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July 2014 Auction Ends Thursday, July 31st, 5pm Pacific

Auction closed on 7/31/2014. Final prices include buyers premium.

• Lot #105: Jackie Robinson Signed Photo -- 8'' x 10'' Photo of Robinson & Actor Van Heflin, Dedicated in Robinson's Hand to the Actor -- With PSA/DNA COA

  

  Min Bid: $1,250

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #236: Duchess of Windsor Wallis Simpson Personally Owned Engraving of Madonna and Child

  

  Min Bid: $3,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #278: Astronaut William Anders 1969 Typed Letter Signed on NASA Stationery -- ''...All three of us are grateful for His Eminence's thoughtfulness in praying a prayer just for us...''

  

  Min Bid: $400

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #356: Bell Street Baptist Church Bombing Debris -- One of the Four Churches Bombed After the Supreme Court Ruling That the Montgomery Bus Segregation System Was Unconstitutional

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #357: 16th Century Order Issued by Pope Clement VIII -- Document Brings Uniformity to Religious Rituals -- ''...corrupt and changed ceremonies and rites...are to not be used...''

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $625

• Lot #358: Marcus Garvey Letter Signed on Universal Negro Improvement Association Letterhead as Its President -- ''...it would be good if you could devote some time to interesting other folks...''

  

  Min Bid: $750

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #359: 1583 Extensive Manuscript Relating to the Papacy of Gregory XIII -- ''... 3 provinces of Catalonia, Valencia, and Aragon, Gregory XIII extends to the them right of autonomy...''

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $625

• Lot #360: Incredible Martin Luther King Handwritten Pages For ''Stride Toward Freedom'' -- Detailing the Momentous Rosa Parks Incident -- ''...they agreed that the Negroes should boycott the buses...''

  

  Min Bid: $10,000

  Final Price: $12,500

• Lot #361: ''We Shall Overcome'' First Edition Portfolio From the ''March on Washington'' -- Scarce Complete Portfolio of Five Collages Issued by the National Urban League as a Memento for Marchers

  

  Min Bid: $1,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #362: Rare Flyer From Martin Luther King's 1963 ''March On Washington''

  

  Min Bid: $1,500

  Final Price: $2,496

• Lot #363: Martin Luther King, Jr. ''The Future of Integration'' Speech Delivered in 1959 -- ''...segregation is at bottom a form of slavery covered up with certain niceties of complexity...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #364: Martin Luther King, Jr. Address to the Montgomery Improvement Association in 1959

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #365: Martin Luther King, Jr. & Mrs. King Christmas Card

  

  Min Bid: $750

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #366: 1957 Newsletter by the MIA on the Burgeoning Civil Rights Movement -- Reports the Second Assassination Attempt on Martin Luther King & the Race Bombings in Montgomery, Alabama

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #367: Nelson Mandela Signed Copy of His Autobiography ''Long Walk to Freedom'' -- Beautiful, Fine Edition

  

  Min Bid: $3,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #368: 12th Century Vellum Leaf Removed From a German Breviary -- ''Third Sunday After Easter'' Printed in Latin in Romanesque Script

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #369: Scarce Flyer Issued by the Black Opposition to the Montgomery Bus Boycott -- ''...There isn't a chance in the world of breaking segregation in Montgomery...''

  

  Min Bid: $2,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #370: Martin Luther King Statement at End of Montgomery Bus Boycott -- ''...it is more honorable to walk in dignity than ride in humiliation...be loving enough to turn an enemy into a friend...''

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $625

• Lot #371: Extraordinary Spanish Inquisition Letter by Pope Clement VIII -- ''follow the errors of Mohamed...enforce greater punishments...cut off the lethal cult...by appointing more inquisitors''

  

  Min Bid: $1,500

  Final Price: $1,875

• Lot #372: Mother Teresa Typed Letter Signed -- ''...Keep the joy of loving God ever burning in your heart as your strength...''

  

  Min Bid: $400

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #373: Mother Teresa Typed Letter Signed -- Dated Shortly Before Her Death

  

  Min Bid: $400

  Final Price: $500

• Lot #519: Confederate Statesman Judah Benjamin Document Signed -- ''...It is admitted that at and before and since the sale of the slaves...''

  

  Min Bid: $750

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #534: Charles Sumner 1863 Autograph Letter Signed as Senator -- Regarding Slavery & a Detailed Critique of the Confiscation Act -- ''...No expression of harshness to the slavemongers...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,250

  Final Price: $1,563

• Lot #632: Harriet Beecher Stowe Handwrites a Quote From ''Macbeth'' and Signs Alongside William Cullen Bryant Upon a Single Slip

  

  Min Bid: $400

  Final Price: Pass