GOGGLES worn by Amelia Earhart and photographs of the famed aviatrix have fetched more than $US31,000 ($29,339) at an auction in the United States.
A spokesman for Clars Auction Gallery says the winning bid for the set of 1920s Luxor aviator goggles with a cracked left lens was $US17,775.
The goggles previously were owned by Barbara Englehardt, a Contra Costa County resident who got them from a friend about 20 years ago.
In addition to the goggles, 24 photographs were auctioned off in Oakland, California, today for a total of $US13,509.
The photographs included shots of Earhart making preparations for her round-the-world flight, as well as her plane taking off on March 17, 1937.
The March flight was one of two attempts Earhart made that year to circumnavigate the globe.
Her plane disappeared in the Pacific during the second attempt a few months later.
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