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May 2014 Auction Ends Thursday, May 29th, 5pm Pacific

Auction closed on 5/29/2014. Final prices include buyers premium.

• Lot #212: Original Photo of the Hughes H-4 Hercules ''Spruce Goose'' -- Taken 2 November 1947 -- 10'' x 8'' Glossy Photo in Near Fine Condition

  

  Min Bid: $250

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #424: Dwight Eisenhower 1944 Autograph Letter Signed -- The General Misses His Wife -- ''...war wouldn't be nearly so tough on me if you could be here...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,750

  Final Price: $2,188

• Lot #425: WITHDRAWN

  

  Min Bid: $1,750

  Final Price: W/D

• Lot #429: Dwight D. Eisenhower Autograph Envelope Signed

  

  Min Bid: $300

  Final Price: $375

• Lot #431: John T. Ford Autograph Letter Signed -- Owner of Ford's Theater Where Lincoln Was Shot -- ''...We are in peril...for the sake of the Union...''

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $625

• Lot #454: Lincoln Assassination Letter -- ''...Rev. [George] Porter...simply reiterates what he has heard from others although he writes as if he were stating matters he had witnessed in person...''

  

  Min Bid: $2,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #455: 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: $2,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #474: Franklin D. Roosevelt Letter Signed as President -- ''...[columnist is]...writing stuff which rejoices the heart of Hitler or he is a theoretical dreamer who ought not to write at all...''

  

  Min Bid: $6,750

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #493: Rare George Washington Revolutionary War Franking Signature -- Signed ''Go: Washington''

  

  Min Bid: $6,750

  Final Price: $8,438

• Lot #495: DOI Signer & First Senator of Maryland Charles Carroll of Carrollton Endorsement Signed

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #496: 1876 Centennial Broadside Print of The Declaration of Independence

  

  Min Bid: $300

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #497: Revolutionary War-Dated Nathanael Greene Autograph Letter Signed -- ''You have never felt the ravaging hand of war nor the insolence of British tyranny...Washington [is] great and good''

  

  Min Bid: $10,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #498: John Hancock Document Signed During The American Revolution

  

  Min Bid: $4,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #499: John Hancock Document Signed

  

  Min Bid: $4,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #500: Founding Father John Jay Document Signed From 1757

  

  Min Bid: $750

  Final Price: $938

• Lot #501: Declaration Signer George Walton Document Signed in 1777

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #502: WWII Doolittle's Tokyo Raiders Cover Signed by 5 Crew Members Including Doolittle Himself

  

  Min Bid: $300

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #503: Rene Gagnon Autograph Letter Signed 5 Times From The Central Pacific in October 1944 -- ''...pup tents, when I woke up each morning I'd have an indoor swimming pool...I sure hope it ends soon...''

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $625

• Lot #504: Rene Gagnon 3x Signed Autograph Letter From The Central Pacific Theater 4 Months Before Iwo Jima -- ''...If I could just be back in the mill now, I wouldn't fight with the boss anymore...''

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #505: Scarce Hirohito and Empress Nagako 8'' x 10'' Portrait Photos Signed

  

  Min Bid: $8,500

  Final Price: $10,625

• Lot #506: Scarce Hitler Signed Photo -- Photo Taken by Heinrich Hoffmann Is Encapsulated in a Case Belonging to German Aviator Nazi Flugkapitan Hanna Reitsch

  

  Min Bid: $15,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #507: WWII General Douglas MacArthur Signed Photo

  

  Min Bid: $300

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #508: Admiral Chester Nimitz Twice Signed 14'' x 11'' Photo of the Japanese Surrender

  

  Min Bid: $2,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #509: Firsthand Account of Pearl Harbor by M.N. Little of the USS Beaver -- ''...I have no idea how many bodies were removed...corpses left in the flooded areas of the third deck...'' -- 1942

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: $1,513

• Lot #510: Albert Speer Typed Letter Signed -- ''...p.s. The phone number is at the bottom of this letter...''

  

  Min Bid: $250

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #511: World War II Internal Correspondence Documents From The US Navy -- From The Radio Man Onboard Destroyer Escort Ship USS Burrows (DE-105)

  

  Min Bid: $7,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #512: Robert Anderson Civil War-Dated Military Appointment Signed

  

  Min Bid: $300

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #513: Turner Ashby 1862 Confederate Abstract Signed

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #514: Battle of Little Bighorn Officer Frederick Benteen 7th Cavalry Document Signed From 1878

  

  Min Bid: $1,250

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #515: Union 1st Brigade General Joshua Chamberlain Rare Civil War Date Partial Autograph Letter Signed

  

  Min Bid: $4,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #516: Joshua Chamberlain Document Signed

  

  Min Bid: $750

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #517: George Custer Signed Envelope

  

  Min Bid: $1,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #518: George Custer Signed Envelope

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #519: Civil War General Henry Halleck Autograph Letter Signed as General in Chief -- ''...Iowa troops captured at Shiloh have been exchanged...Grant had effected their exchange...months ago...''

  

  Min Bid: $750

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #520: Confederate General Leonidas Polk Autograph Note Signed

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #521: William T. Sherman's Civil War Orders Handwritten by His Assistant Following the Battle of Memphis -- ''...All houses inside the new Fort must be forthwith vacated by families...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #522: Confederate Cavalry General J.E.B. Stuart Document Signed as a US Quartermaster

  

  Min Bid: $5,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #541: French Admiral Latouche Treville Letter Signed -- ''...The crew of the ship Tordeaux wrecked in 1773 on the island of Tizago, where they had found the most awful captivity...''

  

  Min Bid: $300

  Final Price: Pass