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August 2013 Auction Ends Thursday, August 29th, 5pm Pacific

Auction closed on 8/29/2013. Final prices include buyers premium.

• Lot #439: Rare Signature of Ethan Allen

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #440: 1876 Printing of the Declaration of Independence -- Centennial Memorial Print

  

  Min Bid: $250

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #441: 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: $250

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #442: Lafayette, Acting on an Intercepted Letter to Cornwallis, Asks for Reinforcements ''To Come as Fast as Possible'' as He States ''...We are Near the Enemy...'' -- Just 4 Months Until Surrender

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: $9,799

• Lot #443: Lafayette Letter Signed Just After Arriving in Virginia in Early 1781 Where by the Fall, the British Would Surrender -- He Writes of His Strategy But Notes He Is Hampered by No Ammunition

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #444: Marquis de Lafayette Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...Nothing but this melancholy event...could prevent my enjoying...your Ball...''

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #445: One Month Away From the Surrender at Yorktown, Just Across the River Lies Gloucester, Where Lafayette Writes From, in Hopes of Finishing Cornwallis With Vessels Not Occupied by Washington

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #446: Gloucester, Across the River From Yorktown, Two Months Before the Surrender Was Made, Lafayette Writes That Cornwallis Is There With His Whole Force as the Aforementioned Readies U.S. Troops

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass