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August 2019 Auction Ends Thursday, August 29th, 5pm Pacific

Auction closed on 8/29/2019. Final prices include buyers premium.

• Lot #1: Apollo Spacecraft Model by North American Rockwell

  

  Min Bid: $3,200

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #2: Apollo 1 Signed Photo With All Six Signatures From Primary and First Backup Crew -- With Steve Zarelli COA for All Signatures

  

  Min Bid: $9,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #3: Space-Flown Apollo 11 Robbins Medal -- Owned by Buzz Aldrin

  

  Min Bid: $30,000

  Final Price: $37,500

• Lot #4: Exceptional Apollo 11 Crew Signed 10'' x 8'' NASA Photo of Armstrong & Aldrin on the Moon -- Near Fine With Bold, Uninscribed Signatures -- With Steve Zarelli COA

  

  Min Bid: $16,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #5: Apollo 11 Crew Signed 10'' x 8'' NASA Photo of the Apollo 11 Plaque -- With Bold, Uninscribed Signatures -- With Steve Zarelli COA

  

  Min Bid: $7,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #6: Apollo 11 Crew Signed 10'' x 8'' NASA Photo of the Mission Insignia -- Near Fine With Bold, Uninscribed Signatures -- With Steve Zarelli COA

  

  Min Bid: $7,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #7: Apollo 12 Flown U.S. Flag, Measuring 11.5'' x 8'', Affixed to Presentation Mat Signed by Each of the Apollo 12 Crew Members: Charles Conrad, Richard Gordon & Alan Bean -- From Richard Gordon Estate

  

  Min Bid: $10,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #8: ''Steeds of Apollo'' Oil on Canvas by Apollo XIII Mission Insignia Designer Lumen Martin Winter -- Scarce Painting From 1981 Is Only ''Steeds of Apollo'' Original Artwork Apart From 1969 Mural

  

  Min Bid: $40,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #9: Apollo 13 United States Flag Space-Flown -- Crew-Signed & Uninscribed, From the Jack Swigert Estate

  

  Min Bid: $24,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #10: Apollo 15 Crew Signed NASA Insurance Cover -- From Al Worden's ''Personal Collection'', as Written by Him, and Also With His Signed COA

  

  Min Bid: $350

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #11: ''The New Nine'' Signed Photo -- Signed by Ed White, Elliot See, Neil Armstrong & Six Others, Comprising Astronaut Group 2 -- With PSA/DNA COA

  

  Min Bid: $5,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #12: Gene Cernan Signed 20'' x 16 Photo with Extensive Handwritten Quote -- ''America's challenge of today has forged man's destiny of tomorrow''

  

  Min Bid: $5,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #13: Walt Cunningham Signed 16'' x 20'' Photo With Personal Message Honoring Wernher von Braun -- ''...Wernher, relative to the position he had and what he had to do, I think was the best of the bunch...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #14: Scarce 1937 Letter Signed by Robert H. Goddard, the Father of Space Flight -- ''The subject of rocket power, from an engineering standpoint, is so new...'' -- With JSA COA

  

  Min Bid: $8,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #15: Fred Haise and James Lovell Signed 20" x 16" Photo of Apollo 13's Damaged Service Module -- Lovell Adds, "Houston, we've had a problem!"

  

  Min Bid: $6,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #19: Space Shuttle Challenger Crew Signed 10'' x 8'' Photo, Uninscribed -- From the Collection of Mission Commander Dick Scobee

  

  Min Bid: $3,000

  Final Price: $5,491

• Lot #21: Lot of 8 Signed Photos Given by Dick Scobee to His Family -- Including Two Signed Photos of the 35 Astronaut Candidates Selected in January, 1978

  

  Min Bid: $1,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #22: Challenger STS-51-L Robbins Medal, Serial #1 -- Given to the Family of Commander Dick Scobee

  

  Min Bid: $1,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #23: Dick Scobee Autograph Letter Signed to His Parents, Three Months Before the Challenger Disaster -- ''...After the flight we're going to take the vacation we'll really need...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #26: Dick Scobee's Personally Owned Model of Space Shuttle Challenger

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #27: WITHDRAWN

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: W/D

• Lot #28: Challenger Commemorative Belt Buckle, Given to the Scobee Family After the Mission

  

  Min Bid: $250

  Final Price: $344

• Lot #29: Gold Robbins Medal #15F, Flown on Columbia STS-1 -- Owned by Astronaut Shannon Lucid

  

  Min Bid: $24,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #30: Jack Swigert Autograph Letter Signed to His Parents the Day of His NASA Selection -- ''the sacrifices, self-denial and discipline now seem to have been all worth while'' -- Also With Swigert's Resume

  

  Min Bid: $8,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #31: Jack Swigert's Personally Owned Diamond & 14K Gold Apollo XIII Lapel Pin

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #32: Fabric Swatch From the Wright Flyer, Flown at Kitty Hawk During the First Flight on 17 December 1903 -- Encapsulated by CAG

  

  Min Bid: $8,000

  Final Price: $10,000

• Lot #33: Smithsonian Program From 1948 for ''The Presentation of the Wright Brothers' Aeroplane of 1903'' -- Very Rare, With Infamous Smithsonian ''Label'' Printed Within

  

  Min Bid: $2,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #34: Wilbur Wright Postcard Signed From December 1908 During Their Very Successful Exhibition Flights in Europe -- With University Archives COA

  

  Min Bid: $8,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #35: Meriwether Lewis Autograph Letter Signed, Two Months Before the Lewis & Clark Expedition -- In What Would Be Lewis' Lifelong Battle With Reimbursed Debt, He Defends Against Money He Purportedly Owes

  

  Min Bid: $25,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #36: Scarce Marie Curie Signed Document From Her ''Institut du Radium'' Laboratory -- Curie Signs Off on an Experiment in Her Lab

  

  Min Bid: $3,000

  Final Price: $3,750

• Lot #37: Charles Darwin Autograph Letter Signed With Evolution Related Content -- ''...you had seen a dozen instances of white cats with blue eyes being deaf...''

  

  Min Bid: $12,000

  Final Price: $15,000

• Lot #38: Charles Darwin Letter Signed From 1867

  

  Min Bid: $5,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #39: Thomas Edison Twice-Signed Stock Certificate

  

  Min Bid: $2,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #40: Albert Einstein Autograph Letter Signed on God & Unified Field Theory, With Mathematical Equations in His Hand Regarding the Theory -- ''...It is devilishly difficult to get closer to 'Him'...''

  

  Min Bid: $55,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #41: Albert Einstein Autograph Letter Signed Regarding His United Field Theory: ''...I have been brooding and calculating almost all of my days and half of the nights...'Unified Field Theory'...''

  

  Min Bid: $55,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #42: Albert Einstein Autograph Letter Signed From 1918, Predicting His Nobel Prize Years Before Winning It

  

  Min Bid: $42,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #43: Albert Einstein Autograph Letter Signed ''A. Einstein'' With His Handwritten Equations -- ''...the theory...really does constitute immense progress...as an appendix of my little book on...

  

  Min Bid: $30,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #44: Albert Einstein Autograph Letter Signed to His Assistant, Regarding Einstein's Paper ''Generalization of the Relativistic Theory of Gravitation'' -- With Several Equations in Einstein's Hand

  

  Min Bid: $30,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #45: Albert Einstein Letter Signed in 1935 -- ''The hostile attitude of universities towards Jewish teaching staff and students has been increasing...similar to the German Jews in the time before Hitler''

  

  Min Bid: $25,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #46: Albert Einstein Autograph Letter Signed From 1934 -- ''...All this is the result of the Hitler-insanity, which has completely ruined the lives of all those around me...''

  

  Min Bid: $25,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #47: Albert Einstein Autograph Letter Signed From 1921, Regarding Anti-Semitism in Germany -- ''...I am supposed to go to Munich, but I will not do that, because this would endanger my life right now...''

  

  Min Bid: $15,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #48: Albert Einstein Letter Signed During WWII -- ''The power of resistance which has enabled the Jewish people to survive...our readiness to help one another is being put to an especially severe test''

  

  Min Bid: $10,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #50: Albert Einstein Autograph Letter Signed From 1921 the Year of His Nobel Prize Win

  

  Min Bid: $4,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #51: Albert Einstein Letter Signed -- ''...The idea expressed in your letter of April 15th seems to me very foggy indeed...''

  

  Min Bid: $2,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #52: Albert Einstein Signature

  

  Min Bid: $2,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #53: Albert Einstein Letter Signed to Composer Walter Kaufmann -- ''...You know how highly I esteem your artistic competencies...''

  

  Min Bid: $2,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #54: Enigma Machine Used by Germany During World War II -- Very Scarce, as Germans Were Ordered to Destroy the Machines to Prevent Capture by the Allies

  

  Min Bid: $200,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #55: Richard Feynman Autograph Manuscript Entitled ''Conversation with Presskill'' -- Comprising Three Pages of Notes on Theoretical Physics

  

  Min Bid: $25,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #57: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Document Signed -- The Iconic Philosopher Issues a Certificate of Learning to His Student

  

  Min Bid: $2,250

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #58: Scarce David Hume Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...one of the most celebrated Booksellers of Paris...''

  

  Min Bid: $12,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #59: Louis Pasteur Signed Portrait Engraving

  

  Min Bid: $2,750

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #60: Max Planck Autograph Letter Signed, Musing on the First Law of Thermodynamics -- ''...Mayer had burst into his room exclaiming...that water could be warmed by means of vigorous shaking...''

  

  Min Bid: $2,000

  Final Price: $2,500

• Lot #61: John Adams Signed Copy of ''A Discourse'' -- The Powerful Pro-American Independence Book Called ''The Morning Gun of the Revolution''

  

  Min Bid: $42,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #62: Chester A. Arthur Signed Program as President -- For the Unveiling of the Statue of George Washington on Wall Street

  

  Min Bid: $2,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #63: The Scarcest of 19th Century Campaign Banners Hand-Colored by Currier and Ives -- The John Bell and Edward Everett Jugate Banner Broadside for the 1860 Presidential Election

  

  Min Bid: $10,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #64: Bill Clinton Signed 20'' x 15'' Photograph of His Entire Cabinet -- Signed by All 23 Including Clinton & Al Gore

  

  Min Bid: $6,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #65: 1860 Campaign Portrait Flag Banner for Stephen Douglas -- One of Less Than 10 Known Examples

  

  Min Bid: $14,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #66: Dwight D. Eisenhower Letter Signed as President -- Eisenhower Writes of Being President: ''...This is a slave's life...''

  

  Min Bid: $6,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #67: Dwight D. Eisenhower Sketch as President -- Eisenhower Draws the Profile of a Man -- From the Malcolm S. Forbes Collection

  

  Min Bid: $2,100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #68: Dwight Eisenhower WWII Autograph Letter Signed to Mamie -- ''...Of course we've changed. How could two people go through what we have...and still believe they could be exactly as they were...''

  

  Min Bid: $2,100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #69: James Garfield Document Signed as President -- One of the Rarest Presidential Signatures

  

  Min Bid: $8,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #70: White House Oyster Plate in the Rutherford B. Hayes Style

  

  Min Bid: $3,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #71: Elegant China From the Andrew Jackson Administration -- Extremely Rare

  

  Min Bid: $8,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #72: Andrew Jackson Signed Ship's Papers as President

  

  Min Bid: $1,800

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #73: Thomas Jefferson Land Grant Signed as President -- Also Signed as James Madison as Secretary of State

  

  Min Bid: $5,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #74: Thomas Jefferson & James Madison Signed Four-Language Ship's Papers -- Jefferson Signs as President & Madison as Secretary of State

  

  Min Bid: $4,200

  Final Price: $5,250

• Lot #75: Lyndon B. Johnson Owned Necktie, Custom-Made for Him

  

  Min Bid: $3,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #76: John F. Kennedy Signed ''Profiles in Courage'' -- Inscribed to Famed Photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt -- With University Archives COA

  

  Min Bid: $5,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #77: John F. Kennedy Signed Book as President -- JFK Inscribes ''To Turn the Tide'' to Photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt ''...who helped turn an earlier tide...'' -- With Slide Photo of JFK Signing

  

  Min Bid: $5,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #78: John F. Kennedy Bill Signing Pen Used as President to Sign Amendments to the ''Clean Water Act''

  

  Min Bid: $2,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #79: Norman Rockwell Signed Lithograph of JFK -- Appeared as the Cover of ''The Saturday Evening Post'' in 1960

  

  Min Bid: $2,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #80: Very Large 16'' x 20'' Signed Drawing of ''President Kennedy's Wounds as I saw him at Parkland Hospital in Dallas on November 22, 1963'' by Dr. Robert McClelland, Who Held President Kennedy's Head

  

  Min Bid: $6,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #81: First Edition, 27 Volume Set of the Warren Commission's Report on the Assassination of John F. Kennedy -- With Scarce ''Report'' Volume

  

  Min Bid: $2,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #82: George Washington Check Signed -- With PSA COA

  

  Min Bid: $35,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #83: Alf ''Land On'' Washington Button for FDR's 1936 Republican Challenger -- Alf Landon -- Near Fine

  

  Min Bid: $3,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #84: Abraham Lincoln Autograph Letter Signed to His 1860 De Facto Campaign Manager Norman Judd -- In 1859, Lincoln Writes About Shoring Up the German Vote by Buying a Printing Press to Market to Them

  

  Min Bid: $20,000

  Final Price: $25,000

• Lot #85: Abraham Lincoln Autograph Letter Signed as President -- Lincoln Intercedes on Behalf of an Illinois Student for a Spot at Annapolis

  

  Min Bid: $10,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #86: Abraham Lincoln Military Appointment Signed During the Civil War

