Lot 15
C.A. Lindbergh, bold signature as pilot on "Home of Abraham Lincoln" legal size first flight cover flown by Lindbergh Apr 15, 1926, on the inaugural flight of Contract Air Mail route 2, between Chicago and St. Louis; carried from Springfield, Ill. to St. Louis and back, via Springfield, to Chicago; front with black and purple northbound Springfield cachets and postmark, both 4:30 p.m., southbound Springfield cachet was applied on the reverse earlier, at 7:45 a.m. when the mail left for St. Louis; backstamped Chicago postmark at 9:30 p.m.; also signed by Springfield Postmaster Wm. H. Conkling; back nearly separated from front, otherwise Very Fine.
Estimate $750 - 1,000
The cover is addressed to George Linn by William A. Steiger, who was postmaster Conkling's chiel assistant in the promotion of the air mail service. It also bears a hand drawn "U.S. Mail" plane in black and red.
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| Realized $700 |
