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Auction archive: Lot number 348

LINDBERGH, Charles A. Rand McNally Standard Map of Mexico signed ("Lindbergh") in lower right corner. 21 x 27¾, richly illustrated in several tropical colors, and WITH NAVIGATIONAL NOTATIONS BY LINDBERGH. -- LINDBERGH. Printed map of Tamaulipas, Mexi...

Auction 14.06.2005
14 Jun 2005
Estimate
US$5,000 - US$7,000
Price realised:
US$4,560
Auction archive: Lot number 348

LINDBERGH, Charles A. Rand McNally Standard Map of Mexico signed ("Lindbergh") in lower right corner. 21 x 27¾, richly illustrated in several tropical colors, and WITH NAVIGATIONAL NOTATIONS BY LINDBERGH. -- LINDBERGH. Printed map of Tamaulipas, Mexi...

Auction 14.06.2005
14 Jun 2005
Estimate
US$5,000 - US$7,000
Price realised:
US$4,560
Beschreibung:

LINDBERGH, Charles A. Rand McNally Standard Map of Mexico signed ("Lindbergh") in lower right corner. 21 x 27¾, richly illustrated in several tropical colors, and WITH NAVIGATIONAL NOTATIONS BY LINDBERGH. -- LINDBERGH. Printed map of Tamaulipas, Mexico, May 1922, signed ("Lindbergh"). 29¾ x 20 in., left edge slightly chipped, small closed tear along center crease , NAVIGATIONAL NOTATIONS IN LINDBERGH'S HAND. -- LINDBERGH. Rand McNally Standard Map of Chihuahua, Mexico, signed (Lindbergh") in lower right corner, and the notation "Chihuahua" on the reverse. 20½ x 28 in., a few closed tears along folds . LINDBERGH PLOTS A COURSE TO MEXICO CITY, WHERE HE MET HIS FUTURE WIFE ANNE MORROW. Three maps of Mexico signed by Lindbergh, two of them with navigational plottings in his hand. Lindbergh put his Spirit of St. Louis prize money at the Morgan Bank, and became friendly with Dwight Morrow, a Morgan partner who was soon appointed U.S. ambassador to Mexico. Eager to improve relations between the two countries, Morrow invited Lindbergh in December 1927 to make a good will visit--flying down to Mexico in The Spirit of St. Louis . Lindbergh agreed, and headed "down the east coast of Texas then doglegging toward Mexico City." Unfortunately the aviator ended up getting lost. "Navigating from a rudimentary map, he could not get his bearings. Hoping to match railroad lines on the ground with those on the map, he roamed the skies for hours" (Berg, 173). The Rand McNally Standard Map of Mexico included here was very likely the one he used to make this trip, as it plots a course down the Texas coast from Corpus Christi to Mexico City. When he finally arrived, the Mexicans went wild for the American aviator--and so did the Ambassador's daughter. He took the Morrows on several flights around Mexico. The Tamaulipus map, printed in Spanish, was surely acquired south of the border, and contains a pencilled flight path plotted in Lindbergh's hand, from Tampico to Juarez, one of the jaunts on which he took his hosts. Together three items . (3)

Auction archive: Lot number 348
Auction:
Datum:
14 Jun 2005
Auction house:
Christie's
New York, Rockefeller Center
Beschreibung:

LINDBERGH, Charles A. Rand McNally Standard Map of Mexico signed ("Lindbergh") in lower right corner. 21 x 27¾, richly illustrated in several tropical colors, and WITH NAVIGATIONAL NOTATIONS BY LINDBERGH. -- LINDBERGH. Printed map of Tamaulipas, Mexico, May 1922, signed ("Lindbergh"). 29¾ x 20 in., left edge slightly chipped, small closed tear along center crease , NAVIGATIONAL NOTATIONS IN LINDBERGH'S HAND. -- LINDBERGH. Rand McNally Standard Map of Chihuahua, Mexico, signed (Lindbergh") in lower right corner, and the notation "Chihuahua" on the reverse. 20½ x 28 in., a few closed tears along folds . LINDBERGH PLOTS A COURSE TO MEXICO CITY, WHERE HE MET HIS FUTURE WIFE ANNE MORROW. Three maps of Mexico signed by Lindbergh, two of them with navigational plottings in his hand. Lindbergh put his Spirit of St. Louis prize money at the Morgan Bank, and became friendly with Dwight Morrow, a Morgan partner who was soon appointed U.S. ambassador to Mexico. Eager to improve relations between the two countries, Morrow invited Lindbergh in December 1927 to make a good will visit--flying down to Mexico in The Spirit of St. Louis . Lindbergh agreed, and headed "down the east coast of Texas then doglegging toward Mexico City." Unfortunately the aviator ended up getting lost. "Navigating from a rudimentary map, he could not get his bearings. Hoping to match railroad lines on the ground with those on the map, he roamed the skies for hours" (Berg, 173). The Rand McNally Standard Map of Mexico included here was very likely the one he used to make this trip, as it plots a course down the Texas coast from Corpus Christi to Mexico City. When he finally arrived, the Mexicans went wild for the American aviator--and so did the Ambassador's daughter. He took the Morrows on several flights around Mexico. The Tamaulipus map, printed in Spanish, was surely acquired south of the border, and contains a pencilled flight path plotted in Lindbergh's hand, from Tampico to Juarez, one of the jaunts on which he took his hosts. Together three items . (3)

Auction archive: Lot number 348
Auction:
Datum:
14 Jun 2005
Auction house:
Christie's
New York, Rockefeller Center
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