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May 2019 Auction Ends Thursday, May 30th, 5pm Pacific

Auction closed on 5/30/2019. Final prices include buyers premium.

• Lot #2: Apollo 12 Flown U.S. Flag, Measuring 11.5'' x 8'', Affixed to Presentation Mat Signed by Each of the Apollo 12 Crew Members: Charles Conrad, Richard Gordon & Alan Bean -- From Richard Gordon Estate

  

  Min Bid: $6,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #4: Neil Armstrong Signed 8'' x 10'' Photo -- With Steve Zarelli COA

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $625

• Lot #7: Scarce 1937 Letter Signed by Robert H. Goddard, the Father of Space Flight -- ''The subject of rocket power, from an engineering standpoint, is so new...'' -- With JSA COA

  

  Min Bid: $8,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #8: Challenger Astronaut Greg Jarvis Signed 8'' x 10'' Photo -- With Steve Zarelli COA

  

  Min Bid: $400

  Final Price: $500

• Lot #9: Challenger Astronaut Christa McAuliffe Signed 8'' x 10'' Photo -- With Steve Zarelli COA

  

  Min Bid: $750

  Final Price: $1,374

• Lot #10: Mercury 7 Signed 11'' x 14'' Photo -- Signed by All 7 Posing in Front of the Mercury 7 Capsule

  

  Min Bid: $4,500

  Final Price: $7,488

• Lot #12: ''Steeds of Apollo'' Oil on Canvas by Apollo XIII Mission Insignia Designer Lumen Martin Winter -- Scarce Painting From 1981 Is Only ''Steeds of Apollo'' Original Artwork Apart From 1969 Mural

  

  Min Bid: $40,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #18: Albert Einstein Autograph Letter Signed From 1921, Regarding Anti-Semitism in Germany -- ''...I am supposed to go to Munich, but I will not do that, because this would endanger my life right now...''

  

  Min Bid: $7,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #19: Albert Einstein Letter Signed From 1947 -- ''...the British and the Americans are making the same mistakes as after the first world-war by not preventing Germany to get strong and dangerous again...''

  

  Min Bid: $3,000

  Final Price: $3,750

• Lot #20: Richard Feynman Autograph Manuscript Entitled ''Conversation with Presskill'' -- Comprising Three Pages of Notes on Theoretical Physics

  

  Min Bid: $7,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #21: Sigmund Freud Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...Already the old Romans knew about love...''

  

  Min Bid: $3,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #25: Enigma Machine Used by Germany During World War II -- Very Scarce, as Germans Were Ordered to Destroy the Machines to Prevent Capture by the Allies

  

  Min Bid: $200,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #28: Extraordinary Letter by Alan Wood Describing Iwo Jima: ''...When they raised a little flag on top of the Mountain the Marines on the beach cheered...a Marine came aboard asking for a larger flag...''

  

  Min Bid: $3,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #29: John Quincy Adams Note Signed Related to the 28th Congress

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $625

• Lot #33: Thomas Jefferson Land Grant Signed as President -- Also Signed as James Madison as Secretary of State

  

  Min Bid: $4,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #34: Thomas Jefferson & James Madison Signed Four-Language Ship's Papers -- Jefferson Signs as President & Madison as Secretary of State

  

  Min Bid: $3,750

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #35: Thomas Jefferson Document Signed as President -- 4-Language Ship's Papers Also Signed by James Madison

  

  Min Bid: $3,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #43: Abraham Lincoln Military Appointment Signed During the Civil War

  

  Min Bid: $6,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #44: Abraham Lincoln Autograph Endorsement Signed as President -- Lincoln Mistakenly Dates the Proclamation of Amnesty as 8 December 1864 -- With University Archives COA

  

  Min Bid: $4,750

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #45: Abraham Lincoln Autograph Note Signed as President -- Recommending Employment to a Discharged Soldier

  

  Min Bid: $3,750

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #46: Abraham Lincoln Civil War Military Appointment Signed as President

  

  Min Bid: $3,500

  Final Price: $4,375

• Lot #51: Franklin D. Roosevelt Signed Photo of His ''Turkey Cabinet'' as Governor of New York in 1932 -- Signed in Full, ''Franklin D. Roosevelt''

  

  Min Bid: $2,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #60: George Washington Autograph Letter Signed, With Bold Writing & Signature -- Washington Writes to His Nephew Bushrod Washington (Thus Signed Twice) Regarding a ''Singular'' Oddity in His Land Holdings

  

  Min Bid: $15,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #61: George Washington Autograph Free Frank Signature in 1779 as Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army During the Revolutionary War

  

  Min Bid: $8,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #65: Mahatma Gandhi Signature in His Biography, ''Mahatma Gandhi An Essay in Appreciation'' -- With University Archives COA

  

  Min Bid: $2,500

  Final Price: $3,781

• Lot #68: Beautiful, Original Artwork Signed by Marc Chagall in His Book, ''Les Ceramiques et Sculptures de Chagall''

  

  Min Bid: $3,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #70: John Singleton Copley Painting of a Man Identified as John Adams, Painted Circa 1765, When Adams Was a Young Man

  

  Min Bid: $30,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #72: Jack Davis Illustration of a Man on a Desert Island, Refusing Rescue to Watch TV

  

  Min Bid: $800

  Final Price: $1,000

• Lot #75: Bob Dylan Signed, Handwritten Lyrics to ''Like a Rolling Stone'' -- The Quintessential Rock Song -- With COA From Dylan's Manager

  

  Min Bid: $55,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #84: Charles Dickens Autograph Letter Signed, Under Deadline for ''Oliver Twist'': ''...I have had the resolution to shut myself up so strictly with Oliver Twist...''

  

  Min Bid: $6,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #87: Ernest Hemingway Signed Presentation Copy of ''Old Man and the Sea'' -- Signed in 1954, the Year He Won the Nobel Prize in Literature

  

  Min Bid: $6,000

  Final Price: $7,500

• Lot #92: Hunter S. Thompson Autograph Letter Twice-Signed -- ''Rum Diary'' Near Done: ''...Went over the 300 pg mark tonight & hope to wrap it up at 340 or so. Another week at least, maybe two - no longer...''

  

  Min Bid: $2,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #93: Hunter Thompson Letter Signed -- ''...The RD [Rum Diary] is almost there. I can hardly believe it, but feel certain it will never be published. No matter. Just to finish the bastard is enough...''

  

  Min Bid: $2,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #127: Thomas Wolfe Signed First Printing, First Edition of ''Look Homeward, Angel'' -- Signed in 1929, the Year of Publication

  

  Min Bid: $5,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #128: Cincinnati Reds 1990 World Series ''Wire to Wire'' Ring -- Given to the Husband of Longtime Staffer Joyce Pfarr

  

  Min Bid: $6,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #132: John Hancock Military Appointment Signed as Governor of Massachusetts

  

  Min Bid: $3,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #142: Two Original Photographs From 1890-91, From the Time of the Wounded Knee Massacre -- One Photograph Shows the 8th U.S. Infantry Before the Battle & Other Shows Blue Whirlwind & Her Family Post-Battle

  

  Min Bid: $1,200

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #150: Pope John Paul II Signed German Bible -- Signed During His Historic Trip to Germany in 1980

  

  Min Bid: $1,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #160: Mickey Rooney Lot of Personally Owned Items From His Acting Career -- Includes Two SAG Membership Cards & an Actors' Equity Association Pin

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $125

• Lot #165: Superb Drawing of Mickey Mouse by Walt Disney, Signed by Disney -- With Phil Sears COA

  

  Min Bid: $15,000

  Final Price: $18,750

• Lot #192: Elizabeth Taylor and Cast-Signed Book ''Life With Father'' -- Additionally Signed by Irene Dunne, William Powell, Director Michael Curtiz & More

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #193: Rudolph Valentino Signed Photo

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: $1,250