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Highlights include rare printings of Alexander Hamilton’s Federalist Papers and Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on the State of Virginia; a first edition of the LincolnDouglas Debates signed by Abraham Lincoln; Harry Houdini’s personally-owned escape act props; custom-engraved revolvers presented to J. Edgar Hoover; rare Albert Einstein autographs; and Apollo 17 moonwalker Gene Cernan’s flown EVA cuff checklist.

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“The Morals of the People of America have been proved to be defective, by many Inattentions to public Faith”

Writing home to his brother-in-law in 1786, John Adams expresses outrage over unfulfilled obligations under the Treaty of Paris

LOT 6001 John Adams Autograph Letter Signed on Debt Defaults

Under Treaty of Paris: “The Morals of the People of America have been proved to be defective”

ALS, signed “My Respects and Love to all, your Brother, John Adams,” three pages on two adjoining sheets, 7.75 x 12.75, May 26, 1786. Handwritten letter to his brother-in-law, Richard Cranch, sent from London while serving as the first United States Minister to Great Britain. Adams is outraged that America has failed to fulfill its obligations under the Treaty of Paris, having failed to pay amounts due on debt to foreign creditors (including loans negotiated by him, although this is not said).

In full: “During Such great Changes as We have seen When the whole World is put out of its Course and all Men are called to Act in scænes that are new to them, great Irregularities must be expected. But can any Nation ever hope to have Commerce and a Circulation of Property and Industry where the Courts of Justice are not opened. where every Man is not conscious that he can compell others to do him Justice, and be compelled to do Justice to others.

The Morals of the People of America have been proved to be defective, by many Inattentions to public Faith, more than by any other Thing which has ever happened. They have suffered by it in their own Opinion more than in that of the World.

The Truth is that the Citizens of America have less confidence in one another, than the World has in them. What is the Reason of this? Breaches of public Faith.—

I hope they will soon restore themselves to their own Esteem as well as that of all Nations by repealing every Law against the Treaty & by making Provision for paying the Interest of all their Debts at home and abroad.

This is the first step, and it is essential. When this is done let them Act as decidedly towards Great Britain as they please. the more so the better.

My whole System is comprehended in two Words Faith and Retaliation. fulfill to a Tittle your Part of the Treaty, and then retaliate all their Prohibitions, Impositions and Restrictions.—in this Way We shall soon bring them as our Parsons pray ‘to

Reason or to ruin.’— Europe is tranquil in Appearance, but Works are going on Under Ground & in covered Ways.

Pray desire our Friend Goodhue to send me next Fall or sooner, another Account of the Fisheries.

We must I believe get into the Way of prohibiting the Export of Cash like other nations. We shall never have Industry and Employment, among our People till We do.” In very good to fine condition, with fold splits, short edge tears, and seal-related paper loss to the integral address leaf.

This insightful letter reveals John Adams’s place in the center of early American diplomacy. During the Revolutionary War, the Americans relied on loans from abroad to finance the rebellion. Benjamin Franklin had negotiated large sums from France—eventually totaling over two million dollars—and Adams secured a loan from Dutch bankers as the war began winding down in 1782. Both Adams and Franklin, along with John Jay, served as the negotiators for the American side of the Treaty of Paris, which ended the war with Great Britain in 1783. The terms of the treaty called for ‘lawful contracted debts to be paid to creditors on either side.’ Nevertheless, American states had been delinquent in paying debts owed to British merchants, and in response, the British refused to vacate forts in the northwest, as had been promised in the Treaty of Paris. Further, the United States struggled to repay its debts to all foreign creditors, defaulting on payments due to France in 1785 and 1787.

In spite of his best attempts to resolve these disputes, Adams grew frustrated with the lack of progress—a frustration evident in this letter, as he complains that the “Morals of the People of America have been proved to be defective.” Unable to remedy the situation, and growing anxious from news of tumult at home (such as Shays’ Rebellion), Adams asked to be relieved of his diplomatic duties, returning to the United States in 1788. The disputes between the United States and Great Britain over debts and the occupation of forts would go unresolved until the Jay Treaty of 1794.

Provenance: The archive of a direct descendant of Abigail Adams’s only sister, Mary Cranch. Never before offered.

Starting Bid $1,000

The first two volumes of John Adams’s influential Defence of the Constitutions of the United States America, presented to his cousin

LOT 6002

John Adams Signed Books - A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America, Inscribed to His Cousin

Extremely rare pair of signed books: A Defence of the Constitutions of the United States America, Volumes I and II [of three], by John Adams. First edition. London: Printed for C. Dilly (Vol. I) and C. Dilly and John Stockdale (Vol. II), 1787. Hardcovers bound in full brown calf, 5.5 x 8.5, 392 pages (Vol. I) and 451 pages (Vol. II). Signed and inscribed on the first free end page of both volumes in ink by John Adams to his cousin, “Miss Hannah Adams, from The Author.” Subsequently inscribed by Hannah Adams to her nephew, Thomas Adams Hill. In very good to fine condition, with foxing to the signed page. Book condition: VG-/None, with professionally mended hinges and headcaps, some scratches to leather, moderate foxing throughout, and 19th-century ownership inscriptions to front pastedowns. Accompanied by custom-made clamshell cases for each volume.

Written while serving as the American ambassador in London, John Adams’s A Defence of the Constitutions of the United States America—first published in three volumes in 1787–1788—offers a forcible statement of the principles on which he perceived the United States to be founded. The work describes forms of republican government across history and evokes the writings of political philosophers ancient and modern—from Plato to Benjamin Franklin. Adams argues that the American system is designed to take the best parts from each idea and structure of government, and makes the case for a comprehensive system of checks and balances. Although this work was written as a defense of the various state constitutions in place at the time, it would be consulted by the members of the Constitutional Convention as the Constitution of the United States began to be drafted in May 1787.

From David McCullough’s biography of John Adams: ‘From Philadelphia, where the Constitutional Convention had assembled, Benjamin Rush, a member of the Convention, wrote that the Defence had ‘diffused such excellent principles among us, that there is little doubt of our adopting a vigorous and compound federal legislature’…To a considerable extent, Adams’ Defence was an expanded, more erudite rendition of the case for checks and balances in government that he had championed in his Thoughts on Government (1776), and later put into operation in his draft of the Massachusetts constitution.’

The recipient of these volumes, Hannah Adams (1755–1831), was a distant cousin of John Adams and the first woman in the United States to work professionally as a writer, authoring books on comparative religion and early United States history. Exceedingly rare in signed copies, and representing one of Adams’s principal contributions to the early theory of American government, this is a remarkable and historically significant pair of books.

Starting Bid $5,000

Amidst war and religious persecution in 1799, President John Adams declares a national day of thanksgiving and prayer

LOT 6003

John Adams Broadside for Presidential Proclamation of a Day of Fasting

Rare original broadside issued by President John Adams for a proclamation of a day of solemn fasting, one page, 8.25 x 13.25, March 6, 1799. Featuring the printed signatures of President John Adams and Secretary of State Timothy Pickering, the broadside proclaims April 25th as a fast day due to religious persecution in Europe and the naval war with France. In part: “As no truth is more clearly taught in the volume of inspiration, nor any more fully demonstrated by the experience of all ages, than that a deep sense and a due acknowledgment of the governing providence of a Supreme Being and of the accountableness of men to Him as the searcher of hearts and righteous distributor of rewards and punishments, are conducive, equally, to the happiness and rectitude of individuals and to the well being of communities; as it is, also, most reasonable in itself, that men who are made capable of social acts and relations, who owe their improvements to the social state, and who derive their enjoyments from it, should, as a society, make their acknowledgments of dependance and obligation to Him who hath endued them with these capacities, and elevated them in the scale of existence, by these distinctions; as it is, likewise, a plain dictate of duty, and a strong sentiment of nature, that in circumstances of great urgency and seasons of imminent danger, earnest and particular supplications should be made to Him who is able to defend or to destroy; as, moreover, the most precious interests of the people of the United States are still held in jeopardy, by the hostile designs and insidious arts of a foreign nation, as well as by the dissemination among them of those principles subversive of the foundations of all religious, moral and social obligations, that have produced incalculable mischief and misery in other countries; and as,

in fine, the observance of special seasons for public religious solemnities, is happily calculated to avert the evils which we ought to deprecate, and to excite to the performance of the duties which we ought to discharge,—by calling and fixing the attention of the people at large to the momentous truths already recited, by affording opportunity to teach and inculcate them, by animating devotion and giving to it the character of a national act:—For these reasons, I have thought proper to recommend, and I do hereby recommend accordingly, that Thursday, the 25th day of April next, be observed, throughout the United States of America, as a day of solemn humiliation, fasting and prayer.” Free franked on the reverse in ink by Secretary of State Timothy Pickering, “T. Pickering,” with a portion of the address erased. In very good condition, with seal-related paper loss to the upper blank area, splitting to the ends of the horizontal folds, and complete (repairable) separation to the central horizontal fold.

Starting Bid $500

LOT 6004

Abigail Adams Autograph Letter Signed as First Lady on French Revolution: “National Degradation and unparalled corruption”

ALS as first lady, signed “I am most affectionately, your sister, Adams,” three pages on two adjoining sheets, 8 x 10, April 9, 1798. Handwritten letter from Philadelphia to her older sister, Mary Smith Cranch, quoting from Edmund Burke’s ‘Letters on a Regicide Peace’ and commenting at length on America’s relations with France amidst the French Revolution. She goes on to express delight in the spring season, mourn the deaths of friends and acquaintances, and offer other family news.

In part: “I wrote you on saturday that I would forward to you the Dispatches as soon as they were out. I accordingly inclose them. they exhibit a picture of National Degradation and unparalled corruption, which presents Burks picture of the French Nation, not as the product of a heated imagination, but as real Life. ‘out of the Tomb of the Murdered Monarchy in France, has arrisen a vast, tremendous, unformed spectre, in a far more terrific Guise than any which ever yet overpowerd the imagination, and subdued the fortitude of Man, Going strait forward to its End, unappalled by Peril, unchecked by remorse, despising all common maxims, and all common means. The poison of other states is the food of this Regiside Republic.’ it would be happy for America to cut off all further connection with her, and to repel her Arts her Arms and her wiles, by that fire and Brimstone to which her crimes destine her. They have repeld our advances for acommodation with scorn they are an Enemy to whose Virtues we can owe nothing. if we possess virtue, if we possess Union of sentiment, and Independance of spirit we Shall have little reason to dread the force of their Arms at the distance we are removed from them, and their resources are pretty well drained by their eagerness for Plunder, and their avowal to sacrifice all for money. even the Presidents speech at which they have the insolence to pretend they are offended, may be expiated by money!

In the records of Pride there does not exist so insulting a declaration. It is insolent in words, in manner but in substance, it is not only insulting but alarming. it is a specimen of what may be expected from the Masters. Some are disposed to give to our Humbled Country.

The senate have directed the instruction to our Envoys to be publishd. the World will then see that our advances were honorable candid and generous, and that nothing further can be done consistant with our National Independance, untill France changes her Rulers and her measures—We must prepare to defend ourselves.” She goes on to mention the coming blossoms of spring, the unfortunate deaths of some friends, and some other bits of family news. In fine condition.

Unlike her predecessor, Abigail Adams took an active role in politics during her husband’s administration—leading some to refer to her as ‘Mrs. President.’ As John Adams’s confidant, she was well informed on issues facing her husband’s administration and of current events in general. Here, she communicates with her sister regarding the French Revolution, forwarding dispatches that “exhibit a picture of National Degradation and unparalled corruption.” Evoking the words of influential political philosopher Edmund Burke, she recommends cutting all ties to France and alludes to the so-called XYZ Affair—a political and diplomatic episode involving a confrontation between the United States and Republican France that led to the Quasi-War.

Adams writes notes that the “senate have directed the instruction to our Envoys to be publishd.” On April 9th, the Senate voted sixteen to ten to print the instructions to the American commissioners sent to France in 1797 to negotiate issues surrounding privateering and the illegal seizure of American vessels at sea. In the documents released by the Adams administration, the names of the French agents—who demanded large bribes before proceeding to formal negotiations—were substituted with the letters X, Y, and Z. Adams expresses confidence that the publication of the documents will offer proof that the United States was “honorable candid and generous” in their negotiating stance.

A fascinating autograph letter by First Lady Abigail Adams, demonstrating her sophisticated grasp of global politics and her insight into the affairs of the John Adams administration.

Provenance: The archive of a direct descendant of Abigail Adams’s only sister, Mary Cranch. Never before offered.

Starting Bid $1,000

Abigail Adams writes to her sister on the XYZ Affair and the French Revolution—“they exhibit a picture of National Degradation and unparalled corruption”

Thomas Jefferson supports Virginia’s militia as governor during the Revolutionary War—

LOT 6005

Thomas Jefferson Revolutionary War-Dated

Document Signed for Drafting and Payment of Virginia State Militia (Sole Surviving Copy)

Rare Revolutionary War–dated partly-printed DS as governor of Virginia, signed “Th: Jefferson,” one page, 8 x 12, July 24, 1780. Circular letter to the County Lieutenant of Botetourt, referring to acts to prevent desertion, to draft more state militia, and to use tobacco loan certificates for pay. In full: “You will receive by this express an act to prevent dese[rtion]; an extract on the same subject from another act; an act for drafting your militia; and sixt[y] tobacco loan office certificates. For the last mentioned act, and the certificates, be pleased to return your receipt by the bearer. You stand debited in the Auditors books with these tobacco certificates. You will be pleased therefore to take a receipt from every soldier for the certificate delivered him, which receipts, with the certificates not delivered but, being transmitted to the Auditors, they will pass them to your credit, and give you a quie[tu]s. To prevent danger from misapplication before they get to your hands, we are obliged to declare that none of these certificates shall be deemed to have been duly issued, or to oblige the state to payment, unless they are attested by the County Lieutenant or other Commanding Officer, on delivery to the soldier, which attestation you will, at the time you fill up the blank with the name of the soldier, enter in the lower left hand corner in some such form as this:

‘Witness A.B. County Lieutenant of ___.’ According to authority given the Executive by another act of Assembly: Brunswick and Pittsylvania courthouses are appointed additional places of rendezvous: And as it is almost certain that these troops are to join the southern army, I would recommend that you have regard to this in determining to which place of rendezvous you will send your recruits. To subsist them to the place of rendezvous, you are hereby authorized to call on the commissioners of the provision law for your county (if any were appointed therein) for a day’s subsistence for every man and every twenty miles he has to march to the rendezvous, out of the stock they have on hand, or if they have none, or not enough, they must obtain it as directed in the act ‘For procur-

ing a supply of provisions and other necessaries for the use of the army;’ their powers are also hereby extended for this special purpose to live cattle, horses, waggons, boats, or other vessels and their crews; and for their guide herein, I send you the inclosed extract from the law authorizing this extention. If no such commissioners have been appointed in your county, you are hereby authorized to appoint one for the same special purpose of subsisting and carrying your recruits to the place of rendezvous, where provision will be made for their further subsistance and transportation.” The complimentary closing (“I am Your hble Servt”) and postscript (“P.S. Be pleased to make me an exact return of your M[ili]tia after your draughts shall be taken out”) are penned in clerks’ hands. Professionally repaired and restored to very good condition, with overall creasing, light staining, and silk reinforcements on the reverse to some of the ink erosion.

In The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, this document is described as ‘apparently the sole surviving copy of a circular sent to many if not all of the county lieutenants.’ The significant circular demonstrates Jefferson’s keen guidance of the Virginia state militia during the Revolutionary War, ensuring that the troops remained adequately paid and supplied in spite of wartime shortages. In April 1780, Jefferson had transferred Virginia’s capital from Williamsburg further inland to Richmond—from where he issued this circular—in order to protect the state’s government from a coastal attack. However, Jefferson’s efforts to protect the capital proved insufficient in the face of the ambitious traitor Benedict Arnold. In December 1780, Arnold led a force of 1,600 troops up the James River, laying waste to plantations and settlements along the way, and captured Richmond unopposed, burning much of the city. Governor Jefferson, forced to flee the city, ordered his friend, Sampson Mathews, to assault Arnold’s troops with a meager corps of 200 militiamen. Using guerrilla tactics, Mathews’ men inflicted enough damage to Arnold’s troops that they were forced to retreat.

Starting Bid $1,000

‘apparently the sole surviving copy’ of this circular

Founding Father Edmund Randolph’s first edition of Notes on the State of Virginia by Thomas Jefferson— an exceedingly rare, important association copy

LOT 6006

Thomas Jefferson: First Edition of Notes on the State of Virginia

(Edmund Randolph’s Copy, Signed and Annotated)

Rare book authored by Thomas Jefferson, owned and signed by fellow Virginian founding father Edmund Randolph: Notes on the State of Virginia: written in the year 1781, somewhat corrected and enlarged in the winter of 1782, for the use of a Foreigner of distinction, in answer to certain queries proposed by him. Rare, privately printed first edition. [Paris: PhilippeDenis Pierres for the author,] 1782 [i.e., 1785]. Hardcover bound in brown calf, 5.25 x 8, 391 pages, bound with 32 pages of supplementary pamphlets (“Draught of a Fundamental Constitution for the Commonwealth of Virginia,” “Notes on the Establishment of a Money Unit, and of a Coinage for the United States,” and “An Act for establishing Religious Freedom, passed in the assembly of Virginia in the beginning of the year 1786”). Signed at the head of “Query I” by founding father Edmund Randolph, “Edm: Randolph,” who attended the Constitutional Convention as a delegate from Virginia and later served in George Washington’s cabinet. Randolph also adds his personal handwritten table of contents before the title page (including citations to “Slaves,” “Slavery,” “Indians,” and “Negroes”) and annotations in various places (mostly glosses; only one note is substantive, adding the “Osprey” to Jefferson’s list of birds).

On the rear flyleaf is an interesting, indignant Civil War–dated handwritten note by Randolph’s grand-niece, in full: “In 1864 Edmonia Preston, grand-daughter of the owner of this book, (Edmund Randolph the first Attorney-General and the second Secretary of State of the United States) being ‘Kindly permitted’ to purchase supplies for her destitute family, rode into Fredericsburg, clothed in a single garment made of an old quilt, because the soldiers of the United States had robbed her and her children of their clothing. K. P. Wormeley, great niece of Edmund Randolph.” Autographic condition: fine. Book condition: VG-/None, with professional mending to hinges and some pages, minor staining to textblock, rebacked spine and

selectively consolidated leather, and the small bookplate of Thomas W. Streeter affixed to front pastedown. Accompanied by a custom-made clamshell case.

Notes on the State of Virginia emanated from Thomas Jefferson’s responses to questions about Virginia posed by François Barbé-Marbois, the secretary of the French delegation in Philadelphia. Jefferson divided his response into 23 “queries,” each discussing a different aspect of Virginia—offering a wide-ranging survey of the state, covering everything from its geography and climate to its commerce and manners. He first had the work printed anonymously in Paris in 1785, in a limited edition of just two hundred copies—this being one.

In a letter to James Madison of May 11, 1785, Jefferson wrote of the volume’s publication: ‘I had 200 copies printed, but do not put them out of my own hands, except two or three copies here, and two which I shall send to America, to yourself and Colo. Monroe.’ He asks for their opinions in confidence, fearing that some of the commentary ‘might be displeasing to the country.’ If Madison finds them offensive, Jefferson promises to ‘only send over a very few copies to particular friends in confidence and burn the rest.’ Randolph—a second cousin of Jefferson, and later his successor as United States Secretary of State—was evidently one of the later recipients of the volume. In the influential work—the only full-length book that Jefferson published during his lifetime—the founding father expresses his beliefs in the separation of church and state, constitutional government, checks and balances, individual liberties, and the institution of slavery. The first edition of Notes on the State of Virginia is immensely desirable in its own right; that this example derives from the personal library of Edmund Randolph, and was sold in the famed ‘Streeter sale’ of the 1960s, heightens its rank amongst surviving copies.

Provenance: ex. Thomas W. Streeter, the foremost collector of Americana in the 20th century, whose collection was dispersed by Parke-Bernet Galleries (1967).

Starting Bid $10,000

Rare American Philosophical Society membership certificate, boldly signed by Thomas Jefferson and fellow patriot-intellectuals in 1792

6007

Beautiful partly-printed DS, signed “Th: Jefferson,” one page, 19 x 11.75, February 4, 1792. American Philosophical Society membership certificate issued to “Charles Mathurin de la Forest, Vice Consul General of France to the United States,” boldly signed at the conclusion by Thomas Jefferson, David Rittenhouse, John Ewing, William Smith, James Hutchinson, Robert Patterson, Samuel Magaw, Jonathan Williams. The certificate retains its pink ribbon with affixed white embossed seal of the society. Beautifully mounted, matted, and framed to an overall size of 29.5 x 25.5.

On the frame’s reverse is a window containing an ALS by Jonathan Williams, countersigned by James Hutchinson, one page both sides, 8.5 x 7.25, January 25, 1792, notifying de la Forest of his election as a member. In full: “We have the pleasure to inform you that on the 20th Inst. the American Philosophical Society added your name to their list of Members.—The principles of this Institution embrace all nations, and while the Society endeavors to add their mite to the common cause of humanity, they fondly hope to experience from distinguished Characters of other places, Such communications as may tend to diffuse that philosophical Light, which so eminently shines in the Country you represent. Your certificate of membership will be made out as soon as possible, in the meantime we could not delay the pleasure we feel in making this communication.” In fine to very fine condition, with intersecting folds and exceptionally bold, ideal signatures.

The oldest extant learned society of its kind in the United States, the American Philosophical Society was founded in 1743 by Benjamin Franklin, for ‘prompting useful knowledge among British plantations in America.’ The Society’s first three presidents were Benjamin Franklin, David Rittenhouse, and Thomas Jefferson. Among its notable early members were Thomas Paine, George Washington, John Adams, John Marshall, James Madison, and others.

