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March 2012 Auction Ends Wednesday, March 28th, 5pm Pacific

Auction closed on 3/28/2012. Final prices include buyers premium.

• Lot #9: Lincoln Assassin John Wilkes Booth CDV Photo -- Sepia Image of the Actor in His Pre-Assassin Days Measures 2.5'' x 4''

  

  # Bids: 2

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #30: Check Signed by Declaration of Independence Signer George Clymer -- Excellent Signature of Pennsylvania Representative to First U.S. Congress

  

  # Bids: 3

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #40: 1876 Printing of the Declaration of Independence -- Centennial Memorial Print

  

  # Bids: 5

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #41: Declaration of Independence Printed on a 24'' x 20'' Piece of Fabric -- 1867 From World's Fair

  

  # Bids: 4

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #46: Autograph Letter by Declaration of Independence Signer William Ellery

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #230: Declaration of Independence Signer John Morton Colonial Currency Signed -- 1772

  

  # Bids: 2

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #245: American Revolution General Samuel Holden Parsons Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...Dr. Cogwell applied to me for the purchase of the Horseneck farm...'' -- 1785

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #261: West Point Chief Engineer Stephen Rochefontaine Autograph Letter Signed -- From West Point in 1796, the Year of the West Point Fire

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #465: Charles Albury Questionnaire Signed Regarding Bockscar -- ''...I was one of many dedicated people who wanted to end the destruction and killing...''

  

  # Bids: 2

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #466: Ninth-Plate Ambrotype of Late 19th Century Bearded Civilian -- Housed in Full Leatherette Case -- Very Good

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #467: Ambrotype Civil War Photo of Uniformed Union Soldier -- Powerful, Melancholy Image -- Measures 2'' x 2.5'' -- Gilt on Buttons

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #468: WWII General Hap Arnold Signed 5'' x 3'' Card -- ''H.H. Arnold'' Over U.S. Army Stamp -- Toning, Else Fine

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #469: Union General Christopher Columbus Augur CDV -- Commanded XXII Corps -- Brady Backstamp -- 2.5'' x 4'' -- Very Good

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #470: Nathaniel Banks Mathew Brady Civil War CDV -- 2.5'' x 4'' -- Excellent

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #471: Union General Nathaniel Banks CDV -- Also Congressman from Massachusetts -- 2.25'' x 4'' Brady Portrait -- Very Good

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #472: Confederate General G.T. Beauregard Check Signed -- Body of Check Also Filled out by Beauregard

  

  # Bids: 7

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #473: Signature of ''Grant's Shadow'' Captain Samuel H. Beckwith -- ''...He carried with fidelity the secrets of the nation...''

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #474: Confederate Statesman Judah Benjamin Document Signed -- ''...It is admitted that at and before and since the sale of the slaves...''

  

  # Bids: 3

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #475: Questionnaire Filled Out by Jacob Beser Regarding the Enola Gay Million -- Beser Confirms He Fell Asleep En Route to Hirsoshima

  

  # Bids: 2

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #479: Civil War Photo from ''Brady's Incidents of the War'' Series -- 4th N.Y. Artillery at Ft. Corcoran, Va. Measuring 14'' x 10''

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #480: Brady CDV of CW Soldier -- New York

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #481: Mathew Brady Civil War Photo Circa 1864 -- Rare Albumen Photo of U.S.S. Pawnee Crew in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #482: British Flying Ace Douglas Bader and German Flyer Adolf Galland FDC Signed -- Celebrating the 31st Battle of Britain Anniversary

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #483: 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 Liberatio

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #484: General Ambrose Burnside CDV -- Brady Backstamp -- Very Good

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #485: Union General Benjamin Butler CDV -- Later Massachusetts Governor -- With Brady Backstamp -- Very Good

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #486: General Benjamin Butler Document Signed -- 1863 Civil War Dated

  

  # Bids: 5

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #487: George Caron Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...I believe the atomic bombs convinced Japan to stop fighting thereby saving millions of lives on both sides...''

  

  # Bids: 3

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $1,109

• Lot #488: Union General Silas Casey CDV -- Brady Backstamp-- 2.25'' x 4'' -- Very Good

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #489: General Adna Chaffee Signature -- Famed Civil War Soldier & U.S. Army Chief of Staff From 1904-1906 -- 3.5'' x 2.5'' -- Near Fine

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #490: 1864 Civilian Letter to Soldier of General Benham's Brigade -- ''...There has been a great excitement...in getting volunteers...on the last call of 500,000...''

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #491: General Mark Clark Signed First Edition of ''Calculated Risk''

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #492: WWII General & Citadel President Mark Clark Signature on 8.5'' x 5.5'' Sheet -- ''Happy to comply, Mark Clark'' -- Near Fine

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #493: General Mark Clark 10'' x 8'' Glossy Signed Photo of a WWII Tank -- Near Fine

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #494: General Mark Clark Typed Letter Signed Upon Citadel Stationery

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #495: Mark Clark Typed Letter Signed to Boy Scout Johnson -- With Fifth Army Shoulder Patch -- 1945

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #496: Two CDVs of Wilhelm von Bechtold, Commander 45th U.S. Colored Troops -- Both Measure 2.5'' x 4'' -- Excellent

  

  # Bids: 2

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $306

• Lot #497: Captain Will H. Hugo CDV -- 70th New York Infantry at Battle of Wilderness -- Transferred to 28th U.S. Colored Troops -- Very Good With Soldier Inscription on Verso

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $253

• Lot #498: Collection of Photos Bearing Witness to the Nazi Concentration Camps

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #499: Confederate Soldier Who Helped His Enemy -- ''...Yankees...born in VA...a great many of them fighting against their relatives & best friends. They had been badly treated..."

  

  # Bids: 2

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #500: Four 1864 Confederate War Bond Coupons -- Each for $30 Printed by Archer -- 6'' x 3'' -- Near Fine

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #501: 1864 1st Connecticut Heavy Artillery -- ''...Our Co. had a New Years gift of 18 recruits and they are a scared looking set of men. They are sad, tired...and look like the last rose of summer..."

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $189

• Lot #502: 1862 1st Connecticut Heavy Artillery ALS -- ''...The removal of Gen. Mc Clellan from the army of the Potomac has caused a good deal of...hard feeling in the army...''

  

  # Bids: 2

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $189

• Lot #503: 1865 1st Connecticut Heavy Artillery ALS -- ''...Johnson's Army hasn't surrendered yet but he will soon be forced to do so as...part of the army of the Potomac are in his rear and Sherman in his

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $253

• Lot #504: CDV of 1st Connecticut Heavy Artilleryman

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $116

• Lot #505: 2nd Connecticut Heavy Artilleryman Writes From Cold Harbor Battlefield -- ''...the shot & shell fly round quite thick...The enemy a strongly fortified...Our only way to drive them is to lay siege..."

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #506: 7th CT Infantry ALS -- "…the rebels get within about 10 miles of us but do not dare come any nearer, one of our gun boats went down the river today…some of the Darkies are set to…man the boats…"

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $189

• Lot #507: 7th CT Infantry ALS -- ''...the yellow fever at Hilton Head was the reason we left there...Gen. Banks is coming here now...look out...Charleston and Savannah will have to take it...''

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $189

• Lot #508: 10th Connecticut Infantry Civil War Letter -- ''...General Foster's boat, the John Farmer, came along side and took...12 Marines and 30 of our company...''

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $230

• Lot #509: 15th Connecticut Infantry CDV -- Captain Henry B. Peck -- Very Good Condition

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #510: 1864 21st CT Infantry ALS -- ''...I did not enlist to have you go oute to worke for a living not by a dam site and when I want you to I will tell you of it...''

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $209

• Lot #511: Signature of WWII British Admiral Andrew Cunningham -- Green Ink, 4.5'' x 2.5'' -- With Envelope & Reply Letter -- Very Good

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #512: Dachau Concentration Camp SS Guard Photo ID

  

  # Bids: 4

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #513: Dachau Concentration Camp Letter -- 1940 German Prisoner Letter on Dachau Stationery -- Very GoodCondition

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #514: Rare 1940 Dachau Concentration Camp Prisoner Letter -- ''...All lies in God's hands and hope that all will sort itself out, slowly but surely and that we will see each other again...''

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #515: Dachau Concentration Camp Letter

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #516: Original Photo of Dachau Concentration Camp -- Upon Velox Photo Paper -- 4.5'' x 3.5'' -- Near Fine

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #517: World War II British General Miles Dempsey 7'' x 8'' Autograph Letter Signed -- With Original Envelope -- November 1944 -- Near Fine

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $120

• Lot #518: WWII German Admiral Karl Donitz Signed Note -- Printed Card in German Sends Christmas Greetings -- Signed ''Donitz'' -- Very Good

  

  # Bids: 6

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $317

• Lot #519: Karl Donitz Autograph Letter & Accompanying ''Donitz'' Signed Cover -- WWII Admiral Expresses Thanks for Gift of Model Ship

  

  # Bids: 4

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #520: Karl Donitz Signed ''Memoirs''

  

  # Bids: 5

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $425

• Lot #521: Karl Donitz Signed Photo as Gross Admiral -- 4'' x 5.75'' -- Semi-Matte Photo in Fine Condition

  

  # Bids: 3

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #522: First Day Cover Signed by 27 Doolittle Raiders -- Including James Doolittle

  

  # Bids: 5

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #523: James Doolittle & His Doolittle Raiders Signed Document -- Signed in an 1986 Air Force Association ''Gathering of Eagles'' Commemorative Booklet

  

  # Bids: 4

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #524: 8'' x 10'' Atomic Bomb Photo Signed by the Enola Gay Crew -- Paul Tibbets, Dutch Van Kirk, Tom Fereber, Morris Jefferson and Dick Nelson

  

  # Bids: 5

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $566

• Lot #525: WWII Enola Gay Printed Poem Signed by Five Crew Members Including Tibbets, Jeppson, Caron & Ferebee -- Bold Signatures -- Fine Condition

  

  # Bids: 4

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #526: Enola Gay Photo Signed by Paul Tibbets, Tom Ferebee, Jacob Beser, Richard Nelson & George Caron -- 10'' x 8'' Photo Is Near Fine

  

  # Bids: 4

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $566

• Lot #527: Enola Gay 10'' x 8'' Glossy Photo Signed by Six Crew Members -- Ferebee, Tibbets, Beser, Van Kirk, Caron and Nelson -- Fine

  

  # Bids: 4

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $566

• Lot #528: Enola Gay Signed Photo -- Black & White Photo of Eleven Members of the 509th -- Six Crew Members Autographed

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #529: Civil War General Frederick Fuger Signature -- Medal of Honor Recipient for Defending Pickett's Charge -- 3.75'' x 2.75'' -- Near Fine

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #530: WWII Lt. Cmdr. Richard Gaines Portrait Inscribed ''To Admiral Blakely - In deep appreciation of...Dick Gaines'' -- 7.25'' x 11''

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #531: Original Photograph From Alexander Gardner's ''Photographic Sketch Book of the Civil War'' -- the Famous Blandford Church in Petersburg, Virginia

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #532: General Roy Geiger April 1945 Typed Letter Signed -- Declines Clippings Concerning Iwo Jima -- 6.25'' x 9.25'' -- Very Good

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #533: Rare 1914 Wartime Postal Cover to Germany Marked ''Undeliverable'' -- With Letter Stating ''...Owing to the most regrettable War...we beg to refrain from continuing our business relations...''

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #534: WWII German Luftwaffe Rare Photograph Album -- Kampfgeschwader Unit e8 -- 189 Photos With Captions

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #535: Four WWII Photographs Showing the Execution of German Spies

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #536: Photojournalist Ralph Morse Eyewitness Account of 7 May 1945 Nazi Surrender Cabled to ''Time'' Magazine -- ''He then motioned for the Germans to be brought in.''

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #537: Gettysburg Battlefield Albumen Photograph -- Measures 7'' x 4.5''

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #538: Civil War CDV of General Quincy Adams Gilmore -- Identified in Ink to Verso

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #539: Signature of General Frederick Dent Grant -- Son of President U.S. Grant -- 3.5'' x 2.5'' -- Signature Smudged, Else Fine

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #540: Signature of General Frederick Dent Grant -- Son of Ulysses S. Grant & Minister to Austria-Hungary -- 3.5'' x 2.5'' -- Near Fine

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $120

• Lot #541: CDV of Ulysses S. Grant in Union General Uniform -- Brady Backstamp -- 2.25'' x 4'' -- Very Good

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #542: CDV of Ulysses S. Grant in Civil War Uniform -- With Anthony Backmark

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #543: Ulysses S. Grant Carte de Visite -- With Brady Backmark

  

  # Bids: 3

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #544: Ulysses S. Grant 1865 Carte de Visite

  

  # Bids: 4

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #545: CDV of Ulysses S. Grant as Commanding General in the Civil War -- With Anthony Backmark

  

  # Bids: 6

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $425

• Lot #546: Civil War General Henry Halleck CDV -- 2.5'' x 4'' -- Very Good Condition

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #547: Union General Henry Halleck CDV -- Brady Backstamp -- 2.5'' x 4'' -- Very Good

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #548: Charming Letter from Famed WWII Admiral William Halsey -- ''...a grateful letter for one of the finest times I have ever had. I cannot tell you how much I enjoyed every bit of it...''

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #549: Admiral William Halsey ''Time'' Magazine Cover Signed -- From November 1942

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #550: William F. Halsey Document Signed -- Shellback Certificate Awarded on Board the USS Saratoga

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #551: General Winfield Hancock CDV -- Gettysburg Hero Who Ran for President in 1880 -- Striking Brady Portrait -- Very Good

  

  # Bids: 4

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #552: WWII Marine General Fred Haynes Signed 8'' x 10'' Glossy Photo -- of Iwo Jima Fame -- ''...Sincerely Fred Hayes / Major General US core'' -- Fine

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #553: World War II General Courtney H. Hodges 1945 Typed Letter Signed and Envelope -- Very Good Condition

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #554: Original Holocaust Photo Album -- Includes Several Pictures of Dead Prisoners at Buchenwald Concentration Camp

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #555: Original Holocaust Photo Album -- Includes Several Pictures of Dead War Prisoners at a Concentration Camp

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #556: General Oliver O. Howard Typed Letter Signed -- ''...good will...really existed...between the fighting men of the North and South...''

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #557: ''The Christian General'' Oliver Otis Howard Document Signed -- 1863 Requisition Also Signed by Gen. William LeDuc

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #558: 1865 13th IN Infantry ALS -- ''...There is a great rejoicing today. Shooting musketry, and offal Yelling...over the capture of ft. fisher...''

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $189

• Lot #559: 39th IL Infantry ALS -- "…the 1st Virginia Regt had a little Skirmish this morning with a party of rebels…they lost one man killed and one wounded…we may have a fight here…we are ready for them…"

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $120