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October 2019 Auction Ends Thursday, October 31st, 5pm Pacific

Auction closed on 10/31/2019. Final prices include buyers premium.

• Lot #1: John Adams Military Document Signed as President, Appointing a Midshipman to the Navy in 1799 During the French-American Quasi-War

  

  Min Bid: $6,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #6: Civil War Magic Lantern Slide -- General Ulysses S. Grant With His Famed Horse Cincinnati, at Cold Harbor in 1864

  

  Min Bid: $160

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #9: Abraham Lincoln Document Signed as President -- With Full ''Abraham Lincoln'' Signature

  

  Min Bid: $5,250

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #10: Abraham Lincoln Autograph Endorsement Signed as President -- Lincoln Mistakenly Dates the Proclamation of Amnesty as 8 December 1864 -- With University Archives COA

  

  Min Bid: $4,500

  Final Price: $5,625

• Lot #11: Abraham Lincoln Magic Lantern Slide -- ''There! that's the best likeness of Mr. Lincoln that I ever saw!''

  

  Min Bid: $160

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #26: George Washington Appointment Signed as President -- Countersigned by Thomas Jefferson as Secretary of State

  

  Min Bid: $17,500

  Final Price: $21,875

• Lot #29: Winston Churchill Signed ''The Hinge of Fate'' -- Part of Churchill's Post-WWII Analysis That Won Him the Nobel Prize in Literature

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #59: Albert Einstein Letter Signed From 1943 With His Hand-Drawn Diagram -- Einstein Helps Solve a Problem for the National Defense Research Committee, the WWII Task Force That Headed the Manhattan Project

  

  Min Bid: $5,500

  Final Price: $6,875

• Lot #61: Drs. Arnold Sommerfeld and Paul Epstein Write a Jovial Postcard to Fellow Dr. Peter Paul Koch

  

  Min Bid: $600

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #62: Meriwether Lewis Autograph Letter Signed, Two Months Before the Lewis & Clark Expedition -- In What Would Be Lewis' Lifelong Battle With Reimbursed Debt, He Defends Against Money He Purportedly Owes

  

  Min Bid: $20,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #63: Philadelphia Newspaper From 18 September 1787, Reporting on the Constitutional Convention That Ended a Day Earlier on 17 September, When the U.S. Constitution Was Signed

  

  Min Bid: $15,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #64: John Hancock Military Appointment Signed as Governor of Massachusetts

  

  Min Bid: $2,750

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #65: 1778 Revolutionary War Broadside, a Call to Arms to Build the ''Great Chain'' on the Hudson River, From West Point to Constitution Island -- Broadside Also Requests Forces for Battle of Rhode Island

  

  Min Bid: $10,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #66: Declaration of Independence Signer Matthew Thornton Twice-Signed Document From 1769 as Justice of the Peace

  

  Min Bid: $2,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #67: 1839 Republic of Texas Letter: ''...It is true that Texas sprang into existence under peculiar circumstances...'' & Regarding the New Capital at Waterloo: ''...will be called The City of Austin...''

  

  Min Bid: $2,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #68: Civil War Magic Lantern Slide -- African American Teamsters at Bermuda Hundred

  

  Min Bid: $160

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #69: Civil War Magic Lantern Slide -- Showing a Wounded Zouave Soldier

  

  Min Bid: $160

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #70: Iwo Jima First Day Cover Signed by All Three of the Flag Raisers: Rene Gagnon, Ira Hayes & John Bradley

  

  Min Bid: $1,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #72: 17th Century Hand-Colored Map of the Americas by Noted Cartographer Willem Blaeu -- Entitled ''A New Map of America''

  

  Min Bid: $2,250

  Final Price: Pass