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October 2012 Auction Ends Tuesday, October 23rd, 5pm Pacific

Auction closed on 10/23/2012. Final prices include buyers premium.

• Lot #1: Jerome Kern's 1946 Best Song Oscar Nomination -- From The Last Film He Ever Scored

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: $3,120

• Lot #2: Best Picture Academy Award Nomination For ''The Diary of Anne Frank'' -- Rare Award Issued in 1959

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #3: Bronislau Kaper's Academy Award Nomination Plaque for the Scoring of 1953's ''Lili''

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $1,172

• Lot #4: ''Mutiny on The Bounty'' Academy Award Nomination Plaque -- For Composer Bronislau Kaper's Song ''Love Song From Mutiny On The Bounty (Follow Me)'' -- 1962

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $3,049

• Lot #5: Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences Certificate of Appreciation to ''Mutiny on the Bounty'' Composer Bronislau Kaper

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $2,772

• Lot #6: Cinematographer Robert Surtees 1978 Oscar Nomination for "Same Time, Next Year" -- His 16th & Final Nomination

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $2,772

• Lot #11: Edith Head Sketch of Lucille Ball's Costume From ''The Lucille Ball Comedy Hour'' in 1964

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #36: Scarce World Series Emmy Award -- Sports Emmy Award Category for ABC's Coverage of the 1987 World Series

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #37: Scarce ''Distinguished Service Medal'' Presented by Emmy's Television Academy to TV Pioneer Hubbell Robinson

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #40: Pristine 2003 Emmy Sports Award for "Nascar on Fox"

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: $6,083

• Lot #80: Liza Minnelli's 1981 Golden Globe Nomination For "Best Motion Picture Actress in a Comedy or Musical" in the Classic Comedy "Arthur"

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $4,468

• Lot #82: First Issue of ''Playboy'' Featuring Marilyn Monroe's Famous Centerfold Photos

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #105: Apollo 11 Crew Signed Model of the Command Module Spacecraft -- Signatures of Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, & Michael Collins

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #106: Apollo 11 Crew Signed 10'' x 8'' Photo -- Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin & Michael Collins

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #109: Alan Bean Artwork Signed by 20 Fellow Astronauts

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #110: NASA Pilots Signed Lithograph -- Neil Armstrong, Gene Cernan, Pete Conrad, John Glenn, Rick Hauck, Jack Lousma, James Lovell, Wally Schirra & Alan Shepard

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #111: Neil Armstrong Autograph Letter Signed Immediately Following His Return From The Moon! -- ''...Appreciated all the prayers & good wishes, they must have helped...''

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $0

• Lot #167: Piece of the Space Suit Worn by Alan Shepard on the Moon -- With LOA From NASA Manager of the Apollo 14 Mission

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: $6,691

• Lot #192: Charles Schulz ''Peanuts'' Great Pumpkin Sunday Strip -- From Halloween 1965

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: $40,954

• Lot #193: Charles Schulz Hand-Drawn ''Peanuts'' Strip From 1971

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: $8,908

• Lot #203: Dwight Eisenhower WWII Letter to His Wife Denying Affair -- ''...So Life [Magazine] says my old London driver came down! So she did...I doubt that Life told that...I've no emotional involvements...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: $6,083

• Lot #204: Dwight Eisenhower WWII Letter to His Wife Denying Affair -- ''...gossip, lies...get started...for me there is only one woman...one ambition...to come a-running to you & hold on...forever...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #205: Eisenhower WWII Letter to His Wife -- ''...I constantly wonder how 'civilization' can stand war at all...try to see me in something besides a despicable light...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #249: 1860 Check Written and Signed by Abraham Lincoln -- Just Before Becoming the Republican Presidential Candidate

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #250: Abraham Lincoln War-Dated Endorsement Signed on 6 May 1864 on the Back of a Full Letter -- While the Battle of the Wilderness Raged in Virginia

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #251: Abraham Lincoln Civil War Military Document Signed as President -- With Bold, Full Signature

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #269: WITHDRAWN

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: W/D

• Lot #270: Lee Harvey Oswald's Crib From His Childhood Home in New Orleans -- Obtained From and With an LOA From Marion Ladner Whose Mother Anne Boudreaux Later Moved Into the Oswald's Home and Purchased the...

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #271: Lee Harvey Oswald Signed Application to Albert Schweitzer College in 1959 -- Upon Acceptance to the Swiss College, He at Age 20, Defected to the U.S.S.R.

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $10,541

• Lot #300: Declining to Forgo Retirement to Heal Divisiveness on Slavery, Martin Van Buren Writes in 1855: ''I regret...the present inauspicious condition of the country, upon the slave subject.''

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #302: White House Presidential Desk Replica Based on Original Used by JFK and Other Presidents Since Hayes

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $5,407

• Lot #329: Exceptionally Beautiful Force 1843 Copper Plate Engraving of the Declaration

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #331: Benjamin Franklin 1785 Document Signed as President of Pennsylvania -- Excellent, Bold Signature

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #334: Thomas Mifflin Tries to Have Philadelphia Become the Permanent Federal City by Financing a Presidential Mansion in 1792 -- Washington Declined as He Was a Strong Advocate of Washington, D.C.

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #338: Beatles Promo Card Signed by All Four Members, Circa Late 1962 -- Shortly After Ringo Starr Became the New Drummer

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #343: Medal Presented to Sammy Davis Jr. in 1967 by The Grammy Awards' Governing Body -- The National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: $21,013

• Lot #344: Rare Early Autograph Letter Signed by England's Beloved Contralto Kathleen Ferrier -- Plus 49 Signed Photos by Various 20th Century Classical Music Legends -- Including Two Signed by Ferrier

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #351: John Lennon Signed 1968 Contract for ''I'm So Tired'' on The Beatles White Album

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #352: George Michael's 1989 American Music Award for "Favorite Pop/Rock Male Artist" -- At the Peak of His Solo Career Success With His Chart-Breaking "Faith" Album

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: $17,365

• Lot #353: Pearl Jam's ''American Music Award'' From 1996 -- at the Peak of Success for the Band That Largely Defined 90's Music

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: $14,351

• Lot #359: Russian Composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...Give me sweetheart forty rubles as a loan...''

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #366: Ray Bradbury Signed First Edition of ''Fahrenheit 451'' -- Rare

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $2,520

• Lot #376: ''The Great Gatsby'' -- First Edition, First Printing of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Legendary Novel

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #379: First Edition of ''For Whom the Bell Tolls'' Inscribed to Hemingway's Cuban Doctor

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #380: WITHDRAWN

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: W/D

• Lot #381: Ernest Hemingway Signed ''For Whom The Bell Tolls'' -- With PSA/DNA COA

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #391: Scarce Signed Limited Edition of Cormac McCarthy's ''No Country For Old Men''

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #396: Wonderful Margaret Mitchell Autograph Letter Signed ''Peggy'' -- Revealing Female Writers and Historians Who Influenced ''Gone With the Wind'' -- 1935

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #397: Margaret Mitchell Signed First Edition of Her Novel ''Gone With The Wind'' -- Signed 2 October 1936

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $2,772

• Lot #420: Jonathan Swift Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...Mr. Williamson dyed about 36 hours ago; He was Treasurer of Christ-church in Dublin...The Person whom I desire may have it is Mr. John Jackson...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: $19,103

• Lot #431: General Beauregard 21 May 1864 Letter Signed to Jefferson Davis -- ''...send a force of...4 or 5,000 to storm Fort Powhatan and...command...the James River...'' -- One Day After Bermuda Hundred...

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #434: West Virginia Confederate Broadside -- ''...those who persist in adhering to the cause of the public enemy, and the pretended State Government he has erected at Wheeling...''

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #445: Shiloh POW Letter & Photo Lot -- Fort Donelson: ''...bullets came as close as I cared having them. Mother...one poor man...had his leg shot off just so it hung on and the other fell right on me...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #446: CDV Photograph of Robert E. Lee Signed Boldly by the General -- Scarce

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #447: 32nd Massachusetts Lot of Letters -- ''...a mob of demoralized soldiers -- wounded, hungry and cowardly...cried out tauntingly that we should be used up before night...'hows your patriotism now'...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #449: Charles Sumner 1863 Autograph Letter Signed as Senator -- Regarding Slavery & a Detailed Critique of the Confiscation Act -- ''...No expression of harshness to the slavemongers...''

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #456: Dwight D. Eisenhower Signed Limited Edition of His Memoir ''Crusade in Europe'' -- With Autographed D-Day Speech

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #461: Mata Hari Signed and Inscribed Photo From 1907, in the Heyday of Her Fame, Ten Years Before She Was Executed for Espionage -- Hari Writes, ''often it is the storm that leads us to the port''

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: $7,361

• Lot #466: Joseph Mengele 1942 ALS to His Wife -- ''...I'm supposed to know everything there is to know about medicine, and that's asking too much from an expert on racial hygiene, like myself...''

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $5,407

• Lot #468: Bernard Montgomery Document Signed With Hand Annotations: ''...No harm is intended against the mass of the German people...'' -- Issuing Perhaps His First Message as Commander of Occupied Germany

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #475: Stalin's Sweet Letter to His 9 Year-Old Daughter Around the Time of His Violent Great Purge Policy -- ''...I got your letter. Thank you for not forgetting about your Daddy...'' -- 1935

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: $4,153

• Lot #482: ''We Shall Overcome'' First Edition Portfolio From the ''March on Washington'' -- Scarce Complete Portfolio of Five Collages Issued by the National Urban League as a Memento for Marchers

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #483: Martin Luther King Typed Letter Signed to His Agent -- ''...As you say, it is not a brilliant offer but is about as good as can be expected...go right along with these negotiations...'' -- 1961

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #484: Stunning Nelson Mandela Signed Autobiography ''Long Walk To Freedom'' -- Fine

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #488: Exceptionally Rare Autograph Letter Signed by Mother Teresa -- Humanitarian Requests Prayers for Upcoming 1971 Indian Elections -- With PSA/DNA COA

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #533: Alamo Letter of Merit Awarded to Mexican General for Fighting the ''rebel...settlers in the year 1836''

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #551: Handwritten Diary by Spanish-American War Doctor Aboard Battleship Iowa -- Full Account of Battle of Santiago -- ''...Spaniards were almost naked...men swam ashore with...meat of wounds uncovered...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #580: Hall of Famer Jackie Robinson Twice-Signed Photo Postcard -- With PSA/DNA COA for Both Signatures

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #581: Wilbert Robinson Scarce 1903 Baltimore Orioles Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...have him come right away and report at the Ball Grounds...'' -- With PSA/DNA COA

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #584: Excllent Babe Ruth Signed Louisville Slugger Baseball Bat -- With PSA/DNA

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #585: Babe Ruth Signed Slip -- With PSA/DNA COA

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #591: Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier Dual-Signed Contract for the "Fight of the Century" -- Perhaps the Best Piece of Boxing Memorabilia in Existence

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass