United States. A Charles Lindbergh Solo Atlantic Flight Table Medal with Signed Banquet Invitation

C. 1977. A professionally framed Charles Lindberg commemorative table medal with a signed banquet invitation. The table medal is constructed of round bronze with the diagonal standing portrait of Charles A. Lindbergh on the obverse, circumscribed “Charles A. Lindbergh, New York - Paris” along the outer edge, the reverse depicting a world map with a series of arrows connecting New York and Paris, circumscribed “Alarum, Remigio, Iuncta, Primum, Oceani, Littora, MCMXXVII”, measuring 68 mm in diameter, weighing 140.32 grams. The banquet invitation reads “Banquet in honor of Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh tendered by The Citizens of San Francisco on Friday September Sixteenth Nineteen Hundred and Twenty-Seven at The Palace Hotel - James Rolph Jr. Mayor of San Francisco and Jesse C. Colman”, and signed in black in by Lindbergh on the right side, measuring 114 mm (w) x 176 mm (l). The table medal and banquet invitation are professionally framed in a brown wooden frame with a glass pane. The table medal sits loosely in its recessed opening with the banquet invitation directly below, affixed to the interior backing of the frame within its recessed opening, the rest of the frame is covered with a coarse textured beige fabric, the reverse of the frame is backed with black paper, marked “Art Works International - Professionally Framing your Style - www.artworksint.com 561-833-9165” with a decal near the bottom and a dual fastened stainless steel wire for suspension, in overall extremely fine condition. 

Footnote: The table medal commemorates the world’s first solo non-stop flight from New York City to Paris, undertaken by Charles Lindbergh taking him nearly 34 hours between May 20th-21st, 1927. It became known as one of the most consequential flights in history and ushered in a new era of air transportation. The banquet held at the Garden Court of the Palace Hotel in San Francisco honoured Colonel Charles Lindbergh on 16.09.1927 for his solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean, attended by the Mayor of San Francisco, James Rolph, and Chairman of the Mayor’s Citizens Committee, Jesse C. Colman.