RARE PAIR WILBUR ORVILLE WRIGHT BROTHERS IMPORTANT PAPERS SIGNED AUTHENTIC
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RARE PAIR WILBUR ORVILLE WRIGHT BROTHERS IMPORTANT PAPERS SIGNED AUTHENTIC:
$145000.00
WRIGHTBROTHERS HISTORICAL SIGNEDDOCUMENTS
SIGNED BY BOTH WILBUR AND ORVILLEWRIGHT
Contents…2 Documents
Dated 1911 & 1912
A POWER OF ATTORNEY DESIGNATING ANDREW FREEDMAN AND PLINY W.WILLIAMSOM HIS PROXY…ORVILLE WRIGHT (1871-1948)- WILBUR WRIGHT (1867-1912)
BOTH DOCUMENTS SIGNED…
THE WRIGHT BROTHERS DESIGNATE STOCK PROXIES FOR THEIRAVIATION COMPANY IN ADVANCE OF SHAREHOLDERS MEETINGS ON NOVEMBER 8 1911(forWilbur’s proxy) and NOVEMBER 13 1912 (for Orville’s proxy).
THE WRIGHT CO. WAS INCORPORATED IN 1909, WITH WILBUR ASPRESIDENT AND ORVILLE AS VICE PRESIDENT.THE BROTHERS SOLD THEIR PATENTS TO THECORPORATION FOR $100,000., ONE THIRD OF THE COMPANY AND A 10% ROYALTY ON EVERYAIRPLANE SOLD.THE NOVEMBER MEETING TOOK UP THE PAINFUL BUSINESS OF DISBANDINGTHE TEAM OF TEST PILOTS WHOSE PURPOSE HAD BEEN TO BARNSTORM AROUND THE COUNTRYIN FLYING EXIBITIONS MEANT TO STIMULATE SALES.TWO PILOTS DIED IN AIR SHOWCRASHES, AND FEW SALES RESULATED.FOLLOWING WILBUR’S DEATH FROM TYPHOID FEVER INMAY 1912. ORVILLE EXERCISED SOLE CONTROL IN THE NOVEMBER 13THSHARESHOLDERS MEETING.HE SOLD OUT HIS INTEREST TO A GROOP OF INVESTORS IN 1915.
OTHER SIGNATURES AS WITNESS’S
LORIN WRIGHT…BROTHER
MABEL BELL
SIGNEDBY BOTH WILBUR AND ORVILLE WRIGHT
BOTH PAPERS CAN AND SHOULD BE INSPECTED before final purchase
SMITHSONIAN, CRISTIES, SOTHEBY’S
AUTHENTICITYGUARANTEED
RARE PAIR WILBUR ORVILLE WRIGHT BROTHERS IMPORTANT PAPERS SIGNED AUTHENTIC:
$145000.00