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September 2018 Auction Ends Thursday, September 27th, 5pm Pacific

Auction closed on 9/27/2018. Final prices include buyers premium.

• Lot #91: John Adams Signed Copy of ''A Discourse'' -- The Powerful Pro-American Independence Book Called ''The Morning Gun of the Revolution''

  

  Min Bid: $40,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #92: John Adams Autograph Letter Signed on the Stamp Act -- Adams Gives Documents and ''broken hints'' to Jedidiah Morse for ''Annals of the American Revolution'', on Events ''Five and Forty years ago''

  

  Min Bid: $10,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #93: John Adams 4-Language Ship's Papers Signed as President -- With French Certification Attached to Document, Dated Less Than One Month Before the French-American Naval ''Quasi-War'' Erupted

  

  Min Bid: $6,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #94: 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 #95: Bill Clinton Signed 20'' x 15'' Photograph of His Entire Cabinet -- Signed by All 23 Including Clinton & Al Gore

  

  Min Bid: $4,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #96: 1860 Campaign Portrait Flag Banner for Stephen Douglas -- One of Less Than 10 Known Examples

  

  Min Bid: $14,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #97: Dwight Eisenhower 1953 Letter Signed Regarding His Supreme Court Appointment -- ''...I shall...restore some of the prestige that the Court lost...through the New Deal and Fair Deal...''

  

  Min Bid: $2,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #98: Dwight D. Eisenhower Sketches as President -- Eisenhower Draws an Interesting Profile of a Angry Man With Another Man Inside His Head -- From the Malcolm S. Forbes Collection

  

  Min Bid: $2,100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #99: Dwight Eisenhower WWII Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...An advance copy of Sat. Eve Post of 3 Oct just arrived. Has quite an article about me & my family...''

  

  Min Bid: $2,100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #100: James Garfield Document Signed as President -- One of the Rarest Presidential Signatures

  

  Min Bid: $6,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #101: Elegant China From the Andrew Jackson Administration -- Extremely Rare

  

  Min Bid: $6,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #102: Thomas Jefferson Document Signed as President -- 4-Language Ship's Papers Also Signed by James Madison

  

  Min Bid: $4,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #103: Lyndon B. Johnson Owned Necktie, Custom-Made for Him

  

  Min Bid: $3,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #104: John F. Kennedy Signed, Handwritten Speech Draft as President, From 1961 -- JFK Speaks at a State Dinner With Sudanese President Ibrahim Abboud

  

  Min Bid: $8,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #105: 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 #106: John F. Kennedy Signed ''Profiles in Courage'' -- With PSA/DNA COA

  

  Min Bid: $3,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #107: 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 #108: 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 #109: Cecil W. Stoughton's Personal, Unpublished Photo of LBJ's Inauguration Aboard Air Force One -- LBJ Takes the Oath of Office as Jackie Stands Witness

  

  Min Bid: $4,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #110: First Edition, 26 Volume Set of the Warren Commission's Report on the Assassination of John F. Kennedy

  

  Min Bid: $2,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #111: Alf ''Land On'' Washington Button for FDR's 1936 Republican Challenger -- Alf Landon -- Near Fine

  

  Min Bid: $2,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #112: 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 #113: Abraham Lincoln Civil War Military Commission Signed as President -- With Full ''Abraham Lincoln'' Signature

  

  Min Bid: $7,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #114: White House China Saucer From the Personal Collection of Mary Todd Lincoln

  

  Min Bid: $2,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #115: 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 #116: Rare Silk Badge From the 1844 Presidential Election -- Promoting the Democratic Ticket of James Polk & Texas Annexation, the Issue Driving the Campaign

  

  Min Bid: $2,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #117: Fantastic Presidential Photo Signed by Five Presidents: Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Jimmy Carter, Richard Nixon & Gerald Ford -- With University Archives COA

  

  Min Bid: $6,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #118: Nancy Reagan Christian Dior Purse

  

  Min Bid: $2,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #119: Ronald Reagan Signed ''Speaking My Mind'' Special Limited Edition -- Housed in Luxury Oak Case

  

  Min Bid: $2,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #120: Ronald & Nancy Reagan Personally Owned Russian Box -- Displayed at the White House

  

  Min Bid: $2,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #121: Franklin D. Roosevelt Autograph Letter Signed to Helena Mahoney, His Warm Springs Physical Therapist -- ''...I do so hope the nightmares have stopped...''

  

  Min Bid: $3,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #122: Franklin D. Roosevelt Autograph Letter Signed to Helena Mahoney, His Warm Springs Physical Therapist -- ''...The Doctor writes you will be back to over 20 patients before the end of the month...''

  

  Min Bid: $2,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #123: Franklin D. Roosevelt Letter Signed From 1926 -- With Exceptional Content to Helena Mahoney Upon the Opening of the Warm Springs Institute

  

  Min Bid: $2,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #124: 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 #125: Rare Theodore Roosevelt Toy Teddy Bear Drum, Circa 1907

  

  Min Bid: $3,250

  Final Price: $4,063

• Lot #126: Delegate Badge for Theodore Roosevelt's 1912 Progressive Party -- The First Progressive Party, Which Advocated to Get Corporate Interests Out of Politics

  

  Min Bid: $3,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #127: Hand-Colored Campaign Banner for the 1852 Whig Presidential Ticket -- Featuring War Veteran Winfield Scott, Lithographed by Nathaniel Currier

  

  Min Bid: $1,600

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #128: William Taft Letter Signed as President, About the Supreme Court -- ''...I can not appoint anybody because he is a Jew; and I certainly shall not decline to appoint anybody because he is a Jew...''

  

  Min Bid: $15,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #129: William Howard Taft Excoriates President Woodrow Wilson for His Handling of WWI -- ''...Wilson's selfish temperament...he loves idealistic phrases that sound well in his mouth...''

  

  Min Bid: $4,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #130: 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 #131: Zachary Taylor Letter Signed as President With Virginia Reference -- Taylor Was President for Only 16 Months

  

  Min Bid: $3,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #132: 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 #133: Harry Truman Speech Signed as President From 1952 -- ''...The Kremlin is not going to take a vacation just because we are having a Presidential election in this country. Far from it...''

  

  Min Bid: $4,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #134: 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: $4,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #135: 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 #136: 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 #137: George Washington ''Long Live the President'' Inaugural Coat Button From the Very First Presidential Inauguration in 1789 -- One of the Scarcer 1789 Inaugural Buttons

  

  Min Bid: $4,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #138: 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 #139: 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: $3,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #145: Samuel Otis Document Signed From 1797 as Secretary of the U.S. Senate -- Otis Confirms John Adams' Retirement from the Senate on the Occasion of Adams' Presidential Inauguration

  

  Min Bid: $4,250

  Final Price: Pass