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March 2012 Auction Ends Wednesday, March 28th, 5pm Pacific

Auction closed on 3/28/2012. Final prices include buyers premium.

• Lot #5: Chester A. Arthur Letter Signed as Vice President

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $515

• Lot #14: ''The Philadelphia Gazette and Daily Advertiser'' -- 18 February 1801 -- False Reporting That Burr Was Elected President

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #16: George W. Bush Autograph Letter Signed While Campaigning for Governor of Texas -- '...I'll have my father check out the status of the operation...''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #17: George W. Bush Autograph Letter Signed -- '...You're a good man to care...''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #19: President George W. Bush 5'' x 7'' Glossy Photo Signed -- Bold Signature in Silver Ink

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $238

• Lot #20: Jimmy Carter Signed 8'' x 10'' Photo

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $145

• Lot #24: Grover Cleveland Autograph Letter Signed -- '...I have written...for some literature concerning women's industrial and social welfare; and have received a reply...'' -- 1906

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #25: President Grover Cleveland Autograph Letter Signed -- '...I expect you would ideally like to have it: 'Honest American Marriage and Home Building...''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #26: Bill Clinton First Edition of ''Giving'' Signed

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $196

• Lot #27: Bill Clinton Diecast Presidential Seal Cufflinks - - ''Seal of the President of the United States'' -- Approx. 0.75'' in Diameter -- Mint

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #28: Bill Clinton Autograph Note Signed Regarding Ronald Reagan -- '...I have a good relationship with him...''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #31: Postmaster Appointment Signed by President Calvin Coolidge

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #32: Calvin Coolidge Signed 4.25'' x 3.5" White House Card -- Affixed to Slip of Paper -- Very Good

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $196

• Lot #33: Calvin Coolidge Thank You Card -- Lot Also Includes Diplomatic Invitations

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #34: Calvin Coolidge Rare Panoramic Photo -- With the ''Swedish Singing Society'' on the White House Lawn -- Measures Over Three Feet Long

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $288

• Lot #48: Gerald Ford Autograph Letter Signed -- '...The beautiful Republican tree trimmings are already appropriately displayed...''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #49: President Gerald Ford 8'' x 10'' Glossy Signed Photo -- With Envelope from California Office -- Minor Foxing -- Near Fine

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #50: Gerald Ford 1994 Typed Letter Signed -- '...You were most thoughtful to send me the very attractive tie...''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #51: Gerald Ford TLS -- 1968 -- '...the House of Representatives has no jurisdiction in the confirmation of Presidential appointees..''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #52: Gerald Ford Letter Signed as President -- '...If we are to contain inflation and its damaging effects on the economy and the American people, we must continue to work for reduced federal spending

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $468

• Lot #53: 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...

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #54: Gerald Ford's Memoir ''A Time To Heal'' Signed

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #58: James Garfield 4.5'' x 1.75'' Clipped Signature -- ''Very truly yours, JA Garfield'' -- With 5.5'' x 6'' Engraving -- Very Good

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $425

• Lot #60: Ulysses S. Grant Dinner Invitation -- Dated 3 November 1875 from the Executive Mansion -- 5'' x 8'' -- Embossed ''USG'' -- Near Fine

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $288

• Lot #61: Ulysses S. Grant Invitation to His Home in Washington D.C. -- '...request the pleasure of General Marston's company...''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #62: Ulysses S. Grant Dinner Invitation to Three Separate Dinners -- ''General & Mrs. Grant, At Home'' -- With a Mention of Dancing

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #63: Ulysses S. Grant Dinner Invitation to Three Separate Dinners Hosted by Him and His Wife -- ''At Home / Monday Evenings...''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #64: Ulysses S. Grant Letter Signed

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #65: Very Rare & Unusual 12.25'' x 8.75'' Albumen Photo -- U.S. Senators Attending the Funeral of President Ulysses S. Grant

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #66: Ulysses S. Grant Signed Card With Gilt Edges -- 1882

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $686

• Lot #68: President Benjamin Harrison 1891 Dinner Invitation Addressed to New Hampshire Governor Person Colby Cheney

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #69: President Harrison 1892 Invitation to Three Dinners -- To Meet the Diplomatic Corps, Congress, The Judiciary and Military Corps

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #70: Benjamin Harrison Signed Holograph Check -- $5.00 Drawn From Fletcher's Bank -- 7.25'' x 2.75'' -- Very Good Condition

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #71: Rutherford B. Hayes ALS -- '...schools...should teach not only what is found in books, but also the arts...The failure to do the latter is a capitol defect in our public school system...''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #72: 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

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #73: Enigmatic Handwritten Rutherford B. Hayes Letter Marked Private & Confidential -- ''The affair you refer to...is not for me to notice... even indirectly...''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $288

• Lot #74: Rutherford B. Hayes Autograph Letter Signed Regarding the ''Omaha Slander'' Story on Liquor Trafficking -- '...the abuse of certain people is virtually commendation...''

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #75: Rutherford B. Hayes Autograph Letter Signed -- Replying to Editor of ''The Brooklyn Magazine'' on an Article Submitted by Hayes

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #77: Rutherford B. Hayes Handwritten Note Signed -- To Editor Edward Bok -- '...I hope the article is not too large...''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #78: Rutherford B. Hayes Handwritten Note Signed -- '...You seem interested in my doings...'' -- With Full Signature

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #79: Rutherford B. Hayes Autograph Note Signed -- Replying to Condolences on His Wife's June 1889 Death -- Excellent Signature

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #80: Rutherford B. Hayes Carte de Visite -- 2.5'' x 4'' -- Baldwin & Stevens, Columbus, Ohio Backstamp -- Very Good Condition

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #81: Rutherford B. Hayes Invitation -- February 1881 from the Executive Mansion -- '...meet The Members of the Diplomatic Corps...''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #82: 1881 Presidential Invitation by Rutherford B. Hayes and First Lady Lucy Webb Hayes

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #83: Herbert Hoover TLS as President -- '...I have some doubt as to the desirability of my making any final statement such as you suggest...'' -- Written in January 1932

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $425

• Lot #84: Herbert Hoover Typed Letter Signed -- '...You don't have to send me all that alarming information about yourself...''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #85: Herbert Hoover Typed Letter Signed as President -- Thanking Senator Moses of New Hampshire for His ''Kind Note''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $262

• Lot #87: Andrew Jackson Indiana Land Grant Signed as President

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #88: Rare Silk Copy of Andrew Jackson's 1837 Farewell Address -- Beautiful Presidential Keepsake

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #89: Andrew Jackson Inaugural Address 5'' x 6.5'' Broadside

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #91: Invitation to Dine With Thomas Jefferson -- 1806 -- Scarce

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $4,468

• Lot #92: Boston ''Columbian Centinel'' of 27 February 1805 -- Thomas Jefferson's Re-election as President Announced -- 13'' x 19.5'' -- 4 Pages -- Very Good

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #93: Admission Ticket to First Ever Presidential Impeachment Trial -- Andrew Johnson -- 1868

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #94: President Andrew Johnson Invitation to Dine at the White House -- Scarce Invitation from the Johnson Administration

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #95: Lyndon B. Johnson 23'' x 19'' Document Signed as President -- LBJ Appoints a Doctor to the President's Committee on Mental Retardation

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #96: Lyndon Johnson Document Signed as President -- 1965 Appointment of Civil Rights Champion William Taylor to Civil Rights Commission -- Scarce

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #98: Lyndon B. Johnson Typed Letter Signed -- To Famous Cartoonist Gib Crockett

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #99: Lyndon B. Johnson Typed Letter Signed -- To Political Cartoonist Gib Crockett

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

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

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $3,049

• Lot #107: Eyewitness Letter Recounting JFK's Assassination by Texas Senator Ralph Yarborough -- ''...I distinctly heard the three rifle shots with loud blasts...''

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #108: Four Unpublished Slides of JFK's Evening Arrival at the Houston, Texas Airport on 21 November 1963

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $216

• Lot #109: President John F. Kennedy's First State of the Union Address -- Original 1961 Press Release

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $238

• Lot #110: Itinerary of President John F. Kennedy During a Trip to the Midwest and West Coast in 1963

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #111: Original JFK Speech in Tampa, Florida Delivered Just Four Days Before Assassination

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $120

• Lot #112: Notated Memo Regarding John F. Kennedy's November 1963 Trip to Texas -- Carried by Assistant Press Secretary Malcolm Kilduff

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #113: President John F. Kennedy Makes Presidential Appointments Just After His Inauguration -- 29 January 1961

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #114: ''Life'' Magazine from 6 December 1963 Covering John F. Kennedy's Funeral-- Chipping and Minor Creasing -- Very Good

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #115: ''Life'' Magazine Covering the Assassination of John F. Kennedy -- 29 November 1963 -- Toning, Else Near Fine

