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March 2018 Auction Ends Thursday, March 29th, 5pm Pacific

Auction closed on 3/29/2018. Final prices include buyers premium.

• Lot #29: Campaign Ferrotype for the 1860 Constitutional Union Party -- Ferrotypes on Each Side Feature Candidates John Bell & Edward Everett

  

  Min Bid: $1,300

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #30: Dwight D. Eisenhower Signed Limited Edition of His Memoir, ''The White House Years'' -- Uninscribed, #923 of the Limited Edition

  

  Min Bid: $600

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #31: Dwight D. Eisenhower Signed 8'' x 10'' Military Photo

  

  Min Bid: $600

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #82: George Washington ''Long Live the President'' Inaugural Coat Button From the Very First Presidential Inauguration in 1789

  

  Min Bid: $2,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #84: Woodrow Wilson Military Appointment Signed as President, Just Months Before the United States' Entry Into WWI

  

  Min Bid: $400

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #86: Winston Churchill Letter Signed With a Pointed Request

  

  Min Bid: $1,250

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #92: Benito Mussolini Autograph Letter Signed as Prime Minister -- ''...It cannot be tolerated that the Fascist Government should be weakened...''

  

  Min Bid: $800

  Final Price: $1,000

• Lot #93: Benito Mussolini Letter Signed -- ''...The example should come from the top...''

  

  Min Bid: $600

  Final Price: $750

• Lot #120: 1876 Printing of the Declaration of Independence -- Centennial Memorial Print

  

  Min Bid: $400

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #121: 1839 Republic of Texas Letter: ''...It is true that Texas sprang into existence under peculiar circumstances...'' & Regarding the New Capital at Waterloo: ''...will be called The City of Austin...''

  

  Min Bid: $4,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #122: Texas Court Document From 1858 Regarding Ownership of a Slave -- Court Presided Over by Judge Nicholas W. Battle, Who Ruled That a Freed Black Man Could Not Sell Himself Into Slavery

  

  Min Bid: $600

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #123: George Custer Envelope Made Out in His Hand to His Wife -- ''Mrs. G.A. Custer''

  

  Min Bid: $2,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #124: George Custer Envelope Made Out in His Hand to his Wife -- ''Mrs. Genl Custer''

  

  Min Bid: $800

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #125: Jefferson Davis Autograph Letter Signed in Response to General William Sherman Calling Him a Conspirator -- ''...Sherman's speech...which bore the slander...''

  

  Min Bid: $800

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #126: Jefferson Davis Letter Signed as Mississippi Senator in 1860, Shortly Before the Election of Abraham Lincoln That Precipitated Civil War

  

  Min Bid: $750

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #127: Civil War Magic Lantern Slide -- Gettysburg at Little Round Top

  

  Min Bid: $160

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #128: Civil War Magic Lantern Slide -- General Ulysses S. Grant at His Headquarters at Cold Harbor in 1864

  

  Min Bid: $160

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #129: Large Letter Lot by 17th IL Infantryman Mortally Wounded at Fort Donelson: ''...she has seen one by one those that she loved with a mother's warmest affection laid in the cold damp grave...''

  

  Min Bid: $2,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #130: 120+ Civil War Letters by a 4th Indiana Cavalryman Who Pursued General Morgan -- ''...We had a grand fight...The colonel was shot in the head but did not kill him...the bullets flew thick and...

  

  Min Bid: $20,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #131: Civil War Lot -- ''The first time I ever shot at a man I was so excited...I trembled like a leaf, but...I can draw a 'bead' on a rebel now as cooly as would on a squirrel and be glad to see him fall''

  

  Min Bid: $10,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #132: 1863 Diary by 21st Indiana Light Artilleryman With Heavy Battle Content -- Battles of Chickamauga, Brown's Ferry & Fort Donelson -- ''...found the boys burying the dead Rebles killed...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #133: Large 53 Letter Lot by Brothers in the Minute Men Regiment, 8th MA Infantry -- With Post-Baltimore Riot Content & Battle of Roanoke Island: ''...they wanted to shoot the police on the spot...''

  

  Min Bid: $2,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #134: CDV & Diary by 18 Year-Old Sergeant in the 34th Massachusetts Infantry -- Battles of Lynchburg, Piedmont & New Market -- ''...found that we killed more of the Rebs then they did of us...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,800

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #135: 29th Massachusetts Infantryman, WIA at Petersburg: ''...I was shot through the back of the neck July 30th in the charge when we blowed up the rebel fort...'' -- Also Battle of Bethesda Church

  

  Min Bid: $600

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #136: Diary by 43 MA Infantryman -- Siege of Little Washington: ''...places where the fire...had ignited and left burning hundreds of old dead...'' & ''...a negro deck hand had his arms shot off...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #137: Two CDVs & Letter Lot From KIA 8th Michigan Infantryman -- With Battle of Port Royal Ferry Content -- ''...legs and arms and heads flew in every direction when the shells busted...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,250

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #138: Civil War Archive by Frederick Meyer, Aboard the U.S.S. Flag -- ''...several men killed then they had to surrender...15 killed, 31 wounded...fire all around as shells bust on top us...''

  

  Min Bid: $2,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #139: Fantastic Letter Lot by 80th New York Soldier Who Writes Graphically About Bull Run, Cedar Mountain, Cold Harbor & City Point Explosion -- ''...the surgeons were very busy amputating limbs...''

  

  Min Bid: $4,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #140: CDV & 18 Letter Lot by 1st NY Cavalryman on Battles of 2nd Winchester, White Oak Swamp & Fighting at Sharpsburg After Antietam -- ''...Bill...fell to the ground and tossed about in agony...''

  

  Min Bid: $3,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #141: Letter Archive by WIA Soldier in the 114th NY Infantry: ''...a terrible battle ensued...A bullet struck me in the left leg...The rebs got whipped like the very devil...''

  

  Min Bid: $2,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #142: 1st NY Dragoons Soldier Describes Battle of Yellow Tavern Where He Was WIA -- ''...that night I lay in a yard with about three hundred killed and wounded, some with their legs and arms off...''

  

  Min Bid: $600

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #143: 73rd Pennsylvania Soldier WIA at Chancellorsville -- ''...The rebels came division by division, half drunk hooting and yelling like madmen...we held our ground and trusted in the Lord...''

  

  Min Bid: $3,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #144: Letter Lot by Two Civil War Soldiers -- ''...the rebel cavaliers did brave our pickets...It was about 4,000 men together and it was so still that you can hear a pin fall...''

  

  Min Bid: $2,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #145: Letter Lot of Sergeant in 101st Pennsylvania Infantry on Siege of Little Washington -- ''...We killed and wounded a bout 25 of them before they could get a cross...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,800

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #146: Two Diaries by 17th PA Cavalry Sergeant, With Constant Battle Content -- Todd's Tavern, Spotsylvania C.H., Cold Harbor, White House, Deep Bottom Run, Fisher's Hill, Cedar Creek & Winchester

  

  Min Bid: $1,800

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #147: 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: $400

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #148: Texas Cavalry Special Orders From 1864 -- For a Private in Gano's Guards of Gano's Brigade

  

  Min Bid: $600

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #149: Confederate Letter Lot From 1st Virginia Cavalryman -- ''...Lieutenant Zanondson gave him a pass and took one for himself...'' -- Plus a Copy of ''1st Virginia Cavalry''

  

  Min Bid: $800

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #150: 40th Virginia Infantryman Civil War Letter: ''...a spy had just passed through our camp, having crossed over at Mathias' point, on his way from Washington to report to General Holmes...''

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #151: Civil War Letter by 14th Virginia Infantryman -- ''...been down to Yankeedom...burnt a good deal of valuable lumber & captured five Yankees...They were indeed very much surprised to see our men...''

  

  Min Bid: $400

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #152: Bocks Car Crew-Signed 10'' x 8'' Photo of the B29 Bomber -- Signed by 9 of the Crewmen Who Flew the Mission During WWII

  

  Min Bid: $600

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #153: Auschwitz Concentration Camp Letter From 1944 -- ''...I do not need my wife's address. I only wanted to know where she is and what she and the children are doing...''

  

  Min Bid: $800

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #154: Dachau Concentration Camp Letter From 1940 & Envelope, Both on Dachau Stationery

  

  Min Bid: $400

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #155: 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 #156: ''Doolittle's Tokyo Raiders'' Signed by General James Doolittle & 28 of His Raiders

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #157: Enola Gay & Bocks Car First Day Cover Signed by 7 of the Crew Members

  

  Min Bid: $800

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #158: WWII Poem Signed by Eight Enola Gay & Bockscar Crew Members

  

  Min Bid: $600

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #159: Rene Gagnon 1944 WWII Autograph Letter Twice Signed -- ''...I'd even go over the hill [AWOL] and go to Manchester to see you if you wanted me to, but I know you don't want me to...''

  

  Min Bid: $600

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #160: Iwo Jima Flag Raisers & Joe Rosenthal Signed Sheet of Iwo Jima Commemorative Stamps -- Signed by All Four: Hayes, Gagnon, Bradley & Rosenthal

  

  Min Bid: $1,750

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #161: General Douglas MacArthur Signed 11'' x 14'' Photo

  

  Min Bid: $600

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #162: Admiral Chester Nimitz 14'' x 11'' Twice-Signed Photo of the Japanese Surrender -- Near Fine & Uninscribed

  

  Min Bid: $1,250

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #163: 1942 Letter Detailing the Torpedo Damage on the U.S.S. California During the Attack on Pearl Harbor

  

  Min Bid: $600

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #164: Albert Speer Typed Letter Signed -- Shortly After His Release From Prison

  

  Min Bid: $175

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #165: U.S.S. Indianapolis Survivors Signed 8'' x 10'' Photo -- Signed by 24 Survivors

  

  Min Bid: $700

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #166: U.S.S. Indianapolis Survivors Signed Photo -- Measures 14'' x 11''

  

  Min Bid: $600

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #167: Unique Collection of World War II Items Including a Full Uniform Worn by a Corporal in the 3rd Army -- Lot Includes Badges, Pins & a Personal Photo Owned by the Soldier

  

  Min Bid: $800

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #356: Clara Barton Autograph Letter Signed From 1861 -- Barton Defends Her Brother, Later Imprisoned as a Confederate Spy -- ''...he is noble souled, and generous to a fault, and at heart a patriot...''

  

  Min Bid: $800

  Final Price: Pass