Auction 101
RICHARD E BYRD SIGNED CHECK
(1888 – 1957) American naval officer, pioneering aviator, polar explorer, and organizer of polar logistics. He crossed the Atlantic Ocean, a segment of the Arctic Ocean, and a segment of the Antarctic Plateau and claimed that his expeditions had been the first to reach both the North Pole and the South Pole by air. Signed check ‘R E Byrd’ in black ink, check for $6.75 to Philip Greenberg, April 5, 1932, check no. 184 at Farmers & Merchants National Bank & Trust Co., in Winchester, Virginia.