Aspieguy84
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Picked this up a long time ago. It says seattle sweepstakes 1929. Looked it up didn't find anything. But im not the best at looking stuff up. I just go with a gut feeling......
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candle holder??
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Aspieguy84
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Its rather large at 11 inches across and 3 inches high
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big candle??
dejapooh
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It is from the Seattle Sweepstakes 1929. The Seattle Sweepstakes was a yacht race from Seattle to Tokyo, it seems. There is more info, but I don't give a credit card to get a free trial for anything...
JimDon
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Definitely a trophy. Although silver plated it should have some value due to its yachting connection.
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Actually, the article refers to an airplane race. It says that two American pilots (Don Moylc and C. A. Allen) arrived in Tokyo by boat to enter the Seattle Sweepstakes. But doesn't actually say what that sweepstakes is at first. The opening statement is... "This is how the major airplane flights stood today:" and starts with Charles Lindbergh and where he is. However, later in the article it talks about those same two pilots (Don Moylc and C. A. Allen) being in a race with two other pilots (Clyde Pangborn and Hugh Herndon jr.) to be the first to go from Tokyo to Seattle. A grand prize which paid $25k. I believe the Seattle sweepstakes mentioned earlier in the article must be referring to the race to be the first pilot to fly nonstop from Tokyo to Seattle. It's a little hard to put together but here is the article...
https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/4221458/
This Is how the major airplane flights stood today: Colonel and Mrs. Lindbergh rested a.monjr the Eskimos at Aklavik, Canada, more than a hundred miles Inside the Arctic circle. • waiting' for the weather to clear before the next hop on their flight to Japan. Amy Johnson, British filer chosen by the international League of Aviators a* the world's premier woman pilot, got to Tokyo at the end of a leisurely flight from England. J. A. Molllscm reached England from Australia, lowering for the distance. the world's mark { Parker Cramer, an American turned '" ii" unheralded at Angmagsalik, Green- Iceland and having flown land, on the way to .Scandinavia, apparently from Canada without announcing- his pians. Clyde Pangborn and Hugh Herndon, jr.. having, abandoned their efforts to lower the Post-Galty round-the-world flight record, reached Tokyo and said they would try for a. J25.000 prize for Ihe first non-stop flight from there to Seattle. Don Moyl* and C. A. Allen, American pilots, reached Tokyo by boat to enter the Seattle sweepstakes. The. DO-X left Bahia, Brazil. for Xatn) on llio way to the United States. Rus.«pl! Boardmaii aiid John. Polando. who flew from America to Istanbul, rumiinert In the. Turkish capital debating their next move. TOKYO, Aug. 6. (&)—A nonstop race between two monoplanes from Tokyo to Seattle, with a large cash award awaiting the winner, appeared as a possibility today with the arrival here by airplane and boat of four American aviators. 'Hugh Herndon, jr., and Clyde AKRON, WORLD'S LARGEST DIRIGIBLE, AWAITS CHRISTENING Pangborn, who abandoned a round•the world race in quest, of the recorc .set; by Wiley Post and Harold Catty ••landed at Haneda airdrome near here at 5:50 p. m. (3:50 a. m. eastern standard time) today from Khaba- rovsk, Siberia. Weather Causes Delay A damaged wing and unfavorable weather had held them at Khaba- rovsk until their record-breaking aspirations went glimmering. They left Khabarovsk at 6:56 a. m., today (4:56 p. m., Wednesday eastern standard time), with the announcement they would come to Japan, to attempt a non-stop flight to Seattle. Don Moylc and C. A. Allen arrived on the M. S. Chichihu Maru from the United States' with the announcement that they •were contemplating a non-stop flight (o the Puget sound metropolis in'the monoplane City of Taooma, now In a hangar at Tachikawa. airdrome. Seattle . has offered a $25,000 prize for the first pilot making the flight. Moyle and Allen brought with them. a new tail assembly and a supercharger for the plane.
https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/4221458/
This Is how the major airplane flights stood today: Colonel and Mrs. Lindbergh rested a.monjr the Eskimos at Aklavik, Canada, more than a hundred miles Inside the Arctic circle. • waiting' for the weather to clear before the next hop on their flight to Japan. Amy Johnson, British filer chosen by the international League of Aviators a* the world's premier woman pilot, got to Tokyo at the end of a leisurely flight from England. J. A. Molllscm reached England from Australia, lowering for the distance. the world's mark { Parker Cramer, an American turned '" ii" unheralded at Angmagsalik, Green- Iceland and having flown land, on the way to .Scandinavia, apparently from Canada without announcing- his pians. Clyde Pangborn and Hugh Herndon, jr.. having, abandoned their efforts to lower the Post-Galty round-the-world flight record, reached Tokyo and said they would try for a. J25.000 prize for Ihe first non-stop flight from there to Seattle. Don Moyl* and C. A. Allen, American pilots, reached Tokyo by boat to enter the Seattle sweepstakes. The. DO-X left Bahia, Brazil. for Xatn) on llio way to the United States. Rus.«pl! Boardmaii aiid John. Polando. who flew from America to Istanbul, rumiinert In the. Turkish capital debating their next move. TOKYO, Aug. 6. (&)—A nonstop race between two monoplanes from Tokyo to Seattle, with a large cash award awaiting the winner, appeared as a possibility today with the arrival here by airplane and boat of four American aviators. 'Hugh Herndon, jr., and Clyde AKRON, WORLD'S LARGEST DIRIGIBLE, AWAITS CHRISTENING Pangborn, who abandoned a round•the world race in quest, of the recorc .set; by Wiley Post and Harold Catty ••landed at Haneda airdrome near here at 5:50 p. m. (3:50 a. m. eastern standard time) today from Khaba- rovsk, Siberia. Weather Causes Delay A damaged wing and unfavorable weather had held them at Khaba- rovsk until their record-breaking aspirations went glimmering. They left Khabarovsk at 6:56 a. m., today (4:56 p. m., Wednesday eastern standard time), with the announcement they would come to Japan, to attempt a non-stop flight to Seattle. Don Moylc and C. A. Allen arrived on the M. S. Chichihu Maru from the United States' with the announcement that they •were contemplating a non-stop flight (o the Puget sound metropolis in'the monoplane City of Taooma, now In a hangar at Tachikawa. airdrome. Seattle . has offered a $25,000 prize for the first pilot making the flight. Moyle and Allen brought with them. a new tail assembly and a supercharger for the plane.
A vintage airplane race trophy might be worth much more than a yacht trophy. I had a vintage yacht trophy to a pretty famous boat and it didn’t bring near what I thought. I would definitely look at auction houses before I’d ebay it.
MotherOfGeeks
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Seattle is sill a pretty big airplane town, home to Boeing and there are lots of tiny private airfields all over.
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