Earhart Amelia
Amelia Earhart Writes a Check for $38.28 to the Carlton Hotel, Encapsulated PSA/DNA Hi-Grade 8!



PSA/DNA Encapsulated signed check. Graded Near Mint/Mint 8. Signed "Amelia Earhart", drawn on The Fifth Avenue Bank dated "May 25, 1935" and made payable to "Carlton Hotel" for "38.28", also written as "Thirty eight & 28/100" Dollars. Measures 6" x 2.75". Verso stamped "Pay to the Order of" and "For Deposit in", "The Riggs National Bank, May 28, 1935". A near mint example of a check written about 2 years just prior to her death.


A near mint example of a check written to the Carlton Hotel in Washington D.C. which today is known as The St. Regis Hotel . Earhart was known to have stayed there on multiple occasions. The Carlton was frequented by numerous notables and celebrities of their day. President Calvin Coolidge cut the hotel's ceremonial grand-opening ribbon eight decades ago, and since then, the hotel has been visited by every U.S. president (Reagan had his hair cut there) and numerous celebrities (Audrey Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor, and Cher) were frequent guests. Howard Hughes kept a permanent suite at the Carlton during World War II. In 1999, the hotel -- formerly known as the Carlton Hotel -- changed hands and became the second St. Regis in the world.


Amelia Earhart was photographed at that hotel during her stay on several occasions, which may be seen along the bottom of the listing.


Her plane crash in 1937 remains shrouded in mystery. In an official report, the U.S. government concluded that the two seasoned flyers, unable to locate their destination of Howland Island, ran out of fuel, crashed into the water and sank. Earhart was declared legally dead on January 5, 1939. The question of why and where her plane went down, however, has never been put to rest. In the seven decades since Earhart’s disappearance, a number of hypotheses have emerged, some with scientific evidence behind them and others based on more dubious claims. Some theorists, for instance, believe Earhart was actually a secret agent working for the U.S. government, pointing to her close friendship with Franklin D. Roosevelt and his wife, Eleanor. They suggest that the plane crashed after its pilots intentionally deviated from their course to spy on Japanese-occupied islands in the Pacific, or that Earhart and Noonan landed on one of them and were taken prisoner. Yet another theory holds that Earhart returned safely to the United States, changed her name and lived a long life in obscurity. And yet a more current theory believes that the legendary American pilot died as a castaway, not in a plane crash, with the skeleton of a castaway found on the island of Nikumaroro, Kiribati, in 1940 possibly belonging to Earhart.


In August of 2016, the TIGHAR team revealed Earhart made more than 100 radio transmissions calling for help between July 2 and July 6 of 1937, which rules out the possibility of her plane crashing.


Her plane had disappeared the morning of July 3. The airplane's radio would not have worked if the engine was not running...



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