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December 2012 Auction Ends Tuesday, December 18th, 5pm Pacific

Auction closed on 12/18/2012. Final prices include buyers premium.

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

# Bids: 9

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...''

# Bids: 7

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...''

# Bids: 5

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...

# Bids: 5

Min Bid: $500

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

# Bids: 6

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...''

# Bids: 3

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...''

# Bids: 5

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...

# Bids: 1

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...

# Bids: 1

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...

# Bids: 6

Min Bid: $500

Final Price: Pass
Lot #554: Michigan Ballot From the Lincoln-Johnson 1864 Presidential Election

# Bids: 8

Min Bid: $100

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

# Bids: 8

Min Bid: $500

Final Price: Pass
Lot #556: Abraham Lincoln 1862 Military Document Signed as President -- Immaculate Condition

# Bids: 9

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

# Bids: 10

Min Bid: $500

Final Price: Pass
Lot #559: Abraham Lincoln Signature -- With PSA/DNA COA

# Bids: 14

Min Bid: $500

Final Price: $3,049
Lot #560: Abraham Lincoln Civil War Military Document Signed as President -- With Bold, Full Signature

# Bids: 7

Min Bid: $500

Final Price: $6,544
Lot #635: WITHDRAWN

# Bids: 0

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

# Bids: 10

Min Bid: $100

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

# Bids: 5

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

# Bids: 16

Min Bid: $100

Final Price: Pass
Lot #639: Letter Signed by Revolutionary War General Henry Dearborn as Secretary of War

# Bids: 5

Min Bid: $100

Final Price: $178
Lot #640: Exceptionally Beautiful Force 1843 Copper Plate Engraving of the Declaration

# Bids: 15

Min Bid: $500

Final Price: Pass
Lot #641: 1876 Centennial Broadside Print of The Declaration of Independence

# Bids: 2

Min Bid: $100

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

# Bids: 24

Min Bid: $500

Final Price: $15,436
Lot #643: WITHDRAWN

# Bids: 0

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

# Bids: 19

Min Bid: $1,000

Final Price: Pass
Lot #645: American Revolutionary War General Robert Howe Autograph Letter Signed

# Bids: 4

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...''

# Bids: 20

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...''

# Bids: 19

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

# Bids: 11

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

# Bids: 16

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

# Bids: 5

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

# Bids: 11

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

# Bids: 10

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

# Bids: 10

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

# Bids: 7

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...''

# Bids: 14

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...''

# Bids: 7

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...''

# Bids: 8

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...''

# Bids: 8

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

# Bids: 8

Min Bid: $500

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

# Bids: 2

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.

# Bids: 11

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

# Bids: 2

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

# Bids: 4

Min Bid: $100

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

# Bids: 14

Min Bid: $500

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

# Bids: 4

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

# Bids: 3

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...''

# Bids: 23

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...''

# Bids: 3

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...

# Bids: 7

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...''

# Bids: 4

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...''

# Bids: 6

Min Bid: $100

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

# Bids: 1

Min Bid: $500

Final Price: Pass
Lot #915: Confederate States of America Currency -- Ten Dollar Georgia Note

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $100

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

# Bids: 11

Min Bid: $100

Final Price: Pass
Lot #917: Jefferson Davis Signed Cabinet Photo

# Bids: 15

Min Bid: $100

Final Price: Pass
Lot #918: Varina Jefferson Davis Signature -- First Lady of the Confederacy

# Bids: 2

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

# Bids: 7

Min Bid: $100

Final Price: Pass
Lot #920: Shelby Foote Signed Edition of His Civil War Masterpiece ''Shiloh''

# Bids: 6

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

# Bids: 2

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

# Bids: 2

Min Bid: $100

Final Price: Pass
Lot #923: Ulysses S. Grant 1865 Carte de Visite

# Bids: 6

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...''

# Bids: 4

Min Bid: $100

Final Price: Pass
Lot #925: WITHDRAWN

# Bids: 0

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

# Bids: 7

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

# Bids: 0

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!!!''

# Bids: 16

Min Bid: $1,000

Final Price: $10,780
Lot #929: Confederate Commissioner James Murray Mason Signed Check

# Bids: 1

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'...''

# Bids: 7

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...''

# Bids: 3

Min Bid: $100

Final Price: $178
Lot #932: 1863 Civil War Battles Detailed in Pages of ''The New York Times'' -- Chancellorsville, Vicksburg, Gettysburg

# Bids: 4

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...''

# Bids: 3

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...''

# Bids: 16

Min Bid: $500

Final Price: Pass
Lot #935: Famed Admiral David Porter Signed Naval Document -- 1868

# Bids: 1

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...

# Bids: 6

Min Bid: $100

Final Price: $468
Lot #937: General William Sherman Civil War Document Signed -- Framed With Engraving of Sherman

# Bids: 9

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...''

# Bids: 11

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...''

# Bids: 11

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

# Bids: 3

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...''

# Bids: 4

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...''

# Bids: 5

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

# Bids: 9

Min Bid: $100

Final Price: $349
Lot #944: WWII Iwo Jima Commemorative Cover Signed by Survivor John H. Bradley

# Bids: 2

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

# Bids: 2

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...

# Bids: 5

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

# Bids: 2

Min Bid: $100

Final Price: Pass
Lot #948: General Mark Clark Typed Letter Signed Upon Citadel Stationery

# Bids: 2

Min Bid: $100

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

# Bids: 3

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

# Bids: 2

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

# Bids: 11

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

# Bids: 4

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

# Bids: 5

Min Bid: $100

Final Price: Pass
Lot #954: True First Edition, First Printing of ''The Diary of Anne Frank''

# Bids: 8

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...

# Bids: 5

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...

# Bids: 4

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...

# Bids: 4

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...

# Bids: 8

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

# Bids: 21

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

# Bids: 2

Min Bid: $100

Final Price: Pass

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