3ZO 1924 Proposed QST Cover that was never used!

Original art by QST illustrator Clyde Darr, 8ZZ mailed in October 1924 to 3KO, Bertha Hilton, a prolific YL op at the legendary 3ZO/3OI station of Horace Beale, Jr. No explanation remains why the proposed cover was never used, but it is a spectacular surviving vintage specimen of Darr’s personal work that garnered no fewer than 69 QST covers before he became a SK in December 1929 at only 50 years old. Darr was an accomplished operator himself, having the apparatus and skills, for example, to famously keep in regular contact with 1TS, Don Mix during MacMillan’s WNP expedition. Darr also possessed rather good contesting chops. A full page posthumous tribute was published on page 25 of the February 1930 issue of QST.

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