AMELIA EARHART INTEREST: LEICA 1 black paint finish, serial number 43793, dating to 1929-30; fitted with Leitz Elmar 1:3,5 f=50mm collapsible lens, with correct brass lens cap, along with range finder, numbered 41404, two reloadable film cassettes and film holder, and a small leather Leitz filter purse, all contained in a leather caseNote:
This lot comes with an autographed card by Amelia Earhart (American 1897 - 1937) from her own personal stock. This camera was reputedly owned by Earhart's husband, George P. Putnam, and was gifted to her. Amelia Earhart found fame as the first female aviator to do a solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean. Earhart disappeared during an attempt to make a circumnavigational flight of the globe in 1937. She vanished over the central Pacific Ocean near Howland Island.
Fascination with her life, career and disappearance continues to this day.Note from the vendor on this lot: 'My grandfather Wullie MacDonald left Scotland for Canada in the 1920s. He worked in and around the Montreal and Toronto areas, although I have no recollection of what work he did to earn a living. According to my father he found it tough in Canada and eventually migrated south and entered into the United States where he lived and worked in New York for several years. One job he had I recall was with a New York Typewriter manufacturer, however, that company either relocated to a different state or it ceased its NY operations. At some point my grandfather either owned or worked for a cleaning company that collected laundry from hotels and private persons in New York. It was during this time that he met Amelia Earhart and her husband. My grandfather regularly collected laundry from Miss Earhart's and her husband's home in Rye NY and became friends with them and the two boys. It was on one occasion upon calling at the house to either collect laundry or possibly returning the freshly laundered linens that he spoke with Ms Earhart who had just recently in the last day or two returned from a trip from Chicago with her husband. I believe this was in 1933. It is my understanding that she did not fly herself. Miss Earhart was a keen photographer and may have studied photography either at school or at a college and she had this Leica camera which she had carried with her on her trip. Originally I believe it was her husband's camera. Ms Earhart did not like the Leica as she preferred a folding camera which she owned and used. My grandfather commented on the Leica and Ms Earhart showed it to him. She subsequently gifted it to him, and it is my understanding that Ms Earhart was a kind and generous person and this act of kindness was not out of character. Enclosed with the camera was a card signed by Ms Earhart which was autographed before my grandfather.
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