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August 2012 Auction Ends Thursday, August 30th, 5pm Pacific

Auction closed on 8/30/2012. Final prices include buyers premium.

• Lot #1: King Charles II 1660 Proclamation From The First Month of Restoration -- Demanding Those Responsible For The Execution of His Father King Charles I Turn Themselves In For Murder & Treason

  

  # Bids: 10

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #2: Winston Churchill Announces His Resignation as Prime Minister -- ''...for some time past I have not felt that at my age it would be right for me to incur such new and indefinite responsibilities...''

  

  # Bids: 16

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #3: Oliver Cromwell 1655 Document Signed Boldly ''Oliver P.'' as ''Lord Protector'' of England -- Scarce

  

  # Bids: 14

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: $8,098

• Lot #7: 1307 Document From the Reign of Edward I -- One of the Few Extant Documents From the King Who Imposed a 400 Year Ban on Jews in England

  

  # Bids: 11

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: $14,351

• Lot #10: Radical 1648 English Civil War Act Abolishing Monarchy in England & Ordering the Death of Charles I -- ''...Charles Stuart late King of England...is hereby declared to be justly condemned, adjudged...

  

  # Bids: 11

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #14: King Henry VII Signs & Annotates an Accounting of Real Estate Confiscated From His Knights -- Evidence of the Property Taking for Which Henry VII Was Known

  

  # Bids: 11

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #15: King Henry VII Signed Document -- Scarce, From 15th Century

  

  # Bids: 17

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #16: Henry VIII Document Signed in 1512, Gathering Troops to Invade France -- ''...[Those who do not report for duty are] to be...punished...''

  

  # Bids: 20

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: $40,954

• Lot #39: Original Harry Potter ''Chamber of Secrets'' Book Cover Illustration by Cliff Wright -- Depicting the Charming & Memorable Flying Car Scene

  

  # Bids: 14

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #40: Original Harry Potter ''Prisoner of Azkaban'' Book Cover Illustration -- Depicting Harry Riding the Mythical Creature, Buckbeak, Under the Moonlight -- Signed by Artist Cliff Wright

  

  # Bids: 8

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #42: J.K. Rowling Signed First Edition, First Printing of ''Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'' -- With PSA/DNA COA

  

  # Bids: 10

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #43: Original Illustration by Arthur Rackham of the Cheshire Cat, Drawn for Page 106 of ''Alice in Wonderland'' -- With His Signature Mischievous Grin

  

  # Bids: 19

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #104: 1935 Oscar Statue Made by Columbia Pictures

  

  # Bids: 8

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #111: Hollywood Legend Gloria Swanson's Official 1950 Best Actress Academy Award Nomination for ''Sunset Boulevard''

  

  # Bids: 15

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #115: Screen-Worn Shirt Worn by John Wayne as the Iconic Gunslinger, Cole Thornton, in the Classic 1966 Film ''El Dorado'' -- With COA From His Son Ethan Wayne

  

  # Bids: 13

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #132: Dwight Eisenhower WWII Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...How I wish this war would end!...One trip...across a recent battlefield, is enough to make one hate Hitler, and all like him, forever...''

  

  # Bids: 14

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #134: Dwight Eisenhower Autograph Letter Signed 2 Days After Hiroshima -- ''...I had been desperately hoping that Japan would quit...''

  

  # Bids: 11

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #136: Dwight Eisenhower WWII 1945 Letter -- ''...Things are moving rapidly...There are many people to see...Thank God for people like Bradley, Spaatz, Hodges, Patton, Beedle, and Simpson!...''

  

  # Bids: 9

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #138: Dwight Eisenhower WWII Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...The war is serious - we'll never preserve our...ways of living in the U.S. - free speech - press - and right to worship - unless we...fight...''

  

  # Bids: 14

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #183: Abraham Lincoln Signed Appointment as President -- 1861

  

  # Bids: 13

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: $6,691

• Lot #184: Abraham Lincoln Civil War Military Document Signed as President -- With Bold, Full Signature

  

  # Bids: 12

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #211: Benjamin Franklin Pennsylvania Land Grant Signed as President of Pennsylvania

  

  # Bids: 15

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: $13,045

• Lot #240: 1977 AC/DC Tour Program Signed With 18 Signatures by the Band -- Including Several Signatures by Bon Scott Who Died in 1980 -- With Roger Epperson COA

  

  # Bids: 3

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #242: Blondie ''Heart of Glass'' Lyrics Handwritten by Debbie Harry -- Signed & Sealed With a Kiss by the Genre-Breaking Singer

  

  # Bids: 11

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: $5,530

• Lot #247: Madonna's 1972 Junior High Yearbook With Period Inscription by Her -- ''Dear Nancy, I hope you have fun at Adams and all the years to come. Madonna '76'''

  

  # Bids: 12

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #251: Scarce Sex Pistols Poster For Their Final Tour in The UK -- Poster Full of Quotes by Venues Stating They're Not Welcome

  

  # Bids: 6

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass