the hexagonal green smoked glass cover over a bulb fitting with on/off switch, atop a stylised globe with raised land masses and lines of longitude and latitude, Africa, Asia, USA and South America labelled, a two-seater monoplane with rotary engine, registered W.P. X-12-0 landing on Alaska, the Atlantic ocean with raised head and shoulders likenesses of Will Rogers and Wiley Post above a garland of laurel leaves, on a tapering octagonal plinth base with a banner reading WILL ROGERS WILEY POST -- 16¾ (42.5cm.) high See Colour Illustration

Between 15th and 22nd July, Wiley Post made the first successful solo flight around the world, in a single engine Lockheed Vega named "Winnie Mae". He had previously accomplished the same feat, but accompanied by his navigator Harold Gatty, in 1931, when they beat the record set by the Graf Zeppelin and completed the journey in eight days, fifteen hours and fifty-one minutes. This included a hundred and six hour stretch when neither Post nor Gatty slept.
One of the most colourful figures in early aviation - with his ever-present eye-patch - Post set numerous records before being killed in a crash near Point Barrow, Alaska, in 1935. His companion on the flight, the humourist Will Rogers, also lost his life.