Starting Bid $1,000

Thomas Jefferson Signed American Philosophical Society Certificate

Rare silk broadside of Thomas Jefferson’s first inaugural address, an enduring statement of American ideals and a call for unity amidst political division:

LOT 6008 Thomas Jefferson: Rare Silk Broadside of First Inaugural Address (1801)

Rare and historic silk broadside of Thomas Jefferson’s first inaugural address, printed in 1801 by Baltimore publisher William Pechin (marked “W. Pechin—Print.” at lower right). The broadside measures 14.5 x 16.25 and features a four-line header, “Speech of Thomas Jefferson, President of the United States—delivered at his Inauguration, March 4, 1801,” with the text of the address printed in three columns below. In the historic address—considered one of the finest inaugurals of any president—Jefferson sought to strike a conciliatory tone after the contentious election of 1800, expressing a strong statement of American ideals. In small part: “Every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle. We have called by different names brethren of the same principle.—We are all

Republicans.—We are all Federalists. If there be any among us who would dissolve this union, or change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated, where reason is left free to combat it. I know indeed that some honest men fear that a republican government can not be strong; that this government is not strong enough. But would the honest patriot, in the full tide of successful experiment, abandon a government which has so far kept us free and firm, on the theoretic and visionary fear, that this government, the world’s best hope, may, by possibility, want energy to preserve itself? I trust not. I believe this, on the contrary, the strongest government on earth.” Affixed to a slightly larger mount and in very good condition, with light overall staining and small areas of fabric loss affecting a small portion of text.

Starting Bid $1,000

“We are all Republicans.—We are all Federalists.”

Jewish financier-patriot Haym Salomon raises money for George Washington to conduct the Yorktown campaign

LOT 6009

Haym Salomon and Robert Morris Rare Signed Bill of Exchange for Financing the Revolutionary War

Exceedingly rare partly-printed DS, in French, signed “Haym Salomon” and “Rob’t Morris, S. I. of Finance,” one page, 9 x 4.25, March 27, 1782. A fourth bill of exchange issued in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Haym Saloman for 3000 Livres Tournois, payable at the Grand Bank of Paris, with the upper right annotated “Pour Compte des Estats Unis de L’Amerique.” Signed at the conclusion by Robert Morris as the Superintendent of Finance, and countersigned on the reverse by Salomon. In fine condition, with fold separations repaired and reinforced by complete silking on the reverse. Accompanied by a full letter of authenticity from PSA/DNA. An extraordinary historic American financial instrument coveted equally by autograph specialists, numismatists, and historical enthusiasts.

Starting Bid $1,000

LOT 6010

Exceedingly

rare circa 1796 map of New York City, chronicling the post-Revolution development of Manhattan

In the years following the Revolutionary War, New York City underwent rapid development—emerging as the largest city in the United States by 1800. The first post-Revolution plans for New York were commissioned as a result of this population growth and would shape the city’s future. This map—the first post-Revolution large scale plan of NYC—is entitled “Plan of the City of New York,” and was drawn by John Anderson, Jr., engraved by Peter Maverick, and published in New York by D. Longworth, [c. May 1796-1803]. The map measures approximately 22 x 17, laid down to a larger sheet, and is handsomely mounted, matted, and framed.

This is the second state of this rare map, with 45 references in the table at the upper left (listing landmarks such as

churches, government buildings, markets, and theaters), the Longworth imprint at the bottom (“Drawn and Engrav’d for D. Longworth, Map & Print Seller, No. 66 Nassau Street”), and no date indicated. The plan records the development of the lower part of the island of Manhattan, up “Broad-Way” to “Prince St.” and up “Bowry Lane” (also identified as “Road to Boston”) to “North St.”

The artist, John Anderson, Jr., was a New York City lawyer and close friend of author Washington Irving. In his diary, held by the New York Historical Society, Anderson records that he “began to draw a plan of the city for Mr. Longworth” on April 21, 1796, and that Longworth collected the map and paid him eight dollars on May 3rd. There are five known states of this map, all considered to be great rarities. This is the only second-state variant to ever appear in auction records and represents a watershed moment in the history of New York City.

Starting Bid $500

Exceedingly rare circa 1796 map of New York City, chronicling the post-Revolution development of Manhattan

Volume II of The Federalist Papers—

LOT 6011

Alexander Hamilton: The Federalist Papers (Extremely Rare Original 1788 First Edition Printing, Vol. II)

Rare and important book: The Federalist: a Collection of Essays written in favour of the new Constitution, as agreed upon by the Federal Convention, September 17, 1787 (Volume II only). First edition. NY: Printed and Sold by J. and A. M’Lean, 1788. Hardcover bound in brown calf, 4.25 x 6.25, 365 pages. The title page is signed in ink by John H. Peyton, a lawyer and Virginia state senator, and his personal bookplate is affixed to the front pastedown; Peyton has made annotations throughout the volume, identifying (sometimes erroneously) the individual authors of the various essays in the collection. Book condition: G+/None, with moderate wear and rubbing to boards, some minor foxing to textblock, closely re-trimmed edges, some dog-eared pages, and light pencil notations to title page.

Written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay under the collective pseudonym “Publius” to promote the ratification of the Constitution of the United States, the Federalist Papers are some of the most influential political writings in the history of the United States. Originally published serially in several newspapers, the articles and essays were

masterpiece

first published in book form—in a two volume set—by J. and A. McLean in May 1788. This, the second volume, contains Federalist No. 37 through Federalist No. 85, almost all of which were written by either Hamilton or Madison. Among these important essays are: No. 39, Madison’s defense of the republican form of government; No. 51, Madison’s description of the proposed system of ‘checks and balances’; No. 68, Hamilton’s defense of the electoral college; No. 78, Hamilton’s explanation of the role of the judiciary branch; and No. 84, Hamilton’s opposition to a Bill of Rights.

Bibliographer Wright Howes declared The Federalist to be ‘the most famous and influential American political work.’ In Gregory E. Maggs’ article, ‘A Concise Guide to the Federalist Papers,’ he discusses the original publication of the important book: ‘John and Archibald M’Lean printed 500 copies of their two-volume collection of the essays. The book initially did not sell very well. The publishers complained in October 1788, long after New York had ratified the Constitution, that they still had several hundred unsold copies. Some copies of the book, however, did travel far. The M’Leans shipped dozens of copies to locations outside New York City, and Hamilton sent about 50 copies to Richmond in time for the Virginia state ratifying convention.’

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an extremely rare original 1788 printing of Hamilton’s Constitutional

“If this constitution is adopted, we shall go the way of all the world: we shall in a short time slide into an aspiring aristocracy, and finally tumble into an absolute monarchy, or else split into twenty separate and distinct nations perpetually at war with one another; which God forbid!”

Focusing on debt and representation, the 20-year-old J. Q. Adams evaluates the newly drafted United States Constitution

LOT 6012

John Quincy Adams Autograph Letter Signed on US Constitution

ALS signed “J. Q. Adams,” four pages on two adjoining sheets, 7.25 x 9, December 8, 1787. Handwritten letter to his first cousin, William Cranch, commenting on the recently drafted Constitution of the United States, which had been submitted to the states for ratification. In part: “Your answers to the objections which in my last letter I stated against the proposed form of Government, are ingenious and plausible yet I readily confess they have not convinced me: I will state the reasons which induce me to adhere to my former opinion, and wish you to reply after which we shall have gone through a regular forensic, and then we may drop the subject, which will soon be discussed by the proper judges.

You say in answer to the objection to §2 of Article 1, that we must make allowances for the local prejudices of the different gentlemen who framed the Constitution, and consider biennial elections, as a medium between those in the different State Constitutions. But I conceive the State Constitutions are nothing to the purpose. The only question to be answered is, whether annual or biennial elections are the best. Now I can conceive they ought to be annual for the security of the people. You argue that upon my principle the representations ought to be chosen weekly; but may I not retort, and say that upon your’s they ought to be chosen for the longest possible term, to wit for life? You allow the objection, to the inability of the people to recall their representatives, but quere—who would recall them? The people you say, (and you say truly) could not do it, and it would therefore be a right without a remedy. This answer, I think rather fortifies than refutes my objection for, I contend that no government ought ever to be established, in this country, which should deprive the people of this right, by rendering the remedy impracticable. You say perhaps the Congress intend to pay our debts from the continental treasury, but pray upon what foundation do you ground this conjecture? You cannot surely think that the present Congress will pay the State debts, since they cannot get money to pay the continental one. Nor can you suppose that a Congress which is not yet in esse, intend any thing. I imagine therefore, you mean that the future Congress will perhaps pay these debts. But I ask whether such a conjecture is any security for the creditors of the States? Do you usually find either an individual or a body of men, so wager to pay debts, which they are under no obligation to discharge? If you can name instances I will then admit the weight of the argument.

As to the powers granted to the Congress I objected to them only as they were indefinite; but I am more and more convinced, that a continental government, is incompatible with the liberties of the people. ‘The plan of three orders,’ you say, ‘in government is consistent with my father’s Idea of a perfect government.’ Very true, but he does not say that such a government is practicable, for the whole continent. He does not even canvass the subject, but from what he says, I think it may easily be inferred that he would think such a government fatal to our liberties. But I am far from being convinced that upon the proposed project, the three orders would exist; it appears to me, that there would in fact be no proper representation of the people, and consequently no democratical branch of the constitution. It is impossible that eight men should represent the people of this Commonwealth. They will infallibly be chosen from the aristocratic part of the community, and the dignity, as well as the power of the people must soon dwindle to nothing.

Blackstone Vol. I, p. 159 supposes it necessary that the commons should be chosen ‘by minute and separate districts, wherein all the voters, are, or easily may be distinguished.’ Now if this Commonwealth be divided into eight districts, each of which shall elect one person, will any of these districts be minute? I wish if you have time you would again peruse the defence of the constitutions; it appears to me, there is scarcely a page in the book, which does not contain something that is applicable against this proposed plan: see particularly the 54th Letter; one passage of which I will quote because it is very much to the purpose. ‘The liberty of the people depends entirely on the constant and direct communication between them and the legislature, by means of their representatives. Now in this case, there could not possibly be any such communication, and this you yourself admit when you prove the inability of the people to recall their representatives even if the right should be given them...

In short, I must confess I am still of opinion that if this constitution is adopted, we shall go the way of all the world: we shall in a short time slide into an aspiring aristocracy, and finally tumble into an absolute monarchy, or else split into twenty separate and distinct nations perpetually at war with one another; which God forbid!” In fine condition.

Provenance: The archive of a direct descendant of Abigail Adams’s only sister, Mary Cranch. Never before offered.

Starting Bid $300

LOT 6013

John Quincy Adams Autograph Letter Signed on Slave Trade

ALS signed “J. Q. Adams,” one page both sides, 7.75 x 9.75, March 1, 1837. Handwritten letter to abolitionist Benjamin Lundy in Philadelphia, publisher of The National Enquirer (later the Pennsylvania Freeman), commenting on what is colloquially known as the ‘Shipwrecked Slave Act.’ In part: “I enclose by this mail a document, respecting Slaves, Slavery and the Slave Trade, which I wish you to read; and I hope you will be able to make up your mind upon the merits of the case in less time than his Majesty’s Law-Offices have taken, in their gestation of an opinion of which they have not yet been delivered. What think you? Must the United States go to war with Great Britain, to indemnify the owners of the cargoes of the ‘Comet,’ ‘Encomium’ and ‘Enterprise’? Or can Congress interfere in no manner whatsoever with the institution of Slavery in the States to which those worthy Slave-traders belong? It is said that Santa Anna, as Ambassador Plenipotentiary from Mexico and Texas has concluded a new Treaty of Limits with the United States recognizing the Rio Bravo as the Boundary.” In fine condition.

Adams discusses significant disputes between the United States and Great Britain involving the coastwise slave trade— namely, the British practice of freeing slaves when American slavers were forced, either by weather or accident, to dock at ports in Bermuda and in the British West Indies. In the three cases here mentioned—of the ships Comet (1830), Encomium (1833), and Enterprise (1835)—slaves were set free, and their owners demanded compensation from Great Britain. The situation provoked heated debates in Congress and led to a dramatic increase in tension between the Crown and the United States—the typically diplomatic John Quincy Adams, writing here as a member of Congress, even hypothesizes war as a possibility. Ultimately, after several years of tense negotiation, the English government agreed to compensate the slaveholders of the Comet and Encomium, because colonial slavery still operated in its territories when those ships and cargoes were seized. Britain initially declined to compensate the Enterprise’s slaveholders, as slavery had been abolished in the colonies in 1834 and the enslaved people were thus no longer recognized as property under British law. Ultimately, compensatory settlements were reached as part of a treaty between the United States and Great Britain concluded in 1853. An important piece of correspondence on one of the most difficult subjects of the 19th century.

Starting Bid $5,000

John Quincy Adams writes concerning

“Slaves, Slavery and the Slave Trade” amidst international disputes with Great Britain

Historic first edition of the Lincoln-Douglas debates, signed by Abraham Lincoln for his former law apprentice

LOT 6014

Abraham Lincoln Signed First Edition of the Lincoln-Douglas Debates (One of Four Known Signed in Ink, to Former Law Apprentice N. M. Broadwell)

Incredibly rare signed book: Political Debates between Hon. Abraham Lincoln and Hon. Stephen A. Douglas, In the Celebrated Campaign of 1858, in Illinois. First edition, first issue (with the signature mark “2” at the bottom of page 17). Columbus, OH: Follett, Foster and Company, 1860. Hardcover bound in publisher’s embossed brown decorative cloth with gilt title on spine, 6.25 x 9.5, 268 pages. Boldly signed on the first free end page in ink to a Springfield attorney who studied law under Lincoln, “To N. M. Broadwell, Esq., with respects of A. Lincoln.” Autographic condition: fine, with light ink spreading to the signature and inscription. Book condition: VG-/None, with slightly loose front joint, wear to bumped corners, splits to spine cloth and losses to headcaps, and some minor foxing to textblock. Accompanied by a custom-made clamshell case.

The Lincoln-Douglas debates, a series of seven debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas during the 1858 Illinois senatorial campaign, stand among the most celebrated dialogues in the history of American politics. The debates focused on the issue of slavery, particularly on the hotly contested question of the expansion of the institution into newly acquired territories. Douglas promoted the solution of popular sovereignty—that is, allowing settlers of those territories to decide on the question—while Lincoln argued against the expansion of slavery, though was not yet advocating for its abolition in whole. Although the incumbent Douglas was re-elected as senator by the Illinois General Assembly, the debates attracted widespread media attention and vaulted Lincoln into the forefront of national politics. This newfound publicity helped to lay the groundwork of Lincoln’s successful 1860 presidential campaign.

The text of this first edition was set in type from Lincoln’s personal scrapbook, into which he had pasted transcripts of the debates as they were printed in local newspapers. It was published in April, a few months before Lincoln’s nomination as the Republican candidate for president. The book rapidly became a bestseller—in a matter of months, over 30,000 copies were printed and sold. Abraham Lincoln personally received 100 copies to distribute to friends and supporters, as documented in a pioneering study by Harry E. Pratt, “Lincoln Autographed Debates,” in Manuscripts, 6:4 (Summer 1954). Pratt’s census located 18 of these, though a handful of others (including this example) have since come to market. Interestingly, of those known examples, only three others are also signed in ink—the remainder are inscribed in pencil. Evidently, Lincoln noticed the tendency of the ink to ‘feather’ on the inexpensive paper, blurring his name, and opted to sign most copies in pencil. Thus, this ink-signed example is likely one of the earliest that Lincoln signed. An updated census, compiled by David H. Leroy and published in ‘Mr. Lincoln’s Book’ in 2009, documents 42 known signed copies of the book, including Broadwell’s: still, only four of those are known to be signed in ink.

The recipient of this copy, Norman M. Broadwell (1825–1893), studied law as a preceptor with Lincoln in the Lincoln & Herndon offices in Springfield, Illinois, beginning in 1852. Ironically, in his first case, he found the opposing counsel to be his former teacher, Abraham Lincoln; and, in the final case that Lincoln argued in Springfield, Broadwell served as his assistant. Later Broadwell had several law partners including Shelby M. Cullom and John A. McClernand. He became active in Democratic politics, served as Sangamon County judge in 1862, and as mayor of Springfield in 1867. Though on different sides of the political aisle, Lincoln clearly held Broadwell and his call to civic duty in high esteem—evinced by this remarkable presentation copy of the Lincoln-Douglas debates.

Starting Bid $10,000

LOT 6015

Abraham Lincoln Signed

Check as President to Black Personal Valet at White House - PSA

NM-MT 8 - One of Three Known Examples

Extraordinary Riggs & Co. bank check, 7.5 x 2.75, filled out and signed by Abraham Lincoln as president, “A. Lincoln,” payable to “William Johnson (Colored)” for $5, October 27, 1862. The check is printed in several bold decorative types, with a fine wood-engraved vignette of the bank’s Washington headquarters, decorative border on four sides, and numbered “12” by President Lincoln in top left-hand corner. In very good to fine condition, with light staining to the edges and multiple vertical folds. Encapsulated and graded by PSA/DNA as “NM-MT 8.”

President Lincoln pays his Black personal valet—“William Johnson (Colored)”— the sum of $5 in 1862, one of three known checks from Lincoln to Black people

LINCOLN AND WILLIAM JOHNSON

Only two other Lincoln checks addressed to Black people have appeared at auction in the last 40 years, and both were also for the amount of $5. In October 1984, a check Lincoln wrote to “Colored man, with 1 leg” sold for $16,000 at Sotheby’s, lot 138; this check was crude in that Lincoln’s signature had been cut from the original check and a replacement Lincoln signature from another check had been patched on. Also, in an Ira and Larry Goldberg Auction (November 2005, lot 271), a check to “Lucy (colored woman),” dated February 21, 1865, realized $55,200. It is uncertain who Lucy was, perhaps a friend of Mary Todd Lincoln’s seamstress Elizabeth Keckley. The rarity of checks written by Lincoln as President on Riggs & Co. checks cannot be understated—the 1865 “Lucy” check is numbered “28,” and this check from October 1862 is numbered “12.” Lincoln’s checks from his pre-presidential days, drawn on Springfield Marine and Fire Insurance Company bank, are more frequently seen.

William H. Johnson was a free Black servant—a valet with some barbering duties—who accompanied the president-elect on his journey from Springfield to Washington, D.C. The New York Times of February 19, 1861, described Johnson as “’a very useful member of the party[,]’ whose ‘untiring vigilance’ as ‘he took care of the Presidential party is entitled to high credit’” (quoted in Michael Burlingame’s Abraham Lincoln: A Life, 2:24).

Johnson initially worked in the Executive Mansion stoking the furnace, but he was made unwelcome by other White House workers: “the other black employees, all light-skinned, objected to his dark complexion so vehemently that Lincoln had to find him another post” (Burlingame, 2:252).

First Lincoln tried to secure a position for Johnson with Gideon Welles, but to no avail. On November 29, 1861, Lincoln wrote to another cabinet member, Treasury Secretary Salmon P. Chase, on Johnson’s behalf: “You remember kindly asking me, some time ago, whether I really desired you to find a place for William Johnson, a colored boy who came from Illinois with me. If you can find him the place [I] shall really be obliged” (National Archives; Basler 5:33). Later, three days

prior to writing this check, on October 24, 1862, Lincoln penned another recommendation for Johnson: “The bearer of this, William Johnson (colored), came with me from Illinois; and is a worthy man, as I believe” (Illinois State Historical Library).

Johnson was eventually hired as a porter at the Treasury Department, but Lincoln continued to monitor his progress. Lincoln occasionally hired him for short-term jobs and particularly for travel. Most significantly, Johnson accompanied Lincoln, as valet and bodyguard, to Gettysburg for the dedication of the Soldiers’ National Cemetery. This trip was particularly consequential for Johnson. The President developed varioloid, a mild version of smallpox, on his return from Washington, while Johnson himself contracted a fatal case of smallpox; he died in January 1864. It is possible that Johnson caught the disease from the President, although Lincoln himself did not believe that was the case.

Lincoln’s solicitude for William Johnson extended beyond the latter’s death. The Chicago Tribune of January 19, 1864, carried a story from its Washington correspondent describing how he came upon Lincoln counting out Johnson’s pay, while explaining, “a President of the United States has a multiplicity of duties not specified in the Constitution or acts of Congress. This is one of them. The money belongs to a poor negro who is a porter in one of the departments and who is at present very bad with the smallpox.…He is now in hospital, and could not draw his pay because he could not sign his name. I have been at considerable trouble to overcome the difficulty and get it for him, and have at length succeeded in cutting red tape” (Burlingame, 2:578). Another newspaper reported that Lincoln purchased a coffin for Johnson and helped settle a loan he had taken from the First National Bank of Washington. When the arrangements had been concluded, the bank’s cashier, William J. Huntington, said, “’After this, Mr. President, you can never deny that you indorse the negro.’ ‘That’s a fact!’ Lincoln exclaimed with a laugh; ‘but I don’t intend to deny it’” (Burlingame, 2:578–79).

Starting Bid $2,500

Civil War–dated LS as president, signed “Yours truly, A. Lincoln,” one page, 8 x 10, Executive Mansion letterhead, May 3, 1864. Letter addressed in Lincoln’s hand to “Hon. Secretary of the Navy,” Gideon Welles, regarding the devastating massacre of Union soldiers (many of them part of the United States Colored Troops) at Fort Pillow on April 12, 1864. In full: “It is now quite certain that a large number of our colored soldiers, with their white officers, were, by the rebel force, massacred after they had surrendered, at the recent capture of Fort Pillow. So much is known, though the evidence is not yet quite ready to be laid before me.—Meanwhile I will thank you to prepare, and give me in writing, your opinion as to what course, the government should take in the case.” In fine condition, with a very light, uniform block of toning.

LOT 6016 Abraham Lincoln Letter Signed as President on Massacre of Black Soldiers by Rebels

On April 12, 1864, Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest—an expert cavalryman and future founder of the Ku Klux Klan—led a raid on Fort Pillow, an outpost in west Tennessee that had been held by federal troops for about two years. The Union garrison there numbered about 600 men, divided almost evenly between black and white troops. Forrest’s troops outnumbered them three-to-one, and had the fort surrounded. After several hours of sharpshooters’ repartee—which took the life of the fort’s commander, Major Lionel F. Booth—Forrest sent a note demanding surrender. The ultimatum was delivered to Maj. William F. Bradford, who asked for an hour to decide. Forrest ceded only 20 minutes, and Bradford replied: ‘I will not surrender.’Forrest then launched a brutal assault on the fort, quickly overwhelming the Union forces. Most of the garrison tried to surrender, throwing down their arms and begging for mercy—only to be fired upon and bayoneted by the attacking rebels. President Lincoln first addressed the Fort Pillow incident during a speech at the Baltimore Sanitary Fair on April 18th, pledging that these deaths would not be in vain: ‘A painful rumor, true I fear, has reached us of the massacre by the rebel forces at Fort Pillow, in the west end of Tennessee on the Mississippi river of some three hundred colored soldiers and white officers who had just been overpowered by their assailants...Having determined to use the negro as a soldier, there is no way but to give him all the protection given to any other soldier.… We are having the Fort Pillow affair thoroughly investigated.…If there has been the massacre of three hundred there, or even the tenth part of three hundred, it will be conclusively proved; and being so proved, the retribution shall as surely come. It will be a matter of grave consideration in what exact course to apply the retribution; but in the supposed case, it must come.’

The Battle of Fort Pillow became the subject of an inquiry by the Congressional Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War, as well as the subject of numerous reports in the press. Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Weekly and Harper’s Weekly were among the nationally circulated periodicals that publicized the horrors of the massacre. Lincoln struggled to find an appropriate response as the truth about the massacre emerged, turning to the members of his cabinet for counsel. As documented in the Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, Volume 7 (ed. Basler), Lincoln sent this text to all members of his cabinet,

asking for their advice regarding the government’s course of action following the Fort Pillow events.

On May 6th, President Lincoln held a cabinet meeting to review the various options that had been suggested. Gideon Welles played a principal role in the affair, and provides an overview of the discussion in his diary entry for that date: ‘Between Mr. Bates and Mr. Blair a suggestion came out that met my views better than anything that had previously been offered. It is that the President should by proclamation declare the officers who had command at the massacre outlaws, and require any of our officers who may capture them, to detain them in custody and not exchange them, but hold them to punishment…In a conversation that followed the reading of our papers, I expressed myself favorable to this new suggestion, which relieved the subject of much of the difficulty. It avoids communication with the Rebel authorities. Takes the matter in our own hands. We get rid of the barbarity of retaliation.’

All feared that eye-for-an-eye retaliation—the execution of a like number of rebel soldiers and officers—would cascade into an even more vicious war. In 1885, Frederick Douglass recalled his August 1864 audience with President Lincoln to urge retaliation against the South for its brutality against black Union soldiers: ‘I shall never forget the benignant expression of his face, the tearful look of his eye, and quiver in his voice when he deprecated a resort to retaliatory measures. ‘Once begun,’ said he, ‘I do not know where such a measure would stop.’ He said he could not take men out and kill them in cold blood for what was done by others. If he could get hold of the persons who were guilty of killing the colored prisoners in cold blood, the case would be different, but he could not kill the innocent for the guilty.’Ultimately, Abraham Lincoln chose to take no action on the issue, and it was soon surpassed in the public mind by the successes of General U. S. Grant’s Wilderness Campaign. Nevertheless, ‘Remember Fort Pillow’ became a rallying cry for the Union’s black soldiers, and the tragic events may well have influenced President Lincoln’s implementation of a more radical abolition policy. His letter to his cabinet members reveals just one of the heavy subjects weighing on his mind as he fought to preserve the Union, his trust in his devoted ‘team of rivals’ cabinet, and the innate sense of justice that informed his decision making. A remarkable and historically significant letter signed by President Abraham Lincoln.

Starting Bid $10,000

President Lincoln asks his cabinet for counsel after the atrocities at Fort Pillow: “A large number of our colored soldiers, with their white officers, were, by the rebel force, massacred after they had surrendered”

Rare first printing broadside of two of President Abraham Lincoln’s final three presidential proclamations

LOT 6017

Abraham Lincoln Rare First Printing of Last Presidential Proclamations (April 11, 1865)

Rare printed broadside, one page, 8.25 x 13, containing two of President Lincoln’s final three presidential proclamations, issued three days before his assassination on April 11, 1865. The first is headed, “[Closing Certain Ports, April 11, 1865],” pertaining to the Union blockade of southern ports; and the second is headed, “[Port of Key West to Remain Open, April 11, 1865].” In fine condition, with light toning, and small chips, to the edges.

By the proclamation at the top of the broadside (Lincoln’s 126th presidential proclamation), Abraham Lincoln orders specifically named ports in several southern states (including Key West,

Florida) to be closed. By the proclamation at the bottom of the broadside (Lincoln’s 127th presidential proclamation), he corrects an inadvertent error in the earlier proclamation by clarifying that the port of Key West, Florida, is not closed but is open to commerce.

Lincoln’s 128th presidential proclamation, concerning equal rights among all maritime nations, was his last. It too was issued on the same day, April 11th, that Lincoln issued these two proclamations. Also on this day Lincoln gave his last public speech, which advocated extending the vote to AfricanAmerican citizens and veterans. Both John Wilkes Booth and his co-conspirator, Lewis Powell, were in the crowd that heard the speech. Booth reportedly quipped to Powell: ‘That is the last speech he will ever make.’

Starting Bid $200

Front-row seats to President Lincoln’s assassination—excessively rare tickets for

Ford’s Theatre on April 14, 1865

LOT 6018

Abraham Lincoln Assassination: (2) Ford’s Theatre Front-Row Tickets from April 14, 1865

Exceedingly rare pair of original front-row balcony tickets to the production of ‘Our American Cousin’ at Ford’s Theatre on April 14, 1865, during which President Abraham Lincoln was shot by assassin John Wilkes Booth. Each ticket measures 4.25 x 1.75 and is stamped at the center: “Ford’s Theatre, APR 14, 1865, This Night Only.” The left sides of the tickets are imprinted, “Ford’s Theatre., Friday., Dress Circle!,” and are filled out in pencil with section (“D”) and seat numbers (“41” and “42”). The right sides are clipped, evidently by the tickettaker when presented for admission, and carry the printed signature of “Jas. R. Ford, Business Manager.” Includes an envelope annotated in a contemporary hand: “Front Seats, Dress Circle, Reserved, Complimentary, Fords Theatre, April 14, 1865, (Night of Assassination of President Lincoln).” The tickets are in very good condition, with fragile central vertical folds, some light creasing, and one with a chipped lower corner.

The circular April 14th-dated stamp is an exact match to one an unused, yellow ‘Orchestra’ level ticket held by the Shapell Manuscript Foundation; this matching stamp also appears on a used ticket stub in the collection of Harvard University’s Houghton Library. The Harvard stub, which consists of only the left half of the ticket, was filled out in pencil in a similar manner to these two. Only a handful of authentic examples of Ford’s Theatre tickets from the fateful night of April 14, 1865, are known to exist.

John Wilkes Booth always wanted to be famous—and he achieved that immortal notoriety, though not in the way he

originally envisioned. Though rightly notorious for assassinating Abraham Lincoln, Booth was already a well-known actor; he said that of all Shakespearean characters, his favorite role was Brutus, the slayer of a tyrant. In 1863, Booth performed for the first time at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, taking the lead in The Marble Heart. Among his admiring audience was President Abraham Lincoln himself, who rapturously applauded Booth’s performance.

The scene at Ford’s Theatre on the night of April 14, 1865, has been well documented through newspaper reports, eyewitness accounts, and countless tellings and re-tellings of the tragedy. The holders of these tickets, seated more or less directly across from the president’s box, would have had a perfect view of the harrowing events. During the third act, Booth entered the president’s box from the rear, fired a bullet into the back of his head, and vaulted over the railing onto the stage. Brandishing a dagger overhead, Booth reportedly borrowed from Brutus and shouted ‘sic semper tyrannis’—’thus always to tyrants’—before making his escape. An illustration published in Harper’s Weekly, April 29, 1865, features an artist’s concept of the aftermath of the slaying, drawn from the “Dress Circle” level at about the same angle as these seats in “Section D.”

This type of Ford’s Theatre ticket for April 14, 1865, is exceedingly rare—auction records reveal no other examples offered since their original sale as part of the Forbes Collection in 2002.

Provenance: The Forbes Collection of American Historical Documents, Christie’s, October 9, 2002.

Starting Bid $10,000

President Grant seeks to end Ku Klux Klan violence in South Carolina, ordering them to “disperse and retire peaceably to their respective abodes”

LOT 6019

U. S. Grant Document Signed as President to End

Ku Klux Klan Violence

Manuscript DS as president, one page, 7.75 x 9.75, March 24, 1871. President Grant directs Secretary of State Hamilton Fish to “affix the seal of the United States to the accompanying Proclamation commanding the persons composing certain unlawful combinations in the State of South Carolina to disperse and retire peaceably to their respective abodes.” Neatly and boldly signed at the conclusion by President Ulysses S. Grant. In fine condition, with some light, slightly irregular toning. Accompanied by a modern printing of the text of Grant’s proclamation, in which he commands ‘armed men, unauthorized by law…disturbing the peace and safety of the citizens of the State of South Carolina and committing acts of violence’—members of the Ku Klux Klan—to ‘disperse and retire peaceably to their respective abodes within twenty days,’ under threat of force by the United States military.

The document represents President Grant’s early response to Klan violence in the state of South Carolina, which had been increasing since the election of Republican Governor Robert Kingston Scott in 1868. Subsequent federal investigations uncovered evidence of hundreds of whippings and dozens of racially motivated murders in South Carolina between 1870 and 1872. Governor Scott pleaded with President Grant for federal intervention, and in March 1871 the president issued this proclamation commanding all Klansmen to retire peaceably from their reign of terror. He also ordered US Army Major Lewis Merrill, commanding Companies B, E, and K of George

A. Custer’s Seventh U.S. Cavalry, to the state in an effort to quell the violence and keep the peace.

Though Merrill’s initial efforts were successful in uncovering and documenting Klan violence, local juries—oftentimes comprised of accessories to or supporters of such heinous acts—were reluctant to prosecute offenders, and the crime wave continued. Finally convinced that Klan activities in South Carolina amounted to warfare, on October 12th, Grant ordered all persons to ‘disband and disperse’ from the ‘unlawful combinations and conspiracies’ commonly known as the Ku Klux Klan, and to hand over their weapons and disguises to federal marshals. After receiving no such compliance, on October 17th, Grant issued another proclamation declaring nine counties in active rebellion and suspended habeas corpus.

The suspension of habeas corpus allowed Major Merrill to make mass arrests of Klansmen—he reported 169 arrests in York County alone before January 1872—and led hundreds more to surrender voluntarily and confess. Many of the group’s leaders fled the state, leaving the Klan bewildered and disorganized, and the newfound threat of federal prosecution helped to quiet racially motivated violence in South Carolina. In the Klan trials of 1871–72, US District Attorney David Corbin was able to secure 140 convictions. Although well over 1,000 Klan cases remained pending at the close of 1872, they were slowly dropped over the course of the next two years. Nevertheless, these efforts struck a serious blow against the Ku Klux Klan, leaving it effectively dismantled until its revival in 1915. Starting Bid $300

Theodore Roosevelt’s observations on Native American frontier justice— a sought-after page from his handwritten draft for The Winning of the West

LOT 6020 Theodore Roosevelt Handwritten Manuscript on Native Americans

Handwritten manuscript by Theodore Roosevelt from his original draft for the four-volume The Winning of the West, one page, 8 x 12.5, no date but first published in 1889. This text, offering Roosevelt’s observations on frontier justice amongst Native American Indian tribes, would be published as part of Volume I, Chapter IV: The Algonquins of the Northwest, 1769-1774. Roosevelt writes, in part: “Each race stood by its own members, and each held all of the other race responsible for the misdeeds of a few uncontrollable spirits; and this clannishness among those of one color, and the refusal or the inability to discriminate between the good and the bad of the other color were the two most fruitful causes of border strife. [Footnote: It is precisely the same at the present day. I have known a party of Sioux to steal the horses of a buffalo hunting outfit; and the latter retaliated by stealing the horses of a party of harmless Grosventres: and I knew a party of Cheyennes, whose horses had been taken by white thieves, to, in revenge, assail a camp of perfectly orderly cowboys. Most of the ranchmen along the Little Missouri in 1884 were pretty good fellows, who would not wrong Indians, yet they tolerated for a long time the presence of men who did not scruple to boast that they stole horses from the latter; while our peaceful neighbors, the Grosventres, likewise permitted two notorious redskinned horse thieves to use their reservation as a harbor of refuge, and the starting point from which to make forays against the cattlemen.]” In fine condition, with light soiling.

But for minor grammatical changes—and some struck-through emendations and revisions made to this text—this manuscript page represents the published text from Roosevelt’s monumental history of the American West. Roosevelt was a prolific author and, in fact, had first come to prominence as a serious historian with the two-volume work The Naval War of 1812. He turned to writing The Winning of the West, his most ambitious work, after suffering defeat in the 1886 election for mayor of New York City. Tracing the history of American westward expansion, it was first published in four volumes by G. P. Putnam’s Sons between 1889 and 1896.

Starting Bid $1,000

President Roosevelt insures

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LOT 6021 President Theodore Roosevelt Signed Document Insuring the Construction of the Panama Canal (1904)

DS as president, signed “T. Roosevelt,” one page, 8 x 10, February 26, 1904. President Theodore Roosevelt authorizes and directs “the Secretary of State to cause the Seal of the United States to be affixed to my proclamation of the convention between the United States and the Republic of Panama to insure the construction of a ship canal across the Isthmus of Panama to connect the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.” Signed boldly at the conclusion by Roosevelt. In fine condition, with a small paperclip impression to the top edge. Accompanied by a Pach Bros. portrait of Roosevelt from 1900, and by a stapled 19-page booklet containing the proclamation for the “Convention Between the United States and the Republic of Panama for the Construction of a Ship Canal to Connect the Waters of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.” Signed by Roosevelt on the very day that the ‘Isthmian Canal Convention’ was proclaimed, this superb document helped officially set into motion the construction of the Panama Canal, which was completed by the United States Army Corps of Engineers between 1904 and 1914.

Starting Bid $200

“the construction of a ship canal

the Isthmus of Panama to connect the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans”

The impeachment hearings that resulted in the resignation of President Richard Nixon

LOT 6022

Watergate: Peter W. Rodino’s Impeachment Hearing Gavel and a Resolution 803 Booklet

Signed by (26) Members of the House Judiciary Committee

Important group lot of three items relating to the Watergate scandal and the U.S. House Judiciary Committee that approved the impeachment against President Richard Nixon, including: a TLS from New Jersey Congressman Peter W. Rodino, who served as the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, a wooden gavel used by Rodino during the impeachment hearings, and a copy of the “Summary of Information” booklet from the Ninety-Third Congress for H. Res. 803, which is signed by 26 members of the House Judiciary Committee that voted to impeach Nixon.

Pete Rodino, a Democratic congressman from New Jersey, was largely unknown when he was thrust into the spotlight in 1974 as chairman of the House Judiciary Committee conducting the investigation into the Watergate break-in. Carlos Moorhead, a freshman Republican representing Glendale, California, was also on the committee. Not long after Nixon’s resignation and the conclusion of the hearings, Rodino wrote the offered letter on December 4, 1974, gifting Moorhead with one of the wooden gavels used during the hearings. The referenced 12˝ wooden gavel is annotated in black ink by Rodino on the handle, “For Carlos J. Moorhead, Peter W. Rodino,” who adds a date of July 27, 1974, the day the first article of impeachment against Nixon was passed. The offered booklet is signed in ink and felt tip on the front cover and title page by 26 of the 38 members of the House of Representatives Judiciary Committee, a full list of which can be found in our online description. In overall fine condition.

Starting Bid $300

LOT 6023

D-Day: Winston

Churchill Signed Photograph for an HMS Kelvin Navigator (June 1944)

Magnificent World War II-dated matte-finish 7.75 x 9.75 photo of the United Kingdom Prime Minister in a stoic three-quarter-length pose, signed below on the original mount in fountain pen, “Winston S. Churchill, 1944.” Displayed within a gilt and oak frame to an overall size of 13 x 15; the front of the frame bears an affixed plaque, which reads: “Winston Churchill, June 12th 1944, Normandy and Back.” The consignor states that the photograph was acquired by Alfred Frank Noyes, who had served as a navigator on the destroyer HMS Kelvin when it ferried Churchill and others over to Normandy in 1944. In very good to fine condition, with some dampstaining to the mount and to the upper left corner of the image, which appears to be partially stuck to the glass in the original frame, and which could be professionally repaired to create a stunning display.

Starting Bid $1,000

War-dated signed portrait of Churchill procured by a navigator of the HMS Kelvin, the vessel that brought the prime minister to the beaches of Normandy a week after D-Day

LOT 6024 Charles de Gaulle Letter Written On the Day Germany Invaded Poland, Marking the Start of World War II

ALS in French, signed “C. de Gaulle,” five pages, 5.25 x 7, September 1, 1939. Exceptional handwritten letter to a friend dated to the day that Nazi Germany invaded Poland, an event that marked the beginning of the Second World War. In full (translated): “Well here is the infamous war that our peacemakers told us was impossible. Here it is this improbable war that the tocsin rings for the men of 14 and their sons. Do you hear it my friend. Do you hear the voices urging heroism and love of the Fatherland. Do you hear those tribunes in hats who today speak German in the most belligerent tone while they frantically applauded each of the agreements that law and reason conceded to violence and doctrine. This is the war that peace gave birth to and that at the end of a chaotic gestation it spreads over the world, thus reminding men that bad treaties always lead to just conflicts. Here we are now, yesterday’s brothers and today’s sons, wearing the same

uniform, kissing the same cheeks on the platforms of our stations, pressing the same hearts to our chests. How many widowed wives, orphaned children and mater dolorosa in our countryside in response to the errors of those who lead us straight into the abyss through their disastrous policies. I will walk alongside my men, I will walk alongside France, but how much disappointment, how much disillusionment in each of my steps. When the past becomes present again, history as a whole collapses. And in its rubble, in its gaping flaws, in its entrails, we see, contrite, each of our vain promises, our false pretenses, our partisan errors, and we regret that the wise man, the man of reason, the man of virtue is ultimately only the last memory of an age when the very idea of being a man still had meaning. Europe will bleed! The bloodshed was not enough to drain this tired old body of its life. You know my fears, may you, my dear Antoine, hear me say in a few months that they were wrong and that your old friend was wrong. On this dark day, I invite you to remember the work accomplished and to be proud of it. Be well.” In fine condition.

Starting Bid $1,000

“Europe will bleed!,” vows de Gaulle on the day of Germany’s invasion of Poland, the attack that ignited World War II

Rare 1944 Swedish Embassy document

signed twice by Raoul Wallenberg, certifying a heroic Hungarian Jew as a legation official

LOT 6025

Raoul Wallenberg Signed Passport for Jewish Colleague

Partly-printed DS in Hungarian and German, signed twice by Wallenberg with his scarce full signature, “R. W—g,” two pages, 4 x 5.5, November 25, 1944. Passport-type document by which the Royal Swedish Embassy at Budapest, Hungary, confirms Gergely Odon/Edmund Gergely as a legation official. The left side features an affixed photograph of Gergely with his signature below; the right side features the bilingual certification of his diplomatic position, signed in both sections by Raoul Wallenberg as the embassy’s secretary. Additionally includes Gergely Odon’s official Kingdom of Hungary passport with expiration date of January 23, 1939, containing a listing of personal data that identifies his Jewish religion (“Israelite”). The well-traveled passport features visa stamps from a variety of locales, dated throughout 1938. In overall fine condition.

Wallenberg arrived in Hungary in July 1944 as the country’s Jewish population was under siege. Nearly every other major Jewish community in Europe had already been decimated, and the Nazis were dispatching more than 10,000 Hungarian Jews to the gas chambers daily. With time of the essence, he devised and distributed thousands of ‘Schutz-Passes’—official-

looking, but essentially invalid, Swedish passports granting the Hungarian bearer immunity from deportation. Wallenberg signed these quickly and by the dozen—generally no more than a quick scribble—and Nazi officials readily accepted the paperwork.

Gergely was a Jewish Hungarian who volunteered to help Wallenberg in his project to provide false documentation to Jews in order to save their lives, and so was a hero in his own right. In late 1944, as Eichmann began to deport more and more Hungarian Jews from Budapest, Wallenberg must have made the rushed decision to produce this document for his co-worker—the photograph inside was clearly removed from a different official document, possibly as it was the only one handy. It features incomplete official stamps in the corners and was applied in a hasty manner using three staples.

Gergely survived the war, perhaps thanks to Wallenberg’s protection, and was reportedly one of the last people to see Wallenberg alive prior to his disappearance on January 17, 1945. A remarkable and compelling pair of Gergely’s personal documents, highlighted by the dual examples of the neater variant of Wallenberg’s sought-after autograph.

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“Out of 27 war-torn provinces in China, 19 fall either completely or partially under Communist jurisdiction. They suffered most heavily from Japanese ravages and should be relieved immediately”

Rare letter by Chou En-lai, seeking recognition and relief for Chinese Communists in 1946

LOT 6026

Chou En-lai Rare Typed Letter Signed Asking for Recognition and Relief of Communist China

Extremely rare TLS in English, signed in Chinese by Chou En-lai, two pages, 8 x 10, July 14, 1946. Letter to “Mr. Ray,” J. Franklin Ray, Acting Director of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) China Office, asking for recognition and relief of Communist areas in China during the Chinese Civil War. In full: “In connection with Mr. Fiorello H. Guardia’s telegram which was sent to Generalissimo, Dr. T. V. Soong and myself, I wish to put forward the following points for your consideration:

Out of 27 war-torn provinces in China, 19 fall either completely or partially under Communist jurisdiction. They suffered most heavily from Japanese ravages and should be relieved immediately, as have been testified by UNRRA and CNRRA inspectors. The total population in these Communist areas amounts to 140,000,000 of which 26,000,000—60% of the famine-stricken population in China—are badly in need of relief.

