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March 2012 Auction Ends Wednesday, March 28th, 5pm Pacific

Auction closed on 3/28/2012. Final prices include buyers premium.

• Lot #1: George Harrison's Personal, Hand-Annotated Booklet on Spiritual Regeneration Given to Ringo Starr -- With Notes on The Beatles -- ''I was in the greatest show on Earth'' -- Epperson COA

  

  # Bids: 8

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: $8,908

• Lot #3: Orson Welles Signs His Personally Owned & Used Typewriter -- Used Circa 1930's-40's During the Writing of ''Citizen Kane''

  

  # Bids: 17

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $33,378

• Lot #4: Secretary of War John Armstrong Letter Signed -- Secretary of War Under James Madison

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #5: Chester A. Arthur Letter Signed as Vice President

  

  # Bids: 7

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $515

• Lot #6: Autograph Letter Signed by Revolutionary War General William Barton -- Petition to Vermont General Assembly for His Release From Prison -- '...pay attention...to an old man...imprisoned in this p

  

  # Bids: 5

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #7: Fine ''Hugo L. Black'' Signature -- 5th Longest Serving Justice in Supreme Court History & One of Its Most Influential -- 5'' x 3''

  

  # Bids: 2

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $132

• Lot #8: Humorous James Gillespie Blaine Autograph Letter Signed -- '...How much time annually do you think you waste in seeking autographs which are no more valuable than mine?...'' -- 1881

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $120

• Lot #9: Lincoln Assassin John Wilkes Booth CDV Photo -- Sepia Image of the Actor in His Pre-Assassin Days Measures 2.5'' x 4''

  

  # Bids: 2

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #10: Rare Attorney General Benjamin Harris Brewster Autograph Letter Signed -- 1882

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #11: William Jennings Bryan Typed Letter Signed -- Three Time Presidential Candidate

  

  # Bids: 2

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #12: William Jennings Bryan Autograph Letter Signed -- '...I find your much appreciated Christmas present on my return to the city...'' -- 1914

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #14: ''The Philadelphia Gazette and Daily Advertiser'' -- 18 February 1801 -- False Reporting That Burr Was Elected President

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #15: Barbara Bush Signed Memoir -- 1994

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #16: George W. Bush Autograph Letter Signed While Campaigning for Governor of Texas -- '...I'll have my father check out the status of the operation...''

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #17: George W. Bush Autograph Letter Signed -- '...You're a good man to care...''

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #19: President George W. Bush 5'' x 7'' Glossy Photo Signed -- Bold Signature in Silver Ink

  

  # Bids: 5

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $238

• Lot #20: Jimmy Carter Signed 8'' x 10'' Photo

  

  # Bids: 3

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $145

• Lot #21: Henry Clay Twice Signed Autograph Letter as Secretary of State -- With Free Franked Envelope

  

  # Bids: 11

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $468

• Lot #22: Youngest Ever First Lady Frances Cleveland Autograph Letter Signed -- '...secure me from doing what would be excessively unpleasant...''

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $120

• Lot #23: Frances Cleveland Curt Letter -- '...I don't want to do it...'' -- 1906

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #24: Grover Cleveland Autograph Letter Signed -- '...I have written...for some literature concerning women's industrial and social welfare; and have received a reply...'' -- 1906

  

  # Bids: 4

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #25: President Grover Cleveland Autograph Letter Signed -- '...I expect you would ideally like to have it: 'Honest American Marriage and Home Building...''

  

  # Bids: 4

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #26: Bill Clinton First Edition of ''Giving'' Signed

  

  # Bids: 4

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $196

• Lot #27: Bill Clinton Diecast Presidential Seal Cufflinks - - ''Seal of the President of the United States'' -- Approx. 0.75'' in Diameter -- Mint

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #28: Bill Clinton Autograph Note Signed Regarding Ronald Reagan -- '...I have a good relationship with him...''

  

  # Bids: 8

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #29: Hillary Rodham Clinton Signed ''It Takes a Village''

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #30: Check Signed by Declaration of Independence Signer George Clymer -- Excellent Signature of Pennsylvania Representative to First U.S. Congress

  

  # Bids: 3

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #31: Postmaster Appointment Signed by President Calvin Coolidge

  

  # Bids: 6

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #32: Calvin Coolidge Signed 4.25'' x 3.5" White House Card -- Affixed to Slip of Paper -- Very Good

  

  # Bids: 5

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $196

• Lot #33: Calvin Coolidge Thank You Card -- Lot Also Includes Diplomatic Invitations

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #34: Calvin Coolidge Rare Panoramic Photo -- With the ''Swedish Singing Society'' on the White House Lawn -- Measures Over Three Feet Long

  

  # Bids: 7

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $288

• Lot #35: WWI Navy Secretary -- ''the Navy of 1915 is larger, better equipped, and in better condition than in any previous year...what President Wilson promised for the Navy has been fulfilled.''

  

  # Bids: 4

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #36: Vice President Charles Gates Dawes Signed Letter -- '...I realize the value of your plan for the recognition of civic service as never before...'' -- 1927

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #37: Vice President Charles Gates Dawes Signed Letter -- '...I greatly regret this for it would be a way...I could pay my little tribute to you, who are constantly doing unselfishly so much for so ma

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #38: Vice President Charles G. Dawes Typed Letter Signed -- '...Senator Pepper handed me your letter...''

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #39: Vice President & Nobel Peace Prize Winner Charles G. Dawes Typed Letter Signed -- on ''Vice-President's Chamber'' Letterhead

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #40: 1876 Printing of the Declaration of Independence -- Centennial Memorial Print

  

  # Bids: 5

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #41: Declaration of Independence Printed on a 24'' x 20'' Piece of Fabric -- 1867 From World's Fair

  

  # Bids: 4

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #42: Longest Running Justice William O. Douglas Signature on 4.25'' x 3.25'' SC Card -- ''Will O Douglas / Feb, 9, 1940'' -- Near Fine

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $120

• Lot #43: William O. Douglas Signature, Dated 27 April 1940 -- Longest Serving Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court -- 5'' x 3'' Card -- Near Fine

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #44: Rare Palm Beach, Florida Election 2000 Ballot Transfer Case With 3-Digit Serial Number -- 18'' x 11.5'' x 4''

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #45: Rare Palm Beach Florida 2000 Voting Machine Used in Bush v. Gore -- 22'' x 18'' x 5'' -- With Unused Test Ballot & Instructions

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $120

• Lot #46: Autograph Letter by Declaration of Independence Signer William Ellery

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #47: 1792 "Gazette of the United States" -- Construction in Washington D.C. Begins as the New Nation's Capital

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #48: Gerald Ford Autograph Letter Signed -- '...The beautiful Republican tree trimmings are already appropriately displayed...''

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #49: President Gerald Ford 8'' x 10'' Glossy Signed Photo -- With Envelope from California Office -- Minor Foxing -- Near Fine

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #50: Gerald Ford 1994 Typed Letter Signed -- '...You were most thoughtful to send me the very attractive tie...''

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #51: Gerald Ford TLS -- 1968 -- '...the House of Representatives has no jurisdiction in the confirmation of Presidential appointees..''

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #52: Gerald Ford Letter Signed as President -- '...If we are to contain inflation and its damaging effects on the economy and the American people, we must continue to work for reduced federal spending

  

  # Bids: 9

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $468

• Lot #53: Gerald Ford 1976 Typed Letter Signed as President -- After His Defeat to Carter in November Election -- '...fiscal responsibility and legislative restraint...are essential to sound government...

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #54: Gerald Ford's Memoir ''A Time To Heal'' Signed

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #55: Justice Felix Frankfurter Handwrites a Note on Supreme Court Stationery

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #56: Felix Frankfurter Handwritten Note Signed on Supreme Court Stationery

  

  # Bids: 2

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $288

• Lot #57: Felix Frankfurter Signature -- Influential 1940's & 1950's Supreme Court Justice -- 5'' x 3'' Card, With 1940 Postmarked Envelope -- Fine

  

  # Bids: 2

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $145

• Lot #58: James Garfield 4.5'' x 1.75'' Clipped Signature -- ''Very truly yours, JA Garfield'' -- With 5.5'' x 6'' Engraving -- Very Good

  

  # Bids: 6

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $425

• Lot #59: Supreme Court Justice Ginsburg's Signed Dissent of George W. Bush vs. Albert Gore -- 12 December 2000

  

  # Bids: 3

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #60: Ulysses S. Grant Dinner Invitation -- Dated 3 November 1875 from the Executive Mansion -- 5'' x 8'' -- Embossed ''USG'' -- Near Fine

  

  # Bids: 4

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $288

• Lot #61: Ulysses S. Grant Invitation to His Home in Washington D.C. -- '...request the pleasure of General Marston's company...''

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #62: Ulysses S. Grant Dinner Invitation to Three Separate Dinners -- ''General & Mrs. Grant, At Home'' -- With a Mention of Dancing

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #63: Ulysses S. Grant Dinner Invitation to Three Separate Dinners Hosted by Him and His Wife -- ''At Home / Monday Evenings...''

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #64: Ulysses S. Grant Letter Signed

  

  # Bids: 17

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #65: Very Rare & Unusual 12.25'' x 8.75'' Albumen Photo -- U.S. Senators Attending the Funeral of President Ulysses S. Grant

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #66: Ulysses S. Grant Signed Card With Gilt Edges -- 1882

  

  # Bids: 9

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $686

• Lot #67: Abraham Lincoln's Vice President Hannibal Hamlin Document Signed -- Countersigned by Maine Republican Party Members

  

  # Bids: 3

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #68: President Benjamin Harrison 1891 Dinner Invitation Addressed to New Hampshire Governor Person Colby Cheney

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #69: President Harrison 1892 Invitation to Three Dinners -- To Meet the Diplomatic Corps, Congress, The Judiciary and Military Corps

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #70: Benjamin Harrison Signed Holograph Check -- $5.00 Drawn From Fletcher's Bank -- 7.25'' x 2.75'' -- Very Good Condition

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #71: Rutherford B. Hayes ALS -- '...schools...should teach not only what is found in books, but also the arts...The failure to do the latter is a capitol defect in our public school system...''

  

  # Bids: 2

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #72: Rare Rutherford B. Hayes Autograph Letter Signed With Full Signature ''Rutherford B. Hayes'' -- ''When not so engaged, will be at my quiet home in Spiegel Grove...'' -- With PSA/DNA COA

  

  # Bids: 4

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #73: Enigmatic Handwritten Rutherford B. Hayes Letter Marked Private & Confidential -- ''The affair you refer to...is not for me to notice... even indirectly...''

  

  # Bids: 4

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $288

• Lot #74: Rutherford B. Hayes Autograph Letter Signed Regarding the ''Omaha Slander'' Story on Liquor Trafficking -- '...the abuse of certain people is virtually commendation...''

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #75: Rutherford B. Hayes Autograph Letter Signed -- Replying to Editor of ''The Brooklyn Magazine'' on an Article Submitted by Hayes

  

  # Bids: 3

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #77: Rutherford B. Hayes Handwritten Note Signed -- To Editor Edward Bok -- '...I hope the article is not too large...''

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #78: Rutherford B. Hayes Handwritten Note Signed -- '...You seem interested in my doings...'' -- With Full Signature

  

  # Bids: 4

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #79: Rutherford B. Hayes Autograph Note Signed -- Replying to Condolences on His Wife's June 1889 Death -- Excellent Signature

  

  # Bids: 4

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #80: Rutherford B. Hayes Carte de Visite -- 2.5'' x 4'' -- Baldwin & Stevens, Columbus, Ohio Backstamp -- Very Good Condition

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #81: Rutherford B. Hayes Invitation -- February 1881 from the Executive Mansion -- '...meet The Members of the Diplomatic Corps...''

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #82: 1881 Presidential Invitation by Rutherford B. Hayes and First Lady Lucy Webb Hayes

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #83: Herbert Hoover TLS as President -- '...I have some doubt as to the desirability of my making any final statement such as you suggest...'' -- Written in January 1932

  

  # Bids: 10

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $425

• Lot #84: Herbert Hoover Typed Letter Signed -- '...You don't have to send me all that alarming information about yourself...''

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #85: Herbert Hoover Typed Letter Signed as President -- Thanking Senator Moses of New Hampshire for His ''Kind Note''

  

  # Bids: 2

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $262

• Lot #86: Julia Ward Howe Autograph -- ''Your's for Club Friendship. Julia Ward Howe.'' -- 6.5'' x 4.25'' -- Very Good

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #87: Andrew Jackson Indiana Land Grant Signed as President

  

  # Bids: 9

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #88: Rare Silk Copy of Andrew Jackson's 1837 Farewell Address -- Beautiful Presidential Keepsake

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #89: Andrew Jackson Inaugural Address 5'' x 6.5'' Broadside

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #90: Interesting John Jay Autograph Letter Signed Shortly After Resigning as Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court

  

  # Bids: 13

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $832

• Lot #91: Invitation to Dine With Thomas Jefferson -- 1806 -- Scarce

  

  # Bids: 10

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $4,468

• Lot #92: Boston ''Columbian Centinel'' of 27 February 1805 -- Thomas Jefferson's Re-election as President Announced -- 13'' x 19.5'' -- 4 Pages -- Very Good

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #93: Admission Ticket to First Ever Presidential Impeachment Trial -- Andrew Johnson -- 1868

  

  # Bids: 7

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #94: President Andrew Johnson Invitation to Dine at the White House -- Scarce Invitation from the Johnson Administration

  

  # Bids: 3

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #95: Lyndon B. Johnson 23'' x 19'' Document Signed as President -- LBJ Appoints a Doctor to the President's Committee on Mental Retardation

  

  # Bids: 7

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #96: Lyndon Johnson Document Signed as President -- 1965 Appointment of Civil Rights Champion William Taylor to Civil Rights Commission -- Scarce

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #98: Lyndon B. Johnson Typed Letter Signed -- To Famous Cartoonist Gib Crockett

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #99: Lyndon B. Johnson Typed Letter Signed -- To Political Cartoonist Gib Crockett

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #100: Jackie Kennedy Autograph Letter Signed -- Circa 1960 -- Signed ''Jacqueline Kennedy'' and Also ''Mrs. John F. Kennedy''

  

  # Bids: 5

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $916

• Lot #101: Jackie Kennedy Draft Autograph Letter Signed as First Lady -- ''...Jack's office is a madhouse as you can imagine -- Every now & then I hear something like the Montcalm business + it is so upsett

  

  # Bids: 5

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #102: First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy 1961 Autograph Letter Signed -- Regarding the Redecorating of the White House Red Room -- ''...to cut down on all that red...''

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #103: Jackie Kennedy Autograph Letter Signed as First Lady -- ''...acquiring art...will augment the feeling everyone has when they come here -- a feeling of pride in the nation's most beloved house...'

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #104: Jacqueline Kennedy ALS as First Lady -- Redecorating of the White House -- ''...I agree with you the price for a rug is madness...''

  

  # Bids: 2

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #105: Joseph & Rose Kennedy Thank You Card -- Expressing Thanks for Prayers & Sympathies After the Tragic Death of JFK

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass