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Harry Kleiman, Animation Expert When young Harry Kleiman’s family moved to Los Angeles in 1968, the cartoon fanatic—insatiable in his appetite for all things animated—began spending nearly every day after school visiting animation studios, learning about the process, and meeting the industry’s icons: Walter Lantz, Bob Clampett, Bill Hanna and Joseph Barbera, Chuck Jones, Marc Davis, Ollie Johnston, Frank Thomas, Ward Kimball, Grim Natwick, and Friz Freleng. These meetings sparked what would become his lifelong passion and business pursuit. In 1980, Kleiman finished college and founded Collectors Paradise Galleries, attending dozens of conventions each year to buy, sell, and—his favorite—educate new collectors. In 1982, he was the first person to approach the Don Bluth Studio about selling their original cels from The Secret of Nimh. He also began making deals with Gary Goldman, offering cels from Dragon’s Lair and Space Ace. In 1984, he partnered Collectors Gallery in Studio City, where he was introduced to fellow animation enthusiasts from around the world.
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Over the years, Kleiman accumulated one of the most impressive animation art collections in existence, portions of which he generously lent out to animation scholars to continue broadening the world’s understanding and appreciation of this beloved art form. As an animation veteran who has spent his life studying, buying, and selling, Kleiman is eager to branch out and educate the next generation. We are proud to be a part of his lifetime of passion.
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For over 20 years Phil Sears has been the recognized world authority on Walt Disney’s autograph habits. Included among Phil-sears.com customers are the Walt Disney Company and the Walt Disney Family Museum. Sears’s items have been featured in Autograph Collector magazine, E Ticket magazine, Collect! magazine, and the biography Walt Disney’s Missouri. Letters of Authenticity are available on certain lots. Priced upon request*
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BRIAN GREEN AND MARIA GREEN, BRIAN AND MARIA GREEN CIVIL WAR SIGNATURES
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presidents and first ladies As the war nears its end, Washington, still wary of the British, heeds concerns of the construction of a magazine at West Point 1. George Washington Letter Signed. Important war-dated LS, signed
“Go: Washington,” one page, 7.25 x 11.5, Newburgh, New York, August 6, 1782. Letter to Major Villefranche concerning plans for the French officer to construct a powder magazine at West Point. In full, “I was informed by the Genl. Paterson, that the place assigned by Majr. Genl. Knox & others for erecting the Magazine, was in your opinion very unfit for the purpose; if this is the case, I wish you to point out some other place on West Point, and give your reasons in writing, as soon as possible, why you prefer it to the place first mentioned.” In fine condition, with trimmed edges and light toning from prior display.
On July 4, 1782, the Board of War ordered that West Point become an official repository for gunpowder and authorized the construction of a magazine. Washington, in consultation with Henry Knox, selected a location and began construction. Villefranche’s case for why the location should have been moved is unrecorded in Washington’s papers, but his case must have been persuasive. The site of the magazine was evidently moved to Constitution Island, which lay directly across the Hudson from West Point. On August 12, construction began there on a magazine that would hold 1,000 barrels of powder. Washington was impressed enough with Villefranche to recommend his promotion to Congress in 1783, and in May 1783, he was made a lieutenant colonel. A fine content war-dated letter written in the closing days of the Revolutionary War with peace negotiations ongoing in Paris. Starting Bid $2500
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2. James Madison Signed Free Frank. Full free frank, measuring 9.75 x 8 unfolded with a central panel of 5 x 3.25, addressed in Madison’s hand to “Judge Todd, Washington,” and franked in the upper right, “Free, James Madison.” Docketed in another hand, “1824, Mr. Madison, Feb’y 15th.” In very good to fine condition, with small stains to the center, and two small tape stains to the top edge. Starting Bid $200
Scarce autograph letter as president by James Monroe
3. James Monroe Autograph Letter Signed as President. Choice ALS as
president, one page, 8 x 9.75, December 1, 1818. Handwritten letter to a gentleman regarding several financial matters, in full: “I enclose you an order on the bank of Columbia for the amount of Mr. Bibb’s draft on me, which I will thank you to present three or four days hence, if not inconvenient to you. On the claim of Lindsay & Hill of Alex’a, I will give you an answer in a day or two. I did not suppose that I owed them any thing, and shall write to morrow for information respecting their account, which the pressures of business heretofore prevented my doing.” In fine condition. Starting Bid $300
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Check made payable by Monroe to “my servant Peter”—the only slave he ever freed
4. James Monroe Signed Check. Rare Bank of the Metropolis check, 6.25 x 2.25, filled out and signed by Monroe, “Jas. Monroe,” payable to “my servant Peter” for $150, May 27, 1816. In fine condition. Peter Marks (sometimes spelled Marx) was one of the hundreds of people that James Monroe enslaved throughout his lifetime—and he was the only one he ever freed. Based on census data, household records, and contemporary reporting, it is believed that Marks served in the White House during Monroe’s presidency. Monroe made a ‘dying request’ to have Marks freed, a fact known to historians because of a letter of recommendation written by Monroe’s friend Tench Ringgold: ‘The bearer hearof Peter Marks a coloured man late the property of James Monroe deceased, late President of the United States, has been liberated & set free by at Mr. Monroe’s dying request by his executor Samuel L. Gouverneur of the City of New York & by Mrs. E. K. Hay one of Mr. Monroes daughters to whom he was a slave. Peter is honest, and capable, he is an excellent dining room servant, and a good coachman, has been brought up in the family of Mr. Monroe from his infancy…I can recommend him to any person who may want a waiter or coachman, as I have long known him.’ Starting Bid $300
5. James Monroe Autograph Document Signed.
ADS signed “Jas. Monroe,” one page, 7.75 x 2.75, January 7, 1815. Boldly penned handwritten financial document, in full: “Mr. Smith will be so good as to send me one hundred doll’s by the bearer.” In fine condition. Starting Bid $200
Governor Monroe grants a plot of 200 acres near Cripple Creek 6. James Monroe Document Signed. Partly-printed vellum DS,
signed “Jas. Monroe,” one page, 15 x 11.75, July 14, 1801. As governor of Virginia, Monroe grants unto Alexandra Smyth, the assignee of John Thompson Sayers, a “certain Tract or Parcel of Land, containing Two hundred Acres…on the north side of a Tract of Land on Cripple Creek.” Neatly signed at the conclusion by Governor Monroe. The seal affixed to the lower left remains intact. In fine condition. Starting Bid $200
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Press copy of a letter from Adams following his successful negotiations in the Treaty of Ghent 7. John Quincy Adams Press Copy Letter. ALS, one
page, 7.5 x 9, February 15, 1815. Original press copy of a letter from Paris to Under Secretary of State Henry Goulburn, referencing his departure from Ghent, where he had just negotiated the treaty that ended the War of 1812. In part: “Your obliging favour of 23d ulto. reached Ghent, some days after my departure from that place....Mr. Hughes was detained so long in descending the Garonne from Bordeaux, that Mr. Baker has probably arrived before him. I hope they are both ere this safely landed in the United States. Until we hear of the arrival of one of them, my own anxious wish has been and will be to hear no news from America. At least no news of military operations. For in the present interval, all such news would be bad, and the Fortune of War itself could only vary the causes of regret.” In very good to fine condition, with scattered small areas of paper loss due to ink erosion. Christopher Hughes and Anthony St. John Baker were American and British secretaries to their respective legations during the Treaty of Ghent peace negotiations. Starting Bid $300
President Adams neatly endorses a $2,000 check
8. John Quincy Adams Endorsed Check as President. Bank of the United States check, 7 x 3.25, filled out in another
hand and signed by the cashier, payable to John Quincy Adams for $2,000, November 27, 1826, endorsed on the reverse by Adams as president, “Pass the within to my credit in Bank, J. Q. Adams, 27 Nov’r 1826.” In very good to fine condition, with minor edge loss, and a single cancellation punch hole. Starting Bid $200
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12. Andrew Jackson Document Signed as President. Partly-printed vellum DS as president, 9. John Quincy Adams Document Signed. Partlyprinted DS, signed “J. Q. Adams,” one page, 7 x 9.75, March 9, 1822. As secretary of state, John Quincy Adams certifies that “Ezekiel Macdaniel, whose name is subscribed to the annexed Instrument of writing, was, at the time of subscribing the same and now is, a Justice of the Peace for the County of Washington in the District of Columbia, duly appointed and commissioned.” Signed boldly at the conclusion by Adams. In fine condition, with a portion of the embossed seal missing. Starting Bid $200
one page, 15.75 x 9.75, December 8, 1830. President Jackson grants John Lowry of Edgar County, Illinois, a parcel “at Palestine, Illinois, containing Eighty acres.” Signed at the conclusion by President Jackson and countersigned by Commissioner of the General Land Office Elijah Heyward. The white paper seal affixed to the lower left remains intact. In fine condition, with a few vertical folds. Starting Bid $200
Rare presidential check by Andrew Jackson, made payable to his son: “Andrew Jackson Jr.”
10. Andrew Jackson Signed Check as President. Bank of the Metropolis check, 5.25 x 2, filled out and signed by
Jackson as president,”Andrew Jackson,” payable to “Andrew Jackson Jr.” for $25, June 30, 1835. In fine condition, with a tiny hole at the center, and an old repair to the tear to the right edge. A rare example of a presidential check, effectively signed twice by the commander-in-chief. Starting Bid $200
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Early letter from President Jackson sent to the Minister to the Netherlands 11. Andrew Jackson Letter Signed as President. LS as president, one page
both sides, 7.75 x 9.75, June 20, 1829. Letter to Maine judge William Pitt Preble, in part: “I take the liberty to introduce to your acquaintance & polite attention Maj. Davezac, who will hand you this. The Major during the campaign of 1814-15, before New Orleans, acted as one of my volunteer aids, & Judge advocate to the Army and it affords me pleasure to say that his chivalrous conduct on that occasion deserved & received my warmest approbation.” In fine condition, with a light stain touching the closing, and seal-related paper loss, and a split fold, to the integral address leaf. Starting Bid $200
13. Andrew Jackson Signed Free Frank.
Full free frank, measuring 12.5 x 7.75 unfolded with a central panel of 5.25 x 3.25, addressed by Jackson to “Col. Francis Preston, Abington, Virginia,” and franked in the lower left, “Mr. A. Jackson jn’r.” In very good to fine condition, with light staining to the lower left, and along the vertical fold. An unusual and early form of Jackson’s autograph—adding the “jn’r” suffix —addressed to a noteworthy Virginia politician. Francis Preston (1765–1835) was the son of the important soldier and surveyor William Preston, and served in the House of Representatives from 1793 to 1797. Starting Bid $200
14. Martin Van Buren Document Signed as President.
Partly-printed vellum DS as president, one page, 11.5 x 14.25, June 15, 1839. Scallop-top ship’s pass issued to “the Brig Inga… Elisha G. Cudworth master or commander…To Pass with her Company, Passengers, Goods and Merchand[ize] without any hinderance, seisure, or molestation.” Signed at the conclusion by President Martin Van Buren and countersigned by Secretary of State John Forsyth. In very good condition, with soiling, staining, loss to the lower right corner, and seal absent. Starting Bid $200
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17. William Henry Harrison Signed Check.
Miami Exporting Company check, 5.75 x 2, filled out and signed by Harrison, “Will’m Henry Harrison,” payable to Wm. Dunn for $31, February 27, 1811. Professionally inlaid into a slightly larger sheet and in fine condition. The Miami Exporting Company, located in Cincinnati, was the first bank chartered by the Ohio state legislature in 1803. A well-preserved, desirable example. Starting Bid $200
15. Martin Van Buren Letter Signed. LS as Secretary of State, signed “M. Van Buren,” one page, 7.75 x 9.75, November 2, 1829. Letter to Pennsylvania politician and future Vice President George M. Dallas, in full: “Your several letters respecting the difference between Mess’rs Barrozo and Porlude have been received. The course pursued by you meets the entire approbation of this Department, and you will receive, in season for the investigation to take place on Saturday next, the necessary instructions for the government of your conduct on that occasion.” In fine condition. Starting Bid $200
Two months before the Treaty of Greenville, Harrison provides beef, flour, whiskey, and salt to the “Wabash Indians” 16. William Henry Harrison Autograph Document Signed. ADS signed “Wm. H. Harrison,” one page, 7.75 x
4.75, June 11, 1795. Handwritten document by Harrison from his headquarters at Greenville, Ohio, directing supplies to the Wabash Indians just prior to the Treaty of Greenville. In full: “The Commissary will issue for the use of the Wabash Indians one hundred & forty four & 1/2 pounds of beef, one hundred & sixty seven pounds of flour, five & three fourth gallons of whiskey, & twenty two pounds of salt.”. In very good to fine condition, with somewhat irregular toning, repairs to two small areas of paper loss, and small areas of ink erosion reinforced by complete silking to the reverse. Starting Bid $200
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18. James K. Polk Document Signed as President.
Partly-printed DS as president, one page, 7.5 x 9.5, July 6, 1846. President Polk directs the “Secretary of State to affix the Seal of the United States to the remission granted to Arthur Hawkins, Master of the British Ship Arabian.” Signed boldly at the conclusion by Polk. Handsomely double-matted and framed with a portrait and engraved plaque to an overall size of 23.5 x 22.75. In fine condition. Starting Bid $200
19. James K. Polk Document Signed. Partly-printed
DS, one page, 12 x 15, May 1, 1840. As governor of Tennessee, Polk grants unto William Austin “a certain Tract or Parcel of Land, containing Thirty acres” in Dickson County. Boldly signed at the conclusion by Governor Polk and countersigned by John S. Young as secretary of state. In very good to fine condition, with light toning and staining, splitting to the ends of the intersecting folds, and trivial areas of paper loss along the folds. Starting Bid $200
Scarce presidential appointment by Zachary Taylor, who served for just 16 months 20. Zachary Taylor Document Signed as President. Choice DS as president, signed “Z. Taylor,” one page, 14 x 10, May 12, 1849. President Taylor appoints George W. P. Smith as “Surveyor and Inspector of the Revenue for the Port of Snow Hill, in the State of Maryland.” Boldly signed at the conclusion by President Taylor and countersigned by Secretary of the Treasury William M. Meredith. The white seal affixed to the lower left remains intact. Handsomely double-matted and framed with a portrait and plaque to an overall size of 28.75 x 18.75. In very fine condition. Given his short 16-month tenure in the White House, presidential autographs by Taylor are especially scarce. Starting Bid $300
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21. Zachary Taylor Signature. Desirable ink
signature from his military days, “Z. Taylor, Bt. Br. Genl., U.S.A. Comdg.,” on an off-white 3.5 x 1.25 slip. Affixed to a slightly larger black card and in fine condition. Starting Bid $200
Exceptional, lengthy autograph letter written to his former White House secretary
22. Franklin Pierce Autograph Letter Signed. ALS, twelve pages on three sets of adjoining sheets, 5.25 x 8.25, June 25, 1858. Letter to Sidney Webster, his former private White House secretary, written from Lisbon, Portugal. Pierce discusses his past and future travels throughout Europe, and makes reference to several notable figures of the day, including writer Nathaniel Hawthorne, Jefferson Davis, columnist John L. O’Sullivan, and naval officer Charles Stewart McCauley. In part: “After leaving Gibraltar we shall proceed almost directly to Vevey and remain there perhaps till October. I believe that [Nathaniel] Hawthorne is to pass the summer at Pisa and hence we shall probably not meet until he returns to Rome next winter. I think there is little doubt that we shall meet Gov. Fish an family somewhere this summer. I received a letter from Genl. Davis three weeks since but it was dated in April & in the hand of his wife. It was a warm, interesting letter and altho’ written by another hand than his own could have been dictated by nobody else.” In fine condition. Starting Bid $500
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24. James Buchanan Autograph Document Signed. ADS, one page, 8 x 4, May 10, 1852.
Handwritten promissory note by James Buchanan, in part: “Sixty days after date I promise to pay to the order of Benjamin Parke Esquire, at the Lancaster Bank, seven hundred & fifty dollars.” In fine condition. Starting Bid $200
Sought-after handwritten receipt for legal fees by ‘Prairie Lawyer’ Lincoln
26. Abraham Lincoln Autograph Document Signed. ADS signed “A. Lincoln,” one page, 7.75 x 1.5, April
16, 1845. Handwritten receipt for a payment, in full: “Rec’d April 16th 1845 of John Reavis all fees due by him to me up to this day.” Attractively matted and framed with a portrait to an overall size of 16 x 21. In fine condition, with three vertical folds, and possibly repaired unobtrusive tears to the left edge. Starting Bid $500
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27. U. S. Grant Signed Check as President. Desirable First National Bank
check, 8 x 2.75, filled out and signed by Grant as president, “U. S. Grant,” payable to Mr. Taber for $119.20, December 7, 1869. In fine condition, with minor edge loss. Starting Bid $200
28. U. S. Grant Signature. Ideal ink signature, “U. S. Grant, July 28th 1881,” on an offwhite 5 x 3 card. In fine condition. A large and bold autograph from the Civil War hero and 18th president of the United States. Starting Bid $200
29. U. S. Grant Signed Free Frank as President. Rare hand-addressed and free-franked Executive Mansion envelope, 6 x 3.5, addressed by Grant to “Hon. A. E. Boris, No. 1025 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, Pa,” and franked in the upper right as president, “U. S. Grant.” In very good to fine condition, with light soiling and scattered staining. Free franks from President Grant are decidedly scarce, with this being one of only a handful we have offered. Starting Bid $200
30. Rutherford B. Hayes Autograph Endorsement Signed as President. Autograph endorsement as president,
signed “R. B. Hayes,” one page, 3 x 4.5, stamped “Department of Justice, Jul. 30, 1878.” In full: “The Attorney Gen’l will please appoint Mr. Noyes, if proper.” Nicely matted alongside an engraved portrait (which features a facsimile signature) to an overall size of 14 x 11.5. In fine condition. Starting Bid $200
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Scarce postal commission signed by President Garfield, which predates his inauguration by two weeks 31. James A. Garfield Document Signed as President.
Partly-printed DS as president, one page, 17 x 14, February 16, 1881. President Garfield appoints Charles A. Spencer as “Postmaster at Sheboygan Falls…State of Wisconsin.” Signed neatly at the conclusion by James A. Garfield, and countersigned by Postmaster General Thomas L. James. Lower left retains the original gold foil seal with red ribbons. In fine condition, with a slight tear to foil seal. Given his brief time in office, presidential documents issued by Garfield are quite rare, with this particular example all the more unusual in that it was ostensibly filled out in advance, some 16 days before Garfield assumed the presidency. As this commission was essentially waiting for the president, it’s not unfair to suppose that this may have been one of the first documents Garfield signed in the White House. Starting Bid $500
32. James A. Garfield Autograph Letter Signed. ALS signed “J. A. Garfield,” one page, 7.75 x 9.75, House of Representatives, Committee of Ways and Means letterhead, May 1, 1866. Handwritten letter to C. H. Carter, in part: “I have laid there before the Committee of Ways and Means for their consideration. You will see that we have done a great deal to relieve you in the Int. Rev. bill lately introduced into the House. We have undertaken to avoid the duplication of taxes and have generally taken off the tax on raw materials and on the primary processes of manufacturers.” In fine condition. Starting Bid $200
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33. James A. Garfield Letter Signed and Charles Guiteau Signature Display. Desirable pairing of an American president and his assassin—an LS as an Ohio congressman, signed “J. A. Garfield,” one page, 4.75 x 6.5, January 30, 1877, in part: “I enclose…of my speech—If you have room I would like to have you add the enclosed as a motto on the title page—I hear there are to be pamphlet copies called for”; and an ink signature, “Charles Guiteau, Dec. 31–1881,” penned while incarcerated for the murder of Garfield on an off-white 3.5 x 2 card. Double-matted and framed together with cabinet portraits and engraved plaques to an overall size of 26.5 x 16.5. In overall fine condition, with slight brushing to Garfield’s signature. Starting Bid $200
34. Warren G. Harding Signed Check. The Marion Star business check, 8 x 3.25, filled out in another hand and signed by Harding, “W. G. Harding,” payable to the Huber Estate for $4115.80, September 1, 1908. In fine condition. Harding bought the Ohio daily newspaper The Marion Daily Star in 1884, and held ownership of the paper until mid-1923. Although Harding’s editorial department slanted toward the Republican platform, the daily paper remained somewhat neutral due to its position as the newspaper of record for Marion County, Ohio. However, the Star’s weekly publication served as the partisan arm of Harding’s newspaper empire. Starting Bid $200 16 |
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35. Herbert Hoover and White House Staff Signed Congressional Directory. Signed book: Congressional
Directory: 71st Congress, 2d Session, December 1929. First edition. Washington, D.C.: The Joint Committee on Printing, 1929. Hardcover, 6.25 x 9.25, 670 pages. Signed on the “Executive, The White House” page in fountain pen by President Herbert Hoover, as well as by six members of his personal White House staff: George Akerson, Lawrence Richey, Walter Hughes Newton, French Strother, Rudolph Forster, and Maurice C. Latta. The front cover bears Strother’s ownership stamp. Autographic condition: fine. Book condition: VG/None, with a cracked front hinge, minor fraying at spine ends, and an “Autographed Copy” notation to front board. Starting Bid $200
Rare FDR letter on the “one hundred twenty-fifth anniversary of the writing of the Star Spangled Banner, inspired by the bombardment of Fort McHenry” 36. Franklin D. Roosevelt Typed Letter Signed as President on Star Spangled Banner. Important TLS as
president, one page, 7 x 8.75, White House letterhead, May 16, 1939. Letter to W. Tilghman Hemsley, chairman of the executive committee of the Star Spangled Banner Regatta. In full: “Please accept my thanks for your kind letter of May twelfth inviting me to attend the celebration of the one hundred twenty-fifth anniversary of the writing of the Star Spangled Banner, inspired by the bombardment of Fort McHenry. I regret exceedingly that circumstances make it impossible to accept this invitation to participate in person. I hope, however, the celebration will be a successful one and one that will inspire all who participate with a new sense of appreciation of the stirring events it commemorates.” In fine condition, with light edge toning. Accompanied by photocopies of associated correspondence (Hemsley’s letter inviting him to the event, an internal White House memo, and their retained copy of this reply), provided to the consignor by the FDR Presidential Library & Museum. According to the consignor’s research, this is the only presidential letter on White House stationery mentioning the ‘Star Spangled Banner’ ever to come up for auction. A remarkable and patriotic piece. Starting Bid $500
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Unique triple-signed Warm Springs Foundation promissory note for $750 “in gold coin of the United States”
37. Franklin D. Roosevelt Document Signed. DS, signed “Franklin D. Roosevelt,” one page, 8.5 x 3.25, February 1, 1927. Typed promissory note, in part: “On February 1st, 1937, at the Bank of America, New York City, Georgia Warm Springs Foundation, Inc….promises, for value received, to pay to the order of Franklin D. Roosevelt, the sum of Seven hundred and fifty dollars in gold coin of the United States of America.” Signed at the conclusion by Franklin D. Roosevelt as the foundation’s president, and countersigned by D. Basil O’Connor as its treasurer; also marked “Paid, April 20, 1927” by Roosevelt and initialed, “FDR.” Also endorsed on the reverse by Franklin D. Roosevelt. In fine condition. Starting Bid $200
38. Franklin D. Roosevelt Signed Check. Guaranty Trust Company of New York check, 6.5 x 2.75, filled out in another hand and signed by Roosevelt, “Franklin D. Roosevelt,” payable to Dauber & Pine for $2.13, February 12, 1932. In fine condition. Situated on New York City’s celebrated ‘Book Row,’ the Dauber & Pine Bookshop was a classic used book store known for its disordered, towering stacks and overflowing shelves. Starting Bid $200
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“I can well understand your desire to return to active military duty when the ideals for which we fought then are again challenged” 39. Franklin D. Roosevelt Typed Letter Signed as President. World War II-dated TLS as president, one page, 7 x 8.75, White House letterhead, November 24, 1942. Letter to Theodore L. Cogswell, accepting his resignation as Register of Wills for the District of Columbia, in part: “I note with interest that your thirty years in service there have been interrupted only for the two-year period you served as an officer in the American Expeditionary Forces in the first World War...I can well understand your desire to return to active military duty when the ideals for which we fought then are again challenged.” In fine condition, with small pieces of archival tape on the back of the blank integral leaf. Starting Bid $200
Truman on the vice presidency—“As I have told you time and time again I am not a candidate and don’t expect to be”
41. Harry S. Truman Typed Letter Signed. World War II-dated
TLS signed “Harry,” one page, 8 x 10.5, United States Senate, Committee on Military Affairs letterhead, May 22, 1944. Letter to longtime friend Edward McKim, in part: “My Key West trip was rather a hectic affair. I held a hearing in Seattle for two days, one in San Francisco for a day, and then a three-day hearing in Los Angeles, after which I went to Salt Lake City and Ogden and made political speeches. I went to Phoenix and made another one, and finally wound up in Lubbock with a fourth one, and from there I drove to Amarillo and through to Kansas City. I appreciated Hayden’s mention of me for Vice President, but as I have told you time and time again I am not a candidate and don’t expect to be. It would absolutely ruin me from the standpoint of the Senate and throw away nine years of the hardest sort of work.” Truman adds a handwritten postscript. In fine condition, with two file holes to the top edge. Starting Bid $200
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President Truman’s love letter to America’s “five individual cities”—New Orleans, Boston, Charleston, San Francisco, and Santa Fe
40. Harry S. Truman Autograph Letter Signed as President. Fantastic ALS as president, three pages on two
adjoining sheets, 7 x 8.75, White House letterhead, August 4, 1948. Handwritten letter to Myldred (Bobbye) Landry in New Orleans, the daughter of Robert B. Landry, USAF aide to President Truman. In part: “Yes I’ve been in New Orleans on a number of occasions...I’ve been to every point of interest in your great city—Rue Royal, Antoine’s, the Cabildo, the cemeteries, Jackson Park, the Mississippi River trip, etc. You know of course that New Orleans is one of the five individual cities of the United States. I’ll name them for you.
Boston, its Common, Harvard, its narrow streets, Bean Hill (no hill at all). Charleston, So. Carolina, still British and Colonial. In a graveyard in the center of town is a tombstone on which there is an epitaph which says ‘here lies so & so. He came
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to Charleston at the age of two—he died at ninety-two—for a stranger he was a good citizen and well thought of’!! Beat that if you can. San Francisco our greatest west coast port and one of the few great natural harbors. There’s only one San Francisco. I hope you can see it some day if you haven’t seen it. Santa Fe, N. Mex., our real Spanish City. It is so old it makes Boston, Charlestown, New Orleans, and all our cities look new. See the Governor’s Palace some day. New Orleans, Spanish, French, Spanish, Andrew Jackson, Spoon Butler, Hughie Long—and still New Orleans itself. I hope some day, Bobbye, I may see the Mardi Gras.” In fine condition. Accompanied by the original White House mailing envelope, addressed in Truman’s hand. A sought-after autograph letter signed as president, boasting excellent content on America’s great cities.Starting Bid $2500
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“This is an urgent plea that you do everything you possibly can to help the Democratic ticket and the Honorable John F. Kennedy”
42. Harry S. Truman Typed Letter Signed. Desirable TLS, two pages, 7.25 x 10.5, personal letterhead, October 5, 1960. Letter to California Congressman John E. Moss, in part: “This is an urgent plea that you do everything you possibly can to help the Democratic ticket and the Honorable John F. Kennedy and the Honorable Lyndon B. Johnson, the Democratic nominees for President and Vice-President. Now, as never before, it seems to me, there is a need for us to submerge whatever differences may exist among us within our own Party and fight for a Democratic victory, National, State and Local. I simply do not believe that the United States can stand four more years of another Republican President in the White House...From my viewpoint, there is much to be gained and nothing to be lost by working together and doing our best for the whole ticket. I will be campaigning, just as I have done in times passed, not because I want anything for myself, but because the country needs a leader in the White House and leaders in the Congress. I ask you to join in all-out support of the Democratic ticket.” In fine condition. Starting Bid $200
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Harvard archive highlighted by an amazing hand-edited manuscript for JFK’s senior thesis on ‘Appeasement at Munich’: “The persecution of the Jews aroused more animosity than the march at the Rhineland” 44. John F. Kennedy Hand-Corrected Thesis Draft, Harvard Yearbook, and Signed Letter. Important
& also in putting his energies and effort to work. How can you have democ complete. Looks as though you cant. They have not had our natural resources made them willing to accept it. Maybe in the future we will have England too rich & well off to accept the hardships in 1936.”
Kennedy’s remarkable hand-corrected typed manuscript with a lengthy handwritten passage at the conclusion, ten pages, 7.75 x 11, no date. John F. Kennedy’s 1940 Harvard thesis, entitled ‘Appeasement at Munich: The Inevitable Result of the slowness of conversion of the British Democracy to a Rearmament Policy,’ formed the basis for his first book, Why England Slept, published with the encouragement of his father. The book examines the years leading up to World War II and the measures taken—or not taken—by England to extinguish the German threat before it developed into world war. Unlike most, he did not criticize Great Britain’s policy of appeasement toward Germany; the first example of German aggression came in March 1936 with their “march at the Rhineland,” an act that violated the Treaty of Versailles. Kennedy also alludes to the Abyssinia Crisis and Mussolini’s invasion of Ethiopia in 1935-36, and the Munich Agreement in 1938 by which England permitted the German annexation of the Sudetenland. This is a major JFK artifact of historical significance, which became the foundation for his early bestseller.
Unsigned hardcover issue of the Harvard Class Album for 1940, 11 x 13.75, 260 pages. Kennedy’s senior photo appears on page 204 and is captioned by personal information that includes his address, campus residence, and such activities as the Smoker Committee, Catholic Club, football, swimming, the “Hasty Pudding Institute of 1770,” and more. He is also depicted as a member of the Crimson staff, as an officer of the permanent class committee, and as a member of the yacht club. The cover bears the gilt-stamped name of JFK’s classmate Robert Blomen Wood.
archive with John F. Kennedy’s original working manuscript introduction for his Harvard University senior thesis, the Harvard Class Album 1940 yearbook, and a 1945 typed letter signed by Kennedy to his Harvard Class of 1940. Includes:
The long handwritten portion, penned on both sides of the final page, in part (spelling and grammar retained): “Democ can’t change its ideas overnight unless severely shocked— not shocked as Germany did not do anything that England did not regard as something that while unfortunate in name was allright in principle. The persecution of the Jews aroused more animosity than the march at the Rhineland…Frequent articles showing Ger[many] could not win any war etc & victory in World War gave feeling of confidence. Took time to change—Abyssinia same—not ready till Munich. Up to 1936—good but have & reassured. Now they were converted but only to the need for it. Not willing to make sacrifices until 1938. This 1/2 attitude spelt disaster as…would take 3 years. What’s the solution—acknowledge I dictator in changing P.O.
Form letter signed “Jack,” in black ink, one page, 8.5 x 11, Harvard Class of 1940 letterhead, December 27, 1945. Fundraising letter signed by war hero “Jack,” showing off his wit and humor. In part: “As the Class Secretary, Pete Pratt, is entangled with the U.S. Army, he has asked me to write you about the Class Report. The Class Report is ordinarily published at the time of our First Reunion, in our case, 1943. Due to circumstances beyond any of our controls, we have been unable to hold any semblance of a reunion. Now, however, our time has come and in June of this year we shall meet in Cambridge. You will be informed of that later…There is, as usual, the question of money. Our Class Fund has to its credit about $1300, invested in war bonds which our canny Treasurer, Donald MacDonald Dickinson Thurber, thinks is the best buy since Ponzi. McThurber, who we understand votes Republican in the Michigan elections, feels we should hold them until maturity. There are those who say that the money should be used to buy real estate in Nevada suitable for building a large underground cellar capable of holding 972 men of Harvard. That will be voted on in June.” In overall fine condition. Starting Bid $2500
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First edition of Why England Slept signed by the young “Jack Kennedy,” plus two college-era letters contemplating future plans 45. John F. Kennedy (3) Signed Items: First Edition of Why England Slept, ALS, and TLS. Unique and ultra-
rare collection of three important early items signed by JFK:
Signed book: Why England Slept by John F. Kennedy, with introduction by Henry R. Luce. First edition. NY: Wilfred Funk, Inc., 1940. Hardcover with dust jacket, 5.75 x 8.5, 252 pages. Boldly signed and inscribed on the first free end page in fountain pen to stockbroker Arthur Goldsmith, “To a very old friend of the Kennedys, with warmest regards—Jack Kennedy.” Autographic condition: fine. Book condition: VG/VG, with sunned backstrip, head of spine fraying, some mottling to top edges, and a short closed tear to the bottom of one page; dust jacket exhibits minimal wear with a few shallow creases at spine head and front panel, and a couple of short closed tears at top edge. Based on his Harvard thesis, Kennedy’s first book examines the years leading up to World War II and the measures taken—or not taken—by England to extinguish the German threat before it developed into world war. The recipient, Goldsmith, was the friend and Harvard classmate of Joseph P. Kennedy. He went on to become a Wall Street stockbroker and maintained a close relationship with the Kennedy family. Scarce ALS signed “Jack K.,” one page both sides, 7 x 10.5,
Stanford University letterhead, no date but circa 1940. Letter to Arthur Goldsmith, in full: “Thank you very much for sending me the issue of Foreign Policy Bulletin. I appreciate your interest very much. Hope to see you down South this winter as I expect to get back for Christmas.” In fine condition, with a few stray marks, a chip to one corner, and a trimmed left edge. After graduating and unsure of his next move, Kennedy enrolled in the politically conservative Stanford Graduate School of Business in the fall—rather than Yale Law, as he had expressed to William Gavin in the next letter. He soon left the school and decided to join the Navy in 1941, making letters from his time at Stanford quite scarce. TLS signed “Jack Kennedy,” one page, 7.25 x 10.25, August 27, 1940. To William Gavin of the Boston Herald, with reference to Why England Slept. In full: “Thank you very much for your letter and your kind comment on my book. I would be delighted to speak at the Book Fair but I would appreciate it very much if you would suggest the type of talk usually given, whether about the book, how it came to be written, or what it is about, or whether I should speak on some related topic. I plan to attend Yale Law School this fall so it should be quite easy for me to get up there.” In fine condition. Starting Bid $2500
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Script for Navy Log’s “PT 109,” inscribed by Kennedy to the radioman actor
46. John F. Kennedy Signed ‘Navy Log: PT 109’ Shooting Script. Original brad-bound shooting script for
the “PT 109” episode of the television series Navy Log, June 26, 1957, prod. no. 6701, 8.5 x 11, 50 pages, signed and inscribed on the front cover in blue ballpoint to one of the show’s actors, “To Peter Miller, John Kennedy, US Senator, Mass.” Miller played the role of ‘McQuire’ in this episode (for real-life radioman John McQuire), and his lines are circled
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throughout the script. In fine condition, with light edgewear and toning. The CBS television series Navy Log related the greatest survival war stories in the history of the United States Navy, running for three seasons 1955–1958; this episode told the story of the destruction of PT-109 and John F. Kennedy’s valiant leadership in its aftermath. A rare script associated with Kennedy’s PT-109 heroics, signed during his time in the Senate. Starting Bid $1000
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Kennedy pranks his Hollywood brother-in-law Peter Lawford in a rare, humorous autograph letter as president: “Read & be prepared for revisions at 8:30 AM—Louis B. Mayer” 47. John F. Kennedy Autograph Letter Signed as President (as “Louis B. Mayer”) to Peter Lawford. Humorous
autograph letter signed by John F. Kennedy as president, “Louis B. Mayer,” one page, 5 x 8, White House letterhead, no date but circa 1961. Kennedy writes to his brother-in-law Peter Lawford as a joke: “Read & be prepared for revisions at 8:30 AM—Louis B. Mayer.” Prior to this letter, JFK had received an early script for the eventual movie PT-109 which would star Cliff Robertson as Lt. Kennedy. Peter Lawford, his brother-in-law at this time, was a veteran actor with much experience around Hollywood. Kennedy naturally wanted Lawford’s opinion and advice on the draft, and so invited Lawford and his sister to spend a weekend at the White House. That first evening after his arrival JFK and Lawford eventually went upstairs and over drinks JFK told Lawford that the MGM studio was behind the project. Unbeknownst to JFK, Lawford was then at odds and having contract difficulties with MGM studio head Louis B. Mayer, who Lawford detested. Lawford got really upset and told the president he wanted nothing to do to help MGM, who he was at war with and was making his life miserable. The following morning JFK left early for some meeting but before he did he left this incredible letter in Lawford’s breakfast tray along with the draft screenplay. What a way to get a rise out of Lawford! Lawford jumped up, spilling his coffee and leaving a stain on the letter. This unique and unpublished letter is one of only a handful of known Kennedy handwritten letters as president on White House stationery. Another amazing artifact shining once again on the brilliant wit and great sense of humor and playfulness of JFK. In very good to fine condition. Accompanied by a glossy 10 x 8 photograph of Kennedy and Lawford together in a car. Provenance: Patricia Seaton Lawford, Peter Lawford’s wife at the time of his death. Starting Bid $1000
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Evaluating the mathematical possibility of success in a guerilla war, JFK researches T. E. Lawrence’s tactics as Vietnam heats up
48. John F. Kennedy Typed Letter Signed as President. TLS as president, two pages, 7 x 10.25, White
House letterhead, July 27, 1962. Letter to influential English soldier and military historian Captain B. H. Liddell Hart. In part: “You were most thoughtful to send me a manuscript of your article, ‘Guerrilla War—Basic Factors and Reflections.’ I found it interesting and, in many instances, aligned with my own thinking on the subject, although I am not sure that I would have come to all the same conclusions that you did. I will agree with you that ‘those who frame policy and apply it need a better understanding of the subject than has been shown in the past.’ I was interested in your statement on page 6 that ‘The ratio of space to forces is a key factor in guerrilla war. This was vividly expressed in Lawrence’s mathematical calculation about the Arab Revolt—that to hold it in check the Turks would ‘have need of a fortified post every four square miles, and a post could not be less than twenty men,’ so the requirement would be 600,000 men for the area they were trying to control, whereas they had only 100,000 available’…I would appreciate it if you could drop me a line and give me a more exact reference. I am interested in this mathematical calculation, but I haven’t been able to find it in a search through
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some of Lawrence’s writings. I am pleased that the Dolphin Books edition has now correctly printed your quotation.” In fine condition, with staple holes to the upper left corner. This fascinating letter demonstrates Kennedy’s interest in military history and has an important connection to the impending war in Vietnam. Faced with the prospect of a communist threat in southeast Asia, Kennedy increased American involvement in Vietnam during this period—by the end of 1962 the US had dispatched twelve thousand military personnel to the region, a tenfold increase from the beginning of JFK’s presidency. Still, Kennedy hoped to avoid combat. In comparison to Lawrence’s fight in the Arab Revolt, the roles were reversed—he had led the insurgency against a superpower, while in this case America was the superpower. Perhaps it was Kennedy’s study of Lawrence’s success that made him hesitant to engage in guerilla warfare in Vietnam. He eventually initiated a resolution to bring home 1,000 ‘advisors’ from Vietnam by December 1963, and to remove all ‘advisors’ by 1965. It was not until JFK was out of office that Vietnam wildly escalated, and the guerilla war indeed proved disastrous. Starting Bid $500
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Scathing memo from JFK to the White House curator on the faulty provenance of a 19th-century ‘Baltimore desk’
49. John F. Kennedy Typed Memo Signed as President. Typed memo signed as president, “John Ken-
nedy,” one page, 8 x 10.5, White House letterhead, September 6, 1962. Memo to White House curator William Elder, in which the president tersely demands answers to eight pointed questions regarding the discovery that a ‘Baltimore desk’ donated by Mrs. Maurice Noun of Iowa was not genuine, a revelation that took the White House-and Mrs. Noun-by surprise. In part: “It does not seem to me, after reading Maxine Cheshire’s article, that the White House handled the matter of the desk in a way fair to Mrs. Noun. I would like the answers to the following questions…Cheshire suggests that suspicions had arisen some months ago when we got the desk and that you yourself ‘had long been skeptical of the desk’s pedigree.’ I would like to know the date on which you first became skeptical…I would like to know the date on which the Baltimore Museum Curator ‘confided’ that there was ‘something unsatisfactory about the desk’…the Washington Post learned ‘months ago’ of the experts’ warnings to the White House. When was Mrs. Kennedy first informed?…Why, in short, was this matter first brought to the attention of Mr. Salinger and Miss Turnure by the Des Moines Register and not by the White House Curator?” Elder’s retained carbon copy of his two-page response is included. In fine condition, with some light creasing and
rusty paperclip impressions to the upper left corner, and a trivial blot to the signature. The Baltimore desk, represented as dating to about 1800, was placed in the Green Room and one of the featured items in the famous broadcast of First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy’s guided tour of the White House. In the television special, Kennedy cited Mrs. Noun by name and effusively praised her generosity, noting that the desk was the first piece of unsolicited fine furniture donated to the White House. The desk was already in place in the Green Room when Elder was hired as registrar in November 1961, and he was unsure of its authenticity from the beginning. Upon examination by more experts, enough suspicion arose that the desk was disassembled and found to be constructed of newer wood. They determined it to be a reproduction from about 1880-still old, but not a gem of early American furniture. Given the circumstances-the televised publicity and the fact that Mrs. Noun had already taken an $18,000 tax deduction-Elder and Jackie had decided to keep the piece in the White House but remove it from the Green Room and replace it with a legitimate period piece. While JFK was upset with Elder for the position Mrs. Noun was put in, Jackie was even more enraged with the press-she feared that fallout from this mishap could derail her plans for further restoration, but skillful damage control quieted it quickly. Starting Bid $300
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Rare 1944 Navy Service card signed by the retiring Lt. Kennedy
50. John F. Kennedy Signed Navy Retirement Card. Official US Navy service card, 5 x 3, partially filled out and signed by Kennedy, “John F. Kennedy,” December 26, 1944. The card reflects Kennedy’s release from active service, which began at the Submarine Chaser Training Center (SCTC), Miami, Florida on June 11, 1944, and concluded with “Retirement Board, Wash, D.C., 12/26/44.” Kennedy writes out his rank and home address at the “Hotel Bellevue, Boston.” In fine condition.
