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December 2014 Auction Ends Tuesday, December 16th, 5pm Pacific

Auction closed on 12/16/2014. Final prices include buyers premium.

• Lot #800: WITHDRAWN

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $350

  Final Price: W/D

• Lot #801: Albert Schweitzer Signed Photo

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $250

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #809: Autograph Letter Signed by Arctic Explorer Roald Amundsen in 1907 -- Amundsen Thanks Admiral Lyon for Taking Care of His Beloved Gjoa Ship That Safely Took Him Through the Northwest Passage

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $2,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #810: Egyptologist Emile Brugsch Document Signed -- 1899

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $250

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #811: Stunning Archive of Admiral Byrd's First & Second Antarctic Expeditions -- Photos, Explorer Signatures & First Edition Booklet About Their Ship, ''City of New York''

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $400

  Final Price: $500

• Lot #812: King Tut Founder Howard Carter Letter Twice-Signed -- Carter Tells Egyption Archaelogy Directorate ''...not to ask the government for any further compensation...''

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $2,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #813: Exceedingly Rare ''Urgent'' Telegram Pertaining to King Tut's Tomb, Sent by Lead Excavator Howard Carter in 1923 -- ''Arrangements have been made to close the tomb on Monday...''

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $2,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #814: Frederick Cook Signed Copy of ''My Attainment of the Pole'' -- Controversial Explorer Signs This 1911 First Edition

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $350

  Final Price: $438

• Lot #815: Mt. Everest 1978 Team-Signed Postcard -- The First Climbers to Reach the Summit Without Supplemental Oxygen

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $350

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #816: Nepalese Fist Day Cover Signed by Four Members of the Hillary/Norgay Ascent of Mt. Everest

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $250

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #817: French Egyptologist Pierre Lacau Typed Letter Signed Regarding the Excavation of King Tut's Tomb in 1923

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $2,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #818: Pierre Lacau Typed Letter Signed as Egypt's Director of Antiquities -- Regarding King Tut's Tomb and Its Discoverer, Howard Carter: ''Note on visiting the grave''

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $1,250

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #819: Important Letter Signed by Pierre Lacau Regarding King Tut's Tomb & the Fight With Howard Carter to Objects in the Tomb -- ''...Mr. Carter thinks that article 6 of the contract entitles him...''

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $750

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #820: Robert Peary 1906 Letter Signed -- Regarding a Speaking Engagement -- ''...I...should present fifty to sixty entirely new colored maps and slides of regions never trodden by human foot before...''

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $250

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #821: Valley of the Kings Egyptologist James E. Quibell Autograph Letter Signed From 1906 -- ''...that I may be granted 3 1/2 months leave to be spent out of Egypt...''

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #822: Signed First Edition of ''The Antarctic Book. Winter Quarters 1907-1909'' -- One of Only 300 Printed, Signed by All 16 Members of Shackleton's Shore Party Including Shacketon -- Scarce

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $7,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #823: Photo Signed by the Historic 1990 Trans-Antarctic Expedition Team Led by Will Steger -- Expedition Was the First Dogsled Traverse of the Continent

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $250

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #824: ''Through The Dark Continent'' Inscribed by Henry M. Stanley in the Year of Publication

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $800

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #825: Egyptian Government Letter Pertaining to the Climactic Highlight of the Excavation of King Tut's Tomb -- Mandating Archaeologists to Stop & Notify Officials Before Opening The Sarcophagus

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $1,250

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #826: 1924 Letter Regarding King Tut's Tomb -- The U.S. Government Writes ''...Rumors are...the tomb of Tut-ankh-amen will be open for inspection of tourists...''

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #827: 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...''

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #828: Typed Letter to Egypt's Secretary of State Regarding King Tut's Tomb -- In the Aftermath of Lord Carnarvon's Death -- ''...The rest of the Valley of the Kings, we reserve it completely...''

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #829: Typed Letter to Egypt's Secretary of State Regarding King Tut's Tomb -- In The Aftermath of Lord Carnarvon's Death -- ''...The rest of the Valley of the Kings, we reserve it completely...''

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #830: Letter From the Egyptian Government on King Tut's Tomb -- ''...now that Lord Carnarvon is dead...what measures [do] you propose to take in order to assure the care...of the found objects...''

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #831: Typed Letter Signed From the Egyptian Government Ensuring That Any Breaking News on King Tut's Tomb Comes Straight From the Egyptian Press

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #832: Rare Telegram Pertaining to Press Coverage of King Tut's Tomb, Sent in 1924

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #833: Egyptologist Arthur Weigall Signed Letter -- 1908 -- ''...the Directorate would like to have exchanges with the home owners located in front of Temple of Luxor...''

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $350

  Final Price: Pass