Q: Can you give me any information about my late mother's Charles Lindbergh tapestry? It is 52 inches long by 20 inches high and pictures Lindbergh in the center, the skylines of New York City and Paris, and three images…
In 1927 the first solo airplane trip across the Atlantic Ocean was flown by Charles Lindbergh. It was an event that was as unbelievable as the first man landing on the moon in 1969. Souvenirs of the Lindbergh flight were…
The desire to collect souvenirs from places we've traveled or events we've witnessed is matched by another human desire-to create souvenirs and make money selling them. By the time of the American Revolution, weavers, lace makers, and producers of printed…
The heyday of cast-iron toy airplanes lasted for only about a decade-from the late 1920s, following Charles Lindbergh's famous 1927 nonstop flight across the Atlantic, until the end of the 1930s, when U.S. industries started gearing up for World War…
Q: I turned up an Ingraham pocket watch engraved with an airplane, a globe with (Admiral Richard E.) Byrd's image on it, and the phrase, "Trail Blazer, commemorating Byrd's Antarctic Expedition." The paper face has a picture of an airplane…
Pretty perfume bottles in all shapes and sizes sold at the Monsen and Baer auction held at the 2008 convention of the International Perfume Bottle Association. The centerpiece of the sale, held in St. Louis, was a 1927 Rosine "Spirit…