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August 2012 Auction Ends Thursday, August 30th, 5pm Pacific

Auction closed on 8/30/2012. Final prices include buyers premium.

• Lot #1: King Charles II 1660 Proclamation From The First Month of Restoration -- Demanding Those Responsible For The Execution of His Father King Charles I Turn Themselves In For Murder & Treason

  

  # Bids: 10

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #2: Winston Churchill Announces His Resignation as Prime Minister -- ''...for some time past I have not felt that at my age it would be right for me to incur such new and indefinite responsibilities...''

  

  # Bids: 16

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #3: Oliver Cromwell 1655 Document Signed Boldly ''Oliver P.'' as ''Lord Protector'' of England -- Scarce

  

  # Bids: 14

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: $8,098

• Lot #4: Princess Diana & Prince Charles Signed Christmas Card From 1982 -- With a Lovely Family Portrait Photo

  

  # Bids: 12

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $916

• Lot #5: Princess Diana and Prince Charles Signed Christmas Card From 1983 -- With Family Portrait Featuring Diana Posing on a Swing With Baby Prince William

  

  # Bids: 13

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $916

• Lot #6: Funny Christmas Card Signed and Sent by Princess Diana -- ''Merry Christmas. Lots of Love, Diana. X''

  

  # Bids: 10

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #7: 1307 Document From the Reign of Edward I -- One of the Few Extant Documents From the King Who Imposed a 400 Year Ban on Jews in England

  

  # Bids: 11

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: $14,351

• Lot #8: Edward VIII, Prince of Wales, Signed Photo -- 1919 Canadian Visit

  

  # Bids: 4

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $425

• Lot #9: Queen Elizabeth's Official Coronation Photo Signed in 1959

  

  # Bids: 14

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $3,049

• Lot #10: Radical 1648 English Civil War Act Abolishing Monarchy in England & Ordering the Death of Charles I -- ''...Charles Stuart late King of England...is hereby declared to be justly condemned, adjudged...

  

  # Bids: 11

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #11: Napoleonic General Henri Fulque-d'Oraison Document Signed

  

  # Bids: 3

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $145

• Lot #12: Fantastic content Che Guevara 1959 Letter Signed -- ''...[It] is not acceptable...to believe that...Alvarado acted in self defense...he can be careless and selfish…"

  

  # Bids: 12

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #13: King Henry III of France Letter Signed From 1579

  

  # Bids: 14

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $1,109

• Lot #14: King Henry VII Signs & Annotates an Accounting of Real Estate Confiscated From His Knights -- Evidence of the Property Taking for Which Henry VII Was Known

  

  # Bids: 11

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #15: King Henry VII Signed Document -- Scarce, From 15th Century

  

  # Bids: 17

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #16: Henry VIII Document Signed in 1512, Gathering Troops to Invade France -- ''...[Those who do not report for duty are] to be...punished...''

  

  # Bids: 20

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: $40,954

• Lot #19: 1819 Napoleonic General Edme Aime Lucotte Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...It is a riddle that I cannot explain...''

  

  # Bids: 2

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #21: Official 1815 Order From French King Louis XVIII

  

  # Bids: 4

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #22: Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin & His Wife Signed Envelope -- ''Y. Rabin / L. Rabin'' -- Dated 8 May 1973 -- 6.5'' x 3.75'' -- Fine

  

  # Bids: 4

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $178

• Lot #23: Intriguing 1811 Letter Signed by Napoleon's General Savary, Who Served as Minister of Police -- ''...I gave the orders to have a search for the...author, also the staff who spread the document...''

  

  # Bids: 3

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #24: French Admiral Latouche Treville Letter Signed -- ''...The crew of the ship Tordeaux wrecked in 1773 on the island of Tizago, where they had found the most awful captivity...''

