Apr 21, 2011 - Sale 2244

Sale 2244 - Lot 58

Price Realized: $ 2,400
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 2,000
INSCRIBED TO PRESIDENT'S SON LINDBERGH, CHARLES A. Photograph Signed and Inscribed, "To Mr. John Coolidge / With best regards," 1/2-length portrait by Underwood & Underwood, showing him standing "at ease" beside the Spirit of St. Louis. Inscribed in the blank lower margin. Approximately 9x7 inches (image), approximately 12x10 inches overall. Np, 12 June 1927

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Returning home after his historic nonstop flight from New York to Paris, Lindbergh sailed into New York harbor aboard the USS Memphis on June 11, where he greeted President Coolidge and other officials. Lindbergh then traveled to Washington, D.C., to visit the Coolidge family; during his stay, he met Anne Morrow, who later became his wife.