  

  Min Bid: $8,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #87: Abraham Lincoln Document Signed as President, Authorizing His Old Friend & De Facto Campaign Manager to Finalize a Treaty With Prussia -- Signed in Full ''Abraham Lincoln''

  

  Min Bid: $7,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #88: Abraham Lincoln Autograph Endorsement Signed as President -- Housed in a Patent Office Report From 1849 Featuring Abraham Lincoln's Patent -- Lincoln Is the Only U.S. President to Hold a Patent

  

  Min Bid: $5,750

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #89: Abraham Lincoln Autograph Endorsement Signed as President -- Lincoln Mistakenly Dates the Proclamation of Amnesty as 8 December 1864 -- With University Archives COA

  

  Min Bid: $5,750

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #90: White House China Saucer From the Personal Collection of Mary Todd Lincoln

  

  Min Bid: $2,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #91: Abraham Lincoln Complete 10 Volume Set of His Definitive Biography ''Abraham Lincoln: A History'' -- Written by His Secretaries John Hay & John Nicolay

  

  Min Bid: $1,800

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #92: Abraham Lincoln Assassination Letter to Boarder at the Surratt House -- ''...an imaginary attempt to kidnap President Lincoln...was suggested, no doubt, by Booth's attempt at abduction...''

  

  Min Bid: $3,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #93: James Madison Letter Twice-Signed as Secretary of State, Regarding a Change in Payment Terms for the Louisiana Purchase -- ''instructions...to Paris...to promote a modification, if possible''

  

  Min Bid: $25,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #94: Ronald Reagan Scarce Signed Limited Edition of ''Ronald Reagan An American Hero'', Also Signed by Nancy Reagan -- One of Only 250 in the Exclusive Limited Edition

  

  Min Bid: $3,500

  Final Price: $5,824

• Lot #95: Ronald Reagan Signed ''An American Life'' Special Limited Edition -- Housed in Luxury Oak Case With Audiotapes of ''Speaking My Mind''

  

  Min Bid: $2,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #96: U.S. Capitol Badge for Ronald Reagan's 1981 Inauguration

  

  Min Bid: $1,600

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #97: Franklin D. Roosevelt Signed Photo of His ''Turkey Cabinet'' as Governor of New York in 1932 -- Signed in Full, ''Franklin D. Roosevelt''

  

  Min Bid: $2,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #98: Franklin D. Roosevelt Autograph Letter Signed, Just Days Before His Inauguration as Governor of New York -- ''...I wish much you could be in Albany on Tuesday...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,750

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #99: Franklin D. Roosevelt Autograph Letter Signed to Helena Mahoney, His Warm Springs Physical Therapist -- ''...I do so hope the nightmares have stopped...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,750

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #100: Theodore Roosevelt Signed Cabinet Photo -- Roosevelt Signs the Photo, Along With Nine Members of His Cabinet, Including William Taft -- With University Archives COA

  

  Min Bid: $8,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #101: Theodore Roosevelt Signed Limited First Edition of ''African Game Trails'' -- Both Volumes Present in Original Leather Bindings

  

  Min Bid: $4,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #102: Delegate Badge for Theodore Roosevelt's 1912 Progressive Party -- The First Progressive Party, Which Advocated to Get Corporate Interests Out of Politics

  

  Min Bid: $3,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #103: Theodore Roosevelt Signed Book as President, on the Occasion of the Tricentennial Anniversary of the Jamestown Settlement of America

  

  Min Bid: $3,000

  Final Price: $3,750

• Lot #104: Theodore Roosevelt Signed Limited Edition of His 1889 Book ''Big Game Hunting in the Rockies and on the Great Plains'' -- #166 of 1000

  

  Min Bid: $2,250

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #105: William Taft Letter Signed, With Additional Autograph Note Signed, Regarding His Appointment to the Supreme Court -- ''...This discussion as to Wilson's appointing me to the Bench only amuses me...''

  

  Min Bid: $2,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #106: Rare Harry Truman WWII Victory Proclamation Signed as President -- Gifted to White House Staff in 1945 -- Near Fine Condition

  

  Min Bid: $7,500

  Final Price: $9,375

• Lot #107: Harry Truman Twice-Signed 10'' x 8'' Photograph, Famously Showing Truman Holding Up the ''Dewey Defeats Truman'' Newspaper -- Original UPI Press Photo -- With University Archives COA

  

  Min Bid: $6,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #108: Harry Truman Signed Farewell Address From 1953 -- ''...The President...has to decide. He can't pass the buck to anybody...'' & ''...And always in the background there has been the atomic bomb...''

  

  Min Bid: $3,000

  Final Price: $3,750