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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TheNickelGuy, post: 8236450, member: 20201&quot;]<font size="6"><b>1932 Amelia Earhart</b></font></p><p><b>Gimbels Banquet Award</b></p><p><b>Souvenir Medal</b></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1449074[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Legendary Amelia Earhart received &quot;The Gimbel Medal&quot; for her solo flight across The Atlantic, in October 1932.</p><p>The aviator was celebrated with a medal and parade just months after her solo Atlantic crossing in 1932 in Philadelphia.</p><p>She was considered &quot;The Most Outstanding Woman Of 1932&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>With that flight Earhart became the first woman (and the only person since Charles Lindbergh) to fly nonstop and solo across the Atlantic Ocean.</p><p>On May 20, 1932 she took off from Harbor Grace, Newfoundland, Canada and landed 15 hours and 2,026 miles later in a field near Londonderry, Northern Ireland.</p><p>The feat made Earhart an instant worldwide sensation and proved she was a courageous and able pilot.</p><p><br /></p><p>Richard Gimbel of Gimbels family department store, left, presents the Gimbel medal to Amelia Earhart on September 24, 1932. Ellis Gimbel is at right.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1449075[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The front of the medal featured a bust of the aviator and the following text to commemorate her feat:</p><p>“FIRST WOMAN IN THE WORLD TO FLY ALONE ACROSS THE ATLANTIC OCEAN MAY 21, 1932 AMELIA EARHART.”</p><p>On the reverse side is a relief of Earhart&#039;s Lockheed 5B Vega flying over a map of the Atlantic Ocean and the coat-of-arms of the City of Philadelphia.</p><p>The text reads:</p><p>&quot;AWARD OF THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA PRESENTED BY MAYOR MOORE AT THE GIMBEL BANQUET SEPTEMBER 24, 1932.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Obviously Earharts medal in the accompanying image appears to be well over 3 inches in diameter where this one is only 1 inch, about the size of a US quarter.</p><p>This is a great example issued by Augustus C. Frank, a Philadelphia medalist, for an October 5th, 1932 banquet hosted by the City Of Philadelphia &amp; Gimbel Brothers Department Store to honor the solo transatlantic flight of Amelia Earhart.The City of Philadelphia held a banquet for Amelia Earhart in recognition of her 1932 solo, nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.</p><p>Attendees at the Banquet received these smaller medals. I do believe this is what we have here.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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