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Aurora 2007 Golden Age of Aviation Auction
10:00 AM PT - Jul 28th, 2007

offered by
Aurora

30 Hackamore Lane
Bell Canyon, CA 91307
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234 Items

Lot Description Estimates
(USD)
1 Lot 1

Thompson Products Valve Box
Original box for aircraft engine valves made by the famed Th...

100
-
150
2 Lot 2

Vintage Leather Helmet with Silk Scarf
Minor age faults.

250
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300
3 Lot 3

Leather Flight Helmet
Very good condition.

100
-
150
2 Bids
4 Lot 4

World War II Era Rochester Optical Pilot Goggles
complete with spare lenses, instruction booklet and original...

200
-
500
5 Lot 5

Leather Flight Helmet Type A 14 Oxygen Mask & Goggle
Original boxes for oxygen mask and Polaroid goggles included...

400
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700
5A Lot 5A

Shuttle Escape High Altitude Pressure Flight Suit Clark
This rare high altitude suit, Model S1030A manufactured by t...

10,000
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15,000
6 Lot 6

Collection of Vintage Pilot Log Books
Including Texaco Pilots log book, Arrowhead Airways, Hibbing...

100
-
150
7 Lot 7

VOR Instrument
Very good condition with minor faults from use.

100
-
150
8 Lot 8

VOR Instrument
Very good condition with minor faults from use.

100
-
150
8A Lot 8A

Continental Motors R670-5 Engine Coffee Table
(38x15") mounted beneath a 68" glass topped coffee table and...

2,000
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5,000
9 Lot 9

Wilbur Wright 1908 Autograph on LeMans Flyer Postcard
Octave Chanute, son of a French émigré, began testing glider...

1,500
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3,000
10 Bids
10 Lot 10

Henry Moore Signed, Reporter Scooped Wright Flight
Concerned about protecting their pending patent, the Wright ...

50
-
75
3 Bids
11 Lot 11

Lot of 8 Wright Brothers US Air Mail 6c Stamps
Two plate blocks of four stamps, numbered 24158 and 24159. ...

20
-
30
1 Bid
12 Lot 12

Commemorative Lindbergh "Spirit of St. Louis" Card
The $25,000 Orteig Prize was offered in 1919 by New York hot...

150
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250
1 Bid
13 Lot 13

"The Lindy" Child's Leather Flight Helmet & Goggles
The $25,000 Orteig Prize was offered in 1919 by New York hot...

150
-
300
4 Bids
14 Lot 14

Padlock with "Sprit of St. Louis" Image
The $25,000 Orteig Prize was offered in 1919 by New York hot...

75
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125
15 Lot 15

Lot of 4 Metal Lindbergh "Spirit of St. Louis"
The $25,000 Orteig Prize was offered in 1919 by New York hot...

100
-
150
16 Lot 16

Lindbergh "Spirit Of St. Louis" Lighter
The $25,000 Orteig Prize was offered in 1919 by New York hot...

100
-
150
17 Lot 17

1927 Charles A. Lindbergh Commemorative Medal
The $25,000 Orteig Prize was offered in 1919 by New York hot...

250
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500
3 Bids
18 Lot 18

Edison Record "Lucky Lindy" Charles Lindbergh
Talk about being first to cash in on someone's fame!! After ...

150
-
300
19 Lot 19

Amelia Earhart Autograph
on an "All-American Air Meet" commemorative cover with a mag...

1,000
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2,000
6 Bids
20 Lot 20

Amelia Earhart Commemorative Bronze Plaque
Amelia Earhart was taught to fly by Neta Snook, the first wo...

5,000
-
10,000
21 Lot 21

1936 H.H. Barnett Autograph on VP9 Squadron Cover
Established in January, 1930, the Navy's VP9 Squadron adopte...

35
-
50
3 Bids
22 Lot 22

Gen George H. Beverley Signed FAI PIlot License
Born in Amarillo, Texas, in 1897, Brigadier General George H...

750
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1,000
7 Bids
23 Lot 23

Col Vernon Burge Autograph, 1st Enlisted US Pilot
in blue ink on a "Jamestown Exposition 1907" color postcard....

50
-
75
4 Bids
24 Lot 24

Aviation Pioneer Clarence Chamberlain Autograph
in black ink on a Patchogue-to-Cherry Grove Air Mail commemo...

150
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200
3 Bids
25 Lot 25

Vintage Photograph of Aviatrix Edith Foltz
By 1928 many women had earned their pilot's licenses and wan...

350
-
500
26 Lot 26

Fuller, Gray & Temlinson Autographs USS Langley
on a Sitka, Alaska to United States cover. Squadron command...

35
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50
27 Lot 27

Greenland Whale Designer Pilot Wolfgang von Groneau
in blue ink on a Unjere Luftwaffe postcard. Since the Tr...

35
-
50
2 Bids
28 Lot 28

Speed Pilot Frank Hawks Autograph
in blue ink on a commemorative cover. The cover bears a blue...

50
-
75
2 Bids
29 Lot 29

Frank Hawks Photograph and Signed Reply Card
Frank Hawks was an aviation legend in the golden age of earl...

500
-
1,000
30 Lot 30

1st NonStop TransPacific Flight Hugh Herndon Signed
on a US air mail cover. The cover bears a blue "Pacific NWW ...

35
-
50
31 Lot 31

Aviator Pilot Charles "Casey" S. Jones Autograph
Pioneer American aviator Casey Jones was an early test pilot...

350
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500
2 Bids
32 Lot 32

Balloonist & PIlot Gen William E. Kepner Autograph
in black ink on a "Stratospheric Balloon Test" postcard. ...

50
-
75
2 Bids
33 Lot 33

Balloonist Roy Knabenshue Autograph
in blue ink on a "Balloon Ascension, Long Beach, Cal." color...

50
-
75
6 Bids
34 Lot 34

Early French Pilot Rene Labouret Autograph
in blue ink on a "Millau - Fetes d'Aviation et da la Mutuali...

50
-
75
1 Bid
35 Lot 35

US Pilot #2 Frank P. Lahm Aviator Autograph
in blue ink on the reverse of an original 1909 "Wright Bros....

150
-
300
36 Lot 36

Pioneer Aviatrix Bernetta Miller Pilot #5 Autograph
in blue ink on a "Aviation Field, Tenean Beach, Dorchester -...

50
-
75
3 Bids
37 Lot 37

US Female Pilot #2 Matilde Moisant Autograph
in green ink on a Inceville Light House postcard. Matilde Mo...

35
-
50
5 Bids
38 Lot 38

Pilot Robert Morse Signed 1st Mass Trancon Flight
The lot consists of a cover "commemorating first non-stop ma...

35
-
50
4 Bids
39 Lot 39

Pilot Lt. Col. Robert Old Autograph
on a cover commemorating a "Special flight from Langley Fiel...

25
-
35
1 Bid
40 Lot 40

French Aviator Pilot # 10 Louis Paulhan Autograph
in blue ink on a black and white aviation postcard. Paulh...

50
-
75
4 Bids
41 Lot 41

Pilots Wiley Post & Gatty Bronze Plaque RTW Flight
Wiley Post (1898 - 1935) was one of the most celebrated pilo...

15,000
-
20,000
1 Bid
42 Lot 42

Frankie Reiner, Tuck Lore, Hugh Rolbeuns Autographs
on a cover bearing a red sticker reading "Come to Ohio Sate ...

25
-
35
2 Bids
43 Lot 43

World War I Ace Capt Eddie Rickenbacker Autograph
in black ink on an air mail cover. The cover bears two US 3-...

350
-
500
8 Bids
44 Lot 44

Pilot Aviator Tailhook Inventor Hugh Robinson Autograph
in blue ink on a "Ead's Bridge, St. Louis, MO." color postca...

50
-
75
5 Bids
45 Lot 45

"Victory Through Air Power" signed by Alex de Seversky
Alexander Nikolaievich Prokofiev de Seversky (Prokofiev-Seve...

350
-
500
1 Bid
46 Lot 46

!st US Airmail Pilot Robert Shank Autograph
in red ink on a "Aviator's Inspecting New Aeroplane at Kelly...

50
-
75
9 Bids
47 Lot 47

Balloonist Aircraft Co Founder Oswald Shorts Autograph
in blue ink on a "Destruction of Charles's Balloon" postcard...

50
-
75
2 Bids
48 Lot 48

Aviation Pioneer Sir Thomas Sopwith Autograph
in blue ink on a black and white photograph (3.75 x 6") publ...

100
-
150
2 Bids
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