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February 2013 Auction Ends Thursday, February 28th, 5pm Pacific

Auction closed on 2/28/2013. Final prices include buyers premium.

• Lot #1: Oscar Awarded to Lewis R. Foster for Best Original Story in 1940 for the Classic ''Mr. Smith Goes to Washington''

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: $106,231

• Lot #2: Lewis Foster's Personal Copy of ''Mr. Smith Goes to Washington'' Screenplay That Won Him an Academy Award

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #7: Lot of 100 Personal Checks Signed by Hollywood Film Star Mary Astor

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #80: Laurel & Hardy Signed 10'' x 8'' Photo

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #98: Emmy Gown Worn by Maria Menounos in 2012 -- Designed by Oliver Tolentino From Eco Fabric Made of Pineapple Fiber

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #102: Mike Myers Screen-Worn Iconic Suit From ''Austin Powers in Goldmember''

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #111: George Reeves Signed Photo as Superman -- The First On-Screen Portrayal of the DC Hero -- With PSA/DNA COA

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #147: Felix de Weldon WWII Bronze Sculpture -- Engraved, ''Well Done Motion Picture Industry''

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #156: Apollo 11 Crew Signed 10'' x 8'' Photo -- Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin & Michael Collins

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #160: Apollo 15 Flown 6'' x 4'' American Flag -- Signed & Inscribed ''Flown to the Moon on Apollo 15 Al Worden CMP'' by NASA Astronaut Al Worden -- Near Fine -- Also With COA by Worden

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $3,049

• Lot #165: Neil Armstrong Signed Lithograph -- NASA Artist Paul Calle's Rendition of Armstrong Crafted Immediately Before The Launch to The Moon

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $1,892

• Lot #166: Neil Armstrong Signed 8'' x 10'' Photo -- Uninscribed & Near Fine -- Also With Original Apollo 11 Program

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $1,892

• Lot #167: Neil Armstrong Signed Moon Landing Cover

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #173: Lot of NASA Photos Signed by 8 Astronauts Including Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Michael Collins & Scott Carpenter

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #183: Albert Einstein Letter Signed Mentioning Quantum Theory Physics -- ''...fundamentally opposed to modern science...a mystical view...is being publicized in the popular scientific literature...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #200: Disney Animation Cel From ''Lady and the Tramp'' -- With Disney Seal

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #203: Jim Henson 1974 ''Muppets'' Character Sketch -- Henson Pitches His ''Muppets'' Before They Got Their Own Television Show -- Includes Two Polaroids of Henson Posing With the Snerf Puppets

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #211: Andy Warhol Signed Iconic Campbell's Soup Label -- With PSA/DNA COA

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #213: Frank Lloyd Wright Silver & Mother of Pearl Opera Glasses -- Gifted to His Wife Catherine & Passed Down to Their Granddaughter, Oscar-Winning Actress Anne Baxter

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #243: The Most Famous Newspaper Mistake of All Time -- ''Dewey Defeats Truman''

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $1,562

• Lot #244: Dwight D. Eisenhower WWII Letter to His Wife -- ''...a war zone does funny things to people. It is no light matter to approve sentences that ruin not one, but several lives...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #245: Dwight Eisenhower 1942 Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...Last night...I found awaiting me a notification that I'd been appointed a reg. Maj-Gen. by the President. That practically floored me...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #246: Eisenhower's Touching Wartime Letter to His Wife -- ''...war is so terrible...until man has developed more common sense it seems that he is slated to cause himself more unhappiness...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #247: General Dwight Eisenhower WWII Autograph Letter Signed to His Wife, Mamie -- ''...if there were no problems -- and no argument -- wars would be easy to conduct...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #248: General Dwight Eisenhower WWII Autograph Letter Signed to His Wife, Mamie -- ''...'Emergency' is a good name for war...high pressure!...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #249: General Dwight Eisenhower WWII Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...I always feel a bit guilty...when I eat anything special...these people, even including babies...have been so long without many...

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #250: Eisenhower WWII TLS To His Wife -- ''...Moreover, people are lost every day - I do not yet know how many this Army lost this morning. We have got to steel ourselves to these things in war...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #290: Rose Kennedy 1943 Typed Letter Signed to ''Dear Children'' -- Mentioning Joe Jr., Jack and Bobby -- ''...Jack wrote us a letter...saying he would be leaving for the Pacific in a couple of days...''

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #292: Compelling Eyewitness Letter to President Abraham Lincoln's Assassination Uncovering the Conspiracy -- ''...The man that jumped from the theater box, in which the President was witnessing the play,...

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $1,172

• Lot #293: Amazing Eyewitness Letter Detailing Lincoln Assassination Events -- ''...It became 'absolutely certain' that Wilkes Booth was implicated in that crime...''

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #324: JFK During the Cuban Missile Crisis -- ''...Boy, if Fidel Castro had something like you, he would think more about making Love, and less about making war...''

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #325: Blaze Starr Autograph Letter Signed -- Regarding a Tryst in the White House with JFK -- ''...I told J.F.K. about my fantasy with the Lincoln bedroom. He said lets go...''

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #349: Winston Churchill Typed Letter Signed -- Expressing Concern for His Longtime Secretary After an Accident -- ''...I will pay for the extra treatment you may require...''

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $1,562

• Lot #350: WITHDRAWN

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: W/D

• Lot #351: Winston Churchill 1955 Typed Letter Signed ''...I am honoured that you should wish to award an annual prize for Spoken English to be called the Churchill Prize...''

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $1,420

• Lot #352: King George III 1785 Document Signed -- Interesting Document Itemizes Expenses Incurred for 5 of His 15 Royal Children -- ''Prince William / Robe, Stables, Extras...''

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #354: Irish Civil War Broadside From Eamon de Valera's IRA -- on The Battle of Dublin ''...sniping posts against the soldiers of the Irish Republic...''

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #359: Peter Max Oil on Canvas Painting Personally Owned by Rock Legend David Crosby -- From the ''Grammy '91'' Series

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: $6,691

• Lot #360: David Crosby Worn Suede Cape From His Personal Collection -- Worn Early in His Career With ''The Byrds''

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #361: David Crosby's Own Gibson ES-335 Guitar -- From His Days in "The Byrds"

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: $25,428

• Lot #362: David Crosby Original 28'' x 32'' Portrait Painting by Peter Max -- From David Crosby's Personal Collection

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: $6,691

• Lot #367: Original Drawing Created & Signed by Michael Jackson -- With PSA/DNA COA

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #368: Country Legend Wynonna Judd's 1992 Billboard Award for Top ''#1 Hot Country Single'' for Her Hit ''I Saw the Light''

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: $7,361

• Lot #378: Ludwig Bemelmans Signed & Hand-Drawn Elephant Sketch Upon His Classic ''Madeline'' Book

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #379: Ludwig Bemelmans Hand-Drawn Sketch & Signed Inscription Within His Popular Book, ''Madeline's Rescue''

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #393: Two Harper Lee Autograph Notes Signed -- With Gifted John Singer Sargent Art Book and Pair of Leopard Earrings

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #396: Ayn Rand Signed Limited Edition of ''Atlas Shrugged'' -- The Epic Novel That Gave Birth to Objectivism

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #406: First Printing of Dr. Seuss' ''The Cat in The Hat'' With First Printing Dustjacket in Near Fine Condition

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #408: Scarce Jonathan Swift Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...the poor Doctor hath given up his school in town to his great loss...continuing in uneasyness and suspense till your Letter comes...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #409: Mark Twain Twice-Signed 35-Volume Set of His Complete Works -- Signed Both ''Mark Twain'' And ''SL Clemens''

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $3,355

• Lot #421: 12 Civil War Letters by 1st VT Cavalry Pvt. J.W. Palmer -- From the Infamous Kilpatrick-Dahlgren Raid -- "…we went within two miles of Richmond and we throwd some shells into the city…"

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $1,562

• Lot #429: WWII German Luftwaffe Rare Photograph Album -- Kampfgeschwader Unit e8 -- 189 Photos With Captions

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #455: Martin Luther King Signed First Edition of ''Stride Toward Freedom''

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #456: Golda Meir Letter Signed Regarding the 1949 Armistice Agreements -- Mentioning Countries' in Conflict, Egypt, Syria, Jordan & Lebanon -- ''...their interpretation is...to destroy our settlements...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: $8,908

• Lot #480: 1850's Minute Book For The Pontchartrain ''Smoky Mary'' Railroad -- With Handwritten Act of Congress to Incorporate The Pensacola Railroad System

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #481: Important Early Railroad Documents -- Internal Minutes Log From the Pontchartrain ''Smoky Mary'' Railroad -- The Second Railroad Ever Built in the United States

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #491: Maria Sharapova Signed Tennis Shoes -- Worn by Sharapova at the 2012 U.S. Open!

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass