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December 2012 Auction Ends Tuesday, December 18th, 5pm Pacific

Auction closed on 12/18/2012. Final prices include buyers premium.

• Lot #1: Michael Jackson's Iconic ''Beat It'' Stage-Worn Jacket -- Signed by the King of Pop in the ''Thriller'' Era in 1988

  

  Min Bid: $2,500

  Final Price: $84,422

• Lot #2: Stage Costume Worn by Michael Jackson at the 1986 American Music Awards -- Worn During the Performance of ''We Are The World'' -- With His Makeup Still on the Collar of the Shirt

  

  Min Bid: $2,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #3: Michael Jackson's Famous Crystal-Encrusted Glove -- Worn by the King of Pop at the 1984 American Music Awards Honoring His Achievements on ''Thriller'' -- With Autograph Book Signed Four Times

  

  Min Bid: $2,500

  Final Price: $199,069

• Lot #4: Amazing Michael Jackson 8'' x 10'' Signed Photo -- Bold Signature -- With Wehrmann COA

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #86: Disney 1940 Production Cel From Pinnochio -- Featuring Pinnochio as a Puppet & Figaro The Cat -- During The Scene When Geppetto Learns Pinnochio Talks!

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #93: Scarce World Series Emmy Award -- Sports Emmy Award Category for ABC's Coverage of the 1987 World Series

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: $6,691

• Lot #95: Pristine 2005 Emmy Sports Award for ''Nascar on Fox''

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: $6,083

• Lot #96: Early Regional Emmy Award From 1969 -- for ''Crisis in the Middle East''

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #100: Emmy Award Presented at the 2004 Sports Emmys for ''SportsCenter'' on ESPN -- Fine Condition

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #101: 2003 Sports Emmy Award for ESPN's First Proprietary Program, ''SportsCenter''

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #102: Rare 1950's Emmy -- Dinah Shore's Emmy Award For the ''The Dinah Shore Chevy Show''

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #186: Marilyn Monroe Pink Robe -- Worn by The Screen Siren on Set of Her 1957 Film Opposite Laurence Olivier -- ''The Prince and the Showgirl''

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: $25,428

• Lot #200: 1950's Paramount Pictures Sign -- Large Metal Sign Measures Nearly 3 Feet x 2.5 Feet

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: $6,691

• Lot #273: Scarce Sterling Silver Apollo 13 Flown Robbins Medal -- With LOA From Mission Commander James Lovell -- From James Lovell's Personal Collection

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #317: Incredible Photo Display Signed by All NASA Astronaut Groups 1 & 2 -- The Mercury 7 & The New Nine, Including Neil Armstrong

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #333: Albert Einstein Letter Signed From 1939 -- Defending His Jewish Heritage -- ''...The power of resistance which has enabled the Jewish people to survive for thousands of years...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: $13,045

• Lot #338: Gemini 3 Space-Flown $2 Bill Signed by Gus Grissom & John Young -- Mounted to a COA Also Signed by Grissom & Young

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #340: John Glenn Signed Mercury 6 Mission Space Flown Dollar Bill -- Signed a Second Time on The Mat With M. Scott Carpenter -- With NASA COA, JSA LOA & PSA/DNA COA

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #341: Gus Grissom's Uniform Intended for Wear on Apollo 1 -- The Mission Aborted After the Launch Pad Test That Killed Grissom and the Entire Crew

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #350: Charles Lindbergh 9'' x 8'' Signed Photo

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #352: Original Mercury 7 Signed Photo -- Signed by All 7 Astronauts -- From the Gus Grissom Collection

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: $4,153

• Lot #366: Signed First Edition of ''The Antarctic Book. Winter Quarters 1907-1909'' -- One of Only 300 Printed, Signed by All 16 Members of Shackleton's Shore Party

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #367: Ernest Shackleton & Crew Signed ''The Heart of the Antarctic. Being the Story of the British Antarctic Expedition 1907-1909'' Limited to Just 300 Copies, This Being All Three Volumes -- Scarce

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #368: Ernest Shackleton Signed Bill of Sale for the Nimrod -- the Ship That Successfully Took Him to the Antarctic

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #383: Thomas Hart Benton Oil Painting on Paper -- ''Construction Workers'' -- Circa 1923

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #389: Beautiful, Original Artwork by Marc Chagall in His Book, ''Peintre Sous un Arbre'' Signed

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #410: Pierre-Auguste Renoir Drawing -- Portrait of a Young Girl ''Fillette''

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: $65,959

• Lot #418: Early 1957 Hand-Drawn ''Peanuts'' Comic Strip by Charles Schulz -- With Charlie Brown, Snoopy & Lucy

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: $21,013

• Lot #433: Elegantly Framed John Adams Land Grant Signed as President

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: $8,098

• Lot #532: Norman Rockwell Signed Lithograph of JFK -- Appeared as the Cover of The Saturday Evening Post in 1960

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #543: Bust Sculpture of Robert F. Kennedy -- From the Robert McNamara Collection

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #544: Abraham Lincoln Document Signed With Full Signature as President

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #569: Presidential Medal of Freedom With Distinction Awarded to Robert McNamara -- Secretary of Defense for Both Presidents Kennedy & Johnson

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #570: Important Civil War Document by General Meade Announcing Lincoln's Death to Army -- ''...with...deep horror and indignation...intelligence has been received of the death...of the President...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: $3,775

• Lot #630: Early 19th Century Paintings of George & Martha Washington -- Modeled After Portraits by Gilbert Stuart, in Original Matching Frames

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #643: WITHDRAWN

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: W/D

• Lot #644: Patrick Henry 1779 Autograph Letter Signed as Governor of Virginia to Benjamin Harrison, Declaration Signer & Speaker of the Virginia House, Regarding the Capture of a Female British Spy

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #758: Elvis Presley Worn and Owned Suede Shirt -- With LOA by Elvis' Manager Colonel Tom Parker

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: $4,570

• Lot #784: Ludwig Bemelmans Original Art Signed From ''Madeline'' -- Saturated Watercolor Depicts a Parisian Scene From His Famous Children's Book

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: $8,908

• Lot #894: Jonathan Swift 1735 ALS -- Calls Into Question Duration of His Mental Illness -- ''...I should have...[visited longer]...if I had not been prevented by the return of an old disorder in my Head...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: $14,351

• Lot #928: Important Civil War Letter Announcing the End of the War & Resignation of General Lee -- From Confederate General Loring to General Wilcox -- ''...The Army of Northern Virginia is no more!!!''

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: $10,780

• Lot #930: 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 #938: 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 #955: Lot of 36 Autograph WWII-Dated Letters Signed From Iwo Jima Hero Rene Gagnon -- ''...in my hands I hold two means of killing a person; Either stabbing him with the bayonet or shooting him with my...

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #956: Rene Gagnon Lot of 39 WWII-Dated Autograph Letters Signed -- He Writes of Going AWOL, ''...I must admit I've been giving a lot of thought to going over the hill...'' & Racial Injustice, ''...they...

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #957: Lot of 47 Rene Gagnon WWII Autograph Letters Signed -- Remarkably, Gagnon Almost Quit the Marines: ''...doctor said...I...could get medical discharge...I'm for it...'' But Then, ''...If I just quit...

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #958: Lot of 42 Rene Gagnon Autograph Letters Signed & V-Mails While Fighting in the South Pacific -- ''...we were in action on Iwo Jima, you've probably read about it in the papers, as it was a pretty...

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #959: Rene Gagnon's Personally Owned Marines-Issued Knife -- Likely Used at Iwo Jima -- From Rene Gagnon's Estate

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1044: 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 #1080: Exquisite Miss America Crown From a 1964 Competition -- Encrusted With Swarovsky Crystals & With Pageant Trophy -- Scarce

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: $15,786

• Lot #1216: 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: $11,858