On April 24, 1943, Kennedy took command of PT-109, based in the Solomon Islands. On the night of August 1-2, 1943, he commanded PT-109 in a group of fourteen other PTs sent to block four Japanese destroyers. During the resulting engagement, the PTs failed to inflict any damage, but PT-109 was cut in half by the Japanese destroyer Amagiri. Two crew members were killed, but Kennedy and ten others survived in the wreckage and managed to swim more than three miles to a deserted island. Kennedy clenched the strap of a badly burned crew member’s life jacket between his teeth and towed him to safety. Over the next week, Kennedy or the entire crew swam
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to additional islands looking for food and fresh water. On one, Kennedy found packages of crackers and a fifty-gallon drum of drinkable water left by the Japanese and a small canoe, which he paddled back to his starving crew. After native scouts found the crew and took a message scratched on a coconut shell to allied authorities, another PT boat rescued them on August 8. Kennedy later received the Navy and Marine Corps Medal for heroism for his actions in saving the crew. He returned to duty for several months in the Solomon Islands before a doctor relieved him of command because of his back injuries. He was sent back to the United States in January 1944, and was soon stationed at the Submarine Chaser Training Center in Miami. From May to December 1944, Kennedy was hospitalized at the Chelsea Naval Hospital in Massachusetts for back surgery and recuperation, then released from active duty. After more therapy at a military hospital in Arizona, Kennedy retired from the Naval Reserve on physical disability and was honorably discharged with the full rank of lieutenant. Starting Bid $500
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Early address book from JFK’s Boston apartment, signed “John Kennedy, 122 Bowdoin Street, Boston”
51. John F. Kennedy’s Signed Personal 1947–52 Address Book and Initialed Invoice. John F. Kennedy’s
circa 1947–1952 personal address book used during his early days in Congress, 5.25 x 8, signed on the first page in fountain pen with his address and phone number: “John Kennedy, 122 Bowdoin Street, Boston, This number is La 3-6178.” Listed inside is contact information for a number of his close associates and advisors, including his brother Robert F. Kennedy, his father Joseph P. Kennedy, and his friend and aide Dave Powers. Also found are phone numbers for businesses he frequented, including Beacon Hill Pharmacy, Beacon Hill Market, Brooks Brothers, and Lahey Clinic. The address book offers an amazing look into JFK’s inner circle at this time in his life.
Includes three items that were laid into the address book: a bill for $55.50 for cleaning Kennedy’s apartment, endorsed in the lower right corner in pencil by Kennedy, “OK—J.K, 1-25-52,”; and two letters of adoration sent to Kennedy by Greek admirers, likely resulting from his staunch support of free Greeks in their struggle against Communism during the 1940s. Accompanied by a letter of provenance from Kennedy’s personal secretary Evelyn Lincoln to noted JFK collector Robert L. White, in part: “This small black ‘Address-Telephones’ book was used by John F. Kennedy in the early 1950’s, which you now have in your possession, was taken intact from a desk in John F. Kennedy’s apartment at 122 Bowdoin Street…The book finally wound up in a file cabinet in a small storage room near the Oval Office. On November 23, 1963 it was removed from that file cabinet.” In overall fine condition. Starting Bid $500
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JFK tiptoes around “the activities of Senator McCarthy” 52. John F. Kennedy Typed Letter Signed on Sen. Joe McCarthy. TLS
signed “Jack,” one page, 6.25 x 9.25, United States Senate letterhead, March 12, 1954. Letter to Massachusetts lawyer Endicott Peabody, who would go on to become the state’s governor. In full: “Thanks for your letter concerning the activities of Senator McCarthy. I have received quite a volume of mail on this subject and have prepared a statement of my views. I am enclosing a copy for your information and will appreciate any comments you may care to make.”
Included is the enclosure referenced, entitled “Statement on the Conduct of Congressional Committees and Members of Congress,” in which Kennedy addresses the subject but goes to great lengths to avoid singling out McCarthy. View a partial transcription of the letter online. In fine condition, with slightly irregular light toning and a couple of paperclip impressions to top edge. Accompanied by a facsimile-signed letter dated December 15, 1953, outlining the highlights of his first year as a Senator. The rise of Joseph R. McCarthy and his demagoguery presented an unusual challenge for Kennedy—his Irish-Catholic roots in a Protestant political system gave McCarthy and the Kennedy family a common bond, and he was a friend of patriarch Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. Three days before Kennedy wrote this letter, CBS broadcasted Edward R. Murrow’s famous special ‘A Report on Senator Joseph McCarthy,’ which exposed his poor behavior and rough tactics. McCarthy’s decline came sharply, and the Subcommittee on Investigations Army-McCarthy hearings began on March 16. These were also broadcast and discredited McCarthy even further, made most famous by the question posed to McCarthy by Boston lawyer Joseph Welch: ‘Have you no sense of decency?’ The anti-McCarthy sentiment culminated on December 2, 1954, when Senate voted to censure McCarthy by a vote of 67 to 22; Kennedy, who was hospitalized for back surgery, was the lone senator not on record, and he never officially indicated how he would have voted. Starting Bid $500 32 |
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JFK-annotated papers on scheduling and the space program
54. John F. Kennedy (2) Hand-Annotated Presidential Papers and Telegram. Two hand-annotated presidential
papers including a letter to Senator Thomas J. Dodd and a space program memo to Secretary of the Air Force Eugene Zuckert: Typed letter draft annotated by President Kennedy, one page, 6.75 x 9, White House letterhead, August 6, 1962. To Senator Thomas J. Dodd of Connecticut, in part (JFK’s emendations in parentheses): “I was disturbed (at your statement) that you had attempted to see me, (and that) you had been unsuccessful. Senator Knowland also told me that you mentioned to him your inability to get an appointment with me. I am somewhat puzzled, however, because I have checked with Ken O’Donnell, Evelyn Lincoln and Mike Manatos, our Senate liaison, and they all advise me that no one (from your office) contacted them concerning your desire to see me. I would appreciate it if you would let me know who contacted the White House and with whom they spoke as I am always glad to see any Member of Congress (particularly those whom I know well—and who are concerned about important matters affecting our country).” Memorandum for Secretary of the Air Force Eugene Zuckert annotated by President Kennedy, one page, 6.75 x 9, White House letterhead, August 27, 1962. In full (JFK’s emendations in parentheses): “Thank you for your memorandum to me on space. I am not so much interested in quotations from (my) previous (speeches) as I am in finding out exactly
what program the Air Force is planning for (fiscal, the future). The latter I understand is under consideration and will come to me after it has been submitted to the Secretary. I notice TIME Magazine of this week, August 31st, has a quotation ascribed to you taken from a conversation between you and McNamara—’But the tone and the pace of our program are not right.’ I do not know how TIME secured this quotation, but I would be interested in having your suggestions as to how we can improve the tone and pace of our program.” Kennedy refers to a breakfast meeting between Zuckert and Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara at Zuckert’s private dining room in the Pentagon. McNamara had asked Zuckert if he felt the Department of Defense was delaying essential Air Force space projects, to which Zuckert replied: ‘It’s not anything that you’re holding up, Bob. But the tone and the pace of our program are not right.’ Kennedy, concerned about the sluggish pace of the space program in 1962, is clearly annoyed that TIME managed to secure a quote from the private conversation, and is evidently warning Zuckert to be more guarded in future public comments. Outstanding content associated with one of Kennedy’s lasting legacies—the resounding success of the American space program. Also includes a telegram from JFK to Carl Vinson, December 13, 1960, in part: “I attempted to reach you this afternoon to tell you that I was appointing Robert McNamara Secretary of Defense.” In overall fine condition. Starting Bid $500
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Hersey’s ‘Survival’ signed by the hero of PT-109 53. John F. Kennedy Signed ‘Survival’ Booklet. Pamphlet from The Reader’s Digest containing a condensed version of John Hersey’s ‘Survival,’ a detailed account of how JFK battled to save the crew of PT-109 while adrift in the South Pacific, six pages, 5.5 x 7.5, signed on the first page in blue ballpoint, “John Kennedy.” Reprinted by the Massachusetts Committee for John F. Kennedy for President of the United States for his historic 1960 campaign. In fine to very fine condition. Starting Bid $500
Great Kennedy family photos from the White House years
55. John F. Kennedy (89) Color Transparencies and Prints. Collection of 89 original vintage color 35mm
transparencies of President John F. Kennedy with his family, complete with matching 5 x 7 modern prints of the images. Subjects including President John F. Kennedy, First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, Caroline Kennedy, and John F. Kennedy, Jr. These remarkable images reveal President Kennedy as both a statesman and family man—meeting with dignitaries and giving speeches while still making time to play with his children. In these great family images, the kids bounce on a trampoline, dress up for Halloween, and tag along with their father as he strolls the White House grounds. Also includes thirteen vintage 5 x 7 photographic prints, mostly of John F. Kennedy, Jr. as a child. In overall fine condition. Starting Bid $500
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Five original photographs from JFK’s personal diary, given to biographer Gene Schoor
57. John F. Kennedy (5) Early Candid Photographs from His Personal Scrapbook. Unique collection of five original candid photographs from the personal collection of the Kennedy family given to biographer Gene Schoor in 1961 by Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., while Schoor was preparing the book Young John Kennedy. The one-of-a-kind photos range in size from 2.5 x 2.5 to 3 x 4.75 and date to the early-to-mid 1930s during Kennedy’s high school years at Choate, all bearing typed captions affixed to the reverse. The five photos show: a full-length image of JFK atop the roof of the Kennedy estate in Palm Beach, Florida, in 1935; a full-length image of JFK in his full academic regalia for his graduation from Choate in 1935; a playful image of Kennedy with his roommate Rip Horton as members of Choate’s drama club during a rehearsal; a photo of Kennedy with his father and sister ‘Kick’ on the deck of a ship (misidentified as a cousin
on the label); and one of Kennedy with many of his friends at Choate, including Lem Billings and Bud Wynne. The first three photos listed appear in Schoor’s book but the latter two do not; the image of JFK and Rip Horton was also published in LIFE Magazine’s JFK 100 Year Commemorative Edition celebrating his 100th birthday in May 2017. Also includes a typed memo on official White House letterhead, reading: “From: The personal diary of Pres. John F. Kennedy scrapbook & photo material given to Gene Schoor by [J.F.K. crossed out] Amb. Joe Kennedy at the White House, January 1961.” Accompanied by a first edition hardcover of Schoor’s book Young John Kennedy. In overall fine condition, with toned tape remnants to the top and bottom edges of one photo. An absolutely outstanding, one-of-a-kind collection of original material from Kennedy’s formative years. Starting Bid $300
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56. John F. Kennedy (8) Photos and (2) Negatives from Dave Powers Collection. Group of original vin-
tage photos from the presidency of John F. Kennedy from the personal collection of his close friend and assistant Dave Powers. Includes: a matte-finish 10 x 8 photo of Kennedy inside the White House with his original Senate staff in 1961; a color glossy 5 x 7.75 photo of JFK and Jackie in front of the White House Christmas tree in December 1962; two 10 x 8 photos of JFK shaking Powers’ hand while boarding a plane at Nassau on December 21, 1962, with black-and-white negative of the image in a sleeve annotated by Powers; a glossy 10 x 8 photo of Kennedy with Cardinal Cushing in Rome on July 2, 1963, with original negative; a mounted glossy 6.75 x 8 photo of JFK with Cardinal Cushing on the same date, with folder annotated n Powers’ hand: “North American College in Rome, ‘All the Republican Cardinals have left, your Democratic friend stayed to greet you”; a color glossy 10 x 8 photo of President Kennedy with Caroline (on horseback) and JFK Jr. on September 30, 1963; and a glossy 10 x 8 photo of the whole First Family with the horse on the same date, with its matching negative and envelope captioned in Powers’ hand. In overall fine condition. Starting Bid $500
58. John F. Kennedy (37) Original Photographs.
Collection of 37 original vintage first-generation photographs associated with John F. Kennedy, most from his presidency. Includes:
17 vintage glossy 5 x 8 photos printed by Transworld, duplicating most of the above images and adding two of Caroline Kennedy with a snowman (including 4 x 5 negative for one of these shots), plus additional close-ups of JFK at a microphone.
11 vintage glossy 8 x 10 photos printed by Transworld, with subjects including a series of close-ups of President Kennedy with his hand on his chin, John and Jacqueline Kennedy with limousines and the Marine One presidential helicopter, Jack marching in a parade, and their dogs Pushinka and Charlie sitting on the White House lawn.
9 vintage glossy 8 x 10 photos by Lou LaPrade of Hyannis, Massachusetts, showing JFK reading his acceptance speech at Hyannis Armory after the 1960 presidential election, JFK and Jackie at St. Francis Xavier, in a helicopter at Otis Air National Guard Base, JFK with LBJ, a meeting with Adlai Stevenson, and Rose Kennedy after Bobby’s assassination. In overall fine condition. Starting Bid $200
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59. John F. Kennedy 1960 DNC Pass and (19) Photographs. Archive of material mostly from the 1960 Democratic National Convention held in Los Angeles in July 1960, including a framed unused pass for general admission to the nominee’s acceptance speech at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, 16 oversized photographs by John Bryson and Bill Bridges (with their photographer’s credit stamps on the reverse), and three oversized mounted photos by Ely Callaway, taken shortly before Kennedy’s death in November 1963. Photos include: Eight photos by Bill Bridges, ranging in size from 7.75 x 10 to 10.75 x 13.75, including three exceptional images of JFK delivering a speech, his head aglow; JFK on the platform with Lyndon B. Johnson; and Kennedy at the DNC podium. Eight photos by John Bryson, ranging in size from 8.75 x 13.75 to 10.75 x 13.75, including several close-up portraits of Kennedy and images of him meeting with his Democratic colleagues and party officials. Three mounted photos by Ely Callaway, 10.75 x 13.5, showing Kennedy at a dinner two weeks before his assassination, with a copy of a transmittal letter dated December 27, 1963. In overall fine condition. Starting Bid $200
60. John F. Kennedy Signed Program. Program for “Florida’s Presidential Dinner,” held at the Fontainebleau Hotel in
Miami Beach, Florida, on March 10, 1962, signed and inscribed on the front cover in blue ballpoint as president, “…all best wishes, John Kennedy.” In very good to fine condition, with soiling and staining to the covers. Starting Bid $200
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Remarkable collection of 370+ original wirephotos from Kennedy’s campaign, presidency, and funeral
View additional images online at www.RRAuction.com 61. John F. Kennedy Archive of (377) Wire Photos.
Spectacular archive of over 370 original vintage wire service photos of John F. Kennedy, all from the Worcester Telegram & Gazette, offering a remarkable visual chronicle of his 1960 presidential campaign, his presidency, and his funeral. Categories and approximate counts are broken down below:
Pre-1960 (16): highlighted by a photo of the marriage of John and Jacqueline Kennedy, a shot of JFK on the Harvard swim team, a portrait of PT-109 hero Lt. John Kennedy in uniform, and some Senate campaign events. 1960 (120): with photos of the Kennedy family, the 1960 Democratic National Convention, presidential campaign events and speeches around the nation, press conferences, and parades.
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Presidency (160): with many shots of President John F. Kennedy with the members of the First Family—Jacqueline, Caroline, and JFK Jr., Kennedy meeting with military brass, JFK’s 1962 trip to Mexico, Kennedy speaking at various official addresses and televised conferences, a meeting with Khrushchev, JFK at the Berlin Wall, meeting foreign dignitaries and royalty including Queen Elizabeth II, and other subjects Funeral (75): with photos of the pallbearers carrying the president’s casket, the iconic image of JFK Jr. saluting his deceased father, the funeral procession and mass, the Kennedy family in mourning, the scene at Arlington National Cemetery, President Lyndon B. Johnson’s attendance at the ceremonies, and later memorial events. Starting Bid $500
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Two magnificent oversized 1930s Kennedy family portraits, one from the files of renowned photographer Fabian Bachrach 62. Kennedy Family (2) Oversized Photographs. Two remarkable over-
sized original 1930s portraits of the Kennedy clan: An extremely rare, striking original matte-finish 12.75 x 9.75 photo showing the Kennedy family in the living room of their home in Bronxville, New York, taken by acclaimed photographer Fabian Bachrach in 1938. This incredibly high quality formal image originates from Bachrach’s personal collection and was obtained directly from his family. A portrait of this caliber is something that few would possess, with the Kennedy’s themselves hanging a similar portrait in their own home. Shown left to right are Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr.; Patricia Kennedy; John F. Kennedy; Jean Kennedy; Eunice Kennedy; Robert Kennedy; Kathleen Kennedy; Edward Kennedy; Rosemary Kennedy; Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr.; and Rose Kennedy. Gilt-stamped in the lower right by Bachrach. Affixed to a slightly larger high quality contemporaneous mount. Although they are very closely associated with Boston, the Kennedy clan moved from Brookline, Massachusetts, to Bronxville in 1927, where the family lived until 1942. Bachrach was one of America’s most prominent portrait photographers of the 20th century, especially of US commanders-in-chief, and remains most well-known for JFK’s iconic 1961 presidential portrait. A stunning, crystalclear portrait of America’s greatest political dynasty from Bachrach’s own files. An outstanding original matte-finish 13 x 10 portrait of the Kennedy family circa 1935, showing them at their family estate in Palm Beach, Florida, with JFK seen next to his brother Joe, Jr., standing behind the couch. In fine condition. An absolutely beautiful image capturing the essence of the powerful American family. In overall fine condition. Starting Bid $300
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Remarkable, comprehensive White House restoration correspondence archive between Jackie Kennedy and curator William Elder: “My main work—as you know—has been the W. House—I still care about it more than anything” 63. Jacqueline Kennedy White House Restoration Archive. As first lady, Jacqueline Kennedy’s major project
was the restoration of the White House to reflect its historic past and the promotion of its importance to the American public. This is a fascinating archive of material related to her ambitious project, primarily comprised of correspondence between her and White House curator William Elder, including seven undated handwritten letters from Jackie, ten letters from Elder to Jackie with numerous annotations in her hand, and a limited edition copy of the White House guidebook with a note from Jackie affixed inside. Elder was one of her principal assistants in acquiring new pieces for the Executive Mansion, and this fabulous collection of letters illuminates the thorough, thoughtful yet intense process behind her successful mission to develop the White House as a symbol of American history and accomplishment.
In this remarkable correspondence, Jackie deals with a sensitive political matter, opting not to display a plate depicting Mamie Eisenhower in the Gold Room; annotates a letter regarding furniture and stylistic preferences, suggesting that identification diagrams be made so that “future Pres[ident’s] wives will know what’s what in each room & not toss it out or to the basement”; writes a twelve-page ALS telling Elder that he is a “marvelous & devoted curator” but asks to remain intimately involved in the process: “My main work—as you know—has been the W. House…having you here instead of Lorraine—is paradise—but I do not wish to be cut off completely—as I still care about it more than anything”; describes in specific detail several different pieces of furniture and other decor she would like for the White House in a long five-page ALS; and discusses the publication of the White House guidebook. Archive is in overall very good to fine condition. Starting Bid $1000
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View additional images online at www.RRAuction.com 64. John F. Kennedy: Katsumori Yamashiro (2) Signed and Annotated Books. Japanese naval officer who commanded the 11th Flotilla (1900–1986) and who was Senior Officer on board the destroyer Amagiri on the night of the collision with John F. Kennedy’s PT-109. English and Japanese editions of PT 109: John F. Kennedy in World War II by Robert J. Donovan, both signed inside by Yamashiro, “Capt. Katsumori Yamashiro, Cmdr.,” with extensive handwritten commentary to set the record straight. He writes out a similar passage in both books, headed “The True Story of Pres. John F. Kennedy’s PT109 Collision,” and sketches a map of the area in the Japanese volume. He adds further handwritten remarks throughout the English version, often brief notes in the margins with lengthier explanations at chapter endings. Capt. Yamashiro’s story, in part: “Upon sighting the PT109, my concern was the distance was closing, and if the Amagiri would collide with the PT109, the bow of the Amagiri might burn by the explosion of the torpedo on board the PT109. I, Captain Yamashiro, ordered ‘Hart-A-Port’ which was to avoid collision. Afterward Skipper Lt. Cmdr. Hanami told a deliberate lie when he ordered ‘Hard-A-Starboard.’ The fact the Amagiri hit PT109 with her starboard propellor blade proves the starboard statement a lie. When turning starboard it is impossible that she could hit anything with her starboard propellor. If there would still be an Imperial Japanese Navy, Skipper would be reprimanded and disgraced for this outrageous lie, completely ignoring my presence on board. Unfortunately, his lie was picked up by Mr. Donovan in his version of PT109. Of course Mr. Donovan’s version reached more people but it is not the truth. My story is the truth. I was there, I was in command and my order was to avoid collision.” In overall very good to fine condition. Starting Bid $200
Payment to the IRS by Richard Nixon, ten days after taking office as president 65. Richard Nixon Signed Check as President. Per-
sonal check, 8.25 x 3, filled out in type and signed by Nixon as president, “Richard M. Nixon,” payable to Internal Revenue Service for $52.80, January 30, 1969. In fine condition. Nixon was inaugurated as the 37th president of the United States only 10 days earlier. Starting Bid $200
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66. Richard Nixon Document Signed. DS, signed “R.
M. Nixon,” one page both sides, 8.5 x 11, May 31, 1978. Personal financial statement submitted to Key Biscayne Bank, filled out in type to describe his assets, liabilities, income, net worth, and other financial information. In the itemized ‘other income’ field, Nixon puts down “Writing, est.—$247,500.00,” which is notable because he published his memoirs in 1978. In fine condition. Starting Bid $200
Less than a year before reaching the White House, Ford offers “some deep-rooted thoughts about prospects for peace in the world”
67. Gerald Ford Typed Letter Signed. TLS signed “Jerry Ford,” two pages, 8 x 10.5, Congress of the United States, Office of the Minority Leader letterhead, January 5, 1973. Letter to friend and former New York Congressman Seymour Halpern, expressing his “deep-rooted thoughts about prospects for peace in the world.” Ford sees an end to warring in Vietnam and the Middle East, is “heartened by recent developments with regard to our relations with the Soviet Union and the People’s Republic of China,” and attests that trade “is a key to future peace.” In fine condition, with some faint stains in the left margin of the first page. Starting Bid $200
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Payment for Gerald R. Ford’s congressional stationery, deposited “to the Account of Stationery Room, U. S. House of Representatives”
68. Gerald Ford Signed Check. Personal check, 6 x 2.75, filled out and signed by Dorothy E. Hessler, payable to Gerald
R. Ford for $3.75, January 11, 1971, endorsed on the reverse in ink, “Gerald R. Ford.” The memo field notes, “Stationery Account,” and the reverse is stamped, “For Deposit with the United States Treasurer, to the Account of Stationery Room, U. S. House of Representatives.” In fine condition. Dorothy Hessler (later Dorothy Downton) joined Ford’s congressional staff in 1967, remaining as his personal secretary until 1980: during his time as vice president, president, and his first few post-presidential years. Starting Bid $200
Bill signing pen for Frank Sinatra: “I was honored to sign into law the legislation authorizing the award of a Congressional Gold Medal to you” 69. Bill Clinton Typed Letter Signed to Frank Sinatra. TLS as president, one page, 6.75 x 9, White House letterhead, June 10, 1997. Letter to Frank Sinatra, in part: “I was honored to sign into law the legislation authorizing the award of a Congressional Gold Medal to you. You have touched the lives of so many people over the years, not only through your spectacular career as a performer, but also through your many humanitarian activities. I hope you’ll enjoy the enclosed commemorative copy of the legislation and the pen I used to sign it.” Includes the souvenir copy of the legislation as well as the official black ballpoint bill signing pen, bearing Clinton’s facsimile signature and the presidential seal. In very fine condition. Provenance: Lady Blue Eyes: Property of Barbara and Frank Sinatra, Sotheby’s, 2018. Starting Bid $200
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Obama comments on the toxic political environment,” “tea-baggers,” and “the health care reform bill” in a rare handwritten letter
70. Barack Obama Autograph Letter Signed as President. Superb ALS as president, signed “Barack Obama,” written on both sides of a 6.5 x 4.25 White House stationery card, no date. Handwritten letter to “Mr. Ritter,” in full: “I received your letter, and appreciate your concerns about the toxic political environment right now. I do have to challenge you, though, on the notion that any citizen that disagrees with me has been ‘targeted and ridiculed,’ or that I have ‘made fun’ of tea-baggers. I think a fair reading is that I have gone out of my way to listen to legitimate criticism, and defend strongly the rights of everyone to speak their mind—including those who routinely call me ‘socialist’ or worse. I sincerely believe that the health care reform bill was the right thing to do for the country. It certainly wasn’t the smart ‘political thing!’ And I hope that in the months to come, you will keep an open mind and evaluate it based not on the political attacks but on what it does or doesn’t do to improve people’s lives.” In very fine condition. Accompanied by the blank original White House envelope. Starting Bid $300
71. Four Presidents Signed Photograph. Uncommon color satin-finish
10 x 8 photo of Presidents Nixon through Reagan gathered in the Blue Room prior to leaving for Egypt for Anwar Sadat’s funeral, signed in the lower border in felt tip, “Richard Nixon,” “Gerald R. Ford, 8/9/74–1/20/77,” “J. Carter,” and “Ronald Reagan.” In fine condition, with a few small surface creases. A sought-after combination of presidents. Starting Bid $300
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notables Declaration of Independence Unique land indenture signed by two Marylanders-turned-Supreme Court justices
170. Samuel Chase Document Signed. Signer of the Declaration of Independence from Maryland (1741–1811) and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court from 1796 until his death. Manuscript DS, three pages on two adjoining sheets, 9.5 x 15, May 16, 1793. Chase signs a manuscript endorsement at the conclusion of a land indenture deed between Thomas Hyde, Gabriel Duvall, and Charles Stewart, certifying that they came before the judges of the General Court and “severally acknowledged the same to be their art and Deed,
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and the Lands therein mentioned to be the right title and estate of John Gibson Junior, in the said deed named.” Notably, the indenture is also signed by the three men mentioned, including Duvall, who would fill the vacancy on the United States Supreme Court created upon Chase’s death. In very good to fine condition, with areas of paper loss to the edges, silking to the back of the signed page, and complete silking to the other page. Starting Bid $300
Franklin approves the sale of land confiscated from a former member of the second continental congress accused of “High Treason”
172. Benjamin Franklin Document Signed. Manuscript DS, signed “B. Franklin, Presid’t,” one page, 31.5 x 13.5, December 5, 1785. As president of Pennsylvania’s Supreme Executive Council, Franklin approves the sale of a “Tract of two hundred and fifty acres of Land” to James Clyde, which was confiscated from the estate of Loyalist Andrew Allen, “then or late of the City of Philadelphia, late a Member of the Congress of the Thirteen United Colonies, now States of America for Pennsylvania…attainted of High Treason to all intents and purposes and should suffer such pains and penalties, and undergo all such forfeitures as persons attainted of High Treason ought to do.” The document is signed boldly at the conclusion by Benjamin Franklin, with the lower right retaining the original paper seal. Handsomely framed to an overall size of 34.25 x 16. In fine condition. Allen (1740-1825), a member of the prominent Pennsylvania family that founded Allentown and a vocal critic of imperial attempts to tax the colonies in the 1760s and early 1770s, had been elected as a delegate to the Second Continental Congress. On the subject of independence however, Allen was a decided moderate, and when discussions began in earnest on a resolution supporting independence, Allen ceased attending Congress. In December 1776, Allen switched sides and fled to the British lines for protection. As a result, Allen was “attainted of High Treason,” and the state of Pennsylvania confiscated his lands to be sold to the public. Provenance: Christie’s, June 2018. Starting Bid $1000
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At the close of the Revolution, John Hancock welcomes America’s allies with “accommodations suitable to the rank of the officers of the French Army upon their arrival in Boston”
173. John Hancock Autograph Letter Signed. Revolutionary War-dated ALS, signed “J. H.,” one page, 8 x 9.75, February 10, 1783. Official handwritten letter to the “Gentlemen of the Senate, & Gentlemen of the House of Representatives,” issued by Hancock from the “Council Chamber, Boston,” as governor of Massachusetts. In part: “The General Resolves of the General Court authorizing the Gentlemen Selectmen of the Town of Boston, to prepare accommodations suitable to the rank of the officers of the French Army upon their arrival in
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Boston, have with great [at]tention & punctuality been attended to…[I have] the Satisfaction to inform you that the General of that [A]rmy the Count de Viomenil assured me, that he with the other general & subordinate officers were accommodated in a manner very agreeable, & that he with the other officers were perfectly satisfied.” He goes on to request reimbursement of some funds associated with the occasion. In very good to fine condition, with professional repairs to small edge tears and paper loss affecting a few words of the text. Starting Bid $500
Two months before Hancock, as architect of the Massachusetts Compromise, advocates that the Constitution be unconditionally ratified 174. John Hancock Autograph Letter Signed. Boldly signed ALS as governor
of Massachusetts, one page, 7.25 x 8.75, April 10, 1788. Handwritten letter to physician Cotton Tufts, in full: “The Inclos’d Vote will inform you of your Appointment upon a Committee to enquire into the State of the College, in consequence of which I am to request your Attendance on Tuesday next 10 o’clock at the College. I have the honour to be with sentiments of esteem.” In very good to fine condition, with small stains, a tear to the left edge, and a small seal-related hole to the closing. On January 9, 1788, Hancock was elected president of the Massachusetts Ratifying Convention. However, due to a recurring case of gout, he was unable to attend the debates until January 30, when he was physically carried into the proceedings wrapped in flannel. The following day, from a speech prepared by the Federalist caucus, Hancock advocated that the Constitution be unconditionally ratified with nine recommendatory amendments, a decision known as the Massachusetts Compromise. When voting closed on February 6th, the delegates had accepted the report by a vote of 187 to 168, thereby ratifying the Constitution. Starting Bid $300
175. Stephen Hopkins Document Signed. Signer of the Declaration of Independence from Rhode Island (1707-1785) who served as the colony’s governor in the 1750s and 1760s. Manuscript DS, signed “Step. Hopkins Gov’r,” one page, 7.25 x 3.5, June 20, 1756. Pay order issued to Treasurer Thomas Richardson, in part: “The Colony of R’d Island to Tho’s Vernon…To Postage of a packet from New York: £5—Please to pay Thomas Vernon or his order the sum of Five pounds for postage & charge to the colony.” Professionally inlaid into a larger sheet and in very good to fine condition, with slightly irregular light toning. Starting Bid $200
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176. Francis Hopkinson Document Signed. Signer of
the Declaration of Independence from New Jersey (1737–1791) who is also known as the designer of the first official American flag. Partly-printed DS, signed “Fras. Hopkinson,” one page, 12 x 15, December 7, 1789. Order issued to the wardens of the port of Philadelphia, asking for the survey and examination of the ship called the Marian, John McShane master. Signed at the conclusion by Hopkinson as judge of the District Court of the United States for Pennsylvania. The survey is recorded on the reverse, noting damage to fifteen chests of tea. Impressively matted and framed alongside an engraved portrait (bearing a facsimile signature) to an overall size of 32 x 26.5, with a window in the backing for viewing the reverse. In fine condition. Starting Bid $200
Paine orders confiscation of a Loyalist distiller’s Boston property for giving “Aid and Comfort” to the enemy 177. Robert Treat Paine Autograph Document Signed. Revolu-
tionary War–dated partly-printed ADS, signed in the third-person, “Robert Treat Paine Esq. Attorney General,” and at the conclusion, “Rob. Treat Paine,” one page, 10.75 x 17, July 11, 1780. Scarce Massachusetts confiscation document filled out and signed by Paine as attorney general, in part: “Robert Treat Paine Esq. Attorney General to the Government & People of the Massachusetts Bay in New England and in their behalf complains of John Coffin of Boston aforesaid Distiller…that the said John Coffin…levied War, and conspired to levy War against the Government and People of this Province, Colony and State; and then and there adhered to the King of Great-Britain, his Fleets and Armies, Enemies of the said Province, Colony and State.” At the bottom, Paine writes out a description of Coffin’s property in Boston. In very good to fine condition, with light toning along the folds, and a few small repairs on the reverse. Starting Bid $200
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178. Edward Rutledge Autograph Letter Signed. American politician from South Carolina who was the youngest signer of the Declaration of Independence (1749–1800). ALS, one page, 7 x 4.5, December 7, 1799. As governor of South Carolina, Rutledge informs the legislature of the resignation of the state’s engineer. In full: “Mr. President & Gentlemen of the Senate: Honorable Gentlemen, I herewith transmit to you a copy of a letter, which I received from Colonel Serf, containing his resignation, as Engineer of this State.” Doublematted and framed with an engraved portrait and plaque to an overall size of 13 x 20; the frame’s backing has a window for viewing the docketing on the reverse. In fine, clean condition. Starting Bid $200
180. Matthew Thornton Autograph Document Signed. Signer of the Declaration of Independence from New
Hampshire (1714–1803). Rare partial ADS, signed “Matthew Thornton, Just. of Peace,” one page trimmed to 7.5 x 5.75, September 6, 1765. A warrant wherein Thornton orders the apprehension of Arthur Archibald “(if he may be found in your precinct) & bring him to me, to be Examined Touching the Premises, & to be Dealt with as the Law Directs.” A remnant of the wax seal remains at upper left. Matted and framed with a portrait and engraved plaque to an overall size of 18 x 12.5. In very good condition, with scattered soiling and wrinkling, and a small hole touching the paraph. Starting Bid $200
179. Edward Rutledge Partial Autograph Letter Signed.
American politician from South Carolina who was the youngest signer of the Declaration of Independence (1749–1800). Partial ALS signed “Ed: Rutledge,” one page, 8 x 8.5, November 23, 1798. Partial handwritten letter to Phineas Miller, in part: “I have been very ill since the departure of one young friend—I am now better, tho’ weak, very weak. I sent you by Mr. Goodrich, a particular statement of the debt to the Estate…He put it into his pocket book, where I suppose, it has slept in peace, ever since.” Addressed on the integral leaf in Rutledge’s hand. In very good condition, with old repairs to areas of paper loss (affecting some words in the text) and professionally silked on the reverse. Starting Bid $200
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American Politicians and Leaders Secretary of the Treasury Hamilton clarifies the Tariff Act of 1789— the first major piece of American legislation
181. Alexander Hamilton Letter Signed as Treasury Secretary. LS as Secretary of the Treasury, signed “A. Ham-
ilton,” one page, 7.75 x 9.75, August 20, 1790. Circular letter to Stephen Smith, a militia leader during the Revolution who was later appointed collector of the port of Machias, Maine. In full: “The Act of July last imposing duties on the Tonnage of Vessels, provides for the restitution of the foreign duty which has been incurred by Ships or Vessels of the United States by reason of their not having a Certificate of Registry or Enrollment and a License, when trading Coastwise or engaged in 52 |
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the fisheries. This refund is to be made in each instance, at the custom house where the duty was paid and in such manner that the American Tonnage duty of Six Cents is to be retained for the United States and the extra sum of forty four cents, to which foreigners only are liable, is to be repaid.” Expertly archivally mounted, matted, and framed under Tru-Vue Optium UV Acrylic with an engraved portrait to an overall size of 20.5 x 17. In very good to fine condition, with creasing, corner loss, and some small mounting remnants along the left edge. From The Michael Allen Collection. Starting Bid $1000
Activists and Social Leaders
183. Malcolm X Original Mug Shot. Sharp original vintage glossy
5.25 x 3 ‘mugshot’ photograph of Malcolm Little taken on July 1, 1952, one month before his release from prison. Annotated in type on the reverse: “Malcolm Little, Weight 177, Hair Brown.” In very good to fine condition, with creasing, emulsion irregularity, and an old tape stain and related surface loss to the right border. Malcolm Little was found guilty of larceny and breaking and entering in 1946, and began serving his eight-to-ten year sentence at Charlestown State Prison in February. He made efforts to reform and educate himself while there, and was introduced to the Nation of Islam while at the Norfolk Prison Colony. In this photograph, he stands on the precipice of freedom. Paroled on August 7, 1952, after seven years served, Malcolm Little left prison as Malcolm X, a devout member of the Nation of Islam and a committed disciple and pupil of Elijah Muhammad. Starting Bid $300
184. Nelson Mandela Signed Book. Signed book: Long Walk to Freedom. First edition. Randburg, South Africa: Macdonald Purnell, 1994. Hardcover with dust jacket, 6.5 x 9.5, 630 pages. Signed on the half-title page in black felt tip, “N. Mandela, 18.11.96.” In fine condition. Starting Bid $200
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185. Nelson Mandela Signed Greeting Card. Scarce
greeting card from the ‘Office of the President,’ measures 8 x 8.25 open, signed inside in black ink as president of the Republic of South Africa, “N. Mandela.” Above the autograph is gilt text in English and Afrikaans, which reads: “The way to peace and prosperity for 1995; and many years thereafter, is through reconciliation and nation building.” The card also bears a blue facsimile signature. In very fine condition. Starting Bid $200
Supreme Court
186. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Signed Photograph. Vintage matte-finish 9.5 x 13.25 photo of Holmes in his judicial robes by Harris & Ewing, signed in the lower border in fountain pen, “Oliver Wendell Holmes, April 9, 1932.” In very fine condition. Starting Bid $200
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Businessmen A present from Barnum to his 20-year-old granddaughter 187. P. T. Barnum Signed Book. Signed book: Struggles and Triumphs; Forty Years’ Recollections of P. T. Barnum. First edition. Buffalo, New York: The Courier Company, 1882. Hardcover bound in three quarter morocco with marbled boards and endpapers, 6.5 x 9.25, 790 pages. Signed and inscribed on the first free end page in fountain pen, “To my granddaughter, Carrie Thompson Hurd, with best wishes, P. T. Barnum, Dec. 25th 1882.” Autographic condition: fine. Book condition: VG-/None, with losses to head of spine, some flaking to leather, cracked front hinge, and foxing to frontispiece and title page. Starting Bid $200
188. Howard Hughes Autograph Letter Signed. ALS signed “Howard,” three pages, 8.5 x 13.25, date penned in another
hand, “5/16-2:15 P.M.” Letter to Robert “Bob” Maheu, in part: “Please tell me the details of the closing of the purchase of the Stardust Drive-In theater and the so-called ‘pie shaped piece of land.’ The only reason I ask for this is because, in the maps that Herb Nall sends me frequently to illustrate some piece of property, he has never shown this property as being owned.” In fine condition, with small area of staple-related paper loss to the upper left corner of each page. Starting Bid $200
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189. John D. Rockefeller Typed Letter Signed. TLS, one page, 5.75 x 7.75, personal letterhead, December 24, 1926. Letter to Virginia Pratt, the granddaughter of Charles Pratt, a prominent trustee and senior executive of Standard Oil. In full: “I am sending a wedding gift in the form of a check, rather than risk the duplication of something which you may already have, and believing you will know best what you would prefer for your new home. I send to you and the fortunate Mr. Thayer my heartiest congratulations and every best wish that you may have long and happy lives together.” In fine condition. Starting Bid $200
Scientists and Inventors
190. Xavier Bichat Autograph Letter Signed. French anatomist and pathologist (1771–1802) known as the father of histology, who is respected as one of the greatest scientists in the area of medicine. Exceedingly rare ALS in French, signed “Xav. Bichat,” one page, 6.25 x 8.5, no date. Bichat thanks his correspondent for their kindness and states (translated): “It is with very great pleasure that I will give my name to your son…a thousand matters are overwhelming me on my return after a few days away, and only allow me to write a few words to you.” He refers to some government employment he will try and secure for his correspondent. In fine condition, with old mounting remnants at the corners of the integral address leaf. Starting Bid $200
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Rare handwritten letter by Samuel Colt, asking for an update on “the Pistol Barrels” ordered from England 191. Samuel Colt Autograph Letter Signed. ALS signed “Sam’l Colt,” one page, 7.75 x 9.75, no date but annotated 1852. Handwritten letter from Hartford to Firth & Sons, regarding a shipment of pistol barrels. In part: “It is now about two months since I returned home & as of yet I here [sic] nothing from the Pistol Barrels I ordered from you before leaving England. Will you be kind enough to inform if the small number I wanted sent here have been shipping, & if not when may I expect them.” In fine condition. Based in Sheffield, England, Thomas Firth & Sons were the steelmakers who supplied Samuel Colt with most of the iron and steel used at his firearms factory at Hartford, Connecticut, throughout the 1850s and 1860s. Starting Bid $200
192. Charles Darwin Hand-Addressed Envelope. Hand-addressed mailing envelope, 5.25 x 3, addressed by Darwin to Scottish writer and dog breeder George Cupples, “G. Cupples Esq., The Cottage, Guard Bridge, Fifeshire, N. B.” Postmarked at Beckenham, May 30, 1878. In very good condition, with a rusty circular paperclip impression to the edge and several pencil annotations. While the letter that this envelope would have contained is unrecorded by the Darwin Correspondence Project, Cupples had written to Darwin on May 27th with an inquiry regarding the application of sexual selection to the Scotch Deerhound breed. Starting Bid $200
193. Thomas Edison Typed Letter Signed. TLS boasting
an attractive “Thos. A. Edison” umbrella signature, one page, 8.5 x 8, personal ‘From the Laboratory of Thomas A. Edison’ letterhead, November 25, 1930. Letter to Ranson Caygill, in full: “I feel complimented by your courtesy in sending to me a copy of your poem. I was indeed very much interested in reading it. It is skillfully constructed and fascinating to read, and I must congratulate you on its production.” In very good to fine condition, with trimmed edges, and light show-through from old mounting remnants on the back. Starting Bid $200
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“Natural selection is to a great extent prevented by the progress of medicine”
194. Albert Einstein Typed Letter Signed. TLS signed “A. Einstein,” one page, 8 x 10.25, blindstamped personal Princeton letterhead, February 23, 1945. Letter to Dr. I. Franklin Miller at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Arts Building, in full: “I am glad to inform you that I received—through the kindness of Dr. Spayde—the interesting book by Dr. Price. I am convinced that there is considerable truth in the matter. I observed myself that the people in Czecho-Slovackia were much better developed than the people in Switzerland. And I was convinced that this was due to the more primitive living-
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conditions. I wonder whether the relevant factors are already recognized. I believe that a good deal of our deterioration may be due to the fact that natural selection is to a great extent prevented by the progress of medicine.” In very good to fine condition, with light creasing and toning, and a paperclip impression to the top edge. A unique letter connecting Einstein and Darwin, with the great physicist weighing in on Darwin’s evolutionary theory—positing that natural selection has been slowed down by the advent of modern medicine. Starting Bid $1000
195. Albert Einstein Signature. Highly
desirable vintage fountain pen signature, “Albert Einstein,” on an off-white 7.5 x 2 slip, annotated below in another hand, “World Famous Mathematician.” In fine condition, with a faint, thin block of toning from prior display. A scarce and sought-after full signature of the genius. Starting Bid $300
196. Augustin-Jean Fresnel Autograph Letter Signed. French
civil engineer and physicist (1788–1827) whose research in optics led to the almost unanimous acceptance of the wave theory of light. Rare ALS in French, signed “Fresnel,” one page both sides, 7.75 x 10, January 15, 1827. Letter to the Prefect of the Vendée, concerning delays in the installation of a reflector and lighting rod for the lighthouse at Sables. In fine condition, with light creasing. Fresnel is known for inventing the compact Fresnel lens for lighthouses, which has been called ‘the invention that saved a million ships.’ Starting Bid $200
197. Alexander von Humboldt Autograph Letter Signed. German naturalist and explorer (1769–1859) who wrote Kosmos, a massive five-volume study which attempted to unify the various branches of man’s knowledge. ALS in French, signed “Humboldt,” three pages on two adjoining sheets, 4 x 4.75, no date. Untranslated handwritten letter to “Monsieur Poisson” in Montmartre. In very good to fine condition, with light wrinkling, rusty paperclip impressions to the last page, and partial seal-related loss to one corner. Starting Bid $200
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Isaac Newton considers the relationship of Christ the Son to God the Father in a rare handwritten religious manuscript
198. Isaac Newton Handwritten Manuscript on Religion. Important handwritten religious manuscript fragment by
Isaac Newton, one page, 7.25 x 1.5, no date. Newton investigates the profoundly philosophic question of whether God and Christ are one in substance. Newton’s theology had correlations with his physics, and the topic of this present manuscript had significant implications for his theory of gravity—Newton essentially viewed God the Father as the cause of gravity and Christ the Son as the ruling principle of the natural world. For Newton, Christ was different in substance from God and subject to God’s dominion. The 4th-century Church Council of Nicea ruled that Christ and God were one in substance—a ruling that ran counter to Newton’s own ‘heretical’ anti-trinitarian religious beliefs—and Newton repeatedly returned to the topic and reexamined it anew. The present manuscript appears to be a section from Newton’s long planned, but unpublished, work on The History of the Church. In full (translated from Latin): “they are called sons. For these, indeed, are either called Gods for the sake of regeneration, or are called sons because they were considered worthy; but not on account of the one substance which is of the Father and of the Son. We acknowledge the same to be the only-begotten and the first-begotten. But the only-begotten Word, which has always been and is in the Father, is indeed the first-begotten on account of human nature. He excels, however, in the new creation, because he is the firstborn from the dead.” In fine condition, with a light stain touching two words of text. Scholars now increasingly recognize the importance of Newton’s theological views for an understanding of the whole man and his science. Newton himself kept his heretical religious views secret, and his heirs suppressed his manuscripts on theology for 200 years after his death—and they are only now beginning to see the light of day. A profound religious manuscript from the hand of a genius. Starting Bid $2500
199. Alfred Wallace Autograph Letter Signed. British
naturalist, explorer, and biologist (1823–1913) best known for proposing a theory of natural selection which prompted Charles Darwin to publish his own. ALS signed “Alfred R. Wallace,” one page, 4.5 x 7.25, December 30, 1903. Handwritten letter to Alfred E. Skeen, in part: “I believe that all duties are evils, that the present proposals are merely to distract attention from the results of the S. African War...The only rational system is one of absolute free trade, abolishing all our Customs & Excise with their thousands of officials & millions of expenditure, to raise all taxation direct by a progressive Income Tax on the surplus of all monies above a fixed sum.” He adds a postscript, initialed, “A.R.W.,” in full: “Radicals sh’d work as one man for the above Progressive Income Tax & Land Nationalisation.” In fine condition. Starting Bid $200
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Intellectuals Signed etching of the pioneer psychoanalyst by Hermann Struck 200. Sigmund Freud Signed Etching. Limited edition 9 x 11 etching of Sigmund Freud in profile done by Hermann Struck in 1914, numbered 13/150, signed in the lower right corner in pencil, “Sigm. Freud,” and also signed in pencil by the artist, Hermann Struck. In very good to fine condition, with scattered light foxing, and a stain to the wide bottom border. In November of 1914, Freud wrote to Struck regarding the portrait: ‘The etching strikes me as a charming idealization. This is how I should like to look, and I may even be on the way there, but it seems to me I have got stuck half way. Everything that is shaggy and angular about me you have made smooth and rounded. In my opinion an element of unlikeness has been introduced by something unimportant, by your treatment of my hair… In a word, I feel the etching to be a great honour. Each time I look at it I like it better.’ Starting Bid $500
Religious Figures
201. Pope Clement VII Letter Signed. Born Giulio di Giuliano de Medici in
1478, he served as pope from November 1523 until his death in 1534; the Sack of Rome and English Reformation occurred during his papacy. LS in Italian as papal vice-chancellor, signed “Vr. Giu. Vice Cancell.,” one page, 8.5 x 11.5, Florence, May 11, 1522. Letter to Paolo Vettori, a commander of the papal fleets, asking his advice for a response to a letter received from Don Giovanni Emmanuel. Reverse of second integral page bears the original paper seal. In fine condition. Starting Bid $200
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World Leaders
202. Chiang Kai-shek Signed Oversized Photograph. Superb oversized vintage semi-glossy 8.5 x 11.5 silver gelatin photo of Chiang Kai-Shek in uniform, affixed to its original 11.25 x 15 mount, boldly signed on the mount in ink by Chiang Kai-shek. Framed to a slightly larger size. In fine condition. A superlative portrait of the Chinese leader, scarce in this large-format size. Starting Bid $200
Scarce 1762 document signed by the first Governor of Quebec 203. James Murray Document Signed.
Scottish army officer and colonial administrator (1721–1794) who served as governor of the Province of Quebec, where he was sympathetic to the conquered French-Canadians and reassured them of their traditional rights and customs. Manuscript DS in French, signed “Ja: Murray,” one page, 7.5 x 9.25, August 12, 1762. Untranslated document, signed at the conclusion by Murray as governor of the Province of Quebec, with his official red wax seal applied next to his signature. In fine condition. Starting Bid $200
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204. Augustin Robespierre Document Signed. French lawyer, politician, and younger
brother (1763–1794) of French Revolutionary leader Maximilien Robespierre, who was arrested, tried, and executed at the same time. Scarce manuscript DS in French, signed “Robespierre,” one page both sides, 7.25 x 10.75, December 16, 1793. Document authorizing the payment of 1,200 livres for the purchase of subsistence for the French Army of Toulon. In fine condition. Accompanied by two engraved portraits of Robespierre. Starting Bid $300
Overthrown by Cromwell, King Charles solidifies his support while in exile: “Repeat the promise that we made each other of a true and constant friendship”
206. King Charles II Autograph Letter Signed. ALS in French, signed “Charles R,” one page, 6 x 7.75, February 22, 1655. Letter to “My Cousin.” In full (translated): “Although I have already convinced you by my speech how touched I am by your attentions and the duty I feel towards you, I can not refrain to now confirm this truth by writing and together to repeat the promise that we made each other of a true and constant friendship of which I flatter myself never to lose any opportunity to prove to you at any time, as I am grateful for the sincere and generous affection you have shown toward everything that concerns me.” In very good to fine condition, with irregular toning and the writing a few shades light. Starting Bid $200
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King George V sends thanks to Chinese president Yuan Shikai for “the reproduction of Our Portrait upon porcelain”
207. King George V Letter Signed. Important LS signed “Your Good Friend, George R. I.,” three pages on two adjoining
sheets, 7.25 x 9.25, royal coat of arms letterhead, March 31, 1916. Official letter of state to “Our Good Friend the President of the Republic of China,” in part: “We have received with very great pleasure the reproduction of Our Portrait upon porcelain, which you recently caused to be forwarded to us through Sir John Jordan, our Minister at Peking.” Signed at the conclusion by King George V and countersigned by Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Edward Grey. In very fine condition. A superb state letter acknowledging a fine piece of Chinese art, connecting Great Britain—the greatest world power at the time—with the newly created Republic of China in the early 20th century. Starting Bid $300
208. King James II Letter Signed. LS signed “James R,” one page,
6.25 x 8.75, September 25, 1688. Important letter written from the “Court at Whitehall,” shortly before his flight from the country amidst the Glorious Revolution. King James II orders Richard Talbot, 1st Earl of Tyrconnell, Lord Deputy of Ireland, to return his troops to England, using all speed in embarking them. In part: “We think it necessary for out service, that some of Our Forces in that Our Kingdom, should forthwith come into England: Our Will and pleasure is, and we do hereby require and command you, that upon receipt hereof you give orders to one Bataillon of Our Regiment of Guards, Colonell Butler’s Regiment of Dragoons,the Lord Forbese’s Regiment of Foot and to one other Regiment of Foot, such as you shall think fit, to march immediately to the Seaside, & there to embarke for Chester or Leverpoole. And you are to take care, to provide Ships & other Vessells necessary to transport them with all the diligence and speed possible. And for so doing this shall be your Warrant.” The clipped address panel is affixed to the reverse. In fine condition, with some light edge toning. Starting Bid $200
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209. King Louis XV Book. Rare unsigned book bound for King Louis XV: Les Statuts de l’Ordre du St. Esprit estably par Henri IIIme du nom Roy de France et de Pologne au mois de Decembre l’An M.D.L.XXVIII. Paris: l’Imprimerie Royale, 1740. Hardcover bound in contemporary French red morocco gilt, 8.5 x 11.5, 296 pages. The handsome binding features dentelle gilt cornerpieces incorporating the dove of the Holy Spirit in a Rococo aureole; center gilt arms of Louis XV; the spine in 6 compartments, with 5 raised bands, of which 5 semé with fleur–de-lys and Pentecostal flames and one lettered with the title. Starting Bid $200
210. Queen Elizabeth II Document Signed. Early
partly-printed DS, signed “Elizabeth R,” one page, 8.25 x 13, April 28, 1953. Queen Elizabeth grants a pardon to Edward John Kenealey, “convicted of shopbreaking and larceny,” in an order to the “Governor of Our Prison at Parkhurst.” Signed at the head by Queen Elizabeth II. In very good to fine condition, with light staining and soiling. Accompanied by a full letter of authenticity from Beckett Authentication Services. Starting Bid $200
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Explorers and Archeologists
“We are now at the very crisis of the affair”
212. Richard Francis Burton Autograph Letter Signed. Rare ALS signed “R. F. Burton,” four pages on two adjoining sheets, 4 x 5, November 2, 1876. Letter to Edward Augustus Freeman, penned in his difficult-to-read hand, in part: “My authority M. Lombardich, who is the active member of the Slav Society here, has written for details touching the refugees and has not yet had time to receive an answer...We are now at the very crisis of the affair—armistice or war will probably have been decided upon before you receive these lines. Of course you note the Turkish ‘dodge’ of pushing on 70,000 men.” In fine condition, with scattered light foxing, and a rusty paperclip impression to the top edge of the first page. Starting Bid $300
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Heavily annotated chapter from Carter’s final volume of The Tomb of Tutankhamun
213. Howard Carter Hand-Annotated Chapter Typescript for The Tomb of Tutankhamun. Howard Carter’s
annotated typescript for “The Annexe,” the third chapter from his classic work, The Tomb of Tutankhamun: Volume III, Treasury and Annexe, ten pages, 8.5 x 11, circa 1933, unsigned but featuring copious emendations and annotations by Carter in pen and pencil, with the reverse of the fifth page and the final page containing autograph fragments, and the reverse of the ninth page bearing two pencil sketches of the tomb complex. “The Annexe,” the third and final volume of The Tomb of Tutankhamun, describes the exciting moment in which Carter’s
party enters this pivotal section of the tomb. Carter explains the “confusion” of the Annexe after months spent working in the Antechamber, Burial chamber, and the ‘Innermost Recess.’ He describes the room as “a jumble of every kind of funerary chattel” left by earlier grave-robbers, and expounds on the excavation process of “three-hundred-odd pieces of antiquity,” ultimately leading to one very important discovery, “that two separate thefts of quite different nature had taken place in that little apartment” within a few years of the burial. In fine condition, with binder holes to the left edges. Provenance: Bonhams: Carter Family, June 12, 2012, Part of Lot 39. Starting Bid $2500
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American West Sam Houston sends his autograph from Washington
214. Sam Houston Autograph Letter Signed. ALS, one page, 6.5 x 5.25, January 21, 1856. Handwritten letter to a
gentleman, sent from Washington, DC, during his time as a US Senator. In full: “As you request, I have the pleasure to send you my autograph.” Impressively matted and framed with a portrait and plaque to an overall size of 26.5 x 21. In very good to fine condition, with light creasing and faint staining. A desirable letter boasting a large and prominent autograph from the great Texan. Starting Bid $300
215. Sam Houston Signed Free Frank. Desirable free-
franked mailing panel, 5.25 x 3.25, addressed in another hand to “Major E. Salomon, New Orleans, Louisiana,” and prominently franked at the top, “Free, Sam Houston.” In very good to fine condition, with some light creasing and soiling. Starting Bid $200
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Notorious Figures
Rare document signed by the linchpin of the 1919 World Series fix
216. Arnold Rothstein Document Signed. Racketeer, crime boss, businessman, and gambler (1882–1928) who be-
came a kingpin of the Jewish mob in New York City. He is reputed to have been involved in fixing the 1919 World Series, and mentored future crime bosses like Luck Luciano, Meyer Lansky, and Frank Costello. DS, seven pages, 8.75 x 11, October 8, 1921. Employment agreement between A. L. Libman, Inc. and A. L. Libman, signed at the conclusion by Rothstein as the company’s president and countersigned by Libman, who co-founded the property insurance firm with Rothstein. Housed in its original paper folder. In fine condition, with toning and wear only to the paper covers. Starting Bid $300
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Ness forwards eight ‘Cotton Club’ poker chips “seized by me on the last raid ever made on the Capone mob”
218. Eliot Ness Autograph Letter Signed with (8) Seized Poker Chips from the Last Capone Mob Raid. Extremely rare ALS signed “Eliot,” one page, 7.75 x
9.75, personal City of Cleveland, Department of Public Safety letterhead, no date. Handwritten letter to “Doc,” ostensibly Dr. Arthur Hagedorn, the chairman and physician of the Cleveland Boxing Commission, in full: “I thought these chips might be appropriate as a curio in the ‘Cellar Hagedorn.’ These were seized by me on the last raid ever made on the Capone mob just before the Al Capone trial. They were an adjunct to a luxuriously furnished gambling room in connection with a night club called ‘The Cotton Club’ operated by the Capone mob. Merry Xmas.” The lower portion of the letter bears eight affixed poker chips from the referenced Cotton Club raid. Framed and in very
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good to fine condition, with scattered light foxing and toning. Mobster Ralph ‘Bottles’ Capone, the older brother of Al Capone and Frank Capone, ran a number of bars and speakeasies in the Chicago area during Prohibition, the most famous of which was the Cotton Club on 5342 W. 22nd St. in nearby suburb Cicero. The Chicago Crime Commission described the Cotton Club as ‘a ‘whoopee’ spot where liquor flowed freely,’ and it was also a favorite watering hole of Chicago Mayor ‘Big Bill’ Thompson, a notable crony to the Capone gang. Handwritten letters from Ness are supremely rare, with this example—toting with it eight Cotton Club poker chips—serving as a superb visual and historical link to Chicago’s infamous mob past. Starting Bid $2500
Hand-notated by Oswald, San Diego’s Marine Corps Platoon 2060—where he learned to handle a rifle
219. Lee Harvey Oswald Hand-Notated 1956 US Marine Corps Photograph.
Lee Harvey Oswald’s personally-owned vintage glossy 10.25 x 8 photo of the 1956 US Marine Corps Platoon 2060 in San Diego, annotated on the reverse by Oswald in pencil to identify some of his classmates, including himself, “Oswald.” Oswald is seen fourth from the left on the second level. In very good condition, scattered surface creases, a tiny tear to left edge, and small circular label affixed to reverse upper left. Accompanied by a letter of authenticity from his older brother, Robert L. Oswald. As Oswald had only been accepted into the Marines on October 24, 1956, this photo is from very early in his three-year stint in the military. He was first trained in the use of the M1 rifle in San Diego during this period and became a reasonably competent rifleman, initially earning the designation of ‘sharpshooter’ before being downgraded to ‘marksman.’ Starting Bid $1000
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Lee Harvey Oswald’s US Marine Corps Rifle Score Book—Exhibit 239 used as evidence in the Warren Commission Report on the Assassination of President Kennedy 220. Lee Harvey Oswald’s US Marine Corps Rifle Score Book (Warren Commission Exhibit No. 239).
Lee Harvey Oswald’s personally-owned and used softcover workbook entitled “U. S. Marine Corps Score Book for U. S. Rifle, Caliber .30, M1 and U. S. Carbine, Caliber .30, M1A1,” 80 pages, 6” x 3.75”, filled out by Oswald on the front cover in pencil with his name, “Oswald, L. H.,” rifle number, “4314215,” organization, “2060 2nd R.T.V.,” and date issued, “3 Dec. ’56.” The first few pages contain instructions for shooting and scorekeeping, with pencil notations by Oswald. The majority of the book consists of target diagrams and tables filled out in pencil by Oswald, plotting his shots on the diagrams and recording relevant details like date, elevation and wind speed/ direction. Oswald also generally indicates his firing position in the upper margin, such as “kneeling,” “sitting,” or “prone.” In total Oswald completed 32 pages throughout the month of December, with two being practice ‘samples’ and the rest his actual results. In very good to fine condition, with two toned tape remnants affixed to the front cover, light general soiling, and three small areas of surface loss to the back cover. Accompanied by interesting correspondence from 1969 between Marguerite Oswald and Dr. John Lattimer, a notable researcher of the Kennedy assassination, who originally purchased the score book from her; this includes one handwritten letter from Dr. Lattimer to Marguerite Oswald and four letters and envelopes from Marguerite Oswald to Dr. Lattimer, the most fascinating being one dated April 17, 1969, Ft. Worth, signed “Marguerite C. Oswald, mother of Lee Harvey Oswald,” in part: “My late son’s Marine score book is in the same condition as when he left it with me…Someday soon it will be proven that a conspiracy did exist and that my son was indeed the ‘patsy.’” On December 21, 1956, Oswald was tested for marksmanship with his rifle on five different exercises—from 200, 300 and 500 yards firing slowly and from 200 and 300 yards firing rapidly. Based on these results a Marine would be rated by a defined scoring system: over 190 points was considered a marksman,
over 210 was a sharpshooter, and over 220 was considered an expert. Oswald scored 212 and was rated in the middle as a sharpshooter. For the slow test (page 5), the target was 10” tall by 10” wide. For the rapid fire test the target was 26” wide by 19” tall. A closer examination of Oswald’s 200 yard rapid fire result shows he hit 8/10 bullseyes and scored 48 out of 50. An expert rating on this test would have required a minimum score of 44 points (44 points x 5 tests = 220 points required). On his next test, 300 yards in rapid fire, Oswald hit 7/10 bullseyes scoring 46 out of 50. Again an expert rating on this test would have required a result of 44. So in both tests that most closely matched the conditions in the Kennedy assassination for rapid fire shooting Oswald scored above an expert level. Additionally on his third test from 500 yards firing slowly, Oswald scored 46 out of a possible 50: again shooting above an expert level. For the past 57 years many have claimed Oswald was a lousy shot and could not have killed Kennedy. These three test scores show otherwise. His above-expert level in three of five tests shows he was capable of assassinating President Kennedy either alone, or—if chosen by conspirators as a ‘patsy’—had the appropriate background and capabilities. The Warren Commission used only one piece of physical evidence to state that Oswald was capable of assassinating President Kennedy—and it was these scorecards from December 21, 1956. These scorecards can be found in Warren Commission Volume 16, pgs. 639-679, as Commission Exhibit 239. These results enabled the Warren Commission, in their singlevolume final report (pgs. 18–19), to state: “The Commission has concluded further that Oswald possessed the capability with a rifle which enabled him to commit the assassination.” An extraordinary piece of history used as a major exhibit of evidence in the Warren Commission conclusions implicating Lee Harvey Oswald to the Kennedy assassination. Starting Bid $10000
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Arrest card from the truant Oswald’s run-in with the New York police at age 13
221. Lee Harvey Oswald 1953 Arrest Card. Original
New York Police Department partly-printed arrest disposition card for Lee Oswald, one page, 6 x 4, April 16, 1953. Oswald, age 13 of 825 East 179 St. and student at “P.S. 44,” is arrested for “Juv. Del.” with a specific offense of “Warrant, Habitual Truant.” The arrest was made at the request of James Brennan, an attendance officer with the Board of Education. In very good condition, with overall creases and a punch hole to the lower left. Originally obtained by a longtime NYPD officer in charge of disposing of old records after they were committed to microfilm. In interviews with the police, Oswald said that he had better things to do than go to school, and disliked his teachers and
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classmates. Because his mother was ineffective in ensuring that Oswald went to school, he was remanded to Youth House for psychiatric observation. Here, a doctor determined that Oswald’s difficulties resulted from ‘emotional isolation and deprivation, lack of affection, absence of family life, and rejection by a self involved and conflicted mother,’ and recommended that he go to therapy with a male psychiatrist to help substitute for the lack of a father figure. Accompanied by transcripts of Warren Commission testimony regarding Oswald’s early life and upbringing by Dr. Renatus Hartogs and Evelyn Siegel, referencing Oswald’s truancy and his commitment to the Youth House of New York City. Starting Bid $500
Kennedy assistant Dave Powers’ nine-page account of the assassination, plus 22´ of real-time reportage
222. Kennedy Assassination: Dave Powers Eyewitness Account and UPI Teletype Roll. Historic nine-page
typescript from Kennedy’s close friend and special assistant Dave Powers chronicling the events of November 22–23, 1963, offering an extraordinary firsthand account of the events surrounding the assassination. Powers was one of John Kennedy’s best friends who rode in the Secret Service car right behind President Kennedy’s limousine on November 22, 1963, and helped remove President Kennedy’s body from the limousine and onto a stretcher at Parkland Hospital. There have been many accounts of that tragic day in Dallas but none were written by anyone more qualified than Dave Powers: he was not only watching this tragedy unfold but was unfortunately a participant in the events. The clarity and detail of this document is of the utmost historical significance. Also includes an original 22-foot long UPI teletype roll with real-time news blurbs from November 22, 1963, including several interesting inaccuracies as competing news services were lax in confirming information before printing. Provenance: Dave Powers Estate, and accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from John McInnis Auctioneers, which notes that the JFK Library and Museum expressed interest in this lot prior to the auction. Starting Bid $500
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Amazing original fingerprint card from November 25, 1963—Ruby arrested for the “Murder with Malice” of Lee Harvey Oswald
223. Jack Ruby Signed Fingerprint Card from Nov. 25, 1963. Original Jack Ruby fingerprint card from his ar-
rest following the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald, filled out in type and signed in black ballpoint, “Jack Ruby,” one page both sides, 8 x 8, November 25, 1963. The front of the card lists his personal and identifying information, including his name, “Ruby, Jack Lyon”; alias, “Rubenstein, Jack Lyon”; his Sheriff’s Department file number, “129175”; and amputation, “left index AMP 2d Jnt 1952.” The lower portion contains the original ink prints of all fingers and thumbs individually (except the amputated left index finger), as well as all nine prints taken simultaneously. The reverse lists his arrest information, including the date arrested, “11/25/63,” and charges or offense, “Murder with Malice.” In fine condition. Accompanied by a notarized letter of provenance from James Cron, who worked as a civilian employee of the Dallas Police
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Department from 1958 to 1964, and as a deputy sheriff with the Dallas County Sheriff’s Office from 1964 to 1993, where he served as a crime scene investigator. Cron created the Physical Evidence Section and was its Lieutenant Commander until his retirement; he now serves as a crime scene consultant. While in these positions he met many figures associated with the Kennedy and Oswald investigations, and was able to save some files and documents from those marked for destruction, receiving some material from supervisors as they retired. The sheriff’s office began to remove fingerprint cards from their records after instituting a computerized system. According to Cron, six fingerprint cards were created on the day Ruby entered the Dallas County Jail on November 25, 1963—two were kept by the Dallas Sheriff’s Office, one by the Texas Department of Public Safety, and three went to the FBI, making this an exceedingly rare item and quite possibly the only example in private hands. Starting Bid $1000
Original Jack Ruby mug shots from Nov. 25, 1963
224. Jack Ruby (2) Original Mug Shots. Two original small glossy booking photos of Ruby taken by the Dallas Police after his arrest for the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald: one 4 x 5 photo of him standing at full-length; and one 4.5 x 2.75 mugshot of his face and profile. The rest of the archive comprises 12 original period photos, including one of the sheriff’s office in the jail on the day Ruby was arrested, several of Ruby’s trial and its participants, and the Texas School Book Depository. In overall fine condition. Starting Bid $1000
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Signed Carousel Club business card and a telegram sent to Ruby after Oswald’s murder: “Well done soldier. Mission accomplished”
225. Jack Ruby Signed Business Card and Congratulatory Telegram. Three different business cards
from Ruby’s Carousel Club and a Western Union telegram. All cards measure approximately 3.5 x 2. One is light blue with black lettering which reads, “Dallas Newest Night Club, GIRLS GALORE if you care to see the Show of Shows Continuous Entertainment Until 2:00 AM”; a light pink card with an illustration of a champagne glass and dancing girl, with “Your host…Jack Ruby,” printed along the bottom; and a beige card which reads, “Offering Sophisticated, Risqué, Provocative, Delightful Entertainment— Your Host—Jack Ruby,” and signed on the reverse, “Admit party, Jack Ruby,” with a phone number written along the edge. Also included is a Western Union telegram, sent to Ruby at the Carousel Club by US Army Master Sergeant Carl C. Dewey, dated November 24, 1963, reading, “Well done soldier. Mission accomplished.” All four are matted and framed together with an original UPI press photo of Ruby and two women backstage at his club to an overall size of 14 x 24.5. In fine condition. Starting Bid $200
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military 396. Henry Knox Letter Signed. Revolutionary War general, first United States Secretary of War, and founder of the military school that became West Point (1750–1806). LS signed “H. Knox,” one page both sides, 7.75 x 12.5, January 29, [1790s]. Official War Office letter to Revolutionary War veteran Sharp Delany, who was appointed by George Washington as first Collector of Customs in Philadelphia. In part: “The Secretary of the Treasury has informed me that he has written to you on the payment of the first moiety of the Invalid Pensioners within the State of Pennsylvania, and that he has arranged with you the funds for that purpose. I shall transmit you a list of the said pensioners which has been received at this office, which is exactly to govern your payments.” In very good condition, with edge tears and paper loss, and old tape repairs to nearly complete separations along very fragile horizontal folds. Starting Bid $200
Tremendous, content-rich handwritten letter from Steuben—“Our President is still on his tour of the Holy Land; he receives and gives beautiful speeches everywhere”
397. Friedrich von Steuben Autograph Letter Signed. ALS in French, signed “Steuben,” three pages on two adjoining
sheets, 7.25 x 9, November 3, 1789. Handwritten letter to French diplomat Elénor-François-Elie, Comte de Moustier, in part (translated): “Since your departure nothing here has happened that merits your attention. Our President is still on his tour of the Holy Land; he receives and gives beautiful speeches everywhere. In ten days he will return to our capital. We have very little direct news of what is going on where you are. Jefferson has still not arrived, and your cursed ship still moves as slowly as a turtle to keep us in the dark. We get all our news via London, as dark as the smoke out of their chimneys. A lot of your ministers have been disgraced, courtiers exiled, robins chased to England and all are disheartened. Reading the articles about France, I feel transported to the century of Honorius. France stands for the Eastern Empire, and Paris for Constantinople.” In fine condition. Starting Bid $500
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398. USS Constitution Wooden Box. Very attractive
display box constructed of wood removed from the hull of the USS Constitution during the frigate’s historic 1927 restoration, measuring 7.25 x 4.25 x 2.5, with the box front bearing the original bronze plate, which reads: “This material was taken from the original hull of the U.S. Frigate Constitution, Keel laid 1794, Rebuilding 1927.” The handsome box lid features a 2.5? diameter bronze emblem with embossed image of “Old Ironsides” with its sails up, with raised text below: “Launched 1797, 1804 Tripoli, 1812 Guerriere, Java, 1813 Cyane, Levant, U.S. Frigate Constitution.” In fine condition. Starting Bid $200
Rare signed portrait of the Confederate general 400. Robert E. Lee Signed Photograph. Highly
desirable 2.5 x 4 carte-de-visite portrait of Robert E. Lee in uniform with three stars discernible on his collar, boldly signed in ink, “R. E. Lee.” Published by The ‘Lee’ Photographic Gallery of Richmond, Virginia. In very good to fine condition, with light overall soiling, scattered small spots, and some skipping to the signature. Starting Bid $500
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399. Judah P. Benjamin Autograph Letter Signed. British-born American politician and lawyer (1811–1884) who, after serving in the US Senate and rejecting nomination to the Supreme Court, served variously as attorney general, secretary of war, and secretary of state for the Confederacy. Uncommon ALS, one page, 7.75 x 9.75, February 27, 1835. Handwritten letter to Washington Moody, in part: “I have at length the pleasure of enclosing you a check for the amount of claim against Mr. Parton—as follows,” listing several line items amounting to $251.09. He adds a postscript signed with his initials, “J. P. B.,” in full: “I collect claims for sums over one thousand dollars at five per ct.” In very good to fine condition, with old clear tape over various fold splits. Starting Bid $200
Extremely important letter as Custer prepares to track down Early’s army on the morning of the Battle of Waynesboro 401. George A. Custer. Extremely important Civil War–dated LS in pencil, signed “G. A. Custer,” one page, 4 x 7.25, 11:45 AM on March 2, 1865. Letter to Bvt. Maj. Gen. Lewis Addison Grant, reporting on troop movements and conditions. In full: “I have arrived at Fisherville and found here but—one Company of Cavalry—they fell back toward Waynesboro—The roads are in a very bad condition—almost impossible for wagons or artillery. Genl. Rosser is reported to have passed through here last night.” Matted with an engraved portrait to an overall size of 14 x 11. In very good to fine condition, with several horizontal folds and a few small stains. Leading his division in Sheridan’s Shenandoah Valley campaign, Custer had received orders to destroy the Virginia Central Railroad and take Lynchburg. Making a difficult march over wet clay roads in which horses were foundering in mud up to their bellies, Custer received word that the enemy, under Jubal Early and Thomas Rosser (Custer’s friend and former West Point roommate), had just evacuated Staunton and fallen back toward Waynesboro. Driving off Confederate vedettes at Fisherville, Custer and his men marched to Waynesboro and found Early’s army dug in behind a formidable line of earthworks that afternoon. Acting boldly, Custer did not await reinforcements and attacked immediately, throwing the Confederate forces into a panic and routing them in short order. Federal accounts claimed the capture of 1,600 men, 17 flags, 11 guns, and all of Early’s supplies. Early escaped capture, but would never return to the battlefield. Starting Bid $500
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Disabled Soldiers membership certificate signed by Lee and Hood 402. Robert E. Lee and John Bell Hood Document Signed. Rare partly-printed DS, signed “R. E. Lee” and “J. B.
Hood, Pres,” one page, 6.5 x 4.5, no date. An unissued engraved certificate of membership for the Southern Hospital Association for Disabled Soldiers in New Orleans, founded July 1, 1866. Signed at the conclusion by both Confederate generals. Affixed along its top edge to a slightly larger backing sheet. In very fine condition. Starting Bid $300
403. George A. Custer Hand-addressed Mailing Envelope. Hand-addressed mailing envelope, 8.25 x 4, penned in
Custer’s hand to his wife, “Mrs. Genl. Custer, Monroe, Michigan.” Envelope bears four three-cent George Washington postage stamps, and a Fort Buford, Dak., postmark. Envelope is also docketed by Mrs. Custer in pencil, “Sept 6th, 1st Yellowstone.” Archivally double-matted and framed with two portraits and a biographical caption to an overall size of 21.75 x 12.25. In very good to fine condition, with creasing and tears to the edges; the handwritten area of the envelope is clean and unaffected. Starting Bid $200
404. Napoleon Letter Signed. LS in French, signed “Nap,” one page both sides, 7 x 8.5, October 21, 1808. Excellent letter addressed to General Henry-Jacques-Guillaume Clarke boasting military content concerning cavalry maneuvers from Naples to Rome. The letter, in part (translated): “Order the 1st and 2nd squadrons from the 25th cavalry in Naples to go to Rome, where they will be part of the Italian army...In consideration of this change, the Neapolitan army will not lose any infantry, and the Italian army will gain two regiments.” Regally matted and framed with a biographical plaque and portrait to an overall size of 27.75 x 27; a window to frame backing reveals the first page of the letter. In fine condition, with some brushing to the signature. Starting Bid $200
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Significant handwritten letter on early 18th century British naval matters by Admiral Rooke 407. George Rooke Autograph Letter Signed. ALS signed “G: Rooke,” three pages on two adjoining sheets, 7 x 8.75, June 28, 1702. Handwritten letter to “Mr. Clarke,” saying that he will carry out the Prince’s orders to suspend Sir John Munden, though he disagrees with the decision; makes a suggestion for the Queen’s oversight of her fleet; and complains about a junior officer’s request for assignment on a certain ship. In part: “I have Received the favoure…wth his R’ll Highnesse’s Order inclos’d for suspending Sr. Jon. Munden from his command, wch. I shall obey; and suspend my Judgment, of that Order, tho’ I can’t my thoughts, they giving me some melancholly reflecting on what the Duke of Ormond and my selfe if we doe not succeede in our Expedition: and truly I begin to be of an opinion that the Queene will never be well searv’d att sea till she sends a Committee of her councell to see the execution of her orders; the Dutch whoe are a wise people once tooke that course for theire information, and have ever since taken their sea Officers Acc’ts of theire Expeditions wth. satisfaction.” In fine condition. Starting Bid $200
Rare 1684 letter on maritime victories over the Barbary pirates: “We have had good success against the Sallay Pyratts: for in nine mounths we have destroyed five of them, two taken, one sunk, & two chased ashore” 408. Cloudesley Shovell Autograph Letter Signed. English naval officer (1650–1707) who took part in the Third Anglo-Dutch War, Nine Years’ War, and War of the Spanish Succession before perishing in a disastrous shipwreck off the Isles of Scilly. ALS signed “Clou: Shovell,” one page, 8 x 11.75, March 8, 1684. Handwritten letter reporting on his victories over the Barbary pirates out of the port of Salé, in part: “We have had good success against the Sallay Pyratts: for in nine mounths we have destroyed five of them, two taken, one sunk, & two chased ashore. Another of 26 gunns narrowly escaped me. I chased him into Mamora who venturing in before high watter to escape me he struck upon the Barr.” He goes on to discuss the strength of part of the fleet’s ships, enumerating the quantities of their guns. In very good condition, with overall wrinkling, foxing, and a newspaper clipping affixed at the bottom. Starting Bid $200
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aviation
481. Orville Wright Signed Photograph. Uncommon
and highly desirable 5.25 x 3.75 postcard photo of Wright flying his world record-breaking airplane at Fort Myer, Virginia, neatly signed in fountain pen, “Orville Wright.” Captioned in the lower border: “First Man-Flight, December 17, 1903, Kitty Hawk, N. C.” In very good to fine condition, with trimmed edges and scattered small stains. Starting Bid $200
482. Graf Ferdinand von Zeppelin Letter Signed. German engineer (1838–1917) who designed the famous rigid airship that bears his name. LS in German, signed “Graf Zeppelin,” one page, 7.75 x 9.75, February 18, 1889. Untranslated letter. In fine condition. Starting Bid $200
space exploration Bean celebrates the Apollo program with ‘In the Beginning...,’ signed by 20 astronauts 493. Apollo Astronauts Multi-Signed Lithograph: ‘In the Beginning...’. Limited edition color 26 x 32 lithograph of an Alan Bean painting entitled ‘In the Beginning…,’ numbered 169/1000, signed in pencil by 20 Apollo astronauts, each signing under his mission emblem. Signers are: Wally Schirra, Walt Cunningham, Frank Borman, Jim McDivitt, Rusty Schweickart, Tom Stafford, Buzz Aldrin, Michael Collins, Charles Conrad, Richard Gordon, Alan Bean, Fred Haise, James Lovell, Harrison Schmitt, Charlie Duke, Dave Scott, Al Worden, Alan Shepard, Stu Roosa, and Edgar Mitchell. In fine condition. Accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from the publisher, The Greenwich Workshop, and the original presentation folder, the front of which is torn on the left side. Starting Bid $300
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494. Moonwalkers (6) Signed Photograph. Desirable
color satin-finish 10 x 8 photo of an Apollo astronaut’s boot print on the soft lunar surface, signed in black felt tip by six moonwalkers: “Charlie Duke, Apollo 16 LMP,” “Dave Scott, Apollo 15 CDR,” “Buzz Aldrin, Apollo XI,” “Alan Bean, Apollo 12,” “Gene Cernan, Apollo XVII,” and “Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14.” In very fine condition. Starting Bid $200
495. Apollo 11 Signed Photograph. Scarce official
color 10 x 8 NASA lithograph celebrating the 5th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission, signed and inscribed in black felt tip, “Best wishes to Helmut Baker—Neil Armstrong,” “Buzz Aldrin, Apollo XI,” and “Michael Collins, Apollo XI.” In fine condition. Starting Bid $200
496. Apollo 11 Launch Pass and Invitation. Apollo 11 launch pass, number 1760, 5 x 3, featuring the mission insignia and an image of the moon, with printed text on reverse informing the holder that the pass may be kept as a souvenir after the mission. Also included is the original NASA launch pass invitation, 4.5 x 6, featuring a mission profile, a map and list of guest accommodations, and an RSVP memo stating that the “Enclosed card must be completed and returned by no later than June 23, 1969.” In overall fine condition. Accompanied by the original NASA mailing envelope from the George C. Marshall Space Flight Center. A crisp and uncommon assemblage related to the launch of Apollo 11. Starting Bid $200
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Rare signed photograph of Neil Armstrong’s ‘giant leap’
497. Neil Armstrong Signed Photograph. Extremely
rare glossy 10 x 8 photo of Neil Armstrong taking his iconic ‘one small step’ onto the lunar surface, signed in black felt tip, “Neil Armstrong, Apollo 11.” In fine condition, with scattered small surface creases. Accompanied by an envelope and Kodak photo paper box. Captured from NASA’s original video transmission of the historic event, this is one of the most recognizable images of the lunar landing: Armstrong taking his first step onto the landing pad, seconds before delivering what is arguably the most famous quote of the 20th century. As the Apollo 11 astronauts touched down on the moon and the first television
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transmissions made it to earth, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab in California was called to work. Responsible for altering the images to photo film, the photo development team there was first to see and handle most of the now-famous images. The consignor of this piece notes that her father was an industrial photographer and supervisor associated with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s photo lab. As the man behind the camera during the lunar surface EVAs, Neil Armstrong is absent from almost all photos from the lunar landing. Uninscribed and signed not only with his name, but also with the desirable addition of “Apollo 11,” this represents the pinnacle of Armstrong signed photos. Starting Bid $1000
“Carried to the Moon on Apollo XI”— flight plan page from the personal collection of Buzz Aldrin
505. Buzz Aldrin’s Flown Apollo 11 Flight Plan Page. Extraordinary flown 10.5 x 8 page from the final Apollo 11 Flight Plan carried into lunar orbit aboard the Command Module ‘Columbia’ during the first lunar landing mission, signed and flight-certified in blue ballpoint, “Carried to the Moon on Apollo XI, Buzz Aldrin.” The page, which is labeled as “Figure 9.2-3.–Scanning telescope–PTC attitude–(g.e.t. = 12:00:00),” was inserted just after page 3-10 and 3-11 of the manual, and contains six different star pattern views that were visible through the crew’s scanning telescope. In fine condition.
Accompanied by a detailed letter of provenance signed by Buzz Aldrin, in part: “Our flight plan scheduled a possible MCC1 or Mid Course Correction engine burn number 1 at about 12 hours into the mission. Burns of this type were planned to refine our trajectory to and from the Moon. Our long Translunar Injection (TLI) burn with the Saturn rocket third stage was accurate enough to allow cancellation of the MCC1 burn. Mission Control informed us of the cancellation a few hours before it was scheduled. Since we had a bit of open time, we transmitted an unscheduled television broadcast starting around 10 hours and 30 minutes into the mission. We were able to show the western coast of
the United States, then parts of Central and South America. Mission Control could not see this TV live, but recorded it at the Goldstone tracking station for later playback. We were able to broadcast for about 20 minutes. This sheet illustrates six different star pattern views that were visible through our scanning telescope at 12 hours Ground Elapsed Time (GET) while we were docked in PTC or Passive Thermal Control. PTC was simply a rotation of our docked CSM/LM combination along a common axis to keep an even distribution of temperatures on our vehicles which were being heated by the sun. These star chart patterns allowed Neil Armstrong, Mike Collins, and myself to verify our lunar trajectory and update our guidance computer if necessary at the time. The flight plan was probably the single most important document related to the success of our mission. It provided a time schedule of crew activities and spacecraft maneuvers to accomplish the first lunar landing. This page has been in my private collection since 1969. I have written: ‘Carried to the Moon on Apollo XI’ and signed it along the bottom of the page. Additionally, a copy of the flight plan is included.” Starting Bid $2500
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498. Michael Collins Signed Beta Cloth. An 8.5 x 9.25 swatch of Beta cloth bearing a central design of the Apollo 11 mission insignia, signed in black felt tip “Michael Collins, Apollo XI CMP.” In very fine condition. Accompanied by a photograph of Collins holding this piece at an Astronaut Central private signing. Starting Bid $200
art, architecture, and design
582. Salvador Dali Autograph Letter Signed. Early ALS in French, signed “Dali,” one page, 5.25 x 8.25, 1934. Handwritten letter to an unidentified recipient, ostensibly the art dealer Julien Levy, in part (translated): “Dear friends, we think we will leave on the 31st or maybe the 7th, I am bringing the best paintings that I’ve recently painted. There are 6, you will find the titles in the little catalogue from a little exhibition of paintings in Barcelona.” Dali then describes the paintings, “‘Instantaneous presence of Luis II de Baviera, Salvador Dali, Lenin and Wagner on the beach at Roses,” before continuing: “I am leaning towards your idea about creating an amusing catalogue using the paintings you have. I think we might have to change the word Brayette [codpiece] to homelete [omelette], which signifies the same thing.” The reverse side contains the first page of a letter penned in the hand of his wife, Gala Dali, presumably to the same recipient, which is dated October 17, 1934. In fine condition, with a very short edge tear due to ink erosion. Starting Bid $500
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585. Buckminster Fuller (4) Signed Items as Part of the Roger W. Stoller Design Archive. Archive from the personal collection of sculptor Roger W. Stoller, dating to the mid-1970s when he worked as the personal assistant to visionary architect and geodesic dome creator Buckminster Fuller. The archive contains four items signed by Fuller: a sketch of a “3 Human Octahedron,” drawn inside a notebook used extensively by Stoller as Fuller’s assistant; a copy of the album Dymaxion Ditties: The Greatest Hits of Buckminster Fuller album; a TLS dated July 30, 1976, referencing an exhibit for the Cooper-Hewitt National Museum of Design; and a Walt Disney World ID card, dated October 31, 1975. In overall fine condition. A more comprehensive listing of this impressive archive can be found in our online description. Starting Bid $200
Rare image of Gauguin with the Pont-Aven group 586. Paul Gauguin Photograph. Rare original unsigned
sepia 6.25 x 4.25 albumen photograph of three artists of the Pont-Aven School—Paul Gauguin, Ferdinand du Puigaudeau, and Charles Laval—outside a coffee shop in the village of Pont Aven, circa 1886–1887. Annotated on the image and below in an unknown hand, identifying the subjects. In very good to fine condition, with tears to the edges of the image. Original photographs of Gauguin are very scarce, especially those showing him with fellow artists. Starting Bid $200
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Gauguin writes to Pissarro: “The Renoir exhibition has a little less people than that of Claude Monet”
587. Paul Gauguin Autograph Letter Signed. ALS in
French, signed “P. Gauguin,” three pages, 3.75 x 6, [1882]. Handwritten letter to his friend and mentor Camille Pissarro, comparing the turnout for exhibitions by their Impressionist colleagues. In part (translated): “Your orders will be faithfully carried out and your paintings will be taken to his house; I’m going there this evening to come to an understanding with him on this subject. I hardly expect to see you until around the 21st of this month. The Renoir exhibition has a little less people than that of Claude Monet; saw yesterday at my brother-in-law’s house a Norwegian art critic who thought that we should put a painting by Claude Monet in Luxembourg—I am sending you a little thing by Théodore de Banville is that of the movement we
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are talking about or of a man in Mr. Arosa was buried Thursday I received a letter to share for you entrusted to my care (we did not know your address). I am not sending it to you, it is useless but I am warning you so that you send your card, like me, moreover, who did not go there. You’ve had a streak of good weather. I hope you have been able to work very well. And your dinner went well you don’t tell me about it. Was the union formed with the irremovable and was the death of the yellows decreed?” In fine condition. A significant handwritten letter by the influential painter, recording his artistic observations in the year of the the seventh Impressionist exhibition at the Durand-Ruel Gallery in Paris. Starting Bid $2500
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588. Oskar Kokoschka Original Sketch. Rare and sought-after original
sketch by Oskar Kokoschka of what appears to be a figure reading a book, accomplished in fountain pen on an off-white 9 x 7.25 sheet, signed by Kokoschka, who adds an untranslated sentiment above. In fine condition, with small chips to the top edge, easily matted out. Starting Bid $500
Manet provides instructions for the sale of “La Liseuse by Miss Cassat” after the fourth exhibition of the Impressionists 589. Edouard Manet Autograph Letter Signed. ALS in French, signed “E. Manet,” one page, 4.25 x 6.75, April 17, [1879]. Fantastic handwritten letter referring to a painting by Mary Cassett, in full (translated): “At the end of the exhibition, you will send La Liseuse [The Reader] by Miss Cassat to Mr. Antonin Proust deputy 32 Bd Haussmann where you will receive the agreed 300 francs.” Matted to an overall size of 7 x 9. In fine condition. Manet refers to the fourth exhibition of the Impressionists, in April 1879, at 28 avenue de l’Opéra. Mary Cassatt exhibited twelve paintings there, including her Reading Woman (today at the Joslyn Museum in Omaha, Nebraska). The art critic and politician Antonin Proust (1832–1905), a friend of Manet, was one of Mary Cassatt’s first buyers. A significant association piece. Starting Bid $300
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590. Pablo Picasso Signed Book. Signed French language book: Pour Voir… Aix en Provence by Marie-Louise Bataille. Paris: Maison du Livre Francais (Collection Helios), 1933. Softcover, 6.5 x 7.75. Signed on the title page in ballpoint, “Picasso.” In fine condition, with a short hinge separation to the top of the front cover. Starting Bid $200
591. Auguste Rodin Autograph Letter Signed. ALS
in French, signed “Rodin,” one page, 4.5 x 7, 182 rue de l’Universite letterhead (the address of his studio), no date. Untranslated handwritten letter to a friend. In fine condition. Starting Bid $200
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593. Zao Wou-ki Typed Letter Signed. Chinese-French painter (1920–2013) known for his large abstract works. TLS, one page, 8.25 x 4, personal letterhead, no date but postmarked June 27, 1994. Letter of thanks to an admirer, in part (translated): “It is my turn to send you my warmest thanks for your wishes and the interest you have shown for many years in my work.” In very fine condition. Accompanied by the original mailing envelope. Starting Bid $200
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Lautrec accepts an 1887 exhibition invitation from fellow painter Theo van Rysselberghe
593. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Autograph Letter Signed. ALS in French, signed “H. de T. Lautrec,” four
black-bordered pages on two adjoining sheets, 4.5 x 7, no date [November 1887, Paris]. Handwritten letter to the Belgian neo-impressionist painter Theo van Rysselberghe, in part (translated): “I want to thank you for the invitation that I owe obviously a lot more to your recommendation than to my own worth. I have urged Forant to send things to you most probably and I hope so because his work is a real delight. Now I must ask to make a request without wanting to exaggerate or to count too much on your kindness. One of my good comrades Albert Adolphe who has shown at the exhibition of the eintransigeants in Paris has asked me to ask
you if there is still some room for new invitations and please think about it. He would be very happy to show his painting with yours and mine. I send you his request asking to do for him what you have done so kindly for us all. Now to thank you in advance. I ask you to believe me very cordially yours.” Lautrec also adds his address. In fine condition. An exquisite letter from Lautrec, unknown at the time and flattered by Van Rysselberghe’s invitation to a popular Parisian exhibition. Most letters from Latrec are directed to his mother, with this uncommon, beautifully signed example, which boasts wonderful artistic connections, the first of a recorded 10 sent to Van Rysselberghe. Starting Bid $500
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literature Handwritten letter acknowledging “royalties due me for Peter Pan” 622. James M. Barrie Autograph Letter Signed. ALS signed “J. M. Barrie,” one page, 5.5 x 7.25, personal letterhead, March 17, 1910. Handwritten letter about royalties for Peter Pan, in part: “This to acknowledge receipt of the royalties due me for Peter Pan…up to end of season 1909–1910.” Affixed to a larger page and In fine condition; reverse of the page bears affixed signatures of Stuart Robson and Blanche Whiffen. A desirable autograph with reference to his most famous work, which had debuted at the Duke of York’s Theatre in 1904. Starting Bid $200
Beset by “plans & projects & other obstructions,” Mark Twain declines an invitation
624. Samuel L. Clemens Autograph Letter Signed. ALS signed “S. L. Clemens,” one page, 4.75 x 7.75, Riverdale on the Hudson letterhead, [April 1, 1901]. Handwritten letter to “Miss Howard,” in full: “I thank you very much for your kind invitation, which is certainly enticing, but unfortunately for me my plans & projects & other obstructions will not allow me the privilege of accepting it. You must forgive my tardiness—I have been South a month, & have since been over-burdened with arrears of work.” Nicely matted with a portrait to an overall size of 14 x 11. In fine condition. Starting Bid $300
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“Love is the law, love under will”—extremely rare letter from “A. Crowley,” written from his newly opened Collegium ad Spiritum Sanctum 625. Aleister Crowley Typed Letter Signed.
English occultist, ceremonial magician, painter, mountaineer, and prolific writer (1875–1947) who founded the religion of Thelema, identifying himself as the prophet entrusted with guiding humanity into the Æon of Horus in the early 20th century. TLS signed “A. Crowley,” one page, 9 x 5.75, November 2, 1920. Written from the Collegium ad Spiritum Sanctum in Cefalu, Sicily, a letter to the publishing house George Bell & Sons, in part: “You will by now have received the balance of the account due to you. I have transferred my interests in the stock to the Collegium ad Spiritum Sanctum and authorize you to deliver same to their order. Love is the law, love under will.” In very good to fine condition, with scattered light staining and creasing. The first Crowley letter that we have ever offered. Starting Bid $300
“I saw what is extant as it really is” 626. Philip K. Dick Typed Letter Signed. TLS signed “Love, Phil,” who adds a heart with arrow,” one page, 8.5 x 11, January 13, 1981. Letter to science fiction author Patricia Warrick, in part: “I experienced enhanced perception fused with enhanced conception...it is a step ahead in terms of seeing-conceiving world...I saw what is extant as it really is. Although just for a short time. It was incredibly beautiful, exactly as Pythagoras says. I saw his living, self-completing kosmos! This most of all!” In fine condition. Accompanied by the original mailing envelope. Starting Bid $200
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Dickens agrees to review a manuscript, but warns: “I have never known myself to possess the least influence with any publisher”
627. Charles Dickens Autograph Letter Signed. ALS, one page, 4.5 x 6.5, Tavistock House letterhead, April 5, 1858. Handwritten letter to Nelson Lee, agreeing to look over his manuscript. In full: “I will with pleasure look over your manuscript and tell you what I think of it, if you will address it to me here at your convenience. But I am bound. to add that here my power of rendering you any service will stop, for I have never known myself to possess the least influence with any publisher, on behalf of another person.” Attractively double-matted with an engraved portrait to an overall size of 13 x 10. In fine condition. Accompanied by a full letter of authenticity from JSA. Starting Bid $200
628. Charles Dickens Signed Free Frank. Hand-addressed and free-franked mailing panel, 5 x 2.75, no date, addressed
by Dickens to “A Monsieur: Mons’r J. C. d’Armond Gerkens, The Hague,” and franked in the lower left, “Charles Dickens.” Matted and framed with a portrait and biographical caption to an overall size of 18 x 18. In very good to fine condition, with scattered light foxing, toning, and soiling. Starting Bid $200
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“You certainly should be a Spiritualist after your experiences” 629. Arthur Conan Doyle Autograph Letter Signed. ALS
signed “A. Conan Doyle,” one page, 5 x 7, Windlesham, Crowborough, Sussex letterhead, April 30, [no year]. Handwritten letter to a gentleman, in full: “You certainly should be a Spiritualist after your experiences—this that is the only Philosophy which has a place for such things. Should raps come again try to establish a code. Say ‘Please rap twice’ and so on. That was really how this movement began. I send some literature which may open up avenues.” In fine condition, with horizontal stains from onetime storage in a magnetic photo album. Starting Bid $200
630. Henrik Ibsen Annotated Visiting Card. Revered
Norwegian playwright and poet (1828–1906) whose works, including A Doll’s House and Hedda Gabler, made him one of the seminal figures of modern drama. Personal visiting card imprinted with Ibsen’s name, 4.25 x 2.75, annotated below in his hand, “Adresse: Herrn Jacob Hegel, Kopenhagen, Danemark.” In very good to fine condition, with overall soiling, and old mounting remnants on the back. Starting Bid $200
631. Samuel Pepys Partial Document Signed. \ Partial
manuscript DS, signed “Pepys,” one page, 7 x 4.75, June 1, 1667. Partial financial document concerning funds allocated by Parliament, signed at the conclusion by Samuel Pepys (“Pepys”), William Penn (“W. Penn”), John Mennes (“Jo: Mennes:”), and William Brouncker (“Brouncker”). Affixed to a larger sheet and in very good condition, with overall foxing and a clipped corner affecting the bottom of Pepys’ signature. Starting Bid $200
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Marvelous, content-rich handwritten letter from Tolkien, refuting the presence of symbolism or allegory in Middle-earth: “To ask if the Orcs ‘are’ Communists is to me as sensible as asking if Communists are Orcs”
633. J. R. R. Tolkien Autograph Letter Signed.
Magnificent ALS from J. R. R. Tolkien, one page both sides, 6.75 x 8.5, personal 76 Sandfield Road, Headington, Oxford letterhead, November 17, 1957. Handwritten letter to Herbert Schiro, in part: “I was delighted with your letter, which I shall certainly keep. There is nothing much really to say (beyond recording the pleasure that your enjoyment and sympathy give me), as you understand the matter so well. There is no ‘symbolism’ or conscious allegory in my story. Allegory of the sort ‘five wizards = five senses’ is wholly foreign to my way of thinking. There were five wizards and that is just a unique part of history. To ask if the Orcs ‘are’ Communists is to me as sensible as asking if Communists are Orcs.
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That there is no ‘allegory’ does not, of course, say there is no applicability. There always is. And since I have not made the struggle wholly unequivocal: sloth and stupidity among hobbits, pride and escapism among Elvs, grudge and greed in Dwarfheart, and folly and wickedness among the ‘Kings of Men,’ and treachery and power-lust even among the ‘Wizards,’ there is I suppose applicability in my story to present times. But I should say, if asked, that it is not really about Power and Domination: that only gets the wheel going; it is about Death and the desire for deathlessness. Which is hardly more than to say it is a tale written by a Man!” Matted and framed with Tolkien’s original hand-addressed mailing envelope to an overall size of 12 x 19.75; the frame’s glass backing allows viewing for the second page. In fine condition. Starting Bid $2500
636. Voltaire Letter Signed. LS in French, signed “Voltaire,”
one page, 7.5 x 9.25, November 4, 1761. Letter to ClaudePhilippe Fyot de La Marche, in part (translated): “My body is ill, Monsieur; my soul is well, because it is full of you...I am at a loss about a large packet that I sent you concerning fetishes, but you may be sure that the great Corneille is still more precious to me than the little President de Brosse. I had requested that you let me know whether your engraver could undertake a dozen prints; half of the monument would be set up under your auspices...You have reawakened my old passion for you, and you will not leave me there after having turned my head. Wherever you are, have the kindness to give me your orders, and accept the tender respects of an ill man.” In fine condition, with scattered light stains. Starting Bid $300
635. Voltaire Autograph Letter Signed. Rare ALS in French, signed “Voltaire,” one page, 7.25 x 9.75, May 26. Handwritten letter to Monsieur Fabri, sent from his home in Geneva, “Les Délices,” commenting on some financial difficulties. In full (translated): “I await each day, Monsieur, the money coming to me by way of public conveyances, considering that the exchange rate in Geneva is too high. Once I have something, I will be at your orders. I ask you to have a little empathy for my small troubles. I have been forced to send the workers off on circuit. Once I am at Ferney, I will have the honor of requesting an hour of your time.” In fine condition. Starting Bid $300
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music Pleased with his opera’s success in Paris 683. Gaetano Donizetti. Italian composer (1797-1848) known as a leading
composer of the bel canto opera style. ALS in French, signed “Donizetti,” one page, 4.75 x 7.25, blindstamped monogram letterhead, no date but circa 18391840. Letter thanking his correspondent for his assistance, in full (translated): “I am very grateful for everything you are doing for me; I accept the success of Lucia [di Lammermoor] as an anticipation of the success of the Martyrs, that should begin rehearsing after Ruolz’s Vendetta.” In fine condition, with one repaired edge tear. Lucia di Lammermoor was first performed in French translation at the Theatre de la Renaissance on August 3, 1839. Donizetti was living in Paris at this time and was preparing a revision of his opera Poliuto for the Paris Opera, which premiered as Les Martyrs in April 1840. Starting Bid $200
Incredibly rare quartet of quotations in Puccini’s hand: “La Boheme,” “La Manon,” “La Tosca,” and “Mme. Butterfly” 684. Giacomo Puccini Autograph Musical Quotations Signed. Amazing quadruple AMQS on an off-white 9.25 x 12.25
musically lined sheet, signed and inscribed at the conclusion, “Giacomo Puccini, a Madame Farcounet, Nice 23.3.06.” Above, Puccini pens two-to-four bars from four of his most beloved operas, writing the titles above: “La Boheme,” “La Manon,” “La Tosca,” and “Mme. Butterfly.” While other single AMQS from Puccini have sold in the past—and we have encountered a singular triple-quote example—this is the lone four-quote autograph from Puccini we have ever witnessed. Large in size and boasting bold, beautiful writing from the opera master, it is an unprecedented and truly exquisite piece. In fine condition, with intersecting folds. A stunning quartet of musical quotations that represents the sum of Puccini’s most renowned, revered, and towering masterpieces. Starting Bid $500
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685. Anatoly Lyadov Signed Photograph. Esteemed Russian composer, teacher, and conductor (1855–1914). Matte-finish 4.25 x 5.75 portrait of the composer by Reissert & Fliege of St. Petersburg, Russia, affixed to its original 6.75 x 9.25 mount, inscribed on the mount in ink in Cyrillic by Lyadov, and signed and dated below, “An. Lyadov, 26 Okt. 1909.” In very good to fine condition, with light soiling to the mount, and a small tear between the date and the signature. Starting Bid $200
687. Dmitri Shostakovich Signed Photograph. Soviet composer (1906–1975) whose fifteen symphonies occupy a place of central performance in the orchestral literature of the twentieth century. Matte-finish 4 x 6 photo of the great Russian composer in a casual seated pose, signed and inscribed in the lower border in fountain pen in Cyrillic, and dated December 3, 1969. In fine condition, with light brushing to the ink. Starting Bid $200
After hearing the ‘Dean of American music,’ Rachmaninoff rescinds his belief that “there were no important composers in this country” 686. Sergei Rachmaninoff Typed Letter Signed. Superb TLS, two pages, 8.5 x 10.25,
Hotel Ansonia [New York] letterhead, March 27, 1924. Letter to Deems Taylor, in part: “Owing to my limited knowledge of the English language, I could not express to you all I wanted to say last night. I wish to tell you that your ‘Suite’ made a very great impression on me...I have, heretofore, thought, but naturally not expressed that opinion, that there were no important composers in this country, but now, I feel sure of one who really can show something and say a great deal.” In very good condition, with irregular toning and staining, and trimming and corner loss to the first page. Starting Bid $200
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Kerns quotes from “The Last Time I Saw Paris” for the son of a collaborator 690. Jerome Kern Autograph Musical Quotation Signed.
688. Igor Stravinsky Signed Photograph.
Vintage matte-finish 7.75 x 9.75 close-up portrait of the composer in near-profile, signed and inscribed in fountain pen, “To Mr. Morris A. Miller, with many thanks for his beautiful work and kindness, Igor Stravinsky, Berlin 1940.” In very good to fine condition, with light rippling to the bottom edge, and small areas of surface loss in the borders. Starting Bid $200
World War II-dated AMQS on an off-white 8.5 x 11 sheet, signed and inscribed in fountain pen, “For John Craven, from, Jerome Kern, October 1941.” Kern adds several bars of music to his immortal song ‘The Last Time I Saw Paris,’ with Kern adding a line above, “The Last Time I Saw Paris Her heart was warm and gay.” In fine condition, with light edge toning. A superlative AMQS for a poignant and historically important award-winning song written by a truly genius composer. Starting Bid $200
689. Richard Wagner Autograph Note Signed. Important German composer (1813–1883) who singlehandedly revolutionized opera and attained status as one of the most influential geniuses in the history of music. ANS in German, signed “R. W.,” one page, 4.5 x 2.75, no date. Handwritten note requesting copies of a Bayreuth paper. In fine condition, with a small rusty paperclip impression to the top edge, and mounting remnants and old descriptions affixed to the back. Accompanied by a printed form letter from Wagner from 1876, indicating that “there is no demonstrative dress rehearsal of our ‘Tristan’” and sending thanks for expressing “unabashed appreciation for the execution of my difficult score.” Starting Bid $200
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692. Beatles: John Lennon Signed Book.
Signed book: In His Own Write. First UK edition. London: Jonathan Cape, 1964. Hardcover, 5.75 x 7.75, 78 pages. Signed and inscribed prominently on the first free end page in blue ballpoint, “For Wendy, John Lennon.” Though the inscription is not characteristic of Lennon’s handwriting, it is in the same pen and supported by the provenance letter—perhaps signed hurriedly or playfully with his left hand. In fine condition. Accompanied by a letter of provenance from the original recipient, noting that it was signed in person in the flat at 57 Green Street, Mayfair where the Beatles were living. Starting Bid $500
693. Beatles: Paul McCartney Signed Check. Scarce
McCartney Productions Ltd. business check, 6.25 x 3.25, filled out in another hand and signed by McCartney, “Paul McCartney,” payable to Rye Arts Centre for £100, August 1, 1971. In fine condition. Single-signed McCartney checks are extremely rare—this is the first we have ever offered. Starting Bid $200
694. Beatles: Paul and Linda McCartney Signed Poster.
Original color 20.25 x 27 ‘Polaroid Snapshots’ insert poster that was included with the 1973 LP release of Band on the Run by Paul McCartney and Wings, signed and inscribed in black felt tip, “To Adrea, All the best from Linda McCartney” and “and Paul McCartney.” In fine condition, with some light creasing and handling wear. Accompanied by a full letter of authenticity from JSA. Starting Bid $200
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695. Bob Dylan Signed Book. Signed book: Chronicles:
Volume One. First edition. NY: Simon & Schuster, 2004. Hardcover with dust jacket, 6 x 8.75, 293 pages. Signed on the title page in black felt tip, “Bob Dylan.” In fine condition. Accompanied by a full letter of authenticity from REAL. Starting Bid $200
Vibrant, fully signed album flat for Queen’s Hot Space 696. Queen Signed Promotional Album Flat. Promotional album flat for the 1982 Queen
album Hot Space, signed and inscribed on the front in black felt tip, “To Joe & Jean, Freddie Mercury,” “Roger Taylor,” “Brian May,” and “John Deacon.” In fine condition, with light corner creasing, and a light central horizontal bend. The record is not included. The consignor notes that the autographs were obtained at a signing session at Crazy Eddie’s electric store in New York on July 27, 1982. Accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from Tracks, and by several modern photographs of Queen that were taken during the autograph signing session. Starting Bid $1000
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697. Rolling Stones: Charlie Watts Signed Photograph. Vintage glossy 3.5 x 5 photo of Charlie Watts playing
drums at a Rolling Stones performance that took place at the Ken Colyer Club, Studio 51, London in April 1964, signed on the reverse in blue ballpoint, “Charlie Boy, xxx.” In fine condition, with a stray ink stain to the image side. Accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from Tracks. Starting Bid $200
sports
844. Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier Signed ‘Thrilla in Manila’ Poster. Tremendous color 13.75 x 21.75 closed circuit poster for the ‘Thrilla in Manila,’ the third and final boxing match between world heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier on October 1, 1975, at the Araneta Coliseum in Cubao, Quezon City, Philippines. Signed in black felt tip by both legendary boxers inside the terrific LeRoy Neiman artwork. Double-matted and framed to an overall size of 20.25 x 28.25. In fine condition. Starting Bid $200
Banquet program signed by Jimmie Foxx, Home Run Baker, Connie Mack, and other HOFers 846. Baseball Hall of Famers and Legends Signed Program. Scarce program for the “Jimmy Fox Banquet” [sic]
held in the slugger’s hometown of Sudlersville, Maryland on November 7, 1933, 5 x 8, signed on the front cover in pencil and ink by many of those in attendance, including the honored guest. Signers include: Jimmie Foxx, Connie Mack, Mickey Cochrane, Connie Mack, Frank ‘Home Run’ Baker, Bill McGowan, Rube Walberg, Bing Miller, Mule Haas, Max Bishop, and Lena Blackburne. Among the other signers are a few wives—Helen Foxx and Mrs. Connie Mack—and newspaper reporters. In very good to fine condition, with light soiling, and a central vertical fold. Starting Bid $200
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847. Roberto Clemente and 1963 Pittsburgh Pirates Signed Program Page. Desirable vintage circa 1963 ballpoint signatures of 14 members of the Pittsburgh Pirates on a 6.75 x 10 program page, including: Roberto Clemente, Bill Mazeroski, Harvey Haddix, Bob Friend, Elroy Face, Vern Law, Bob Friend, Don Schwall, Smoky Burgess, Bob Bailey, Jerry Lynch, Al McBean, Bob Veale, and Joe Gibbon. In fine condition, with light overall creasing and a faint central vertical fold. Accompanied by a full letter of authenticity from JSA. Starting Bid $200
848. Ty Cobb Document Signed. DS, signed “Tyrus R.
Cobb,” four pages on two adjoining sheets, 8.5 x 11, September 22, 1931. Bond of indemnity between Ty Cobb and the Aetna Casualty and Surety Company for the loss of a certificate for 100 shares in the Kelsey-Hayes Wheel Corp. Attached are a document listing Aetna’s assets and liabilities, and two notarized certificates for the residency of Aetna officers. In fine condition. Accompanied by the original paper folder, filled out in another hand. Starting Bid $200
850. Lou Gehrig Signature. Highly sought-after ink
signature, “Lou Gehrig,” on an off-white 3.5 x 2 card. In fine condition, with light soiling, and a tiny chip to the bottom edge. A desirable example from the ‘Iron Horse.’ Starting Bid $300
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853. Babe Ruth Signed Check. World War II-dated personal check, 8.25 x 3, filled out and signed in bold fountain pen by Babe Ruth, “G. H. Ruth,” payable to Cartier for $13.50, December 12, 1941. In fine condition. Accompanied by a full letter of authenticity from PSA/DNA. An exceedingly desirable Ruth check that dates closely to a significant moment in American history. Five days prior, the Japanese attacked the Pearl Harbor naval base in Honolulu, an event that prompted the United States to officially enter WW2 on December 11th. Starting Bid $500
Rare signed illustrated portrait of Sullivan in his iconic boxing stance 855. John L. Sullivan Signed Photograph. Exceptionally rare 5.5 x 8.75 illustrated portrait of “John L. Sullivan, Champion of the World,” signed and inscribed in fountain pen, “John L. Sullivan, at 24 years of age, to Robt Leggitt.” Caption to lower border reads: “Photographed by Mora, expressly for the Illustrated Times…Only Genuine Portrait ever taken in Ring Costume.” Encapsulated in a PSA/DNA authentication holder. In fine condition, with wear to edges and horizontal folds, one passing through the first letter of his surname. Accompanied by full letters of authenticity from JSA and PSA/DNA. Signed photographs of Sullivan are exceedingly rare—the two examples offered in this auction represent the only two we have ever had. Starting Bid $300
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845. Barcelona 1992 Summer Olympics Torch. Official
1992 Barcelona Olympics torch, comprised of aluminum and plastic, measuring 26″ in length and 7″ at its widest point, designed by Andre Ricard. The metal body is inscribed in gold text, “XXV Olimpiada Barcelona 1992,” and bears the emblem of the Games. The sliding red switch to reverse is engraved “000070.” Exhibits some minor scuffs to the rubberized handle. The massive fiftyday relay included nearly 9,500 torchbearers who carried the Olympic flame by foot and bicycle for a total of 5,940 km throughout Spain. The lighting of the cauldron at the opening ceremonies was especially memorable, as Paralympic archer Antonio Rebollo ignited the cauldron by shooting an arrow lit from the Olympic flame. An impressive torch with a decidedly modern design. Starting Bid $300
851. International Olympics Committee 1996 Centennial Torch. Official Interna-
tional Olympic committee (IOC) centennial torch, constructed of aluminum and wood, measuring 21.75˝ in length and 6˝ at its widest point. The main body is ribbed in a fashion similar to the 22 reeds found on the Atlanta torch, with a band above the wooden handle engraved with the names of all the host cities and their dates since 1896. An elegant, unused torch commemorating one hundred years of Olympic excellence. Starting Bid $200
854. Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics Torch. Official 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics torch, constructed of aluminum and various polymers, measuring 37.5˝ in length and 5.75˝ in width, developed by a team led by Vladimir Pirozhkov and Andrei Vodyanik. The torch was modeled after the feather of a Firebird or phoenix; its silver represents ice and the red denotes the fires in the mountains around the resort. Upper portion bears the Sochi Games logo, with one label reading “111.” The cover, which features some scuffing, was previously detached to remove the torch’s propane; as a result, the lower seal was cut, the interior adhesive broken, and the cover no longer connects tightly to body. Includes the original torch relay carrying bag, and a custom-made display stand. Starting Bid $200
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comic art and animation
951. Persephone production storyboard drawing from Goddess of Spring. (Walt Disney Studios, 1934)
Detailed original production storyboard drawing featuring Persephone from Goddess of Spring, showing her receiving a crown made of flowers from two bluebirds. Accomplished in graphite on a white 7 x 5.75 sheet, marked “8” in the lower left corner. Cloth-matted and framed to an overall size of 14.75 x 13.5. In fine condition. Starting Bid $200
952. Water Babies production cel from Water Babies. (Walt Disney Studios, 1935) Cute original production cel showing three nude babies riding a bird from the Silly Symphonies cartoon Water Babies. The cel is trimmed to image and placed on a later hand-painted custom prepared background. Image measures 5 x 3, with overall dimensions of 14 x 10.5. In fine condition. Starting Bid $200
953. Snow White production cels from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs with Walt Disney Signature. (Walt Disney Studios, 1937) Original production cels of Snow White and a rabbit from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, displayed with a fountain pen signature, “Walt Disney,” on an off-white 4.25 x 1.5 card. The cels, which depict the princess holding a sleepy rabbit in her arms, have been trimmed and applied to a star background as prepared by Courvoisier Galleries for sale. Total image measures 3 x 3.75, with a mat opening of 7.5 x 7.25; the mat features the encircled Walt Disney Productions “WDP” stamp and the cel title to left side. The cels and signature are cloth-matted and framed together to an overall size of 19 x 21.75. In fine condition. An exceptional display piece honoring the first Disney princess and the man behind the mouse. Starting Bid $500
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Scarce full-bodied Grumpy cel on a hand-painted master background from Snow White 954. Grumpy production cel and production background from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. (Walt Disney Studios,
1937) Original production cel and production background featuring Grumpy from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, showing the crotchety character with his arms crossed. The cel has been trimmed to image and placed on a handpainted production background from Snow White, which shows part of the forest cottage’s interior. Image measures 3.25 x 4.5, with a mat opening of 7.25 x 8.75. Archivally framed to an overall size of 18.5 x 20. In fine condition. A great master background set-up. Starting Bid $500
955. Dopey, Happy, and Sneezy production cel from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. (Walt Disney
Studios, 1937) Original production cel featuring Dopey, Happy, and Sneezy from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, showing them at the foot of their beds within their forest cottage. The cel has been trimmed to image and placed on a high-quality printed key master background giclee. Character image measures 5.75 x 4.25, with overall dimensions of 17 x 11. In fine condition. Starting Bid $300
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956. Sneezy, Happy, and Bashful production cels from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. (Walt Disney
Studios, 1937) Original production cel featuring Happy, Bashful, and Sneezy from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, showing the three dwarfs standing sideby-side and playing instruments. The cel has been trimmed and applied to a woodgrain background as prepared by Courvoisier Galleries for sale. Image measures 5 x 4, with a mat opening of 5.75 x 5. Archivally cloth-matted and framed to an overall size of 16.75 x 16. The piece has the Courvoisier Galleries label on the reverse. In fine condition. Starting Bid $300
957. Sneezy, Doc, and Bashful production cels from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. (Walt Disney Studios, 1937) Original production cel featuring Sneezy, Doc, and Bashful from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, showing the three dwarfs with pickaxes during the diamond mine scene. The cel has been trimmed and applied to a handpainted starry background as prepared by Courvoisier Galleries for sale. Image measures 6.5 x 5.25, with a mat opening of 9 x 7. Nicely framed to an overall size of 20.25 x 18; the reverse bears a Courvoisier Galleries label. In very good to fine condition, with some lifting and cracking to paint. A desirable Courvoisier set-up from Disney’s first animated feature. Starting Bid $300
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958. Sleepy, Dopey, and Bashful production cel from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. (Walt Disney Studios, 1937) Original production cel featuring Dopey, Sleepy, and Bashful from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, showing the three dwarfs with a diamond mine cart, peering out at some gems that were added as an embellishment. The cel has been trimmed to image and applied to an airbrushed background as prepared by Courvoisier Galleries for sale. Image measures 7.25 x 3, with a mat opening of 7.75 x 4.75. Framed to an overall size of 17 x 14. In fine condition. A very appealing Courvoisier set-up. Starting Bid $300
959. Vultures production cel from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. (Walt Disney Studios, 1937) Original production cel featuring the Vultures from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, which depicts the two large predatory birds perched menacingly on a large tree branch. The cel has been trimmed and applied to a woodgrain background as prepared by Courvoisier Galleries for sale. Total character image measures 4.25 x 3.5, with a mat opening of 5.25 x 5.5. Matted to an overall size of 12 x 14. Reverse bears a 1937 copyright label for Walt Disney Enterprises. In fine condition. The vultures are shown sparingly in Snow White, thus making their production cels exceedingly rare. Starting Bid $300
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960. Grumpy production cel from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. (Walt Disney Studios, 1937) Original
production cel featuring Grumpy from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, showing him emerging from a circular hole and pointing his finger. The cel has been trimmed and applied to a woodgrain background as prepared by the Disney Studio to be sold at the Courvoisier Galleries. Image measures 5 x 4, with overall dimensions of 6 x 6.25. The piece has the original Disney Courvoisier Galleries label on the reverse. In fine condition. An attractive Courvoisier woodgrain background that features his name, and a great image of one of the most memorable dwarfs. Starting Bid $200
961. Dopey and Bunnies production cels from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. (Walt Disney Studios, 1937) Original production cels of Dopey and two bunnies from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, depicting the youngest dwarf standing in front of two inquisitive rabbits. The cel has been trimmed and applied to a hand-painted background as prepared by Courvoisier Galleries for sale. Images measure 2.5 x 4.25 (Dopey) and 1.75 x 2 (bunnies), with a mat opening of 5.25 x 5.25. Archivally cloth-matted and framed to an overall size of 15.5 x 15.25. The piece has the original Disney label on the reverse. In very good to fine condition, with cracking and lifting to sections of Dopey’s robe. Starting Bid $200
962. Grumpy production cel from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. (Walt Disney Studios, 1937) Original production cel of Grumpy from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, which depicts the perpetually upset dwarf with crossed legs seated on a barrel. The cel, which is marked “50” and slightly trimmed to 12.25 x 9.75, is placed on a matching 12.25 x 11 giclee background from the same film. The character image measures 2.5 x 4.25. In fine condition, with rippling to edges. Starting Bid $200
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963. Bashful production cel from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. (Walt Disney Studios, 1937) Superb original production cel featuring Bashful from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, showing the shy dwarf with his arms behind his back in an ideal upright and full-length pose. The cel has been trimmed and applied to an airbrushed background as prepared by Courvoisier Galleries for sale. Image measures 2.25 x 4.5, with a mat opening of 4.25 x 6.25. Archivally clothmatted and framed to an overall size of 15.5 x 17.5, with the frame backing bearing a Courvoisier Galleries label. In fine condition. Starting Bid $200
964. Happy production cel from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. (Walt Disney Studios, 1937) Original
production cel featuring Happy from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, showing him in an ideal full-bodied pose. The cel has been trimmed and applied to a woodgrain background as prepared by Courvoisier Galleries for sale. Image measures 4.25 x 5.75, with a mat opening of 6 x 8. Cloth-matted to an overall size of 12 x 14. The piece has the original Disney Courvoisier Galleries label on the reverse. In fine condition. Starting Bid $200
966. Dopey production cel from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
(Walt Disney Studios, 1937) Original production cel featuring Dopey from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, showing him in a great full-length pose. The cel has been trimmed and applied to a hand-painted background as prepared by Courvoisier Galleries for sale. Image measures 3.5 x 4.25, with a mat opening of 5.25 x 7.25. Framed to an overall size of 11.75 x 14.5. The piece has the original Disney Courvoisier Galleries label on the reverse. In fine condition. Starting Bid $200
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965. Dopey production cel from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. (Walt
Disney Studios, 1937) Fabulous original production cel featuring Dopey from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, showing him in a full-bodied pose. The scarce full 12-field cel is placed on a masterfully rendered handpainted custom prepared background of the interior of the dwarfs cottage, created circa 1990s. Image measures 2.5 x 4.25, with overall dimensions of 12.75 x 9.75. In fine condition. Starting Bid $200
967. Huntsman preliminary model sheet drawing from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. (Walt Disney Studios, 1937) Rare original preliminary model sheet drawing featuring the Huntsman from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, shown in fourteen unique poses with different expressions on his face. Accomplished in graphite on an off-white 13.5 x 11.5 sheet. Double-matted and framed to an overall size of 20.5 x 18.5. In fine condition. Starting Bid $200
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968. Frank Follmer panoramic concept painting for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. (Walt Disney Studios, 1937) Impressive original panoramic concept painting by Frank Follmer for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, showing Snow White, the Prince, his horse, Grumpy, Doc, Happy, Sleepy, Bashful, Dopey, and Sneezy in front of the dwarfs’ forest cottage. Accomplished in graphite and watercolor on 18 x 11 artist’s paper, signed in the lower right in pencil, “Frank Follmer.” In fine condition. Follmer worked at Walt Disney Studios from the late 1930s through the early 1940s, assisting on projects like Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Pinocchio, and Fantasia. He alienated Walt Disney when he organized a strike against the studio, and ultimately left to join the Navy. Starting Bid $200
969. Frank Follmer panoramic concept painting for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. (Walt Disney Stu-
dios, 1937) Adorable original panoramic concept painting by Frank Follmer for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, showing Snow White, Happy, Grumpy, Bashful, Doc, Dopey, Sleep, and Sneezy gathered at the table inside the dwarfs’ forest cottage. Accomplished in graphite and watercolor on 18 x 12 artist’s paper, signed in the lower right in pencil, “Frank Follmer.” In fine condition. Follmer worked at Walt Disney Studios from the late 1930s through the early 1940s, assisting on projects like Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Pinocchio, and Fantasia. He alienated Walt Disney when he organized a strike against the studio, and ultimately left to join the Navy. Starting Bid $200
970. Donald Duck and Nephews production cels from Donald’s Golf Game. (Walt Disney Studios, 1938)
Original production cels of Donald Duck and Huey, Dewey, and Louie from Donald’s Golf Game, specially matted by the Studio Art Props Department, signed and inscribed on the mat in the hand of Disney staff artist Hank Porter—”To Jack Skirball, Sincerely, Walt Disney.” The scene depicts the three ducklings watching their uncle, who is holding a golf club and wearing a flat cap. Character images measure 2.75 x 3.5 (Donald) and 4.5 x 3.25 (his nephews), with a mat opening of 10.75 x 8.5. In fine condition, with some missing paint to Donald’s left leg. Starting Bid $500
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971. Mickey Mouse production cel from The Pointer. (Walt Disney Studios, 1939) Original
production cel featuring Mickey Mouse from the short film The Pointer, showing Mickey seated and dressed as a hunter while reading a training book on pointer dogs. The scarce full 12-field cel is placed on a matching giclee background. Image measures 3.5 x 5, with overall dimensions of 13.75 x 11. In fine condition, with some rippling, and a staple to each corner. Recognized as a milestone film in the development of the modern Mickey Mouse, The Pointer was nominated for Best Animated Short Film at the 12th Academy Awards, but ultimately lost to Disney’s own The Ugly Duckling, the final installment of the Silly Symphony series. Starting Bid $200
973. Geppetto and Figaro production key master background set-up from Pinocchio. (Walt Disney Studios, 1940) Original production key master background set-up featuring Geppetto and Figaro from Pinocchio, showing Geppetto sleepily rising with the little kitten sitting at the end of his bed. The cels are trimmed to image and placed on a hand-painted key master background; during this particular scene, with Geppetto exclaiming to his cat, ‘C’mon, we go to sleep,’ Figaro is actually in his own bed; he was added to this set-up by the studio to be sold at the Courvoisier Gallery. Total character image measures 7.5 x 5.75, with a mat opening of 10.5 x 9. Matted to an overall size of 16.5 x 15. In fine condition. Starting Bid $1000
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Pinocchio plays with fire—a beautifully detailed production set-up from the classic Disney film
972. Pinocchio, Geppetto, and Figaro production key master background set-up from Pinocchio. (Walt Disney Studios, 1940) Original production key master background set-up featuring Pinocchio, Geppetto, and Figaro from Pinocchio, showing the elderly woodworker as he rushes to extinguish a flame on Pinocchio’s finger, with Figaro observing from a shelf in the background. The cels have been trimmed and applied to a hand-painted production background from the same film. Images measure 10.5 x 9.5 (Geppetto and Pinocchio) and 2.25 x 2 (Figaro), with a mat opening of 15 x 10.75. Cloth-matted and framed to an overall size of 27 x 22.75. In fine condition. Only moments after becoming a boy-puppet, Pinocchio, entranced by a flickering candle flame, sets his finger on fire, causing Geppetto to frantically run around the room before finally submerging the flame in Cleo’s fish bowl. The sequence also features one of the film’s more notable ‘goofs,’ with Geppetto’s red nightcap disappearing and reappearing as he dashes about. An incredibly impressive display piece from early in the film, augmented furthermore by its uncommon pose and a richly detailed background—certainly among the very finest Pinocchio celluloids we have offered. Starting Bid $2500
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974. Jiminy Cricket production cel and Pinocchio publicity cel on master background from Pinocchio. (Walt Dis-
ney Studios, 1940) Original production cel of Jiminy Cricket and a publicity cel of Pinocchio on a hand-painted master background from Pinocchio, which depicts the boy puppet in a happy full-length walking pose, with Jiminy seated small and forlornly on the bottom step of a stone stairway. The cels have been trimmed and applied to a hand-painted master background from the same film, which was prepared by Courvoisier Galleries for sale. Images measure 4.25 x 7.25 (Pinocchio) and 1 x 1 (Jiminy), with a mat opening of 10 x 8; the mat features the encircled Walt Disney Productions “WDP” stamp and the cel title to left side. Framed to an overall size of 17 x 15.75, with the piece bearing the original Walt Disney Productions label on the reverse. In fine condition, with an instance of flaking to Pinocchio’s left arm and a small spot of adhesive residue to background near Jiminy. Starting Bid $500
975. Mickey Mouse production cel from Fantasia. (Walt Disney Studios, 1940) Original production cel of Mickey Mouse
from Fantasia, showing him in a red robe and wearing Yen Sid’s mystical hat during the ‘Sorcerer’s Apprentice’ sequence. The cel has been trimmed to 16 x 12.5, with the image measuring 3.25 x 4.25, and placed on a key master giclee background from Fantasia 2000. In fine condition. Starting Bid $500
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976. Chernabog production cels from Fantasia.
(Walt Disney Studios, 1940) Original matching production cels featuring Chernabog from the harrowing ‘Night on Bald Mountain’ sequence from Fantasia, with one layer featuring the demon’s dark face and bright green eyes, and an overlay with gray-and-tan accents. The cel is placed on a matching giclee background. Image measures 9.75 x 8.25, with overall dimensions of 14.25 x 11. In fine condition. A stunning portrayal of Disney’s fearsome demon. Starting Bid $500
977. Mickey Mouse concept painting from Fantasia. (Walt Disney Studios, 1940)
Spectacular original concept painting of Mickey Mouse from the ‘Sorcerer’s Apprentice’ segment of Fantasia, which shows the young wizard-to-be in Yen Sid’s mystical hat during his magical dream sequence: standing atop a pinnacle as he watches a brilliant comet streak through the night sky. Accomplished in gouache on black 10 x 9 artist’s board. In fine condition, with tack holes to corners. Magnificent original artwork from one of the most memorable animated sequences in cinematic history. Starting Bid $500
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978. Mickey Mouse concept painting from Fantasia.
(Walt Disney Studios, 1940) Original concept painting of Mickey Mouse from the ‘Sorcerer’s Apprentice’ segment of Fantasia, which shows the young wizard-to-be in Yen Sid’s hat during his magical dream sequence: standing atop a pinnacle as he commands a comet while waves crash below him. Accomplished in gouache on black 9 x 8.5 artist’s board. In fine condition, with tack holes to corners. A desirable piece of concept artwork from a classic Disney feature. Starting Bid $500
979. Mickey Mouse concept painting from Fantasia. (Walt Disney Studios, 1940) Original
concept painting of Mickey Mouse from the ‘Sorcerer’s Apprentice’ segment of Fantasia, which shows the young wizard-to-be during his magical dream sequence: standing atop a pinnacle and wearing the mystical hat of the Sorcerer Yen Sid as he commands the stars and planets to dance across the heavens with the wave of his hands. Accomplished in gouache on black 8.25 x 8.75 artist’s board. In fine condition, with tack holes to corners. A brilliant depiction of Mickey at his most powerful! Starting Bid $300
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980. Mickey Mouse and Black Pete production keymaster background set-up from Mr. Mouse Takes a Trip. (Walt Disney Studios, 1940) Original production keymaster background set-up featuring Mickey Mouse and
Black Pete from Mr. Mouse Takes a Trip, showing Mickey in his traveling hat and Pete as a menacing conductor. The cel is placed on a hand-painted production keymaster background from the same film, with several studio stamps on the reverse. Total image measures 9.75 x 8.25, with overall dimensions of 12 x 10. In fine condition. Walt Disney voiced Mickey Mouse for this short, and Billy Bletcher played Pete. A fabulous keymaster set-up from a funny Mickey short. Starting Bid $300
981. Figaro production cel from Pinocchio. (Walt
Disney Studios, 1940) Original production cel featuring Figaro from Pinocchio, showing Geppetto’s pet kitten wearing a handkerchief and sitting in a high chair. The cel has been trimmed and applied to a hand-painted background as prepared by Courvoisier Galleries for sale. Image measures 4 x 3.75, with a mat opening of 7˝ in diameter. Archivally cloth-matted and framed to an overall size of 18.75 x 18.75. In fine condition. Starting Bid $200
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982. Monks production cel from Fantasia. (Walt Disney Studios, 1940) Original production cel featuring a line of hooded monks carrying candles from the ‘Ave Maria’ segment of Fantasia. The cel has been slightly trimmed and applied to an airbrushed forest background as prepared by Courvoisier Galleries for sale. Character images range from .25 x .5 to .5 x 1, with overall dimensions of 12.75 x 9.75. The piece has the original Disney Courvoisier Galleries label on the reverse. In fine condition. Starting Bid $200
983. Pinocchio production cel from Pinocchio. (Walt
Disney Studios, 1940) Original production cel featuring Pinocchio from Pinocchio, showing the boy puppet seated with a cigar in hand. The cel is placed on a matching studio copy background. Image measures 4.25 x 5.75, with overall dimensions of 13 x 11.25. In fine condition. Starting Bid $200
984. Dancing Mushrooms production concept storyboard painting from Fantasia. (Walt Disney Studios, 1940)
Brilliant original production concept storyboard painting featuring the Dancing Mushrooms from the Tchaikovsky ‘Nutcracker’ sequence of Fantasia. Accomplished in color pastels on 12 x 10 black paper. In fine condition, with one clipped corner tip and a tiny tear to the bottom edge. Starting Bid $200
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985. Bacchus and Jacchus production concept storyboard painting from Fantasia. (Walt Disney Studios,
1940) Vibrant original production concept storyboard painting featuring Bacchus and Jacchus from the ‘Pastoral Symphony’ segment of Fantasia, showing the wine-loving Roman god of parties riding atop his pet donkey. Accomplished in color pastels on 13.25 x 9.5 brown paper. In fine condition, with pinholes to corners. Starting Bid $200
986. Bacchus, Jacchus, and Satyr production concept storyboard painting from Fantasia. (Walt Disney Studios,
1940) Appealing original production concept storyboard painting from the ‘Pastoral Symphony’ segment of Fantasia, showing Bacchus—the wine-loving Roman god of parties—riding atop his pet donkey Jacchus, with a horn-blowing Satyr in the foreground. Accomplished in color pastels on 12 x 10 brown paper. In fine condition, with pinholes to corners and one clipped corner tip. Starting Bid $200
987. Hyacinth Hippo production cel from Fantasia. (Walt Disney Studios, 1940) Original production cel of Hyacinth Hippo from Fantasia, which depicts the lovely hippopotamus dancing during the ‘Dance of the Hours’ sequence. The cel is taped to a matching giclee background. Image measures 3.25 x 4.75, with overall dimensions of 14 x 12. The lower right corner is marked “5.” In fine condition. Starting Bid $200
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988. Russian Thistle Dancers production concept storyboard painting from Fantasia. (Walt Disney Studios, 1940) Striking original production concept storyboard painting featuring the Russian Thistle Dancers from the Tchaikovsky ‘Nutcracker’ sequence of Fantasia. Accomplished in color pastels on 12 x 10 black paper. In fine condition, with pinholes to corners. Starting Bid $200
989. Baby Unicorn and Satyr production cels from Fantasia. (Walt Disney Studios, 1940) Original production
cels featuring Baby Unicorn and Satyr from the ‘’Pastoral Symphony’ segment of Fantasia. The cels have been trimmed and applied to an airbrushed background as prepared by Courvoisier Galleries for sale. Images measure 3.25 x 3.25 (unicorn) and 2 x 2.5 (Satyr), with overall dimensions of 10 x 7. In very good to fine condition, with toned adhesive to perimeter and overall wrinkling to cels. Starting Bid $200
990. Centaurette and Baby Satyr production concept storyboard painting from Fantasia. (Walt Disney Stu-
dios, 1940) Detailed original production concept storyboard painting featuring a Centaurette and Baby Satyr from the ‘Pastoral Symphony’ segment of Fantasia, showing them taking over from dark rain clouds overhead. Accomplished in graphite and pastel on a 7.25 x 5.5 sheet, which has been applied to a piece of untrimmed 10 x 12 animation paper. In fine condition. Starting Bid $200
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991. Bacchus production concept storyboard drawing from Fantasia.
(Walt Disney Studios, 1940) Original concept production storyboard drawing of Bacchus from Fantasia, which depicts the jovial wine-loving character from the film’s ‘Pastoral Symphony’ segment. Accomplished in charcoal and colored pastel on 11.75 x 9.75 animation paper, which bears the “WDP” stamp to lower right corner. Character images measure 7 x 4. Archivally triple-matted and framed to an overall size of 19.5 x 17.5. In fine condition, with a chip to the upper left corner. Starting Bid $200
992. Pinocchio concept drawing from Pinocchio. (Walt Disney Studios, 1940) Detailed original concept drawing featuring Pinocchio from Pinocchio, showing him during the ‘Pleasure Island’ segment of the film. Accomplished in charcoal on untrimmed 12 x 10 animation paper. Image measures 5.25 x 6. In fine condition. An artfully rendered, finely detailed drawing of the popular Disney character. Starting Bid $200
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993. Chernabog production drawing from Fantasia.
(Walt Disney Studios, 1940) Original production drawing of the Chernabog from Fantasia, showing the imposing demon with wings spread wide during the terrifying ‘Night on Bald Mountain’ sequence. Accomplished in graphite and colored pencil on untrimmed 15.5 x 12.5 animation paper marked “381” in the lower right corner. Image measures 7.25 x 10.5. In fine condition. Starting Bid $200
995. Melinda and Brutus production drawings from Fantasia. (Walt Disney Studios, 1940) Original production drawings featuring Melinda and Brutus from the ‘Pastoral Symphony’ segment of Fantasia, showing the centaurette and centaur in individual large full-bodied poses. Accomplished in graphite and colored pencil on untrimmed 15.5 x 12.5 animation paper, marked “C-97” and “103” in the lower corners. Images measure 6 x 6 (Melinda) and 5.5 x 7 (Brutus). In fine condition. Starting Bid $200
994. Baby Pegasus concept drawing from Fantasia.
(Walt Disney Studios, 1940) Well-done original concept drawing featuring Baby Pegasus from the ‘Pastoral Symphony’ segment of Fantasia, showing the playful young Pegasus chomping on an apple. Accomplished in graphite on untrimmed 12 x 10 animation paper. Image measures 5.75 x 7.25. In fine condition. Starting Bid $200
996. Chernabog production drawing from Fantasia.
(Walt Disney Studios, 1940) Original production drawing of the Chernabog from Fantasia, featuring a close-up of the horned demon during the terrifying ‘Night on Bald Mountain’ sequence. Accomplished in graphite and colored pencil on untrimmed 15.5 x 12.5 animation paper, marked “19” in the lower corner. Image measures 9.5 x 8.5. In fine condition. A great, powerful expression of the ferocious villain. Starting Bid $200
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997. Yen Sid production drawing from Fantasia. (Walt
Disney Studios, 1940) Large and imposing original production drawing featuring Yen Sid from the ‘Sorcerer’s Apprentice’ sequence of Fantasia, showing the powerful sorcerer with his arms raised high in the air. Accomplished in graphite and colored pencil on untrimmed 12 x 10 animation paper, marked “44” in the lower corner. Image measures 11.75 x 8.75. In fine condition. Starting Bid $200
999. Mrs. Jumbo and Clown production storyboard drawing from Dumbo. (Walt Disney Studios, 1941) Humorous original production storyboard drawing from Dumbo, showing Mrs. Jumbo spanking a clown with her trunk. Accomplished in graphite and colored pencil on a trimmed 6 x 4.5 off-white sheet, with a “206” label applied to the lower right corner. In fine condition. A detailed storyboard drawing from the popular and successful animated feature. Starting Bid $200
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998. Goofy production cel from The Reluctant Dragon. (Walt Disney Studios, 1941) Large and impressive original production cel featuring Goofy on horseback from the ‘How to Ride a Horse’ segment of The Reluctant Dragon. The cel is placed on a color copy background. Image measures 6.5 x 6.75, with overall dimensions of 15 x 11. In fine condition, with slight lifting to paint. Starting Bid $200
1000. Mrs. Jumbo and Clowns production storyboard drawing from Dumbo. (Walt Disney Studios, 1941) Well-
done original production storyboard drawing from Dumbo, showing Mrs. Jumbo surrounded by clowns and people inside the circus tent. Accomplished in graphite and colored pencil on an off-white 6 x 5 sheet. Matted to an overall size of 14 x 11. In fine condition. Starting Bid $200
1002. Thumper production cel from Bambi. (Walt Disney Studios, 1942) Original production cel featuring Thumper from Bambi, showing the comical young rabbit in a nice full-figure pose. The cel has been trimmed and applied to an airbrushed background as prepared by Courvoisier Galleries for sale. Image measures 1.5 x 2, with a mat opening of 4.5 x 5.5. Matted to an overall size of 12 x 14. In fine condition. A highly attractive Courvoisier set-up. Starting Bid $200
1001. Bambi production cel from Bambi. (Walt Disney Studios, 1942) Attractive original production cel featuring Bambi from Bambi, showing the young fawn in a seated pose. The cel has been trimmed and applied to an airbrushed background with hand-painted leaf overlay as prepared by Courvoisier Galleries for sale. Image measures 3.5 x 4.5, with a mat opening of 6.5 x 6.5. Framed to an overall size of 12.25 x 13.25 The piece has the original Disney Courvoisier Galleries label on the reverse. In fine condition. A great Courvoisier cel set-up. Starting Bid $200
1003. Peter Pan production cel from Peter Pan. (Walt Disney Studios, 1953) Large and dramatic original production cel featuring Peter Pan from Peter Pan, showing him crawling backwards on the ship’s mast at Captain Hook’s sword point. The cel is placed on a matching color copy background. Image measures 9 x 7, with overall dimensions of 17 x 12. In fine condition, with hairline cracks to paint in his chest. Starting Bid $200
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1004. Lady and Tramp production cels on a panoramic master background from Lady and the Tramp.
(Walt Disney Studios, 1955) Stunning original production cels and super panoramic master background of the title canines from Lady and the Tramp, which shows the two dogs seated in large full-length poses. The cels have been neatly trimmed and placed on a brilliant hand-painted super panoramic master background of Lady’s backyard and the surrounding neighborhood, which is partially attributed to Eyvind Earle, a background painter for the film, whose presence is readily apparent in the flora and landscape. Character images measure 3.25 x 3.75 (Lady) and 3.75 x 5 (Tramp), with a mat opening of 41.75 x 7.5. Double-matted to an overall size of 48 x 14. In fine condition, with a small area of lifting paint to Lady’s ear, and a few trivial marks to the mat. One of the most impressive Lady and the Tramp production master background set-ups that we have ever seen. Starting Bid $500
Large key master set-up from Lady and the Tramp
1005. Aunt Sarah and Lady production cels and key master background from Lady and the Tramp. (Walt Disney Studios, 1955) Original production key master background set-up featuring Lady and Aunt Sarah from Lady and the Tramp, showing Lady on the countertop when she gets her muzzle. The cel has been trimmed and applied to the matching hand-painted key master production background. The Lady image measures 4.25 x 4.25 and Aunt Sarah measures 4.5 x 7, with a mat opening of 16 x 10.75. Framed to an overall size of 26 x 21. In fine condition, with dings and scratches to the frame. A large, detailed, and supremely desirable key master set-up. Starting Bid $500
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1006. Duck key master background set-up from Disney’s Disneyland TV Show signed by Walt Disney. (Walt Disney Studios, 1955) Exceptional original key master background set-up from ‘The Ugly Duckling’ segment of the Disneyland TV Show episode, ‘From Aesop to Hans Christian Andersen,’ specially matted by the Studio Art Props Department, signed on the original mat in crayon by Walt Disney, with the encircled Walt Disney Productions “WDP” stamped above and the faded cel title to left side. Accomplished in gouache on 13.5 x 11.5 artist paper, the scene shows a decidedly bored mother duck seated on her nest, which she has built at the base of a hollow tree trunk surrounded by mushrooms. Matted to an overall size of 19.5 x 18.5. In fine condition, with some toning and wear to mat edges, which could be easily matted over and framed if so desired. Starting Bid $500
1007. Si and Am production cels from Lady and the Tramp. (Walt
Disney Studios, 1955) Sought-after original production cels of Si and Am from Lady and the Tramp, depicting the two sinister Siamese cats in uncommonly large, extended poses. The cat images measure 8.5 x 3.25 and 3.75 x 5.75, with a mat opening of 11.5 x 8.5. Doublematted to an overall size of 17.75 x 14.5. This presentation was originally sold at Disneyland and features the gold Walt Disney Production label to the reverse. In fine condition, with a couple small instances of paint lifting to the upper tail. A high-demand cel pairing that features two of Disney’s most memorable felines. Starting Bid $500
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Immense panoramic master set-up of the vengeful Maleficent
1009. Maleficent production cel and production background from Sleeping Beauty. (Walt Disney Studios,
1959) Incredible original production cel and panorama production background of Maleficent from Sleeping Beauty, depicting the evil sorceress within the confines of her ancient castle. The cel has been trimmed and applied to a stunning hand-painted production background attributed to the legendary Eyvind Earle. Maleficent is portrayed here with scepter and outcast finger, reproaching the various goons assigned to recover the missing Briar Rose; their foolish search for an infant—Rose has been missing for nigh on sixteen years—has placed the sorceress in a particularly foul mood. In addition to the work’s smooth coloring and powerful imagery, the high detail of the background—the mildewed archways of Maleficent’s inner castle—were brought to life by the esteemed Eyvind Earle, the foremost background illustrator for Disney’s classic films of the 1950s. Image measures 20.25 x 9.75, with a mat opening of 25.25 x 10.5. Mat dimensions are 32 x 17.5. In fine condition, with a few small areas of lifting to paint. An atypically large piece of original Disney artwork that depicts the infamous villainess in all her splendid and vindictive fury. Starting Bid $1000
1010. Briar Rose production cel and production background from Sleeping Beauty. (Walt Disney Studios,
1959) Original production cel and production background featuring Briar Rose from Sleeping Beauty, showing her holding a basket inside the fairy’s forest cottage. The cel is placed on an immaculately detailed hand-painted production background from Sleeping Beauty, partially attributed to Eyvind Earle. Character image measures 7 x 6.25, with a mat opening of 24 x 10. Framed to an overall size of 36 x 22. In fine condition, with a few scuffs to the acrylic glazing. Legendary Disney artist Eyvind Earle earned acclaim for the styling, background, and colors used in Sleeping Beauty, and this remarkable piece of original production artwork clearly demonstrates his fantastic skill. A stunning production master set-up. Starting Bid $500
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1011. Briar Rose production cel from Sleeping Beauty. (Walt Disney Studios, 1959) Original production
cel featuring Briar Rose from Sleeping Beauty, showing her holding a basket in the forest in a nice full-length pose. The cel is placed on a high-quality color print of an Eyvind Earle background. Character image measures 3.75 x 7, with a mat opening of 18.5 x 11. Archivally framed to an overall size of 30.5 x 23. In fine condition. An appealing panorama from a classic Disney movie. Starting Bid $200
1012. Pongo production cels and master background from One Hundred and One Dalmatians. (Walt Disney Studios, 1961) Impressive original production cels of Pongo from 101 Dalmatians, showing the intelligent canine in a desirable full-length pose. The cels are placed on a hand-painted master background of the interior of a barn. Pongo measures 6.5 x 7.75, with overall dimensions of 16 x 12.5, and both the cel and background are applied to a 20 x 16 cardstock mount. The cels are marked along the bottom edge, “Tintcraft, 2110, Seq. 015, Sc. 34” and “Prod. 2110, Seq. 009 Sc. 5, Same as A. 61.” In fine condition, with a small puncture to top edge of top cel. Starting Bid $500
1013. Snowy Barn handpainted master background from One Hundred and One Dalmatians. (Walt Disney Stu-
dios, 1961) Original hand-painted master background of a snowcovered barn from One Hundred and One Dalmatians, which depicts the Dearly Farm during winter, with an abundance of small paw prints leading down a path into one of the barn’s doors. A cel line overlay is placed on a hand-painted production background from the same film that measures 15.5 x 12.5 and is marked along the bottom: “Tintcraft - 2110, Sec. 014m Sc. 1.” In fine condition, some creasing and two short edge tears to cel overlay. Starting Bid $300
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1014. Donald Duck production cel and production background from Donald Duck and the Wheel. (Walt
Disney Studios, 1961) Original production cel and production background featuring Donald Duck from the educational cartoon Donald Duck and the Wheel, featuring Donald as a caveman hauling his cart. The cel is placed on a hand-painted production background from the same film. Image measures 8 x 3.75, with overall dimensions of 18.5 x 12.5. In fine condition. A great Disney set-up on an attractive master background. Starting Bid $200
1016. Shere Khan and Kaa production cels on master background from The Jungle Book. (Walt Disney Studios, 1967) Original production cels on a master background featuring Shere Khan and Kaa from the Jungle Book, which shows the villainous duo in terrific up-close poses—Khan with an imposing snarl and Kaa with a mischievous smile. The cels are placed on a hand-painted production background from the same film. Images measure 7 x 7.5 (Shere) and 3.5 x 5.25 (Kaa), with a mat opening of 11 x 8.25. Triple-matted to an overall size of 18.75 x 15.5. In fine condition, with some paint crackling and chipping to extreme left side of Shere Khan. Starting Bid $300
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1015. Cruella de Vil production cel from 101 Dalmatians. (Walt Disney Studios, 1961) Original production
cel featuring Cruella de Vil from 101 Dalmatians, showing the wealthy, fur-wearing villainess in a full-length pose. The cel is placed on a color copy background. Image measures 3.5 x 7, with overall dimensions of 16 x 13. In fine condition. Starting Bid $200
1017. Shere Khan production cel from The Jungle Book. (Walt Disney Studios,
1967) Impressive original production cel of Shere Khan from The Jungle Book, depicting the film’s devious villain tiger in an extremely large portrait pose. The cel is placed on a matching studio copy background. Image measures 7.75 x 7.25, with a mat opening of 13 x 10. Double-matted to an overall size of 19 x 16. In fine condition. Disney took a more prevalent role in the story and design of The Jungle Book, which would be the last film to include Disney’s personal input and touches, with Disney passing away before the film’s premiere. Starting Bid $200
1018. Tod and Copper production cel and production background from The Fox and the Hound. (Walt
Disney Studios, 1981) Original production cel and production background of Tod and Copper from Fox and the Hound, showing the unlikely friends playing on the grassy bank of a forest creek. The cel is placed on a hand-painted production background from the same film, which appears to have been signed in the lower right corner. Total character image measures 9.5 x 6, with a mat opening of 13.75 x 9.75. Triple-matted to an overall size of 20 x 16. In fine condition. A wonderful and lively set-up from this underrated classic. Starting Bid $200
1019. Jessica Rabbit production color model cel from Who Framed Roger Rabbit. (Walt Disney Studios, 1988)
Original production color model cel of Jessica Rabbit from Who Framed Roger Rabbit, depicting the voluptuous redhead in a sexy three-quarter-length pose. The cel is placed on a color Disney giclee background. Character image measures 4.5 x 9.5, with overall dimensions of 17 x 12.5. In fine condition. Starting Bid $200
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1020. Donald Duck and Goofy paste-up model sheet from Swabbies signed by Darrell Van Citters. (Walt
Disney Studios, 1989) Original paste-up model sheet featuring Donald Duck and Goofy from “Prod. 2532,” the unfinished, unreleased featurette Swabbies. The 23 preliminary hand-drawn character model sketches have been cut out and applied to a 35 x 27.5 board, signed at center in pencil by director Darrell Van Citters, “OK, Darrell.” Also bears a Walt Disney Productions studio stamp. This full-size board would have been photographed and reproduced at 14 x 11 to be distributed to the animators producing the cartoon as reference material. Rarely seen outside the studio, this is an impressive original piece from an important step in the animation process. In fine condition. Starting Bid $200
1021. Minnie Mouse and Daisy Duck paste-up model sheet from Swabbies signed by Darrell Van Citters.
(Walt Disney Studios, 1989) Original paste-up model sheet featuring Minnie Mouse and Daisy Duck from “Prod. 2532,” the unfinished, unreleased featurette Swabbies. The 25 preliminary hand-drawn character model sketches have been cut out and applied to a 35 x 27.5 board, signed at center in pencil by director Darrell Van Citters, “OK, Darrell.” Also bears a Walt Disney Productions studio stamp above the signature, and two printed drawings of Daisy’s head (in black) to lower left. This full-size board would have been photographed and reproduced at 14 x 11 to be distributed to the animators producing the cartoon as reference material. Rarely seen outside the studio, this is an impressive original piece from an important step in the animation process. In fine condition. Starting Bid $200
1022. Mickey Mouse production cels from The Prince and the Pauper. (Walt
Disney Studios, 1990) Original production cels featuring two Mickey Mouses from The Prince and the Pauper, showing him in both roles. The cel is placed on a matching studio copy background. Images measure 2.5 x 4.5 (Pauper) and 3 x 5.25 (Prince), with overall dimensions of 17 x 12.5. The piece has the silver Walt Disney Company seal to lower right. In fine condition. Starting Bid $200
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1023. Jack Skellington, Zero, and Reindeer production concept storyboard painting from Nightmare Before Christmas. (Walt Disney Studios, 1993) Original panorama concept storyboard drawing featuring Jack Skellington from The Nightmare Before Christmas, showing him as Santa Claus in his coffin sleigh, soaring over a graveyard under a full moon with three skeleton reindeer and his dog Zero leading the way. The border is embellished with a strand of Christmas lights. Accomplished in pastel and colored pencil on black 17.75.5 x 8.25 artist’s board. In fine condition, with tack holes to corners. Starting Bid $300
1024. Mayor concept drawing from The Nightmare Before Christmas. (Walt Disney Studios, 1993) Excellent original concept drawing featuring the Mayor of Halloween Town from Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas, beautifully rendered in immaculate detail. Accomplished in pen and ink on a white 7 x 10 sheet. Matted to an overall size of 11 x 14. In fine condition. Starting Bid $200
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1026. John Smith and Kocoum production master background and special cel from Pocahontas. (Walt
1025. Full cast publicity painting from The Lion King.
(Walt Disney Studios, 1994) Detailed original publicity painting featuring the full cast of characters from Lion King: Mufasa, Sarabi, Simba, Nala, Scar, Rafiki, Timon, Pumba, Zazu, and the Hyenas against the rising sun in the African desert. Accomplished in watercolor on a white 5.25 x 7.75 sheet. In fine condition. A colorful and well-done portrayal of the Lion King’s cast. Starting Bid $200
Disney Studios, 1995) Original hand-painted custom cels prepared specifically for this production background featuring John Smith and Kocoum from Pocahontas, showing them wrestling in the forest. The cels, hand-painted by Disney artists from the supervising animators’ original line drawings for Disney’s ‘Art of Pocahontas’ sale at Sotheby’s, are placed on their matching hand-painted production background from the film. Total image measures 11.5 x 7.5, with overall dimensions of 17 x 12.5. The piece has the gold Walt Disney Company seal to lower right, and a studio stamp on the reverse. In fine condition. Provenance: The Art of Pocahontas, Sotheby’s, February 1996. A special, one-of-a-kind piece. Starting Bid $300
1027. Ratcliffe and Wiggins production master backgrounds and special cels from Pocahontas. (Walt Disney Studios, 1995) Original hand-painted custom cels prepared specifically for these production backgrounds featuring Ratcliffe and Wiggins from Pocahontas, showing them in large close-up poses. The cels, hand-painted by Disney artists from the supervising animators’ original line drawings for Disney’s ‘Art of Pocahontas’ sale at Sotheby’s, are placed on their matching hand-painted production backgrounds from the film. The Governor Ratcliffe image measures 14.75 x 8.5, with a mat opening of 20 x 10.5; the Wiggins image measures 12.5 x 9, with a mat opening of 16 x 10.5. Matted side-by-side to an overall size of 43.5 x 16.75. Both backgrounds have Walt Disney studio stamps on the reverse. In fine condition. Provenance: The Art of Pocahontas, Sotheby’s, February 1996. Accompanied by a Walt Disney Company certificate of authenticity. A special, one-of-a-kind and highly displayable piece. Starting Bid $300
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Lovely Blair landscape painting for Sleepy Hollow 1028. Mary Blair original concept painting for The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. (Walt Disney Studios, 1948)
Original concept painting by Mary Blair of an idyllic landscape from ‘The Legend of Sleep Hollow,’ the second segment from the animated package film The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad, which depicts farmland with fences, a pair of log cabins, a winding river, and distant mountaintops. Accomplished in tempera on 9 x 8 artist’s board, which is marked in the lower right corner, “B2.” In fine condition, with pin holes to corners. From the collection of acclaimed animator Hugh Fraser, who obtained this painting directly from Blair, a friend and colleague from the Chouinard Art Institute. Read more about Hugh Fraser online at www. RRAuction.com. Starting Bid $500
1029. Mary Blair concept storyboard painting of Ichabod and the Headless Horseman from from The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. (Walt Disney Studios, 1949) Marvelous original concept painting by Mary Blair for The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, showing the Headless Horseman confronting the Ichabod Crane in a graveyard under a full moon. Blair excels in this skillfully rendered, well-composed scene: riding astride his stark black horse, the Headless Horsemen is given a sense of violent motion while Ichabod is paralyzed by fear. Accomplished in tempera on 11 x 9.25 artist’s board. In fine condition, with tack holes to corners. Starting Bid $500
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Blair’s dramatic conception of Cinderella fleeing the castle rendered in full panorama— one gleaming glass slipper left behind!
1030. Mary Blair concept panorama storyboard painting from Cinderella. (Walt Disney Studios, 1950) Amazing original panoramic concept painting by Mary Blair of Cinderella’s late-night flight from the Prince’s castle, her shining slipper left behind at the castle’s entrance. Brilliantly executed in blue, blacks, and grays, the imposing castle landscape contrasts beautifully against the starry sky. Accomplished in tempera on 18.5 x 9 illustration board. In fine condition, with tack holes to corners. A magnificently conceived panorama of an iconic scene from the hand of a Disney master. Starting Bid $1000
1031. Mary Blair concept storyboard painting of Cinderella and Fairy Godmother from Cinderella. (Walt Disney
Studios, 1950) Fantastic original concept painting by Mary Blair featuring Cinderella and her Fairy Godmother from Cinderella, showing the ‘Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo’ song sequence as the godmother begins to turn a pumpkin into a gleaming royal coach. Vividly cast in shades of green and black against a moonlit sky, the fairy godmother raises her wand to cast her magical spell as Cinderella, wearing a pink dress, observes the glowing pumpkin. Accomplished in tempera and watercolor on a 9 x 8.5 illustration board. In fine condition, with tack holes to corners. An excellent piece of concept art for one of Cinderella’s most memorable scenes. Starting Bid $500
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Concept painting of Cinderella’s dress cast by her Fairy Godmother’s wand 1032. Mary Blair concept storyboard painting of Cinderella and Fairy Godmother from Cinderella. (Walt Disney Studios, 1950)
Exquisite original concept painting by Mary Blair featuring Cinderella and her Fairy Godmother from Cinderella, showing the Fairy Godmother magically constituting Cinderella’s ball gown. Expertly rendered in pinks and grays, the detailed scene is set in a moonlit pumpkin patch as three mice observe Cinderella’s transformation from scullion to princess. Accomplished in tempera on 10 x 9.75 illustration board. In fine condition, with tack holes to corners. An attractive and well-composed piece by the prolific Disney concept artist. Starting Bid $500
1033. Mary Blair original concept painting of Playing Card guards for Alice in Wonderland. (Walt Disney
Studios, 1953) Exceptional original concept painting by Mary Blair for Alice in Wonderland, which depicts a pair of imposing Playing Card sentries, the loyal servants and guards of The Queen of Hearts. Blair adds a uniquely threatening tone to this work, with the visageless watchmen standing armed and tall against a menacing red sky, the silhouette of the queen’s castle visible in the distance. Accomplished in tempera on 8.25 x 6.25 artist’s board. In fine condition, with tack holes to corners.Starting Bid $500
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Panorama concept painting of the Darlings’ night flight over London
1034. Mary Blair concept panorama storyboard painting from Peter Pan. (Walt Disney Studios, 1953) Wonderful original panoramic concept painting by Mary Blair of Peter Pan, Tinker Bell, Wendy, John, and Michael soaring over London en route to the island of Neverland. Accomplished in tempera on 19 x 9 artist’s board, the scene stunningly portrays Peter Pan and Tinker Bell teaching the Darling children to fly, leading them on a starry night flight over foggy London as they head toward Big Ben and London Bridge. The characters are shadows set against the dark night sky in this expertly accomplished panorama, the landscape illuminated by a full moon and twinkling stars. In fine condition, with tack holes to corners. Starting Bid $1000
1035. Mary Blair concept storyboard painting from Peter Pan. (Walt Disney Studios, 1953) Stunning original concept painting by Mary Blair of Peter Pan, Tinker Bell, Wendy, Michael, and John soaring over London en route to the island of Neverland. Accomplished in tempera on 10.25 x 9.5 artist’s board, the scene vividly portrays the moment that Peter and Tinker Bell teach the Darling children to fly, leading them on a starry night flight around Big Ben, which emerges from the London fog. The characters are shadows set against the dark night sky in this brilliantly executed scene, the landscape illuminated by a full moon, the warm glow of Big Ben’s clock, the twinkle of distant stars, and the flickering burst of a fairy leading the way. In fine condition, with tack holes to corners. Starting Bid $500
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Mary Blair concept art of Peter Pan’s war dance in the Indian Village 1036. Mary Blair concept storyboard painting of the Indian Village from Peter Pan. (Walt Disney Studios, 1953) Marvelous original concept painting by Mary Blair of Peter Pan, John, and the Lost Boys dancing around the fire in Neverland’s Indian Village. Accomplished in tempera on 9.75 x 8.75 artist’s board, the remarkable landscape is dominated by tipis, tall evergreens, and a totem pole set against a bright orange sky. Whimsical plumes of black-and-white smoke fill the air as the boys—cast in shadows—dance around the fire. Blazingly done in greens, oranges, and purples, Blair’s painting demonstrates masterful use of the secondary colors. In fine condition, with tack holes to corners. Starting Bid $500
1037. Eyvind Earle concept panorama storyboard painting from Lady and the Tramp. (Walt Disney Studios,
1955) Beautiful original panoramic concept painting by Eyvind Earle for Lady and the Tramp, depicting the two dogs seated on a leaf-covered sidewalk in front of the house of Lady’s owners, Jim Dear and Darling. Earle captures the scene with a patent tenderness, adding soft shadows and fading light to the romantic New England setting. He pulls your attention to the title pooches and then fills the periphery with a remarkable sense of peace and prosperity—the well-kept frontage and stately New Haven residence essentially the canine equivalent to a fairy tale castle. Accomplished in tempera on 23 x 9 artist’s board, signed in the lower right corner in black paint, “Eyvind Earle.” In fine condition, with tack holes to corners, and a few trivial scuffs. Disney artist Eyvind Earle, who later became Sleeping Beauty’s production designer, created almost 50 miniature concept sketches for the ‘Bella Notte’ sequence and was a key contributor to the classic film. A simply brilliant original piece of Disney art. Starting Bid $1000
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1038. Eyvind Earle concept panorama storyboard painting from Lady and the Tramp. (Walt Disney Studios, 1955) Exquisite original panorama concept storyboard painting by Eyvind Earle from Lady and the Tramp, showing the title canines walking on a park sidewalk during the iconic ‘Bella Notte’ sequence. In his distinctive style, Earle captures the nighttime scene with a charming sense of secrecy and isolation, centrally placing the dogs to emphasize their growing bond amid a jealous crowd of large trees and ferns. True to the film, Earle adds a touch of humor with the placement of a ‘Wet Cement’ sign and the telltale paw prints left by Lady and Tramp, who then stop at a fresh heart symbol—likewise recently made by a passing couple—before adding to it marks of their own. In the movie, the heart is engraved with ‘JM’ and ‘EB,’ which many believe are the initials for Lady’s owners, Jim and Elizabeth Brown. Accomplished in tempera on 21 x 9 artist’s board, signed in the lower right corner in silver graphite by Earle. In fine condition, with tack holes to corners. Starting Bid $1000
1039. Eyvind Earle storyboard painting from Lady and the Tramp. (Walt Disney Studios, 1955) Lovely original panorama concept storyboard painting by Eyvind Earle from Lady and the Tramp, showing the title canines in a romantic park scene as part of the ‘Bella Notte’ night. With his expert use of color and space, Earle fills the scene magically, making the night come alive above and around the small silhouettes that embrace at the lake’s edge. Gentle light works wonders here, as multicolored lanterns hang dreamily from branches, windows from a house across the water cast their glow, and, like a spotlight on high, the moon sits solemnly between canopies, its soft radiance touching everything below. Accomplished in tempera on 15.5 x 6.25 artist’s board, signed in the lower right corner in paint, “Eyvind Earle.” In fine condition, with tack holes to corners. Disney artist Eyvind Earle, who later became Sleeping Beauty’s production designer, created almost 50 miniature concept sketches for the ‘Bella Notte’ sequence and was a key contributor to the classic film. Starting Bid $500
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1040. Eyvind Earle concept panorama storyboard painting of Prince Philip, Samson, and Maleficent from Sleeping Beauty. (Walt Disney Studios, 1959) Outstanding original concept storyboard painting by Eyvind Earle for Sleep-
ing Beauty, portraying Prince Phillip and his steed Samson charging into battle against Maleficent, soaring high above as an immense black and purple-bellied dragon. Like many of Earle’s panoramas, he sets the scene from a safe distance, keeping the observer far from harm’s way as he executes the film’s harrowing final conflict—a breathtaking collision of fire and steel, of good versus evil. Maleficent dwarfs the brave horse and knight, riding on a winding, narrow pathway that drops precipitously to either side, as the great winged reptile shoots towards them a stream of bright, wicked flame. The intensity of the action Earle has no doubt mastered, however, nor has he denied us a truly terrible vista, one sparse yet volatile, dominated by a hazy castled backdrop and alive with its cast of jagged rocks and frenzied vines that seem intent on stopping the progress of our heroes. Accomplished in tempera on 24 x 9 artist’s board, with Earle signing in black paint in the lower right corner. In fine condition, with tack holes to the corners. Disney artist Eyvind Earle was Sleeping Beauty’s production designer, and Disney gave him a significant amount of freedom in designing the settings and selecting colors for the film. Earle also painted the majority of the backgrounds himself, and his stylistic influence is readily apparent in the final product. Starting Bid $1000
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Action-packed large production cel from Sleeping Beauty atop an intricate Eyvind Earle background
1041. Eyvind Earle pan production background and Prince Phillip and Samson production cel and from Sleeping Beauty. (Walt Disney Studios, 1959) Original production cel and panorama production background featuring Prince Phillip and Samson from Sleeping Beauty, showing the prince atop his trusty steed, charging ahead through clusters of thorny vines with the ‘Sword of Truth’ and ‘Shield of Virtue’ in his battle against the evil Maleficent. The cel is placed on a hand-painted production background attributed to Eyvind Earle. The large character image measures 11.25 x 9.25, with a mat opening of 22.5 x 9.75. Matted to an overall size of 27 x 14.25. In fine condition. Disney artist Eyvind Earle was Sleeping Beauty’s production designer, and Disney gave him a significant amount of freedom in designing the settings and selecting colors for the film. His stylistic influence is readily apparent throughout this feature film referred to by Walt Disney as the ‘height of color.’ A magnificent, visually striking piece. Starting Bid $1000
Wonderful Eyvind Earle concept painting of Sleeping Beauty’s hilltop castle
1042. Eyvind Earle storyboard painting from Sleeping Beauty. (Walt Disney Studios, 1959) Magnificent original
concept painting by Eyvind Earle for Sleeping Beauty, in which the film’s iconic castle is seen from the perspective of a distant observer emerging from a forest. Tree trunks thick and thin dominate the darker foreground, and the shining white castle appears almost floating on the distant hilltop against a pink sky. Accomplished in gouache on 12.5 x 6 artist’s board, and signed in the lower right corner in purple paint, “Eyvind Earle.” In fine condition, with tack holes to corners. A stylish, detailed fairy tale painting by Earle with his trademark flora and marvelous use of space and color. Starting Bid $500
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1043. Looney Tunes original panorama drawing by Virgil Ross. (Warner Brothers Studios, 1990s) Original super-pan drawing by Virgil Ross featuring classic Looney Tunes characters Yosemite Sam, Michigan J. Frog, Speedy Gonzales, Elmer Fudd, Wile E. Coyote, Porky Pig, Henry Hawk, Daffy Duck, Foghorn Leghorn, Road Runner, Tweety Bird, Taz, Granny, Sylvester and son, Marvin the Martian, Gossamer, and Bugs Bunny. Accomplished in graphite and colored pencil on untrimmed 23.5 x 10.5 animation paper, signed at the bottom in pencil, “Virgil Ross.” In fine condition. This one-of-a-kind drawing was done to be sold in the Warner Brothers Studio stores in the 1990s—this elaborate example is an especially rare large size. Starting Bid $200
1044. Grinch and Max original drawing by Tom Ray.
Original circa 1990 drawing by Tom Ray featuring Grinch and Max from How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, captioned and signed along the bottom, “’I must stop Christmas from coming, but how?,’ Tom Ray.” Accomplished in graphite and colored pencil on untrimmed 12.5 x 10.5 animation paper. Image measures 6.5 x 9. Mounted, matted, and framed to an overall size of 21 x 19. In fine condition. Tom Ray was Chuck Jones’s assistant and one of the key animators of the 1966 classic Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas! Starting Bid $200
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1049. Schroeder and Lucy production cels from a Peanuts cartoon. (Bill Melendez Productions, circa
1970s) Original production cel of Lucy Van Pelt dusting off Schroeder’s beloved piano from a Peanuts cartoon, showing him growing angry as she enthusiastically works. The cel is placed on a blue background. Total image measures 4.75 x 3, with a mat opening of 11 x 9. Framed to an overall size of 16.5 x 14.5. In fine condition. A sought-after pair of Peanuts characters. Starting Bid $300
1050. Lucy production cel from a Peanuts cartoon. (Bill Melendez Productions, circa 1970s) Original production cel of Lucy Van Pelt at bat from a Peanuts cartoon, showing her grimacing as the baseball speeds towards her. The cel is placed on a pink background. Character image measures 2.5 x 2.75, with a mat opening of 11 x 9. Framed to an overall size of 16.75 x 14.75. In fine condition. Starting Bid $200
1051. Charles Schulz Signed Book with Sketch. Signed book: Who Was That
Dog I Saw You With, Charlie Brown? Third impression. London: Coronet Books, 1975. Paperback, 4.5 x 7. Signed and inscribed on the inside front cover in black felt tip, “For Peter with friendship, Charles M. Schulz,” who adds a wonderful full-length sketch of Snoopy seated in grass. In fine condition. Accompanied by a letter of provenance from Peter Usher, the son of the original recipient. Starting Bid $200
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23. James Buchanan Autograph Letter Signed Starting Bid $300
25. James Buchanan Signed 72. Joe Biden 2020 Election Check Day Flag Starting Bid $200 Starting Bid $200
73. Joe Biden 2021 Inauguration Flag Starting Bid $200
74. Joe Biden Starting Bid $200
75. Joe Biden Signed Book Starting Bid $200
76. George Bush Signed Photograph Starting Bid $200
77. George Bush Signed Photograph Starting Bid $200
78. George Bush Signed Book Starting Bid $200
79. George W. Bush Signed Photograph Starting Bid $200
80. George W. Bush Signed Book Starting Bid $200
81. Jimmy Carter Signed Photograph Starting Bid $200
82. Jimmy Carter Typed Letter Signed Starting Bid $200
83. Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Signed Book Starting Bid $200
84. Grover Cleveland Signature Starting Bid $200
85. Bill Clinton Signed Book Starting Bid $200
86. Bill Clinton Signed Book Starting Bid $200
90. Bill Clinton Signed Booklet Starting Bid $200
87. Bill Clinton Typed Letter Signed as President Starting Bid $200
88. Bill Clinton Signed Photograph Starting Bid $200
89. Bill Clinton Signed Photograph Starting Bid $200
91. Bill Clinton Signed Book 92. Bill Clinton Signed Book 93. Bill Clinton Signed Book Starting Bid $200 Starting Bid $200 Starting Bid $200
94. Bill Clinton Signed Book 95. Bill Clinton Signed Book 96. Bill Clinton Signed Book 97. Bill Clinton Signed Book Starting Bid $200 Starting Bid $200 Starting Bid $200 Starting Bid $200
98. Hillary Clinton Signed Photograph Starting Bid $100
99. Clinton Inauguration Print Starting Bid $200
100. Calvin Coolidge Signed Check as President Starting Bid $200
101. Calvin Coolidge Typed Letter Signed Starting Bid $200
102. Dwight D. Eisenhower (5) Signatures Starting Bid $200
103. Dwight D. Eisenhower Signature Starting Bid $200
104. Dwight D. Eisenhower Typed Letter Signed Starting Bid $200
105. Dwight D. Eisenhower Signed Photograph Starting Bid $200
106. Millard Fillmore Signature Starting Bid $200
107. Gerald Ford Signed Book Starting Bid $200
108. Gerald Ford and Chuck Yeager Signed Photograph and Cover Starting Bid $200
109. Gerald Ford (6) Signed Items Starting Bid $200
110. Gerald Ford and Lester McClelland (3) Signed Photographs Starting Bid $200
111. James A. Garfield Signature Starting Bid $200
112. James A. Garfield Congressional Memorial Card Starting Bid $100
113. Warren G. Harding Document Signed Starting Bid $200
114. Benjamin Harrison Signed Check Starting Bid $200
115. Benjamin Harrison Signature Starting Bid $200
116. Rutherford B. Hayes Starting Bid $200
117. Herbert Hoover Signed Photograph Starting Bid $200
118. John F. Kennedy Assassination (10) Newspapers Starting Bid $200
119. Lyndon B. Johnson Typed Letter Signed Starting Bid $200
120. Lyndon B. Johnson Typed Letter Signed as Vice President Starting Bid $200
121. Lyndon B. Johnson Signed Book Starting Bid $200
122. Lyndon B. Johnson Signed Book Starting Bid $200
123. Jacqueline Kennedy Autograph Letter Signed Starting Bid $200
124. Jacqueline Kennedy Signed Photograph Starting Bid $200
125. John F. Kennedy (2) Original Photographs Starting Bid $200
126. John F. Kennedy 1960 Campaign Original Wirephoto Starting Bid $100
127. Abraham Lincoln Civil War Era Engraving Starting Bid $200
128. William McKinley Signed Check Starting Bid $200
129. William McKinley Document Signed as President Starting Bid $200
130. Richard Nixon 1960 US Capitol Flown Flag Starting Bid $200
131. Richard Nixon Typed Letter Signed Starting Bid $200
132. Richard Nixon Signed Photograph Starting Bid $200
133. Richard Nixon Signed Photograph Starting Bid $200
134. Barack Obama Signed Souvenir Letter Starting Bid $200
135. Barack Obama Signed Mock Birth Certificate Starting Bid $200
136. Barack Obama Signed Mock Oath of Office Starting Bid $200
137. Barack Obama Mock Trump Impeachment Resolution Starting Bid $200
138. Barack Obama Signed Book Starting Bid $200
139. Michelle Obama Signed Book Starting Bid $200
140. Franklin Pierce Autograph Letter Signed Starting Bid $200
141. Nancy Reagan Signed Book Starting Bid $200
142. Ronald Reagan Typed Letter Signed Starting Bid $200
143. Ronald Reagan Signed Book Starting Bid $200
144. Ronald and Nancy Reagan 1982 Christmas Present Bifold Starting Bid $200
145. Eleanor Roosevelt Signed Book Starting Bid $200
146. Franklin D. Roosevelt Signed White House Card as President Starting Bid $200
147. Franklin D. Roosevelt Typed Letter Signed as President Starting Bid $200
148. Theodore Roosevelt (2) Typed Letters Signed in Naval Record Archive Starting Bid $200
149. William H. Taft Signed Photograph Starting Bid $200
150. William H. Taft Signed Check Starting Bid $200
151. William H. Taft Document Signed as President Starting Bid $200
152. Harry S. Truman Signed Print Starting Bid $200
153. Harry S. Truman Signed Photograph Starting Bid $200
154. Harry S. Truman Typed Letter Signed as President Starting Bid $200
155. Harry S. Truman Signed Check Starting Bid $200
156. Harry S. Truman Signed Photograph Starting Bid $200
157. Harry S. Truman Signed Free Frank Starting Bid $200
158. Harry S. Truman Signed Book Starting Bid $200
159. Harry S. Truman Signed Envelope Starting Bid $100
160. Harry S. Truman Starting Bid $100
161. Donald Trump Signed Book Starting Bid $200
162. John Tyler Document Signed Starting Bid $200
163. Martin Van Buren Autograph Letter Signed Starting Bid $200
164. Martin Van Buren Autograph Letter Signed Starting Bid $200
165. George Washington: Jared Sparks Autograph Manuscript Signed Starting Bid $200
166. Woodrow Wilson Typed Letter Signed Starting Bid $200
167. Woodrow Wilson Signed White House Card Starting Bid $200
168. Woodrow Wilson Signature Starting Bid $200
169. Woodrow Wilson Typed Letter Signed Starting Bid $200
182. Joseph P. Kennedy (4) Typed Letters Signed Starting Bid $200
211. Titanic: Helene Baxter Letters (3) Starting Bid $200
217. Meyer Lansky Autograph Letter Signed Starting Bid $200
226. Spiro Agnew (2) Signed Photographs Starting Bid $200
227. Spiro Agnew Signed Booklet Starting Bid $200
228. American Historians (4) Signed Items Starting Bid $200
229. Apple: Ronald Wayne Signed Apple II Reference Manual Starting Bid $200
230. Apple: Ronald Wayne Typed Letter Signed Starting Bid $200
231. Apple: Wozniak and Wayne Signed Floppy Disk Starting Bid $200
232. Apple: Wozniak and Wayne Signed Manual Starting Bid $200
233. Apple: Wozniak and Wayne Signed Photograph Starting Bid $200
234. Apple: Wozniak and Wayne Signed Photograph Starting Bid $200
235. Apple: Wozniak and Wayne Signed Photograph Starting Bid $200
236. Apple: Steve Wozniak Signed Apple-1 Schematic Starting Bid $200
237. Apple: Steve Wozniak Signed Keyboard Starting Bid $200
238. Canaan Banana Signed Photograph Starting Bid $200
239. George Bancroft Letter Signed Starting Bid $200
240. John Barrow Letter Signed Starting Bid $200
241. Fulgencio Batista Signed Photograph Starting Bid $200
242. Bavarian Royalty and Opera Stars Starting Bid $200
243. Hortense de Beauharnais Autograph Letter Signed Starting Bid $200
244. Menachem Begin Signed Photograph Starting Bid $200
245. Nicholas Biddle Autograph Letter Signed Starting Bid $200
246. Otto von Bismarck Autograph Letter Signed Starting Bid $200
247. Louis Bonaparte Starting Bid $200
248. Lizzie Borden: George D. Robinson Autograph Letter Signed Starting Bid $200
249. Botanists (9) Autograph Letters Signed Starting Bid $200
250. British Prime Ministers: Eden and Home Starting Bid $200
251. Warren E. Burger Signed Book Starting Bid $100
252. Richard E. Byrd Archive of (56) Photographs Starting Bid $200
253. Richard E. Byrd Autograph Letter Signed Starting Bid $200
254. Richard E. Byrd Typed Letter Signed Starting Bid $200
255. Simon Cameron Signature Starting Bid $200
256. Andy Card Signed Photograph Starting Bid $200
257. Roger Casement Typed Letter Signed Starting Bid $200
258. Nicolae Ceausescu
259. Jean-Antoine Chaptal Starting Bid $200
260. Jean-Baptiste Charcot Autograph Letter Signed Starting Bid $200
261. Salmon P. Chase Signature Starting Bid $200
262. Salmon P. Chase Autograph Letter Signed Starting Bid $200
263. Alexis Clairaut Autograph Document Signed Starting Bid $200
264. Thomas Clarkson Autograph Letter Signed Starting Bid $200
265. Henry Clay Signed Free Frank Starting Bid $200
266. Roscoe Conkling Signature and Autograph Letter Signed Starting Bid $100
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267. Dalai Lama Signed Photograph Starting Bid $200
268. Alexander J. Dallas Autograph Letter Signed Starting Bid $200
269. David Davis Signed Photograph Starting Bid $200
270. Humphry Davy Autograph Letter Signed Starting Bid $200
271. Charles G. Dawes Signed Photograph Starting Bid $200
272. Lee de Forest Signed Photograph Starting Bid $200
273. William O. Douglas Signed Photograph Starting Bid $200
274. Albert Einstein Photograph Signed by Lotte Jacobi Starting Bid $200
275. Elizabeth, Queen Mother Signed Print Starting Bid $200
276. William Ellery Document Signed Starting Bid $200
277. Oliver Ellsworth Document Signed Starting Bid $200
278. Eugenie Starting Bid $200
279. Edward Everett Signed Photograph Starting Bid $200
280. Explorers (5) Signed Letters Starting Bid $200
281. James Fisk, Jr. Autograph Note Signed Starting Bid $200
282. Abe Fortas Signed Photograph Starting Bid $100
283. Felix Frankfurter Autograph Letter Signed Starting Bid $200
284. Frederick III of Germany Autograph Letter Signed Starting Bid $200
285. Milton Friedman Signed 286. John Kenneth Galbraith Photograph and Typed Signed Photograph Letter Signed Starting Bid $100 Starting Bid $200
287. Giuseppe Garibaldi Letter Signed Starting Bid $200
288. German Authors, Composers and Painters Starting Bid $200
289. Elbridge Gerry Document Signed Starting Bid $200
290. J. Paul Getty TwiceSigned Handwritten Wager Starting Bid $200
291. Arthur Goldberg Signed Photograph Starting Bid $100
292. Jane Goodall Autograph Letter Signed Starting Bid $200
293. Jay Gould Document Signed Twice Starting Bid $200
294. Asa Gray Autograph Letter Signed Starting Bid $200
295. Otto Hahn Signed Photograph Starting Bid $200
296. William Hamilton Autograph Letter Signed Starting Bid $200
297. Warren Hastings Letter 298. Rowland Hill Autograph Signed Letter Signed Starting Bid $200 Starting Bid $200
299. Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay Signed Commemorative Cover Starting Bid $200
300. Paul von Hindenburg Autograph Letter Signed Starting Bid $200
301. Joseph Dalton Hooker Autograph Letter Signed Starting Bid $200
302. J. Edgar Hoover (11) Typed Letters Signed Starting Bid $200
303. J. Edgar Hoover (2) Signed Photographs Starting Bid $200
304. Charles Evans Hughes (2) Signed Photographs Starting Bid $200
305. Alexander von Humboldt Signed Envelope Panel Starting Bid $200
306. Israeli Prime Ministers (4) Signed Covers Starting Bid $200
307. John Jay Signature Starting Bid $200
308. Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor Document Signed Starting Bid $200
309. Kaiser Wilhelm II Document Signed Starting Bid $200
310. Helen Keller Typed Letter Signed Starting Bid $200
311. John Harvey Kellogg Signed Photograph Starting Bid $200
312. Robert F. Kennedy Signed Book Starting Bid $200
313. Kennedy Assassination: Jim Garrison Signed Book Starting Bid $200
314. Kennedy
Assassination: Oswald Captors Signed Souvenir Typescript
315. King George III Document Signed Starting Bid $200
316. King George VI and Elizabeth, Queen Mother Signed 1947 Christmas Card Starting Bid $200
317. King Leopold II of Belgium Autograph Letter Signed Starting Bid $200
318. Henry Kissinger Signed Book and Signed Photograph Starting Bid $200
319. Lajos Kossuth Letter Signed Starting Bid $200
320. John Langdon Document Signed Starting Bid $100
321. Austen Henry Layard Autograph Letter Signed Starting Bid $200
322. Mary Livermore Autograph Quotation Signed Starting Bid $200
323. Marie Antoinette: Genet Campan Starting Bid $200
324. John McCain Signed Book Starting Bid $200
325. Andrew Mellon Signed Photograph Starting Bid $200
326. Henri Milne-Edwards Autograph Letter Signed Starting Bid $200
327. Thomas Livingstone Mitchell Autograph Letter Signed Starting Bid $200
328. Gouverneur Morris II Document Signed Starting Bid $100
329. Robert Moses (2) Signed Photographs Starting Bid $200
330. Roderick Murchison Autograph Letter Signed Starting Bid $200
331. Benito Mussolini and Vittorio Emanuele III Document Signed Starting Bid $200
332. Napoleon III Starting Bid $200
333. Martin Niemoller (3) Signed Items Starting Bid $200
334. Florence Nightingale Signed Envelope Panel Starting Bid $200
335. Emmanuel Marie Louis de Noailles Starting Bid $200
336. Adolf Erik Nordenskiold Autograph Letter Signed Starting Bid $200
337. Daniel O'Connell Signed Free Frank Starting Bid $200
338. Richard Owen Autograph Letter Signed Starting Bid $200
341. Thomas Penn Document Signed Starting Bid $200
342. Flinders Petrie Autograph Letter Signed Starting Bid $200
345. Physicists: Teller and Compton (2) Signed Items Starting Bid $100
346. Polar Explorers: Peary and Stefansson (2) Typed Letters Signed Starting Bid $200
339. Lord Henry Palmerston 340. Charles Stewart Parnell Starting Bid $200 Autograph Letter Signed Starting Bid $200
343. Philadelphia: Ocean Steamship Line Charter Booklet Starting Bid $100
344. John Phillips Autograph Letter Signed Starting Bid $200
347. Pope Pius XII Document Signed Starting Bid $200
348. Prince Edward, Duke of 349. Prince Paul and Kent and Strathearn Princess Olga of Yugoslavia Document Signed Signed Christmas Card Starting Bid $200 Starting Bid $200
350. Princess Grace Typed Letter Signed Starting Bid $200
351. Joseph Louis Proust Autograph Letter Signed Starting Bid $200
352. George Pullman Letter Signed Starting Bid $200
353. Michael Pupin Signed Book Starting Bid $200
354. Melvin Purvis Typed Letter Signed Starting Bid $200
355. Dan and Marilyn Quayle Signed Print Starting Bid $200
356. Queen Victoria Signed Book Starting Bid $200
357. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan Signed Photograph Starting Bid $200
358. William Ramsay Autograph Letter Signed Starting Bid $200
359. William Rehnquist Signed Photograph Starting Bid $100
360. Etienne-Gaspard Robert Autograph Letter Signed Starting Bid $200
361. Jean Rostand Autograph Letter Signed Starting Bid $200
362. Russian Grand Duchesses Photograph Starting Bid $200
363. Jonas Salk and Albert Sabin Signed Photograph and Typed Letter Signed Starting Bid $200
364. Albert Schweitzer Autograph Letter Signed and Signed Photograph Starting Bid $200
365. Scientists (4) Signed Books Starting Bid $200
366. William Seward Document Signed Starting Bid $200
367. Samuel Shute Document Signed Starting Bid $200
368. O. J. Simpson and Johnnie Cochran Signed Photograph Starting Bid $200
369. Lazzaro Spallanzani Autograph Letter Signed Starting Bid $200
370. Benjamin Spock (2) Autograph Letters Signed Starting Bid $200
371. Johann Spurzheim Autograph Letter Signed Starting Bid $200
372. Robert Stephenson Autograph Document Signed Starting Bid $200
373. Potter Stewart Signed Photograph Starting Bid $100
374. Charles Sumner Signed Check Starting Bid $200
375. Supreme Court (12) Signed Items Starting Bid $200
376. Supreme Court (12) Signed Items Starting Bid $200
377. Supreme Court (6) Signed Opinions Starting Bid $200
378. Roger B. Taney Autograph Document Signed Starting Bid $200
379. Roger B. Taney Letter Signed Starting Bid $200
380. Titanic: George Widener Document Signed Starting Bid $200
381. Clyde W. Tombaugh Autograph Letter Signed Starting Bid $200
382. Daniel D. Tompkins Document Signed Starting Bid $100
383. Cornelius Vanderbilt II Signed Check Starting Bid $100
384. Fred Vinson (3) Signed Items Starting Bid $200
385. Robert Walpole Signature Starting Bid $200
386. Daniel Webster Signed Check Starting Bid $200
387. Charles Wheatstone Autograph Letter Signed Starting Bid $200
388. Elie Wiesel Signed Photograph Starting Bid $200
389. Simon Wiesenthal (3) Signed Items Starting Bid $200
390. William Wilberforce Autograph Letter Signed Starting Bid $200
391. Wilhelm I Document Signed Starting Bid $200
392. John Gardner Wilkinson Autograph Letter Signed Starting Bid $200
393. Yen Chia-kan Signed Airmail Cover Starting Bid $200
394. Brigham Young Endorsement Signature Starting Bid $200
395. Emile Zola Autograph Letter Signed Starting Bid $200
405. Napoleon Letter Signed Starting Bid $200
406. Robert Baden-Powell Signed Photograph Starting Bid $200
409. Edmund Allenby (2) Autograph Letters Signed Starting Bid $200
410. George Anson, 1st Baron Anson Letter Signed Starting Bid $200
411. Hap Arnold Signed Photograph Starting Bid $200
412. Robert Baden-Powell Autograph Letter Signed Starting Bid $200
413. Maurice Benyovszky Document Signed Starting Bid $200
414. British Military (9) Letters Signed Starting Bid $200
415. Pierre Cambronne Starting Bid $200
416. Civil War: Virginia and Washington, D.C. Military Map Starting Bid $200
417. Mark Clark Signed Photograph Starting Bid $100
418. Henri Jacques Guillaume Clarke Document Signed Starting Bid $200
419. Henry Seymour Conway (2) Autograph Letters Signed Starting Bid $200
420. Charles Cornwallis Autograph Letter Signed Starting Bid $200
421. William Cornwallis Autograph Letter Signed Starting Bid $200
422. Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. Autograph Letter Signed Starting Bid $200
423. George Dewey Typed Letter Signed Starting Bid $200
424. George Dewey Signed Photograph Starting Bid $200
425. James H. Doolittle Lot of (4) Signed Items Starting Bid $200
426. James H. Doolittle (2) Typed Letters Signed Starting Bid $200
427. Ira Eaker Signed Photograph Starting Bid $100
428. Enola Gay Signed Print Starting Bid $100
429. Enola Gay: Paul Tibbets Signed Photograph Starting Bid $200
430. Enola Gay: Paul Tibbets Signed Print Starting Bid $100
431. William Fawcett Autograph Letter Signed Starting Bid $200
432. Benjamin Foulois Signed Photograph Starting Bid $200
433. French Military Starting Bid $200
434. James M. Gavin Typed Letter Signed Starting Bid $200
435. Charles ‘Chinese’ Gordon Autograph Letter Signed Starting Bid $200
436. Richard Gridley Autograph Letter Signed Starting Bid $300
437. William F. Halsey Signed Photograph Starting Bid $200
438. Philippe Leclerc de
439. Courtney H. Hodges Autograph Letter Signed Starting Bid $200
440. Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham Document Signed Starting Bid $200
441. George C. Kenney Signed Photograph and Autograph Letter Signed Starting Bid $100
442. Paul von LettowVorbeck Signature and Signed Photograph Starting Bid $200
443. Benjamin Lincoln and Thomas Melvill Document Signed Starting Bid $200
444. Etienne Macdonald Autograph Letter Signed Starting Bid $200
445. Anthony McAuliffe Signed Photograph Starting Bid $200
446. George B. McClellan Autograph Letter Signed Starting Bid $200
447. Robert S. McNamara and William Westmoreland Signed Photograph Starting Bid $200
448. George G. Meade Autograph Letter Signed Starting Bid $200
449. Military (6) Signed Books Starting Bid $200
450. Richard Deane and George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle Letter Signed Starting Bid $200
451. Fairfax Moresby Autograph Letter Signed Starting Bid $200
452. Mountbatten of Burma Signed Photograph Starting Bid $200
453. Mountbatten of Burma Typed Letter Signed Starting Bid $200
Hauteclocque Signed Photograph Starting Bid $200
454. Richard Mulcahy Signature Starting Bid $200
455. Horatio Nelson Sicilian 456. William Nelson, 1st Earl Broadside Nelson Autograph Letter Starting Bid $200 Signed Starting Bid $200
457. Chester Nimitz (2) Signed Photographs Starting Bid $200
458. John J. Pershing Typed Letter Signed Starting Bid $200
459. Andrew Porter Signed Photograph Starting Bid $200
460. David D. Porter Autograph Letter Signed Starting Bid $200
461. Colin Powell Typed Letter Signed and Signed Photograph Starting Bid $200
462. Robert Prescott Autograph Letter Signed Starting Bid $200
463. Roger Pryor Letter Signed Starting Bid $200
464. Francis RawdonHastings Autograph Letter Signed Starting Bid $200
465. Revolutionary War (3) Document Signed Starting Bid $200
466. Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick Letter Signed Starting Bid $200
467. Eddie Rickenbacker Typed Letter Signed Starting Bid $200
468. Hyman G. Rickover (8) Typed Letters Signed Starting Bid $200
469. Matthew Ridgway Signed Photograph Starting Bid $200
470. Benjamin Roberts Signed Photograph Starting Bid $200
471. Frederick Roberts (4) Autograph Letters Signed Starting Bid $200
472. George Brydges Rodney Autograph Letter Signed Starting Bid $200
473. Winfield Scott Schley Autograph Letter Signed Starting Bid $200
474. Winfield Scott Schley Signed Photograph Starting Bid $200
475. Carl Spaatz Signed Photograph Starting Bid $200
476. Raymond A. Spruance Signed Photograph Starting Bid $200
477. Clarence L. Tinker Signed Photograph Starting Bid $200
478. Robert O. Tyler Signed Photograph Starting Bid $200
479. Gideon Welles Document Signed Starting Bid $200
480. William Westmoreland Signed Photograph and Typed Letter Signed Starting Bid $200
483. Clarence Chamberlin Signed Photograph Starting Bid $200
484. Joe Kittinger (3) Signed 485. Charles Lindbergh 1927 486. Thaddeus Lowe Letter Philatelic Souvenirs Spirit of St. Louis Jewelry Signed Starting Bid $200 Box Starting Bid $200 Starting Bid $100
487. Igor Sikorsky Signed Photograph Starting Bid $100
488. Solar Impulse (3) Signed Photographs Starting Bid $200
489. Thomas Sopwith Signed Photograph and Autograph Letter Signed Starting Bid $200
490. Chuck Yeager Signed Photograph Starting Bid $200
491. Chuck Yeager Signed Photograph Starting Bid $200
492. Chuck Yeager Signed Photograph Starting Bid $200
499. Buzz Aldrin Signed Replica Lunar Plaque Starting Bid $200
500. Buzz Aldrin Signed Photograph Starting Bid $200
501. Buzz Aldrin Signed Photograph Starting Bid $200
502. Buzz Aldrin Signed Book Starting Bid $200
503. Buzz Aldrin Signed Lunar Plaque Starting Bid $200
504. Buzz Aldrin Signed Photograph Starting Bid $200
505. Buzz Aldrin's Flown Apollo 11 Flight Plan Page Starting Bid $2,500
506. Apollo 12 Signed Postcard (From the Collection of Walt Cunningham) Starting Bid $200
507. Apollo 13 Signatures Starting Bid $200
508. Apollo 13: Lovell and Haise Signed Photograph Starting Bid $200
509. Apollo 15 Signed Photograph Starting Bid $200
510. Apollo 15 Signed Insurance Cover (From the Collection of Al Worden) Starting Bid $200
511. Apollo 7 Signed Cover (From the Collection of Walt Cunningham) Starting Bid $200
512. Apollo 9 Signed Photograph Starting Bid $200
513. Apollo Astronauts (4) Signed Books Starting Bid $200
514. Frank Borman Signed Photograph Starting Bid $200
515. Scott Carpenter (2) Signed Photographs Starting Bid $200
516. Jerry Carr (6) Signed Photographs Starting Bid $200
517. Gene Cernan Signed Photograph Starting Bid $200
518. Michael Collins Signed Photograph Starting Bid $200
519. Michael Collins Signed Photograph Starting Bid $200
520. Michael Collins Signed Cover Starting Bid $200
521. Gordon Cooper Signed Photograph Starting Bid $200
522. Cosmonauts (3) Signed Covers Starting Bid $200
523. Bob Crippen (12) Signed Items Starting Bid $200
524. Charlie Duke Signed Oversized Photograph Starting Bid $200
525. Charlie Duke Signed Photograph Starting Bid $200
526. Charlie Duke Signed Photograph Starting Bid $200
527. Charlie Duke Signed Photograph Starting Bid $200
528. Early Apollo Missions (9) Signed Items Starting Bid $200
529. Max Faget Signature Starting Bid $200
530. Yuri Gagarin Document Signed Starting Bid $200
531. John Glenn (2) Signed Photographs Starting Bid $200
532. Richard Gordon Signed Photograph Starting Bid $200
533. Richard Gordon (3) Signed Photographs Starting Bid $200
534. Fred Haise Signed Oversized Photograph Starting Bid $200
535. Fred Haise Signed Photograph Starting Bid $200
536. Fred Haise Signed Oversized Photograph Starting Bid $200
537. Fred Haise Signed Oversized Photograph Starting Bid $200
538. Fred Haise Signed Oversized Photograph Starting Bid $200
539. Fred Haise (3) Signed Items Starting Bid $200
540. Fred Haise and Gene Kranz Signed Photograph Starting Bid $200
541. Jim Irwin Signed Photograph Starting Bid $200
542. Gene Kranz (4) Signed Items Starting Bid $200
543. Gene Kranz Signed Photograph and Engraving Starting Bid $200
544. Later Apollo Missions (11) Signed Items Starting Bid $200
545. Alexei Leonov Signed Photograph Starting Bid $200
546. Alexei Leonov and Valeri Kubasov Signed Photograph Starting Bid $200
547. Jack Lousma (7) Signed Items Starting Bid $200
548. James Lovell Signed Photograph Starting Bid $200
549. James Lovell Signed Photograph Starting Bid $200
550. James Lovell Signed Photograph Starting Bid $200
551. James Lovell Signed Photograph Starting Bid $200
552. James Lovell Signed Photograph Starting Bid $200
553. James Lovell and Fred Haise (2) Signed Photographs Starting Bid $200
554. Ken Mattingly Signed Photograph Starting Bid $200
555. Bruce McCandless Signed Photograph Starting Bid $200
556. Mercury: Carpenter. Cooper, Schirra Signed Photograph Starting Bid $200
557. Edgar Mitchell (2) Signed Photographs Starting Bid $200
558. Edgar Mitchell Signed Photograph Starting Bid $100
559. Moonwalkers: Irwin and Duke (3) Signed Items Starting Bid $200
560. Sally Ride Signed Photograph Starting Bid $200
561. Wally Schirra (2) Signed Photographs Starting Bid $200
562. Harrison Schmitt Signed Photograph Starting Bid $200
563. Dave Scott Signed Photograph Starting Bid $200
564. Dave Scott Signed Photograph Starting Bid $200
565. Alan Shepard Signed Photograph Starting Bid $200
566. Alan Shepard Signed Print Section Starting Bid $200
567. Alan Shepard Signed Hand Tracing Starting Bid $200
568. Skylab 3 Signed Photograph Starting Bid $200
569. Skylab 4 Signed Photograph Starting Bid $200
570. Space and Aviation (4) Signed Items Starting Bid $200
571. Space Shuttle (22) Signed Crew Photographs Starting Bid $200
572. Space Shuttle and Skylab Missions (9) Signed Items Starting Bid $200
573. STS-6 Flown Checklist Page (From the Collection of Paul Weitz) Starting Bid $200
574. Valentina Tereshkova (2) Signed Photographs Starting Bid $200
575. Valentina Tereshkova Signed Photograph Starting Bid $200
576. Valentina Tereshkova Signed Photograph Starting Bid $200
577. Al Worden's Apollo 15 Crew-Signed Cover Starting Bid $200
578. Al Worden's Apollo 15 Insurance Cover Starting Bid $200
579. John Young Signed Photograph Starting Bid $200
580. John Young Signed Photograph Starting Bid $200
581. John Young Signed Photograph Starting Bid $200
583. European Artists (7) Annotated Visiting Cards Starting Bid $200
584. French Artists (9) Autograph Letters Signed Starting Bid $200
594. Balthus Typed Letter Signed Starting Bid $200
595. Gutzon Borglum Signature Starting Bid $200
596. Pierre Boucher Signed Photograph Starting Bid $200
597. Antoine Bourdelle Autograph Letter Signed Starting Bid $200
598. Paul Cadmus Starting Bid $100
599. George Cruikshank Starting Bid $200
600. Alfred Eisenstaedt Signed Book Starting Bid $200
601. Jean-Louis Forain Autograph Letter Signed Starting Bid $200
602. Ron Galella Signed Book Starting Bid $100
603. Francoise Gilot Signed Photograph Starting Bid $200
604. Hubert de Givenchy Signed Photograph Starting Bid $200
605. Al Hirschfeld Signed Cartoon and Signed Photograph Starting Bid $200
606. David Hockney Signature Starting Bid $200
607. Yousuf Karsh Typed Letter Signed Starting Bid $200
608. Karl Lagerfeld Signed Photograph Starting Bid $200
609. Roy Lichtenstein Signed Print Starting Bid $200
610. Jean Lurcat Autograph Letter Signed Starting Bid $200
611. Grandma Moses Starting Bid $100
612. John Nash Autograph Letter Signed Starting Bid $200
613. LeRoy Neiman Signed Photograph Starting Bid $200
614. LeRoy Neiman (2) Signed Lithographs Starting Bid $200
615. Maxfield Parrish Signature Starting Bid $200
616. Joseph Paxton Autograph Letter Signed Starting Bid $200
617. Felicien Rops Autograph Letter Signed Starting Bid $200
618. Elsa Schiaparelli Autograph Letter Signed Starting Bid $200
619. John Soane Autograph Letter Signed Starting Bid $200
620. Andy Warhol and Joan Crawford (2) Typed Letters Signed Starting Bid $200
621. Jon Whitcomb Signed Photograph Starting Bid $100
623. Lord Byron Signed Free Frank Starting Bid $200
632. Harriet Beecher Stowe:
634. Jules Verne Autograph Note Signed Starting Bid $200
637. Isaac Asimov (2) Signed First Day Covers Starting Bid $200
638. Samuel Beckett Autograph Letter Signed Starting Bid $200
639. Earl Derr Biggers Typed Letter Signed Starting Bid $100
640. Georg Brandes Autograph Letter Signed Starting Bid $200
641. John Burroughs Signed Postcard Starting Bid $200
642. Arthur C. Clarke Autograph Note Signed Starting Bid $200
643. Colette Autograph Letter Signed Starting Bid $200
Josiah Henson Signature Starting Bid $200
644. Wilkie Collins Autograph Letter Signed Starting Bid $200
645. Michael Crichton Signed Book Starting Bid $100
646. Alexandre Dumas, pere Autograph Letter Signed Starting Bid $200
647. Robert J. Flaherty Signed Book Starting Bid $200
648. French Writers (6) Annotated Visiting Cards Starting Bid $200
649. Jean Genet Starting Bid $200
652. Rudyard Kipling and H. Rider Haggard Signatures Starting Bid $200
653. Madeleine L'Engle Typed Letter Signed Starting Bid $200
654. John le Carre (2) Autograph Letters Signed Starting Bid $100
655. Elmore Leonard Signed Book Starting Bid $200
656. Elmore Leonard and Others Multi-Signed Book Starting Bid $100
657. Lexicographers and Journalists (5) Signed Items Starting Bid $200
658. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Signature Starting Bid $200
659. Maurice Maeterlinck Autograph Letter Signed Starting Bid $200
650. H. Rider Haggard Letter 651. Stephen King Signature Signed Starting Bid $200 Starting Bid $200
660. Norman Mailer Signed Book and Photograph Starting Bid $100
661. Andre Malraux Handwritten Note Starting Bid $200
662. Thomas Mann Signed Photograph Starting Bid $200
663. Thomas Mann Starting Bid $200
664. Edwin Markham Autograph Manuscript Signed Starting Bid $200
665. Papillon: Henri
666. Luigi Pirandello Autograph Quote Signed Starting Bid $200
667. Richard Price Signed Book Starting Bid $100
668. Jacob Riis Autograph Letter Signed Starting Bid $200
672. Richard Brinsley Sheridan Autograph Letter Signed Starting Bid $200
Charriere Document Signed Starting Bid $200
669. Mary Roberts Rinehart 670. John Ruskin Autograph Starting Bid $100 Letter Signed Starting Bid $200
673. Mickey Spillane (2) Signed Photographs Starting Bid $100
674. Madame de Stael Autograph Letter Signed Starting Bid $200
671. George Sand Autograph Letter Signed Starting Bid $200
675. Wallace Stegner Typed Letter Signed Starting Bid $200
676. Tom Stoppard Signed Book Starting Bid $200
677. Algernon Swinburne Autograph Letter Signed Starting Bid $200
678. Kurt Vonnegut Signed Book Starting Bid $200
679. Kurt Vonnegut Signed Book Starting Bid $200
680. H. G. Wells Autograph Letter Signed Starting Bid $200
681. Jane Wilde Autograph Letter Signed Starting Bid $200
682. Writers and Musicians Starting Bid $200
691. Beatles Signatures Starting Bid $500
698. Marian Anderson Signature Starting Bid $200
699. Celebrities Starting Bid $200
700. Classical Musicians and Composers (6) Signed Books Starting Bid $200
701. Van Cliburn Signed Photograph Starting Bid $200
702. Samuel ColeridgeTaylor Starting Bid $100
703. Composers Starting Bid $200
704. Conductors and Singers Starting Bid $200
705. Louis Moreau Gottschalk Starting Bid $200
706. Charles Gounod Autograph Letter Signed Starting Bid $200
707. Victor Herbert Starting Bid $200
708. Jenny Lind Autograph Letters Signed Starting Bid $200
709. Jules Massenet (3) Autograph Letters Signed Starting Bid $200
710. Giacomo Meyerbeer Autograph Letter Signed Starting Bid $200
711. Musicians Starting Bid $200
712. Oskar Nedbal Autograph Musical Quotation Signed Starting Bid $200
713. Miklos Rozsa Signed Book Starting Bid $100
714. Clara Schumann Autograph Letter Signed Starting Bid $200
715. Singers Starting Bid $200
716. Singers Starting Bid $200
717. Louis Spohr Autograph Document Signed Starting Bid $200
718. Richard Strauss Signature Starting Bid $200
719. Cosima Wagner Autograph Letter Signed Starting Bid $200
720. Wilhelm Westmeyer Starting Bid $300
721. Louis Armstrong Signed Program Starting Bid $200
722. Art Blakey Signed Album Starting Bid $200
723. Dizzy Gillespie Signed Photograph Starting Bid $100
724. The Ink Spots Signed Photograph Starting Bid $100
725. Edith Piaf Signed Record Starting Bid $200
726. Gregg Allman and Dickie Betts Signed Photograph Starting Bid $200
727. Allman Brothers Signed CD Starting Bid $200
728. America Signed Album Starting Bid $200
729. Beach Boys Signed Oversized Photograph Starting Bid $200
730. Beatles: Lennon and Ono Original 'Bed-in for Peace' Wire Photograph Starting Bid $200
731. Beatles: Ringo Starr Signed 'Peace Sign' Print Starting Bid $200
732. Beatles: Ringo Starr Signed Drum Head Starting Bid $200
733. Beatles: Ringo Starr Signed Photograph Starting Bid $200
734. Beatles: Ringo Starr Signed Book Starting Bid $200
735. Beatles: Voormann and Blake (2) Signed Photographs Starting Bid $200
736. The Jeff Beck Group 1969 Fillmore West Poster Starting Bid $200
738. David Bowie Signed Photograph Starting Bid $200
739. Jimmy Buffett Signed CD Starting Bid $200
740. Eric Clapton Signed Photograph Starting Bid $200
741. Eric Clapton Signature Starting Bid $200
742. Bo Diddley Signed Photograph Starting Bid $200
743. The Doors: Jim Morrison Photograph Starting Bid $100
744. Mick Fleetwood Concert-Used Drum Stick and Signed Photograph Starting Bid $200
745. Genesis Signed Photograph Starting Bid $200
746. Led Zeppelin: John Paul Jones Signed Photograph Starting Bid $200
747. Lynyrd Skynyrd: Ronnie Van Zant Photograph Starting Bid $100
748. Pink Floyd: Roger Waters Signed Oversized Photograph Starting Bid $200
750. Phil Spector Signed Photograph Starting Bid $200
751. Gene Vincent Signature Starting Bid $200
752. Neil Young Signed Photograph Starting Bid $200
753. Frank Zappa Signed Check Starting Bid $200
754. ZZ Top Signed Oversized Photograph Starting Bid $200
755. Misfits Signed Photograph Starting Bid $200
756. Cher Signed Tour Book Starting Bid $200
757. Billie Eilish Signed Photograph Starting Bid $200
758. Jackson 5 Signed Photograph Starting Bid $200
759. Bobby 'Boris' Pickett Signed Handwritten Lyrics Starting Bid $200
849. Football Hall of Fame Lot of (115) Signed Goal Line Art Cards Starting Bid $200
852. Lake Placid 1932 Winter Olympics Poster Starting Bid $200
856. 1984 TCMA Pawtucket Red Sox Complete Set with Signed Roger Clemens Card Starting Bid $100
857. Hank Aaron Signed Photograph Starting Bid $200
858. Hank Aaron Signed Check Starting Bid $200
859. Muhammad Ali Signed Photograph Starting Bid $200
860. Muhammad Ali Signed Program Starting Bid $200
861. Base Stealers (4) Signed Baseballs Starting Bid $200
862. Baseball (12) Signed Topps Contracts Starting Bid $200
863. Baseball Hall of Fame (14) Signed Perez-Steele Cards Starting Bid $200
864. Baseball Hall of Famers 865. Baseball Hall of Famers (19) Signed Covers (5) Signed Covers Starting Bid $200 Starting Bid $200
866. Baseball Hall of Famers 867. Baseball Hall of Famers 868. Baseball Hall of Famers (14) Signed Checks (3) Signed Baseballs (66) Signed HOF Cards Starting Bid $200 Starting Bid $200 Starting Bid $200
869. Baseball Notables (6) Signed Baseballs Starting Bid $200
870. Baseball Pitchers Starting Bid $200
871. Baseball Sluggers (10) Signed Covers with Willie Mays Starting Bid $100
872. Baseball: 500 Home Run Club Signed Cover Starting Bid $200
873. Baseball: Howard, Long, and Tresh (3) Signed Baseballs Starting Bid $200
874. Basketball: 1954 AllStars Signed Program Starting Bid $200
875. Basketball Hall of Fame (17) Signed Center Court Art Cards Starting Bid $200
876. Basketball Hall of Famers (2) Signed Programs Starting Bid $200
877. Mark Belanger's GameUsed Baseball Bat Starting Bid $200
878. Boston Celtics: 1964 Team-Signed Sheet Starting Bid $200
879. Roy Campanella Signed Photograph Starting Bid $200
880. Chicago Cubs: 1965 Team-Signed Document Starting Bid $100
881. Roger Clemens (2) Signed Baseballs Starting Bid $200
882. Roger Clemens (2) Signed Baseballs Starting Bid $200
883. Eddie Collins Document Signed Starting Bid $200
884. Frank Crosetti Signed Baseball Starting Bid $100
885. Cy Young Winners: Clemens, Gooden, and Johnson (3) Signed Baseballs Starting Bid $200
886. Detroit Tigers: 1965 Team-Signed Document Starting Bid $200
887. Joe DiMaggio Signed Menu Starting Bid $200
888. Joe DiMaggio Signature Starting Bid $200
889. Joe DiMaggio Signed Book Starting Bid $200
890. Leo Durocher Signed Baseball Starting Bid $100
891. Roger Federer (4) Signed Items Starting Bid $200
892. Football Hall of Fame Lot of (18) Signed Goal Line Art Cards Starting Bid $200
893. Joe Frazier Signed Photograph Starting Bid $200
894. Horse Racing: 1978 Belmont Stakes Program Signed by the Jockeys of Affirmed and Alydar Starting Bid $200
895. Torii Hunter's GameUsed Baseball Bat Starting Bid $200
896. Reggie Jackson (2) Signed Baseballs Starting Bid $200
897. Connie Mack Autograph Letter Signed Starting Bid $200
898. Mickey Mantle Signed Baseball Starting Bid $200
899. Mickey Mantle Signed Baseball Starting Bid $200
900. Mickey Mantle and Eddie Mathews Signed Photograph Starting Bid $200
901. Mickey Mantle and Whitey Ford Signed Photograph Starting Bid $200
902. Rocky Marciano Signed Compliments Card Starting Bid $200
903. Roger Maris Signed Photograph Starting Bid $200
904. Billy Martin Signed Photograph Starting Bid $200
905. Andrew McCutchen's Game-Used Baseball Bat Starting Bid $200
906. Bobby Murcer Signed Baseball Starting Bid $100
907. Bobby Murcer's GameUsed Baseball Bat Starting Bid $200
908. NBA All-Stars: 1968 Signed Oversized Photograph Starting Bid $200
909. Charles 'Kid' Nichols Signature Starting Bid $200
910. Jack Nicklaus (2) Signed Photographs Starting Bid $200
911. NY Pitchers: Cone, Gooden, and Guidry (3) Signed Baseballs Starting Bid $200
912. NY Yankees (10) Signed Baseballs Starting Bid $200
913. NY Yankees (3) MultiSigned Baseballs Starting Bid $200
914. NY Yankees Hitters: Mattingly, Raines, and Winfield (3) Signed Baseballs Starting Bid $200
915. NY Yankees Legends Signed Animation Cel Starting Bid $200
916. NY Yankees Pitchers: Bouton and Torrez (2) Signed Baseballs Starting Bid $200
917. NY Yankees Pitchers: Duren, Reynolds, and Shantz (3) Signed Baseballs Starting Bid $200
918. NY Yankees: 1940s–50s Players (6) Signed Baseballs Starting Bid $200
919. NY Yankees: 1960s Players (8) Signed Baseballs Starting Bid $200
920. NY Yankees: Abbott, Dent, Hernandez, and Howe (4) Signed Baseballs Starting Bid $200
921. NY Yankees: Broadcasters (3) Signed Baseballs Starting Bid $100
922. NY Yankees: MacPhail and Wolff (2) Signed Baseballs Starting Bid $200
923. NY Yankees: Managers (6) Signed Baseballs Starting Bid $200
924. NY Yankees: Modern Stars (6) Signed Baseballs Starting Bid $200
925. NY Yankees: OldTimers Starting Bid $200
926. NY Yankees: OldTimers Signed Baseball Starting Bid $100
927. NY Yankees: Pitchers (6) Signed Baseballs Starting Bid $200
928. NY Yankees: Pitchers (6) Signed Baseballs Starting Bid $200
929. NY Yankees: Posada, Sabathia, and Teixeira (3) Signed Baseballs Starting Bid $200
930. NY Yankees: Rivera, Jeter, and Pettitte Signed Oversized Photograph Starting Bid $200
931. NY Yankees: World Series Champions (8) Signed Baseballs Starting Bid $200
932. Walter O'Malley Typed Letter Signed Starting Bid $200
933. Paris 1924 Summer Olympics Swiss National Olympic Committee Badge Starting Bid $200
934. Pitchers (4) Signed Baseballs Starting Bid $200
935. Pitchers: Hunter, Niekro, Perry, and Turley (4) Signed Baseballs Starting Bid $200
936. Jackie Robinson Signature Starting Bid $200
937. Mauri Rose Autograph Note Signed Starting Bid $100
938. Babe Ruth 1938 Remington Window Poster Starting Bid $200
939. C. C. Sabathia Signed Baseball Starting Bid $200
940. Gene Sarazen Signed Photograph and (5) Signed Checks Starting Bid $200
941. Gene Sarazen Signed Photographs Starting Bid $100
942. Spec Shea Signed Baseball Starting Bid $100
943. Al Simmons Signature Starting Bid $200
944. Soccer: Mohamed Salah Match-Worn Jersey Starting Bid $200
945. Sports (9) Signed Programs and Magazines Starting Bid $200
946. Sports Collection of (13) Items Signed by Dressen, Hubbell, Markson, Rolfe, or Wooden Starting Bid $200
947. St. Louis 1904 Olympics Juror Badge Starting Bid $200
948. Gene Tunney (2) Typed Letters Signed Starting Bid $200
949. Hoyt Wilhelm Signed Payroll Check Starting Bid $100
950. Walt Disney Signature Starting Bid $300
1008. Tony production cel from Lady and the Tramp Starting Bid $200
1045. Tom (13) production cels and matching drawings from a Tom and Jerry cartoon Starting Bid $200
1046. Tom and Jerry (10) production cels and matching drawings from a Tom and Jerry cartoon Starting Bid $200
1047. Tom and Jerry (142) production cels and matching drawings from a Tom and Jerry cartoon Starting Bid $200
1048. Tom, Jerry, and Shark (58) production cels and matching drawings from Cannery Rodent Starting Bid $200
1052. Robert Crumb Autograph Letter Signed Starting Bid $200
1053. Opus production cel from A Wish for Wings That Work signed by Berke Breathed Starting Bid $200
1054. Bill the Cat production 1055. Bill the Cat production cel from A Wish for Wings cel from A Wish for Wings That Work signed by Berke That Work signed by Berke Breathed Breathed Starting Bid $200 Starting Bid $200
1056. Archie: Dan Parent and Stan Goldberg (3) Signed Sketches Starting Bid $200
1057. Ed Dodd Starting Bid $100
1058. Elmo cartoon story illustration for a Sesame Street signed by Scott Neely Starting Bid $200
1059. Carl Barks: Visitor in the Underground Signed Proof Set Starting Bid $200
1060. Mickey Mouse 1061. Mickey Mouse and Pig concept storyboard drawing production drawing from from Fishin' Around The Whoopee Party Starting Bid $200 Starting Bid $200
1062. Mickey and Pluto production drawings from The Klondike Kid Starting Bid $200
1063. Mickey and Minnie Mouse production drawing from Mickey's Mellerdrammer Starting Bid $200
1064. Mickey and Minnie Mouse production drawing from Puppy Love Starting Bid $200
1065. Mickey and Minnie Mouse production drawing from Mickey's Mellerdrammer Starting Bid $200
1066. Mickey and Minnie Mouse production drawing from Ye Olden Days Starting Bid $200
1067. Mickey Mouse production drawing from Giantland Starting Bid $200
1068. Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck production drawing from The Dognapper Starting Bid $200
1069. Donald Duck production drawing from The Dognapper Starting Bid $200
1070. Mickey Mouse and Horse production drawing from Two-Gun Mickey Starting Bid $200
1071. Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck production drawing from Mickey's Service Station Starting Bid $200
1072. Ambrose production drawing from The Robber Kitten Starting Bid $200
1073. Minnie Mouse production drawing from Mickey's Rival Starting Bid $200
1074. Abner production drawing from The Country Cousin Starting Bid $100
1075. Wicked Witch production drawing from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Starting Bid $200
1076. Snow White production drawing from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Starting Bid $200
1077. Snow White production drawing from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Starting Bid $200
1078. Wicked Witch production drawing from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Starting Bid $200
1079. Forest Animals production cel from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Starting Bid $200
1080. Snow White production drawing from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Starting Bid $200
1081. Happy storyboard drawing from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Starting Bid $200
1082. Little Hiawatha concept preliminary model sheet drawing from Little Hiawatha Starting Bid $200
1083. Snow White production drawing from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Starting Bid $200
1084. Huntsman production drawing from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Starting Bid $200
1085. Four Dwarfs production drawing from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Starting Bid $200
1086. Owl and Doves concept publicity drawing from The Old Mill Starting Bid $200
1087. Prince production drawing from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Starting Bid $200
1088. Bluebirds production drawing from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Starting Bid $200
1089. Bashful production drawing from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Starting Bid $200
1090. Marx Brothers production drawings from Mother Goose Goes Hollywood Starting Bid $200
1091. Edward G. Robinson concept drawing from Mother Goose Goes Hollywood Starting Bid $200
1092. Marx Brothers concept storyboard drawing from Mother Goose Goes Hollywood Starting Bid $200
1093. The Giant production drawing from The Brave Little Tailor Starting Bid $200
1094. Laurel and Hardy production storyboard drawing from Mother Goose Goes Hollywood Starting Bid $200
1095. Mickey Mouse and Pluto production drawings from Society Dog Show Starting Bid $200
1096. Mickey Mouse, Pluto, and Judge production drawing from Society Dog Show Starting Bid $200
1097. Mickey Mouse production drawing from Society Dog Show Starting Bid $200
1098. Donald Duck production drawing from The Hockey Champ Starting Bid $200
1099. Mickey Mouse and Pluto production drawing from Society Dog Show Starting Bid $200
1100. Frank Follmer panoramic concept drawing for Pinocchio Starting Bid $200
1101. Frank Follmer panoramic color concept drawing from Fantasia Starting Bid $200
1102. Frank Follmer panoramic color concept drawing from Fantasia Starting Bid $200
1103. Stromboli production drawing from Pinocchio Starting Bid $200
1104. Monstro color model production drawing from Pinocchio Starting Bid $200
1105. Madame Upanova production drawing from Fantasia Starting Bid $200
1106. Baby Pegasus production drawing from Fantasia Starting Bid $200
1107. Chernabog's Demons 1108. Timothy Q. Mouse and production drawing from Crows production drawings Fantasia from Dumbo Starting Bid $200 Starting Bid $200
1109. Bambi production drawing from Bambi Starting Bid $200
1110. Goofy production drawing from How to Play Baseball Starting Bid $200
1111. Black Pete production 1112. Minnie Mouse drawing from a World War II production concept painting cartoon from Mickey and the Starting Bid $200 Beanstalk Starting Bid $200
1113. Willie the Giant production cel from Mickey and the Beanstalk Starting Bid $200
1114. Walrus production cel from Alice in Wonderland Starting Bid $200
1115. Tick-Tock the Crocodile production drawing from Peter Pan Starting Bid $200
1116. Peter Pan production drawing from Peter Pan Starting Bid $200
1117. Michael Darling production cel from Peter Pan Starting Bid $200
1118. Donald Duck and Nephews production cel from the Disneyland TV Show Starting Bid $200
1119. Donald Duck production cel from a Disneyland television show Starting Bid $200
1120. Jiminy Cricket production cel from the Mickey Mouse Club Starting Bid $200
1121. Pluto production cel from the Disneyland TV Show Starting Bid $200
1122. Goofy and a Tiger production cel from the Disneyland TV Show Starting Bid $200
1123. Donald Duck production cel from the Disneyland TV Show Starting Bid $200
1124. Huey Duck production 1125. Maleficent production cel from the Disneyland TV drawing from Sleeping Show Beauty Starting Bid $200 Starting Bid $200
1126. Maleficent production drawing from Sleeping Beauty Starting Bid $200
1127. Briar Rose production 1128. King Hubert and King drawing from Sleeping Stefan production cels from Beauty signed by Marc Sleeping Beauty Davis Starting Bid $200 Starting Bid $200
1129. Prince Phillip production cel from Sleeping Beauty Starting Bid $200
1130. Bluebirds production cels from Sleeping Beauty Starting Bid $200
1131. Pongo, Perdita, and 1132. Archimedes and Wart Puppies production drawing production cels from The from 101 Dalmatians signed Sword in the Stone by Marc Davis Starting Bid $200 Starting Bid $200
1133. Wart/King Arthur production drawing from The Sword in the Stone Starting Bid $200
1134. Elliott production 1135. Dumbo production cel 1136. Winnie the Pooh, drawing from Pete's Dragon from a Disney TV Friend Owl, Roo, and Tigger Starting Bid $200 Commercial production cel from a Starting Bid $200 Disney television show Starting Bid $200
1137. Winnie the Pooh production cel from a Disney television cartoon Starting Bid $200
1138. Dumbo and Timothy Q. Mouse production publicity model drawings from a Disney cartoon or commercial Starting Bid $200
1139. Timothy Q. Mouse production layout drawing from a Dumbo cartoon Starting Bid $200
1140. Eeyore, Piglet, and Tigger production cels for The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh Starting Bid $200
1141. Roger Rabbit production cel and production drawing from Mickey's 60th Birthday Special Starting Bid $200
1142. Roger Rabbit production drawing from Who Framed Roger Rabbit Starting Bid $200
1143. Ursula production cel from The Little Mermaid Starting Bid $200
1144. Little Mermaid: Benson and Barnes Signed Photograph Starting Bid $200
1145. Ariel and Eric production drawing from The Little Mermaid Starting Bid $200
1146. Roger Rabbit and Baby Herman production storyboard drawing from Tummy Trouble Starting Bid $200
1150. Aladdin production drawing from Aladdin Starting Bid $200
1147. Disney and California 1148. Mickey Mouse limited 1149. Goofy production cel Arts serigraph cel from edition cel from the Magic of and production background Disneyland Disney series from Goof Troop Starting Bid $200 Starting Bid $200 Starting Bid $200
1151. Mufasa production storyboard drawing from Lion King Starting Bid $200
1152. Pocahontas and John Smith production drawing from Pocahontas Starting Bid $200
1153. 70 Years with Mickey Mouse limited edition cel from the Disney-MGM Studios Theme Park Starting Bid $200
1154. 65 Years with Donald Duck limited edition cel from the Disney-MGM Studios Theme Park Starting Bid $200
1155. Disney:
Richard
and Robert Sherman Signed Photograph Starting Bid $200
1156. Captain Hook production cel and production background from Return to Neverland Starting Bid $200
1157. Captain Hook and Mr. Smee production panorama layout drawing from Return to Neverland Starting Bid $200
1158. Captain Hook limited edition cel from Peter Pan's 60th Anniversary Starting Bid $200
1159. Olaf limited edition cel for Summertime Pals Starting Bid $200
1160. Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd production cel from a Looney Tunes cartoon Starting Bid $200
1161. Bugs Bunny production cel from Bugs Bunny's Bustin' Out All Over signed by Chuck Jones Starting Bid $200
1162. Chuck Jones Signed Limited Edition Cel: 'Road Runner' Starting Bid $200
1163. Mel Blanc Signed Photograph Starting Bid $200
1164. Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fudd, Tweety Bird, Wile E. Coyote, Road Runner, and Marvin Martian original drawing by Virgil Ross Starting Bid $200
1165. Grinch original drawing by Virgil Ross Starting Bid $200
1166. Sylvester original drawing by Virgil Ross Starting Bid $200
1167. Tweety Bird original drawing by Virgil Ross Starting Bid $200
1168. Sniffles original drawing by Virgil Ross Starting Bid $200
1169. Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, and Elmer Fudd original drawing by Virgil Ross Starting Bid $200
1170. Marvin Martian and Daffy Duck original drawing by Virgil Ross Starting Bid $200
1171. Taz, Bride, and Bug Bunny original drawing by Virgil Ross Starting Bid $200
1172. Bugs Bunny and Marvin Martian original drawing by Virgil Ross Starting Bid $200
1174. Bugs Bunny and 1175. Bugs Bunny and 1176. Road Runner and Wile Elmer Fudd original drawing Elmer Fudd original drawing E. Coyote original drawing by Virgil Ross by Virgil Ross by Virgil Ross Starting Bid $200 Starting Bid $200 Starting Bid $200
1178. Batman and Old Man production cel from Batman: The Animated Series Starting Bid $200
1179. Granny and Tweety Bird production cel from The Sylvester and Tweety Mysteries Starting Bid $200
1182. Superman and 1183. Don Knotts signed Brainiac production drawing limited edition hand-painted from Superman: The cel for Incredible Mr. Limpet Animated Series Starting Bid $200 Starting Bid $200
1173. Bugs Bunny and Edward G. Robinson original drawing by Virgil Ross Starting Bid $200
1177. Grinch and Max original drawing by Virgil Ross Starting Bid $200
1180. Yosemite Sam limited edition cel from Roman Legion-Hare Starting Bid $200
1181. Superman and Jimmy Olsen production cels from Superman: The Animated Series Starting Bid $200
1184. Batman production cel from The New Batman Adventures Starting Bid $200
1185. Batman and Jackson Chappell production cels from Batman Beyond Starting Bid $200
1186. Mel and Noel Blanc Signed Photographs Starting Bid $200
1187. Chilly Willy and Maxie the Polar Bear production cel and drawing from A Gooney Is Born signed by Walter Lantz Starting Bid $200
1188. Woody Woodpecker production cel from Woody Woodpecker TV Show Starting Bid $200
1189. Tom Cat production cel and drawing from a Tom and Jerry cartoon Starting Bid $200
1190. Tom and Jerry production cel from a Tom and Jerry cartoon Starting Bid $200
1191. Pebbles production cel from The Flintstones Starting Bid $200
1192. Dino production cel from a Flintstones cartoon Starting Bid $200
1193. Scooby-Doo production cel and production background from Scooby-Doo Starting Bid $200
1194. Hong Kong Phooey and Opera Singer production cels from Hong Kong Phooey Starting Bid $200
1195. Chuck Jones Signed Limited Edition Cel: 'Road Runner and Coyote Recipes' Starting Bid $200
1196. Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera Signed Limited Edition Cel: 'Teen Dream' Starting Bid $200
1197. Scooby Doo animation story illustration for a Scooby Doo cartoon signed by Scott Neely Starting Bid $200
1198. Snoopy production cel from a MetLife Commercial Starting Bid $200
1199. Snoopy production cel from a Peanuts cartoon Starting Bid $200
1200. Snoopy and Poodle original production cel from It's Your 20th Television Anniversary, Charlie Brown Starting Bid $200
1201. Alvin, Theodore, and Simon production cel from Alvin and the Chipmunks Starting Bid $200
1202. Krusty the Clown production cel from The Simpsons Starting Bid $200
1203. Matt Groening Original Sketch Starting Bid $200
1204. Bart Simpson and Friends production cel from the Do the Bartman music video Starting Bid $200
1205. Matt Groening Signed Photograph with Sketch Starting Bid $200
1206. The Lone Ranger, Tonto, Silver, and Scout production cels on original background from The Lone Ranger Starting Bid $200
1207. Aardvarks and Ant original production cel and drawing from The Ant and the Aardvark Starting Bid $200
1208. Beatles TV Show limited edition cel Starting Bid $200
1209. Hank Ketcham (3) Original Storyboard Sketches Starting Bid $200
1210. Popeye and Brutus production cel and production background from Popeye the Sailor Starting Bid $200
1211. Pink Pegasus production cel from Fantasia Starting Bid $200
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Section 1 The Parties1.1 RR Auction and Auction This Auction is presented by RR Auction, a d/b/a/ of R&R Auction Company of Massachusetts, LLC, as identified with the applicable licensing information on the title page of the Catalog or on the www.RRauction.com Internet site. The Auction is conducted under these Conditions of Sale. Announcements and corrections from the podium at live auctions and those made through the Conditions of Sale appearing on the Internet at RRauction.com supersede those in the printed Catalog. 1.2 Bidder Bidder shall mean the original Bidder on the property offered for sale by RR Auction and not any subsequent owner or other person who may acquire or have acquired an interest therein. If Bidder is an agent, the agency must be disclosed in writing to RR Auction prior to the time of sale, otherwise the benefits of the warranty shall be limited to the agent and not transferable to the undisclosed principal. The rights granted to Bidder under these Conditions of Sale are personal and may not be assigned or transferred to any other person or entity, whether by operation of law or otherwise without the express written assent of RR Auction. Bidder may not transfer, assign, or otherwise convey these Conditions of Sale or any of the rights herein, and such purported transfer, assignment, or conveyance shall be null and void. No third party may rely on any benefit or right conferred on any Bidder by these Conditions of Sale, and no third party is intended as a beneficiary of these Conditions of Sale. Bids will not be accepted from minor persons under eighteen (18) years of age without a parent or legal guardian’s written consent containing an acknowledgment of the Conditions of Sale herein and indicating their agreement to be bound thereby on behalf of the Bidder. All Bidders must meet RR Auction’s qualifications to bid. Any Bidder who is not a client in good standing of RR Auction may be disqualified at RR Auction’s sole option and will not be awarded lots. Such determination may be made by RR Auction in its sole and unlimited discretion, at any time prior to, during, or even after the close of the Auction. RR Auction reserves the right to exclude any person from the Auction. If an entity places a bid, then the person executing the bid on behalf of the entity agrees to personally guarantee payment for any successful bid and agrees to be bound by these Conditions of Sale in addition to company for whom the Bidder is acting By accepting the Conditions of Sale, Bidder personally and unconditionally guarantees payment. Section 2 Bidding Privileges
2.1 In order to place bids, Bidders who have not established an account with RR Auction must either furnish satisfactory credit information (including two collectibles-related business references) or supply additional information if requested, well in advance of the Auction. Bidders who are not members of RRAuction.com should pre-register before the close of the Auction to allow adequate time to contact references. Privileges will be granted at the sole discretion of RR Auction. Additionally, Bidders who have not previously established credit or who wish to bid in excess of their established credit history may be required to provide a cash deposit prior to RR Auction’s acceptance of a bid. 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For payment other than by cash, delivery will not be made unless and until full payment has been received by RR Auction, i.e., check or wired funds have fully cleared. Unless otherwise agreed in writing, signed by RR Auction, payment in full is due within thirteen (13) calendar days of the Auction or within twelve (12) calendar days of the invoice date, whichever is earlier. Bidder’s failure to pay any payment in full when due required shall constitute a material breach, and in addition to other damages available under contract or law, at RR Auction’s election, RR Auction may cancel the sale and require full premium still be due along with interest at 1.5% per month from the date of breach, or at the maximum legally allowable rate. Section 4 Bidding 4.1 Each Bidder’s determination of its bid should be based upon its own examination of the item(s) and independent investigation, rather than the any reliance as to what is represented in the Catalog, online or elsewhere. Bidder affirms that it regards any statements made by RR Auction concerning the item as solely opinion and that Bidder is making its own inspection and independent evaluation of the goods, and is not relying upon any description or statements by RR Auction (including as to quality, authenticity, provenance, ownership, liens existing, on goods legality, or value) in making its determination to bid on or purchase an item. In any purchase or sale, the value of the item(s) is determined by the price. THE BIDDER HEREBY ASSUMES ALL RISKS CONCERNING ANY AND ALL PURCHASES TO THE FULLEST EXTENT UNDER APPLICABLE LAW. 4.2 RR AUCTION IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ERRORS IN BIDDING. A Bidder should make certain to bid on the correct lot and that the bid is the maximum (plus the Buyer’s Premium) that the Bidder is willing and able to pay. Since other Bidders (by mail, facsimile, online, and in person) will be present, and since a reoffering could damage the momentum of the sale, once the hammer has fallen and RR Auction has announced the winning Bidder, such Bidder is unconditionally bound to pay for the lot, even if the Bidder has made a mistake. 4.3 All prospective Bidders who examine lots in person prior to the sale shall personally assume all responsibility for any damage they cause in so doing. RR Auction shall have sole discretion in determining the value of the damage caused, which shall be promptly paid by the prospective Bidder. 4.4 Title to any lot remains with Consignor, any secured party of the Consignor, or assignee of Consignor, as the case may be, until the lot is paid for in full by Bidder and Bidder has fully satisfied any outstanding financial obligations to RR Auction (including as it concerns aby other lots). RR Auction reserves the right to require payment in full before delivering any lot to the successful Bidder. 4.5 It is the Bidder’s responsibility and obligation to have the lots fully insured while in their possession. Bidder assumes any and all risk of loss upon the earlier of shipment to Bidder or in Bidder’s possession. 4.6 Bidder grants to RR Auction or its assigns the right to offset any sums due, or found to be due by RR Auction, and to make such offset from any past, subsequent or future consignment, or items acquired by Bidder in possession or control of RR Auction or from any sums due to Bidder by RR Auction. Bidder further grants RR Auction a lien consisting of a senior security interest (or purchase
money security interest to the extent applicable) in such sums or items to the fullest extent applicable, authorizes RR Auction to file documents concerning the interest, and Bidder agrees to execute any further documents as may be reasonably necessary to grant RR Auction such security interest. Bidder agrees that RR Auction and its assigns shall be a secured party with respect to items bought by Bidder and in the possession of RR Auction, to the extent of the maximum indebtedness, plus all accrued fees and expenses, until the indebtedness is paid. 4.7 By bidding in this sale, Bidder personally and unconditionally guarantees payment. The authorized representative of any corporate Bidder who is present at the sale shall provide RR Auction or its agent, prior to the commencement of the bidding (or at the time of registration), with a statement signed by a principal, director or officer that they he or she personally and unconditionally guarantees any payment due RR Auction. 4.8 RR Auction may at its sole and absolute discretion, make loans or advances to Consignors and/or prospective Bidders. Section 5 Bidding Options 5.1 Non-Internet bids (including but not limited to in-person, facsimile, phone and mail bids) are treated similarly to floor bids in that they must be on-increment. Any in-person, facsimile, phone, or mail bids that do not conform to a full increment will be rounded up or down to the nearest full increment and this revised amount will be considered Bidder’s high bid. 5.2 When identical bids are submitted, preference is given to the first received. To ensure the greatest accuracy, written bids should be entered on the standard printed bid sheet and be received at RR Auction’s place of business at least twenty-four (24) hours before the Auction start. RR Auction is not responsible for executing mail bids or facsimile bids received on or after the day the first lot is sold, nor Internet bids submitted after the published closing time; nor is RR Auction responsible for proper execution of bids submitted by telephone, mail, facsimile, e-mail, Internet, or in person once the Auction begins. 5.3 In all Auctions, bids on an item must raise the current high bid by at least 10%, or as specified on a per-Auction basis. Bids will be accepted in whole dollar amounts only. No “buy” or “unlimited” bids will be accepted. In a live sale, bids on an item can change at the discretion of RR Auction. 5.4 RR Auction reserves the right to accept or decline any bid. Bids must be for an entire lot and each lot constitutes a separate sale. All bids are per lot unless otherwise announced. Live auction lots will be sold in their numbered sequence unless RR Auction directs otherwise. It is unlawful and illegal for Bidders to collude, pool, or agree with another Bidder to pay less than the fair value for lot(s). For live auctions, RR Auction will have final discretion in the event that any dispute should arise between Bidders. RR Auction will determine the successful Bidder, cancel the sale, or re-offer and resell the lot or lots in dispute. RR Auction will have final discretion to resolve any disputes arising after the sale and in online auctions. If any dispute arises, RR Auction’s sale record is conclusive. Section 6 Payment
tion’s account before delivery of the Purchases; and all payments are subject to a clearing period. RR Auction reserves the right to determine if a check constitutes “good funds”: checks drawn on a U.S. bank are subject to a ten (10) calendar day hold, and ten (10) business days when drawn on an international bank. Clients with pre-arranged credit status may receive immediate credit for payments via e-Check, personal or corporate checks. 6.5 In the event that a Bidder’s payment is dishonored upon presentment(s), Bidder shall pay the maximum statutory processing fee set by applicable state law. If Bidder attempts to pay via check and the financial institution denies the transfer from Bidder’s bank account, or the payment cannot be completed using the selected funding source, Bidder agrees to complete payment. 6.7 If RR Auction refers any unpaid invoice to an attorney for collection, the Bidder agrees to pay and shall be liable for RR Auction’s attorney’s fees, court costs, and other collection costs incurred by RR Auction in addition to the invoice amount and interest the greater of 1.5% per month or at the maximum legally allowable rate from date of invoice to collection. If RR Auction assigns collection to its house counsel, such attorney’s time expended on the matter shall be compensated at a rate comparable to the hourly rate of independent attorneys. 6.8 RR Auction shall have a lien against the merchandise purchased by the Bidder (as well as to the extent it is a consignor any other monies owed or due to Bidder) to secure payment of the Auction invoice. RR Auction is further granted a lien and the right to retain possession of any other property of the Bidder then held by RR Auction or its affiliates to secure payment of any Auction invoice or any other amounts due RR Auction or affiliates from the Bidder. With respect to these lien rights, RR Auction shall have all the rights of a secured creditor, including but not limited to the right of sale. In addition, with respect to payment of the Auction invoice(s), the Bidder waives any and all rights of offset he might otherwise have against RR Auction and the consignor of the merchandise included on the invoice (the Consignor”). If a Bidder owes RR Auction or its affiliates on any account, RR Auction and its affiliates shall have the right to offset such unpaid account by any credit balance due Bidder, and it may secure by possessory lien any unpaid amount by any of the Bidder’s property in their possession. 6.9 All checks, cashiers checks, bank checks, or money orders are payable to R&R Auction Company of Massachusetts, LLC. RR Auction clients with an invoice totaling $1,000 or under will have the option to pay by VISA, Mastercard, Discover or Paypal. All Paypal payments must be sent to FinanceDepartment@ rrauction.com. Authorize.net, a third-party service provider contracted by RR Auction for processing on-line payments, charges a nonrefundable service fee of 3%, which will be added to your final invoice should you pay by credit/debit card. Section 7 Sales Tax RR Auction is a remote seller and we are now required to collect Sales/Use Tax from our bidders. The states that we have nexus in we will be required to collect and remit sales tax on your behalf. Each state has different requirements to meet nexus. When RR Auction has achieved a certain monetary and/or invoice threshold in each state we will apply sales tax to your total invoice. Please go to our terms on our website to see the states that are affected.
