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February 2018 Auction Ends Thursday, February 22nd, 5pm Pacific

Auction closed on 2/22/2018. Final prices include buyers premium.

• Lot #1: John Adams Autograph Letter Signed & Franking Signature During War of 1812: ''...It is of no other use to ruminate upon the faults, Errors & blunders of Washington in the revolutionary War...''

  

  Min Bid: $45,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #2: John Adams Signed Copy of ''A Discourse'' -- The Powerful Pro-American Independence Book Called ''The Morning Gun of the Revolution''

  

  Min Bid: $40,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #3: John Adams Autograph Letter Signed on the Stamp Act -- Adams Gives Documents and "broken hints" to Jedidiah Morse for "Annals of the American Revolution", on Events "Five and Forty years ago"

  

  Min Bid: $12,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #4: John Adams 4-Language Ship's Papers Signed as President -- With French Certification Attached to Document, Dated Less Than One Month Before the French-American Naval ''Quasi-War'' Erupted

  

  Min Bid: $6,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #5: 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 #6: Bill Clinton Signed 20'' x 15'' Photograph of His Entire Cabinet -- Signed by All 23 Including Clinton & Al Gore

  

  Min Bid: $4,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #7: Dwight Eisenhower 1953 Letter Signed Regarding His Supreme Court Appointment -- ''...I shall...restore some of the prestige that the Court lost...through the New Deal and Fair Deal...''

  

  Min Bid: $2,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #8: 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...''

  

  Min Bid: $2,100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #9: Rutherford B. Hayes White House Oyster Plate -- Unique, Colorful Design Ideal for Display

  

  Min Bid: $3,750

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #10: Lyndon B. Johnson Owned Necktie, Custom-Made for Him

  

  Min Bid: $3,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #11: John F. Kennedy Signed, Handwritten Speech Draft as President, From 1961 -- JFK Speaks at a State Dinner With Sudanese President Ibrahim Abboud

  

  Min Bid: $12,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #12: John F. Kennedy Signed ''Profiles in Courage'' -- Inscribed to Famed Photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt

  

  Min Bid: $5,000

  Final Price: $5,500

• Lot #13: 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: $5,500

• Lot #14: John F. Kennedy Signed Driver's License Application

  

  Min Bid: $3,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #15: 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 #16: U.S. Senate Towel Used by John F. Kennedy, From His Senate Office Bathroom

  

  Min Bid: $1,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #17: Signed Drawing of ''President Kennedy's Fatal Head Wound'' by Dr. Robert McClelland, the Physician Who Held President Kennedy's Head at the Dallas Hospital

  

  Min Bid: $2,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #18: Abraham Lincoln Personally Used Pen, Owned by Lincoln as President During the Civil War -- With a COA From University Archives

  

  Min Bid: $30,000

  Final Price: $41,250

• Lot #19: Abraham Lincoln Autograph Letter Signed as President in 1864 Prior to His Relection -- ''...let the one [New Jersey Colonel] having best testimonials be nominated for a Brigadier General...''

  

  Min Bid: $15,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #20: Abraham Lincoln Civil War Military Commission Signed as President -- With Full ''Abraham Lincoln'' Signature

  

  Min Bid: $7,500

  Final Price: $9,375

• Lot #21: Abraham Lincoln Civil War Military Commission Signed as President -- With Full ''Abraham Lincoln'' Signature

  

  Min Bid: $7,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #22: Abraham Lincoln Autograph Note Signed From 1863 -- Lincoln Asks His Secretary of War to See the Powerful Abolitionist Congressman Thaddeus Stevens

  

  Min Bid: $5,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #23: White House China Saucer From the Personal Collection of Mary Todd Lincoln

  

  Min Bid: $2,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #24: Eyewitness Letter to President Abraham Lincoln's Assassination -- ''...You will be fully justified in revealing the entire plot for the assassination of the noble Lincoln...''

  

  Min Bid: $3,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #25: Rare Silk Badge From the 1844 Presidential Election -- Promoting the Democratic Ticket of James Polk & Texas Annexation, the Issue Driving the Campaign

  

  Min Bid: $2,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #26: Nancy Reagan Christian Dior Purse

  

  Min Bid: $2,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #27: Ronald Reagan Signed ''Speaking My Mind'' Special Limited Edition -- Housed in Luxury Oak Case

  

  Min Bid: $2,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #28: Ronald Reagan Signed Limited Edition of His Speeches, ''Speaking My Mind''

  

  Min Bid: $2,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #29: Ronald & Nancy Reagan Personally Owned Russian Box

  

  Min Bid: $1,600

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #30: Ronald & Nancy Reagan Personally Owned Russian Box From the U.S.S.R. -- Displayed at the White House

  

  Min Bid: $1,600

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #31: Franklin D. Roosevelt Autograph Letter Signed From Warm Springs & Signed Cover -- ''...we have 34 patients & while there will be a falling off over Christmas...we expect to heave 50...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,500

  Final Price: $1,875

• Lot #32: Franklin D. Roosevelt Autograph Letter Signed, Circa 1927 -- Roosevelt Writes a Loving Letter to His Son, Who Just Left for School

  

  Min Bid: $1,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #33: Theodore Roosevelt ''Ghost'' Button From the 1904 Presidential Campaign -- Scarce

  

  Min Bid: $3,250

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #34: Delegate Badge for Theodore Roosevelt's 1912 Progressive Party -- The First Progressive Party, Which Advocated to Get Corporate Interests Out of Politics

  

  Min Bid: $3,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #35: Theodore Roosevelt Signed Collection of His Writings -- Signed as President, With PSA/DNA COA

  

  Min Bid: $1,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #36: Fantastic William Taft Letter Signed Regarding Roosevelt's ''Bull Moose'' Progressive Party, Failings of President Wilson & Mexican President Huerta -- ''...weakness on the part of Wilson...''

  

  Min Bid: $2,000

  Final Price: $2,500

• Lot #37: Zachary Taylor Letter Signed as President With Virginia Reference -- Taylor Was President for Only 16 Months

  

  Min Bid: $3,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #38: Exceptionally Rare Harry Truman WWII Victory Proclamation Signed as President -- Gifted to White House Staff in 1945 -- in Seldom-Encountered Near Fine Condition

  

  Min Bid: $6,000

  Final Price: $7,500

• Lot #39: Harry Truman Signed Cabinet Photo Measuring 16.5'' x 11.5'' -- Signed by All 14 Members of His Cabinet Including Truman -- Near Fine Condition

  

  Min Bid: $1,500

  Final Price: $1,875

• Lot #40: Donald Trump Personally Owned Candlesticks -- Displayed on the Dinner Table at the Trump Tower Residence During His Marriage to Marla Maples

  

  Min Bid: $6,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #41: Edith Bolling Wilson Lot of 3 Autograph Letters Signed as First Lady Just After President Wilson's Stroke, as She Hid the President's Condition -- ''...the doctors are keeping him so quiet...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,500

  Final Price: $1,875

• Lot #42: Woodrow Wilson Cabinet Photo, Signed by All 11 Men Including Wilson -- From Early in Wilson's First Term -- Measures 17.5'' x 15.75'' -- With JSA COA

  

  Min Bid: $3,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #43: Josephine Bonaparte Letter Signed -- The Widow Josephine Writes a Letter of Recommendation for Another Widow

  

  Min Bid: $1,400

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #44: Madame Chiang Kai-Shek Owned 14k Gold Longines Watch -- With Her Engraving & Crest -- Gifted to Secret Service Agent Henry W. Rodney, Who Was Part of the Security Detail for Madame Kai-Shek

  

  Min Bid: $6,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #45: Che Guevara Signed Photo -- ''A souvenir photo to remember the resounding time / Che''

  

  Min Bid: $4,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #46: Che Guevara Document Signed From 1964 -- ''Revolutionarily''

  

  Min Bid: $1,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #47: Hawaiian Document From 1901 Signed by Henry Cooper as Acting Governor of the Territory of Hawaii

  

  Min Bid: $1,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #48: The Battle of Dublin & Start of The Irish Civil War Announced in This Broadside -- 28 June 1922

  

  Min Bid: $1,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #49: Japanese Emperor Taisho Signed Military Certificate -- Beautifully Housed in Wooden Presentation Box

  

  Min Bid: $1,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #50: Leon Trotsky Letter Signed -- ''...Do you actually believe that I wanted to provoke...the [Communist party] split?...as long as his power is not threatened he approves of everything in China...''

  

  Min Bid: $8,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #51: Prince Edward VIII's Royal Tiepin -- The Prince's ''Most Noble Order of the Garter'' Pin, the Highest Order of Chivalry

  

  Min Bid: $3,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #52: Prince of Wales Feather & Crown Jewelry Owned by The Duke & Duchess of Windsor

  

  Min Bid: $3,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #53: Duke & Duchess of Windsor Owned Bulova Accutron Watch

  

  Min Bid: $2,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #54: Tiepin With the Royal Cypher of George V as The Prince of Wales -- Owned by The Duke of Windsor

  

  Min Bid: $3,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #55: Alexander Graham Bell Autograph Letter Signed Regarding ''Visible Speech''

  

  Min Bid: $2,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #56: 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 #57: 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 #58: Albert Einstein Autograph Letter Signed From 1918, Predicting His Nobel Prize Years Before Winning It

  

  Min Bid: $32,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #59: Albert Einstein Autograph Letter Signed in 1932 on the Economy & His Nobel: ''...I am neither socialist nor communist...unskilled workers - will be brought down to an ignoble subsistence level...''

  

  Min Bid: $25,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #60: Albert Einstein Autograph Letter Signed With Previously Edited Content Regarding His First Marriage & Relationship With His Children -- ''...I would have been broken in body and soul...''

  

  Min Bid: $15,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #61: Albert Einstein Twice-Signed Letter About a Priest -- ''...the parson is a very kind person whose thinking is...in accord with my own, even in matters, about which one will hardly believe it...''

  

  Min Bid: $6,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #62: Albert Einstein Signed 8'' x 10'' Photo

  

  Min Bid: $4,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #63: 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: $8,000

  Final Price: $21,440

• Lot #64: Scarce David Hume Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...one of the most celebrated Booksellers of Paris...''

  

  Min Bid: $12,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #65: Steve Jobs Check Signed From 1988 -- Jobs Handwrites a Check for $2,000 to His Girlfriend Tina Redse -- Authenticated & Slabbed by PSA/DNA

  

  Min Bid: $20,000

  Final Price: $20,000

• Lot #66: James Watson and Francis Crick Signed First Day Cover -- With a Drawing by Watson of a DNA Double Helix -- With PSA/DNA COA

  

  Min Bid: $3,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #67: 1924 Letter Signed From the Egyptian Government Regarding the Excavation of King Tut's Tomb -- ''...stone from king Tout-Ankh-Amoun's tomb...a crypt cut out in the rock...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #68: Buzz Aldrin Fantastic Signed 20'' x 16'' Photo of the First Lunar Landing

  

  Min Bid: $1,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #69: Huge Lithograph Signed by All But One of the Apollo Moonwalkers

  

  Min Bid: $3,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #70: Apollo 1 Signed Photo With All Six Signatures From Primary and First Backup Crew -- With Steve Zarelli COA for All Signatures

  

  Min Bid: $8,000

  Final Price: $10,000

• Lot #71: Apollo 1 Fire Investigation Photos -- Forty-One 8'' x 10'' Photos

  

  Min Bid: $2,500

  Final Price: $3,125

• Lot #72: Apollo 9 Flown U.S. Flag & Mission Patch -- With Certificate Signed by Crew Members Dave Scott, James A. McDivitt and Rusty Schweickart

  

  Min Bid: $3,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #73: Apollo 11 Crew-Signed Certificate, Also Signed by Richard Nixon -- Very Rare Replica of the One Left on the Moon -- With Steve Zarelli & University Archives COAs for All Signatures

  

  Min Bid: $12,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #74: Apollo 11 Crew-Signed ''Type Three'' Insurance Cover -- Signed by Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins

  

  Min Bid: $11,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #75: Apollo 11 Space-Flown U.S. Flag -- From the Collection of Buzz Aldrin

  

  Min Bid: $8,000

  Final Price: $14,641

• Lot #76: Apollo 11 Crew-Signed First Edition of ''First on the Moon'' -- Signed by Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin & Michael Collins

  

  Min Bid: $3,000

  Final Price: $4,125

• Lot #77: Apollo 11 Cover Boldly Signed by Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins -- With Steve Zarelli COA

  

  Min Bid: $2,600

  Final Price: $3,250

• Lot #78: Apollo 11 Crew-Signed Postcard Honoring the Astronauts & Their Visit to Germany -- Signed by Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin & Michael Collins

  

  Min Bid: $2,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #79: Bible Flown to the Moon on Apollo 13 -- With Crew-Signed COA & Additional COA Signed by James Lovell & the Director of the Apollo Prayer League

  

  Min Bid: $50,000

  Final Price: $62,500

• Lot #80: Apollo 13 Large 14'' x 11'' Color Photo, Crew-Signed on the Presentation Mat & Inscribed by Jack Swigert to Houston Oilers Owner Bud Adams

  

  Min Bid: $2,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #81: Artwork Signed by 14 Apollo Astronauts -- Neil Armstrong, Edward White, Alan Shepard, Gordon Cooper, John Young, John Glenn, Charles Conrad, Elliot See, James Lovell & 5 More

  

  Min Bid: $5,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #82: Neil Armstrong Signed 10'' x 8'' Photo Stepping Onto the Moon -- Uninscribed

  

  Min Bid: $4,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #83: Neil Armstrong Signed 8'' x 10'' Photo -- Candid Photo of Armstrong in His White Spacesuit on Apollo 11 Launch Day -- With Steve Zarelli COA

  

  Min Bid: $3,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #84: Neil Armstrong Signed 8'' x 10'' Apollo 11 Launch Photo -- With Steve Zarelli COA

  

  Min Bid: $2,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #85: Alan Bean Signed 16'' x 20'' Lunar Photo With Fantastic Handwritten Detail on Working in His Space Suit -- ''...As you can see, both legs are getting dirty with moon dust...''

  

  Min Bid: $3,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #86: 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: $4,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #87: Gene Cernan Signed 40'' Panoramic Photo of the Lunar Surface

  

  Min Bid: $1,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #88: Apollo 12 Astronaut Charles Conrad Signed 20'' x 16'' Photo

  

  Min Bid: $1,600

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #89: Mercury Seven Astronauts Signed Book, ''We Seven'' -- Signed By All Seven Astronauts, Twice by John Glenn -- With Steve Zarelli COA for All Signatures

  

  Min Bid: $3,000

  Final Price: $3,750

• Lot #90: 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 #91: Orville Wright Letter Signed Regarding the Permanent Display for the 1903 Kitty Hawk, the ''First in Flight'' Plane: ''...I don't propose to be a victim of the high pressure salesmanship...''

  

  Min Bid: $6,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #92: Orville Wright Letter Signed Regarding the 1908 Flyer & a Harvard Astronomer's Prediction That Planes Would Never Supplant Cars -- ''...Astronomers seem to be given to rash predictions...''

  

  Min Bid: $6,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #93: Two Months After their Successful 1903 Kitty Hawk Flight, Wilbur Wright Excoriates a Newspaper for Lying: ''...the bogus article contains matter which never came from me...and which is entirely...

  

  Min Bid: $10,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #94: Founding Father Abraham Baldwin Autograph Letter Signed as U.S. Senator Regarding Impeachment Trial of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Chase

  

  Min Bid: $5,250

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #95: Revolutionary War Document Regarding the Siege of Boston -- Receipt for Lodging of Troops Who Fought at Bunker Hill

  

  Min Bid: $1,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #96: 1833 Force Declaration of Independence From Original Copper Plate -- The Finest Copy We've Ever Encountered, in Exceptional Condition

  

  Min Bid: $16,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #97: From the Printing Press of Benjamin Franklin, ''Letters between Theophilus and Eugenio, on the Moral Pravity of Man, and the Means of his Restoration'' -- One of Only 16 Titles Published by Franklin

  

  Min Bid: $7,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #98: John Hancock Signed Military Appointment -- Countersigned by John Avery, Jr. & Henry Dearborn

  

  Min Bid: $4,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #99: John Hancock Military Appointment Signed as Governor of Massachusetts

  

  Min Bid: $4,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #100: Tadeusz Kosciuszko Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...The General Kosciuszko is extremely sensitive to Lord Carnarvon's kindness...''

  

  Min Bid: $3,500

  Final Price: Pass