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May 2024 Auction Ends Thursday, May 30th, 5pm Pacific

Auction closed on 5/30/2024. Final prices include buyers premium.

• Lot #1: Nobel Prize in Chemistry Awarded to Richard Millington Synge in 1952 -- Synge Invented Partition Chromatography, a Revolutionary Way to Separate Particles that Unlocked the Mysteries of DNA

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $150,000

  Final Price: $187,500

• Lot #10: James Buchanan Document Signed as President, Authorizing Robert McLane to Negotiate the McLane-Ocampo Treaty with Mexico After the Mexican-American War

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $1,900

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #11: James Buchanan Document Signed as President, Putting an End to the Water Witch Affair

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $1,800

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #12: James Buchanan Autograph Letter Signed with Political Content Regarding Presidential Candidates After William Henry Harrison's Death -- Also Includes Buchanan's Free Franked Signature

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $1,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #19: Grover Cleveland Lot Regarding the Spanish-American War -- Cleveland Signs an Executive Order in 1896 Establishing U.S. Neutrality & Also Reflects on the Virginius Affair in a Handwritten Statement

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $1,600

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #21: Calvin Coolidge Signed Presidential Address Regarding the Reduction of Arms After World War I -- From 1926, 15 Years Before the U.S. Was Caught Flat-Footed at Pearl Harbor

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $1,300

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #22: Millard Fillmore Letter Signed as President, Calling the Senate into Session for the Inauguration of His Successor, Franklin Pierce

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $4,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #27: Ulysses S. Grant Letter of State Signed as President -- Grant Congratulates the President of Peru on His Inauguration

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $3,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #28: Warren G. Harding Signed & Handwritten 33pp. Speech -- ''We ought to declare an end to bureaucracy, crowned with autocracy…to a government by law and the free activities of a law-abiding people''

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $3,500

  Final Price: $4,375

• Lot #29: Benjamin Harrison Warrant Signed as President, Ratifying the Treaty Between the United States and United Kingdom, Temporarily Halting the Killing of Fur Seals

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #33: Rutherford B. Hayes Autograph Letter Signed, with Exceptional Political Content -- ''…the downward road to anarchy which finds its grave in military depotism seems so easy of descent…''

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $2,400

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #34: Andrew Johnson Warrant Signed as President, Regarding the Consular Convention Between the United States and Italy

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $1,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #40: Abraham Lincoln Document Signed, Equipping Virginian Daniel Lamb with Arms for ''protection against domestic violence, insurrection, invasion, or rebellion'' -- Lamb Led the Secession of West Virginia

  

  # Bids: 2

  Min Bid: $14,000

  Final Price: $19,250

• Lot #41: Large Oval Albumen Photo of ''Lincoln & Son'' Depicting Abraham Lincoln and His Son Tad -- Uncommonly Large Image Measures 5.5'' x 7.75''

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $400

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #45: James Monroe Letter Signed During the War of 1812 -- As Secretary of State, Monroe Writes About Tripoli During Period of Strained Relations Before the Second Barbary War

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $2,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #51: Incredible Zachary Taylor Autograph Letter Signed from May 1846 After Crossing the Rio Grande in the Mexican-American War -- ''…We are now all encamped on the Mexican soil without firing a gun…''

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $19,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #52: Zachary Taylor Letter Signed in 1848 Shortly Before His Nomination for President -- ''…If honored by election to the Presidency I will strive to execute with fidelity the trust reposed in me…''

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $4,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #53: Harry Truman Signed Press Release of His Farewell Speech to the American People on 12 January 1953 -- ''…He can't pass the buck to anybody…''

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $3,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #55: John Tyler Confidential Autograph Letter Signed Regarding ''the Chinese Treaty'' -- Likely Written as President Regarding the Treaty of Wanghia

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $3,900

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #56: John Tyler Autograph Letter Signed Regarding the Bank War in 1834 -- ''…whether the Bank of the U. States has resorted to any course of measures from a spirit of hostility to the state Bankers…''

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $3,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #60: George Washington Signed Three-Language Ship's Papers -- Signed as President in 1796

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $12,000

  Final Price: $15,000

• Lot #62: Woodrow Wilson Speech Draft, Hand-Annotated as President -- Wilson Writes Fiery Rhetoric Regarding the Evils of Germany During WWI -- ''…Against the horror of military conquest…''

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $2,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #67: 1833 Force Declaration of Independence From Original Copper Plate -- Still Within ''American Archives''

  

  # Bids: 2

  Min Bid: $16,000

  Final Price: $22,000

• Lot #71: Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman Signed Memoirs

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $3,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #76: Douglas MacArthur Letter Signed as Supreme Commander in Japan, Dated 1950 -- MacArthur Writes a Detailed 4pp. Letter on Why He Forbade Margaret Sanger from Speaking to the Japanese About Birth Control

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #83: Scarce 1500 Third German Edition of ''Nuremberg Chronicle'' & the First Pirated German Edition -- Complete with Double Page Map of Europe

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $15,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #85: Jimi Hendrix Signed Matted Artwork of Himself -- Uninscribed and with Roger Epperson COA

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $6,000

  Final Price: $7,500

• Lot #94: Lot of 3 Items Signed by Frank Sinatra -- Includes 8'' x 9.5'' Signed Photo, Frank's Personally Owned & Signed Air Travel Card from 1941-42 & Signed Note Written to Himself

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $2,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #99: Original Disneyland Grand Canyon Diorama Silk-Screened Park Attraction Poster

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $3,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #120: Margaret Mitchell Signed First Edition, First Printing of ''Gone With the Wind'' -- Housed in Rare First Printing Dust Jacket

  

  # Bids: 4

  Min Bid: $2,500

  Final Price: $6,704

• Lot #142: NASA Astronaut Jeffrey Hoffman Space Flown Mission Watch -- Flown on STS-75 Columbia

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $2,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #158: Tony Award Given to Producer Todd Haimes for the Revival of ''Anna Christie'' in 1993

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $5,000

  Final Price: $6,250

• Lot #173: Chicago Bulls Team-Signed Basketball from 1993 -- Signed by 13 Players Including Michael Jordan, Scottie Pippen, Horace Grant, B.J. Armstrong & Bill Cartwright

  

  # Bids: 9

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: $2,685

• Lot #175: 1883 Invitation to the Brooklyn Bridge Opening Ceremonies -- Made by Tiffany & Co.

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $2,000

  Final Price: Pass