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February 2013 Auction Ends Wednesday, February 6th, 5pm Pacific

Auction closed on 2/6/2013. Final prices include buyers premium.

• Lot #6: Arthur Ashe Personal Photo of an Early Girlfriend -- With a Note From Her Written on the Back

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #7: 1962 Arthur Ashe Trophy -- Won in the American Tennis Association's National Championships -- ATA Was Formed by and for Black Tennis Players

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: $3,775

• Lot #11: Early Arthur Ashe Award Plate From 1964's International Lawn Tennis Club of The U.S.A. Tournament

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #21: Arthur Ashe's Trophy Cup From the Thunderbird Tournament as a UCLA Student in 1966

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $600

• Lot #24: Early Arthur Ashe Award From 1967 Given to Him as a Lieutenant in The U.S. Army -- Year Before His Record-Breaking Victory at The U.S. Open

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $600

• Lot #29: Award Presented to Arthur Ashe at Fort Benning, Georgia in 1968 During His Military Service

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #31: ''Newsweek'' Magazine Announcing The Death of Martin Luther King -- Kept by Arthur Ashe and Bearing His Name on Subscriber's Mailing Label

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $238

• Lot #41: Arthur Ashe 1970 Passport -- Containing The Stamp From His Historic First Entry Into Apartheid South Africa

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: $4,153

• Lot #52: Arthur Ashe's Day Planner From 1973 -- Part of The Year He Chronicled in His Book, "Portrait in Motion" About His Whirlwind Years of Tennis

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: $1,200

• Lot #60: Award Plate Won by Arthur Ashe in a 1974 Tennis Tournament in Bologna

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $624

• Lot #66: Arthur Ashe's Day Planner From 1975 -- The Year of His Monumental Win at Wimbledon & One of His Most Outstanding Years in Tennis -- Ashe Writes "WIMBLEDON STARTS" Boldly on 23 June!

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: $3,775

• Lot #76: Arthur Ashe's 1976 Day Planner -- His Busy First Year Following His Historic Championship Victory at Wimbledon -- Also the Year He Set Record Number of Wins at Rotterdam Open

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: $1,200

• Lot #83: Tennis Legend Arthur Ashe's 1977 Day Planner -- He Starts the Year Off With "Beat McNamara"

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: $1,200

• Lot #92: Arthur Ashe's Davis Cup Award From 1979 -- The Year the U.S. Team Won First Place

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: $5,027

• Lot #94: Hospital ID Wrist Band Worn by Arthur Ashe While Admitted to the Jacksonville Memorial Hospital

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #97: Arthur Ashe's 1980 Day Planner -- The Year He Retired After Suffering an Unexpected Heart Attack

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #112: 1981 Davis Cup Awarded to Arthur Ashe -- The Year He Led the U.S. Davis Cup Team to Victory as Captain

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $756

• Lot #125: Arthur Ashe's Davis Cup Official Issue World Travel Clock

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $120

• Lot #133: National Pharmaceutical Council Award Presented to Arthur Ashe -- 15 September 1983

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $178

• Lot #142: Arthur Ashe's Day Planner From 1985 -- The Year He Was Inducted Into The International Tennis Hall of Fame & Also Arrested for Protesting Apartheid in South Africa

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #146: ''Le Coq Sportif'' Brazil Sao Paulo 1986 Plaque Awarded to Tennis Superstar Arthur Ashe

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $317

• Lot #149: Arthur Ashe's 1986 Sportsmen's Tennis Club Festival Program -- With Handwritten Notes by Ashe -- ''...I am asked about what I do to increase black participation in tennis...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: $1,200

• Lot #155: Attractive Pictorial Award Plaque Presented to Arthur Ashe by ''Time'' Magazine -- Features a Print of The ''Time'' Article Covering Ashe's Groundbreaking Victory at Wimbledon

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $600

• Lot #163: Arthur Ashe Lifetime Achievement Award Given by the March of Dimes in 1988

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #176: Plaque Given to Arthur Ashe by Northeastern University When the Institution Awarded Him an Honorary Doctorate in 1990

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $120

• Lot #182: Arthur Ashe Handwritten Outline For a Provocative Speech on AIDS -- Just Months Before His Death -- ''...Our...morality tells us...there's something wrong with dispensing condoms and needles...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: $1,597

• Lot #196: The Last Award Bestowed Upon Arthur Ashe During His Lifetime -- The Associated Black Charities Award in Honor of Fellow Black Tennis Pioneer Althea Gibson

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $3,049

• Lot #199: Arthur Ashe's Death Certificate

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $4,652

• Lot #200: Lot of Programs From Arthur Ashe's Funeral

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #201: Lot of 200+ Programs From the Funeral of Arthur Ashe

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $686

• Lot #206: Arthur Ashe's Award From The National Conference of Black Mayors

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $317

• Lot #212: ''George Thomas 'Mickey' Leland Humanitarian Award'' -- Awarded to Arthur Ashe Posthumously by the Prestigious Congressional Black Caucus

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $600

• Lot #243: Arthur Ashe's Personally Owned & Used Burgundy Leather Briefcase -- Filled With His Own Paperwork

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $216

• Lot #308: Original Typed Poem by South African Poet Don Mattera Written to Arthur Ashe -- "…that one man should love another / across the span of land and time…I love you…"

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $120

• Lot #319: Gold Necklace Personally Worn by One of the World's Greatest Tennis Players of All Time, Arthur Ashe

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: $1,200

• Lot #325: Arthur Ashe's Notebook From 1987-1990 -- Filled Out in His Hand With Contacts' Names & Numbers, His Health Information, Bible Quotes, Details of a Scholarship Program, Etc.

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $1,892

• Lot #326: Arthur Ashe Notebook of Contacts -- With Notes in His Hand -- ''...Clinton letter...Send Davis Cup outfit to Hall of Fame...'' & Dated Entries From The Last Week of His Life

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $3,049

• Lot #354: Arthur Ashe's Own Brand of Tennis Racket Made Into a Timepiece -- With Black Enterprise Magazine Cover Showing Ashe With a Racket From His Line

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $624

• Lot #358: Arthur Ashe's Worn & Personally Owned Golf Cleats

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $120

• Lot #359: Arthur Ashe's Worn Golf Cleats From His Personal Estate

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $161

• Lot #368: Arthur Ashe Handwritten Draft of a Speech on Black Youth From the End of His Life -- With a Program From The Event -- ''...many are willing to 'write [young black men] off'...they are so wrong...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: $1,597

• Lot #369: Arthur Ashe's Handwritten Outline for a Speech on Black Athletes -- ''...White America, for the first time, saw...records...smashed by members of a group they assumed to be inferior...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: $1,934

• Lot #382: To Honor His Boycott of South African Tennis, Arthur Ashe's Award From TransAfrica -- Also With His Handwritten Acceptance Speech, ''...'Some of my best friends are black'...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: $1,200

• Lot #393: Arthur Ashe Personally Owned UCLA Key Chain -- Where the Tennis Legend Got His Start as a Star Undergrad Player

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $262

• Lot #424: Longtime President of the Dodgers Wally O'Malley Typed Letter Signed -- ''...it seems my roomie is now an ex-employee...''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #440: Hall of Famer Bill Veeck Signed Letter on St. Louis Browns Letterhead -- ''...It is against our policy to release the players' addresses...'' -- 1951

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #448: Jeremy Lin Signed Basketball -- With JSA COA

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #475: Coach Paul W. ''Bear'' Bryant Signed Copy of His Memoir, ''Bear: The Hard Life and Good Times of Alabama's Coach Bryant''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #504: One-of-a-Kind Evel Knievel Right Elbow X-Ray -- Taken After the Daredevil's Disastrous 1975 Wembley Stadium Jump

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #542: Best Actress Marie Dressler Autograph Letter Signed at End of WWI -- ''...Have the chorus girls been maligned?...my intense desire to help my country...kept me out of the theatrical profession...''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $468

• Lot #579: Original 1940 Advertisement for Al Jolson's Last Ever Stage Show, ''Hold On To Your Hats'' -- Measures 33'' x 64.5''

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #583: Mila Kunis Screen-Worn Pants From the Worldwide Hit Comedy ''Ted''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #601: Marilyn Monroe's ''Something's Got to Give'' Personal Copy of the Final Script -- The Final Film She Starred in Before Her Tragic Death in 1962

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: $25,428

• Lot #612: Playboy Magazine Issue #1 -- With Famous Marilyn Monroe Centerfold

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #616: Basil Rathbone and Katharine Cornell 8'' x 10'' Signed Photo as Romeo and Juliet

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #648: John Wayne's Personally Owned U.S. Army Duffel Bag From the Hit 1968 Film He Directed and Starred In, ''The Green Berets''

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: $1,200

• Lot #655: Kate Winslet Screen-Worn Coat From ''Titanic'' -- Worn During Her Dramatic Scenes of the Ship Sinking

  

  Min Bid: $2,500

  Final Price: $164,520

• Lot #709: Ansel Adams Signed Copy of His Majestic Work, ''Yosemite and the Range of Light''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #714: Surrealist Artist Salvador Dali Autograph -- Rare

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #717: Paul Gauguin Autograph Letter Signed to Camille Pissarro -- Extraordinarily Scarce Letter Accepting an Invitation to Join the Impressionist Painters

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #750: George W. Bush Autograph Letter Signed While Campaigning for Governor of Texas -- ''...I'll have my father check out the status of the operation...''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $566

• Lot #753: Jimmy Carter Appointment Signed as Governor of Georgia -- With PSA/DNA COA

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #760: Official U.S. Consulate Sign Circa Early 1900's -- Scarce

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #763: The Most Famous Newspaper Mistake of All Time -- ''Dewey Defeats Truman''

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #766: Dwight Eisenhower Letter to Mamie After the Birth of Their Son -- ''...I am...anxious to see the young rascal...if we don't have more fun with that boy than with a barrel full of monkeys...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #767: Eisenhower WWII Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...Bob Hope...came here to see me...Seems a more attractive person to me off the screen than on it. I'm no Hope fan so far as the movies are concerned...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #768: Dwight Eisenhower WWII Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...understand that in the kind of a life I lead secrecy as to location, intended movement, and purpose of action is essential...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #770: Dwight Eisenhower WWII Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...I don't like to appear a weakling or a sissy...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #771: Eisenhower WWII ALS at End of Operation Torch -- ''...I've gotten fat...I've aged at least 5 years...I...carry the responsibility for the safety of this command..."

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #772: Dwight Eisenhower WWII Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...one must be exceedingly careful of words!!! When this war is over I'm going to swear off speeches, writings, etc...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #774: Dwight Eisenhower WWII 1945 Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...I always like to think we're getting along with things speedily. How glad I'll be when we can say 'All done''. -- Zowie!...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #775: Dwight Eisenhower 1951 Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...There are some noisy communists in every capital - I sometimes wonder whether they know what they're trying to do to themselves!...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #815: John F. Kennedy's Personalized ''Veteran of Foreign Wars'' Embossed Leather Portfolio -- With a Collection of Other JFK-Related Items, Including an ALS by Jackie Kennedy

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: $11,858

• Lot #819: John F. Kennedy Presidential China -- Used in The Dining Room of His Beloved Yacht the ''Honey Fitz''

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $1,720

• Lot #821: Unpublished Photo of John F. Kennedy's Funeral -- 8'' x 10'' -- Evelyn Lincoln Collection -- Near Fine

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #834: Richard Nixon's Personally-Owned Briefcase -- Used by Nixon While Vice President Under Eisenhower

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: $17,365

• Lot #848: Ronald Reagan Typed Letter Signed as President -- Composed on White House Stationery

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #854: Franklin D. Roosevelt's Leather Portfolio -- Personally Owned & Used by FDR During His Presidency & Bearing His Initials

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: $17,365

• Lot #856: Inauguration Ceremonies Program From 20 January 1941 -- President Franklin Roosevelt and Vice President Henry Wallace

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $120

• Lot #864: First Lady Helen Taft Autograph Letter -- Written in the Third Person

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #877: John Tyler CDV -- Anthony Photo from Original Brady Negative

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $425

• Lot #879: Rare 1796 Miniature Portraits of President George & Martha Washington -- Done Personally by Washington's Granddaughter When She Was 17-Years-Old

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #883: 1852 Editor's Copy of ''Memoirs of the Whig Party'' by Henry Richard Vassall-Fox Holland -- Republican Landmark Book

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #894: Very Rare Revolutionary War 1780 Muster Payroll -- With Seven Dorchester Company Minutemen Listed

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $1,969

• Lot #897: 1642 Declaration by Charles I of England at the Outbreak of the English Civil War -- ''...how different the Reputation of the principle Ringleaders of this Rebellion is...''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #907: Impassioned Letter Signed by French Captain Revel to King Louis XVIII, Declaring Napoleon Had Raped His Wife: ''... the Usurper...made her his mistress...'' -- This Mistress Gave Napoleon His First...

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #928: Beatles Manager Brian Epstein Autograph Letter Signed to John Lennon -- ''...Just to thank you for taking so much trouble with the selection...'' -- 1965

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: $2,578

• Lot #938: WITHDRAWN

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: W/D

• Lot #939: Michael Jackson ''Thriller'' Album Signed -- The Bestselling Record of All Time -- With PSA/DNA COA

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $1,109

• Lot #967: Lewis Carroll Signed Handwritten Letter --''...I liked getting your letter very much, though I have been so lazy about answering it...'' -- 1880

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #972: Garth Williams' Preliminary Illustration for ''Charlotte's Web'' -- Initialed and Numbered by the Artist -- Unfinished Sketch on the Verso

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #998: Henry Miller Twice-Signed Book ''To Paint is to Love Again'' -- Also With a Hand-Drawn Self-Portrait Sketch by Miller -- Fine

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1006: Eugene O'Neill Typed Letter Signed

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1013: Maurice Sendak Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...Having great difficulty with my book...there was a hideous printing error...''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1030: Dr. Seuss First Edition, First Printing of His Beloved Children's Book ''Hop on Pop''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1043: Rare Collection of Four ''Dr. Seuss Storytime'' First Edition, First Printing Books

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1049: Dr. Seuss Autograph Note Signed -- Including a Drafted Letter to Longtime Agent Phyllis Jackson

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1051: Dr. Seuss Letter Signed -- ''...we are still running back and forth to Hollywood, but we hope things will let up...''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1059: Nice John Updike 1991 Typed Signed Postcard -- Opining on Saul Bellow & ''...The book felt very creamy and airy and good when I was writing it...''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1063: Signature of ''Grant's Shadow'' Captain Samuel H. Beckwith -- ''...He carried with fidelity the secrets of the nation...''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass