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April 2012 Auction Ends Monday, April 30th, 5pm Pacific

Auction closed on 4/30/2012. Final prices include buyers premium.

• Lot #1: Abraham Lincoln's Opera Glasses -- Pair He Brought to Ford's Theatre and Held in His Hands at The Time of His Assassination -- Thrilling Piece of History From the Night That Forever Changed America

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #2: Oscar Awarded to Leon Shamroy, Cinematographer for 1942's ''The Black Swan''

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: $116,855

• Lot #3: Oscar Statue Awarded to Leon Shamroy for the Color Cinematography of 1945's ''Leave Her to Heaven''

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: $106,231

• Lot #4: Oscar Statue Awarded to Leon Shamroy for Color Cinematography of the 1944 Film ''Wilson'' -- Master Cinematographer Who Received 18 Nominations

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: $116,855

• Lot #5: Michael Jackson's Own Surgical Mask Worn By Jackson Himself The Night Before He Died -- With Provenance by Jackson's Personal Bodyguard

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #6: Charles Schulz Hand-Drawn ''Peanuts'' Sunday Comic Strip -- Snoopy Takes Woodstock & Friends on a ''Nature Hike'' -- 1984

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: $27,971

• Lot #7: Charles Schulz Original Hand-Drawn ''Peanuts'' Strip -- Featuring Both Charlie Brown & Snoopy in a Classic Summer Scene

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: $14,351

• Lot #8: Charles Schulz Hand-Drawn ''Peanuts'' Four-Panel Strip -- Snoopy Appreciates Woodstock in Honor of Secretaries Week -- 1972

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: $17,365

• Lot #9: Charles Schulz Hand-Drawn ''Peanuts'' Four-Panel Strip -- Snoopy as Scout Master Takes Woodstock & Friends Camping

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: $14,351

• Lot #10: Clark Gable's Personally Owned Mathey-Tissot Chronograph Wristwatch

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #11: Clark Gable's Own Vintage Rolex Wristwatch

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: $23,116

• Lot #12: Wilt Chamberlain's 100 Point Game Program From 1962 -- The Most Renowned Game In Basketball History -- Incredibly Scarce

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: $4,570

• Lot #13: Bill and Hillary Clinton Legal Document Signed Regarding Settlement of a Confidential Civil Suit -- The Only Civil Fraud Suit Ever Brought Against a U.S. President

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #14: Mickey Mouse Print Signed by Walt Disney -- With PSA/DNA COA

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: $5,027

• Lot #15: Abraham Lincoln 1864 Document Signed -- Excellent Full Signature

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: $6,691

• Lot #16: 1946 Document Signed by Marilyn Monroe as ''Norma Jean Dougherty'' -- Dougherty Models for Earl Moran One Year Before She Becomes ''Marilyn''

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: $8,908

• Lot #17: WITHDRAWN

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: W/D

• Lot #18: Mark Twain Autograph Note Twice-Signed -- ''Always acknowledge a fault frankly. This will throw those in authority off their guard & give you opportunity to commit more...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: $4,153

• Lot #19: George Washington Free Frank Signed -- Scarce

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: $9,799

• Lot #20: White House Presidential Desk Replica Based on Original Used by JFK and Other Presidents Since Hayes

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #21: President James Buchanan 1848 Signed Passport

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $385

• Lot #22: George H.W. Bush Signed ''Speaking of Freedom: The Collected Speeches'' -- 6'' x 9'' -- 302pp. -- Fine

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #23: Jimmy Carter Appointment Signed as Governor of Georgia -- With PSA/DNA COA

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #24: Rare President Grover Cleveland Signed Photo

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $756

• Lot #25: George Clinton Militia Appointment Signed as Governor of New York -- 20 March 1802 -- 15.5'' x 10'' -- Very Good

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $196

• Lot #26: Calvin Coolidge Document Signed -- Appoints a Woman Notary in 1926

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $425

• Lot #27: President Dwight Eisenhower and First Lady Mamie Eisenhower Signed 8'' x 10'' Photo

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $385

• Lot #28: Dwight Eisenhower Typed Letter Signed as President -- ''...thanks to you...for the interesting golf practice unit you sent as a birthday gift for me...'' -- 1954

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #29: Dwight Eisenhower Typed Letter Signed -- ''...these blankety-blank cocktail parties...'' -- 1963

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #30: Gerald Ford's Memoir ''A Time To Heal'' Signed

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #31: Republican Presidential Candidate Barry Goldwater Handwritten Check Signed ''Barry Goldwater'' -- In the Unusual Amount of $6666.66, Dated 15 February 1986 -- 6'' x 3.5'' -- Very Good

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #32: President Rutherford B. Hayes Signed Photograph -- Scarce Large Photo Measures 15'' x 20.5''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $1,109

• Lot #33: Rutherford B. Hayes Handwritten Letter -- ''...the elevation of the ignorant and offensive is the first and chief end...''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #36: Rutherford B. Hayes Appoints Richard Nixon!

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #37: Rutherford B. Hayes Signed Cabinet Photo -- Rare Signed Presidential Portrait

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $1,420

• Lot #38: Herbert Hoover Signed First Edition of ''The Problems of Lasting Peace''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #39: Herbert Hoover Matted Photo -- Inscription in Blue Ink to Matting Reads ''To John Montgomery / With the Good Wishes of / Herbert Hoover'' -- Photo Measures 7.5'' x 9.25'', Matting Measures 10.25''...

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #40: Herbert Hoover Signs All Three First Edition Volumes of His Memoirs

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #41: Autograph by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ward Hunt

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #42: Andrew Jackson Indiana Land Grant Signed as President

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $916

• Lot #44: JFK ''Texas Welcome Dinner'' Ticket -- Cancelled Due to Assassination

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #45: ''The Dallas Times Herald'' 22 November 1963 Historic Final Edition Announcing JFK's Assassination

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #46: Original Kennedy Administration Speech From Press Secretary's Office -- Dated 18 November 1963

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #47: Original Abraham Lincoln Mourning Badge With Tintype of the Fallen President -- Rare

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $1,220

• Lot #48: Abraham Lincoln Ohio Presidential Ballot -- 1864

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $468

• Lot #49: 1811 Ohio Land Grant Signed by James Madison & James Monroe

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $1,477

• Lot #50: 1825 Invitation to Dinner at James Monroe's White House -- Given to John McLean

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #51: Richard Nixon Signed Memoir ''In The Arena''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #52: Richard Nixon Signed ''Real Peace: A Strategy for the West'' -- Rare Private Printing, Published by Nixon Himself Prior to Mass Publication

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $196

• Lot #53: Richard Nixon ''Six Crises'' Signed -- ''...with grateful appreciation for his loyal support in my seventh crisis! Dick Nixon''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #54: Richard Nixon ''The Real War'' Signed First Edition, Third Printing

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #55: Richard Nixon Signed ''1999: Victory Without War'' First Edition

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $196

• Lot #56: Richard Nixon Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...I am not surprised after the excellent job you did on No More Vietnams...'' -- 1987

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #57: Richard Nixon Signed Easton Press Edition of ''The Memoirs of Richard Nixon''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #58: Richard Nixon Signed 8'' x 10'' Photo -- With JSA COA

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $262

• Lot #59: First U.S. Congresswoman, Jeannette Rankin Typed Letter Signed -- 1942

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $120

• Lot #62: Ronald Reagan Signed 8'' x 10'' Glossy Photo -- Inscribed in His Hand ''Neal Olson / Very Best Wishes / Ronald Reagan'' -- Some Buckling, Else Near Fine

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $349

• Lot #63: Eleanor Roosevelt Signed 8'' x 10'' Photo

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #64: Franklin D. Roosevelt Rare Handwritten Note Signed as President Regarding the 1939 Royal Visit -- ''Could you send me your stories to the Times, covering the visit?''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $1,343

• Lot #65: Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Appointment Signed -- 1906

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $686

• Lot #66: William Taft Signed 1923 Letter as Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court -- ''...I suppose you are as active as your kind of a man of leisure usually is...''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $196

• Lot #68: William Taft Typed Letter Signed -- Taft Forgets If He Mailed Letter -- ''...without my Secretary...[and] with my lack of familiarity in doing my own work...''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #69: William Taft Typed Letter Signed to Editor Edward Bok -- Agreeing to Submit an Article by the Deadline

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #70: Signed & Inscribed Copy of Harry Truman's ''Memoirs'' titled ''Years of Trial and Hope''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #71: Harry Truman 12.25'' x 9.5'' Signed Photo

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $288

• Lot #72: President Harry Truman Signed Photo -- Co-Signed by 15 of His Advisors Including His Vice-President, His Doctor, Chief of Staff and WWII Generals

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $1,626

• Lot #73: Photo of the 1947 Vinson Supreme Court Signed by All Nine Justices

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $2,384

• Lot #74: Gore Vidal ''Lincoln'' Signed -- Limited First Edition

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #75: Earl Warren Typed Letter Signed as California Governor

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $161

• Lot #76: Very Nice Woodrow Wilson Document Signed as President -- 1916 Postal Appointment -- 18'' x 14''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $385

• Lot #77: 1916 Woodrow Wilson Democratic Presidential Campaign Pin

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $178

• Lot #78: French General Alexandre de Beauharnais Autograph Letter Signed -- Guillotined During the Reign of Terror

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $317

• Lot #79: Clementine Churchill Autograph Letter Signed to Her Husband's Secretary -- ''...Nervous Exhaustion cannot be hurried...You have done so much for Mr. Churchill and he is so sad you are ill...''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #80: Christmas Card Signed ''From Clementine Churchill'' in Black Ink -- Measures 7.75'' x 6'' -- Slight Soiling to Edges, Overall Very Good

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #81: Clementine Churchill Christmas Card Signed ''From Clementine S. Churchill'' -- Inner Panel Features Amusing Photo of Winston Churchill -- 4.75'' x 6'' -- Very Good

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #82: Clementine Churchill Typed Letter Signed to Winston Churchill's Secretary -- ''...I want to thank you so much for all you have done to start my sub-depot...'' -- 29 January 1940

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #83: Winston Churchill Autograph Letter Signed to His Ill Secretary -- ''...Remember you can count on me...All I want you to do is get well...'' -- 1938

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $2,886

• Lot #84: Winston Churchill Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...you need a good long rest, if you are to recover yr health. I have therefore decided to offer you a years leave at a salary of 3 pounds a week...''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #85: Winston Churchill Handwritten Note Wishing Season's Greetings

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $916

• Lot #86: Winston Churchill Letter -- ''...I am delighted to hear you are making good progress...'' -- 1938

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #87: Winston Churchill Typed Letter Signed -- ''...you must not think of having no holiday, or of spending your only holiday in Hospital...'' -- 1931

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #88: Winston Churchill Typed Letter Signed to His Secretary -- ''...If you are not insured I will pay for any scientific treatment that is required...'' -- 1936

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #89: Winston Churchill Typed Letter Signed -- Expressing Concern for His Longtime Secretary After an Accident -- ''...I will pay for the extra treatment you may require...''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #90: Winston Churchill Letter Signed -- ''I will try to come and see you again...next week...'' -- 1938

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #91: Napoleon's General Claude Dallemagne Document Signed From 1807

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $385

• Lot #92: Napoleonic Legion D'Honneur Document -- 1816

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $196

• Lot #93: French Revolutionary War General Arthur Dillon Document Signed -- 5 Years Before He Was Guillotined in the Reign of Terror

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #94: French Revolutionary General and Battle of Boulou Hero Jacques Francois Dugommier 1794 Order Signed

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $317

• Lot #95: Very Special Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip Signed Photo -- 1954

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #96: Queen Elizabeth II Signed Photo From The Year of Her Coronation -- 1953

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #97: Queen Elizabeth Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...many thanks for the lovely lilies of the valley...''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #98: Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip Signed Christmas Card -- Official 1940's Royal Card

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #99: Princess Victoria Eugenie Signed 9.25'' x 11.5'' Photo -- Elegant Queen Consort of King Alfonso of Spain

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #100: French Revolutionary General Etienne Eustache Bruix Autograph Letter Signed -- Signed in 1798, the Year Before His Infamous ''Cruise of Bruix''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #101: King George III Signed Beer-Making Patent -- 1791

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $916

• Lot #102: Signature by Britain's King George IV -- 4.5'' x 2.25'' Autograph Mounted With Engraving and Framed to 10'' x 13'' -- Near Fine

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $120

• Lot #103: George VI Signature as Prince Regent -- Signed ''George P'' Underneath Manuscript in Another Hand, ''In the Name and on the Behalf of His Majesty'' -- 7.75'' x 3'' Slip Is Near Fine

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $145

• Lot #104: George IV Signed Document as Prince Regent -- 1818

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $756

• Lot #105: Admiral Richard Howe Document Signed ''Howe'' in Black Ink -- 22 February 1785 -- Partial Document Clipped to a Size of 6.75'' x 2.5'', Matted and Framed to an Overall Size of 12.75'' x 16'' --...

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #106: Queen Isabella I Document Signed -- 1500

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass