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February 2014 Auction Ends Thursday, February 27th, 5pm Pacific

Auction closed on 2/27/2014. Final prices include buyers premium.

• Lot #242: Dwight Eisenhower WWII ALS -- ''...a war zone does funny things to people. It is no light matter to approve sentences that ruin not one, but several lives...'' -- Envelope Also Signed by Ike

  

  Min Bid: $3,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #243: General Dwight Eisenhower WWII Autograph Letter Signed to His Wife, Mamie -- ''...'Emergency' is a good name for war...high pressure!...''

  

  Min Bid: $3,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #244: Dwight Eisenhower WWII Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...I always feel a bit guilty...when I eat anything special...people, even including babies...have been so long without many items...''

  

  Min Bid: $3,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #250: Ulysses S. Grant Signature

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #297: Four 1865 Letters by a Soldier at the Washington Arsenal, Where the Lincoln Conspirators Were Held -- ''...Ms. Surratt is very sick in Prison here...they...have been sentanced to be hung...''

  

  Min Bid: $5,000

  Final Price: $6,250

• Lot #298: Illinois Voting Poll Book From the 1860 Presidential Election -- In Which Illinois' Home Son, Abraham Lincoln Famously Beat Stephen Douglas in the Election That Ignited the Civil War

  

  Min Bid: $5,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #299: ''Abraham Lincoln: A History'' -- Complete 10 Volume Set in Unusually Nice Condition From 1890

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #300: Abraham Lincoln CDV Photograph by Mathew Brady

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #301: Abraham Lincoln Civil War-Era Presidential Albumen Photo -- Depicting the President in His Five Dollar Bill Portrait

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #302: Abraham Lincoln Mourning Card -- ''In Memory of / ABRAHAM LINCOLN...A Martyr to Freedom!''

  

  Min Bid: $250

  Final Price: $313

• Lot #392: Joseph Stalin WWII-Dated Document Signed

  

  Min Bid: $7,000

  Final Price: $9,625

• Lot #523: Carl Sandburg ''Abraham Lincoln, The Prairie Years'' First Edition Signed

  

  Min Bid: $250

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #671: French and Indian War Commander Lord Jeffrey Amherst Autograph Letter Signed -- Written in Third Person -- ''...he laid his Lordship's and Mr. Douglas's proposals before the King today...''

  

  Min Bid: $300

  Final Price: $375

• Lot #672: Revolutionary War General Robert Anderson Autograph Letter Signed -- Regarding the Judiciary Act of 1802 -- ''...The law is found to be useless & unnecessary...''

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #673: Guy Carleton Autograph Note Signed 1748 -- Commander-in-Chief of British Forces During the Revolutionary War

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #674: Declaration of Independence Signer, Charles Carroll III Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...Endeavour to collect the rents due to me in Baltimore...''

  

  Min Bid: $750

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #675: Declaration of Independence Print by J.C. Buttre From 1856

  

  Min Bid: $750

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #676: 1876 Printing of the Declaration of Independence -- Centennial Memorial Print

  

  Min Bid: $300

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #677: Autograph Letter by DOI Signer William Ellery

  

  Min Bid: $300

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #678: Benjamin Franklin Signature

  

  Min Bid: $5,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #679: Thomas Gage Document Signed From 1766

  

  Min Bid: $300

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #680: 1765 Announcement of Stamp Act & Colonists' Outrage -- ''...by virtue of a commission of his majesty, gave the royal assent...for laying a stamp duty in the British colonies in America...''

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $550

• Lot #681: Alexander Hamilton Signature

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #682: DOI Signer John Hart Signed 1776 New Jersey Currency

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #683: Document Signed by DOI Signer Samuel Huntington -- The Year He Managed Connecticut's Ratification of the United States Constitution

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $625

• Lot #684: 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: $10,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #685: Henry Lee's Urgent Revolutionary War Dated Autograph Letter Twice-Signed -- ''...but sir what are we to do for arms?...The arms we had were sent down with our last detachmt. to Wmsbg...''

  

  Min Bid: $10,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #686: Henry ''Light Horse Harry'' Lee Land Grant Signed as Governor of Virginia

  

  Min Bid: $750

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #687: British General Sir John Moore 1808 Document Signed -- Just Months Before His Heroic Death at the Battle of Corunna

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #688: 1784 Deed to Property in New Brunswick, New Jersey -- ''...previous to the late Revolution...''

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #689: American Revolutionary General Samuel Holden Parsons Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...Dr. Cogwell applied to me for the purchase of the Horseneck farm...'' -- 1785

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #690: Civil War General & Fort Sumter Hero Robert Anderson's Signature

  

  Min Bid: $250

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #691: G.T. Beauregard 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: $15,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #692: General Beauregard 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: $2,500

  Final Price: $3,438

• Lot #693: Thomas S. Bocock Signature -- Speaker of the Confederate States House of Representatives

  

  Min Bid: $250

  Final Price: $313

• Lot #694: Civil War General Benjamin F. Butler Typed Letter Signed -- ''...I can see you any time after half past three o' clock to-day about the matter...and I want to see you about another matter...''

  

  Min Bid: $250

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #695: Gettysburg Hero Joshua Chamberlain Signed Bowdoin College Document -- Chamberlain Signs as the School's President

  

  Min Bid: $750

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #696: Civil War General & Gettyburg Hero Joshua Chamberlain Signed Check

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #697: Fantastic Edward Everett Civil War Quote Signed -- ''...there can be neither peace nor prosperity at home...but in a harmonious Union under one Government...''

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #698: Civil War Photographer Alexander Gardner Signed Check

  

  Min Bid: $1,250

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #699: 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: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #700: Union Army General Quincy Adams Gillmore Civil War-Dated Autograph Letter Signed

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #701: Ulysses S. Grant Carte de Visite -- With Brady Backmark

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #702: Ulysses S. Grant 1865 Carte de Visite

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #703: Civil War Document Signed by Generals Johnston and Grant, & War Secretary Stanton -- Johnston Negotiates His Parole Terms After Surrendering & Grant Agrees, ''...I am very much in favor...''

  

  Min Bid: $10,000

  Final Price: $12,500

• Lot #704: Robert E. Lee Signed Slip

  

  Min Bid: $1,250

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #705: Gettysburg General George Gordon Meade Document Signed as Commander of the Department of the South

  

  Min Bid: $300

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #706: Rare Signature of Elusive Confederate Commander John S. Mosby, the So-Called ''Grey Ghost''

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $625

• Lot #707: 1863 Civil War Battles Detailed in Pages of ''The New York Times'' -- Chancellorsville, Vicksburg, Gettysburg

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #708: General Winfield Scott Document Signed -- Regarding Soldier Abuse in the Seminole Wars

  

  Min Bid: $300

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #709: Civil War General Philip Sheridan Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...I telegraphed to Genl [James A.] Garfield asking him to appoint a new orator...''

  

  Min Bid: $250

  Final Price: $313

• Lot #710: William T. Sherman Check Twice-Signed

  

  Min Bid: $350

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #711: Charles Sumner Autograph Quote Signed From His Powerful 1860 ''Barbarism of Slavery'' Speech -- ''The sacred animosity between Freedom & Slavery can end only with the triumph of Freedom...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #712: Attractive Civil War Tintype of a Union Sergeant -- Armed With Sword & Revolver -- Blue Tinting to Uniform

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #713: John Allan Wyeth ''With Sabre And Scalpel'' First Edition Signed to a Fellow Physician -- ''...her loyalty to the ideals which the Polyclinic implies...''

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #714: WWII General Hap Arnold Signature

  

  Min Bid: $250

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #715: WWII Iwo Jima Commemorative Cover Signed by Survivor John H. Bradley

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $625

• Lot #716: General Omar Bradley Signed 11'' x 14'' Photo Display -- Photo of The Five-Star General in Full Military Regalia From 1970

  

  Min Bid: $250

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #717: Karl Donitz Autograph Letter & Accompanying ''Donitz'' Signed Cover -- WWII German Admiral Expresses Thanks for Gift of Model Ship

  

  Min Bid: $250

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #718: Karl Donitz Signed Photo as the Nazi's Gross Admiral

  

  Min Bid: $250

  Final Price: $313

• Lot #719: James Doolittle & His Doolittle Raiders Signed Document -- Signed in an 1986 Air Force Association ''Gathering of Eagles'' Commemorative Booklet

  

  Min Bid: $750

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #720: Doolittle's Raiders Signed Photo

  

  Min Bid: $300

  Final Price: $413

• Lot #721: Nazi Leader Adolf Eichmann Power of Attorney Signed -- During His Extradition From Argentina to Israel to Stand Trial For War Crimes

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: $1,250

• Lot #722: Envelope Bearing 7 Signatures of the Enola Gay & Bockscar Crews

  

  Min Bid: $750

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #723: Rare Book Signed by a Dozen WWII Enola Gay and Bockscar Crew Members

  

  Min Bid: $750

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #724: Enola Gay Poem Signed by Five Crew Members Including Tibbets, Jeppson, Caron & Ferebee

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #725: WITHDRAWN

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: W/D

• Lot #726: Mitsuo Fuchida Signed Memoir -- the Pearl Harbor Pilot Inscribes Biblical Verse

  

  Min Bid: $350

  Final Price: $530

• Lot #727: Rene Gagnon Autograph Letter Twice-Signed From ''Central Pacific / Oct. 17, 1944'', 4 Months Before Iwo Jima -- ''...I hope you didn't forget the reason I joined up in this outfit...''

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $625

• Lot #728: General Roy Geiger April 1945 Typed Letter Signed -- Declines Clippings Concerning Iwo Jima

  

  Min Bid: $250

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #729: Adolf Hitler Signed Copies of His ''Mein Kampf'' -- Both Volumes Including a 1st Edition of Volume II, Signed by Hitler in 1925, Inscribed to Future SS Leader Josef Bauer

  

  Min Bid: $20,000

  Final Price: $64,850

• Lot #730: Douglas MacArthur Typed Letter Signed -- ''...It was thoughtful of you to write me as you have and I appreciate it more than I can say...''

  

  Min Bid: $300

  Final Price: $375

• Lot #731: ''Battle of the Bulge'' WWII General Anthony McAuliffe Postcard Signed

  

  Min Bid: $250

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #732: Bernard Montgomery Signed Copy of His WWII Speeches, ''Forward To Victory'' -- Signed in 1946

  

  Min Bid: $300

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #733: Bernard Montgomery Signed Program for 1945 Thanksgiving Service

  

  Min Bid: $300

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #734: Large Collection of German Nazi Soldier Relics -- With a 1938 Photo Album Depicting Images From Hitler's ''Landjahr'' Training Camp

  

  Min Bid: $750

  Final Price: $1,374

• Lot #735: Admiral Nimitz 14'' x 11'' Signed Photo of the Japanese Surrender -- Near Fine

  

  Min Bid: $2,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #736: General George Patton Typed Letter Signed -- ''...I have written the Adjutant to day to ship the horses...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,250

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #737: Fascinating & Confidential Navy Letter Documenting First-Hand Account on the USS California at Pearl Harbor -- ''...several men were hit by 27 caliber machine gun bullets...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #738: U.S.S. Bushnell and Crew Panoramic Photo -- 4 June 1932 -- Ship Would Defend Pearl Harbor Nearly 10 Years Later

  

  Min Bid: $250

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #739: Concentration Camp Victim at Ravensbrueck Writes to His Parents -- ''...How are you? Same old, same old here and everything in order. I wish Merry Christmas and send you kisses...''

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #740: Erwin Rommel ''Desert Fox'' Postcard Signed

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: $1,250

• Lot #741: Joe Rosenthal Document Signed From 1953 -- Also Signed by Comedian Ken Murray

  

  Min Bid: $300

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #742: Albert Speer's Personally Owned Black Leather Jacket -- Possibly Worn by Speer When He Last Visited Hitler on 23 April 1945

  

  Min Bid: $5,000

  Final Price: $10,068

• Lot #743: Nazi ''Public Enemy Number One'' Otto Strasser Typed Letter Signed -- ''...I know...how short today '1000 years' are...''

  

  Min Bid: $350

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #744: United States Pictorial History of WWI in Four Volumes -- ''U.S. Official Pictures of the World War Showing America's Participation''

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #745: Fascinating Lot of Personal World War II Possessions Belonging to United States Air Corps Officer -- Includes Uniforms, Medals, Photos

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #746: American GI's Personal WWII Photo Album Featuring Pictorial Accounts of North Africa and Italy as Well as Basic Training -- Includes Several Pictures of War Tanks -- Nearly 300 Photos

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #792: Mid-1800's Mexican Short Sword

  

  Min Bid: $250

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #798: Handwritten Diary by Spanish-American Doctor Aboard Battleship Iowa -- Account of Battle of Santiago -- ''...Spaniards were almost naked...men swam ashore with...meat of wounds uncovered...''

  

  Min Bid: $2,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #799: Spanish-American War Photo Album With Illuminating Pictures of Cuban Life and the 8th Massachusetts Infantry in the South -- Contains Shocking Photo of Southern Mob Throwing Black Person

  

  Min Bid: $750

  Final Price: Pass