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February 2013 Auction Ends Thursday, February 28th, 5pm Pacific

Auction closed on 2/28/2013. Final prices include buyers premium.

• Lot #214: John Quincy Adams 1826 Land Grant Signed as President

  

  # Bids: 10

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #215: Lincoln's Attorney General Edward Bates 1862 Autograph Letter Signed -- Responding to an Autograph Request -- ...I find it hard to remember to answer them all...''

  

  # Bids: 8

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #216: James Buchanan Autograph Letter Signed Referring to His Party Affiliations -- ''...He is...a gentleman of highly respectable character, & of the true political faith, according to our belief...''

  

  # Bids: 9

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #219: Barbara Bush Autograph Letter Signed to Robert McNamara -- ''George and I are so very sorry that we can't be with you on Sunday...there's no where we'd rather be!...''

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $120

• Lot #220: George Bush Autograph Letter Signed as President-Elect to Robert McNamara -- Less Than a Month After Bush Won the Election

  

  # Bids: 2

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #221: George W. Bush First Edition ''Decision Points'' Signed

  

  # Bids: 2

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $216

• Lot #222: Invitation From the Carter White House to Robert McNamara's Wife For ''Reading Is Fun Day'' -- ''Mrs. Carter requests the pleasure of your company...'' -- 1979

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #223: President Jimmy Carter Signed Photo, Inscribed to Margaret McNamara -- Photo Shows Carter Shaking Margaret McNamara's Hand When He Awarded Her the Presidential Medal of Freedom

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #224: Jimmy Carter Signed 8'' x 10'' Photo -- ''Best wishes to Rob Purdie - [signed] J Carter'' -- Laser Printed Card-Stock Photo -- Near Fine

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #225: Jimmy Carter Typed Letter Signed to Robert McNamara -- ''...Thank you for participating in the symposium on world resources...'' -- 1984

  

  # Bids: 2

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $145

• Lot #226: Jimmy Carter Typed Letter Signed to Robert McNamara Mentioning the ''...threat of nuclear war...'' -- With Additional Autograph Postscript by Carter

  

  # Bids: 7

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #227: Presidential Cigar Case Filled With Pacific Brand Churchill Cigars -- Official President's Brand

  

  # Bids: 9

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $468

• Lot #228: Grover Cleveland 1896 White House Invitation

  

  # Bids: 4

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #229: Bill Clinton Typed Letter Signed ''Bill Clinton'' as President -- to Robert McNamara

  

  # Bids: 6

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $385

• Lot #230: Rare Letter Signed ''Bill Clinton'' as President -- Written to Vietnam Defense Secretary Robert McNamara

  

  # Bids: 10

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $317

• Lot #231: Bill Clinton Typed Letter Signed as President & Marked ''Personal'' to Robert McNamara -- ''Thank you for the copy of 'In Retrospect' and for your poignant inscription...''

  

  # Bids: 3

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #232: Bill Clinton Typed Letter Signed as President to Robert McNamara -- ''Dear Bob: Happy Birthday!...'' -- 1998

  

  # Bids: 4

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #233: Bill Clinton Typed Letter Signed as President to Robert McNamara -- ''Happy Birthday!...We hope the year ahead brings you...dreams that come true...''

  

  # Bids: 4

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #234: President Bill Clinton 1993 Typed Letter Signed to Robert McNamara -- Regarding His Commitment to NAFTA ''...you helped convince the Congress...that NAFTA is a momentous opportunity...''

  

  # Bids: 9

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $262

• Lot #235: Bill Clinton 1994 Typed Letter Signed as President to Robert McNamara

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $120

• Lot #240: Calvin Coolidge Presidential Document Signed -- 1926

  

  # Bids: 6

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #241: White House Invitation From President Coolidge -- 8 January 1925 -- 5.5'' x 4.5'' -- Envelope and Entrance Card Included -- Very Good

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #242: WWI Navy Secretary -- ''the Navy of 1915 is larger, better equipped, and in better condition than in any previous year...what President Wilson promised for the Navy has been fulfilled.''

  

  # Bids: 2

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #243: The Most Famous Newspaper Mistake of All Time -- ''Dewey Defeats Truman''

  

  # Bids: 9

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $1,562

• Lot #244: Dwight D. Eisenhower WWII Letter to His Wife -- ''...a war zone does funny things to people. It is no light matter to approve sentences that ruin not one, but several lives...''

  

  # Bids: 5

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #245: 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...''

  

  # Bids: 7

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #246: Eisenhower's Touching Wartime Letter to His Wife -- ''...war is so terrible...until man has developed more common sense it seems that he is slated to cause himself more unhappiness...''

  

  # Bids: 8

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #247: 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...''

  

  # Bids: 9

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #248: General Dwight Eisenhower WWII Autograph Letter Signed to His Wife, Mamie -- ''...'Emergency' is a good name for war...high pressure!...''

  

  # Bids: 8

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #249: 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...

  

  # Bids: 9

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #250: 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...''

  

  # Bids: 5

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #251: Dwight Eisenhower WWII Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...Just a short note...I'm in a dreadful hurry - as usual, it seems, but I'll write you a better letter soon...''

  

  # Bids: 8

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $238

• Lot #252: Dwight Eisenhower Typed Letter Signed as a Five-Star General -- ''...After the official celebrations...Mamie and I did manage to get away for a few days' rest...'' -- 1945

  

  # Bids: 6

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $238

• Lot #253: Millard Fillmore's Signature Framed With CDV Photo

  

  # Bids: 9

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #254: Gerald Ford's Memoir ''A Time To Heal'' Signed

  

  # Bids: 4

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #255: Gerald Ford Typed Letter Signed as House Minority Leader -- ''...I am sure that with a change in administration on January 20...''

  

  # Bids: 2

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #256: Early 1958 Gerald Ford Typed Letter Signed -- ''...Your wonderful expression of faith in my work...''

  

  # Bids: 4

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #257: Gerald Ford 1976 Typed Letter Signed as President -- After His Defeat to Carter in November Election -- ''...fiscal responsibility and legislative restraint...are essential to sound government...''

  

  # Bids: 10

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $317

• Lot #258: Gerald Ford Typed Letter Signed to Robert McNamara -- ''Dear Bob...I cannot attend the dinner in your honor with David Rockefeller as host...'' -- 1981

  

  # Bids: 2

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #259: James Garfield Letter Signed as an Ohio Congressman -- Regarding a Revolutionary War Pension -- ''...The Committee on Pensions has reported favorably on the bill granting you a pension...''

  

  # Bids: 10

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $624

• Lot #262: President Harrison 1892 Invitation to Three Dinners -- To Meet the Diplomatic Corps, Congress, The Judiciary and Military Corps

  

  # Bids: 4

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #263: Benjamin Harrison 1893 Letter Signed -- Written Just Two Weeks After Completion of His Presidency

  

  # Bids: 2

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $425

• Lot #264: Excellent John Hay 1892 Autograph Letter Signed -- ''... to tell the truth and shame the Devil, I have no good portrait of Lincoln...''

  

  # Bids: 6

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #265: Rare Rutherford B. Hayes Autograph Letter Signed With Full Signature ''Rutherford B. Hayes'' -- ''When not so engaged, will be at my quiet home in Spiegel Grove...'' -- With PSA/DNA COA

  

  # Bids: 7

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $288

• Lot #266: Rutherford B. Hayes Autograph Note Signed -- Personalized Thank You Note for a Photograph

  

  # Bids: 6

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #267: Rutherford B. Hayes Handwritten Note Signed -- To Editor Edward Bok -- ''...I hope the article is not too large...''

  

  # Bids: 5

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #268: Herbert Hoover Signed ''The Challenge to Liberty''

  

  # Bids: 7

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #269: Herbert Hoover Signed 8'' x 10'' Photo

  

  # Bids: 9

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $288

• Lot #270: Herbert Hoover Signed 8'' x 10'' Photo -- Posing With His Dog King Tut

  

  # Bids: 7

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #271: Herbert Hoover 1928 Typed Letter Signed

  

  # Bids: 3

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #272: Herbert Hoover Signed Card

  

  # Bids: 2

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #273: Charles Evan Hughes Signed 1910 Letter

  

  # Bids: 2

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #274: WITHDRAWN

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: W/D

• Lot #275: Lyndon B. Johnson Biography Signed With His Autograph Inscription

  

  # Bids: 5

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $385

• Lot #276: Lyndon B. Johnson Typed Letter Signed -- To Political Cartoonist Gib Crockett

  

  # Bids: 3

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #277: Complete Press Package for the JFK Texas Welcome Dinner -- Planned for the Night of his Assassination

  

  # Bids: 10

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #278: Press Badge for JFK's Texas Welcome Dinner Scheduled for 22 November 1963

  

  # Bids: 7

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #279: Program For The ''Texas Welcome Dinner'' -- Event Planned For JFK The Night he Was Assassinated

  

  # Bids: 6

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $515

• Lot #280: Ticket to JFK's Texas Welcome Dinner -- Scheduled for the Night of His Assassination

  

  # Bids: 11

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #281: Original Ticket for the JFK Texas Welcome Dinner -- Scheduled the Night of His Assassination

  

  # Bids: 9

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #282: ''The Dallas Morning News'' Announces ''KENNEDY SLAIN ON DALLAS STREET''

  

  # Bids: 3

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #283: 22 November 1963 Edition of ''The Dallas Times Herald'' Announcing The Assassination of John F. Kennedy -- ''PRESIDENT DEAD''

  

  # Bids: 5

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #284: Late Edition of the 22 November 1963 Dallas Times Herald Announcing Assassination of JFK -- ''PRESIDENT DEAD / CONNALLY SHOT''

  

  # Bids: 5

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #285: Original JFK Inaugural Press Release -- on the Swearing In of His Cabinet -- 1pp. 8.5'' x 11'' -- Near FIne

  

  # Bids: 2

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #286: A Crew Member of John F. Kennedy's PT-109 Boat Handwrites & Signs a First Person Account of the Sinking

  

  # Bids: 2

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #287: Original Copy of Senator John F. Kennedy's Speech, ''New England - Problem or Promise?''

  

  # Bids: 3

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #288: Original JFK Speech From Press Secretary's Office -- Dated 18 November 1963 -- 9pp. 8.5'' x 14'' -- Fine

  

  # Bids: 2

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #289: John F Kennedy PT-109 Crew Member Autographs on JFK Commemorative Envelope

  

  # Bids: 10

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #292: Compelling Eyewitness Letter to President Abraham Lincoln's Assassination Uncovering the Conspiracy -- ''...The man that jumped from the theater box, in which the President was witnessing the play,...

  

  # Bids: 4

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $1,172

• Lot #293: Amazing Eyewitness Letter Detailing Lincoln Assassination Events -- ''...It became 'absolutely certain' that Wilkes Booth was implicated in that crime...''

  

  # Bids: 3

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #294: 1865 Lincoln Assassination Trial Newspaper -- Firsthand Testimony -- 12.25'' x 19.75'' -- Good

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #295: Abraham Lincoln Civil War-Era Presidential Albumen Photo -- Depicting the President in His Five Dollar Bill Portrait

  

  # Bids: 8

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #296: 'The Buffalo Enquirer'' 14 September 1901 Reporting on President McKinley's Death -- ''...McKinley Died the Death of a Soldier, Like a Man...''

  

  # Bids: 6

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $238

• Lot #297: 'The Buffalo Express'' 14 September 1901 Reporting on the Death of President William McKinley, Shot in Buffalo -- ''...the great Heart beat slower and slower and at last stopped forever...''

  

  # Bids: 7

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $216

• Lot #298: Presidential Secretary George Bruce Cortelyou Letter Following McKinley's Assassination -- ''...come to the Executive Mansion...it will give me pleasure to arrange for you to meet the President...''

  

  # Bids: 6

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #299: James Monroe Land Grant Signed as President

  

  # Bids: 15

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #300: First Lady Pat Nixon Invitation to Robert McNamara's Wife

  

  # Bids: 2

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #301: First Lady Pat Nixon Typed Letter Signed to Wife of Robert McNamara -- ''...You have my deepest admiration...'' -- 1970

  

  # Bids: 2

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #302: First Lady Pat Nixon Typed Letter Signed to The Wife of Defense Secretary Robert McNamara -- ''...We do indeed share a concerned interest in eliminating illiteracy...''

  

  # Bids: 2

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #303: Richard Nixon Signed Memoir ''In The Arena''

  

  # Bids: 6

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #304: Richard Nixon ''The Real War'' Signed First Edition, Third Printing

  

  # Bids: 4

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #305: Richard Nixon Signed ''Six Crises'' -- ''For Alice Miles from Dick Nixon''

  

  # Bids: 5

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $238

• Lot #306: Richard Nixon 10'' x 8'' Signed Photo -- Also Signed by Michigan's 1960 Gubernatorial Candidate Paul Bagwell

  

  # Bids: 3

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #307: Richard Nixon Signed 8'' x 10'' Matte Photo -- To Nuremberg Judge -- ''To Victor Swearingen / with best wishes from his friend / Dick Nixon'' -- Very Good to Near Fine

  

  # Bids: 4

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #308: As President, Richard Nixon Typed Letter Signed to Robert McNamara -- ''Dear Bob...you share my special interest in making every effort to build a just and durable peace...''

  

  # Bids: 5

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #309: Richard Nixon Official White House Invitation to Former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara

  

  # Bids: 2

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #310: Ronald Reagan Signs His Autobiography, ''An American Life''

  

  # Bids: 9

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #311: President Ronald Reagan 1985 Inauguration Official Invitation & Memorabilia

  

  # Bids: 6

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $238

• Lot #312: Ronald Reagan Typed Letter Signed -- ''Happy Birthday and God Bless You'' -- to Widow of Chicago Cubs Charlie Grimm -- 1992

  

  # Bids: 3

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #313: President Ronald Reagan Signed 8'' x 10'' Photo

  

  # Bids: 12

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #314: President Ronald Reagan 1987 Signed 8'' x 10'' Photo

  

  # Bids: 5

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #315: President Ronald Reagan Signed 10'' x 8'' Photo to Federal Judge Irving Kaufman

  

  # Bids: 7

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #316: Ronald Reagan Typed Letter Signed as President to Robert McNamara -- Expressing Sympathy For The Loss of McNamara's Wife -- ''Nancy and I were saddened...''

  

  # Bids: 6

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #317: First Lady Edith Kermit Roosevelt Signed White House Postcard -- 1904

  

  # Bids: 4

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #318: Eleanor Roosevelt Signed Copy of Her Autobiography, ''This is My Story''

  

  # Bids: 3

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #319: Eleanor Roosevelt Signed Photo ''To W. Carey Wilson with good wishes Eleanor Roosevelt'' -- 8'' x 10'' Matte -- Light Wear, Else Fine

  

  # Bids: 8

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #320: Eleanor Roosevelt Typed Letter Signed on White House Stationery -- ''...Apparently, the story in which I said that I did believe in Santa Claus has caused these letters...''

  

  # Bids: 5

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $216

• Lot #321: July 1940 United States Democratic National Convention Floor Ticket -- Designated For ''Delegate or Alternate'' -- Near Fine

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #322: Inauguration Ceremonies Program From 20 January 1941 -- the Only Inauguration Program for a Third-Term Presidential Election

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #323: Theodore Roosevelt 1902 White House Invitation

  

  # Bids: 7

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $262