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August 2012 Auction Ends Thursday, August 30th, 5pm Pacific

Auction closed on 8/30/2012. Final prices include buyers premium.

• Lot #1: King Charles II 1660 Proclamation From The First Month of Restoration -- Demanding Those Responsible For The Execution of His Father King Charles I Turn Themselves In For Murder & Treason

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #2: Winston Churchill Announces His Resignation as Prime Minister -- ''...for some time past I have not felt that at my age it would be right for me to incur such new and indefinite responsibilities...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #3: Oliver Cromwell 1655 Document Signed Boldly ''Oliver P.'' as ''Lord Protector'' of England -- Scarce

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: $8,098

• Lot #4: Princess Diana & Prince Charles Signed Christmas Card From 1982 -- With a Lovely Family Portrait Photo

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $916

• Lot #5: Princess Diana and Prince Charles Signed Christmas Card From 1983 -- With Family Portrait Featuring Diana Posing on a Swing With Baby Prince William

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $916

• Lot #6: Funny Christmas Card Signed and Sent by Princess Diana -- ''Merry Christmas. Lots of Love, Diana. X''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #7: 1307 Document From the Reign of Edward I -- One of the Few Extant Documents From the King Who Imposed a 400 Year Ban on Jews in England

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: $14,351

• Lot #8: Edward VIII, Prince of Wales, Signed Photo -- 1919 Canadian Visit

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $425

• Lot #9: Queen Elizabeth's Official Coronation Photo Signed in 1959

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $3,049

• Lot #10: Radical 1648 English Civil War Act Abolishing Monarchy in England & Ordering the Death of Charles I -- ''...Charles Stuart late King of England...is hereby declared to be justly condemned, adjudged...

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #11: Napoleonic General Henri Fulque-d'Oraison Document Signed

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $145

• Lot #12: Fantastic content Che Guevara 1959 Letter Signed -- ''...[It] is not acceptable...to believe that...Alvarado acted in self defense...he can be careless and selfish…"

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #13: King Henry III of France Letter Signed From 1579

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $1,109

• Lot #14: King Henry VII Signs & Annotates an Accounting of Real Estate Confiscated From His Knights -- Evidence of the Property Taking for Which Henry VII Was Known

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #15: King Henry VII Signed Document -- Scarce, From 15th Century

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #16: Henry VIII Document Signed in 1512, Gathering Troops to Invade France -- ''...[Those who do not report for duty are] to be...punished...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: $40,954

• Lot #19: 1819 Napoleonic General Edme Aime Lucotte Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...It is a riddle that I cannot explain...''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #21: Official 1815 Order From French King Louis XVIII

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #22: Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin & His Wife Signed Envelope -- ''Y. Rabin / L. Rabin'' -- Dated 8 May 1973 -- 6.5'' x 3.75'' -- Fine

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $178

• Lot #23: Intriguing 1811 Letter Signed by Napoleon's General Savary, Who Served as Minister of Police -- ''...I gave the orders to have a search for the...author, also the staff who spread the document...''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #24: French Admiral Latouche Treville Letter Signed -- ''...The crew of the ship Tordeaux wrecked in 1773 on the island of Tizago, where they had found the most awful captivity...''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $0

• Lot #25: Revolutionary War French Foreign Minister Charles Gravier Vergennes Document Signed

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $262

• Lot #26: Extremely Scarce Queen Victoria 1887 Golden Jubilee 22-Karat Gold Medal

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #27: Queen Victoria Signature -- ''Victoria R I [Regina Imperatrix]'' -- Below ''Approved'' in Another Hand -- 5.75'' x 3'' Document Fragment -- Very Good

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $317

• Lot #28: Proclamation of George IV's Ascendancy to the Throne Signed by the Duke of Wellington

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $1,789

• Lot #186: 1928 Document Signed by Benito Mussolini & Vittorio Emanuele III

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $196

• Lot #280: Douglas MacArthur Signs ''MacArthur: His Rendezvous With History''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #302: General Patton's 1909 West Point Yearbook

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #304: General Matthew Ridgway Typed Letter Signed -- 23 October 1947 -- ''M.B. Ridgway'' -- U.N. Military Staff Letterhead -- Very Good

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #309: Martin Luther King, Jr. Program From His 1965 Speaking Engagement Following His Nobel Peace Prize Win

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #311: ''The Day They Marched'' -- Story of 1963 March on Washington With King's ''I Have a Dream'' Speech

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #312: Stunning Nelson Mandela Signed Autobiography ''Long Walk To Freedom'' -- Fine

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #313: March on Washington Pin -- The Same Kind Worn by Martin Luther King Jr. as He Led the Historic 1963 March

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $317