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August 2019 Auction Ends Thursday, August 29th, 5pm Pacific

Auction closed on 8/29/2019. Final prices include buyers premium.

• Lot #61: John Adams Signed Copy of ''A Discourse'' -- The Powerful Pro-American Independence Book Called ''The Morning Gun of the Revolution''

  

  Min Bid: $42,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #62: Chester A. Arthur Signed Program as President -- For the Unveiling of the Statue of George Washington on Wall Street

  

  Min Bid: $2,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #63: The Scarcest of 19th Century Campaign Banners Hand-Colored by Currier and Ives -- The John Bell and Edward Everett Jugate Banner Broadside for the 1860 Presidential Election

  

  Min Bid: $10,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #64: Bill Clinton Signed 20'' x 15'' Photograph of His Entire Cabinet -- Signed by All 23 Including Clinton & Al Gore

  

  Min Bid: $6,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #65: 1860 Campaign Portrait Flag Banner for Stephen Douglas -- One of Less Than 10 Known Examples

  

  Min Bid: $14,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #66: Dwight D. Eisenhower Letter Signed as President -- Eisenhower Writes of Being President: ''...This is a slave's life...''

  

  Min Bid: $6,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #67: Dwight D. Eisenhower Sketch as President -- Eisenhower Draws the Profile of a Man -- From the Malcolm S. Forbes Collection

  

  Min Bid: $2,100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #68: Dwight Eisenhower WWII Autograph Letter Signed to Mamie -- ''...Of course we've changed. How could two people go through what we have...and still believe they could be exactly as they were...''

  

  Min Bid: $2,100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #69: James Garfield Document Signed as President -- One of the Rarest Presidential Signatures

  

  Min Bid: $8,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #70: White House Oyster Plate in the Rutherford B. Hayes Style

  

  Min Bid: $3,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #71: Elegant China From the Andrew Jackson Administration -- Extremely Rare

  

  Min Bid: $8,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #72: Andrew Jackson Signed Ship's Papers as President

  

  Min Bid: $1,800

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #73: Thomas Jefferson Land Grant Signed as President -- Also Signed as James Madison as Secretary of State

  

  Min Bid: $5,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #74: Thomas Jefferson & James Madison Signed Four-Language Ship's Papers -- Jefferson Signs as President & Madison as Secretary of State

  

  Min Bid: $4,200

  Final Price: $5,250

• Lot #75: Lyndon B. Johnson Owned Necktie, Custom-Made for Him

  

  Min Bid: $3,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #76: John F. Kennedy Signed ''Profiles in Courage'' -- Inscribed to Famed Photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt -- With University Archives COA

  

  Min Bid: $5,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #77: John F. Kennedy Signed Book as President -- JFK Inscribes ''To Turn the Tide'' to Photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt ''...who helped turn an earlier tide...'' -- With Slide Photo of JFK Signing

  

  Min Bid: $5,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #78: John F. Kennedy Bill Signing Pen Used as President to Sign Amendments to the ''Clean Water Act''

  

  Min Bid: $2,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #79: Norman Rockwell Signed Lithograph of JFK -- Appeared as the Cover of ''The Saturday Evening Post'' in 1960

  

  Min Bid: $2,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #80: Very Large 16'' x 20'' Signed Drawing of ''President Kennedy's Wounds as I saw him at Parkland Hospital in Dallas on November 22, 1963'' by Dr. Robert McClelland, Who Held President Kennedy's Head

  

  Min Bid: $6,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #81: First Edition, 27 Volume Set of the Warren Commission's Report on the Assassination of John F. Kennedy -- With Scarce ''Report'' Volume

  

  Min Bid: $2,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #82: George Washington Check Signed -- With PSA COA

  

  Min Bid: $35,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #83: Alf ''Land On'' Washington Button for FDR's 1936 Republican Challenger -- Alf Landon -- Near Fine

  

  Min Bid: $3,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #84: Abraham Lincoln Autograph Letter Signed to His 1860 De Facto Campaign Manager Norman Judd -- In 1859, Lincoln Writes About Shoring Up the German Vote by Buying a Printing Press to Market to Them

  

  Min Bid: $20,000

  Final Price: $25,000

• Lot #85: Abraham Lincoln Autograph Letter Signed as President -- Lincoln Intercedes on Behalf of an Illinois Student for a Spot at Annapolis

  

  Min Bid: $10,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #86: Abraham Lincoln Military Appointment Signed During the Civil War

  

  Min Bid: $8,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #87: Abraham Lincoln Document Signed as President, Authorizing His Old Friend & De Facto Campaign Manager to Finalize a Treaty With Prussia -- Signed in Full ''Abraham Lincoln''

  

  Min Bid: $7,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #88: Abraham Lincoln Autograph Endorsement Signed as President -- Housed in a Patent Office Report From 1849 Featuring Abraham Lincoln's Patent -- Lincoln Is the Only U.S. President to Hold a Patent

  

  Min Bid: $5,750

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #89: Abraham Lincoln Autograph Endorsement Signed as President -- Lincoln Mistakenly Dates the Proclamation of Amnesty as 8 December 1864 -- With University Archives COA

  

  Min Bid: $5,750

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #90: White House China Saucer From the Personal Collection of Mary Todd Lincoln

  

  Min Bid: $2,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #91: Abraham Lincoln Complete 10 Volume Set of His Definitive Biography ''Abraham Lincoln: A History'' -- Written by His Secretaries John Hay & John Nicolay

  

  Min Bid: $1,800

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #92: Abraham Lincoln Assassination Letter to Boarder at the Surratt House -- ''...an imaginary attempt to kidnap President Lincoln...was suggested, no doubt, by Booth's attempt at abduction...''

  

  Min Bid: $3,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #93: James Madison Letter Twice-Signed as Secretary of State, Regarding a Change in Payment Terms for the Louisiana Purchase -- ''instructions...to Paris...to promote a modification, if possible''

  

  Min Bid: $25,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #94: Ronald Reagan Scarce Signed Limited Edition of ''Ronald Reagan An American Hero'', Also Signed by Nancy Reagan -- One of Only 250 in the Exclusive Limited Edition

  

  Min Bid: $3,500

  Final Price: $5,824

• Lot #95: Ronald Reagan Signed ''An American Life'' Special Limited Edition -- Housed in Luxury Oak Case With Audiotapes of ''Speaking My Mind''

  

  Min Bid: $2,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #96: U.S. Capitol Badge for Ronald Reagan's 1981 Inauguration

  

  Min Bid: $1,600

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #97: Franklin D. Roosevelt Signed Photo of His ''Turkey Cabinet'' as Governor of New York in 1932 -- Signed in Full, ''Franklin D. Roosevelt''

  

  Min Bid: $2,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #98: Franklin D. Roosevelt Autograph Letter Signed, Just Days Before His Inauguration as Governor of New York -- ''...I wish much you could be in Albany on Tuesday...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,750

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #99: Franklin D. Roosevelt Autograph Letter Signed to Helena Mahoney, His Warm Springs Physical Therapist -- ''...I do so hope the nightmares have stopped...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,750

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #100: Theodore Roosevelt Signed Cabinet Photo -- Roosevelt Signs the Photo, Along With Nine Members of His Cabinet, Including William Taft -- With University Archives COA

  

  Min Bid: $8,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #101: Theodore Roosevelt Signed Limited First Edition of ''African Game Trails'' -- Both Volumes Present in Original Leather Bindings

  

  Min Bid: $4,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #102: Delegate Badge for Theodore Roosevelt's 1912 Progressive Party -- The First Progressive Party, Which Advocated to Get Corporate Interests Out of Politics

  

  Min Bid: $3,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #103: Theodore Roosevelt Signed Book as President, on the Occasion of the Tricentennial Anniversary of the Jamestown Settlement of America

  

  Min Bid: $3,000

  Final Price: $3,750

• Lot #104: Theodore Roosevelt Signed Limited Edition of His 1889 Book ''Big Game Hunting in the Rockies and on the Great Plains'' -- #166 of 1000

  

  Min Bid: $2,250

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #105: William Taft Letter Signed, With Additional Autograph Note Signed, Regarding His Appointment to the Supreme Court -- ''...This discussion as to Wilson's appointing me to the Bench only amuses me...''

  

  Min Bid: $2,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #106: Rare Harry Truman WWII Victory Proclamation Signed as President -- Gifted to White House Staff in 1945 -- Near Fine Condition

  

  Min Bid: $7,500

  Final Price: $9,375

• Lot #107: Harry Truman Twice-Signed 10'' x 8'' Photograph, Famously Showing Truman Holding Up the ''Dewey Defeats Truman'' Newspaper -- Original UPI Press Photo -- With University Archives COA

  

  Min Bid: $6,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #108: Harry Truman Signed Farewell Address From 1953 -- ''...The President...has to decide. He can't pass the buck to anybody...'' & ''...And always in the background there has been the atomic bomb...''

  

  Min Bid: $3,000

  Final Price: $3,750

• Lot #109: ''Dewey Defeats Truman'' Newspaper -- The Most Famous Newspaper Mistake of All Time

  

  Min Bid: $3,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #110: Gorgeous 16.5'' x 12'' Photo Signed by Harry Truman & His Cabinet -- From the Estate of Agriculture Secretary Charles Brannon

  

  Min Bid: $2,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #111: Donald Trump Personally Owned Candlesticks -- Displayed on the Dinner Table at the Trump Tower Residence During His Marriage to Marla Maples

  

  Min Bid: $6,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #112: Hand-Colored Campaign Banner for the 1848 Free Soil Presidential Ticket That Opposed Slavery & Swung the Election to Zachary Taylor -- Featuring Martin Van Buren & Lithographed by Nathaniel Currier

  

  Min Bid: $3,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #113: George Washington Autograph Letter Signed, With Bold Writing & Signature -- Washington Writes to His Nephew Bushrod Washington Regarding a ''Singular'' Oddity in His Land Holdings

  

  Min Bid: $20,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #114: George Washington Autograph Free Frank Signature in 1779 as Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army During the Revolutionary War

  

  Min Bid: $8,000

  Final Price: $10,000

• Lot #115: 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 #116: Woodrow Wilson Cabinet Photo, Signed by All 11 Men Including Wilson -- From Early in Wilson's First Term -- Measures 17.5'' x 15.75'' -- With JSA COA

  

  Min Bid: $4,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #146: Ulysses S. Grant Civil War Dated Autograph Letter Signed -- From August 1861, a Week After His Promotion From Colonel to Brigadier General

  

  Min Bid: $2,400

  Final Price: $3,000

• Lot #193: John Singleton Copley Painting of a Man Identified as John Adams, Painted Circa 1765, When Adams Was a Young Man

  

  Min Bid: $30,000

  Final Price: Pass