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July 2018 Auction Ends Thursday, July 26th, 5pm Pacific

Auction closed on 7/26/2018. Final prices include buyers premium.

• Lot #15: Superb Abraham Lincoln Autograph Letter Signed as President, Regarding Possible War Profiteering During the Civil War -- ''...I expected that when...the price of a...gun was fixed, it would stand...''

  

  Min Bid: $32,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #16: 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: $5,000

  Final Price: $6,250

• Lot #17: Abraham Lincoln Magic Lantern Slide -- The ''Five Dollar Bill'' Photo

  

  Min Bid: $160

  Final Price: $200

• Lot #18: Abraham Lincoln Magic Lantern Slide -- The ''so essentially Lincolnian'' Portrait

  

  Min Bid: $160

  Final Price: $200

• Lot #19: Abraham Lincoln Magic Lantern Slide -- Mathew Brady's First Photograph of Lincoln, O-17

  

  Min Bid: $160

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #26: Rare Harry Truman WWII Victory Proclamation Signed as President -- Gifted to White House Staff in 1945 -- Near Fine Condition

  

  Min Bid: $6,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #27: ''JOIN, or DIE'' Newspaper From Benjamin Franklin's ''Pennsylvania Gazette'' in 1754 -- The Most Influential Political Cartoon in America's History & Only Known Copy Apart From the Library of Congress

  

  Min Bid: $40,000

  Final Price: $50,000

• Lot #28: Very Rare Thomas Paine Autograph Letter Signed, to Fellow Revolutionary Ira Allen

  

  Min Bid: $16,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #55: Clara Barton Autograph Letter Signed to General Benjamin Butler, With Autograph Note Signed by Butler

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #56: Intriguing Clara Barton Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...I am not well...it is not my body proper that has given way but the nerves & sleep...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #57: Clara Barton Autograph Letter Signed -- Writing Approvingly of a Surgeon, ''...he hoped he should live to see every negro in the south a voter...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #58: Rare George A. Custer Autograph Letter Signed as Lt. Colonel of the 7th Cavalry -- ''...some of the company officers appear on parade wearing 'government pants!'...''

  

  Min Bid: $6,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #65: Unpublished Draft From Winston Churchill's Memoir, ''The Second World War'' -- Churchill Recounts an Entertaining Story From the Quebec Conference Regarding Mountbatten Shooting at a Block of Pykrete

  

  Min Bid: $2,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #66: Winston Churchill Letter Signed, Marked ''Confidential'' by Him Regarding His WWII Memoir -- ''...this work will, if I live...be appearing off and on in serial form from the beginning of 1948...''

  

  Min Bid: $2,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #67: Winston Churchill Letter Signed as Prime Minister, Regarding His WWII Memoir, ''The Second World War'', on 10 Downing Street Stationery

  

  Min Bid: $600

  Final Price: $750

• Lot #68: Winston Churchill Manuscript as Prime Minster -- Refuting an American Broadcast on the U.S.'s Importance in the WWII European Theater -- ''...we did practically the whole work...''

  

  Min Bid: $600

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #71: WWII Poem Signed by Five Enola Gay Crew Members -- Tom Ferebee, Theodore Van Kirk, Morris Jeppson, George Caron & Paul Tibbetts

  

  Min Bid: $400

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #72: Iwo Jima Marine Rene Gagnon Autograph Letter Signed, With Signed Cover -- ''...you can't possibly imagine there's a war going on...as it is now lots of husbands and boyfriends are not coming back...''

  

  Min Bid: $600

  Final Price: Pass