6.1 Subject to fulfillment of all of the Conditions of Sale set forth herein, upon the sooner of (1) the passing of title to the offered lot pursuant to these Conditions of Sale, or (2) possession of the offered lot by the Bidder, Bidder thereupon (a) assumes full risk and responsibility (including without limitation, liability for or damage to frames or glass covering prints, paintings, photos, or other works), and (b) will immediately pay the full purchase price or such part as RR Auction may require. In addition to other remedies available to RR Auction by law, RR Auction reserves the right to impose from the date of sale a late charge of 1.5% per month of the total purchase price if payment is not made in accordance with the conditions set forth herein. All property must be removed from RR Auction’s premises by the Bidder at his/her expense not later than sixty (60) business days following its sale and, if it is not so removed, RR Auction may send the purchased property to a public warehouse for the account, at the risk and expense of the Bidder.
If we have not achieved nexus in a particular state it is still your responsibility to pay sales tax on your purchases.
6.2 Payment is due upon closing of the Auction session, or upon presentment of an invoice. RR Auction reserves the right to void an invoice if payment in full is not received within thirteen (13) calendar days of the Auction or within twelve (12) calendar days of the invoice date. In cases of nonpayment, RR Auction’s election to void a sale does not relieve the Bidder from their obligation to pay RR Auction its fees (seller’s and Buyer’s Premium) on the lot and any other damages pertaining to the lot.
If you have a resale number please email Sue@RRAuction.com or fax to (603) 732-4288 a copy of your state resale certificate and you will be exempt from paying sales tax.
6.3 All sales for total invoices greater than $1,000 are strictly for cash in United States dollars (including U.S. currency, bank wire, cashier checks, eChecks, and bank money orders), and are subject to all reporting requirements. 6.4 All deliveries are subject to good funds; funds being received in RR Auc-
The sales tax rate is determined by the State, Country, and City where purchases are shipped to. If you decide to pick up your purchases at our New Hampshire location you will not be required to pay sales tax. The State of New Hampshire does not have a general sales and use tax. All purchases picked up at our Massachusetts location will be taxed at the current rate of 6.25%. Pennsylvania sales or use tax may be due in connection with the purchase and delivery of tangible personal property to Pennsylvania individuals and businesses. The purchaser is required to file a use tax return if tax is due in connection with the purchase and delivery in the Commonwealth. This notice is required pursuant to the provisions of the Tax Reform Code of 1971. 72 P.S. ¤ 7213.2.
Section 8 Delivery; Shipping; and Handling Charges Bidder is liable for shipping and handling and providing accurate information as to shipping or delivery locations and arranging for such. RR Auction is unable to combine purchases from other auctions or affiliates into one package for shipping purposes. Lots won will be shipped in a commercially reasonable time after payment in good funds for the merchandise and the shipping fees is received or credit extended, except when third-party shipment occurs. Bidder agrees that
service and handling charges related to shipping items which are not pre-paid may be charged to a credit card on file with RR Auction. Successful international Bidders shall provide written shipping instructions, including specified Customs declarations, to RR Auction for any lots to be delivered outside of the United States. NOTE: Declaration value shall be the item’(s) hammer price and RR Auction shall use the correct harmonized code for the lot. Domestic Bidders on lots designated for third-party shipment must designate the common carrier, accept risk of loss, and prepay shipping costs. Section 9 Title Title shall not pass to the successful Bidder until all invoices of Bidder (including those pertaining to the item(s) at issue) and amounts owed to RR Auction are paid in full. It is the responsibility of the Bidder to provide adequate insurance coverage for the items once they have been delivered to a common carrier or third-party shipper. Section 10 Rights Reserved RR Auction reserves the right, at any time before, during or after an auction has ended to: withdraw any lot before or at the time of the Auction, cancel any bid, and/or to postpone the Auction of all or any lots or parts thereof, for any reason. RR Auction shall not be liable to any Bidder in the event of such withdrawal, cancellation, or postponement under any circumstances. RR Auction reserves the right to refuse to accept bids from anyone at any time. Section 11 Conducting the Auction 11.1 RR Auction reserves the right to postpone the Auction or any session thereof for a reasonable period of time for any reason whatsoever, and no Bidder or prospective Bidder shall have any claim as a result thereof, including consequential damages. 11.2 RR Auction’s Discretion: RR Auction shall determine opening bids and bidding increments. RR Auction has the right in its absolute discretion to reject any bid in the event of dispute between Bidders or if RR Auction has doubt as to the validity of any bid, to advance the bidding at its absolute discretion and to determine the successful Bidder in the event of a dispute between Bidders, to continue the bidding or to reoffer and resell the lot in question. In the event of a dispute after the sale, RR Auctions record of final sale shall be conclusive. RR Auction also may reject any bid if RR Auction decides either that any bid is below the reserve of the lot or article or that an advance is insufficient. Unless otherwise announced by RR Auction at the time of sale, no lots may be divided for the purpose of sale. 11.3 Reserves Lots may be subject to a reserve which is the confidential minimum price below which the lot will not be sold. Consignors may not bid on their own lots or property. RR Auction may, from time to time, bid on items that it does not own. RR Auction may execute bids consecutively or otherwise up to one bid increment below the reserve. 11.4 Off-Site Bidding Bidding by telephone, facsimile, online, or absentee bidding (advance written bids submitted by mail) are offered solely as a convenience and permitted subject to advance arrangements, availability, and RR Auction’s approval which shall be exercised at RR Auction’s sole discretion. Neither RR Auction nor its agents or employees shall be held liable for the failure to execute bids or for errors relating to any transmission or execution thereof. In order to be considered for off-site bidding in any manner, Bidders must comply with all of these Conditions of Sale and the terms contained on the Registration Form. 11.5 Estimate Prices: In addition to descriptive information, each item in the Catalog sometimes includes a price range which reflects opinion as to the price expected at auction (the “Estimate Prices”). In other instances, Estimate Prices can be obtained by calling RR Auction at (603) 732-4280. The Estimate Prices are based upon various factors including prices recently paid at auction for comparable property, condition, rarity, quality, history and provenance. Estimate Prices are prepared well in advance of the sale and subject to revision. Estimates do not include the Buyer’s Premium or sales tax (see under separate heading). 11.6 Owned or Guaranteed Property: RR Auction generally offers property consigned by others for sale at public auction; in very limited occasion, lots are offered that are the property of RR Auction. 11.7 Before the Auction:
Bidder may attend pre-sale viewing for all of RR Auction’s auctions at no charge. All property to be auctioned is usually on view for several days prior to the sale. Bidder is encouraged to examine lots thoroughly. Bidder may also request condition reports (see below). RR Auction’s staff are available at viewings and by appointment. 11.8 Maximum Bids In All Auctions: To maximize Bidder’s chance of winning, RR Auction strongly encourages the use of maximum bids. RR Auction will then bid for Bidder until the lot reaches Bidder’s specified maximum. Maximum bids are strictly confidential. Placing arbitrary, non-incremental bids on lots with prior maximum bids may result in these lots being sold for less than 10% above the under Bidder’s bid. 11.9 Successful Bids: The fall of RR Auction’s hammer indicates the final bid. RR Auction will record the paddle number of the Bidder. If Bidder’s salesroom or absentee bid is successful, Bidder will be notified after the sale by mailed or emailed invoice. 11.10 Unsold Lots: If a lot does not reach the reserve, it is bought-in. In other words, it remains unsold and is returned to the Consignor. RR Auction has the right to sell certain unsold items after the close of the Auction. Such lots shall be considered sold during the Auction and all these Terms and Conditions shall apply to such sales including but not limited to the Buyer’s Premium, return rights, and disclaimers. 11.11 Bidding in Timed Auction: Bidder may open, monitor, and/or raise bids at any time before the close of a lot through www.rrauction.com. RR Auction offers a callback service the day of the Auction, but Bidder is responsible for supplying a correct telephone number(s) where Bidder can be reached until the Auction closes. Bidder must request this service in writing. RR Auction will make reasonable efforts to ensure that Bidders who request a callback are contacted if outbid; however, RR Auction does not guarantee this service and it is merely a courtesy and not an enforceable right. The auctioneer may also execute a bid on behalf of the consignor to protect the reserve, either by entering a bid in response to salesroom, telephone or absentee bids. Under no circumstances will the auctioneer place any bid on behalf of the consignor above the reserve. The auctioneer will not specifically identify bids placed on behalf of the consignor to protect the reserve. To ensure proper registration, those Bidders intending to bid via the Internet must visit www.RRauction.com and register accordingly at least one full day prior to the actual auction. Winning bidders will be notified by RR Auction. RR Auction is not responsible or liable for any problems, delays, or any other issues or problems resulting out of use of the Internet generally or specifically, including but not limited to transmission, execution or processing of bids. Any Bidder may bid on any lot prior to 6 pm EST/EDT. At that time, an extended bidding period goes into effect. If Bidder has not bid on a lot before 6 pm EST/ EDT, Bidder may not bid on that lot after 6 pm EST/EDT. Only those Bidders who have placed bids on a lot before 6 pm EST/EDT will be allowed to bid on that lot after 6 pm EST/EDT. If Bidder is the only Bidder on a lot at 6 pm EST/ EDT, that lot is awarded to Bidder. During the extended bidding period, a lot will remain open only to those who bid on that lot prior to 6 pm EST/EDT. All lots WITHOUT an opening bid at 6 pm EST/EDT will remain OPEN to ALL Bidders until 7 pm EST/EDT or until they receive their first bid. These lots will close immediately upon receipt of a bid or at 7 pm EST/EDT, whichever comes first. For all lots that are active after 7 pm EST/EDT, bidding will remain open until 30 minutes pass without a bid being placed on THAT lot (the “30 Minute Rule”). The 30 Minute Rule is applied on a PER LOT BASIS; each lot in the Auction closes individually based on bidding activity after 7 pm EST/EDT. On a PER LOT BASIS, the 30 minute timer will reset each time a bid is placed after 7 pm EST/EDT. If Bidder is the high Bidder, raising Bidder’s maximum bid will NOT reset the timer. RR Auction reserves the right to close the Auction at any time at its sole discretion. 11.12 Bidding - Internet Live Auction: Bidder may open, monitor, and/or raise bids at any time before the close of a lot through www.rrauction.com. RR Auction offers a callback service the day of the Auction, but Bidder is responsible for supplying a correct telephone number(s) where Bidder can be reached until the Auction closes. Bidder must request this service in writing. RR Auction will make reasonable efforts to ensure that Bidders who request a callback are contacted if outbid; however, RR Auction does not guarantee this service and it is merely a courtesy and not an enforceable right. To ensure proper registration, those Bidders intending to bid via the Internet must visit www.RRauction.com and register accordingly at least one full day prior to the actual auction. Winning bidders will be notified by RR Auction. RR Auction is not responsible or liable for any problems, delays, or any other issues or problems resulting out of use of the Internet generally or specifically, including but not limited to transmission, execution or processing of bids. During live internet or live auction, property is auctioned in consecutive numerical order, as it appears in the catalog. The auctioneer will accept bids from those present in the salesroom or absentee bidders participating by telephone,
internet or by written bid left with RR Auction in advance of the auction. The auctioneer may also execute a bid or bids (successively or otherwise) on behalf of the consignor to protect the reserve, either by entering a bid in response to salesroom, telephone or absentee bids. Under no circumstances will the auctioneer place any bid on behalf of the consignor above the reserve. The auctioneer will not specifically identify bids placed on behalf of the consignor to protect the reserve. All auctions for lots are with reserve unless specifically stated otherwise. During live Auctions, internet bids can be placed in real time through one or more of the following Third Party services: www.liveauctioneers.com, www.invaluable. com and www.icollector.com. RR Auction is not responsible or liable for any problems, delays, or any other issues or problems resulting out of use of the Internet generally or specifically, including but not limited to transmission, execution or processing of bids. RR Auction treats any third-party site bids as floor or telephone bids. Floor bids and telephone bids are always considered first over third party sites bids, and floor bids are considered earlier than telephone bids. All RR Auction lots purchased through the third-party sites carry an additional Buyer’s Premium. 11.13 Miscellaneous: Agreements between Bidders and Consignors to effectuate a non-sale of an item at Auction, inhibit bidding on a consigned item to enter into a private sale agreement for said item, or to utilize RR Auction’s Auction to obtain sales for non-selling consigned items subsequent to the Auction, are strictly prohibited. If a subsequent sale of a previously consigned item occurs in violation of this provision, RR Auction reserves the right to charge Bidder the applicable Buyer’s Premium and Consignor a Seller’s Commission as determined for each auction venue and by the terms of the seller’s agreement. Acceptance of these Terms and Conditions qualifies Bidder as a client who has consented to be contacted by RR Auction in the future. In conformity with ”donot-call” regulations promulgated by the Federal or State regulatory agencies, participation by the Bidder is affirmative consent to being contacted at the phone number shown in his application and this consent shall remain in effect until it is revoked in writing. RR Auction may from time to time contact Bidder concerning sale, purchase, and auction opportunities available. 11.14 Rules of Construction: RR Auction presents properties in a number of collectible fields, and as such, specific venues have promulgated supplemental Terms and Conditions. Nothing herein shall be construed to waive the general Conditions of Sale by these additional rules and shall be construed to give force and effect to the rules in their entirety. Section 12 RR Auction’s Remedies Failure of the Bidder to comply with any of these Conditions of Sale or the terms of the Registration Form is an event of material breach or default. In such event, RR Auction may, in addition to any other available remedies specifically including the right to hold the defaulting Bidder liable for the Purchase Price or to charge and collect from the defaulting Bidder’s credit or debit accounts as provided for elsewhere herein: (a) cancel the sale, retaining any payment made by the Bidder as damages (the Bidder understands and acknowledges that RR Auction will be substantially damaged should such default occur, and that damages under subpart (a) are necessary to compensate RR Auction for such damages); (b) resell the property without reserve at public auction or privately; (c) charge the Bidder interest on the Purchase Price at the rate of one and one-half percent (1.5%) per month or the highest allowable interest rate; (d) take any other action that RR Auction, in its sole discretion, deems necessary or appropriate to preserve and protect RR Auction’s rights and remedies. Should RR Auction resell the property, the original defaulting Bidder shall be liable for the payment of any deficiency in the purchase price and all costs and expenses associated there with, including but not limited to warehousing, sales-related expenses, reasonable attorney fees and court costs, commissions, incidental damages and any other charges due hereunder which were not collected or collectable. In the event that such Bidder is the successful Bidder on more than one lot and pays less than the purchase price for the total lots purchased, RR Auction shall apply the payment received to such lot or lots that RR Auction, in its sole discretion, deems appropriate. If RR Auction does not exercise such discretion, the lots to which the payment shall be applied will be in descending order from the highest purchase price to the lowest. Any Bidder failing to comply with these Conditions of Sale shall be deemed to have granted RR Auction a security interest in, and RR Auction may retain as collateral such security for such Bidder’s obligations to RR Auction, any Bidder’s property in RR Auction’s possession or to which title has not yet passed to Bidder. RR Auction shall have the benefit of all rights of a secured party under the Uniform Commercial Code (U.C.C.) as adopted by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Section 13 Warranties
13.1 RR Auction does not provide any warranties to Bidders, whether expressed or implied, beyond those expressly provided in these Conditions of Sale. All property and lots are sold ”as is” and “where is”. By way of illustration rather than limitation, neither RR Auction nor the Consignor makes any representation or warranty, expressed or implied, as to merchantability or fitness for intended use, condition of the property (including any condition report), correctness of description, origin, measurement, quality, rarity, importance, exhibition, relevance, attribution, source, provenance, date, authorship, condition, culture, genuineness, value, or period of the property. Additionally, neither RR Auction nor the Consignor makes any representation or warranty, expressed or implied, as to whether the Bidder acquires rights in copyright, trademark, or other intellectual property (including exhibition or reproduction rights) related to the item, or whether the property is subject to any limitations or other rights. RR Auction does not make any representation or warranty as to title. 13.2 All descriptions, photographs, illustrations, and terminology including but not limited to words describing condition (including any condition reports requested by Bidder, see also Terminology), authorship, period, culture, source, origin, measurement, quality, rarity, provenance, importance, exhibition, and relevance, used in the Catalog, bill of sale, invoice, or anywhere else, represent a good faith effort made by RR Auction to fairly represent the lots and property offered for sale as to origin, date, condition, and other information contained therein; they are statements of opinion only. They are not representations or warranties and Bidder agrees and acknowledges that he or she shall not rely on them in determining whether or not to bid or for what price. Price estimates (which are determined well in advance of the Auction and are therefore subject to revision) and condition reports are provided solely as a convenience to Bidders and are not intended nor shall they be relied on by Bidders as statements, representations or warranties of actual value or predictions of final bid prices. 13.3 Bidders are accorded the opportunity to inspect the lots and to otherwise satisfy themselves as to the nature and sufficiency of each lot prior to bidding, and RR Auction urges Bidders to avail themselves accordingly. 13.4 All lots sold by RR Auction are accompanied by an Auction Certificate (“AC”). On any lot presented with an AC issued by RR Auction, the certification is only as to its attribution to the person or entity described or to the lot’s usage and only as explicitly stated therein (the “AC”), to the exclusion of any other warranties, express or implied, including but not limited to those pursuant to the Uniform Commercial Code. The AC inures only to the original Bidder (as shown in RR Auction’s records). Bidder may not transfer, assign, or otherwise convey the AC and such purported transfer, assignment, or conveyance shall be null and void. Section 14 Firearms RR Auction complies with all Federal and State rules and regulations relating to the purchasing, registration and shipping of firearms. A Bidder is required to provide appropriate documents and the payment of associated fees, if any. Bidder is responsible for providing a shipping address that is suitable for the receipt of a firearm. Section 15 Unauthorized Statements Under no circumstances is any employee, agent or representative of RR Auction authorized by RR Auction to modify, amend, waive or contradict any of these Conditions of Sale, any term or condition set forth on a registration form, any warranty or limitation or exclusion of warranty, any term or condition in either the Registration Form or these Terms and Conditions regarding payment requirements, including but not limited to due date, manner of payment, and what constitutes payment in full, or any other term or condition contained in any documents issued by RR Auction unless such modification, amendment, waiver or contradiction is contained in a writing signed by all parties. Any statements, oral or written, made by employees, agents or representatives of RR Auction to Bidder, including statements regarding specific lots, even if such employee, agent or representative represents that such statement is authorized, unless reduced to a writing signed Bidder and by an authorized officer of RR Auction by all parties, are statements of personal opinion only and are not binding on RR Auction, and under no circumstances shall be relied upon by Bidder as a statement, representation or warranty of RR Auction. Section 16 Bidder’s Remedies 16.1 Except as stated expressly herein, Bidder’s sole and exclusive remedy related to or pertaining to items it bids upon, views, or purchases from RR Auction, and any claims by Bidder related to authenticity, ownership, condition, title or value, shall be against Consignor only. 16.2 This section sets forth the sole and exclusive remedies of Bidder as against
RR Auction (inclusive of its affiliates, officers, managers, employees or agents), or in any way arising out of, related to, or in connection with these Conditions of Sale, , and is expressly in lieu of any other rights or remedies which might be available to Bidder by law. Time is of the essence with respect to these procedures. 16.3 Title to Items The Bidder hereby accepts the benefit of the Consignor’s warranty of title and any other representations and warranties made by the Consignor for the Bidder’s benefit. In the event that Bidder demonstrates in writing, satisfactory to the sole discretion of RR Auction, that there was a breach of the Consignor’s warranty of title concerning a lot purchased by Bidder, RR Auction may make demand upon the Consignor to pay to Bidder the Purchase Price (including any premiums, taxes, or other amounts paid or due to RR Auction). Should the Consignor not pay the Purchase Price to Bidder within thirty days after such demand (if any made), RR Auction may disclose the identity of the Consignor to Bidder and may assign to Bidder all or some of RR Auction’s rights against the Consignor with respect to such lot or property. Upon such disclosure and/or assignment, all responsibility and liability of RR Auction, if any, with respect to said lot or item shall automatically terminate related to or arising from these Conditions of Sale or such transaction operating as a complete waiver and general release by Bidder as to RR Auction and its agents, contractors, and affiliates, as to any and all claims concerning or related to the item, if any . RR Auction shall be entitled to retain the premiums and other amounts paid to RR Auction by Consignor only. The rights and remedies provided herein are for the original Bidder only and they may not be assigned or relied upon by any transferee or assignee under any circumstances. 16.4 Authenticity Challenge Process (1) If Bidder wishes to dispute or challenge the Authenticity of the lot or item (including asserting that it is incorrect), Bidder must adhere to the following procedure: Within 30 days of the Auction Date, Bidder must present written evidence to RR Auction, that the lot is not authentic as determined by a known expert in the field (and one recognized by RR Auction within its discretion) and send the physical item or lot at issue to RR Auction along with all evidence relied upon by Bidder for contesting the Authenticity. (“Authenticity Challenge Process”) “Authenticity” shall mean a gross discrepancy in the between the description, genuiness, or attribution of the item as represented by RR Auction in the Catalog or at the auction, and the item. If RR Auction concurs that the lot is not Authentic as was represented (it is sole discretion), Bidder’s sole and exclusive remedy as against RR Auction (inclusive of its affiliates, agents, employees, and contractors) shall be a refund of the purchase price of the subject item paid by Bidder, with no other costs, liabilities or amounts recoverable by Bidder. If RR Auction does not agree with the assertion by Bidder, then the Parties shall follow the dispute resolution procedures of these Conditions of Sale. Strict adherence to the Authenticity Challenge Process is a condition of standing for Bidder to initiate suit or claim. (2) So long as Bidder has complied with the Authenticity Challenge Process, any claim, suit or action, by Bidder concerning an AC or Certification of Authenticity, or related to the authenticity of the item must, without any exception, be brought within one (1) year of Auction Date and is subject to the other limitations and conditions stated in the Conditions of Sale. 16.5 Other Issues. Any dispute or claim by Bidder against RR Auction (or its affiliates, directors, employees, officers, agents, or contractors)) other than Authenticity, concerning any item or lot bid upon, or purchased, including value, title, condition, bidding process, or description must be asserted (if at all) in the following manner: (1) If the description of any lot in the Catalog is materially or grossly incorrect (e.g., gross cataloging error), or there is any other gross material issue pertaining to the item or lot, the item or lot may be returned if returned within five (5) calendar days of receipt, and received by RR Auction no later than twenty-one (21) calendar days after the Auction Date with explanation in writing.. If there is any discrepancy between the description in the Catalog and a certificate of auction, then the description in the certificate of auction (“Lot Challenge Process”). This paragraph shall constitute Bidder’s sole right with respect to the return of items, and no refunds shall be given for any items not returned to and received by RR Auction within the period of time stated herein or not materially or grossly in deviation from the description. Such a refund is subject to RR Auction’s sole discretionary review, and any request for refund must be made concurrently with returning the physical item or lot to RR Auction. Any item not returned within said frame will constitute acceptance of the item and a waiver and release of any and all claims by Bidder pertaining to the item other than with respect to authenticity; and
(2) Provided that the Bidder has engaged in the Lot Challenge Process, any claim concerning such must be brought no later than one (1) year of the Auction Date for the item or lot at issue and is subject to the other limitations and conditions stated in the Conditions of Sale. NO RETURN OR REFUND OF ANY AUCTION LOT WILL BE CONSIDERED OR PROVIDED EXCEPT AS PROVIDED IN THESE CONDITIONS OF SALE AND BIDDERS OR AS MAY BE REQUIRED BY LAW. FAILURE TO COMPLY WITH SUCH SHALL BE A COMPLETE DEFENSE TO ANY CLAIMS BY BIDDER RELATED TO THE CONDITIONS OF SALE, ANY AUCTION OR BID. 16.6 LIMITATION OF LIABILITY. For any and all claims by Bidder arising out of or related to this Agreement, Bidder’s viewing, bid, or purchase of items, or any agreement between the Parties, or otherwise, Bidder agrees that to the fullest extent such can be limited under the law, Bidder shall have no right to recover and hereby waives any and all rights to recover from against RR Auction or its affiliates, directors, employees, officers, agents, or contractors, consequential or indirect damages, lost profits damages, punitive, exemplary, statutory (or multiplier damages), physical or emotional distress damages, general or special damages of any kind (beyond amounts actually paid by Bidder for item(s) at issue), and in the event of recovery of any damages whatsoever, such shall be limited by the amounts actually paid by Bidder to RR Auction for the item(s) at issue in such claim, or if no money was paid to RR Auction by Bidder for items at issue, or there items are at issue, the amount of $150.00. Section 17 RR Auction’s Additional Services For Bidders who do not remove purchased property from RR Auction’s premises, RR Auction, in its sole discretion and solely as a service and accommodation to Bidders, may arrange to have purchased lots packed, insured and forwarded at the sole request, expense, and risk of Bidder. RR Auction assumes no and disclaims all responsibility and liability for acts or omissions in such packing or shipping by RR Auction or other packers and carriers, whether or not recommended by RR Auction. RR Auction assumes no and disclaims all responsibility and liability for damage to frames, glass or other breakable items. Where RR Auction arranges and bills for such services via invoice, RR Auction will include an administration charge. Section 18 Headings Headings are for convenience only and shall not be used to interpret the substantive sections to which they refer. Section 19 Entire Agreement Except to the extent Bidder is also a consignor (in which case the terms of the consignment agreement shall also govern), these Conditions of Sale constitute the entire agreement between the Parties together with the terms and conditions contained in the auction Registration Form. They may not be amended, modified or superseded except in a signed writing executed by all parties. No oral or written statement by anyone employed by RR Auction or acting as agent or representative of RR Auction may amend, modify, waive or supersede the terms herein unless such amendment, waiver or modification is contained in a writing signed by all parties. If any section of these Conditions of Sale or any term or provision of any section is held to be invalid, void, or unenforceable by any court or arbitrator of competent jurisdiction, the remaining parts of the agreement and remainder of the sections or terms and provisions of the section and all sections shall continue in full force and effect without being impaired or invalidated in any way. Section 20 Governing Law and Enforcement 20.1 The Parties agree that all agreements between the Parties including but not limited to these Conditions of Sale are entered into in Boston, Massachusetts, no matter where Bidder is situated and no matter by what means or where Bidder was informed of the Auction and regardless of whether catalogs, materials, or other communications were received by Bidder in another location. 20.2 The Parties agree that these Conditions of Sale, any other related agreement(s), along with all claims between the Parties, including those arising out of or related to such are governed by the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, without regard for its conflict of laws principles. The Parties agree that any dispute between the Parties, including but not limited to those related to or arising out of these Conditions of Sale, or related to or arising out of any other
related agreement(s) shall be submitted to confidential binding arbitration (the ”Arbitration”) before a single Arbitrator of the American Arbitration Association (the “AAA”) The Parties agree that the Arbitration shall be conducted pursuant to the commercial rules of the AAA in Boston, Massachusetts, unless the Consumer Arbitration Rules apply, in which case, such rules and venue will govern. In the event that the Parties cannot agree on the selection of the Arbitrator, then the Arbitrator shall be selected by the AAA. The prevailing Party in the Arbitration shall also recover all of its related fees and costs, whether before or after the formal institution of the Arbitration, including but not limited to its reasonable attorneys’ fees and costs, if RR Auction prevails, such recovery, in addition to all remedies available at agreement or law, shall include the Buyer’s Premium as defined in these Conditions of Sale. Federal arbitration law, including the Federal Arbitration Act apply to this agreement to arbitrate and its related provisions. The arbitration and all related proceedings shall be held strictly confidential and all documents and discovery shall be held confidential and not used, published or disclosed publically or to anyone outside the Parties or expert consultants or counsel who shall agree to hold such confidential. 20.3 The Parties consent to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts as exclusive jurisdiction and venue for all claims between the Parties except as provided specifically herein and may seek confirmation of the decision in the Arbitration pursuant to the Federal Arbitration Act in any Court of competent jurisdiction, including the courts of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts or the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts. To the extent such is necessary under the law, RR Auction may enforce the Arbitration award against Bidder and any related Party in any court of competent jurisdiction. Nothing in this Agreement shall be construed as RR Auction consenting to jurisdiction or venue in any location outside of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. THE PARTIES MAY NOT BRING CLAIMS AGAINST EACH OTHER AS A CLASS OR CLASS MEMBER IN ANY CLAIMED CLASS, OR IN A REPRESENTATIVE ACTION UNLESS OTHERWISE AGREED. UNLESS OTHERWISE AGREED, THE CLAIMS AGAINST EACH OF THE OTHER CANNOT BE CONSOLIDATED OR JOINED WITH MORE THAN ONE ADDITIONAL PERSON OR ENTITIES’ CLAIMS. NO INJUNCTIVE OR DECLATORY RELIEF SOUGHT BY BIDDER IF ANY, CAN AFFECT OR BE ORDERED TO AFFECT ANY OTHER BIDDERS OR PERSONS. 20.4 Except as provided specifically in these Conditions of Sale in Bidder’s Remedies against RR Auction (along with its affiliates, directors, agents, officers, employees, and contractors) for any dispute, claim, cause of action related to or arising out of these Conditions of Sale or any other related agreement(s), brought by Bidder must be brought within the earlier of the Auction Date as it pertains to the item(s) at issue or no later than one (1) year of the acts, omissions or circumstances occurred giving rise to the alleged claim, without exception. This provision is intended as a full, complete and absolute bar to and release of any claims by Bidder initiated after one (1) year of such acts, omissions or circumstances. The Parties agree further that these waiver provisions are intended to be binding in the event of any dispute, specifically including but not limited to third party claims and cross-actions brought by Bidder. These provisions are consideration for the execution of these Conditions of Sale.
20.8 Indemnity. Bidder agrees to defend, indemnify, hold harmless RR Auction (along with its officers, directors, agents, contractors, and affiliates) from and against any and all claims, costs, fees, damages, and liabilities arising out of or related to these Conditions of Sale, view of items, or lots, bidding, or participation in any auction by RR Auction, and/or or in any way connected to any item you viewed, bid upon or purchased through RR Auction. Section 21: State-by-State Law Issues This Auction is being conducted in and the sale shall take place in the State of Massachusetts. Notwithstanding, the foregoing, should these terms and conditions violate the law of any State should that state’s law be found to govern, or any provision herein determined to be invalid, the clause itself and the remainder of the Agreement shall be valid to the fullest extent allowed. Also, to the extent other states law apply to any transaction arising out of the Agreement (without admitting such), RR Auction states: For Residents of California: SALE OF AUTOGRAPHED COLLECTIBLES: AS REQUIRED BY LAW, A DEALER WHO SELLS TO A CONSUMER ANY COLLECTIBLE DESCRIBED AS BEING AUTOGRAPHED MUST PROVIDE A WRITTEN EXPRESS WARRANTY AT THE TIME OF SALE. THIS DEALER MAY BE SURETY BONDED OR OTHERWISE INSURED TO ENSURE THE AUTHENTICITY OF ANY AUTOGRAPHED COLLECTIBLE SOLD BY THIS DEALER. A written express warranty is provided with each autographed collectible, as required by law. This dealer may be surety bonded or otherwise insured to ensure the authenticity of any autographed collectible sold by this dealer.
Section 22 Glossary of Condition terms Information provided to prospective Bidders with respect of any lot, including any pre-sale estimate, whether written or oral, and information in any catalogue, condition or other report, commentary or valuation, is not a representation of fact but rather a statement of opinion held by RR Auction. Use of the following terms constitutes an opinion as follows: VERY FINE describes an item believed to be in virtually flawless condition, and is used sparingly for items of exceptionally attractive appearance. FINE is the most common statement of condition, and applies to most items that we offer. It describes items that we believe to show expected handling wear, generally acceptable random flaws (such as light creases, small bends, etc.), and an overall appearance that is pleasing to the majority of collectors.
20.5 To the fullest extent under applicable law and except as specifically stated herein Bidder hereby holds harmless, releases and discharges RR Auction and its agents, officer’s directors, affiliates, successors, and assigns from any and all claims, liabilities, obligations, promises, agreements, damages, causes of action, suits, demands, losses, debts, and expenses of any nature whatsoever, known or unknown, suspected or unsuspected existing prior to these Conditions of Sale. Bidder agrees to the Conditions of Sale and upon each instance that Bidder participates in any auction, bids, or otherwise agrees to such terms and reaffirms this release as of the date of so participating or agreeing unless Bidder otherwise provides clear written notice to RR Auction prior to so bidding.
VERY GOOD describes an item that we believe exhibits more moderate flaws (such as toning, light staining, professional reinforcements or repairs, etc.). Most collectors would be comfortable with items in very good condition, and this would be the expected condition for many formats (early presidential documents, for example).
20.6 The Bidder hereby agrees that RR Auction shall be entitled to present these Conditions of Sale to a court in any jurisdiction other than set forth in this paragraph as conclusive evidence of the Parties agreement, and the Parties further agree that the court shall immediately dismiss any action filed in such jurisdiction.
Bidder may call and request further details and information about RR Auction’s opinions concerning any item via phone or email which shall provided in RR Auction’s discretion.
20.7 Liquidated Damages for Specific Breaches
Bidder warrants that Bidder (and its agents, assigns, successors, and affiliates) shall not purposely deface, destroy, dismember, cut-up into parts the item or Lot purchased at auction from RR Auction and in the event such shall occur whether purposefully or accidently, Bidder (and its agents, assigns, successors, and affiliates) shall refrain from advertising, promoting, or marketing the item as having been purchased from RR Auction and shall in no event display, expressly claim, or imply that the item was certified or auctioned in such state by RR Auction. As liquidated damages for such breach, Bidder agrees to be liable to RR Auction for the greater of the amount of three (3) times the hammer price of the item along with all other fees and costs as otherwise provided in this Terms of Sale.
In the event that Bidder provides false information in connection with registering for bidding, fails to correct or update information or breaches the Conditions of Sale by failing to pay the purchase price when due after becoming the winning bidder, as liquidated damages associated with such breaches, R&R may obtain from Bidder the greater of (1) 150% the reserve of the item (if any); (2) the amount bidder bid; or (3), the full amount that bidder would have otherwise paid. Bidder will also be liable for an additional 20% of such amount to account for additional administrative costs, shipping, additional advertising, and other damages and liabilities fees that are difficult to calculate on an item-by-item basis.
GOOD describes an item which we believe to have obvious visible flaws, including heavy wear, missing portions, or repairs that affect appearance; generally items in this condition are offered only if an item is otherwise believed to be exceedingly rare or important.
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