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AMELIA EARHART MEDAL ARTIST BRENDA PUTNAM
Last week we published an auction lot description for Howard Hughes' personal Amelia Earhart medal "presented by aviator Viola Gentry and artist Felicity Buranelli". Researcher Harry Waterson wrote about this medal in his 2012 book THE MEDAL-OF-THE-MONTH CLUB Created by Felicity Buranelli. -Editor
"Miss Felicity Buranelli was the creator and promoter of the series. But she was not the sculptor. The Earhart medal was done by Brenda Putnam. I have always thought she caught a great profile of Earhart. I love this medal. Attached is a lovely photograph of Viola Gentry wearing a necklace made up of at least 8 of the medals of the MOTMC series." Harry's source for the picture is the book North Carolina Aviatrix, Viola Gentry, The Flying Cashier by Jennifer Bean Bower, The History Press, Charleston, SC 2015 (p159). -Editor Harry adds: "On checking the date on the Earhart medal to Hughes, 7/24/1963 was the day Earhart would have turned 66. On that date in her home town of Atchison, KS the US Post Office issued the 8-cent Amelia Earhart Airmail stamp. Viola Gentry was greatly involved in the efforts to promote the stamp. How Howard Hughes might have been involved with this I don't know, but the date on the medal makes one wonder."
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