Souvenir TQS, signed “R. E. Byrd,” on an off-white 5.25 x 7.5 card. In full: “It is a confusing place, this imaginary point, the South Pole. All time meridians converge there. A few minutes after the turn I opened the trap door and dropped over the calculated position of the Pole the small flag which was weighted with the stone from Bennett’s grave. Stone and flag plunged down together. The flag had been advanced 1,500 miles father south than it had ever been before our expedition reached the Antarctic. June radioed the following message to Little America: ‘My calculations indicate that we have reached the vicinity of the SOUTH POLE. Flying high for a survey. Byrd.’” Signed underneath in fountain pen with the typewritten date November 1929. Missing small upper right corner tip, otherwise fine condition. Fabulous quotation as the explorer recalls his famed adventure. RRAuction COA.
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