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

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #545: Eyewitness Letter to Abraham Lincoln's Assassination -- ''...Booth met Surratt, Dr Mudd, Payne...these conspirators...made an abortive attempt to capture and abduct the President to Virginia...''

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #546: Revealing Lincoln Assassination Letter -- Handwritten and Signed by Dr. Porter, Who Tended to Conspirators in Prison -- ''...I have no doubt of his [John Surratt's] guilt...''

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #547: Lincoln Assassination Letter -- Signed by George Porter, Doctor at John Wilkes Booth's Funeral -- ...the...locality where the post-mortimized remains of Booth were secreted has never been correctly...

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #548: Letter Regarding the Pardons for Lincoln Assassination Conspirators Dr. Mudd, Edmund Spangler and Samuel Arnold

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #549: Lincoln Assassination Letter From Lead Detective -- ''...during my conversation with Mrs. Surratt...We did not realize that Mrs. Surratt was one of the conspirators...''

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #550: Eyewitness Letter to President Abraham Lincoln's Assassination -- ''...lead many people to believe than the assassination was the outcome of a Catholic plot...''

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #551: Eyewitness Account of the Eve of Lincoln's Killing -- ''...Was not Mrs. Surratt 'acting' a part at that time - when I said that the President had just been assassinated...she expressed no...

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $1,420

• Lot #552: Eyewitness Letter from Police Who Hunted Lincoln Assassins -- ''...I visited the Surratt house on the night of the assassination between 12 and 1 o'clock...Laura Keene told him that it was Wilkes...

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $1,562

• Lot #553: Incredible Account of Lincoln's Assassination -- ''...with considerate swagger demanded that I turn over...the hat, pistol and other articles of the Presidents that were handed to me in the theatre...

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #554: Michigan Ballot From the Lincoln-Johnson 1864 Presidential Election

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #555: 1860 Check Written and Signed by Abraham Lincoln -- Just Before Becoming the Republican Presidential Candidate

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #556: Abraham Lincoln 1862 Military Document Signed as President -- Immaculate Condition

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #557: Abraham Lincoln War-Dated Endorsement Signed on 6 May 1864 on the Back of a Full Letter -- While the Battle of the Wilderness Raged in Virginia

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #559: Abraham Lincoln Signature -- With PSA/DNA COA

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $3,049

• Lot #560: Abraham Lincoln Civil War Military Document Signed as President -- With Bold, Full Signature

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $6,544

• Lot #635: WITHDRAWN

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: W/D

• Lot #636: British General John Burgoyne 1790 Document Signed -- Rare Document Signed by Man Who Surrendered to America at Saratoga

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #637: Guy Carleton Autograph Note Signed 1748 -- Commander-in-Chief of British Forces During the Revolutionary War

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #638: Declaration Signer George Clymer Autograph Letter Signed Regarding a Slave Exchange -- ''...Captain Litle proposed...to exchange his black girl registered in Penn'a for Judy...'' -- 1768

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #639: Letter Signed by Revolutionary War General Henry Dearborn as Secretary of War

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $178

• Lot #640: Exceptionally Beautiful Force 1843 Copper Plate Engraving of the Declaration

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #641: 1876 Centennial Broadside Print of The Declaration of Independence

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #642: Benjamin Franklin 1785 Document Signed as President of Pennsylvania -- Excellent, Bold Signature

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $15,436

• 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 #645: American Revolutionary War General Robert Howe Autograph Letter Signed

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #646: Enlightenment Philosopher David Hume on Vociferous Debate on the Stamp Act -- ''...the King had said...he was for the repeal of the Stamp Act...The King has since said, that this was a mistake...''

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #647: Lafayette Letter Signed Re: Cornwallis' Final Stand -- ''...The enemy are fortifying at York...vessels are gone to bring some of the troops remaining at Portsmouth. Lord Cornwallis is at York...''

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #648: Lafayette, Acting on an Intercepted Letter to Cornwallis, Asks for Reinforcements ''To Come as Fast as Possible'' as He States ''...We are Near the Enemy...'' -- Just 4 Months Until Surrender

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #649: Four Months Until the Yorktown Surrender, Lafayette Writes About the Continuing Theme Since the Days of Valley Forge for the American Army -- Lack of Supplies, Especially Ammunition & Shoes

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $8,711

• Lot #650: Lafayette Writes Re: the Virginia Campaign to Pin Down Cornwallis Just Four Months Before Yorktown's Surrender Noting That the Enemy Has Left Richmond and Was Possibly Headed to Williamsburg

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #651: Lafayette Letter Signed Just After Arriving in Virginia in Early 1781 Where by the Fall, the British Would Surrender -- He Writes of His Strategy But Notes He Is Hampered by No Ammunition

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #652: One Month Away From the Surrender at Yorktown, Just Across the River Lies Gloucester, Where Lafayette Writes From, in Hopes of Finishing Cornwallis With Vessels Not Occupied by Washington

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #653: Gloucester, Across the River From Yorktown, Two Months Before the Surrender Was Made, Lafayette Writes That Cornwallis Is There With His Whole Force as the Aforementioned Readies U.S. Troops

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #654: Correctly Ascertaining that the British Are Sailing to Yorktown Just Three Months Before the Surrender There, Lafayette Writes General Weedon Asking for More Intelligence on Future Moves

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #655: Lafayette: ''...From the time...the ennemy appear at the mouth of Pottowmack, I can in 4 days be with you...that having been frustrated [entering] Richmond, the ennemy will [go] to Frederisburg...''

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $8,711

• Lot #656: Henry ''Light-Horse Harry'' Lee Unheard of & Urgent Revolutionary War Dated ALS -- ''...but sir what are we to do for arms?...The arms we had were sent down with our last detachmt. to Wmsbg...''

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #657: Richard Henry Lee Autograph Letter Signed 3 Months Before His State Hosted the Yorktown Surrender -- ''...Since the country was first invaded by [Benedict] Arnold we have had a string of lookouts...''

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #658: Colonial Patriot Richard Henry Lee 1781 Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...come quickly & silently into Chesapeake Bay for the purpose of entrapping Arnold & his banditti...''

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #659: Richard Henry Lee Long 1779 Revolutionary War Dated Autograph Letter Signed to Patrick Henry -- Detailing How the British Were Unwilling to Exchange Prisoners of War With the Americans

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #660: Revolutionary War General and First Secretary of War, Benjamin Lincoln Autograph Letter Signed -- Rare

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $468

• Lot #661: Thomas Mifflin Tries to Have Philadelphia Become the Permanent Federal City by Financing a Presidential Mansion in 1792 -- Washington Declined as He Was a Strong Advocate of Washington, D.C.

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #662: British General Sir John Moore 1808 Document Signed -- Just Months Before His Heroic Death at Battle of Corunna

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #663: American Revolutionary General Samuel Holden Parsons Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...Dr. Cogwell applied to me for the purchase of the Horseneck farm...'' -- 1785

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #664: Rare William Penn 1697 Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...it is oppression when even justice is unjustly done...''

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #665: 1776 Land Deed for Property in Providence, Rhode Island -- Very Attractive Presentation

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #908: Harold Bell Wright First Edition of His Last Novel -- ''The Man Who Went Away'' -- With His Autograph Inscription Signed During The Last 2 Years of His Life & Rare Dustjacket

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #909: G.T. Beauregard Famously Bids Farewell to His Army of the Potomac Whom He Led at Bull Run -- ''...I cannot quit you without...deep anxiety, in the moment of our country's trials and dangers...''

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #910: General Gustave Beauregard June 1864 Autograph Letter Signed With Additional AES -- ''...co-operate with Genl. Lee in any manner...towards the crushing of the foe in his front...''

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #911: General Beauregard 21 May 1864 Letter Signed to Jefferson Davis -- ''...send a force of...4 or 5,000 to storm Fort Powhatan and...command...the James River...'' -- One Day After Bermuda Hundred...

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #912: Confederate Statesman Judah Benjamin Document Signed -- ''...It is admitted that at and before and since the sale of the slaves...''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #913: Extremely Scarce Mathew Brady Autograph Letter Signed With Photographic Content Praising His Work -- ''...It is pronounced to be an excellent likeness...''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #914: Civil War Era Sewing Box Likely Used in the War -- With Supplies Inside

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #915: Confederate States of America Currency -- Ten Dollar Georgia Note

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #916: Confederate Election Ballot for Jefferson Davis -- From Virginia in 1861 -- Rare

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #917: Jefferson Davis Signed Cabinet Photo

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #918: Varina Jefferson Davis Signature -- First Lady of the Confederacy

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #919: Confederate General John B. Floyd CDV Photo & Buttons -- With Unusual COA From Soldier William R.P. Crocker of the 30th Illinois Infantry

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #920: Shelby Foote Signed Edition of His Civil War Masterpiece ''Shiloh''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #921: Rare 1865 Edition of the Burials at Gettysburg Cemetery -- Also Includes Transcription of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address and Everett's Account of the Battle of Gettysburg

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #922: The Battle of Gettysburg & Siege of Vicksburg Are Reported Here in the ''New York Tribune'' Newspaper -- 3 July 1863 Edition

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #923: Ulysses S. Grant 1865 Carte de Visite

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #924: Horace Greeley 1866 Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...you must be patient with me till I see my way...''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #925: WITHDRAWN

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: W/D

• Lot #926: ''Harper's Weekly'' Compilation of All Issues From 1865 Covering Abraham Lincoln's Assassination & End of Civil War

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #927: Civil War Civilian Letter -- ''...have a shingle ready with which to spank me when you catch me...I am aware I deserve something of the kind...'' -- 1864

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• 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 #929: Confederate Commissioner James Murray Mason Signed Check

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• 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 #931: Gen. George McClellan 1884 ALS to Another General -- ''...Few things would gratify me more than to please you...I am convinced that Gr Cleveland will be the next President...''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $178

• Lot #932: 1863 Civil War Battles Detailed in Pages of ''The New York Times'' -- Chancellorsville, Vicksburg, Gettysburg

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #933: Admiral David D. Porter ALS to a Publisher About Romance Novel He Wrote -- ''...I am not afraid of its not taking with the public, as it is full of remarkable incidents...love and crime...''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #934: Admiral David Porter Autograph Letter Signed From Vicksburg in 1863 During the Famous Campaign: ''...Vicksburg will soon be ours it is a mere question of time...is no hope for the Rebels...''

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #935: Famed Admiral David Porter Signed Naval Document -- 1868

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $120

• Lot #936: Civil War General Robert C. Schenck Attempts to Influence Lincoln's Cabinet Selection -- ''...God help us!...the whole success of Mr. Lincoln...depends now on a wise...constitution of his...

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $468

• Lot #937: General William Sherman Civil War Document Signed -- Framed With Engraving of Sherman

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $916

• 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 #939: Charles Sumner 1863 Autograph Letter Signed as Senator -- Regarding Slavery & a Detailed Critique of the Confiscation Act -- ''...No expression of harshness to the slavemongers...''

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #940: Gideon Welles' Signed Slip -- ''G. Welles'' as Secretary of The Navy in the 1860's -- Measures 5'' x 1.75'' -- Foxing & Creasing, Very Good

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $145

• Lot #941: West Virginia Confederate Broadside -- ''...those who persist in adhering to the cause of the public enemy, and the pretended State Government he has erected at Wheeling...''

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #942: John Allan Wyeth ''With Sabre And Scalpel'' First Edition Signed to a Fellow Physician -- ''To...Dr. Rosalie Slaughter-Morton...[for]...her loyalty to the ideals which the Polyclinic implies...''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #943: Aviation First Day Cover Signed by Six Legends of WWII Aviation -- Including ''Flying Aces'' Chuck Yeager & Tex Hill

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $349

• Lot #944: WWII Iwo Jima Commemorative Cover Signed by Survivor John H. Bradley

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #945: General Omar Bradley Signed 8'' x 10'' Glossy Army Photo -- 1957 -- ''To Kayo Roy / With best wishes / Omar Bradley'' -- Near Fine

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #946: Haunting, Inscribed Photos From the Liberation of Buchenwald, the Largest German Concentration Camp -- ''These Poles, Jews, Russians, etc. Were Shot in the Camp Streets to Prevent Their...

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #947: General Mark W. Clark 8'' x 10'' Signed Photo -- ''To: Jack K Calagari / With best wishes / Mark W. Clark'' -- Fine

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #948: General Mark Clark Typed Letter Signed Upon Citadel Stationery

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #949: WWII General Mark Clark Typed Letter Signed -- Along With Shoulder Patch

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #950: General Lucius D. Clay Typed Letter Signed as Commander in Chief, U.S. Forces in Europe -- 1947

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #951: James Doolittle & His Doolittle Raiders Signed Document -- Signed in an 1986 Air Force Association ''Gathering of Eagles'' Commemorative Booklet

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #952: Enola Gay Crew Members Signed Cover -- Paul Tibbets, Dutch Van Kirk, Tom Ferebee, Jacob Beser & Dick Nelson -- ''From Sea to Shining Sea'' FDC Postmarked 1981 -- Very Good

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #953: Enola Gay Signed Photo -- Black & White Photo of Eleven Members of the 509th -- Six Crew Members Autographed

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #954: True First Edition, First Printing of ''The Diary of Anne Frank''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  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 #960: David Lloyd George Signed 4'' x 5.75'' Matte Photo -- ''D Lloyd George'' -- Russell Sons Photographers -- Minor Creasing to 6'' x 8.75'' Mat Not Affecting Clear Signature -- Very Good

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass