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May 2018 Auction Ends Thursday, May 31st, 5pm Pacific

Auction closed on 5/31/2018. Final prices include buyers premium.

• Lot #2: John Adams 1800 Land Grant Signed as President With Bold Signature -- Awarding Revolutionary War General William Woodford 2,500 Acres in Ohio

  

  Min Bid: $5,000

  Final Price: $8,319

• Lot #8: Thomas Jefferson Document Signed as President -- 4-Language Ship's Papers Also Signed by James Madison

  

  Min Bid: $4,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #9: Thomas Jefferson Ship's Papers Signed as President -- Countersigned by James Madison

  

  Min Bid: $3,000

  Final Price: $3,750

• Lot #17: Abraham Lincoln Document Signed as President, Appointing Henry Wetmore U.S. Consul to Peru -- Wetmore Would Later Head a Campaign to Register Former Slaves to Vote

  

  Min Bid: $6,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #18: Abraham Lincoln Document Signed as President -- With Full ''Abraham Lincoln'' Signature, Lincoln Appoints a Register to the Kansas Land Office at the Start of the Civil War -- With PSA/DNA COA

  

  Min Bid: $5,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #19: Abraham Lincoln Assassination Letter From the Lead Detective -- ''...Clampitt [Mary Surratt's defense lawyer] was little more than a big mouthed political rounder...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,200

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #28: Franklin D. Roosevelt Document Signed as President -- FDR Signs a Certificate of Honor in 1936 for the USS Indianapolis, the Ship That Famously Sunk 9 Years Later in the Navy's Worst Maritime Disaster

  

  Min Bid: $400

  Final Price: $500

• Lot #31: William Howard Taft Excoriates President Woodrow Wilson for His Handling of WWI -- ''...Wilson's selfish temperament...he loves idealistic phrases that sound well in his mouth...''

  

  Min Bid: $7,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #34: George Washington Signed Document Conferring Membership in the Ultra-Elite Society of the Cincinnati -- Available Only to Revolutionary War Officers & Their Heirs

  

  Min Bid: $9,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #36: Scarce Adolf Hitler Signed Photo -- With Letter Signed by Albert Bormann From Hitler's Chancellory Confirming the Signature

  

  Min Bid: $8,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #40: John Hancock 1780 Naval Document Signed as Governor of Massachusetts

  

  Min Bid: $3,000

  Final Price: $3,750

• Lot #41: WWII Hero Rene Gagnon Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...about my furlough...just think of it in five more weeks exactly well be together again...''

  

  Min Bid: $600

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #42: Ira Hayes Envelope Signed From 1944 During His WWII Service -- Postmarked Independence Day July 4, 1944

  

  Min Bid: $800

  Final Price: $1,000

• Lot #43: Admiral Chester Nimitz Signed Photo of the Japanese Surrender

  

  Min Bid: $800

  Final Price: Pass