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May 2020 Auction Ends Thursday, May 28th, 5pm Pacific

Auction closed on 5/28/2020. Final prices include buyers premium.

• Lot #1: John Adams Signed Copy of ''A Discourse'' -- The Powerful Pro-American Independence Book Called ''The Morning Gun of the Revolution''

  

  Min Bid: $12,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #13: Abraham Lincoln Military Appointment Signed as President -- With Full ''Abraham Lincoln'' Signature

  

  Min Bid: $3,000

  Final Price: $6,646

• Lot #29: Exceptional George Washington Autograph Letter Signed on 24 September 1777, Two Days Before the British Captured Philadelphia -- ''...strike up the country without getting nearer to the Enemy...''

  

  Min Bid: $16,800

  Final Price: $21,000

• Lot #30: George Washington Signature

  

  Min Bid: $5,500

  Final Price: $6,875

• Lot #31: Large Archive From 1928-1931 Documenting the Chinese Civil War, Including Over 800 Silver Gelatin Photos & 100 Letters -- With Attention to Changsha, Where Mao Zedong Spent His Formative Years

  

  Min Bid: $20,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #32: Winston Churchill Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...I am a good many years younger than Rectorial standards would usually seem to require...a disqualification...only capable of gradual correction...''

  

  Min Bid: $2,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #35: Wallis Simpson, the Duchess of Windsor Owned Mink Cape

  

  Min Bid: $4,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #36: Wallis Simpson, the Duchess of Windsor Owned Black Patent Leather Handbag With Her Embroidered Cypher Below a Crown

  

  Min Bid: $1,500

  Final Price: $1,875

• Lot #41: Wallis Simpson, the Duchess of Windsor Owned Silk Handkerchief With a Crown Embroidered in Violet

  

  Min Bid: $600

  Final Price: $750

• Lot #44: 17th Century Map of New England, the First Map With Anglican Names Reflecting the Shift From Dutch to English Rule

  

  Min Bid: $4,800

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #45: 17th Century Map of the Carolinas, Extending From Jamestown, Virginia to Matanzas Bay, Florida

  

  Min Bid: $2,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #46: Stunning Hand-Colored Map of North America From 1784 Just After the Revolutionary War -- Large Four-Sheet Map Measures 46.875'' x 41'', in Exceptional Condition

  

  Min Bid: $2,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #53: Ruth Bernard Signed Limited Edition of ''Nude in the Box'', 1962

  

  Min Bid: $6,700

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #59: Norman Rockwell Signed ''Four Freedoms'' Posters Measuring 28.5'' x 40'' -- Complete Set of Four Posters From 1943 Each Signed by Rockwell, Without Inscription

  

  Min Bid: $8,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #62: George Herriman Lot of Original ''Krazy Kat'' Artwork -- Herriman Draws an Envelope With Krazy Kat & Ignatz, and Also a Card With ''Ole Man Herriman'' Serenading a Friend

  

  Min Bid: $2,000

  Final Price: $2,750

• Lot #63: Original Charles Schulz Hand-Drawn ''Peanuts'' Comic Strip From 1960 Featuring Charlie Brown, Snoopy & Lucy -- ''Barking Dogs Never Bite''

  

  Min Bid: $15,000

  Final Price: $24,956

• Lot #64: Original Elzie Segar ''Popeye'' Signed Artwork From 1936

  

  Min Bid: $2,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #65: Whitney Houston Worn Black Velvet Catsuit, With Her Monogram Initials ''WH''

  

  Min Bid: $2,000

  Final Price: $2,500

• Lot #69: Adam Lambert Stage-Worn Three-Piece Costume -- Worn During ''The Original High'' Tour

  

  Min Bid: $8,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #75: Walt Disney Lot of Three Signed Illustrated Books From the ''True-Life Adventures'' Nature Documentary Series -- Each Inscribed to Disney Cinematographer James Simon

  

  Min Bid: $5,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #76: Pencil Drawing Used in the Making of the 1939 Disney Short ''Society Dog Show''

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #78: LeVar Burton Emmy Nomination for His Role as Kunta Kinte in ''Roots''

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #80: ''Captain Kangaroo'' Lot of Items Including an Original Slate Used to Begin Filming, 6 Film Prints of the Show or Outtakes, and Over 60 Pages of Show Notes Including Story Ideas & Sketches

  

  Min Bid: $2,000

  Final Price: $2,500

• Lot #85: ''Rocky'' Star Burgess Meredith's Personally Owned Hollywood Walk of Fame Award

  

  Min Bid: $1,700

  Final Price: $2,125

• Lot #87: Original 11'' x 14'' Photograph of Marilyn Monroe Taken by Andre de Dienes in 1945 -- Marilyn's First Collaboration With de Dienes

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: $1,250

• Lot #89: Original 8'' x 10'' Photograph of Marilyn Monroe Taken by Andre de Dienes in 1949 -- The Famed Tobay Beach Photo Session

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: $2,015

• Lot #92: Original 8'' x 10'' Photograph of Marilyn Monroe Taken by Andre de Dienes in 1949 -- The Famed Tobey Beach Photo Session

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: $1,250

• Lot #94: Original 8'' x 10'' Photograph of Marilyn Monroe Taken by Andre de Dienes in 1953 -- ''Marilyn was the happiest woman in the world'' During This Shoot, According to de Dienes

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: $1,250

• Lot #98: Hugh Hefner Signed 16'' x 20'' Photo of Marilyn Monroe -- With PSA/DNA COA

  

  Min Bid: $4,000

  Final Price: $11,794

• Lot #99: Alfred Hitchcock Signed Sketch of His Famous Profile

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #103: Robert Frost Autograph Poem Signed of ''A Tuft of Flowers'' -- One of Frost's Earliest Poems & Considered by Him to Be One of His Best, Bound Into a Signed Limited Edition of ''Steeple Bush''

  

  Min Bid: $4,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #106: Rare First Printing of ''Where the Wild Things Are'' by Maurice Sendak, With First Printing Dust Jacket, Published November 1963

  

  Min Bid: $3,200

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #115: Hunter Thompson Postcard From Big Sur in 1960 -- ''...Just spent Xmas & X-eve in hot sulphur baths...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,600

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #119: Albert Einstein Autograph Letter Signed With His Handwritten Equations -- ''...the theory...really does constitute immense progress...as an appendix of my little book on relativity...''

  

  Min Bid: $14,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #120: Albert Einstein Autograph Letter Signed From 1918, Predicting His Nobel Prize Years Before Winning It

  

  Min Bid: $14,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #121: Albert Einstein Autograph Letter Signed From 1934 -- ''...All this is the result of the Hitler-insanity, which has completely ruined the lives of all those around me...''

  

  Min Bid: $8,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #126: Robert Oppenheimer Letter Signed From 1955

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $625

• Lot #132: Neil Armstrong Signed Sheet of C76 ''First Man on the Moon'' Stamps, Issued in 1969

  

  Min Bid: $1,800

  Final Price: $2,250

• Lot #136: Fabric Swatch From the Wright Flyer, Flown at Kitty Hawk During the First Flight on 17 December 1903 -- Encapsulated by CAG

  

  Min Bid: $4,900

  Final Price: $6,125

• Lot #138: Orville Wright Signed ''First Flight'' Photo -- Large Uninscribed Photo Measures 7'' x 4.875'' on Custom Period Mat Measuring 11'' x 9''

  

  Min Bid: $12,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #139: Wilbur Wright Postcard Signed From December 1908 During Their Very Successful Exhibition Flights in Europe

  

  Min Bid: $6,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #141: CDV Photograph of an 19th Century African American Wet Nurse From Savannah, Georgia

  

  Min Bid: $2,400

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #148: General Robert E. Lee Letter Signed Regarding Troop Replenishment After the Battle of Chancellorsville -- Dated 9 May 1863 After Lee Made the Audacious Decision to Split His Army & Bluff the Union

  

  Min Bid: $9,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #149: Robert E. Lee Signed CDV Photo

  

  Min Bid: $1,500

  Final Price: $3,021

• Lot #150: General Philip Sheridan Boldly Signed CDV Photo -- Encapsulated by PSA

  

  Min Bid: $1,400

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #154: Olympic Torch Used in 1960 Rome Summer Games

  

  Min Bid: $2,000

  Final Price: $3,328

• Lot #164: Frederick Law Olmsted Letter Signed as Superintendent of Central Park, During Its Construction -- ''those who have no means to go into the country for relief from the heat and turmoil of the city''

  

  Min Bid: $1,500

  Final Price: Pass