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #116: UPI Wire Photo of Jim Garrison's .45 Caliber Bullet That Supposedly Killed Kennedy -- 10'' x 8'' Glossy Black & White Photo -- Near Fine

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #117: Fascinating CBS Booklet in the Wake of JFK's Assassination -- December, 1963 -- With Photographs of the Event Captured by the Network

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #118: Document Signed by Reverend Huber, Who Administered the Last Rites to Kennedy After His Assassination

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #119: JFK Assassination Manuscript -- ''That Day - A Decade Ago - In Dallas'' by Jim Bishop -- With Copious Corrections by Bishop

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #120: UPI Teletypes Reporting JFK Assassin Details -- ''...witnesses placed Oswald in the building from which Kennedy was shot...photos show him with the rifle believed to have killed Kennedy...''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #121: UPI Bulletins Detailing JFK Assassination -- ''...the President, his limp body cradled in the arms of his wife, was rushed to Parkland Hospital...''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #122: Minute-by-Minute UPI Bulletins Detailing JFK Assassination -- ''...the first shot hit him and that awful look crossed his face...''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #123: ''New York Daily News'' 23 November 1963 -- ''Johnson Sworn as President'' and ''Left-Wing Suspect Seized''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #124: ''New York Daily News'' 24 November 1963 -- ''Johnson Leads Mourning'' and ''The Burden is Heavy''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #125: ''New York Daily News'' 25 November 1963 Reporting the Murder of Kennedy Assassin Lee Harvey Oswald -- Headline Reads: ''The Fatal Shot''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #126: ''New York Daily News'' 26 November 1963 -- Final Day of JFK's State Funeral -- ''We Carry On''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #127: ''New York Daily News'' 27 November 1963 -- ''Capitol, Nation Wait Johnson's First Message''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #128: ''New York Journal American'' 23 November 1963 on JFK Assassination -- ''The Mourning - The Crime''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #129: ''New York Journal American'' From 24 November 1963 on JFK's State Funeral -- John-John Says: ''Have No One to Play With''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #130: ''New York Journal American'' From 25 November 1963 -- JFK's State Funeral: ''The Nation Stood Still''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #131: ''New York Journal American'' 26 November 1963 -- ''Jackie's Lonely Vigil at Husband's Grave''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #132: ''New York Herald Tribune'' 26 November 1963 -- Final Day of JFK's State Funeral: ''Our Majesty in Mourning''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #133: 28 November 1963 Newspaper With Editorial on JFK's Assassination -- ''...the fruitless, frantic wish that the clock might set back to just before and this impossible event repealed..."

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #134: Historic Copy of ''The Dallas Times Herald'' From the Evening JFK's Assassination Stunned the World -- Headlines Include ''Secret Service Checks in Vain''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $216

• Lot #136: ''The Dallas Morning News'' Announces ''KENNEDY SLAIN ON DALLAS STREET''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #137: Historic ''The Dallas Times Herald'' From Morning After JFK Assassination Stunned the World -- Headlines Include ''PRESIDENT DEAD, CONNALLY SHOT'' and ''Johnson Assumes Office''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #138: ''Oklahoma City Times'' From Day of JFK Assassination -- ''Wife Holds Dying Mate In Her Arms'' and ''3 Shots''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #139: ''Patent Trader Weekend Edition'' 24 November 1963 Reporting JFK's Assassination -- Headlines Include: ''Sniper's Gun Kills Kennedy''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #140: ''The Dallas Times Herald'' 25 November 1963 Detailing Death of JFK Assassin -- ''...FBI Tipped Oswald Would Be Killed...'' -- With Dramatic Eyewitness Photo

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #141: JFK Assassination Newspaper -- ''The New York Times'' From 23 November 1963

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #142: Dallas Newspaper Published the Morning of the JFK Assassination -- Haunting Image of The First Couple

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #143: John F. Kennedy Inauguration Newspaper -- ''The Washington Post'' on 21 January 1961

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #144: 24 November 1963 Telegram Regarding President John F. Kennedy's Assassination -- Very Rare

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #145: Original President John F. Kennedy Motorcade Seating Plan for Historic 1963 Berlin Trip

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #146: JFK Original Press Release on the Cuban Missile Crisis -- ''No evidence...indicating that there is any intention to dismantle''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #147: White House Transcript of a Letter to Khrushchev: Cuban Missile Crisis -- ''We...agree to remove promptly the quarantine''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #148: JFK Press Release, Cuban Missile Crisis -- ''...the Soviet Government in secretly introducing offensive weapons into Cuba...''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass