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July 2012 Auction Ends Tuesday, July 31st, 5pm Pacific

Auction closed on 7/31/2012. Final prices include buyers premium.

• Lot #1: Mary Astor's Best Supporting Actress Oscar for ''The Great Lie'' -- 1941 -- Same Year as ''The Maltese Falcon''

  

  # Bids: 12

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: $171,089

• Lot #2: Mary Astor Handwritten Notes to the Draft of Her Autobiography -- ''...I wrote no more after this...“ I saved my strength for work; and my mind, for figuring out how to control my drinking...''

  

  # Bids: 9

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #3: Lot of 100 Mary Astor Signed Checks

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: $1,200

• Lot #4: Lot of 100 Mary Astor Signed Checks

  

  # Bids: 5

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #5: Lot of 100 Mary Astor Signed Checks

  

  # Bids: 5

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $1,172

• Lot #6: Lot of 100 Mary Astor Signed Checks

  

  # Bids: 4

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #7: Lot of 100 Mary Astor Signed Checks

  

  # Bids: 4

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #8: Lot of 100 Mary Astor Signed Checks

  

  # Bids: 4

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #9: Mary Astor's 1963 Passport

  

  # Bids: 13

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $1,220

• Lot #11: Stymie Beard Autograph From ''Our Gang'' -- Signed ''Stymie Beard'' in Pencil -- 2.25'' x 3.25'' -- Actress ZaSu Pitts Also Signs Page -- Minor Soiling and Chipping, Very Good

  

  # Bids: 6

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #18: Johnny Carson's ''Tonight Show'' Coffee Mug

  

  # Bids: 5

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $1,420

• Lot #19: Johnny Carson Doll Signed to Dorit Stevens, Frequent Guest on ''The Tonight Show'' -- With Johnny's Face Upon the 1970's Inspired Rainbow Doll!

  

  # Bids: 4

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #24: Nice Charlie Chaplin Signature & Sketch of His Iconic ''Tramp'' Character in an Autograph Book

  

  # Bids: 16

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #25: Bing Crosby Personally Owned & Worn Set of Cuff Links

  

  # Bids: 8

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $468

• Lot #26: Bing Crosby Signed Copy of His Wife Kathryn Crosby's Autobiography ''Bing and Other Things''

  

  # Bids: 4

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #27: Emmy Award From the Very First Emmy Awards Ceremony, Held in 1949 -- Won by the series "Your Show Time" -- TV's First Dramatic Series To Win An Emmy Or To Be Shot On Film!

  

  # Bids: 18

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #28: Emmy Statuette for 1972-1973 Season of ''The Electric Company'' Children's Program

  

  # Bids: 10

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: $6,083

• Lot #29: Emmy Sports Award for ''Nascar on Fox''

  

  # Bids: 15

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: $6,083

• Lot #30: Emmy Award for ''Buffy the Vampire Slayer''

  

  # Bids: 16

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: $15,786

• Lot #31: Emmy Award For ''Star Trek: Voyager''

  

  # Bids: 9

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: $14,351

• Lot #32: Emmy Award for ''The X Files''

  

  # Bids: 18

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: $15,786

• Lot #33: ''Mission Impossible'' Dramatic Series Emmy Award -- Presented to Its Producer Robert F. O'Neill

  

  # Bids: 8

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $468

• Lot #34: Emmy Award Nomination for the Dramatic Series ''Quincy''

  

  # Bids: 7

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $349

• Lot #35: Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. 1935 Single Signed Checks -- Lot of 10

  

  # Bids: 13

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $425

• Lot #36: Golden Globe Awarded to Barbara Stanwyck for Her Role in ''The Thorn Birds''

  

  # Bids: 17

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: $30,768

• Lot #37: Golden Globe Award for ''I Feel Love'' -- Best Song from ''Benji''

  

  # Bids: 23

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: $23,116

• Lot #38: Stunning Golden Globe Award

  

  # Bids: 14

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: $6,083

• Lot #39: Western Film Star William S. Hart Signs His Autobiography

  

  # Bids: 4

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #40: Jim Henson Pitch for the "Muppet Show" Pilot! -- Dazzling Archive of Henson "Muppets" Illustrations & Story Sketches -- & the First Appearance of Miss Piggy, "Piggy Lee…is delicate and lovely…"

  

  # Bids: 11

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #41: Jim Henson Muppets Signed Album

  

  # Bids: 7

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #42: Jim Henson Signed 8'' x 10'' Photo With Stars of ''The Muppet Movie''

  

  # Bids: 8

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #44: Indiana Jones' Iconic Bullwhip Used By Harrison Ford in ''Raiders of the Lost Ark'' -- Original Prop Used in the Film

  

  # Bids: 21

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #45: Young Stan Laurel Signed Photo

  

  # Bids: 6

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #46: Laurel & Hardy Signed 8'' x 10'' Photo

  

  # Bids: 13

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #47: ''M.A.S.H.'' Dog Tags Given to One of the Show's Writers for the Final Episode -- Scarce

  

  # Bids: 9

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $566

• Lot #48: ''Los Angeles Times'' of 9 August 1962 -- ''Joe DiMaggio Weeps at Marilyn's Funeral''

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #49: Marilyn Monroe's Death Covered in the ''Los Angeles Times'' of 6 August 1962 -- ''Pills Blamed''

  

  # Bids: 4

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #50: Tony Award for Zero Mostel in His Most Beloved Role -- as Tevye in ''Fiddler on the Roof''

  

  # Bids: 16

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: $30,768

• Lot #51: Zero Mostel's 1963 Tony Award for ''A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Forum''

  

  # Bids: 13

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: $19,103

• Lot #52: Outstanding Archive of Thomas Hart Benton, Compiled for His Catalogue Raisonne -- Detailed Handwritten Notes by Benton on Nearly All His Lithographs, Letters About His Creative Process, Etc.

  

  # Bids: 16

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: $17,365

• Lot #53: Marc Chagall ''Drawings for the Bible'' -- With 24 Color Lithographs -- Near Fine

  

  # Bids: 13

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #54: Alex Raymond Signed 1942 Sunday ''Flash Gordon'' Hand-Drawn Strip

  

  # Bids: 18

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #55: Rare ''Every Building on the Sunset Strip'' by Edward Ruscha, First Edition, First Printing From 1966

  

  # Bids: 8

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #56: Charles Schulz Original Hand-Drawn ''Peanuts'' Comic Strip -- 1959 Baseball Strip

  

  # Bids: 9

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: $15,786

• Lot #57: Original 1953 ''Peanuts'' Strip Hand-Drawn by Charles Schulz -- Featuring Charlie Brown & Snoopy

  

  # Bids: 10

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: $21,013

• Lot #58: Charles Schulz Hand-Drawn Original ''Peanuts'' Comic Strip -- With Charlie Brown & Lucy

  

  # Bids: 9

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: $13,045

• Lot #59: Charles Schulz Original Hand-Drawn Sketch of Snoopy, Signed

  

  # Bids: 7

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #60: Alberto Vargas Original ''Vargas Girl'' Watercolor Painting -- 18'' x 37.25'' Painting Is From March 1948 Varga Pin-Up Calendar

  

  # Bids: 13

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #61: African American Soldier's Pay Record -- Dated 1782 for Service in the Revolutionary War

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $566

• Lot #62: Declaration of Independence Print -- Colorful Illustrated Text From 1800's

  

  # Bids: 8

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $349

• Lot #63: 1774 Journals of Congress, Volume I -- The New Nation Takes Shape in This Vital First-Hand Account of American History

  

  # Bids: 7

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $2,384

• Lot #64: Extremely Rare Original ''Journals of Congress, Volume II'' With the Declaration of Independence Printed Within -- Covering 1776 Continental Congress Sessions

  

  # Bids: 9

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: $6,083

• Lot #65: Extremely Rare ''Journals of Congress, Volume III'' -- Covering 1777 Continental Congress Sessions

  

  # Bids: 7

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $2,520

• Lot #66: ''Journals of Congress, Volume VI'' -- From the Year 1780

  

  # Bids: 5

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $1,420

• Lot #67: Scarce Set of 1942 Autographs by the British Royal Family -- King George IV, His Wife & Princesses Elizabeth & Margaret Sign in Record Album of Special BBC Performance at Windsor Castle

  

  # Bids: 8

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $2,772

• Lot #68: Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain 1926 Letter Signed -- ''...foster a knowledge of Local Government in the younger members of the Conservative Party...''

  

  # Bids: 6

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $262

• Lot #69: King Charles IX of France 1567 Document Signed -- Boy King Here Signs at Age 17

  

  # Bids: 13

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #70: 1943 Typed Letter Signed From Winston Churchill -- Churchill Thanks the Captain of the Queen Mary for a ''Notable Voyage'' That Took Him to Meet President Roosevelt at the TRIDENT Conference

  

  # Bids: 10

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $3,691

• Lot #71: Queen Mother Elizabeth Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...I am so delighted...the rooms upstairs look...perfect. The blue in the visitors' bedroom is a great success, and the bathroom a dream...''

  

  # Bids: 9

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $566

• Lot #72: King George III Signature & Engraving

  

  # Bids: 10

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $468

• Lot #73: King George V Military Document Signed -- 1915 Distinguished Service Order

  

  # Bids: 9

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $916

• Lot #74: Queen Victoria Signs a Royal Summons to Her Coronation -- ''...you are not to fail...''

  

  # Bids: 10

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: $3,120

• Lot #75: John Adams Document Signed as President -- Military Appointment of Midshipman

  

  # Bids: 16

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: $6,691

• Lot #76: George W. Bush First Edition ''Decision Points'' Signed

  

  # Bids: 5

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #77: Calvin Coolidge Signed First Edition of His Autobiography

  

  # Bids: 8

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $832

• Lot #78: General Dwight Eisenhower Autograph Letter Signed to His Wife, Mamie -- ''...you're the only woman for me -- and don't ever forget it or doubt it...''

  

  # Bids: 6

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #79: General Dwight Eisenhower WWII Autograph Letter Signed to His Wife, Mamie -- ''...you'll know that I'm still struggling...''

  

  # Bids: 7

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #80: General Dwight Eisenhower WWII Autograph Letter Signed to His Wife, Mamie -- ''...we never have a dull moment...but mornings & nights are lonely...''

  

  # Bids: 10

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #81: Dwight Eisenhower WWII-Dated Autograph Letter Signed to His Wife, Mamie -- ''...my nomination to 3 stars...seems to mean more here than with us...''

  

  # Bids: 5

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #82: General Dwight Eisenhower Autograph Letter Signed to His Wife, Mamie -- ''...I must scoot for the Turkish embassy -- luncheon for the Turk c/s...''

  

  # Bids: 4

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #83: General Dwight Eisenhower Autograph Letter Signed -- Christmas Greetings to His Wife, Mamie

  

  # Bids: 2

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #84: General Dwight Eisenhower Autograph Letter Signed to His Wife, Mamie -- ''...the only real reason I'm writing is just to tell you again I love you...''

  

  # Bids: 6

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #85: Dwight D. Eisenhower Signed Intimate Letter to His Wife -- ''...I find myself trying to write everything except what is actually in my mind...''

  

  # Bids: 2

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #86: Dwight Eisenhower WWII-Dated Autograph Letter Signed to Mamie ''...Any [press] story I see about you...pleases me immensely...The picture of you was not so good - but I still liked it...''

  

  # Bids: 8

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #87: General Dwight Eisenhower 1942 Autograph Letter Signed to His Wife, Mamie -- ''...such a fine chance to tell you again that you're the tops...''

  

  # Bids: 4

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #88: General Dwight Eisenhower Autograph Letter Signed to His Wife, Mamie -- ''...so much I've missed by not having you with me -- Lord, how I miss you...''

  

  # Bids: 3

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #89: General Dwight Eisenhower Autograph Letter Signed to His Wife, Mamie -- ''...Don't tell Gen. Marshall about such a schedule or he'll give me hell...''

  

  # Bids: 5

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #90: Lot of Barry Goldwater Single Signed Checks -- Six Checks Signed as Senator from Arizona

  

  # Bids: 2

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #93: Jackie Kennedy Autograph Letter Signed -- Circa 1960 -- Signed ''Jacqueline Kennedy'' and Also ''Mrs. John F. Kennedy''

  

  # Bids: 12

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $916

• Lot #94: Jacqueline Kennedy's Personal Mourning Card Sent After JFK's Death

  

  # Bids: 5

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $178

• Lot #96: Dallas ''Fort Worth Star-Telegram'' Newspaper Reporting JFK's Texas Visit The Day Before His Assassination

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #97: JFK Assassination Newspaper -- ''Dallas Times Herald'' -- 22 November 1963 -- ''PRESIDENT DEAD, CONNALLY SHOT'' -- Printed Before Oswald's Identity Was Known

  

  # Bids: 4

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $238

• Lot #98: JFK Assassination Newspaper -- ''Dallas Morning News'' -- 23 November 1963

  

  # Bids: 7

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $349

• Lot #99: JFK Assassination Newspaper of the ''Dallas Morning News'' -- 24 November 1963

  

  # Bids: 2

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #100: JFK Assassination Newspaper -- ''The Dallas Times Herald'' -- 25 November 1963

  

  # Bids: 3

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #101: Invitation to a Dinner Welcoming JFK to Texas the Night of His Assassination

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #102: Press Badge for the ''JFK Welcome Dinner'' in Texas the Night He Was Assassinated

  

  # Bids: 5

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #103: Abraham Lincoln 1862 Military Document Signed as President -- Immaculate Condition

  

  # Bids: 14

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #104: 1860 Ohio Elector Ticket -- Abraham Lincoln for President and Hannibal Hamlin for Vice President

  

  # Bids: 9

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $425

• Lot #105: Scarce Document From the Funeral of Abraham Lincoln -- The Official Order of Funeral Procession -- ''at sun-rise...a Federal Salute will be fired...in the vicinity of Washington...''

  

  # Bids: 26

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $2,384

• Lot #106: William McKinley Document Signed as President

  

  # Bids: 7

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $317

• Lot #107: Rare U.S. Senate Ticket to the Impeachment Trial of President Richard Nixon

  

  # Bids: 8

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $468

• Lot #108: Rare Unused U.S. House Ticket to the Impeachment Trial of President Richard Nixon

  

  # Bids: 9

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $468

• Lot #109: Richard Nixon Signed ''The Real War'' First Edition, Review Copy

  

  # Bids: 4

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #110: Oswald Arrest Document -- Signed by All Four Arresting Officers

  

  # Bids: 4

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #111: Franklin Pierce Autograph Letter Signed as President -- ''...your authority will cease from this date...'' -- 1853

  

  # Bids: 19

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $1,109

• Lot #112: Franklin Pierce Free Frank Signed

  

  # Bids: 7

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $468

• Lot #113: 'Where's the rest of me?'' Signed in 1965 -- Ronald Reagan's Early Autobiography

  

  # Bids: 5

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #114: Ronald Reagan Signed ''An American Life'' Special Limited Edition -- Housed in Luxury Oak Case With Audiotapes

  

  # Bids: 4

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #115: Franklin D. Roosevelt Signed Portrait -- 15'' x 19'' in Near Fine Condition

  

  # Bids: 10

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass