Leather helmet worn by Amelia Earhart on 1928 flight across the Atlantic sells for 10 times the expected price at auction
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A leather helmet that Amelia Earhart wore on a flight across the Atlantic in 1928 and later lost in a crowd of fans in Cleveland has sold at auction for $825,000 — more than 10 times the $80,000 expected price cited by the auction house.
The helmet went to an anonymous bidder in an online-only sale that closed Sunday, a spokesperson for Heritage Auctions said.
The seller was Anthony Twiggs, a 67-year-old Minnesotan who had tried for years to prove that the leather aviator's helmet he inherited from his mother was really Earhart's.
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