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August 2012 Auction Ends Thursday, August 30th, 5pm Pacific

Auction closed on 8/30/2012. Final prices include buyers premium.

• Lot #120: John Adams Invitation to President's House -- Rare

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #121: President John Quincy Adams Document Signed -- 1828 Missouri Land Grant

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #122: Chester Arthur Presidential Invitation -- ''The President requests...Miss Walker at dinner...at 7 1/2 o'clock.'' -- 5'' x 4'' -- Toning & Adhesive to Verso, ''Arthur'' & ''1883'' Penciled In --...

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #126: Admission Ticket for 12 February 1999 Senate Impeachment Trial -- Date of Clinton's Senate Acquittal

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #127: Calvin Coolidge 1923 Typed Letter Signed -- Just Three Months After Becoming President

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #129: 1836 Virginia Elector Ticket -- Martin Van Buren for President and Richard Johnson for Vice President -- Johnson's Candidacy Was Controversial as He Had Lived With an African-American Woman

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $262

• Lot #130: 1848 Virginia Democratic Electoral Ticket -- Lists Democratic Presidential Nominees

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $262

• Lot #131: Eisenhower Letter Sent 2 Days Before D-Day -- ''...I get twisted as to time...Maybe I wrote to you this a.m. - maybe it was several days ago...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: $4,570

• Lot #132: Dwight Eisenhower WWII Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...How I wish this war would end!...One trip...across a recent battlefield, is enough to make one hate Hitler, and all like him, forever...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #133: Dwight Eisenhower WWII ALS -- ''...I've argued that 'personal pull' and politics were not so important in the army as hard work and devotion to duty. I still believe it...this dark dark war...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #134: Dwight Eisenhower Autograph Letter Signed 2 Days After Hiroshima -- ''...I had been desperately hoping that Japan would quit...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #135: Dwight Eisenhower 1945 Letter to His Wife After Winning the War -- ''...Many people seem astounded that I'd have no slightest interest in politics. I can't understand them...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: $4,153

• Lot #136: Dwight Eisenhower WWII 1945 Letter -- ''...Things are moving rapidly...There are many people to see...Thank God for people like Bradley, Spaatz, Hodges, Patton, Beedle, and Simpson!...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #137: Dwight Eisenhower 1942 Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...Last night...I found awaiting me a notification that I'd been appointed a reg. Maj-Gen. by the President. That practically floored me...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #138: Dwight Eisenhower WWII Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...The war is serious - we'll never preserve our...ways of living in the U.S. - free speech - press - and right to worship - unless we...fight...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #139: Dwight Eisenhower Autograph Letter Signed During WWII -- ''...Yesterday and today have been hard ones on me...I get so I have no thought except crawling off in a corner + keeping still...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #140: General Dwight Eisenhower WWII Autograph Letter Signed to His Wife, Mamie -- ''...if there were no problems -- and no argument -- wars would be easy to conduct...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #141: General Dwight Eisenhower WWII Autograph Letter Signed to His Wife, Mamie -- ''...'Emergency' is a good name for war…high pressure!...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #142: Dwight Eisenhower WWII Autograph Letter Signed to Mamie -- Dated 1944 After the Liberation of Paris From Nazis -- "…I was in Paris…the people are hungry and…for the moment, hysterical…"

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: $5,027

• Lot #143: General Dwight Eisenhower WWII Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...I always feel a bit guilty...when I eat anything special...these people, even including babies...have been so long without many...

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #144: Eisenhower WWII TLS To His Wife -- ''...Moreover, people are lost every day - I do not yet know how many this Army lost this morning. We have got to steel ourselves to these things in war...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #145: Millard Fillmore Signature & Photo

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #146: Gerald Ford Signed Easton Press Edition of His Autobiography ''A Time to Heal''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #147: Gerald Ford 1965 Typed Letter Signed as House Minority Leader

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #148: Gerald Ford Typed Letter Signed as House Minority Leader

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #149: Gerald Ford Typed Letter Signed as House Minority Leader

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #151: Lot of Barry Goldwater Single Signed Checks -- Six Checks Signed as Senator from Arizona

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #152: Ulysses S. Grant Signed Naval Document as President -- 1870

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $566

• Lot #153: Ulysses S. Grant Signs a Naval Appointment as President -- 1873

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $1,343

• Lot #159: Herbert Hoover Signed Shellback Certificate

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $349

• Lot #160: ''Herbert Hoover'' Signed 3'' x 1.5'' Card -- Very Good With Bold Signature

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #161: Herbert Hoover Signed ''The Challenge to Liberty''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #162: One of Herbert Hoover's Last Signatures as President -- Typed Letter Signed Days Before FDR's Inauguration -- ''...That...was impossible due to the election...''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $288

• Lot #163: Charles Evan Hughes Signed 1910 Letter

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #164: Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Ephemera Lot -- Includes 1964 Program Signed by Artist William de Kooning -- Also With Candid Photos of LBJ & His Blank Personal Stationery

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #165: Lyndon B. Johnson Signed ''The Professional''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #166: Lyndon B. Johnson Typed Letter Signed as President on White House Stationery

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #167: Invitation to JFK's ''Texas Welcome Dinner'' the Night of His Assassination

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #168: JFK ''Texas Welcome Dinner'' Press Badge -- 22 November 1963

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #169: Press Kit for the ''Texas Welcome Dinner'' Honoring JFK the Night of His Assassination

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #170: JFK ''Texas Welcome'' Dinner Program From 22 November 1963

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $349

• Lot #171: Press Section Ticket for JFK ''Texas Welcome Dinner'' -- Dinner Cancelled Because of Assassination

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $600

• Lot #172: JFK Assassination Newspaper -- ''Dallas Times Herald'' -- 22 November 1963 -- ''PRESIDENT DEAD, CONNALLY SHOT''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #173: Historic ''The Dallas Morning News'' From Morning After JFK Assassination Stunned the World -- Headlines Include ''Johnson Becomes President'' and ''Pro-Communist Charged With Act''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #174: JFK Assassination Dallas Newspaper -- 24 November 1963

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #176: JFK Assassination Newspaper -- ''The Dallas Morning News'' -- 25 November 1963 -- Announcing Oswald's Death

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #177: JFK Assassination Newspaper -- ''The Dallas Morning News'' -- 26 November 1963

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #178: JFK Assassination Newspaper -- ''Dallas Times Herald'' -- 26 November 1963

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #180: Robert F. Kennedy Assassination Newspaper Announces ''Assassin Identified'' The Day He Was Shot -- ''Dallas Times Herald'' From 5 June 1968

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #181: Robert Kennedy's Death Announced in ''The Dallas Times Herald'' Newspaper

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #183: Abraham Lincoln Signed Appointment as President -- 1861

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: $6,691

• Lot #184: Abraham Lincoln Civil War Military Document Signed as President -- With Bold, Full Signature

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #185: James Monroe Signs a Vellum Land Grant Document as President -- 1823

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #186: 1928 Document Signed by Benito Mussolini & Vittorio Emanuele III

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $196

• Lot #187: Richard Nixon Signed Memoir ''In The Arena'' First Edition

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #188: Richard Nixon Signed First Edition of ''Leaders'' -- Profiles of Men Who Have Shaped the Modern World

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $178

• Lot #189: Richard Nixon Signed Easton Press Edition of ''The Memoirs of Richard Nixon''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #190: Richard Nixon ''Seize The Moment'' Signed -- Inscribed ''To Donna and Josh Dilloa / With best wishes / from Richard Nixon'' -- Near Fine

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #191: Richard Nixon ''Six Crises'' First Edition Signed

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #192: Richard Nixon Signed True First Printing of ''The Real War''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #193: Rare U.S. Senate Ticket to the Impeachment Trial of President Richard Nixon

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #194: Rare Unused U.S. House Ticket to the Impeachment Trial of President Richard Nixon

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #196: Marina Oswald 1981 Autograph Letter Signed -- Lee Harvey Oswald's Widow Says Her Summer ''...wasn't the best..."

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #197: President Franklin Pierce Invitation

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #198: Extremely Scarce Franklin Pierce Free Frank Signed as President

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #201: Theodore Roosevelt 1902 White House Invitation

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #202: Taft Presidential Invitation to a Musical Performance at the White House -- 1912

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #204: Infamous Supreme Court Justices of ''The Dred-Scott Decision'' Roger B. Taney, Peter V. Daniel & Robert C. Grier All Sign The Same Slip

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $349

• Lot #205: Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas Signed Election 2000 Decision -- George W. Bush vs. Albert Gore

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $349

• Lot #206: Harry S. Truman Signed Volume II of His ''Memoirs''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #207: John Tyler White House Invitation as President

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #208: President John Tyler 1845 Invitation to the White House

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $385

• Lot #209: Woodrow Wilson First Inaugural Program -- 1913

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #308: 1865 Period Broadside of the Emancipation Proclamation

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #329: Salem Witch Trials Judge Thomas Danforth Document Signed From 1656 -- Scarce

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $3,691