As I learned by mid-June 660,000 tons of UNRRA relief supplies have been delivered to China. But Dr. Gorge Hatem, American medical advisor of the Relief Committed of the Chinese Communist Areas, reported to me that up to the same date only 4,418 tons of those supplies had reached the Chinese Communist areas. In other words, only 0.67% of the total UNRRA relief supplies were allotted to their share. The CNRRA officials attributed this fact to transportation difficulties and war hindrances. However, such an argument is not based on sound foundation, seeing that there are such seaports like Chefoo and over 10 railroad lines and innumerable highways which lead directly into the Communist areas, not to say that some part of the Communist areas are not affected by the civil war at all.

The UNRRA relief supplies sent to Communist areas were also not infrequently detained or seized by the Nationalist troops. Furthermore, not a single representative of those Communist areas has been invited to work as staff members of the general or regional offices of CNNRRA. Our requests for appointing some Communist representatives as CNRRA officials were flatly rejected by the Chinese Government. Their representatives are not even permitted to attend the various meetings of the CNRRA and UNRRA. Thus it is evident that the National Government authorities are discriminating against the Communist areas because of the political beliefs of the people in them. In view of the foregoing, we deem it essential: a. that the Communist areas be given a voice in the 20th session of the Far-East Region Conference which is slated to meet on July 20 in Shanghai;

b. that the Communist areas may have their own representatives with voice in the allocation committees of the General and Regional Offices of the CNRRA; c. that UNRRA initiate an inspection mission, comprising representatives of UNRRA, CNRRA and Communist areas, to survey the field, investigating and making detail recommendations regarding the distribution of UNRRA relief supplies; d. that representatives of Communist areas be invited to serve as senior staff-members of the general and regional offices of CNRRA, and that effective measures be taken to meet their requests. Being keenly aware of your sincere desire to dispose the relief supplies in China with absolute fairness and to the best interest of the Chinese people, I trust that you will look favorably toward my recommendations and take appropriate actions to meet the urgent situation.” In fine condition.

The United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) was an international aid organization established in 1943 by 44 Allied nations to provide relief to areas under occupation by the Axis Powers. In January 1945, the Nationalist government of China established a parallel agency, the Chinese National Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (CNRRA), to distribute the UNRRA supplies. In spite of the UNRAA’s resolution that the agency’s resources be distributed fairly, ‘on the basis of the relative needs of the population in the area, and without discrimination because of race, creed, or political belief,’ that was not the case—as Chou En-lai here observes.

From the Hoover Institution Library and Archives: ‘The provinces of the North, which had been under the longest occupation by the Japanese, were also the areas of Chinese Communist guerilla activity. After the Japanese surrender, these territories fell under Chinese Communist control. Difficulties arose in the distribution of aid due to the reality of civil war. The official history of the Administration estimates that 2-3% (by weight) or 4-5% (by value) of all UNRRA supplies were distributed to Communist-held territories.’ Following the failure in negotiations between the Chinese Communist Party and the Nationalists (Kuomintang), Chou En-lai turned his focus from diplomatic to military affairs, working directly under Mao as his chief aide. Using the techniques of guerrilla warfare, the Communists were ultimately able to overwhelm Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalist troops, seizing Beijing and Tianjin in 1949. With the establishment of the People’s Republic of China on October 1, 1949, Chou was appointed as both Premier of the Government Administration Council and Minister of Foreign Affairs. He would play a leading role in developing China’s foreign policy and economy in the second half of the 20th century.

Starting Bid $2,500

“The handlooms are making very good progress. I hope to send you some new cloth”

Gandhi writes to his old friend on struggles at his Ashram and successes in the Swadeshi movement for Indian independence

LOT 6027

Mohandas Gandhi Autograph Letter Signed (Early in Struggle for Indian Independence)

ALS signed at the head, “From M. K. Gandhi,” three pages, 5 x 8, May 20, [1916]. Handwritten letter to his close friend Hermann Kallenbach, written from Ahmedabad, India, but penned on the reverse of stationery imprinted “P.O. Box 2493, Johannesburg.” In full: “My dear friend, your letters have become most irregular & so I imagine have mine become. Sometimes I get two at a time. I hope the parcels have been safely delivered to you. They contain your clothing biscuits & cut brushing sticks. I wish your opinion on the biscuits. They were turned out alright so far as I could judge.

You will be pained to hear that Maganbhai is leaving the Ashram. Next to Maganlal he was the strongest man. Indeed, Mrs. Gandhi thought that Maganbhai was the stronger of the two. Maganbhai is leaving as he frankly tells me that he can no longer observe the right rule of the Ashram. He wants to go out into the world and have a taste of it. His remaining in the Ashram can now make of him only a hypocrite. He will be leaving in a day or two. So it may come to pass what I said might and I may be left all by myself. Just now Maganlal seems to be strong like a lion. But so did Maganbhai. No man can beforehand stipulate about his future conduct. Peter thought he would not wince but even so great as he did though with him the shock was momentary.

Harilal’s wife is again with me. She is leaving in a few days to join her husband at Calcutta. I described to you Navansang & Bela’s small girl. They are now quite alright. The handlooms are making very good progress. I hope to send you some new cloth. With love from us all. Yours ever old friend.” In fine condition, with inconsistent ink flow, not adversely affecting overall readability. Accompanied by an export certificate from the French Ministry of Culture.

This interesting letter demonstrates the strong link between Mohandas Gandhi and Hermann Kallenbach, who met in

South Africa in 1904. The two men bonded over extensive discussions of religion and Satyagraha (non-violent civil disobedience), a concept that Gandhi brought into action while working as an activist in South Africa and would become critical to his later fight for Indian independence. Gandhi and Kallenbach became close friends through their association in Johannesburg, for a time living together in what is now known as the ‘Satyagraha House.’

In 1914, Gandhi left South Africa to return to his native India, bringing with him an international reputation as a leading Indian nationalist, theorist, and community organizer. Though he would not see Kallenbach again, the two maintained a regular correspondence. In this letter, he writes of the struggle to preserve his newly founded Kochrab Ashram and the departure of his reliable associate, Maganbhai. Gandhi compares him to his most faithful follower, Maganlal Khushalchand Gandhi, expressing both hope and despair: “No man can beforehand stipulate about his future conduct.”

Gandhi’s closing mention that the “handlooms are making very good progress” is particularly noteworthy, as he had adopted the loom, or spinning wheel, as a symbol of economic independence very early on. He encouraged all Indians to wear khadi (homespun cloth) instead of British-made textiles, and exhorted all Indian men and women, rich or poor, to spend time each day spinning khadi in support of the independence movement. Thus the spinning wheel—and the resultant textile itself—became symbolic of the movement toward Indian independence.

Despite momentary struggles at the Kochrab Ashram—which Gandhi used as a center to practice the ideals of satyagraha, self-sufficiency, and upliftment of the poor and struggling—he soon outgrew the facility, and in 1917 established a new ashram on the banks of the River Sabarmati. Maganlal remained true to the cause, managing the Sabarmati Ashram until his death in 1928.

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“I took no handmade paper with me. Hence this note on machine made paper”

Writing during his famous 1937 trip to Travancore, Gandhi offers advice on marriage and promotes self-sustaining village industry

LOT 6028

Mohandas Gandhi Autograph Letter Signed on Marriage and Self-Reliance

ALS signed “Love, Bapu,” three pages on two sheets, 5.5 x 7.75, January 17, 1937. Handwritten letter to Shanta S. Patel, the daughter of Shankarbhai Patel, whose family members were close associates of Mohandas Gandhi. As evidenced by this letter and their other correspondence, Gandhi behaved as a protector of Shanta and frequently offered his wisdom and guidance. Gandhi writes from the Kingdom of Travancore, a prosperous and progressive princely state in the south of British India. In full: “I always think of you & want to write to you but never get the time. I have get some tonight by accident. We are on a little launch which is taking hours instead of half an hour to reach our destination. Not knowing this I took no handmade paper with me. Hence this note on machine made paper.

Bharatan must have told you all about our conversation. You should forget him. He is already engaged & is about to be married. I am sorry but you will, I have no doubt, appreciate the situation. If you can work on at Maganwardi with complete self-possession, it is well. But if you find it difficult, we must think on the possibilities. I expect to reach there 24th or 25th.

I hope you are thoroughly restored. I had sent a wire inquiring about your health. I hope Fischer continues to like his work & to keep his health. I see from the papers that you are having very hot weather. Here we are walking. There is no winter in the south of India.” In fine condition, with short splits to the ends of the intersecting folds. Accompanied by an export certificate from the French Ministry of Culture.

Gandhi’s letters to Shanta form a correspondence of precepts and counsels of existence, scanning all aspects of the young girl’s life, ranging from morality to food. Gandhi’s paternal tone confirms the role of surrogate father that he seems to have

played for Shanta, whom he sometimes called his ‘dear daughter.’ Here, Gandhi asks her to give up a man who is already engaged and about to be married. This advice is accompanied by his invitation to stay and work at Maganwardi, the name of Gandhi’s ‘headquarters’ established in Wardha, in central India. This is where Gandhi settled in 1936 after his final stay in prison, spending twelve years there until his death in 1948.

Gandhi’s trip to Travancore in January 1937 remains symbolic of his action in India, representing an important episode in his life. Indeed, a few years earlier, in 1925, he had been refused access to the sanctuary of the Travancore temple, having only been authorized to walk around it. He complained in an article in his Navjivan journal: ‘I was not allowed to go to the inner sanctum because I had been to England.’

Indeed, going abroad was considered a taboo by the Hindus of the time and those who violated this belief were denied entry to temples. These people could only enter shrines after performing purification rituals. In 1933, the King of Travancore, Sree Chithira Thirunal, ended these restrictions as part of his progressive platform. In January 1937, the king invited Gandhi as a special guest for the historic ceremony at the temples of Travancore, which finally opened their doors to all Hindus, including those of lower castes.

Gandhi’s apology for the use of “machine made paper” is also interesting, as he was a vigorous promoter of traditional village industries—which served as a means for self-reliance and helped to establish economic independence from Britain. Though more famous for his encouragement of the use of homespun cloth (khadi) rather than British-made textiles, the same theory held true for handmade paper. Encompassing several aspects of his personal life and activist work, this is an important autograph letter by Mohandas Gandhi.

Starting Bid $1,000

LOT 6029

Martin Luther King, Jr. Letter on Visiting Russia to Study “the influence that Soviet theory and practice have had upon the millions of colored peoples”

TLS signed “Martin L. King, Jr.,” two pages, 8.5 x 11, personal letterhead, November 13, 1958. Letter to Dr. Darrell Randall of the National Council of Churches in New York, in part: “Thanks for your very kind letter of recent date concerning my interest in going to Russia incident to my visit to India…As I remember, you mentioned that Dr. Nelson of the American Baptist Convention had expressed great interest in this trip, and also the possibility of providing some funds to meet the budget. Naturally, I was very happy to know this. My reasons for desiring to go to the Soviet Union may be stated as follows.”

King proceeds to list his six reasons for a potential Soviet Union trip, including “firsthand investigation” to exercise “leadership responsibilities,” establishing direct “personal contact” with Russian leaders in order “to get information by serious personal inquiry rather than to rely upon secondary sources,” to “illuminate the reasons for the continued existence of religious conviction among millions of Soviet citizens,” to communicate “with the large number of practicing Baptists within the Soviet

Union,” to understand “the influence that Soviet theory and practice have had upon the millions of colored peoples who populate the less industrially developed areas of the world,” and to “experience the reaction of Soviet officials and people to those of us who hold to the view that peace and justice are possible to the degree that the world uncompromisingly embraces the Judeo-Christian ideals.” In fine condition, with a few small stains on the first page.

Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. never did visit the Soviet Union, but on February 3, 1959, King, his wife Coretta Scott King, and his colleague Lawrence Reddick departed for a five-week tour in India, where he met with Indian leaders such as Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi’s widow, Kasturba Gandhi. The trip to India was primarily a pilgrimage to study Mahatma Gandhi’s philosophy of nonviolence and to gain a deeper understanding of his methods of peaceful protest. King was inspired by Gandhi’s principles of nonviolent resistance, and he saw the trip as an opportunity to learn from the Indian independence movement and apply those lessons to the civil rights struggle in the United States.

Starting Bid $2,500

Dr. King contemplates a visit to Russia:

“As a Negro I have special concern with the influence that Soviet theory and practice have had upon the millions of colored peoples”

LOT 6030

Martin Luther King, Jr. Signed Book - Why We Can’t Wait (Letter from Birmingham Jail)

Significant signed book: Why We Can’t Wait. First edition. NY: Harper & Row, 1964. Hardcover with dust jacket, 6 x 8.5, 178 pages. Boldly signed and inscribed on the first free end page in blue ballpoint to the publicity director of Harper & Row, “To Stuart Harris, In appreciation for all you have done in helping Why We Can’t Wait to move forward, Martin Luther King, Jr.” Autographic condition: fine. Book condition: VG+/VG.

This book, which emanated from King’s famous ‘Letter from Birmingham Jail,’ describes in detail the nonviolent movement

against racial segregation in the United States, with a specific focus on the 1963 Birmingham campaign. The publication of the book afforded the ‘Letter from Birmingham Jail’ its widest circulation at the time, drawing further attention to the civil rights cause. In supporting the release of Why We Can’t Wait, Stuart Harris helped to arrange press conferences and put the book into the hands of reviewers. Writing for the Houston Post, Lonnie Hudkins applauded the work as ‘one of the most eloquent achievements of the year—indeed of any year.’ A historic presentation copy of a landmark volume in the Civil Rights Movement.

Starting Bid $500

“In appreciation for all you have done in helping Why We Can’t Wait to move forward”—MLK publishes his ‘Letter from Birmingham Jail’ in book form

LOT 6031

Walt Whitman “Memoranda During the War”

Limited Edition Signed Book: “I see the President almost every day”

Rare signed book: Memoranda During the War. First edition, second issue with ‘Remembrance Copy’ leaf. Camden, NJ: Printed for the Author by New Republic Print, Federal St., 1875-76. Hardcover bound in the original plum cloth with giltstamped title, edges gilt, stiff light green endpapers embossed with flowers, 5.25 x 8, 68 pages. Boldly signed and inscribed on the prefatory ‘Remembrance Copy’ page in ink, “[To] my dear sister Mary, [From] her brother Walt, with his love.” Whitman also writes “Sister” above the ‘personal note’ printed below, which offers some autobiographical notes and descriptions of the two portraits that follow. A leaf at the end advertises the sale of new editions of Leaves of Grass, Two Rivulets, and Memoranda During the War. Autographic condition: fine. Book condition: VG/None, with sunning to spine, some minor stains to endpapers and portraits, and a restored abrasion to the rear board. Accompanied by a handsome custom-made three-quarter morocco clamshell case.

Of this rare book, Whitman bibliographers Wells and Goldsmith state that ‘almost every copy was autographed and it is improbable that more than a hundred copies were issued.’ The book is a compilation of Whitman’s notes from the end of 1862 to 1865 during his visits to the sick and wounded in hospitals in and around Washington, D.C. On page 22, he mentions seeing President Abraham Lincoln almost every day.

According to Walt Whitman: An Encyclopedia (New York: Garland Publishing, 1998), Whitman maintained a close relationship with his younger sister, Mary Elizabeth. She appears in several of Whitman’s stories, often as the subject of Whitman’s inquiries about loss of innocence: namely, she appears as an unnamed fourteen-year-old in his story ‘My Boys and Girls’ (1844) and is presented as the sweet Sister Mary in his children’s story ‘The Half-Breed: A Tale of the Western Frontier’ (1845). Though she did not carefully follow his literary career, she provided an idyllic escape for him at her home in Greenport, Long Island, where Whitman paid frequent visits. An exceedingly rare Whitman book in its own right, this superior example is elevated by its close familial association.

Starting Bid $300

Exceedingly rare privately printed edition of Walt Whitman’s Civil War remembrances, including seeing Lincoln every day, boldly inscribed to his beloved sister Mary

LOT 6032

Charles Dickens Letter on the Origin of A Christmas Carol (March 1843)

Extraordinary ALS from Charles Dickens encapsulating the moment he decided to write his famed novella A Christmas Carol. The handwritten letter, two pages on adjoining sheets, 4.5 x 7.25, March 10, 1843, addressed from his Devonshire Terrace home and sent to social reformer Thomas Southwood Smith, in part: “Don’t be frightened when I tell you that since I wrote to you last, reasons have presented themselves for depriving the production of that pamphlet until the end of the year. I am not at liberty to explain them further, just now, but rest assured that when you know them, and see what I do, and which and how, you will certainly feel that a sledge hammer has come down with twenty times the force — twenty thousand times the force — I could expect by following out my first idea. Even so recently as when I wrote to you the other day I had not contemplated the means I shall now, please God, use. But they have been suggested to me, and I have girded myself for their seizure, as you shall see in due time.” In fine condition.

The inception of A Christmas Carol was the result of the 1842

publication, Report of the Children’s Employment Commission, and its subsequent second part that was released in February the following year. Compiled by Dickens’ friend Richard Henry Horne, the reports detailed the extreme, unhealthy, dangerous, and exploitative working conditions many poor children were forced to endure in the UK, a plight Dickens had experienced firsthand working at the age of 12 in a shoe factory.

The release of the second report stirred up in Dickens past memories and a desire for action, which, initially, he planned to express in a philosophical “pamphlet” with the proposed title ‘An Appeal to the People of England on behalf of the Poor Man’s Child.’ A few days later, Dickens changed his mind, scrapping his “first idea” in favor of something different: a ghost story.

Four weeks after visiting the Ragged School for destitute children in September 1843, Dickens began writing A Christmas Carol. He completed the work in a mere six weeks and A Christmas Carol was published on December 19, 1843. An astonishing letter penned by Dickens at the very moment of inspiration.

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Incensed by the UK’s apathy toward child labor, Dickens resolves to write his classic A Christmas Carol, pledging that the work will “feel that a sledge hammer has come down with twenty times the force — twenty thousand times the force”

Battlefield letter from General Lee written during the Union’s push for the Confederate capital, ordering Pickett to attack after A. P. Hill’s apparent success during the Siege of Petersburg

LOT 6033

Robert E. Lee

Letter Written

During the Siege of Petersburg, Addresses the Actions of C onfederate Generals Pickett, Beauregard, and Hill

Civil War-dated ALS signed “R. E. Lee, Gen.,” one page, 8 x 6.75, August 19, 1864. Addressed from “H’dqrs’ in Henrico County, Virginia, a handwritten letter dispatched by General Robert E. Lee to General Charles W. Field, in part: “Your note of 8 P.M. just rec’d. If you find that the enemy…has retired or reduced his force, I desire you to send Pickett’s three regts to him + Wilson’s two regts to him, without further orders — A dispatch from Genl Beauregard just rec’d and says ‘Hill attacked the enemy this afternoon + met with a brilliant success. Details have not yet been officially stated.’” In fine condition.

This incredible wartime letter dates to Grant’s Overland Campaign and the Union’s continued Siege of Petersburg, a vital

supply center for the Confederate capital of Richmond and a strategic crossroads and junction for five railroads. Written on the night of August 19th, the letter concerns two concurrent battles: the Second Battle of Deep Bottom, the location of Major Generals George E. Pickett and Charles W. Field, the latter the letter’s recipient, and the Battle of Globe Tavern, the subject of a report recently received from Gen. P. G. T. Beauregard. The message relayed news of a counterattack led by Lt. Gen. A. P. Hill, whose Third Corps repelled a Union assault on the Weldon Railroad the day prior. The account, conveyed to Lee as “a brilliant success,” was short-lived, as Union troops regained their foothold and, by the morning of the 21st, forced a Confederate retreat that left several miles of the Weldon railroad in the grips of the Union army, subsequently gaining the Federals their first victory during the siege of Petersburg.

Starting Bid $2,500

LOT 6034

Thomas J. ‘Stonewall’ Jackson Letter of Recommendation for Cavalry

Commander William ‘Grumble’ Jones

Civil War-dated ALS in pencil, signed “T. J. Jackson Maj. Genl.,” one page both sides, 7.25 x 9.25, September 24, 1862. Addressed from “Headquarters, V. District,” a handwritten letter to General Samuel Cooper, the adjutant general and inspector general of the Confederate army, in part: “I respectfully recommend that Colonel W. E. Jones of the 7th Va. Cavly. be promoted to a brigadier general of cavalry and assigned to the brigade lately commanded by Brig. Genl. B. H. Robertson… When the Cavalry of the Valley District was organized, he was appointed colonel of the 7th Regiment, in which position he served under my command and greatly to my satisfaction. I have found him prompt and efficient in the discharge of every duty. His disposition is to be near the enemy and ever on the

alert. His engagement with the enemy at Orange Court House was highly creditable…I am not acquainted with any other field officer of Cavalry whom I regard as so well qualified for commanding a brigade as Colonel Jones.” Expertly matted and framed with glass on both sides and hinged against a display to an overall size of 42.5 x 26.5. In fine condition.

Jackson proved correct in his assessment of William Edmondson Jones (1824-1864), who did receive the promotion recommended in this letter. Given the well-earned nickname ‘Grumble’ for his irritable disposition, Jones distinguished himself as a cavalry leader at Brandy Station and during the Second Bull Run Campaign. As Jackson mentions, Jones proved a formidable leader during a skirmish at Orange Court House on August 2, 1862, which marked the first of very few instances of mounted urban cavalry fighting in the Civil War.

Starting Bid $1,000

Rare war-time letter from Stonewall Jackson, advocating the promotion of a fearless cavalry commander: “His disposition is to be near the enemy and ever on the alert”

LOT 6035

John Wilkes Booth Autograph Letter Signed (1860)

Written the Month of President Lincoln’s Election

Exceedingly rare ALS signed “J. Wilkes Booth,” two pages on two adjoining sheets, 6.5 x 8, no date [November 1860].

Addressed from the Exchange Hotel in Montgomery, Alabama, a handwritten letter to an unidentified young woman, in full: “I wish to thank you, And I do so, But thanks have in them but little worth, and nothing substantial and I know it; for thank God I am not yet a Bateman, and may I never be, So I wish to remunerate you for your kind services. Yet am not able to give what I should like, or what you deserve, (For to use the language of the day, — which I trust you will pardon — I am very hard-up. My friends having — in a manner — Gone back on me.) So all I can do, which I assure you I am ashamed of, is to offer you this worthless token. Yet, I beg you will accept it, not for its worth, but for the Spirit in which it is given. And also keep it. That it may remind you I am still your debtor.”

Expertly and indiscernibly strengthened and repaired to near fine condition, with staining to the first page, and restoration of substantial paper loss to the second page, none of which adversely affects readability or the boldness of the handwriting. Portions of this letter were published on page 93 in Terry Alford’s book Fortune’s Fool: The Life of John Wilkes, which relates to his time in Montgomery and his lead role in Romeo and Juliet. Overall, a fine example of the darkly and clearly penned handwriting and signature of John Wilkes Booth, who remains rare across all formats.

Accompanied by two letters from pioneer autograph dealer Mary A. Benjamin that she sent to Dr. John K. Lattimer, to whom she sold this letter in 1973.

Provenance: Walter Benjamin Autographs (1973); Heritage Auctions (2008); University Archives (2009)

Starting Bid $2,500

While performing in the Deep South, 22-year-old John Wilkes Booth thanks a young lady “for your kind services,” apologizing for being “very hard-up” and “not able to give what I should like, or what you deserve”

LOT 6036

Mary Baker Eddy Autograph Letter Signed on Christian Science

Rare ALS from Mary Baker Eddy, four pages on two adjoining sheets, 6.25 x 7.75, Concord, N.H. letterhead, December 14, 1892. Handwritten letter to her “beloved student” Sarah Adams, in part: “I am sorry to learn you ‘lost’ your ‘Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures,’ and I quote you merely to observe that your book never can be lost. It is His will that such things occur in our search for the living Health-giving Truth. Please to inform your friend that application must be made in the regular manner; this is a rule and may not be disregarded. However, you might invite and insure her attendance at the service on Sunday. As to my answering the assorted questions of those unacquainted with the teachings of Christian Science, I have long since decided to refer all such to the Journal, where they will be completely taken care of according to their merit. Some there are that honestly and sincerely seek the truth; others have an unworthy and morbid motive and usually appear in the habits of bonafide questions. My teachings and

writings will answer any question on Christian Science, and long experience has taught me to recommend the literature of Christian Science to those who interrogate. It is easy to be misunderstood, hence misquoted, and I cannot undertake in the year 1892 to appear as if defending my utterances.” In fine condition.

First published in 1883, nearly four years after Eddy founded the Church of Christ, Scientist, The Christian Science Journal was created as a response to the need for a central publication that would help unify and connect Christian Scientists across different geographical locations. Using the journal as a way to inspire and uplift individuals through the stories of healing and transformation, the early issues of The Christian Science Journal featured articles written by Eddy herself, as well as contributions from other Christian Science practitioners and students. These articles often focused on topics such as healing, prayer, spirituality, and the study of the Bible and Eddy’s key work, ‘Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.’

Starting Bid $200

“My teachings and writings will answer any question on Christian Science, and long experience has taught me to recommend the literature of Christian Science to those who interrogate”

Howe on the origin of her iconic song:

LOT 6037

Julia Ward Howe ALS on The Battle Hymn of the Republic, “written in a bedroom at Willard’s Hotel”

ALS, one page both sides, 5.5 x 9, Association for the Advancement of Women letterhead, May 21, 1892. Handwritten letter to J. C. Ridgway, in part: “I am sorry to have left a letter of yours unanswered for many weeks. The pressure of much business and correspondence must be my excuse for this. The Battle Hymn of the Republic was written in a bedroom at Willard’s Hotel. I cannot verify the exact date at this moment, but think it was Nov. 18th, 1861. If you could look at the old record of the Hotel, you might find the very room in which it was written. Dr. Howe’s name would be recorded…I think they had put me down as Miss Howe. This was because we had two rooms.” In fine condition. Accompanied by a printed copy of The Battle Hymn of the Republic, published by the Supervisory Committee for Recruiting Colored Regiments.

In November 1861, Governor John A. Andrew of Massachusetts entertained a party from his state on a 12-day visit to Washington D.C. The party included Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe, employed with the relief work of the Sanitary Commission (a precursor of the Red Cross), his wife Julia Ward Howe, a poet and ardent Abolitionist, and the Reverend James Freeman Clarke. While there, Howe watched a public review of Union troops as they belted out a well-known marching song called ‘John Brown’s Body,’ after the famous abolitionist, John

Brown. It was there and then that Clarke encouraged Howe to write new lyrics to the tune. A fervent Union supporter and abolitionist herself, Howe traveled back to her hotel room at the Willard in Washington and woke with lyrics in her head.

‘I went to bed and slept as usual…But awoke the next morning in the gray of the early dawn, and to my astonishment found that the wished-for lines were arranging themselves in my brain. I lay quite still until the last verse had completed itself in my thoughts, then hastily arose, saying to myself, I shall lose this if I don’t write it down immediately. I searched for an old sheet of paper and an old stub of a pen which I had had the night before, and began to scrawl the lines almost without looking, as I learned to do by often scratching down verses in the darkened room when my little children were sleeping. Having completed this, I lay down again and fell asleep, but not before feeling that something of importance had happened to me.’

Shortly thereafter she sent the poem to the Atlantic Monthly, which paid her $4 for it and gave it the name the ‘Battle Hymn of the Republic,’ publishing it on its front page in February of 1862. It became one of the most popular songs of the Civil War era and has since become an enduring patriotic tune for over 160 years.

Starting Bid $200

“The Battle Hymn of the Republic was written in a bedroom at Willard’s Hotel”

Handsome

edition of Ulysses by James Joyce, published by The Bodley Head and limited to 100

signed presentation

LOT 6038 James Joyce Signed Book - Ulysses (Limited Edition, 1936)

Rare signed book: Ulysses by James Joyce. First edition thus, limited issue of 100 signed copies on mould-made paper bound in calf vellum [this example unnumbered and marked “Presentation Copy” in calligraphy]. London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1936. Hardcover bound in full cream vellum with Homeric bow design by Eric Gill in gilt on covers, spine lettered in gilt, top edges gilt, others uncut, by the Leighton Straker Bookbinding Co., with the publisher’s original slipcase with printed paper label, 8 x 10.25, 766 pages. Boldly signed on the colophon in fountain pen, “James Joyce.” Autographic condition: fine. Book condition: VG/None in a VG case, with some minor rubbing and discoloration to boards, and slight mottled foxing to darkened spine and textblock extremities; edgewear to the case, some staining to the paper label, and mottled foxing to interior. Complete with the original prospectus laid in.

Joyce encountered difficulties with his controversial masterpiece Ulysses in both Great Britain and the United States, with publishers reluctant to print the uncensored work due

to obscenity laws. The editors of The Little Review (a literary magazine based in New York) supported subversive material and were willing to take the risk, but even they had trouble finding a printer; the London-based The Egoist faced an even greater challenge in the UK because both publishers and printers were liable to prosecution, and published only excerpts.

These fears of censorship and prosecution were realized in September 1920, when charges were brought against The Little Review after the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice lodged a complaint. The Little Review lost the ensuing legal battle and ceased its serialization of Ulysses, which was banned in the United States until 1933. It was also officially banned in Britain after a book-form version was successfully published in Paris in 1922, and remained illegal there until 1936. This edition of Joyce’s masterwork, the first edition of the complete work to be printed and published in England, was set from the second impression of Odyssey Press’s edition and proofed by Joyce. With the binding and typography designed by the English artist Eric Gill, it is widely considered to be the most handsome of all Ulysses editions.

Starting Bid $1,000

LOT 6039

J. R. R. Tolkien Autograph Letter Signed to Publisher on Lord of the Rings

Remarkable ALS signed three times with his initials, “JRRT,” five pages on three sheets, 5 x 6.75, personal letterhead, May 12, 1955. Lengthy, detailed handwritten letter to his publisher Rayner Unwin, commenting on his difficulties in finishing the third and final volume of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Return of the King. He focuses on corrections to proofs and revisions to the comprehensive appendices included in the work, which detail the history, cultures, genealogies, and languages that Tolkien imagined for the peoples of Middle-earth.

In full: “Silence has meant unremitting labour, I am glad you approved the Map. It cost me many days labour, plotting it on squared paper, and researching into the text. But the draughtsman put my draught into form very quickly—as usual with Christopher at a sitting without going to bed until 6 a.m. I hope you will give him a v. suitable fee, as he really had to make an heroic effort in face of many troubles.

I did not understand your remark about proofs for Vol. III. It did not mean surely that they have lost my corrected copy sent in—for there were some vital corrections in the set. Though I think I have kept a note of them. I hope no other corrections sent in ‘posthumously’ (due to research into times and distances for the Map) have been incorporated.

I have not received any further set of proofs for Vol. III. But that does not matter now—esp. not if I could see a copy incorporating all corrections. I have now sent to Beard all appendices complete: Copy for missing parts; corrections of Galleys for parts of A and B; corrections of Family Trees; and corrections of revisions for Appendix F.

Your call, of course, look at it all, incl. my notes on it to Beard. I am not v. happy about it! But I have been influenced in my choice of material (and discarding) by letters, and by comments and requests of more influential authors such as Auden (who came to see me recently) and P.H. Newby. But I still think it is at once too much and too little. However, it contains plenty of ‘lore’ which Hugh Brogan (son of D.B.), far the most critical and eagle eyed of all critics, says is a main attraction.

I have, I expect, in the end, kept too much. If anything has to be rejected, please don’t let it be the Runes and the Table

I have painfully arranged (to fit the space I hope and avoid the sad fate of the Feanorian Letters which now look very scrappy). The last two Family Trees Bolger and Boffin, I should be glad to jettison. I should also prefer to jettison FII ‘On Translation’ rather than anything else. I have my doubts about it. Is it really a good thing to exhibit one’s working—and is not the simple assumption that Western = English best left alone. What do you think. Does this section contain anything it would be sad to lose?

I am still very sorry that the ‘facsimiles’ of the Book of Mazarbul are not in. And of course the name list which would have given me a chance of providing some Elvish vocabulary.

I should be very glad to hear what you really think of all this Appendix matter! I was myself a bit cheered by the Galleys to hand. In point it proved more readable than I had thought. I have not got—and I do not think I ever had—a copy of The Hobbit incorporating the revisions. Could I have one? The info on the Hobbit in the Appendix will all need a second reference added after page 90 when the manuscript is altered. I have not been able to give A.V. references!

Is there any hope of getting copies of the American Edition of the Fellowship? I have had some of the Two Towers. Whatever use beholds I will despatch all proofs all that come my way with speed. I hope you can read some of the last v. best wishes to you.” Tolkien goes on to add two postscripts, both also initialed, “JRRT,” in full: “My last ‘fan’ letter was from the V.C. of Cambridge. But among the so-called intelligentsia it is odd that most who bother to write are non-literary and largely scientists. Professor Medawar the physiologist is bullying me—but he says he is afraid there is going to be a ‘happy ending.’ Would you call it a happy ending? Auden on the whole approves of Vol. III (seen in galleys), but thinks including (I am relieved to find) the Eowyn-Faramir business; but he thinks Aragorn-Arwen unnecessary & perfunctory. I hope the fragment of the ‘saga’ will cure him. I still find it poignant: an allegory of naked hope. I hope you do…P.P.S. Please thank your father for so kindly sending me Wilson of Bompus’s extract from a reader’s comment. Wonder who it was!…I have not had time myself to consider the accounts of Vols. I and II sent to me. But they seem satisfactory in general. Also Hobbits seem to be going up again.” In fine condition, with rusty paperclip marks to the margins.

Starting Bid $1,000

Tolkien prepares the final volume of Lord of the Rings: “Would you call it a happy ending? Auden on the whole approves of Vol. III”

Elusive handwritten letter from Sigmund Freud on homosexuality

LOT 6040

Sigmund Freud Rare Autograph Letter Signed on Homosexuality, “...several of the greatest men in history were homosexuals”

ALS in German, signed “Prof. Freud,” one page both sides, 8.75 x 11.25, personal letterhead, December 6, 1938. A handwritten letter addressed from his London home at 20 Maresfield Gardens, in part (translated): “I cannot agree with your calling homosexuality a vice or a crime. It is neither, regardless of the legislation in different countries. But it is an unfortunate trait, and efforts to overcome it are justified. If only it were achieved so easily! Psychoanalysis has helped overcome it in rare cases; in numerous others it succeeded in reinforcing simultaneously existing heterosexual instincts to the point where the subjects were able to live bisexually. In most cases [psychoanalysis] has no influence over the abnormal tendency. Since this psychological treatment takes extended time and is costly as well, it will probably not provide you the answer you are looking for. The case may be different for your friend. Since he is so much younger, his decision may not be definitive yet, and you assume a degree of responsibility if you settle him with degeneration which will only reinforce his homosexuality. Advice will get you nowhere. The two of you will have to wait and see which inclination is stronger. The homosexual’s case in today’s society is not as hopeless as it may seem to you. In every country there is a large number of such individuals who, while outside of the norm in that one point, in all others pass muster and distinguish themselves through remarkable accomplishments, as evidenced by the fact that several of the greatest men in history were homosexuals. Even more frequently you will see men for a period of their lives follow one sexual inclination only to trade it in later on for the other. But they also often remain receptive to both sexes — meaning they remain bisexual.” In fine condition. Accompanied by a 2003 letter from Erica Davies, the director of the Freud Museum.

Starting Bid $5,000

“I cannot agree with your calling homosexuality a vice or a crime.

It is neither... several of the greatest men in history were homosexuals”

LOT 6041 Rene Descartes Excessively Rare Autograph Letter Signed on Theorem of Circles and Quarrel of Utrecht

Excessively rare and mathematically significant ALS in French, signed “Descartes,” one page, 8.5 x 12.25, October 21, 1643. Handwritten letter to his friend Alphonse de Pollot, alluding to one of his mathematical theories, the Theorem of Circles (a premise to what is known today as Descartes’ Theorem), and sending thanks for his support in the Quarrel of Utrecht. Descartes vilifies his Protestant enemy at Utrecht, Gisbertus Voetius, and notes that he had recently proposed the ‘Problem of Apollonius’—a famous mathematical problem involving the construction of a circle within a plane—to Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia, but fears it may be too difficult for her to solve.

Descartes opens the letter by offering thanks for Pollot’s support in the Quarrel of Utrecht (translated): “I have no words to express the resentment that I have of the obligations that I have to you, but I assure you that it is extreme, and that I will keep them all my life.” After staying there sporadically, Descartes settled permanently in Holland in the spring of 1629. It was in these Batavian lands that the philosopher published his most famous texts: Méditations métaphysiques (1641), Principes de la Philosophie (1644 ) and the famous Discours de la Méthode, published in Leyden in 1637. Descartes’ philosophy, opposed to the scholastic principles, did not fail to annoy the Protestant authorities, the first of which was Gisbertus Voetius, who launched a cabal against Descartes and his friend Henricus Regius, professor at the University of Utrecht. Accusing Descartes of atheism, Voetius instigated the publication of a brutal pamphlet, ‘Admiranda methodus,’ written by his pupil Martin Schook, in which Descartes is described as ‘a lying mouth’ and ‘a bastard of Christianity.’ This ‘Quarrel of Utrecht’ grew so tense that the philosopher called on the ambassador of France to defend him.

Descartes was condemned by the University of Utrecht on March 17, 1642, prohibiting the discussion of his works and making him subject to criminal charges, thereby forcing him to flee to The Hague. Thanks to his influential friends, Descartes was never put on trial, though he felt his reputation had been damaged. According to this letter’s postscript, the matter had been settled for eight days: “I have been informed from Utrecht that there is no more fear for me, and that the name of His Highness, in Mr. de Ryusmond’s letters, has calmed the whole storm. It was the chief joy I felt, to see that name

revered, if not as it should, at least enough to prevent injustice in a town prone to mutiny and where the rebellious spirit of Voetius dominates.” It would take 363 years for Descartes to be officially vindicated by the University of Utrecht—on March 23rd, 2005, the prestigious university finally lifted its condemnation of the teaching of the works of Descartes.

Additionally, Descartes makes mention of his famous correspondence with Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia, a well-educated royal who became his student in philosophy and morals. Here, he writes of sending her a geometrical problem of three circles, also known as Apollonius’ problem. In part (translated): “I regret having proposed the question of the three circles to the Princess of Bohemia, since it is so difficult, that it seems to me that even an angel who had no other instruction in algebra than that which St[ampioen] had given her couldn’t solve it without a miracle.” In solving the problem, René Descartes gave a formula relating the radii of the solution circles and the given circles, now known as Descartes’ theorem. In spite of Descartes’ fears of its great difficulty, Princess Elisabeth also pioneered an alternate algebraic solution to Apollonius’ problem. Descartes so admired the intellect of Elisabeth that in 1644, he dedicated his Principia philosophiae to the princess.

Addressed on the integral leaf in Descartes’ hand to “Monsieur Alphonse de Pollot, Gentilhomme de la Chambre de son Altesse à la Haye.” Housed in a custom-made slipcase. The letter is in fine condition, with intersecting folds and several small holes affecting the blank margin and address panel. Accompanied by full transcript in French, and an official French brochure published by the Imprimerie Nationale Exécutive du Louvre containing the decrees of the National Convention of October 2nd and 4th, 1793, granting “René Descartes the honors due to great men, & order to transfer to the Panthéon François his body, & his statue made by the famous Pajou.”

This important letter is referenced in ‘Princess Elizabeth of Bohemia and Descartes’ letters’ by Erik-Jan Bos, published in Historia Mathematica in 2010, discussing the solutions to the problem of three circles. Bos comments: ‘Elizabeth’s solution is especially interesting, because, in the light of her efforts to solve the problem, Descartes changed or at least adjusted his opinions on the best way to approach geometrical problems.’

Starting Bid $15,000

Excessively rare and mathematically important handwritten letter by Rene Descartes, alluding to the ‘Theorem of Circles’ and his condemnation at Utrecht

Remarkable family tree manuscript by Isaac Newton, with “Newton” written 25 times!

LOT 6042

Isaac Newton Handwritten

Manuscript on Family Tree — “Newton” Written 25 Times!

English physicist, mathematician, and astronomer (1643–1727), widely regarded as the most influential figure in the history of science, whose ideas and discoveries, including calculus, the laws of gravitation and motion, and observations on the nature of light and optics, earned him a place among the most profound geniuses in the history of mankind.

Marvelous autograph notes by Isaac Newton about his family tree, unsigned but incorporating his surname, “Newton,” twenty-five times throughout the text, one page both sides, 7.75 x 6.25, no date but circa 1700. This significant document contains Newton’s notes about his ancestral family on both of his parents’ sides—desirably penning his surname, “Newton,” some 25 times within the approximately 500-word manuscript.

He writes of his father’s side of the family in beginning with Mary Newton (1520-1565), and of his mother’s side beginning with his grandmother Margery Ayscough. The notes about his father’s and mother’s family are each written on distinct sides of the sheet of paper (with the notes being written in opposite directions on the two sides of the page). The notes about his maternal grandmother record Isaac Newton’s memories of a conversion he had with her “about 54 or 55 years ago” (i.e. circa 1635) relating to legal matters of inheritance (and “heirs at law”). Newton has rewritten these notes several times, each time with variations in the wording—a practice he was known to engage in when seeking to polish a statement. Newton has written these notes in the third person, referring to himself as “the Deponent,” and it is perhaps the case that Newton is here preparing to make a formal declaration of his family history in context of his receiving Knighthood from Queen Anne. In very good to fine condition, with staining to the lower half of the sheet, not adversely affecting readability.

Starting Bid $2,500

Pasteur offers experimental answers:

LOT 6043

Louis Pasteur Handwritten Manuscript on Rabies Experiments with Dogs

Significant handwritten manuscript in French by Louis Pasteur, unsigned, one page both sides, 6.25 x 8.25, Arbois, October 1884. Remarkable manuscript penned during his rabies research, dating to eight months before the first successful human vaccination. Headed, “Do dogs exist (as a race or individually) that are naturally immune to rabies?,” the manuscript reads (translated): “I have often read that rabies does not exist in Constantinople. However, several people I have consulted, most notably Dr. Fauvel, who have lived there for a long time, confirmed to me that they have definitely seen rabid dogs and people with rabies who have been bitten by those dogs in Constantinople. Although it is very rare, you can live a long time in Turkey without ever having seen a rabid dog or even heard of its existence. It is understandable how the rumor was spread that rabid dogs do not exist. Nobody denies the existence of rabies in either Africa or Egypt. In 1884, I had the opportunity to meet Dr. Sergent, a French public health doctor who has been living in Beirut for the past 27 years. He assured me that he had never seen a single case of rabies, either in dogs or in humans. These facts force me to ask the question which is the subject of this note. To resolve these queries experimentally, I asked Doctor Sergent to kindly send me some dogs from Beirut so that I could once and for all prove their immunity against rabies. On July 19, 1884, I received four dogs native to Beirut that Dr. Sergent generously sent me. On July 21, after having assured myself that three of them were healthy, lively and gay and had not suffered from the voyage, (Note: The 4th one was not eating and did not survive), I inoculated one of them by the method of trepanation with the medulla from the rabid dog which had died that morning after having been bitten on June 26, while in the care of Mr. Paul Simon, veterinarian in Paris. At the same time, we trepanned and inoculated a rabbit with the same brain matter from the dead dog to verify its potency. On July 30, the dog which had been trepanned began to change its behavior. He seemed agitated. It was the ninth day after inoculation. On July 31, the dog begins to bite and has a rabies like bark. His back legs are paralyzed. On August 1, he becomes more and more enraged and is biting more. On August 4, after having been madly enraged and furiously biting with a rabid bark, the dog from Beirut demonstrates a distinctly rabid behavior, the mouth hanging open and barely barking. On August 5, he is clearly dying. On August 6, we

find him dead in the morning. As of August 4, the rabbit which had been operated on by the method of trepanning on July 21, began to show that it was infected with rabies as it exhibited the beginning of paralysis. It was 14 days after being inoculated, which is the typical amount of incubation time for rabies in street dogs, when rabbits are infected by dogs. Although it was obvious that the dog from Beirut died of rabies, we wanted to verify the existence of the disease by transmitting it to rabbits; inoculated by trepanning, the rabbits manifest a rabid paralysis after 16-18 days of incubation. Other healthy rabbits, inoculated by trepanation from the first one that died, suffered from rabid paralysis, one of them after 10 days and the other after 18 days of incubation. To summarize, the dogs from Beirut responded in the exact same manner as the dogs from France. If rabies has never been observed in Beirut by Dr. Sergent, and if it does not seem to exist in Syria, it is because no one has ever brought it there. The dogs of these countries are ostensibly as susceptible as ours. So, our answer to the initial question we asked is NO. We have here a strong argument in favor of the opinion that rabies is never spontaneous. Finally, I must say that it was easy to immunize the two dogs who arrived from Beirut by preventive inoculations with the virus from the one to which I had transmitted rabies. These two dogs which were immunized can tolerate today as many consecutive injections of the rabies virus as we want without the slightest effect.” In fine condition.

This significant manuscript outlines Pasteur’s efforts to disprove the theory of ‘spontaneous rabies,’ as well as the idea that dogs in the Middle East were naturally immune—the experiments outlined here offered proof that the dogs had just not yet been exposed to rabies, not that they held a natural immunity. After five years of extensive study of the rabies virus and the successful treatment of several infected dogs, Louis Pasteur faced his first human patient in July of 1885. Certain that the severely bitten nine-year-old Joseph Meister would not survive without treatment, he began the course of the 13 injections; after administering all 13, one each day, in progressively stronger doses, Meister regained strength and never developed rabies. After a second successful treatment on a bitten shepherd which began in October, word spread and people began to seek him out for the vaccinations. An important scientific manuscript from the pioneering French chemist and microbiologist.

Starting Bid $2,500

“Do dogs exist (as a race or individually) that are naturally immune to rabies?”

LOT 6044

Nikola Tesla Autograph Letter Signed on His Inventing: “I had been so absorbed in my work that I forgot everything”

ALS in French, signed “N. Tesla,” one page, 8 x 10.75, The Gerlach Hotel letterhead, December 11, 1892. Handwritten letter by Nikola Tesla to Mr. A. Gallois in Paris, in full (translated): “I have just received your letter of the 26th Nov. Thank you for reminding me that the money has not been sent yet. For some time I had been so absorbed in my work that I forgot everything. Receive, dear sir, the assurance of my highest consideration.” In fine condition.

Tesla had visited Paris earlier in the year, delivering a lecture on ‘Experiments with Alternate Currents of High Potential and High Frequency’ before the Societe Francaise de Physique on February 19, 1892. Presumably, the payment in question in the present letter stemmed from his visit to France. In the ensuing days, he was preoccupied with personal tragedy—

the death of his mother on Easter Sunday—in addition to his work involving alternating current, hydroelectric power, and the production and transmission of electricity.

In September 1892, he moved into the Hotel Gerlach—now known as the ‘Radio Wave Building’—where he lived before the end of the century and experimented with radio waves in 1896. The modern dwelling befitted the eccentric inventor, as it was fireproof and equipped with elevators, electric lights, and sumptuous dining rooms.

Tesla struggled with finances throughout his life, yet demonstrates his honesty in this letter by reassuring his debtor of his intent to repay. A highly desirable handwritten letter that, in using a secondary language, also demonstrates Tesla’s superior intellect—he was fluent in eight languages: English, French, Serbo-Croatian, Czech, German, Hungarian, Italian, and Latin.

Starting Bid $1,000

Preoccupied with his inventions, Tesla apologizes for an unpaid debt:

“I had been so absorbed in my work that I forgot everything”

Einstein’s first honorary doctorate diploma, awarded by the University of Geneva in 1909

LOT 6045

Albert Einstein 1909 University of Geneva Honorary Diploma

Historic diploma awarded to Albert Einstein by the University of Geneva for an honorary doctorate in physics, one page, 17 x 21.25, July 9, 1909, bearing printed signatures of University Rector Robert Chodat, Dean of the Faculty R. Gautier, and Senate Secretary Paul Moriand. Below the crest of the University of Geneva, the diploma reads, in full: “Diplome de Docteur es Sciences Physiques Honoris Causa. Le Sénat de l’Université de Genève, reconnaissant que Monsieur A. Einstein a bien mérité de la Science, lui confère le grade de Docteur ès sciences physiques ‘honoris causa.’” The white paper university seal affixed to the lower remains intact, with a few small tears. Handsomely matted and framed to an overall size of 25 x 32.25. In fine condition, with a few creases and overall toning.

On Friday, July 9, 1909, the University of Geneva awarded over 100 honorary degrees on the occasion of the 350th anniversary of its founding by John Calvin. Among the persons honored were the German physicist Albert Einstein, the French chemist and physicist Marie Curie, and the German chemist Wilhelm Ostwald. Einstein was awarded the honorary doctorate on the suggestion of his former teacher, Charles Eugène Guye, then the Director of the Physical Institute of the University of Geneva.

Einstein’s humorous recollection of the event, in his own words, appears in Albert Einstein: A Documentary Biography by Carl Seelig: ‘One day I received in the Patent Office in Bern a large envelope out of which there came a sheet of distinguished paper. On it, in picturesque type (I even believe it was in Latin) was printed something that seemed to me impersonal and of

little interest. So right away it went into the official wastepaper basket. Later, I learned that it was an invitation to the Calvin festivities and was also an announcement that I was to receive an honorary doctorate from the Geneva University. Evidently the people at the university interpreted my silence correctly and turned to my friend and student Lucien Chavan, who came from Geneva but was living in Bern. He persuaded me to go to Geneva because it was practically unavoidable but he did not elaborate further.

So I travelled there on the appointed day and, in the evening in the restaurant of the inn where we were staying, met some Zurich professors…Each of them now told in what capacity he was there. As I remained silent I was asked that question and had to confess that I had not the slightest idea. However, the others knew all about it and let me in on the secret. The next day I was supposed to march in the academic procession. But I had with me only my straw hat and my everyday suit. My proposal that I stay away was categorically rejected, and the festivities turned out to be quite funny so far as my participation was concerned.

The celebration ended with the most opulent banquet I have ever attended in all my life. So I said to the Geneva patrician who sat next to me, ‘Do you know what Calvin would have done if he were still here?’ When he said no and asked what I thought, I said, ‘He would have erected a large pyre and had us all burned because of sinful gluttony.’ The man uttered not another word, and with this ends my recollection of that memorable celebration.’

It was Albert Einstein‘s first honorary doctorate, but many more would follow.

Starting Bid $5,000

Einstein signs the guestbook of the Cuban Geographical Society

LOT 6046

Albert Einstein Signed Cuban Geographical Society Guest Book

Unique leatherbound hardcover ‘Golden Book’ guestbook of the Cuban Geographical Society, 10.5 x 13.5, signed inside on the first six pages by visiting scientific dignitaries—highlighted by Albert Einstein in December 1930, along with his wife, Elsa Einstein, and his mathematician assistant Walther Mayer, nicknamed ‘Einstein’s calculator.’ Albert Einstein boldly pens a passionate declaration in German (translated): “The first truly universal society was the society of researchers. May the coming generation establish a political and economic society which will insure us against catastrophes.”

Among the other signers in the volume are polar explorer Hubert Wilkins and members of his expedition: pilot Carl Ben Eielson, pilot Joe Crosson, and mechanic Orval H. Porter; geologist Albert Perry Brigham; publisher, philanthropist, and aviator Harry F. Guggenheim (signing “on behalf of my distinguished countryman and good friend Richard E. Byrd”); and cartographer Erwin Raisz (who adds a fine sketch of a plane soaring over the island nation). Additionally signed on the title page by Juan Manuel Planas Sainz, a pioneering Spanishlanguage science fiction writer considered the ‘Jules Verne of Cuba,’ who was then serving as president of the Sociedad Geografica de Cuba. In very good to fine condition, with scattered foxing, toning, and dampstaining throughout, affecting only appearance and none of the bold handwriting.

In December 1930, Einstein visited Cuba for a day-and-a-half—a jaunt made while en route to San Diego aboard the Belgenland, which stopped in Havana before passing through the Panama Canal. There he received a hero’s welcome from the leaders of the Academy of Medical, Physical, and Natural Sciences of Havana, the Geographical Society of Cuba, and the local Jewish community. During his visit, Einstein gave a series of lectures on relativity theory and quantum mechanics at the University of Havana and the National Capitol.

Einstein’s visit to Cuba was also significant in terms of the political and social context of the time. Cuba was then a relatively new republic, having gained its independence from Spain in 1902, but was still struggling with economic and social challenges, as well as political instability. Einstein’s visit was seen as a sign of solidarity with the Cuban people, and his lectures on science and philosophy were seen as a way of promoting education and enlightenment in the country. In the passage penned here, he recognizes the importance of scientific collaboration in bridging differences across sociopolitical boundaries.

Starting Bid $2,500

“May the coming generation establish a political and economic society which will insure us against catastrophes”

LOT 6047

Albert Einstein Autograph Letter Signed on Unified Field Theory with Equations (including his favorite equation “Rik =0”)

Significant ALS in German, signed “A. Einstein,” one page both sides, 8.5 x 11, April 15, 1950. Handwritten scientific letter to his former assistant, the German-American mathematician Ernst Gabor Straus, incorporating several equations. In part (translated): “I managed to decide the question of the compatibility of the strong system. The answer is: there is compatibility in the sense that the multiplicity of the solutions is not restricted too much, but not in the sense that one could specify conditions for the intersection X4 = constant, the fulfillment of which is a solution obtainable by continuation implied in space. The weaker systems obtainable through the principle of variation are such that in one section (apart from the freedom of choice of coordinates and the resulting freedom of choice of four of the 16 functions Gik) there are still 20 functions freely selectable.” In fine condition.

In the center of the page, Einstein pens one of the fundamental equations of his General Relativity Theory: “Rik = 0,” the equation for a vanishing Ricci Curvature Tensor. The Ricci Curvature Tensor measures the deviation of a curved spacetime from a Euclidean framework, and it is a concept of central importance for Einstein’s General Relativity and Unified Field Theories. When the Ricci Curvature Tensor is equal to a zero value, the equation betokens a spacetime that is stable and static (neither expanding nor contracting). “Rik = 0” has been called ‘Einstein’s favorite equation’ and Einstein spent the second half of his life and career attempting to fine tune the precise value of this equation.

In 1915, after years of intense struggle, Einstein showed in his Theory of General Relativity that gravity can be described as the curvature of the geometry of four-dimensional “spacetime.” For the last three decades of his life, working either alone or with an assistant—he had a number of them over the years—Einstein tried in vain to construct a “unified field theory,” which would add the electromagnetic force to such a geometrical description.

From 1945 until his death a decade later, Einstein worked on a form of that theory in which the fundamental geometrical elements—the “metric tensor,” the “connection,” and the objects constructed from them—have both a symmetric and antisymmetric part. That is the theory that Einstein is discussing in this letter to Ernst Straus, who served as his assistant from 1944-1948, and who thus was intimately familiar with the work. Einstein excitedly relates here some results he has newly obtained—it is not hard to believe that he and Straus had striven for these same results just a few years before.

What Einstein wouldn’t accept at the time was that the search for any such classical, purely geometrical theory was doomed from the start. From the 1930s onwards physicists knew that the most fundamental description of physics must be quantum mechanical. Not only did Einstein’s work not attempt a quantum description, but it also left out the other two fundamental forces of nature, the strong and weak nuclear forces, which are responsible for holding the atomic nucleus together, and for radioactivity. Thus, Eisntein’s long search for a unified theory never came to fruition.

Starting Bid $10,000

Einstein writes to a fellow mathematician on his Unified Field Theory research, including his favorite equation: “Rik = 0”

Einstein on the beach— a stunning portrait signed in 1933

LOT 6048 Albert Einstein Signed Photograph on Santa Barbara Beach (1933)

Remarkable vintage matte-finish 9 x 7 portrait of Einstein dressed in a hat and long coat on a deserted beach in Santa Barbara, California, displayed in its 10.25 x 8.75 mat, signed and inscribed on the mat in fountain pen, “To Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Doheny, Albert Einstein, 19.II.33.” Also signed in the lower right in pencil by the photographer, “Carl Obert, S. Barbara.” Handsomely matted and framed to an overall size of 16.75 x 15.75. In fine condition, with a short tear to the top of the original mat.

This is a stunning portrait of Einstein, capturing the genius in a plaintive pose during a 1931 visit to Santa Barbara, where he and his wife Elsa were hosted by Dr. Ludwig Kast. The artist, German-born Carl Obert, was a preeminent photographer of California’s south coast from the 1930s into the 1960s. It is a brilliant image, capturing Einstein’s position as a singular figure in the history of the 20th century, and his enduring influence in popular culture—it evokes both the important 1976 opera Einstein on the Beach by Philip Glass, and the 1994 hit single ‘Einstein on the Beach (For an Eggman)’ by Counting Crows.

Starting Bid $5,000

Niels Bohr’s 18K gold 1957

for Peace’ award, presented by President Dwight D. Eisenhower

LOT 6049

Niels Bohr’s Gold 1957 ‘Atoms for Peace’ Award and (2) Danish Medals

Extraordinary collection of medals awarded to Dr. Niels Bohr, who made fundamental contributions to the understanding of atomic structure and quantum theory, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922—a medal that he auctioned off himself in 1940 to benefit the Finnish Relief Fund, which now resides in the Danish Historical Museum in Fredriksborg. A philosopher of science and promoter of scientific research, he went on to become a premier advocate for peaceful international cooperation on nuclear energy. This collection features three of Bohr’s significant medals: his historic gold Atoms for Peace Award, his Danish Golden Medal of Merit with Crown, and his Danish Galathea Medal in Silver.

The highlight of the collection is the Atoms for Peace Award

presented to Bohr in 1957 by President Dwight D. Eisenhower. Gold (marked “18K” on edge), 79 mm, 346 gm, by the Medallic Art Co., New York. The front features allegorical figures representing peace and science, over the legend: “For the benefit of mankind”; the reverse features a symbol representing an atom, with text above: “The Atoms for Peace Award, A Memorial to Henry Ford and Edsel Ford.” The top edge is engraved, “Niels Henrik David Bohr - 1957,” and the bottom edge is stamped with the maker’s mark and fineness. Housed in its original navy blue leather presentation case. Includes an original program from the presentation of the award.

In his ‘Atoms for Peace’ speech before the United Nations on December 8, 1953, President Dwight D. Eisenhower called for efforts in nuclear technology research to re-focus on its capacity for making progress for humankind, rather than on the development of weapons of war. In response to that goal, Henry Ford II, Benson Ford, and Henry Clay Ford proposed

‘Atoms

that the Ford Motor Company Fund authorize an appropriation of one million dollars—to be granted at a rate of $100,000 annually for ten years—to recognize outstanding contributions to the peaceful application of nuclear energy. A board of trustees was named to identify and select the individual who had made the greatest contribution to the development of peaceful uses of atomic energy, awarding them with a cash honorarium accompanied by a commemorative gold medal. If the board failed to discover a candidate meriting recognition, the award would be held over to the following year.

Niels Bohr became the first to be recognized as an Atoms for Peace Award recipient, and was personally presented with the medal by President Eisenhower on October 24, 1957. In his remarks, Eisenhower praised Bohr’s lifelong dedication to scientific inquiry: ‘In honoring Dr. Bohr, we pay tribute to a great man, one whose mind has explored the mysteries of the inner structure of the atom, and whose spirit has reached into the very hearts of men….By disclosing the secrets of nature and in particular those of the atom, science makes possible new technologies by which these secrets are applied. The world now has a choice between the technology of abundance and the technology of destruction—between the use of power for constructive purposes or for war and desolation…Our country has sought to encourage the application of atomic energy in the arts of peace—toward the end of happiness and well-being for all men and women. So, in saluting and honoring Dr. Bohr in the presentation of the first Atoms for Peace Award, which the Ford family has so thoughtfully provided, we give recognition to a scientist and a great human being who exemplifies principles the world sorely needs—the spirit of friendly scientific inquiry, and the peaceful use of the atom for the satisfaction of human needs.’

THE OTHER MEDALS

A Danish Medal of Merit in Gold with Crown, 37 mm, 59 gm, engraved “Niels Henrik David Bohr” on the bottom edge, suspended from its original red-and-white ribbon. The front features the portrait of King Christian X of Denmark, and the reverse features a wreath with “Fortient” at center. This medal is an extreme rarity, as it was awarded just four times during the long reign of Christian X.

A Danish Galathea Medal in Silver, 30 mm, 17 gm, suspended from its original red-and-white ribbon. Established by King Frederik IX, this medal was awarded to recognize individuals who assisted in creating, and participated, in the Scientific Danish Deep Sea Expedition between September 1, 1950 and July 17, 1952; Niels Bohr was a member of this executive committee.

This remarkable collection symbolizes Niels Bohr’s foundational contributions to the modern understanding of the atom, as well as his advocacy for peaceful nuclear research. The hopes and hazards of nuclear technology remain at the forefront of scientific inquiry today: scientists continue to seek new, cleaner ways to power modern life, and the world has been reminded of the importance of non-proliferation given Russia’s suspension of its last nuclear arms treaty with the United States and invasion of Ukraine.

Starting Bid $25,000

John Dillinger, America’s future

LOT 6050

John Dillinger Autograph Letter Signed from Prison: “I am broke right now but just you wait untill I get out”

ALS signed “Love, Johnny” and “John Dillinger #13225,” one page both sides, 8.5 x 11, October 19, 1930. Handwritten letter to his niece, Mary Hancock, written from the state prison in Michigan City, Indiana. In part: “Received your sweet letter Tuesday eve but I think you ought to be ashamed for thinking I probably wouldn’t care to receive it. I think you are letting your imagination run away with you the idea of hurting my little niece. Honey I thought I wrote to you either right before your visit or the Sunday after honest ingun. Gee all the subjects you are taking this year I ought to have a pretty smart niece, but all that studying will be mighty hard on you all winter and you ought to drop one of them don’t you think so dear? I don’t want to see you hurt your health by over studying.

All those books you have to carry I can’t understand, for as sweet as you are there ought to be half a dozen young fellow hanging around willing to carry them for the pleasure of your company. Ha! Ha! Use your head for something besides a hat rack. Ha! Ha! Sweetheart I haven’t been mad at you really I haven’t, I was just kinda sour on everything for a while and I didn’t realize that it had been so long since I had written...

Thanks for the handkerchiefs and send me some more soon also a fine tooth comb. If Sis has used up what money she had of mine write and let me know and I will send her some more. Margaret got married so if Sis doesn’t hear from I will have Roscoe write to her about the eighth of next month and you can get that straightened out then. Say I thought by now you would surely have found that sweet little girl for me, you have well then why don’t you sent me her picture? Gee nearly fifteen years old my! my! I would sure like to buy you something nice but I am broke right now but just you wait untill I get out.

Tell Hubert never mind about the handkerchiefs for I don’t want him to use the last fifteen dollars I sent him I will write him soon and tell him what I want him to do with it. Honey I

could just write a whole book to you this morning and here I have both pages full and I’ve hardly started. I sure hope this pleases you so when you write again you can say ‘I just know my Uncle Johnny loved me to death.’ Give my love to Sis and the kiddies and just lots to you.” In very good to fine condition, with scattered staining, not affecting readability.

In 1924, John Dillinger was convicted of assaulting a grocer during a holdup, and expected to receive a light sentence by pleading guilty—only to be slapped with a stiff 10–20 years upon sentencing. His accomplice, an ex-convict and distant cousin named Ed Singleton, was sentenced to just two years for his role in the robbery. During Dillinger’s nine-year stint in the Indiana Correctional System, he met and befriended a number of hard-core criminals who would later become part of his gang: Harry Pierpont, John Hamilton, Homer Van Meter, Fat Charley Makley, Russell Clark, and Walter Dietrich.

Dillinger was released in May 1933, after a petition bearing the signatures of almost 200 residents from his adopted hometown of Mooresville, Indiana—including that of his grocer victim—was presented to the governor. Embittered with the criminal justice system for having served what he felt was an unjust term, Dillinger quickly resumed a life of crime with his prison friends, whom he helped escape in a spectacular and well-planned breakout. He and the gang embarked on a bank robbing spree, conducting a dozen separate heists between June 21, 1933, and June 30, 1934—to the tune of well over $300,000.

In 1934, when J. Edgar Hoover named Dillinger ‘Public Enemy Number 1,’ Indiana Governor Paul V. McNutt’s secretary, Wayne Coy, observed: ‘There does not seem to me to be any escape from the fact that the State of Indiana made John Dillinger the Public Enemy that he is today. The Indiana constitution provides that our penal code shall be reformative and not vindictive…Instead of reforming the prisoner, the penal institutions provided him with an education in crime.’

Starting Bid $2,500

‘Public Enemy No. 1,’ writes to his niece while inside Indiana’s correctional system:

“I am broke right now but just you wait untill I get out”

Rare original partly-printed invitation card for the execution of assassin Charles Guiteau, who shot President James A. Garfield on July 2, 1881. The card, 4.75 x 3, issued to “W. S. Larner” by the Wardens’ Office U.S. Jail of Washington, D.C., reads: “You are respectfully invited to witness the execution of Charles J. Guiteau, at this jail Friday, June 30th, 1882, between the hours of 12 M., and 2 o’clock P.M.” Signed below in ink by Warden John S. Crocker, and the reverse annotated, “No Transferable, W.O.C.” In fine condition, with old mounting remnants on the reverse.

Starting Bid $200

LOT 6051 Charles Guiteau Execution Invitation Card

“You are respectfully invited to witness the execution of Charles J. Guiteau”

A $4000 UAW receipt issued to “Ben Siegel,” dating to his hostile takeover of the Flamingo Hotel

United Auto Workers

Receipt (1946)

Exceedingly rare partly-printed DS signed “Ben Siegel,” one page, 5 x 1.25, October 7, 1946. A temporary receipt slip from the UAW or “International Union, United Automobile, Aircraft & Agricultural Implement Workers of America,” L.U. No. 287, confirming that a total of $4000 was received by Bugsy Siegel, who signs below in fountain pen with his given name. In fine condition. Encapsulated in a PSA/DNA authentication holder.

Starting Bid $200

LOT 6052

Bugsy Siegel Signed

Factory-engraved Colt Pocket Positive revolver gifted by the company to J. Edgar Hoover in the late 1930s

LOT

J.

J. Edgar Hoover’s Colt Pocket Positive revolver (.32 caliber), serial #157299, 2˝ barrel, finely factory-engraved on the backstrap with the FBI director’s name, “J. Edgar Hoover.” The gun is fitted with its beautiful original pearl grips and retains its shiny nickel-plated factory finish, with the factory-bobbed hammer checked on top. Complete with its original Colt cardboard box with cleaning brush, care pamphlet, ‘Shooting Suggestions’ booklet, and .32 six bullets belonging to Hoover.

Accompanied by a 1984 Colt factory letter from Colt historian

M. S. Huber to Richard Mohr, outlining the specifications of the gun and indicating that it was shipped to Albert Foster, Jr., on January 5, 1938. The letter notes: “This evidently was a presentation piece to Mr. Hoover, F.B.I. Director, by the Colt company. Mr. Albert Foster, Jr., was in charge of Colt’s New York office. He probably made the presentation.”

Additionally includes a letter of provenance from Mohr, explaining the history of the piece, in part: “Your Colt pocket positive #157299 was presented to Mr. J. Edgar Hoover in 1939 by the Colt representative in New York. After Mr. Hoover’s death in 1972, Mr. Clyde Tolson gave the gun to my father as he (Mr. Tolson) was not fond of having guns in his house. My father gave it to me at the end of last year. This gun was Mr. Hoover’s ‘social’ weapon and he kept it loaded with six of those

cartridges I gave you with the other six loose in the box. It remained unused and unfired in his desk for thirty three years!” Richard Mohr was the son of Asst. Director John Mohr, FBI, who obtained numerous items through the estates of Hoover and Clyde Tolson.

Although this special presentation gun resided in Hoover’s desk, the legendary FBI director was known to carry a Colt Pocket Positive with similar specifications as his daily weapon—a .32 caliber revolver with a bobbed hammer to prevent snagging. In ‘A History of FBI Handguns,’ published in the American Rifleman, an official journal of National Rifle Association of America, writer Bill Vanderpool notes: ‘FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover was known to have owned or been issued several different revolvers. One, a Colt Pocket Positive in .32 caliber with a bobbed hammer, is in the FBI Academy Gun Vault.’ A fine firearm from the personal collection of an icon of American law enforcement.

Starting Bid $10,000

6053

Edgar Hoover’s 1938 Colt .32 Pocket Positive Revolver (Factory-Engraved “J. Edgar Hoover”)

Custom-engraved Smith & Wesson Airweight Model 37 revolver, presented to J. Edgar Hoover in 1952

LOT 6054

J. Edgar Hoover’s Smith & Wesson .38 Chief’s Special Revolver (Custom-Engraved “J. Edgar Hoover”)

J. Edgar Hoover’s Smith & Wesson Airweight Model 37 revolver (.38 special), serial #24325, 2˝ barrel, nicely custom-engraved on the side with the FBI director’s name, “J. Edgar Hoover.” The gun is handsomely fitted with its original smooth walnut, round-butt grips, and retains its original factory blue finish (with a few scratches to the cylinder). Crafted from aircraft-grade aluminum, the Airweight Chief’s Special was designed to be the lightest weight revolver available; its highly concealable nature made it a favorite carry weapon for detectives, special agents, and ‘plainclothes men.’ Housed in a custom-fitted presentation box, gilt-embossed with “J. Edgar Hoover” on the lid; also accompanied by its original Smith & Wesson cardboard box, with ‘Helpful Hints’ instruction booklet inside.

Includes two factory letters from the Office of Smith & Wesson, dated 1989 and 1992, discussing the history of the gun: “Several revolvers from the first production lot of Airweight Chiefs Specials were presented to chief executives of the various ammunition companies and leaders of the top law enforce-

ment agencies in the United States. The most distinguished member of the law enforcement community to receive one of those handguns was Mr. J. Edgar Hoover, Director of the FBI…Your handgun, with serial number 24325, was shipped from our factory on December 22, 1952, and delivered to J. Edgar Hoover, Washington, D.C.”

Additionally includes a 1981 letter from Smith & Wesson, enclosing copies of their original shipping records—showing the “Chiefs Special” with serial no. 24325 being sent to “Mr. J. Edgar Hoover, Federal Bureau of Investigation”—and commenting on the engraving: “We are unable to locate records showing when or by whom the revolver was engraved; however, it is most likely that the name would have been inscribed by Smith & Wesson’s engraved before the revolver was presented to Mr. Hoover.” Also includes a notarized letter of provenance from Asst. Director John Mohr, FBI, stating that he received the revolver from Hoover’s protégé Clyde Tolson, who inherited Hoover’s estate. An additional notarized document, tracing the chronological history of the revolver’s ownership over four decades, accompanies the lot.

Starting Bid $5,000

One-of-a-kind FBI a‘raid badge’ prototype from J. Edgar Hoover’s personal collection

LOT 6055

J. Edgar Hoover’s Oversized FBI Raid Badge Prototype from Hoover’s Personal Collection

J. Edgar Hoover’s original circa mid-1930s red-and-chrome FBI raid badge prototype, measuring approximately 3˝ x 4˝, featuring “US” in large lettering at center, with “Federal Bureau of Investigation” above, and “Department of Justice” below. On the reverse is a pin with clasp closure and the number “1” engraved within an oval. In fine condition.

This badge comes from the belongings of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover and was originally sold by Richard Mohr, son of Asst. Director John Mohr, FBI, who obtained numerous items through the estates of Hoover and Clyde Tolson. The badge has been the subject of an inquiry by retired FBI Special Agent Larry Wack, who determined that it may have been the only

sample or prototype badge submitted to Hoover by the L. G. Balfour Company of Attleboro, Massachusetts, in response to an order for 300 ‘raid badges’ matching this description. No other example has appeared at auction.

Files obtained under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) revealed preliminary drawings that resemble this badge almost exactly, as well as FBI internal memos from the spring of 1935, recommending a ‘a chrome-finished shield about 4˝ long and 3˝ across…with the letters ‘US’ prominently displayed in red.’ It seems that the Bureau changed its mind about the raid badge—it is comically large and overly bulky for its intended purpose—and decided to use identifying armbands instead. Accompanied by a copy of Larry Wack’s report on the badge, published in October 2013.

Starting Bid $5,000

Rare box of handmade Fundadores Cuban cigars, signed by Fidel Castro for an American sailor

LOT 6056

Fidel Castro Signed Cigar Box for an American Sailor

Fantastic sealed wooden Habanos Trinidad Fundadores cigar box containing 24 of Cuba’s famous handmade cigars, measuring 8.25˝ x 4.5˝ x 3˝, signed on the top in black felt tip by Fidel Castro. The box is sealed with its “Republica de Cuba” government warranty seal and “Habanos” label. The maker’s stamp on the bottom reads: “Habanos S.A., Hecho en Cuba, Totalmente a mano, EUN CCUG.” Castro signed this box in 1999 for John McKiernan, a member of a United States delegation to Cuba that participated in the ‘Race to Habana’ sailing regatta. In fine condition.

Supported by exemplary provenance, the signed cigar box is accompanied by: three photos of Castro meeting with the delegation, including one that shows him signing the cigar box for McKiernan; a framed letter from the Cuban embassy, dated June 2, 1999, stating that the bearer “was presented by the President of the Republic of Cuba, Hon. Mr. Fidel Castro Ruz, a box of Cuban cigars”; and a detailed provenance statement from the recipient: “In the year 1999 there were many opportunities to ‘thaw’ the chilly relationship between Cuba and the United States. One such event, authorized by the U.S. State Department, was the ‘Habana Race,’ a 300 nautical mile sailing regatta starting at the St. Petersburg Yacht Club and finishing at the Hemingway Marina in the Cuban capital of Havana.

As an avid and experienced sailor, I was asked to be a member of the crew on a boat owned by friends of mine. As it happened, I was also a companion of a US Congresswoman who had an interest in Latin American affairs. Given the diverse professional lives (medical, business, technical) of our crew , she managed to arrange a meeting with several Cuban government representatives. We were told that Mr. Castro himself might also be in attendance, but we would not know until the last minute.

On our second evening in Havana, my companion and I were about to dine in the National Hotel, when we were met by two officials who advised we were invited to meet with Mr. Castro and several of his cabinet members. The rest, as it is said, is history. We were escorted to the Cuban Ministry, and met with Mr. Castro (as shown in the pictures) over dinner and excellent vintages, and spoke mainly of the commercial possibilities between the US and Cuba. We judiciously avoided the thorny political issues of the day. The evening was capped off with a benevolent farewell and a box of Mr. Castro’s favorite cigars (which he no longer smoked).”

Beginning in 1980, Trinidad Fundadores were exclusively produced for Fidel Castro, and until 1998 the only boxes that were allowed to leave Cuba had been gifts to foreign dignitaries; the brand made its official launch as a Cuban export in February 1998. Cigars were an integral component of Castro’s heroic revolutionary image, and as such this signed box is a rare and remarkable historical artifact. In fine condition.

Starting Bid $1,000

LOT 6057 Richard W. Sears (Founder of Sears, Roebuck and Co.) Exceedingly Rare Document Signed - Railroad Contract for Shipping Goods

Essentially nonexistent DS, signed “R. W. Sears,” one page, 8 x 13, 1901. An annual contract of indemnity, which reads in full: “Know all men by these presents, that we, Sears, Roebuck & Company, a corporation, organized and existing under the laws of Illinois are held and firmly bound for ourselves, our successors and assigns to the Maine Central Railroad Company, in the sum of Two Thousand ($2,000) dollars, lawful money of the United States.

The condition of the above obligation is such, that, Whereas, the undersigned from time to time has and shall submit claim papers against the Railroad Company, without furnishing the original Bills of Lading; and

Whereas, the undersigned has heretofore made and shall hereafter, from time to time, make changes in the consignment of good shipped by the undersigned over the lines owned, leased or controlled by the said railroad company, without surrendering the original Bill of Lading for the said goods, whereby claims for loss or damage may have arisen or are liable to arise against the said railroad company caused by the misdelivery of goods so shipped, and resulting from the failure to surrender the original Bills of Lading; and

Whereas, upon request of the undersigned, the said railroad company, has instructed its agents to return to the undersigned, any shipment made by the undersigned, which has been on hand or may be on hand for sixty (60) days and refused or unclaimed, whereon billing or marks, show the said goods, to have been shipped from the undersigned from Chicago, Ill.;

Now, therefore, if for and during the term of two years from the 20th day of November A. D. 1901, as to all claims losses,

damages, injuries, rates or charges, arising within the period last aforesaid, the undersigned shall indemnify and save harmless the said Railroad Company of and from any and all damages, loss or injuries arising from the failure to furnish or surrender the original Bill of Lading in submitting claim papers, or in case of misdelivery of goods, shipped by the undersigned shall pay all charges and advances on account of the return of the refused or unclaimed shipments as aforesaid, then the obligation shall be void; otherwise, the same to be binding and of full effect.”

Signed at the conclusion in purple ink by Sears, and also signed by part owner and company vice president, Julius Rosenwald. With Rosenwald as VP and Treasurer, the company’s annual sales climbed from $750,000 to upwards of $50 million. When Sears resigned the presidency in 1908, Rosenwald was named president and remained as such until 1924, when he resigned to focus on philanthropic efforts. In fine condition, with staples holes to the top left corner and a few scattered creases. Accompanied by an original stereoview portrait of Sears seated at his desk.

Publishing the first Sears Roebuck mail order catalog in 1888, R. W. Sears helped change the direction of the worldwide marketplace by offering individuals a wide variety of products at reasonable prices and delivering those items directly to them. This gave consumers a new, convenient way to shop, and was the precursor to the electronic commerce that dominates the world today. This document is the firm’s annual contract with Maine Central Railroad Company for the delivery services that made their entire wide-reaching business possible. An important piece in the operation of Sears Roebuck, this is the only Sears document offered at auction in over forty years, and the first we have ever seen. An incredibly rare autograph from a key figure in the history of American business.

Starting Bid $1,000

Virtually nonexistent document signed by the Sears founder— a contract with the Maine Central Railroad Company, enabling delivery from coast to coast

Unique “Pantryman” key found on the body of Titanic saloon steward Alfred Arnold Deeble

LOT 6058

Titanic: Pantryman Key of Saloon Steward Alfred Deeble

Remarkable Titanic key belonging to 1st class saloon steward Alfred Arnold Deeble, recovered from Deeble’s body upon its recovery (as “Body No. 270”) by the Mackay-Bennett. The skeleton-type key, rusted from its extended exposure to salt water, measures approximately 3.75˝ long and is marked “103” on the head; a 2˝ long brass plate marked “Pantryman” is attached by a metal loop.

In the inventory of property found on Deeble’s body there is listed a ‘bunch of keys with brass plate marked ‘Pantry man,’’ as documented by the Provincial Secretary of Nova Scotia. Per correspondence from Harold Wingate of the White Star Line, Deeble’s personal effects were to be returned to his sister. The key has descended through the family for four generations, and is accompanied by a provenance statement tracing key’s ownership history and the family’s genealogy.

In part: “Alfred Arnold Deeble joined the Royal Navy on July 10, 1900. Later, Alfred was a singer and performed at the Adriatic Athletic and Social Club, at Scullard’s Hotel, South Hampton, on April 28th, 1911 [an original program for this event is included]. His eldest sister, Lily Florence Deeble was engaged to John Herbert Strugnell, who was a steward and singer as well, along with his older brother, Harold Strugnell. They both sang at the same hotel as Alfred Arnold Deeble.

Alfred Arnold Deeble died in the sinking of the R.M.S. Titanic and his body was found on an iceberg recovered by the Mackay-Bennett and was buried at Fairview Lawn Cemetery in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada on May 3, 1912…Alfred’s sister, Lily Deeble wrote a letter in October 1912 to the White Star Line requesting the effects found on her brother’s body. They were forwarded to Lily Deeble through the South Hampton Office of the White Star Line by the Board of Trade. Lily was now in possession of the ‘pantry man’ key that was used on the R.M.S. Titanic and would be handed down 4 generations.

Lily Deeble met William (Bill) Thomas Norbury, they were married and lived in Germania, Wyoming. Later they moved to Greybull, Wyoming where they had two children - Beatrice (Mickey) Lilly Norbury and Ted Norbury. The ‘pantry man’ key was passed down to her daughter, Beatrice Norbury who married Joseph Thomas McNulty, and they lived in Cody, Wyoming. Beatrice Norbury McNulty passed away in May 1966 and her daughter, Linda Jo McNulty, chose the ‘pantry man’ key as her choice item to remember her mother because she had always been fascinated by all the stories her mom had told her about the key and her Uncle Alfred.” Linda then passed the key down to her four children, who now offer it up for auction.

The key is accompanied by a wealth of original family photographs, highlighted by three portraits of Alfred Arnold Deeble (one with a missing corner), plus a family photo of Alfred with siblings Lily, Ada, Albert, Ernest, and Charles, and a vintage mounted photograph of his grave marker in Nova Scotia. Also includes two portraits of John Herbert Strugnell, a fellow Titanic saloon steward who also perished in the accident, and the fiancé of Lily Florence Deeble; notably, one of the portraits was signed in ink shortly before the disaster, “Yours very affectionately, Jack, 1912.” Strugnell’s body was never identified.

Additional early 20th century photographs include: a photo from Charles Deeble’s wedding, and portraits of Lily Deeble, Ada Deeble, Ernest Deeble, Albert Deeble, Charles Deeble, and Harold Strugnell (brother to John). Also included are some family photographs from the mid-century through the present day, culminating in a 2011 photo of Linda Jo McNulty Davis visiting the burial site of her great-uncle, Alfred Arnold Deeble, in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Any Titanic artifact with a well-documented lineage is of the utmost desirability; that this originates directly from the family who witnessed dual tragedies in the deaths of saloon stewards Alfred Arnold Deeble and John Herbert Strugnell makes it all the more poignant.

Starting Bid $5,000

LOT 6059

Charles and Anne Lindbergh

Approve John Condon as Ransom Middleman Nine Days After Kidnapping

Historic original ADS signed “Charles A. Lindbergh” and “Anne Lindbergh,” authorizing John F. Condon to act on their behalf during the 1932 ransom investigation of their kidnapped infant son, Charles, Jr. The handwritten note, penned in ink by Charles Lindbergh on an off-white 7.25 x 3.25 sheet, reads: “We hereby authorize Dr. John F. Condon to act as go-between for us.” The upper right is dated March 10, 1932, marking the day Condon, using the alias ‘Jafsie,’ commenced negotiations with the kidnapper. Impressively matted and framed with portraits of the Lindberghs, engraved information and biography plaques, and an original “Official Pass” to the trial of alleged kidnapper Richard Hauptmann, to an overall size of 38 x 25. In fine condition, with light creasing and intersecting folds.

Charles, Jr. was kidnapped from the Lindbergh home near Hopewell, New Jersey, on March 1, 1932. In his stead, a

ransom note demanding $50,000 was found on the windowsill of the child’s nursery. Affected by the plight of the Lindberghs, John F. Condon, a well-known Bronx personality and retired school teacher, wrote an open letter to the abductors, offering his services as an intermediary. His letter was published in the Bronx Home News on March 8, 1932, and a day later, he received a letter from the kidnappers acquiescing to his request. Anxious to have their child returned, the Lindberghs hastily signed this offered document that formally authorized Condon to proceed on their behalf. During the ransom delivery meeting on April 8th, Condon was informed that the baby was safe and in the care of two innocent women. The Lindberghs’ worst fears came true when, a month later on May 12th, the corpse of a child was found in a grove of trees within five miles of their family home. Betty Gow, the Lindberghs’ family nurse identified the body as being Charles and a coroner determined the boy had been dead for about two months, the result of a blow to the head.

Starting Bid $1,000

The Lindberghs begin negotiations with their son’s kidnappers:

“We hereby authorize Dr. John F. Condon to act as go-between for us”

Fully functioning 1935 Enigma I cipher machine used by the German military in WWII

LOT 6060

Early, fully operational three-rotor Enigma I

Early, fully operational three-rotor Enigma I electromechanical cipher machine made for the German military in Berlin in 1935 (most likely by Heimsoeth und Rinke), during the build up of German forces in violation of the Treaty of Versailles prior to World War II. Based on the chassis of the commercial Enigma D, the Enigma I machine was the standard Enigma machine used by the German military throughout the war. It features an ebonite Steckerbrett [plugboard] on the front, which was exclusive to the German armed forces and exponentially increased the complexity of the code. This version of the Enigma is sometimes referred to as the Heeres [Army] Enigma, Wehrmacht Enigma, or Luftwaffe Enigma due to its military-specific application. This machine would have been used to conceal the pre-war expansion of the German military, in addition to being used in the field during WWII and likely thereafter during the Cold War era.

The Enigma machine is housed in its original stained oak case with hinged lid and hinged front panel, with serial number plate “A3192” inside the lid. Also inside the lid are the original metal stamped “Enigma” label, two spare Stecker cables, 10 spare light bulbs, contrast screen, and original “Zur Beachtung” instructions for cleaning, use, and troubleshooting. The lid also retains its message holder at the top, a metal clip marked “1914”; most examples no longer have this. The inner front panel is stamped “Enigma” and “Klappe Schliessen,” and the case retains its brown leather carrying handle on the back. The front of the case has four small rubber bumpers added later, indicating post-war use in West Germany or Austria. During the Cold War, the British encouraged a few countries, including Norway, West Germany, Austria, and Israel, to use Enigma machines for sending secret messages—without disclosing that the code had been cracked.

The three included rotors—marked as “I,” “III,” and “V”—match each other with “A9592” serial numbers. Though the serial numbers of the Enigma machines and their rotors matched when issued, mismatches are typical of field-used machines. Rotors were often swapped out at German communication outposts as they were interchangeable and not dedicated to specific machines. When the machine was issued in 1935, it

would have had three rotors marked “I,” “II,” and “III”; beginning in 1937, Enigma machines were issued with five rotors in order to increase their cryptographic security. Those machines already in use by the military were issued rotors “IV” and “V.”

The present rotors demonstrate a progression in design, which evolved as resources became scarce over the course of the war. The earliest rotors featured an all-metal construction, while later examples had Bakelite thumbwheels and ratchet wheels. With aluminum thumbwheels and Bakelite ratchet wheels, these rotors represent an in-between step in this progression. Each rotor can display one of its 26 numerals through the three windows in the machine’s cover. They have spring-loaded brass contacts on the sides corresponding to each of the 26 numbers, and they may be arranged in any order on the internal shaft. The specific settings of the rotors and plugboard were determined on a daily basis via a secret codebook that allowed the German forces to synchronize their Enigma machines.

