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February 2012 Auction Ends Tuesday, February 28th, 5pm Pacific

Auction closed on 2/28/2012. Final prices include buyers premium.

• Lot #40: Norman Rockwell's Original 1941 "Four Freedoms" Poster Set

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $686

• Lot #59: Gregory "Pappy" Boyington "Baa Baa Black Sheep" Signed

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $270

• Lot #60: World War I Ace Pilot Eddie Rickenbacker Signed Copy of His Autobiography

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $216

• Lot #72: Signed 10" x 8" Collage Photo of Enola Gay -- Signed by Tibbets, Beser, Ferebee, Van Kirk and Caron -- Near Fine

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #97: Manhattan Project Engineer Kenneth Nichols Cover Signed -- "K.D. Nichols / Major General USA" -- 6.5" x 3.5" -- Fine

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #99: Benedict Arnold Autograph Letter Signed -- 1786

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $3,604

• Lot #100: Eisenhower War Dated TLS: "…the soldier sees things that, if not more terrible in their ultimate consequences, are far more terrifying and disagreeable in the immediate reactions they create..."

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #103: Lincoln Autograph Note Signed Just Weeks Before He Died -- 1865

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #104: Lincoln Assassination Letter -- Signed by George Porter, Doctor at John Wilkes Booth's Funeral -- …the…locality where the remains of Booth were secreted has never been correctly described…"

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #105: William Seward Jr. Writes of Lincoln's Assassination -- "…I am unable to answer…whether Mr. Lincoln had any other attendant with him, except Col. Rathbone…"

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #106: Letter by the Son of Secretary of State William Seward -- "…My brother…seriously injured at the time of the attempted assassination of Secretary Seward recovered…"

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #107: 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 #108: Eyewitness Letter to President Abraham Lincoln's Assassination -- "…at the trial of conspirators as a witness you could not give all the facts in your knowledge…"

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #109: Lincoln Assassination Detective Lt. Luther Byron Baker Autograph Letter Signed -- "…I attended the great trial and was a witness at the trial of John H. Suratt…"

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #111: Abraham Lincoln Document Signed as President in 1865 -- With Full "Abraham Lincoln" Signature

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $7,986

• Lot #128: Napoleon's General Claude Dallemagne Document Signed From 1807

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #130: 1876 Printing of the Declaration of Independence -- Centennial Memorial Print

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $425

• Lot #131: French General Philippe Guillaume de Deux-Ponts Letter Signed -- Condemns a Deserter to the "…Galleys for Life…"

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $349

• Lot #132: French Revolutionary War General Arthur Dillon Document Signed -- 5 Years Before He Was Guillotined in the Reign of Terror

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #134: Famed Napoleonic General Guillaume-Mathieu Dumas Autograph Letter Signed -- Also Rochambeau's Aide-de-Camp in the Revolutionary War

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $300

• Lot #140: King George VI and Elizabeth Signed 1939 Holiday Card -- Just Months After England Declares War on Nazi Germany

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $1,109

• Lot #163: Lincoln Assassination Document Signed by Dr. George Porter Who Attended to Lincoln Conspirators

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #164: Letter Regarding the Pardons for Lincoln Assassination Conspirators Dr. Mudd, Edmund Spangler and Samuel Arnold

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #167: General Harold Moore and Joseph Galloway Signed Limited Edition of "We Were Soldiers Once…And Young"

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #169: First French Republic Document Signed by Napoleon's General Jean-Baptiste Meynier -- Meynier Fought With the Americans in the Revolutionary War

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $196

• Lot #215: Colin Powell Signed First Edition of His Autobiography "My American Journey"

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $120

• Lot #219: Dwight Eisenhower WWII Typed Letter Signed on Battle of the Bulge -- "…the German, in typical fashion, gambled a lot…to get back the initiative on this front. He lost -- just as he was sure to lose…"

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #220: Lot of 10 WWII Letters -- A Pilot Writes of His Experience Flying Bombing Missions in Europe "…Those Nazis are still plenty tough and I don't feel too sure about this war being over yet awhile…"

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #221: General Hap Arnold Signed First Edition of "Global Mission" -- Autobiography Tells of Army Air Forces in WWII

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #222: General Omar Bradley "A Soldier's Story" Signed -- "…how war is waged on the field from the field command post…"

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $216

• Lot #223: General Mark Clark "Calculated Risk" Signed

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #224: General Lucius D. Clay Typed Letter Signed as Commander in Chief, U.S. Forces in Europe -- 1947

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #225: Dachau Concentration Camp Prisoner Letter

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #226: Dachau Concentration Camp Prisoner Letter -- "…God will look after you…"

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $349

• Lot #227: Dachau Concentration Camp Prisoner Letter

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $196

• Lot #228: Letter Written at Concentration Camp at Dachau -- 1940

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #229: Handwritten Letter From A Dachau Concentration Camp Prisoner -- 1940

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $216

• Lot #230: Dachau Concentration Camp Letter -- 1940

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $241

• Lot #231: Hitler Successor Karl Donitz Autograph Note Signed -- on German Instrument of Surrender Document

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $1,172

• Lot #232: "The New York Times" From 2 May 1945 -- "Hitler Dead in Chancellery, Nazis Say…" -- "…Britain to Insist Germans Show Hitler's Body…"

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #233: Charles W. Lindberg, Iwo Jima Flag Raiser, Typed Letter Signed -- "…After we raised the flag, the enemy started coming out of their caves…" -- Letter Documenting Iconic WWII Moment

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #234: General Douglas MacArthur Typed Letter Signed

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $216

• Lot #235: Hitler's Bodyguard and SS Squad Leader, Rochus Misch, Signed Photo and Note Mentioning Hitler -- "…I witnessed my chief after his suicide…"

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #237: Bernard Montgomery Autograph Letter Signed -- "…When do you propose to come here for the pruning?…" -- 1964

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $240

• Lot #238: Chester Nimitz Signed 13.75" x 10.5" Photo of Japanese Surrender -- Excellent Signature on Iconic Photo

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #239: General John J. Pershing Typed Letter Signed -- "…duties which I am about to undertake in the Army [as General of the Armies] will so occupy my time…"

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $216

• Lot #240: John J. Pershing Signed Book "My Experiences in the World War" -- Story of American Expeditionary Forces in WWI France -- With PSA/DNA COA

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $300

• Lot #241: Iwo Jima General Keller E. Rockey Typed Letter Signed -- March 1945, Just Days After the Battle! -- "…we will probably be moving so fast…"

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #242: Nazi Officer Erwin Rommel Typed Letter Signed From 1942

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $968

• Lot #243: Iwo Jima General Harry Schmidt Typed Letter Signed -- April 1945

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #244: WWII Iwo Jima General Holland "Howlin' Mad" Smith Typed Letter Signed -- 1945

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #245: Five Star General Omar Bradley Signed 8" x 10" Semi-Matte Photo -- "Omar N Bradley" -- Near Fine

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #246: General Mark W. Clark 8" x 10" Signed Matte Photo -- "To: Jack K Calagari / With best wishes / Mark W. Clark" -- Fine

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #247: Admiral William "Bull" Halsey Typed Letter Signed Thanking a Commander for Get Well Wishes -- Very Good -- Slabbed by PSA/DNA

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #248: Nazi Fighter Ace Erich Hartmann FDC Signed -- With Fighter Plane Postmarked San Diego, 1978 -- 6.5" x 3.5" -- Fine

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #249: Iwo Jima Photo Signed by the Oldest Surviving Member of the Iconic Flag Raising Party -- 8" x 10" -- Fine

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #250: Five Star General Douglas MacArthur Signature -- 4" x 3" -- With PSA/DNA COA -- Very Good

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #251: General Matthew Ridgway Cover Signed for the 35th Anniversary of Normandy -- "M.B. Ridgway General…6 June 1944" -- 6.5" x 3.5" -- Fine

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #252: General Matthew Ridgway Signed & Inscribed Photo -- With JSA COA -- Photo Measures 7.5" x 9.5", Matted to 11.75" x 13.5" -- Very Good

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $178

• Lot #253: Repentant Nazi Albert Speer Signed First Day Cover, Honoring Dwight Eisenhower -- Postmarked 1969 -- 6.5" x 3.5" -- Fine

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $180

• Lot #254: Thomas S. Bocock Signature -- Speaker of the Confederate States House of Representatives

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #255: 1863 Confederate Bond -- $1000 Bond Issued By Jefferson Davis' Confederate Government

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #256: "Photographic History of the Civil War" -- Ten Volume Set Bursting With Period Photographs -- 1911

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $566

• Lot #257: General William Sherman 1845 Autograph Letter Signed -- as a Young Lieutenant Shortly Before War Breaks Out in Mexico

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $1,343

• Lot #258: Check Signed by Notorious Civil War General Daniel Sickles

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $161

• Lot #259: Lincoln-Appointed Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles Signed Discharge -- "…the war…having been brought to a successful termination…"

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #260: Jefferson Davis Signed Cabinet Photo

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #261: 1883 Letter From Civil War General Porter to General Abbott -- "…The fling at Grant is the only unpleasant thing in the whole…"

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $178

• Lot #263: General William Tecumseh Sherman CDV -- With Anthony Backstamp

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $288

• Lot #367: Norman Mailer Signed Copy of "The Naked and the Dead" -- Based on Mailer's WWII Experience

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $150

• Lot #529: test

  

  Min Bid: $1

  Final Price: None