Amelia Earhart Commemorative Medal. 1928
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Period gilt brass medal commemorating Amelia Earhart's transatlantic flight in 1928.
The front of the medal bears the image of Earhart surrounded by the inscription, "Amelia Earhart - The first Woman To Cross The Atlantic By Airplane". The reverse shows the a picture of the Fokker seaplane ("Seaplane Friendship") which made the flight, a horseshoe, a clover, a wishbone and the inscription, "Newfoundland June 17 - South Wales June 18 - 1928" The medal was made by "Whitehead & Hoag Co." and measures 32mm in diameter. Good condition (some wear to gilding). Comes with fitted case.
Amelia Earhart was taken for her first flight in 1920. After completing flying lessons she performed at several airshows in a small aeroplane which her mother helped her to buy. In 1928, Amy Guest (an American expatriate living in London) decided to try to become the first woman to fly across the Atlantic. She bought a Fokker tri-motor seaplane from Commander Richard Byrd and hired a pilot and a co-pilot. After pressure from her family she decided against going, but hired the New York publicist George Putnam to find for another woman to take her place. Although disappointed that she would not be actually flying the plane Amelia Earhart agreed to go. The Fokker, named "Friendship" left Newfoundland on 17 June 1928 and arrived in Wales 21 hours later. After this she became a world-wide celebrity. She later set several aviation records herself including becoming the first woman to pilot an aircraft across the Atlantic. In 1937 Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan disappeared in the Pacific during an around-the world attempt.
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