  

  # Bids: 8

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $0

• Lot #25: Revolutionary War French Foreign Minister Charles Gravier Vergennes Document Signed

  

  # Bids: 5

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $262

• Lot #26: Extremely Scarce Queen Victoria 1887 Golden Jubilee 22-Karat Gold Medal

  

  # Bids: 9

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #27: Queen Victoria Signature -- ''Victoria R I [Regina Imperatrix]'' -- Below ''Approved'' in Another Hand -- 5.75'' x 3'' Document Fragment -- Very Good

  

  # Bids: 6

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $317

• Lot #28: Proclamation of George IV's Ascendancy to the Throne Signed by the Duke of Wellington

  

  # Bids: 12

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $1,789

• Lot #29: ''Madeline and the Gypsies'' Signed With Drawing of Madeline -- Scarce Piece by Author Ludwig Bemelmans

  

  # Bids: 3

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #30: Ludwig Bemelmans Signed & Hand-Drawn Elephant Sketch Upon His Classic ''Madeline'' Book

  

  # Bids: 5

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #31: Ludwig Bemelmans Signed First Edition of ''The High World''

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #32: Ludwig Bemelmans Hand-Drawn Sketch & Signed Inscription Within His Popular Book, ''Madeline's Rescue''

  

  # Bids: 5

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #33: Rare Allen Ginsberg Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...I am out here all summer at Naropa...with a whole gang of poets...''

  

  # Bids: 2

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #34: Ernest Hemingway Signed ''For Whom The Bell Tolls'' -- With PSA/DNA COA

  

  # Bids: 9

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #35: Stephen King Typed Letter Signed From 1976 -- ''...hold onto your sunny disposition...''

  

  # Bids: 3

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #36: Intriguing Rudyard Kipling Autograph Letter Signed -- ''Dear Dr...I have not been very well...let me know whether I could see Mrs. Fleming...''

  

  # Bids: 9

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $349

• Lot #38: Poet Henry W. Longfellow Autograph -- ''Yours truly / Henry W. Longfellow / 1877'' -- On 6.75'' x 4'' Album Page -- Very Good

  

  # Bids: 5

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #39: Original Harry Potter ''Chamber of Secrets'' Book Cover Illustration by Cliff Wright -- Depicting the Charming & Memorable Flying Car Scene

  

  # Bids: 14

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #40: Original Harry Potter ''Prisoner of Azkaban'' Book Cover Illustration -- Depicting Harry Riding the Mythical Creature, Buckbeak, Under the Moonlight -- Signed by Artist Cliff Wright

  

  # Bids: 8

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #41: U.K. Deluxe Edition of ''Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire''

  

  # Bids: 2

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #42: J.K. Rowling Signed First Edition, First Printing of ''Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'' -- With PSA/DNA COA

  

  # Bids: 10

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #43: Original Illustration by Arthur Rackham of the Cheshire Cat, Drawn for Page 106 of ''Alice in Wonderland'' -- With His Signature Mischievous Grin

  

  # Bids: 19

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #45: Carl Sandburg Signs His Autobiography ''Always The Young Strangers''

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #46: Carl Sandburg Biography Signed by Both Sandburg and Biographer Harry Golden -- ''Millions of Americans...Know and Love Carl Sandburg''

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $238

• Lot #47: Dr. Seuss, Creator of Lorax, Grinch & Cat in the Hat Glossy Signed Photo -- ''Dr. Seuss'' in Felt Tip -- 8'' x 9'' -- Fine

  

  # Bids: 3

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #48: Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers Signed 8'' x 10'' Photo

  

  # Bids: 9

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $288

• Lot #49: Academy Award Winner Mary Astor Signs Letters & Documents -- Including Signed Contracts for TV Roles & Bestselling Books -- ''...my experience in acting will help me...be a good writer...''

  

  # Bids: 8

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $1,172

• Lot #50: Academy Award Winning Actress Mary Astor Documents & Letters Signed

  

  # Bids: 7

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #51: Academy Award Winning Actress Mary Astor Personal Letters & Documents Signed

  

  # Bids: 7

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #52: Mary Astor Signed Letters to Her Agent -- ''...Once a week I go to Santa Monica and stand in line and pick up Fifty-five dollars Unemployment Insurance...''

  

  # Bids: 5

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #53: Mary Astor 20-Letter Lot -- ''...Thorpe is not going to stand still about his begging me to have an abortion, or the...plot...to see to it that I miscarried on the yacht trip to Honolulu...''

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #54: Archive of Personal Letters Signed by Academy Award Winning Actress Mary Astor -- ''...Doubleday is a sort of MGM of the publishing business...a big volume, and...lack of personal attention...''

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #55: Mary Astor 1960's Letters Signed -- ''...I have a week off from 'Peyton Place'...it might be pleasant to do a show without the usual pressures of TV...Same pressures only more of it. I'm batty...''

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #56: Mary Astor 20 Letter Lot -- ''...It was great seeing Bette again, but the thing about her which was so stimulating...just seems old-fashioned. And Crawford with her 17 pieces of luggage...come on!''

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #57: Lot of 100 Personal Checks Signed by Classic Hollywood Star Mary Astor

  

  # Bids: 2

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #58: Lot of 100 Personal Checks Signed by Hollywood Star Mary Astor

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #59: Lot of 100 Personal Checks Signed by Hollywood Star Mary Astor

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #60: Lot of 100 Personal Checks Signed by Hollywood Star Mary Astor

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #61: Original Draft of Mary Astor's Bestselling Autobiography

  

  # Bids: 8

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #62: Draft of Mary Astor's Fascinating Hollywood Memoir, ''Life On Film'' With Handwritten Corrections -- ''...I made 'The Maltese Falcon' early in 1941...''

  

  # Bids: 7

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #63: Lucille Ball Arnaz Signed Personal Check

  

  # Bids: 3

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #64: Vintage Lucille Ball Signed 8'' x 10'' Photo

  

  # Bids: 9

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #65: Rare ''Wizard of Oz'' Autograph -- Clara Blandick ''Auntie Em'' -- With PSA/DNA COA

  

  # Bids: 2

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #66: 'Scarecrow'' Ray Bolger Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...The make-up on my face was made of a special type of foam rubber...'' -- 1984

  

  # Bids: 9

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #67: Johnny Carson's ''Tonight Show'' Coffee Mug

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: $1,200

• Lot #68: Charlie Chaplin Signed 5'' x 7'' Photo

  

  # Bids: 13

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #69: Dress & Earrings Worn by Marcia Cross on ''Desperate Housewives'' -- With ABC Studios COA

  

  # Bids: 12

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $1,008

• Lot #70: Russell Crowe's ''Gladiator'' Screen-Worn Tunic

  

  # Bids: 8

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #71: Beloved Actress Dorothy Dandridge Signed Album Page -- ''To John - Dorothy Dandridge'' -- Light Green Page Measures 5.75'' x 4.5'' -- Toning & Perforation to Left Edge, Else Near Fine

  

  # Bids: 4

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #72: Large Olivia de Havilland Signed 11'' x 14'' Photo as ''Melanie'' in ''Gone With the Wind''

  

  # Bids: 2

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #73: Gorgeous Olivia de Havilland Signed Photo as Melanie From ''Gone With the Wind''

  

  # Bids: 3

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #74: Three ID Cards Used on Screen on ''Desperate Housewives'' -- With ABC Studios COA

  

  # Bids: 5

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #75: Walt Disney Signed 1942 Copy of ''Bambi'' -- With PSA/DNA COA

  

  # Bids: 6

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #76: Check Signed by Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. -- 22 November 1955 -- Cancellation Stamps to Front & Verso -- Signature Slightly Smudged, Red Mark Across Signature -- Overall Very Good

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #77: Three Stooges' Larry Fine Letter -- ''...I wrote a Book...called a 'Stroke of Luck'. In it I tell of my experiences with the 3 Stooges...''

  

  # Bids: 8

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #78: Ava Gardner Signed Personal Check

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $120

• Lot #79: Judy Garland Signed & Dedicated 3.5'' x 4.75'' Glossy Photo -- Paper Remnants to Verso -- Very Good -- With JSA LOA

  

  # Bids: 7

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #80: James Bond 1964 ''Goldfinger'' Half-Sheet Movie Poster

  

  # Bids: 5

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #81: 1967 Academy Award Nomination for ''The Graduate''

  

  # Bids: 15

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $3,049

• Lot #82: Margaret Hamilton Signed ''Wizard of Oz'' Photo -- Glossy 10'' x 8'' Inscribed, ''For you Mary Ann: Come join us on the Y.B.R! Witchie wishes - WWW (and Margaret Hamilton)'' -- Very Good

  

  # Bids: 4

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #85: Unique Audrey Hepburn Signed Copy of ''My Fair Lady''

  

  # Bids: 9

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $916

• Lot #86: Audrey Hepburn Autographed ''Moon River'' Record Cover -- Her Memorable ''Breakfast at Tiffany's'' Song -- With JSA COA

  

  # Bids: 10

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $916

• Lot #88: Moe Howard of ''The 3 Stooges'' Autograph Letter Signed

  

  # Bids: 6

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $349

• Lot #89: ''Ted'' Screen-Worn Outfit by Mila Kunis

  

  # Bids: 7

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #90: Dress Ensemble Screen-Worn by Mila Kunis in ''Ted''

  

  # Bids: 9

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $1,477

• Lot #91: Mila Kunis Turtleneck, Pants & Earrings Worn in 2012 Film, ''Ted'' -- With MRC Studio COA

  

  # Bids: 7

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #92: Mila Kunis Dress & Shoes Worn in 2012 Film, ''Ted'' -- With MRC Studio COA

  

  # Bids: 15

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $1,477

• Lot #93: Pristine Laurel & Hardy 10'' x 8'' Signed Photo

  

  # Bids: 5

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #94: ''Vivien Leigh'' Signed Autograph Album Page -- Blue Ink on Pale Green 5'' x 4.75'' Slip -- Pencil Notation of Her Name, Else Near Fine -- With 8'' x 10'' Glossy Photo of The Classic Star

  

  # Bids: 7

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #95: Screen-Worn Dress & Sweater From The Last Season of TV Hit ''Desperate Housewives'' -- Worn by Eva Longoria as Gabrielle Solis

  

  # Bids: 14

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $1,109

• Lot #96: Screen-Worn Outfit from the Final Season of ''Desperate Housewives'' -- Worn by Eva Longoria as Gabrielle Solis

  

  # Bids: 16

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $1,220

• Lot #97: Top & Pants Worn by Eva Longoria on ''Desperate Housewives'' -- With ABC Studios COA

  

  # Bids: 13

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $1,109

• Lot #98: Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis & Janet Leigh Signed 10'' x 8'' Photo

  

  # Bids: 7

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $288

• Lot #99: Horror Actress Ilona Massey Autograph Album Page -- ''To 'Bob' / best of Luck / Ilona Massey'' In Blue Ink -- 6'' x 4.5'' -- Toning, Light Smudging & Perforation to Right Edge -- Very Good

  

  # Bids: 4

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #100: Steve McQueen Signed Contract From 1960

  

  # Bids: 6

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #102: Ricky Nelson Signed Photo From 1959 Western Film ''Rio Bravo'' as a 19 Year-Old

  

  # Bids: 6

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #103: Sir Laurence Olivier Signed 8'' x 10'' Photo

  

  # Bids: 6

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #104: 1935 Oscar Statue Made by Columbia Pictures

  

  # Bids: 8

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #105: Michelle Pfeiffer's Signed Inscription ''Grease 2'' Cast Photo -- With 10 Other Cast Autographs & a Scarce Draft of The Script Before Final Revisions

  

  # Bids: 8

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $624

• Lot #106: Mary Pickford Signed Book ''My Rendezvous With Life''

  

  # Bids: 5

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $178

• Lot #107: First Ever Issue of ''Playboy'' Featuring Marilyn Monroe

  

  # Bids: 8

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #108: Tyrone Power Signed 5.5'' x 7'' Matte Photo -- Signed in Purple Ink: ''For Hutsie with Best Wishes / Tyrone Power'' -- Very Good

  

  # Bids: 4

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #110: Television Critics Award Given to ''The Sopranos'' in Its Very First Season -- 1999

  

  # Bids: 14

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $1,109