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ORVILLE WRIGHT CHECK WRITTEN ON HIS LAST BIRTHDAY. WRIGHT, ORVILLE. 1871-1948. Check Signed ("Orville Wright"), drawn on Winters National Bank & Trust Co., Dayton, OH, August 19, 1947, image 1
ORVILLE WRIGHT CHECK WRITTEN ON HIS LAST BIRTHDAY. WRIGHT, ORVILLE. 1871-1948. Check Signed ("Orville Wright"), drawn on Winters National Bank & Trust Co., Dayton, OH, August 19, 1947, image 2
The 20th Century
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ORVILLE WRIGHT CHECK WRITTEN ON HIS LAST BIRTHDAY.
WRIGHT, ORVILLE. 1871-1948.
Check Signed ("Orville Wright"), drawn on Winters National Bank & Trust Co., Dayton, OH, August 19, 1947,

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ORVILLE WRIGHT CHECK WRITTEN ON HIS LAST BIRTHDAY.

WRIGHT, ORVILLE. 1871-1948. Check Signed ("Orville Wright"), drawn on Winters National Bank & Trust Co., Dayton, OH, August 19, 1947, approximately 85 x 120 mm, made out to Carrie Grumbach in the amount of $33.70, with perforated bank cancellations and ink stamp, a few minor stains. Matted and framed to 24-1/2 x 17-1/2 inches, with a portrait of Wright and an explanatory plaque.

Orville Wright made out this check on his birthday in 1947, which would unfortunately be his last—he died the following January. His brother Wilbur had died much earlier, in 1912.

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