May 28 Sports & Americana
Sat, May 23, 2026 07:00AM EDT - Thu, May 28, 2026 10:30PM EDT
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Lot 828
1946 Letter to General C. H. Bonesteel Concerning the Atomic Bomb Test on the Bikini Atoll and Postmarked "Atomic Bomb Test"
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$230
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Offered is a very interesting artifact of the early days of the Cold War - a Letter to General C. H. Bonesteel Concerning the Atomic Bomb Test on the Bikini Atoll. The June 29, 1946, letter was written on the eve of the infamous test that destroyed the Atoll, and it is actually Postmarked "Atomic Bomb Test / Bikin Atoll." Near Mint condition.
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