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May 2012 Auction Ends Tuesday, May 29th, 5pm Pacific

Auction closed on 5/29/2012. Final prices include buyers premium.

• Lot #2: Revolutionary War General William Barton Petitions the Vermont General Assembly for His Release From Debtor's Prison -- ''...pay attention...to an old man...imprisoned in this place...''

  

  # Bids: 6

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $349

• Lot #3: Declaration Signer George Clymer Autograph Letter Signed Regarding a Slave Exchange -- ''...Captain Litle proposed...to exchange his black girl registered in Penn'a for Judy...'' -- 1768

  

  # Bids: 11

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #4: Exceptionally Beautiful Force 1843 Copper Plate Engraving of the Declaration

  

  # Bids: 13

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #5: 1876 Centenntial Printing of the Declaration of Independence -- America Turns 100 Years Old

  

  # Bids: 11

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #7: 1792 ''Gazette of the United States'' -- Construction in Washington D.C. Begins as the New Nation's Capital

  

  # Bids: 11

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $515

• Lot #8: Benjamin Franklin 1785 Document Signed as President of Pennsylvania -- Excellent, Bold Signature

  

  # Bids: 8

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #12: John Hancock Signs a Document in 1793, The Last Year of His Life -- for a Bounty on Hemp

  

  # Bids: 19

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $5,407

• Lot #25: With Corwallis' Surrender 2 Months Away, Lafayette Worries That the Enemy Will Attack & Promises ''...every means for the defence of Fredericksburg till I can throw in my assistance...''

  

  # Bids: 7

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: $13,045

• Lot #31: Thomas Mifflin Tries to Have Philadelphia Become the Permanent Federal City by Financing a Presidential Mansion in 1792 -- Washington Declined as He Was a Strong Advocate of Washington, D.C.

  

  # Bids: 16

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #32: British General Sir John Moore 1808 Document Signed -- Just Months Before His Heroic Death at Battle of Corunna

  

  # Bids: 7

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #33: Declaration of Independence Signer John Morton Signed Document -- Dated 29 June 1776, Five Days Before Morton Would Sign the Declaration

  

  # Bids: 6

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $2,520

• Lot #34: Declaration of Independence Signer John Morton Colonial Currency Signed -- 1772

  

  # Bids: 7

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $468

• Lot #35: Thomas Nelson Signed Letter on Benedict Arnold's Whereabouts at the Beginning of the Virginia Campaign That Would Lead to Yorktown -- ''...Yesterday the enemy's fleet passed Burwell's Ferry...''

  

  # Bids: 9

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $10,541

• Lot #36: Rare Declaration Signer & Virginia Gov. Thomas Nelson Autograph Letter Signed One and a Half Months Before the Yorktown Surrender -- ''...I think the game is nearly up with Cornwallis...'' -- 1781

  

  # Bids: 7

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: $23,116

• Lot #37: American Revolutionary General Samuel Holden Parsons Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...Dr. Cogwell applied to me for the purchase of the Horseneck farm...'' -- 1785

  

  # Bids: 13

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #42: John Adams 1798 ''State of the Union'' Address -- Very Rare Booklet Entitled ''Message to Congress''

  

  # Bids: 22

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $3,493