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December 2020 Auction Ends Thursday, December 10th, 5pm Pacific

Auction closed on 12/10/2020. Final prices include buyers premium.

• Lot #1: First Edition, First Printing of Charles Darwin's Masterpiece, ''On the Origin of Species'' -- ''The most important biological book ever written''

  

  Min Bid: $135,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #9: Erwin Schrodinger Lengthy Letter Signed From 1927, One Year After He Published the Schrodinger Equation, for Which He Won the Nobel Prize

  

  Min Bid: $5,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #10: Johannes Stark Postcard Signed During World War I -- Stark, a Notorious German Nationalist, Sends a Postcard of a German U-Boat

  

  Min Bid: $1,250

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #14: Lot of Two Exceptional Howard Hughes Signed Items -- Howard Hughes Signed 10'' x 8'' Photo, and Round-the-World Promotional Card Signed by Howard Hughes and His Entire Flight Crew

  

  Min Bid: $3,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #15: Fabric Swatch From the Wright Flyer, Flown at Kitty Hawk During the First Flight on 17 December 1903 -- Encapsulated by CAG

  

  Min Bid: $5,500

  Final Price: $10,068

• Lot #22: Apollo 8 Flown Medal, With NASA Certificate

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #23: Apollo 9 Crew-Signed Cover & Apollo-Soyuz Crew-Signed 7'' x 14'' Signed Photo

  

  Min Bid: $600

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #24: Apollo 11 Crew Signed 20'' x 16'' Lithograph -- Bold, Uninscribed Signatures by All Three

  

  Min Bid: $6,750

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #26: United States Flag Flown to the Moon on the Apollo 12 Mission

  

  Min Bid: $2,500

  Final Price: $5,035

• Lot #28: Apollo 16 U.S. Flag Flown to the Moon -- Signed by Crew-Members John Young, Thomas Mattingly and Charles Duke

  

  Min Bid: $3,000

  Final Price: $3,750

• Lot #29: United States Flag Flown to the Moon on the Apollo 17 Mission

  

  Min Bid: $2,500

  Final Price: $4,576

• Lot #44: Charlie Duke Signed Handwritten Essay on Serving as Apollo 11 CAPCOM -- ''...Neil quickly assumed control, safely missing the crater, but leaving the Eagle with only seconds of fuel!...''

  

  Min Bid: $3,200

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #72: Space-Flown U.S. Flag From the First Space Shuttle Mission, Columbia STS-1

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #75: Lenox China Presentation Bowl in the Millennium Style, Made for the George W. Bush White House

  

  Min Bid: $800

  Final Price: $1,100

• Lot #77: Stunning George W. Bush White House China Service Plate

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $3,845

• Lot #81: Jimmy Carter White House China Soup Bowl Made for State Dinners

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $625

• Lot #82: Jimmy Carter White House China Cup and Saucer Made for State Dinners

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $1,344

• Lot #83: Jimmy Carter White House China Service Plate Made for State Dinners

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $1,344

• Lot #85: Jimmy Carter White House China Dinner Plate Made for State Dinners

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #89: Lenox China Presentation Bowl in the Millennium Style, Made for the Clinton White House

  

  Min Bid: $800

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #90: Bill Clinton White House China Cup and Saucer to Honor the 200th Anniversary of the White House

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $833

• Lot #97: Bill Clinton White House China Dinner Fish Plate to Honor the 200th Anniversary of the White House

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $625

• Lot #108: Bill Clinton White House China Salad Plate to Honor the 200th Anniversary of the White House

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #123: Bill Clinton White House China Dessert Plate to Honor the 200th Anniversary of the White House

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $1,110

• Lot #124: Bill Clinton White House China Dinner Plate to Honor the 200th Anniversary of the White House

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $3,495

• Lot #128: Gerald Ford Signed Baseball, With Ford Also Handwriting the Presidential Oath of Office

  

  Min Bid: $6,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #137: Original 10'' x 8'' Photo of John and Jackie Kennedy Taken by Cecil W. Stoughton in Houston the Day Before the Assassination -- Encapsulated & Authenticated by PSA as Type I Photograph

  

  Min Bid: $400

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #151: Abraham Lincoln Autograph Endorsement Signed as President for the Position of Chief of Police

  

  Min Bid: $8,500

  Final Price: $10,625

• Lot #152: Abraham Lincoln Bronze Sculpture by Victor David Brenner From 1907 -- Original Bas-Relief Sculpture

  

  Min Bid: $3,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #154: White House Service Plate From the Barack Obama Administration -- For the ''White House Mess''

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $625

• Lot #156: Reagan White House China Bowl to Celebrate Christmas in 1986

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $1,628

• Lot #157: Beautiful Lenox Gift Tray Made for the 66th Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $625

• Lot #158: Franklin D. Roosevelt D-Day Prayer Broadside -- One of a Select Few Given to Roosevelt's Staff at Christmas in 1944

  

  Min Bid: $2,000

  Final Price: $2,500

• Lot #160: Donald Trump Senate Impeachment Trial Ticket

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #162: George Washington and Thomas Jefferson Signed Three-Language Ship's Papers, Signed by Washington as President and Jefferson as Secretary of State -- With JSA COA

  

  Min Bid: $13,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #163: Woodrow Wilson White House China Cup

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $2,386

• Lot #165: Adolf Hitler Document Signed as ''Der Fuhrer'' -- Hitler Promotes Early Nazi Leader Philipp Bouhler to the SS Rank of Obergruppenfuhrer

  

  Min Bid: $1,100

  Final Price: $2,218

• Lot #172: Sun Yat-sen Signed First Edition of His Book ''The International Development of China''

  

  Min Bid: $6,000

  Final Price: $17,690

• Lot #181: Iwo Jima 11'' x 14'' Photo Signed by Three Medal of Honor Recipients of the Battle -- With Beckett COA

  

  Min Bid: $4,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #191: Edward Sheriff Curtis Original Large Photogravure Plate of ''On the Canadian River'' -- From ''The North American Indian''

  

  Min Bid: $600

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #195: Edward Gorey Original Cover Art for ''A Song and a Diary for A'' by Richard Elliott -- Large Piece Measures 8.25'' x 10.75''

  

  Min Bid: $4,200

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #196: Wonderful set of Edward Gorey Illustrations for ''The Dublin Social Scene'' From the February 1973 Issue of ''The Atlantic Monthly''

  

  Min Bid: $4,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #197: Edward Gorey Original Artwork for ''The Autobiography of William Butler Yeats'', Circa 1958

  

  Min Bid: $3,400

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #199: Edward Gorey Illustration for Saki's Short Story, ''The Unrest-Cure''

  

  Min Bid: $2,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #214: Large Gray Morrow Original Artwork Measuring 20'' x 30'' Published in ''The Someday Funnies'' -- An Alternate History of the 1960s

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #216: Gray Morrow Original Artwork of ''Hi-Jinx''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $125

• Lot #221: Large Gray Morrow Original Artwork Measuring 20'' x 27.75'' Published in ''The Someday Funnies''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $125

• Lot #227: Robert Rauschenberg Signed Limited Edition Lithograph of ''Quarry''

  

  Min Bid: $2,400

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #228: Norman Rockwell Signed ''Four Freedoms'' Prints -- Complete Set of Four Prints From 1943 Each Signed by Rockwell, Without Inscription

  

  Min Bid: $5,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #235: Norman Rockwell Large Signed Print of His ''The Saturday Evening Post'' Cover, ''The Truth About Santa''

  

  Min Bid: $600

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #249: Bill Watterson Signed Limited Edition Lithograph of ''Calvin and Hobbes'' -- One of 1,000 Prints Sent to Newspaper Editors After Watterson Came Back From a 9 Month Sabbatical in 1992

  

  Min Bid: $6,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #255: Ernest Hemingway Check Signed to the Hotel Ambos Mundos in 1935

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: $1,375

• Lot #260: Superb Harriet Beecher Stowe Autograph Letter Signed Regarding Slavery -- ''...Nothing more is needed than to awaken the attention of the public to an expose of the slave law system...''

  

  Min Bid: $5,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #262: Hunter S. Thompson Letter Signed With Autograph Note From 1960 in Bug Sur -- ''...I presume that, by 'human garbage,' he means that segment of the un-washed masses prone to art, writing...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #268: Ivan Turgenev Autograph Letter Signed Praising Dickens: ''the pleasure of reading Dickens's Pickwick'' and His Own Novel ''Smoke'': ''I am undertaking a large novel - I have this bull by the horns''

  

  Min Bid: $6,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #269: 19th Century Russian Novelist Ivan Turgenev Autograph Letter Signed -- Praising Gogol's Story ''The Old World Landowners'': ''...I cannot help but regret that I am not its author...''

  

  Min Bid: $3,250

  Final Price: $4,063

• Lot #272: Michael Jackson's Famous Black Fedora -- Worn by Michael During the 1984 ''Victory'' Tour

  

  Min Bid: $3,000

  Final Price: $3,750

• Lot #273: Adam Lambert Stage-Worn Two-Piece Costume -- Worn During His Glam Nation Tour

  

  Min Bid: $4,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #276: Eddie Van Halen Personally Designed, Stage Played & Signed Guitar

  

  Min Bid: $30,000

  Final Price: $37,500

• Lot #280: Kobe Bryant Signed ''Beach Ball Classic'' Program From 1995 -- Featuring Kobe on the Cover as a High School Senior -- With PSA/DNA COA

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: $1,250

• Lot #281: LeBron James Signed 2003-04 Upper Deck Signature Edition Card, James' Rookie Year -- Beckett Graded 9.5 for Card & 9 for Autograph

  

  Min Bid: $4,000

  Final Price: $9,746

• Lot #283: Rube Marquard Single-Signed Baseball -- Marquard Also Writes, ''Member of the Baseball Hall Of Fame''

  

  Min Bid: $750

  Final Price: $938

• Lot #290: Audrey Hepburn 11'' x 14'' Photo From ''My Fair Lady'' -- Taken by Cecil Beaton & From Audrey's Personal Collection

  

  Min Bid: $3,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #295: Audrey Hepburn Personally Owned Pair of Photos From ''War and Peace'', Testing a Hairstyle for the Film -- From the Personal Collection of Audrey Hepburn

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #297: Moe Howard's Personally Owned Script for The Three Stooges 1943 Film ''They Stooge to Conga''

  

  Min Bid: $1,400

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #299: Moe Howard's Personally Owned Script for The Three Stooges 1942 Film ''Matri-Phony''

  

  Min Bid: $1,400

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #315: Original 8'' x 10'' Silver-Gelatin Satin-Finish Double-Weight Photograph of Marilyn Monroe Taken by Andre de Dienes with His Backstamp

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #319: Lot of 7 Original ''Sleeping Beauty'' Cels, Including Large Cels of Aurora and Prince Philip

  

  Min Bid: $3,000

  Final Price: $3,750

• Lot #320: Original ''Sleeping Beauty'' Disney Cel of the Fairy Godmothers

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: $1,250

• Lot #321: Original ''Sleeping Beauty'' Disney Cel of Aurora Just Before She Meets Prince Phillip

  

  Min Bid: $375

  Final Price: $469

• Lot #322: Buffalo Bob Smith Worn ''Howdy Doody'' Costume

  

  Min Bid: $10,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #323: Buffalo Bob Smith Costume Worn on "It's Howdy Doody Time: A 40-Year Celebration"

  

  Min Bid: $10,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #324: Buffalo Bob Smith Worn ''Howdy Doody'' Costume

  

  Min Bid: $10,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #325: Buffalo Bob Smith Screen-Worn "Howdy Doody" Costume -- Also Worn for Cover of "TV Guide" in 1954

  

  Min Bid: $10,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #326: Lot of ''Howdy Doody'' Photos Owned by Host Buffalo Bob Smith

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #335: Ticket From ''The Wizard Of Oz'' Hollywood Premiere at Grauman's Chinese Theatre on 15 August 1939

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: $1,250

• Lot #352: Charlie Chaplin Autograph & Self-Portrait Sketch of Himself as The Tramp -- Also Signed by Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Leslie Howard & More

  

  Min Bid: $1,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #354: Walt Disney Signed Copy of ''Walt Disney's Vanishing Prairie'' -- Large Uninscribed Signature

  

  Min Bid: $1,500

  Final Price: $1,875

• Lot #355: Harrison Ford Signed Indiana Jones Fedora -- With Beckett COA

  

  Min Bid: $2,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #357: Harrison Ford Signed ''Star Wars'' Blaster Gun -- With Beckett COA

  

  Min Bid: $2,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #360: Mark Hamill Signed Lightsaber

  

  Min Bid: $2,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #368: Laurel & Hardy Signed 10'' x 8'' Photo

  

  Min Bid: $800

  Final Price: $1,000

• Lot #373: ''Star Wars #1'' Signed by 10 of the Cast: Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Peter Mahew, Anthony Daniels, David Prowse, Kenny Baker, Billy Dee Williams, Jeremy Bulloch, and Ian McDiarmid

  

  Min Bid: $7,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #374: ''Star Wars #1'' Signed by Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Peter Mahew, Anthony Daniels, David Prowse and Kenny Baker -- CGC Graded 9.8

  

  Min Bid: $7,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #375: ''Star Wars'' Cast-Signed Movie Poster -- Signed by Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Harrison Ford, and Darth Vader, C-3PO and Chewbacca's Characters

  

  Min Bid: $7,000

  Final Price: Pass