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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 #1562: 1849 California Gold Prospector Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...I mean the gold sent the first time & the small package of gold sent...''

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1563: 1849 California Gold Rush Autograph Letter Signed

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1564: Rare Cigar Labels Glued on Poster-Sized Mat -- Pride of Baltimore, Mountain Trout, Prescott & Walt Whitman -- 11.5'' x 18'' -- Very Good

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $120

• Lot #1565: DeLorean Motor Company Founder John Z. DeLorean 1981 Check Signed

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1566: DeLorean Motor Company Founder John Z. DeLorean Signed Document -- 1976

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1567: DeLorean Motor Company Documents Regarding Acquisition of the Lamborghini Company -- With John DeLorean Autograph Note Signed & Correspondence With Giorgetto Giugiaro

  

  # Bids: 4

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1568: Richard Gatling Autograph Sentiment Signed -- ''We should remember our friends and not forget our enemies'' -- 1894

  

  # Bids: 2

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1569: 1865 Railroad Bond Signed by Jay Gould

  

  # Bids: 2

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1570: Very Large Stock Certificate Signed by Railroad Magnate C.P. Huntington -- 16.5'' x 11''

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1573: Erie Railroad Annual 1909 Pass -- Issued to ''Miss M Fisher'' -- Very Good

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1574: Rare Handwritten Letter Signed by ''Believe It or Not!'' Robert Ripley -- ''...Believe it or not, but when my taxi...pulled up...'she' was on the platform waiting for me!...''

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1575: John D. Rockefeller Card Signed -- Rockefeller Sends a Birthday Thank You

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1611: Madame Candelaria Original Cabinet Photo -- Reported Survivor of the Battle of the Alamo

  

  # Bids: 5

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1612: 1868 Letter on Alaska Purchase & Ulysses S. Grant -- "…Grant has said nothing on the…purchase of Alaska…impression produced by Genl Grant's enemies…against seclusion should be counteracted…"

  

  # Bids: 4

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $262

• Lot #1613: Anheuser-Busch 1909 Advertising Booklet -- 8pp. With Fold-Out Image of Budweiser Factory -- Edgewear, Otherwise Near Fine

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1614: 1905 Anheuser-Busch Decorative Metal Charger -- 10'' Diameter -- Near Mint

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1615: Anheuser-Busch Erlanger Neck Label -- Brewed From 1883-1906 -- Mint Condition

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1616: Aheuser-Busch's Faust Beer Label

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1617: Anheuser-Busch Malt Nutrine Label -- Produced From 1919-1928 -- ''...Dose: A Wine Glassful Before...Meals...'' -- Fine

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1618: Front & Back Labels for Anheuser-Busch Malt-Nutrine -- Produced From 1906-1912 -- ''Non Intoxicant...Liquid Extract of Malt and Hops...'' -- Mint

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1619: Anheuser-Busch Michelob Neck Label -- Brewed From 1896-1900 -- Reads, ''Michelob / Unsteamed'' -- Mint Condition

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1620: Anheuser-Busch and Budweiser Neck Labels -- Pre-Prohibition -- Mint Condition

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1621: Rare Anheuser-Busch America's Porter Back Label -- Brewed From 1899-1910 -- Label With Busch Logo Reads, ''America's Porter'' -- Mint

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1622: Anheuser-Busch St. Louis Exquisite Neck Label -- Brewed From 1893-1904 -- Mint Condition

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1623: Robert Baden-Powell Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...we have a wonderful opportunity...to make the League of Nations a living force in the next generation...'' -- 1919

  

  # Bids: 2

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1625: Katharine Lee Bates Autograph Letter Signed -- Refers to ''America the Beautiful'' -- ''...I enclose an autograph copy of the hymn you are so good as to like...''

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1626: 1855 Texas Slave Document Signed by Justice R.E.B. Baylor

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1627: Edie Beale of Grey Gardens Fame -- ''...I think you were very brave to protest your working conditions and fight for the right! I should write 15 books about what they did to us!...I hate Florida!"

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1628: Daniel Beard Signed Photo -- One of the Original Scout Masters

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1629: 1939 Cadillac Fleetwood Lineup Brochure -- Full Color Sketches -- 14'' x 20'' -- 24pp. -- Near Fine

  

  # Bids: 3

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $145

• Lot #1630: Rare Letter About Al Capone Written by Prison Guard -- "…Without doubt, during my twenty years in the Penitentiary, Al was the most interesting character of the criminal class that I ever met…"

  

  # Bids: 5

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1631: ''From Julia Child's Kitchen'' Signed -- ''a summation...of my 25 years in the kitchen...''

