LARGE AND EARLY 1911 AVIATION EXHIBITION BUTTON FROM NORTH DAKOTA PICTURING BARNSTORMER "LUCKY BOB".
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2.25" with Western Badge back paper. Issued for early barnstormer Robert "Lucky Bob" St. Henry with text "See 'Lucky Bob'/Interstate Fair/Beach North Dakota Sept. 26 to 29, 1911." St. Henry made the first flight in North Dakota while in Fargo June 9, 1911. His biplane was a Model D Pusher by Glenn Curtiss and named "Sweetheart". Very faint tan marks over the white bkg. Reverse edge missing trivial segment of cello 1/16" deep by .25" long. Fine and glossy. Only known example (the plate example for Hake's 1986 Collectible Pin-Back Buttons).
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