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Earhart goggles pull in more than $17K
24 photographs were also auctioned off
Updated: Monday, 12 Sep 2011, 5:34 AM MDT
Published : Monday, 12 Sep 2011, 5:34 AM MDT
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Goggles worn by Amelia Earhart and photographs of the famed aviator pulled in more than $31,000 at an auction in Oakland, Calif.
A spokesman for Clars Auction Gallery says the winning bid for the set of 1920s Luxor aviator goggles with a cracked left lens was $17,775.
The goggles previously were owned by Barbara Englehardt, a Contra Costa County resident who got them from a friend about 20 years ago.
In addition to the goggles, 24 photographs were auctioned off Sunday morning for a total of $13,509.
The photographs included shots of Earhart making preparations for her round-the-world flight, as well as her plane taking off on March 17, 1937.
The March flight was one of two attempts Earhart made that year to circumnavigate the globe. Her plane disappeared in the Pacific during the second attempt a few months later.
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