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December 2012 Auction Ends Tuesday, December 18th, 5pm Pacific

Auction closed on 12/18/2012. Final prices include buyers premium.

• Lot #432: John Adams ALS as President, Who Didn't Have a Full-Time Military! -- ''...an Army and Navy Establishment is essential to the present & future Interests & Greatness of the United States...''

  

  # Bids: 22

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #433: Elegantly Framed John Adams Land Grant Signed as President

  

  # Bids: 17

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: $8,098

• Lot #434: John Adams Invitation to President's House -- Rare

  

  # Bids: 9

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $3,049

• Lot #435: President John Quincy Adams Document Signed -- 1828 Missouri Land Grant

  

  # Bids: 12

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #436: 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 --...

  

  # Bids: 8

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #437: President Chester A. Arthur Signed Cabinet Photo

  

  # Bids: 12

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #438: Spectacular James Buchanan Large Half-Plate Daguerreotype Depicting the 15th American President Wearing His Signature White Ascot

  

  # Bids: 9

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #439: Official Signed Photo by All 9 Justices of the Warren Burger Supreme Court

  

  # Bids: 7

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #440: President George H.W. Bush Signed Copy of ''All The Best''

  

  # Bids: 2

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #441: George W. Bush Signed Limited Edition of His Memoir ''Decision Points''

  

  # Bids: 7

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #442: George W. Bush Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...You're a good man to care...''

  

  # Bids: 16

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #443: Jimmy Carter Signed 10'' x 8.25'' Photo

  

  # Bids: 8

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #444: 1848 Presidential Candidate Lewis Cass Autograph Letter Signed From 1847

  

  # Bids: 5

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $196

• Lot #445: U.S. Supreme Court Justice Tom C. Clark Signed Photo -- ''...best wishes of an old Scouter...''

  

  # Bids: 2

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #446: Frances Cleveland Curt Letter -- ''...I don't want to do it...'' -- 1906

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $120

• Lot #447: Grover Cleveland 1896 White House Invitation

  

  # Bids: 6

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #448: Admission Ticket for 12 February 1999 Senate Impeachment Trial -- Date of Clinton's Senate Acquittal

  

  # Bids: 2

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #449: DeWitt Clinton Document Signed as New York Governor -- 1827 Military Appointment

  

  # Bids: 2

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #450: Calvin Coolidge 1923 Typed Letter Signed -- Just Three Months After Becoming President

  

  # Bids: 4

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #451: Vice President Charles Gates Dawes Letter Signed -- ''...it would be a way...I could pay my little tribute to you, who are constantly doing unselfishly so much for so many...''

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $120

• Lot #452: Official Keepsake Book From the 1964 Democratic National Convention -- Featuring a Substantial Tribute to JFK

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #453: The Most Famous Newspaper Mistake of All Time -- ''Dewey Defeats Truman''

  

  # Bids: 9

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $1,720

• Lot #454: Dwight D. Eisenhower Signed Limited Edition of His Memoir ''Crusade in Europe'' -- With Autographed D-Day Speech

  

  # Bids: 9

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #455: Dwight D. Eisenhower on the Burdens of the Presidency -- ''...Completely fed up...either a man gives himself up completely to the grinding round...or he has to become so austere, remote and...

  

  # Bids: 6

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #456: Dwight D. Eisenhower: ''...I do think that the wisdom of our founding fathers in establishing the balance between the Executive and Legislative Departments has been proven time and time again. I...

  

  # Bids: 8

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #457: Dwight Eisenhower WWII ALS to Mamie -- ''...Washington seemed hot & gossipy...There is a high price to 'fame', and it costs me a lot...understand how exclusively I love you...''

  

  # Bids: 8

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #458: Eisenhower WWII Autograph Letter Signed Upon His Promotion to 5-Star General -- ''...insignia I'm to wear...looks as if it will be a very small circle of 5 stars and a miniature seal of the US...''

  

  # Bids: 13

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #459: Dwight Eisenhower WWII ALS to His Wife -- ''...about the Hollywood offer...I couldn't touch it - and would never allow such a thing to occur! We don't need it anyway - it's fun to be poor!...''

  

  # Bids: 5

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #460: Dwight Eisenhower Autograph Letter Signed From March 1944 -- ''...Wait until this war is won!!!!!...''

  

  # Bids: 9

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #461: Eisenhower WWII Autograph Letter Signed -- ''My life is a mixture of politics & war. The latter is bad enough - but I've been trained for it! The former is straight & unadulterated venom!...''

  

  # Bids: 4

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $3,493

• Lot #462: Dwight Eisenhower WWII 1943 Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...This morning I saw a squadron that had not run into a Hun airplane in days...All they wanted to know was WHERE to find an enemy!...''

  

  # Bids: 11

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #463: Dwight Eisenhower WWII Letter to His Wife Denying Affair -- ''...gossip, lies...get started...for me there is only one woman...one ambition...to come a-running to you & hold on...forever...''

  

  # Bids: 11

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #464: Eisenhower WWII Letter to His Wife -- ''...I constantly wonder how 'civilization' can stand war at all...try to see me in something besides a despicable light...''

  

  # Bids: 9

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $4,652

• Lot #465: Eisenhower Letter as Supreme Commander of the Allies: ''...the soldier sees things that...are far more terrifying and disagreeable...'' -- 1944

  

  # Bids: 9

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $5,630

• Lot #466: President Dwight Eisenhower Typed Letter Signed ''D.E.'' as President -- 1953

  

  # Bids: 3

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #467: President Dwight Eisenhower Typed Letter Signed as President

  

  # Bids: 4

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #468: William P. Fessenden Signed Slip -- Secretary of The Treasury Under Abraham Lincoln

  

  # Bids: 3

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #469: Millard Fillmore Signature & Photo

  

  # Bids: 8

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #470: Gerald Ford's Memoir ''A Time To Heal'' Signed

  

  # Bids: 2

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #471: Gerald Ford Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...The beautiful Republican tree trimmings are already appropriately displayed...''

  

  # Bids: 2

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #472: President Gerald Ford 8'' x 10'' Glossy Signed Photo -- With Envelope from California Office

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $120

• Lot #473: Gerald Ford 1965 Typed Letter Signed as House Minority Leader

  

  # Bids: 2

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #474: Gerald Ford Typed Letter Signed as House Minority Leader

  

  # Bids: 2

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #475: Gerald Ford Typed Letter Signed as House Minority Leader

  

  # Bids: 2

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #476: Large 19.5'' x 12.5'' Signed Photo of Nine 1904 Fuller Supreme Court Justices -- With Signatures Including Melville Fuller & Henry Billings Brown

  

  # Bids: 14

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #477: Dance Card From a Ball Held in Honor of James Garfield's 1881 Inauguration

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #478: Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Signed Bush vs. Gore Election 2000 Decision

  

  # Bids: 4

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #479: Barry Goldwater Single Signed Check -- 21 August 1992 -- Printed with Goldwater's Scottsdale Home Address -- Valley National Bank of Phoenix -- 8.25'' x 3'' -- Near Fine

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #480: Lot of 10 Checks Signed by Conservative Icon Barry Goldwater

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #481: Ulysses S. Grant Signs an Extradition Order as President

  

  # Bids: 10

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $1,220

• Lot #482: Very Rare Warren Harding Autograph Letter Signed as President

  

  # Bids: 3

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #483: Rare Benjamin Harrison Signed Cabinet Card

  

  # Bids: 9

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #484: Rutherford B. Hayes Signed Final Page of a Letter -- ''...the debate in the Senate [has] taken a tone that makes my article irrelevant...[and potentially could result in an] unfortunate [outcome]...''

  

  # Bids: 4

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #485: Rutherford B. Hayes Autograph Letter Signed From 14 February 1883 to Magazine Editor and Pulitzer Prize Author Edward Bok

  

  # Bids: 6

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #486: Rutherford B. Hayes Autograph Letter Signed -- ''I send you...a...copy of the Democratic Messenger...its article, -- 'Render unto Ceasar that which is Ceasar's' is a full endorsement of what you...

  

  # Bids: 6

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $262

• Lot #487: 1881 Presidential Invitation by Rutherford B. Hayes and First Lady Lucy Webb Hayes

  

  # Bids: 6

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #488: Garret Hobart Autograph Letter Twice Signed -- Died in Office as VP & Would Have Become President When William McKinley Was Assassinated

  

  # Bids: 3

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $262

• Lot #489: Herbert Hoover Signed First Edition of ''The Problems of Lasting Peace''

  

  # Bids: 3

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $145

• Lot #490: Herbert Hoover Matted Photo -- Inscription in Blue Ink to Matting Reads ''To John Montgomery / With the Good Wishes of / Herbert Hoover'' -- Photo Measures 7.5'' x 9.25'', Matting Measures 10.25''...

  

  # Bids: 6

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $196

• Lot #491: Herbert Hoover's Signature Upon Card-Style Waldorf Astoria Stationery -- ''Herbert Hoover'' -- 5.25'' x 3.25'' -- Toning, Else Near Fine

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #492: ''Herbert Hoover'' Signed 3'' x 1.5'' Card -- Very Good With Bold Signature

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #493: Herbert Hoover 1934 Letter Signed Regarding Investigations Into FDR's Gold Policy -- ''...I would of course be greatly interested in the investigations...knowledge of late 1932 and early 1933...''

  

  # Bids: 5

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #494: Charles Evan Hughes Signed 1910 Letter

  

  # Bids: 2

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #495: Autograph by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ward Hunt

  

  # Bids: 5

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #496: Early Andrew Jackson Autograph Letter Signed -- With PSA/DNA COA

  

  # Bids: 2

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #497: Andrew Jackson 1831 Land Grant Signed as President During the Infamous Trail of Tears

  

  # Bids: 11

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #498: Rare Silk Copy of Andrew Jackson's 1837 Farewell Address -- Beautiful Presidential Keepsake

  

  # Bids: 2

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #499: Andrew Jackson Inaugural Address 5'' x 6.5'' Broadside

  

  # Bids: 3

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #500: WITHDRAWN

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: W/D

• Lot #501: Andrew Johnson Autograph Quote Signed -- ''Show me the man who makes war on the Government...and I will show you a traitor. If I were President of the United States...I would hang them...''

  

  # Bids: 10

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #502: President Andrew Johnson Invitation to Dine at the White House -- Scarce Invitation from the Johnson Administration

  

  # Bids: 8

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #503: Lyndon B. Johnson First Edition Memoir ''The Vantage Point'' Signed

  

  # Bids: 5

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #504: Lyndon B. Johnson's 1930 Senior Year College Yearbook -- With Four Photos of the Future President in Various Clubs

  

  # Bids: 4

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #505: Lyndon B. Johnson 23'' x 19'' Document Signed as President -- LBJ Appoints a Doctor to the President's Committee on Mental Retardation

  

  # Bids: 3

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #506: 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

  

  # Bids: 4

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #507: Lyndon B. Johnson Photo With Signed Mat

  

  # Bids: 6

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #508: Lyndon B. Johnson Signed ''The Professional''

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #509: WITHDRAWN

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: W/D

• Lot #510: Lyndon B. Johnson Signed Mat Surrounding a Family Photo of the Johnsons

  

  # Bids: 2

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #511: Lyndon B. Johnson Typed Letter Signed as President on White House Stationery

  

  # Bids: 4

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #512: Jackie Kennedy Draft Autograph Letter Signed as First Lady -- ''...Jack's office is a madhouse as you can imagine...I wish he could get someone who knew something precious when they saw it...''

  

  # Bids: 14

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #513: Jackie Kennedy Autograph Letter Signed as First Lady -- ''...acquiring art...will augment the feeling everyone has when they come here -- a feeling of pride in the nation's most beloved house...''

  

  # Bids: 6

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #514: Invitation to John F. Kennedy & Jacqueline Bouvier's Wedding -- Scarce

  

  # Bids: 12

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #515: Invitation to JFK's ''Texas Welcome Dinner'' the Night of His Assassination

  

  # Bids: 8

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #516: JFK ''Texas Welcome Dinner'' Press Badge -- 22 November 1963

  

  # Bids: 6

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #517: Press Kit for the ''Texas Welcome Dinner'' Honoring JFK the Night of His Assassination

  

  # Bids: 10

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $566

• Lot #518: JFK ''Texas Welcome'' Dinner Program From 22 November 1963

  

  # Bids: 5

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $566

• Lot #519: Press Section Ticket for JFK ''Texas Welcome Dinner'' -- Dinner Cancelled Because of Assassination

  

  # Bids: 5

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #520: Ticket to JFK's Texas Welcome Dinner The Night of His Assassination

  

  # Bids: 9

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $566

• Lot #521: Document Signed by Reverend Huber, Who Administered the Last Rites to Kennedy After His Assassination

  

  # Bids: 3

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #522: Historic ''The Dallas Times Herald'' 23 November 1963 Edition -- Headlines Include ''Johnson Takes Control'' and ''Police Quiz Second Man''

  

  # Bids: 2

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #523: Historic ''The Dallas Morning News'' From Morning After JFK Assassination Stunned the World -- Headlines Include ''Johnson Becomes President'' and ''Pro-Communist Charged With Act''

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #524: ''The Dallas Morning News'' Announces ''CLUB OWNER KILLS OSWALD'' and Second Paper ''LBJ Takes Over Government Reins''

  

  # Bids: 3

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #525: John F. Kennedy's Funeral and Oswald's Killing -- Newspaper From Dallas -- 25 November Issue

  

  # Bids: 2

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #526: ''The Dallas Times Herald'' 26 November 1963 Evening Edition -- Headlines Include ''Eternal Torch Glows Over Kennedy Grave''

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #527: Dallas Newspaper Reporting on the Conviction of Jack Ruby in The Dallas Killing of Suspected JFK Assassin Lee Harvey Oswald

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #528: Eyewitness Letter Recounting JFK's Assassination by Texas Senator Ralph Yarborough -- ''...I distinctly heard the three rifle shots with loud blasts...''

  

  # Bids: 5

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #529: John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon 1960 National Convention Photo Album -- Amazing Collection of Published and Unpublished Candidate Photos -- Also Eisenhower, Johnson, RFK, Henry Fonda & Frank Sinatra

  

  # Bids: 5

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #530: John F. Kennedy 1962 Document Signed as President

  

  # Bids: 14

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #531: WITHDRAWN

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: W/D