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May 2019 Auction Ends Thursday, May 30th, 5pm Pacific

Auction closed on 5/30/2019. Final prices include buyers premium.

• Lot #19: Albert Einstein Letter Signed From 1947 -- ''...the British and the Americans are making the same mistakes as after the first world-war by not preventing Germany to get strong and dangerous again...''

  

  Min Bid: $3,000

  Final Price: $3,750

• Lot #25: Enigma Machine Used by Germany During World War II -- Very Scarce, as Germans Were Ordered to Destroy the Machines to Prevent Capture by the Allies

  

  Min Bid: $200,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #26: Enola Gay Crew-Signed Photo by Four Depicting the Atomic Bomb Blast

  

  Min Bid: $750

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #27: WWII Poem Signed by Five Enola Gay Crew Members -- Tom Ferebee, Theodore Van Kirk, Morris Jeppson, George Caron & Paul Tibbetts

  

  Min Bid: $400

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #28: Extraordinary Letter by Alan Wood Describing Iwo Jima: ''...When they raised a little flag on top of the Mountain the Marines on the beach cheered...a Marine came aboard asking for a larger flag...''

  

  Min Bid: $3,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #30: Dwight Eisenhower WWII Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...I've dashed from here to there & back again until I'm dizzy...'' -- Eisenhower Signs DE, Then Scratches It Out, Writing ''Ike'' to His Wife...

  

  Min Bid: $800

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #31: Dwight Eisenhower WWII Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...to anyone else my writing would merely represent illiteracy or indifference...''

  

  Min Bid: $800

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #33: Thomas Jefferson Land Grant Signed as President -- Also Signed as James Madison as Secretary of State

  

  Min Bid: $4,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #34: Thomas Jefferson & James Madison Signed Four-Language Ship's Papers -- Jefferson Signs as President & Madison as Secretary of State

  

  Min Bid: $3,750

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #35: Thomas Jefferson Document Signed as President -- 4-Language Ship's Papers Also Signed by James Madison

  

  Min Bid: $3,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #43: Abraham Lincoln Military Appointment Signed During the Civil War

  

  Min Bid: $6,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #44: Abraham Lincoln Autograph Endorsement Signed as President -- Lincoln Mistakenly Dates the Proclamation of Amnesty as 8 December 1864 -- With University Archives COA

  

  Min Bid: $4,750

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #45: Abraham Lincoln Autograph Note Signed as President -- Recommending Employment to a Discharged Soldier

  

  Min Bid: $3,750

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #46: Abraham Lincoln Civil War Military Appointment Signed as President

  

  Min Bid: $3,500

  Final Price: $4,375

• Lot #60: George Washington Autograph Letter Signed, With Bold Writing & Signature -- Washington Writes to His Nephew Bushrod Washington (Thus Signed Twice) Regarding a ''Singular'' Oddity in His Land Holdings

  

  Min Bid: $15,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #61: George Washington Autograph Free Frank Signature in 1779 as Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army During the Revolutionary War

  

  Min Bid: $8,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #63: Winston Churchill Letter Signed Regarding the Death of WWII Admiral Andrew Cunningham

  

  Min Bid: $1,600

  Final Price: $2,000

• Lot #64: Winston Churchill Signed ''The Hinge of Fate'' -- Part of Churchill's Post-WWII Analysis That Won Him the Nobel Prize in Literature

  

  Min Bid: $1,250

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #66: Japanese Emperor Hirohito Document Signed From 1931

  

  Min Bid: $1,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #131: 1876 Printing of the Declaration of Independence -- Centennial Memorial Print

  

  Min Bid: $400

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #132: John Hancock Military Appointment Signed as Governor of Massachusetts

  

  Min Bid: $3,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #133: Marquis de Lafayette Autograph Note Signed -- ''Here is the portrait of an affectionate, grateful, and respectful friend / Lafayette''

  

  Min Bid: $650

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #134: George Custer Envelope Made Out in His Hand to his Wife -- ''Mrs. Genl Custer''

  

  Min Bid: $550

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #135: Ulysses S. Grant Civil War Dated Autograph Letter Signed -- From August 1861, a Week After His Promotion From Colonel to Brigadier General

  

  Min Bid: $1,750

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #136: Republic of Texas Bond From 1841 Signed by David Burnet as Acting President

  

  Min Bid: $750

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #137: Sam Houston Signed Land Grant as Governor of Tennessee

  

  Min Bid: $1,250

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #194: Mata Hari Autograph Letter Signed Regarding Critiques of Her Dancing -- ''...read a bit what these journalist pigs dare to write...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,300

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #195: Mata Hari Autograph Letter to Her Lover, Piet van der Hem -- ''...When you have Paris and Vienna etc. like me, then the Dutch can not do me much harm...''

  

  Min Bid: $800

  Final Price: Pass