight Mantz was hired again to teach the aviatrix more about long-range aviation, multi-engine procedure and instrument flying. He accompanied her on the first leg of her first attempt at the flight in March 1937, which ended when Earhart crashed her Lockheed Electra on takeoff. When she tried again 4 months later, she and navigator Fred Noonan dissappeared. This photograph is illustrated in Don Dwiggins's biography of Mantz titled Hollywood Pilot. Items autographed by both pilots are quite uncommon.<