  

  # Bids: 3

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1632: Julia Child Signed First Edition of ''Julia's Kitchen Wisdom''

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1633: Julia Child Signed ''Julia Child's Menu Cookbook''

  

  # Bids: 3

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1634: Art Deco Cufflinks Circa 1930's by H. Huntley & Sons -- 9kt. Gold Links Measure .75'' x .6'' -- Fine Condition

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1635: Signature of ''Fighting Bob'' Evans -- ''R.D. Evans / Rear Admiral / U.S.N.'' -- on 3.5'' x 2.5'' Card -- Fine

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1636: Signature of ''Fighting Bob'' Evans -- ''R.D. Evans / Rear Admiral / U.S.N.'' -- on 3.5'' x 2.5'' Card -- Fine

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $120

• Lot #1637: 1832 Georgia Land Lottery Document Claims Cherokee Land for Settlers -- Infamous Trail of Tears Begins

  

  # Bids: 5

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1638: Signature of George Goethals, Engineer of the Panama Canal & the Canal Zone's First Governor -- 4.75'' x 3.5'' -- Near Fine

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1639: George W. Goethals Autograph Letter Signed -- Goethals Is Widely Admired for His Supervision of the Panama Canal Construction

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1640: John Gotti Autograph Letter Signed While in Prison -- Letter Prominently Featured in New York Times Article on Pen Pal Relationship Between Gotti & Recipient

  

  # Bids: 12

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1641: 1974 Texas Tech University Yearbook -- With John Hinckley, Jr. on Page 482 -- Former Owners Name, Else Excellent

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1642: Jimmy Hoffa Signed Teamsters Card -- Belonging to Charles O'Brien, a "Person of Interest" in Hoffa's Disappearance -- With PSA/DNA COA

  

  # Bids: 11

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $1,220

• Lot #1643: J. Edgar Hoover Signed First Edition of ''A Study of Communism''

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1644: J. Edgar Hoover ''Masters of Deceit'' Signed

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1645: J. Edgar Hoover Signed Baseball

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1646: J. Edgar Hoover Signed Photo -- ''To Ralph J. Gomez / Best wishes / 6.21.48 J. Edgar Hoover'' -- 8.75'' x 9.25'' Matte Photo Trimmed on Bottom, Else Very Good

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1647: J. Edgar Hoover Signed Photo -- Taken by Hollywood Glamour Photographer Max Autrey

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1648: J. Edgar Hoover Signed Photo -- By Famed Portrait Photographer Fabian Bachrach

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1649: J. Edgar Hoover 1938 Typed Letter Signed -- 1 September 1938 on FBI Letterhead -- 8'' x 10.5'' -- With JSA COA

  

  # Bids: 2

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $145

• Lot #1650: FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover 1937 Typed Letter Signed -- Expressing Season's Greetings at the Beginning of the New Year

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1651: Handwritten Letter Signed by Unabomber Ted Kaczynski -- Politically-Themed Letter Sent From Prison Lambasts the ''Technoindustrial System''

  

  # Bids: 5

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $317

• Lot #1652: Captain Kangaroo Signed Photo & 33 Business Cards

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1653: Oklahoma City Bomber Timothy McVeigh Signed High School Yearbook -- ''...Have a nice summer & a great life...''

  

  # Bids: 2

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1654: Mid-1800's Mexican Short Sword -- 29'' Long -- Very Good

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1655: Miss America Pageant Panoramic Photo -- September 1952

  

  # Bids: 5

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $468

• Lot #1656: From the Naval Institute in Anapolis -- ''Practical Knots and Splices'' -- 1942

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1657: ''The United States Navy From the Revolution to Date'' -- 1918 Pictorial History

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1658: 1801 Payment Document for Glazing of NYC Street Lamps -- Signed by Washington Political Opponent Edward Livingston -- 7'' x 3''

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1659: New York Inquest Regarding Death of Thomas Nill -- 1799 -- ''...Very much liquor on Sunday night...'' -- 7.75'' x 12.75'' -- Good

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1660: Florence Nightingale Poster -- Portrait by Augustus Leopold Egg -- 26'' x 33'' -- Very Good

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1661: Explorer Robert Peary Autograph -- ''R.E. Peary'' Signed on 45 Degree Angle as if Descending a Mountain -- on 5'' x 3.5'' Card

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1662: 1763 Pennsylvania Bail Bond -- Trespassing Fee Requires Payment of Forty Pounds

  

  # Bids: 3

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1663: Rare 1930 Contract Signed by Circus Mogul John Ringling for a ''High Perch Act'' -- ''The Employers May Require the Artists to Dress in Tights if Desired'' -- Fascinating Piece of Circus History

  

  # Bids: 4

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1664: Fred Rogers Typed Letter Signed -- ''Best Wishes From All of Us Here in the Neighborhood...'' -- 8.5'' x 11'' -- Near Fine

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1665: Salvador Sterling Silver Cufflinks From Mexico -- 0.75'' x 1.5'' -- Some Tarnishing, Excellent

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1666: Pair of Sarah Coventry Tom Sawyer Collectible Cufflinks -- 1959

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1667: Signature of English Admiral Edward Hobart Seymour -- Known for the Boxer Rebellion -- 4.5'' x 2.5'' -- Signature Smudges, Else Fine

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $120

• Lot #1668: Spanish-American War Photo Album Consisting of Illuminating Pictures of Cuban Life and the 8th Massachusetts Infantry in the South -- Contains Shocking Photo of Southern Mob Throwing Black Person

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1669: Birdman of Alcatraz Handwritten Signed Letter from Prison -- ''...If these experiments are carried out...they will result in me being accorded recognition as a top-notch scientist in my field...'

  

  # Bids: 3

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1670: 1874 Burial Order Signed by Presiding Judge of Galveston County, R.D. Johnson -- 8.5 '' x 3 '' -- Fine Condition

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1671: 1839 Republic of Texas Document Signed by George W. Davis Who Fought at the Battle of Gonzales -- 7.75'' x 1.25'' -- Fine

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1672: Eyewitness Account of Santa Anna Attack on Texas -- "…invaded by a large body of Mexicans…Santa Anna has been foiled once in this country and has not come the second time without being prepared…"

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1673: Republic of Texas Loan Note to Joseph L. Bennet, the Well Known Texas Lt. Colonel -- 1837

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1674: 1863 Texas ''Petition to Sell Slave'' -- ''...she prays for an order to sell said negro to the highest bidder for cash...''

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1675: Titanic Relief Letter by NYC Mayor William Gaynor -- Dated 23 April 1912, Just Days After Titanic Crash -- "…I thank you for your generous contribution for…crew and passengers of the 'Titanic'…"

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1676: Rare Titanic Survivor Document -- Crew Member Thomas Knowles Certificate of Discharge from Service on Previous Ship -- Dated 21 December 1896

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1677: ''Pictorial History of the University of Virginia'' -- From the 1819 Plan by Thomas Jefferson to the 20th Century

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1678: Signature of General Friedrich von Bernhardi Dated 24 May 1914 -- Author of ''Germany and the Next War'' -- 5.25'' x 3.5'' -- Toning

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1679: Signature of ''Richard Wainwright / Rear Admiral US Navy / Aug 28 - 1911'' -- Admiral of the Spanish-American War -- 3.5'' x 2.5'' -- Fine

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $120

• Lot #1680: Signature of ''Richard Wainwright / Rear Admiral US Navy / Aug 28 - 1911'' -- Admiral of the Spanish-American War -- 3.5'' x 2.5'' -- Fine

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1681: Watch Movement Cufflinks & Tie Tack -- Julgar, Warwick, & Helbros Brands -- One Link Fastener Has Been Welded Off Center, Else Very Good

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1682: Infamous Sharon Tate Murderer Charles ''Tex'' Watson Autograph Prison Letter Signed -- ''...I thought you write and are very smart for 15...''

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1683: Infamous Tate Murderer Charles ''Tex'' Watson Autograph Prison Letter Signed -- ''...The next time we write I will be married!...''

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1684: Prison Document Denies Charles ''Tex'' Watson a Visit with Underage Girl -- 1981

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1685: Charles ''Tex'' Watson Letter From Prison -- ''...I just went up and saw my psychologist. He is a Christian and a real nice guy. I have learned a lot about myself in the last couple of years...''

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1686: Charles ''Tex'' Watson Letter From Prison -- ''...Kristin and I are so in love. WE miss each other...We have alot of opposition to say the least...'' -- 1985

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1687: TLS of Rear Admiral ''C. McR. Winslow'' on U.S.S. Louisiana Cardstock -- Dated 12 July 1912 -- 5.25'' x 6.75'' -- Very Good

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1688: Original World Trade Center 2001 Observatory Ticket -- 2'' x 8.5'' -- Near Fine

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1689: World Trade Center Ticket 2001 Observatory Deck Dated 6 August 2001

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass