LAST SIGNATURE OF AMELIA EARHART?


Signature ("Amelia Earhart") on 325 x 72 mm printed card with University Club of Los Angeles seal and "Mr. Gordon Gray" typed to center; with typescript on the reverse reading "G.G. presented this autograph after returning from a banquet given as a farewell & honor dinner for A.A. (corrected to "A.E.") "This probably is the last autograph of hers, as she left the next day on her last flight. / Lili Yuri Oyama."Earhart's first attempt at a round the world flight was in March of 1937. She flew from California to Hawaii in just over 15 hours, but was forced to stop the attempt at that point when mechanical troubles hit her plane. She attempted the feat again in June of 1937, this time flying from west to east, leaving from Miami, down to South America, over to Africa, India, and New Guinea before disappearing. This signature may not be her very last, as the card indicates, but it is certainly late, dating from a May 20, 1937 Los Angeles banquet given in her honor while she was back in Southern California overseeing the repairs to her plane.