The Enigma machine has a standard German “QWERTZ” keyboard with 26 white-on-black keys, with matching “QWERTZ” lighted display. When a key is pressed, the corresponding encoded letter—as determined by the specific arrangement of the rotor wheels and plugboard—is illuminated. The rightmost rotor steps once each time a key is pressed. At an adjustable point it triggers the middle rotor to step, and so on. Through this mechanism, an easily crackable simple substitution cipher is avoided—letters are not encoded the same way twice. An encoded message would be written down and transmitted, usually via radio telegraph (a standard World War II-era German Wehrmacht Baumuster T1 telegraph key is included with this machine). In order to decode a message, the Enigma machine on the receiving end would have to be set up with the plugboard and rotor wheels in the same pattern as the sending Enigma: when the encoded message was typed in, the decoded letters would light up, revealing the secret message one character at a time. Since no original batteries have survived, this machine has been modified to accept three modern AA batteries, which are housed in a replica Third Reich battery case. Also includes two reprints of the Enigma operator manuals.

Starting Bid $5000

LOT 6061

Manhattan Project: Copper Plutonium Core Tamper Prototypes with “Fat Man” and “Little Boy” Correspondence (1944-45)

Remarkable collection of three copper tamper prototypes or test models created by the G. E. Nelson Company of Holly, Michigan, as part of secretive Manhattan Project efforts to develop the atomic bomb during World War II. Ultimately, ‘Fat Man’ used this style of spherical tamper to surround its plutonium core, but it was made of depleted uranium rather than copper. The heavy tamper is designed to reflect neutrons back into the central ‘plutonium pit,’ accelerating the nuclear chain reaction and restraining the explosion for a few crucial moments, thereby increasing the efficiency of the blast.

The three tampers, each split into two halves with ridged edges to fit together, measure as follows: 6˝ outer diameter with a 5/8˝ wall, weighing approximately 18.3 lbs; 3˝ outer diameter with a 3/8˝ wall, weighing 2.4 lbs; and 1.5˝ diameter with a 3/16˝ wall, weighing 0.3 lbs. Includes Nelson’s circa 1944 original rough pencil sketches of cross-sections of 5˝ and 6˝ half-spheres, used in developing quotes for their production. These production prototypes never left the possession of G. E. Nelson and were not the subjects of radioactive experiments.

Similar hemispheric reflector shells—made from beryllium—are also known for their role in the infamous ‘Demon Core’ criticality accidents at Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory in 1945 and 1946. It is known that spherical copper reflectors of various sizes were the subjects of testing and criticality studies at Los Alamos during the era (see: ‘Critical Masses Of Oralloy In Thin Reflectors,’ LA-2203, January 1958). Based on the accompanying correspondence, it is most likely that these three sets of copper reflectors were affiliated with the G. E. Nelson Company’s work on ‘Fat Man’ components, and/or associated nuclear weapons experiments conducted at Los Alamos. The documents also contain G. E. Nelson’s bid for structural components for a “Little Boy Drop Dummy”; however, these copper tampers could not be affiliated with ‘Little Boy’ as it used a cylindrical mechanism, not a spherical one.

Included are two of these requests for bids, marked as “Priority No. AA-1” [Top Priority]: one from October 10, 1944, signed by Lt. Robert W. Lockridge, a Manhattan Project Ordnance Division procurement leader, for parts for “Drawing

No’s D-1418”—designating a “Little Boy Drop Dummy,” per a separate document—with Nelson quoting a grand total of $91,200 for various assemblies with and without parachute fins; and one from January 22, 1945, signed by Major F. E. Smith, with a quote for 60 “6˝ O.D. x .652 Wall Copper Sphere” [matching the size of the largest copper sphere included in the lot] to be completed by February 25, 1945, at a cost of $6,600. An earlier piece of correspondence from Smith, dated October 20, 1944, declines a bid for “Spheres, necessary tools, and crating” due to a change in plans. The most important document, however, uses the code names of the bombs—”Fat Man” and “Little Boy”—in its text, proving G. E. Nelson’s involvement in their development and manufacture: a typed letter on G. E. Nelson Company letterhead, dated April 19, 1945, documenting the delivery of drawings for a “Shell Nose,” “Fat Man Dummy,” “Little Boy Drop Dummy Design 2A,” and “Mounting Ring.” Drop tests of ‘Fat Man’ and ‘Little Boy’ dummy bombs had been ongoing for about a year, allowing study and refinement of their ballistic properties: tail structures were modified to prevent wobbling and flight inaccuracies, and various bomb bay hoists, braces, and release assemblies were redesigned to better handle the five-ton weapons. It may be that the “Mounting Rings” supplied by G. E. Nelson related to these modifications. Three months later, on July 16, 1945, a plutonium implosion device of the ‘Fat Man’ design was tested at the ‘Trinity’ site in New Mexico—the first-ever detonation of a nuclear weapon. This was the ultimate proof-of-concept of the power of the atom bomb—witnessing the radiance of the blast and ensuing mushroom cloud, the famous quote from the Bhagavad Gita ran through J. Robert Oppenheimer’s mind: ‘Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.’ On August 9th, ‘Fat Man’ detonated over Nagasaki, ending World War II.

Starting Bid $2,500

Copper core tampers developed as part of the Manhattan Project, with documents for the production of “Fat Man” and “Little Boy” prototype parts

Einstein— a rare newspaper from

Albert

6, 1945, covering the Hiroshima atomic bomb:

“Energy of Atoms Unlocked by Army in ‘Secret Weapon’”

LOT 6062

Albert Einstein Signed ‘Atomic Bomb’ Newspaper (August 6, 1945)

Amazing original front page of the ‘home edition’ of the Topeka State Journal from August 6, 1945, 16 x 21, covering the first-ever use of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, signed and inscribed in the upper margin in fountain pen, “Fur Dr. Volkman, A. Einstein, 45.” The banner headline reads: “Incredible Power in New Bomb.” Many columns offer news on the bomb and its aftermath, with sensational headers: “Bomb Packs Punch of 2,000 B-29s,” “Source of Sun’s Energy Tapped for New Bomb,” and “Energy of Atoms Unlocked by Army in ‘Secret Weapon.’” Impressively double-matted and framed with a portrait of Einstein and an engraved plaque to an overall size of 30 x 35. In fine condition.

On August 2nd, 1939 Einstein wrote to President Franklin D.

Roosevelt of the efforts of Nazi Germany to purify uranium which could be used to build an atom bomb. This helped to spur America’s own efforts to produce a nuclear weapon in the Manhattan Project, led by Robert Oppenheimer and Leslie Groves. On July 16, 1945, the ‘Trinity’ test was conducted south of Los Alamos in New Mexico—the first-ever detonation of an atomic bomb. Mere weeks later, on August 6, 1945—the date of this newspaper—the bomb known as ‘Little Boy’ exploded over over Hiroshima, Japan. Three days later, a second atomic bomb, ‘Fat Man,’ detonated over Nagasaki—bringing about the end of World War II. Although Einstein did not invent the bomb, his theories laid the foundation for it. In November 1954, less than a year before his death, he made the statement: ‘I made one great mistake in my life—when I signed the letter to President Roosevelt recommending that the Atomic Bomb be made, but there is some justification—the danger that the Germans would make them.’

Starting Bid $1,000

Signed by

August

LOT 6063 Robert Oppenheimer Typed Letter Signed on Death of Albert Einstein

Brilliant American physicist (1904–1967) who directed the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and who spearheaded the Manhattan Project, leading to the development of the first atomic bomb. TLS signed “Robert Oppenheimer,” one page, 5.5 x 8.5, Institute for Advanced Study letterhead, May 20, 1955. Letter to Rafael Grinfeld in Argentina, in full: “On behalf of the Trustees and the Faculty of the Institute for Advanced Study, I wish to express our appreciation of your word of condolence on the death of Einstein, and our gratitude.” He adds a handwritten postscript: “With warm thanks & greetings for your good words.” In fine condition, with a faint block of toning.

Einstein’s relationship with Oppenheimer has become the subject of renewed interest in light of its portrayal in Christopher Nolan’s 2023 film: articles on the physicist icons and their collegial affiliation have recently appeared in Vanity Fair, GQ, Esquire, and other popular media outlets. After World War II, both lived and worked at Princeton—at the Institute for Advanced Study—where Oppenheimer served as director from 1947 to 1966.

Oppenheimer’s relationship with Einstein is best described in American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin: ‘He thought of Einstein as a living patron saint of physics, not a working scientist…Einstein harbored a similar ambivalence about Oppenheimer…But what he admired about Oppenheimer was the man, not his physics. Still, Einstein would never count Oppenheimer as one of his close friends, ‘perhaps partly because our scientific opinions are fairly diametrically different.’ Back in the 1930s, Oppie had once called Einstein ‘completely cuckoo’ for his stubborn refusal to accept quantum theory.’

However, their scientific differences of opinion did not preclude the two from enjoying each others’ company. American Prometheus relates: ‘Knowing Einstein’s love of classical music, and knowing that his radio could not receive New York broadcasts of concerts from Carnegie Hall, Oppenheimer arranged to have an antenna installed on the roof of Einstein’s modest home at 112 Mercer Street. This was done without Einstein’s knowledge—and then on his birthday, Robert showed up on his doorstep with a new radio and suggested that they listen to a scheduled concert. Einstein was delighted.’

Starting Bid $300

Oppenheimer sends thanks for a word of “condolence on the death of Einstein”

Large, beautiful ‘Starry Night’ moon rock with interior and exterior revealed

LOT 6064

NWA 13951 Lunar Meteorite ‘Starry Night’ End Cut

Moon rock, lunar feldspathic breccia, found in Mauritania. 183 mm x 112 mm x 75 mm (7.2 x 4.4 x 2.9 inches) 1,348 grams (2.97 lbs)

Large and magnificent Northwest Africa (NWA 13951) lunar meteorite end cut—a beautiful moon rock with interior and exterior revealed. The end cut features a stunning polished face resembling a ‘starry night’—the surface shows numerous clasts with gray and white grains, bounded by abundant darker gray melt veins. The jagged and pock-marked exterior resembles the cratered surface of the moon, and comes to a pyramidal point that serves as a natural display stand.

NWA 13951 was classified as a lunar meteorite (feldspathic breccia) by the Institute of Meteoritics, University of New Mexico Albuquerque. The Meteoritical Bulletin reports: “Electron microprobe analysis and imaging reveal a very fine-grained brecciated mix of plagioclase, pyroxene, olivine and melt.” The consignor notes that this was purchased directly from Mark Lyon, who is listed in the Meteoritical Bulletin as the owner.

Rarely do such large and attractive lunar meteorites appear in the marketplace—they are often reduced to smaller sections and segments, making this large moon rock a particularly spectacular example. Lunar meteorites comprise less than 0.1% of all meteoritic finds, and the combined weight of all known lunar meteorites totals less than 750 kilograms—making them one of the rarest rocks on Earth.

Starting Bid $5.000

LOT 6065 Wernher von Braun Signed and Hand-Edited Mock-Up of NASA Saturn Report (1962)

Significant spiral-bound mock-up of an early official NASA publication entitled “Saturn…,” stamped as unclassified on February 12, 1962, 9 x 12, 105 pages, signed and inscribed on the title page in bold fountain pen to a NASA graphic designer, “For Ernie Harper, What a wonderful job, this book and—Saturn! Wernher von Braun.” Additionally signed in blue ballpoint by Oswald Lange, a member of the ‘von Braun rocket group’ who became project director of Saturn V: “This excellent book on Saturn has been written and compiled with great thoroughness and know-how and has found such an enormous response for more copies as no other report before. Oswald H. Lange, March 11, 63.”

The mock-up features pasted-on photographs and blocks of text, with various editorial notations throughout—including several pages with pencil notes and corrections made by Wernher von Braun, many signed with an initial, “B.” For example, on page 7, which features a map of NASA locations and contractors, von Braun notes: “Suggest we identify NASA centers as such! B, (color code seems to imply ‘NASA’ but then it should be explained in legend).” On the next two pages, which describe Jupiter rockets, he adds clarifying text to the image captions, noting that some are “presently deployed by NATO,” and that the Juno II “established first US satellite around the sun.” On page 10, he annotates an image of the MR-4 launch, stating the commander as “Cdr. Al Shepard,” adding: “Hope I’ve spelled name correctly.”

Later, on page 86, he inquires about the nomenclature of a caption of an “advanced launch vehicle”— “Why don’t we say Saturn C-5: It’s an approved project. B.” Below an image of solid propellant boosters, he notes: “There are better, more up-to-date pictures, of solid-boosted, C-1, C-5, Nova, Suggest replacement. B.” He makes a similar note above a concept image of orbital refueling: “Here again, we have more modern pictures. B. (Ask v. Tiesenhausen, LOD).” Includes an example

of the published version of the report, which demonstrates the way in which von Braun’s suggestions were incorporated. This fascinating pairing reveals both Wernher von Braun’s hands-on approach to the Saturn program and the way in which these early NASA reports were developed for public consumption—with scissors, glue, and keen attention to detail.

In very good to fine condition, with foxing and staining to the cover, and general expected signs of age.

Starting Bid $500

Mock-up of NASA’s 1962 report on the Saturn program, extensively hand-edited by the ‘father of space travel’ Wernher von Braun

Apollo CSM fuel cell simulator— used for ground testing of the spacecraft at North American Aviation

LOT 6066 Apollo CSM Fuel Cell Simulator

Apollo CSM Fuel Cell Simulator manufactured by Pratt & Whitney under subcontract for North American Aviation, measuring approximately 44? tall with a diameter of 22? and weight of 220 pounds. This example, one of the very first cluster of three used in the ground test simulator, features two manufacturer’s plates. The blue Pratt & Whitney Aircraft plaque reads: “Power Supply, Electrical Fuel Cell…Contract No. M5J7XA-450024… Mfr. Part No. T-607600-0J01155, Mfr Serial No. 3.” The black North American Aviation plate, affixed below, reads: “Fuel Cell Simulator Part 6…Part N34-850541…Serial 002, Model C34.687.” The unit, equipped with many functional components of the flight-ready fuel cells, was used for ground testing of the Apollo CSM interfaces at North American.

The Apollo CSM Block II Fuel Cell Assembly was designed to generate primary power—up to 2,300 watts—and portable water for the Command Module. Primarily constructed of titanium, stainless steel, and nickel, these were configured in a cluster of three units installed in Sector 4 of the Service Module to comprise the CSM power plant. The alkaline fuel cell consumed hydrogen and oxygen to generate electricity in a chemical reaction that also produced drinkable water and heat as byproducts. The electricity powered the spacecraft via a power distribution system, while the water was fed into a storage system in the Command Module to be used for astronaut consumption and for cooling purposes.

When the oxygen tank on Apollo 13 exploded, the loss of oxygen to the fuel cells caused all three to be shut down

within 130 minutes leaving the crew to limp home on battery power from the Lunar Module. All flown Apollo fuel cells were left in space as part of the Service Module and only a handful of flight-ready spares remain. Nearly all of those are in museums, including the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. This simulator cell, used to verify the function of the Apollo spacecraft prior to its delivery to NASA, represents an essential piece of hardware for manned spaceflight. This is an outstanding artifact representing the technical innovation that went into the Apollo program.

Starting Bid $2,500

LOT 6067 Buzz Aldrin’s Apollo 11 Flown Flight Plan Page

Extraordinary flown 10.5 x 8 double-sided 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 on both sides in blue ballpoint, “Carried to the moon aboard Apollo XI, Buzz Aldrin.” The page’s front and back, numbered “3–71” and “3-72,” provide a detailed timeline of activities beginning 75 minutes after their historic landing—namely, the steps for “Stay/No Stay for Lunar Surface Operations.” Notably, there are some hand-notated amendments to the plan, including “Don Helmet and Gloves” under the “CDR” column at 104:20. This is only one of eleven sheets in the flight plan to detail the lunar surface activities for Apollo 11. In fine condition.

Accompanied by a detailed letter of provenance signed by Buzz Aldrin, in part: “Enclosed with this letter is a sheet numbered 3-71 and 3-72 from the Apollo 11 Flight Plan, Part No. SKB32100080-350, S/N 1001. It is part of the entire document that was carried to the Moon in Command Module Columbia on the first lunar landing mission...Page 3-71 lists the steps

for the Stay/No Stay for Lunar Surface Operations. Neil Armstrong had just made history’s first manned lunar landing less than 2 hours before these steps. Since that time, we were in a posture to leave the lunar surface if an emergency occurred. By this point in the flight plan, we and Mission Control had verified all our systems were operating properly. We were then given a go to stay on the lunar surface during our 104th hour in the mission.

Needless to say, Neil and I had an abundance of energy after this historic landing and starting a rest period as listed on page 3-72 was the last thing on our minds. At about 104 hours and 30 minutes into the mission, Neil asked and received concurrence from Mission Control to start the EVA or moon walk activities about 5 hours earlier than written in the flight plan. Thus, we were actually doing EVA Prep work during this period on page 3-72...The flight plan was probably the single most important document related to the success of our mission...This page in particular from a Ground Elapsed Time (GET) standpoint has some of the most significant events that occurred during the entire Apollo 11 flight.”

Starting Bid $1,000

Flown Apollo 11 Flight Plan timeline from Aldrin’s collection, with steps for “Stay/No Stay for Lunar Surface Operations”

Larger than actual size

Larger than actual size

Buzz Aldrin’s flown Robbins Medallion from the Apollo 11 mission

LOT 6068 Apollo 11 Flown Robbins Medallion - Attested as From the Collection of Buzz Aldrin

Historic flown sterling silver Apollo 11 Robbins Medallion, approximately 1.25˝ in diameter, with a raised design on the face of the iconic Apollo 11 mission insignia. The reverse of the sterling silver medal is engraved with the last names of astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins,

along with the July 16, 1969, launch date, July 20, 1969, moon landing date, and July 24, 1969, return date. This medal is serial numbered “126” and includes its original matching case. In mint condition. Accompanied by a signed letter of provenance from aerospace memorabilia specialist Ken Havekotte, who attests that the medal originates from the collection of Buzz Aldrin and was first sold in 1990 by Superior Galleries.

Starting Bid $1,000

Designed to measure the moon’s atmosphere—a flight-ready backup of the Apollo 13 Cold Cathode Gauge Experiment (CCGE)

LOT 6069 Apollo 13 ALSEP Cold Cathode Gauge Experiment Flight Spare

Flight-ready backup of the Apollo 13 Cold Cathode Gauge Experiment (CCGE), designed for use on the lunar surface as part of the Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package (ALSEP). The CCGE was essentially a stand-alone version of the Cold Cathode Ion Gauge (CCIG), which was included in the ALSEP on Apollo 12, 14, and 15. Apollo 13 was the only mission to carry the experiment in this form factor, and represents one of the great ‘what-ifs’ of the Apollo program—the CCGE could not be deployed, as the lunar landing had to be aborted after the dramatic failure of the Apollo 13 spacecraft.

In an official manual prepared by NASA, ‘ALSEP Handbook for the Apollo 13 Flight Crew,’ the experiment’s objective is defined: ‘The objective of the cold cathode gauge experiment (CCGE) is to measure both the density and temperature of the lunar atmosphere and any variations it may have with time or solar activity. This data will provide information in the following areas: a. What is the pressure of the lunar ambient atmosphere? b. What is the rate of decay of contaminants left in the landing area by the astronauts and the LM?’

The unit measures 12˝ x 13˝ x 5˝ and is labeled on the bottom of the baseplate: “Cold Cathode Gauge Experiment, P/N SEB391014280-204, S/N 1005.” The CCIG and electronics assemblies are supported by a structural housing covered in a white thermal coating, the top plate of which serves as a heat sink. In addition, a sunshield is used with a reflector to shade the thermal plate from direct sunlight. A bullseye bubble is mounted on top of the structural housing to allow the astronaut to level the CCGE within 5° of level during deployment. Next to the level is the handling tool socket. A red arrow is painted on top of the experiment, which must be aligned east or west. The unit retains its ribbon cable and connector tether, which would allow it to be plugged into the ALSEP central station for data collection, processing, and transmission.

The experiment is housed in its heavy padded transport suitcase, measuring 25˝ x 19˝ x 7.5˝, stenciled on the side: “Flight Spare, Cold Cathode Gauge Experiment for ALSEP.” Additionally includes a thick bracket-bound “Acceptance Data Package” for the experiment, describing it as “Flight Unit No. Spare, S/N 1005,” containing extensive documentation of the unit’s assembly, testing, and quality control inspections.

In a NASA photograph taken during a practice moonwalk near the Kennedy Space Center’s Flight Crew Training Building on February 3, 1970, Apollo 13 Commander James Lovell is seen working with an example of the ALSEP, with the CCGE deployed in the distant background. Unfortunately, this training proved futile—neither Lovell nor the CCGE would ever make it to the lunar surface. As the well-documented flight spare for a unique experiment carried on the Apollo program’s most harrowing mission, this is a fantastic piece of NASA and space science history.

Starting Bid $5,000

Gene Cernan’s lunar surface-used EVA-1 cuff checklist, including 99-page report verifying the lunar dust still present

LOT 6070

Gene Cernan’s Apollo 17 Flown Lunar Surface-Used EVA-1 Cuff Checklist

Commander Gene Cernan’s Apollo 17 EVA-1 cuff checklist, carried and used extensively on the lunar surface during the first extravehicular activity of the last Apollo moon mission. Just before taking his first step onto the moon, with this checklist strapped to his left wrist, Cernan remarked: ‘I’m on the footpad. And, Houston, as I step off at the surface at Taurus–Littrow, we’d like to dedicate the first step of Apollo 17 to all those who made it possible.’

Cernan wore this cuff checklist on his wrist for the duration of the first EVA of Apollo 17, exposing it to the lunar environment for 7 hours and 12 minutes—as such, its pages are still streaked with lunar dust. This checklist can be seen on his wrist in both film footage and photographic stills taken during the EVA, most evidently in images of him saluting the American flag after its deployment.

The cuff checklist is a comprehensive guide for the entire extravehicular activity, offering preparation procedures, simplified maps, and task lists: the principal goals of EVA-1 were offloading the Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV), deploying the American flag, setting up experiment packages, and collecting samples of moon rocks and lunar soil. Interspersed are cartoons of astronaut-dogs exploring the lunar surface, playfully inserted by the backup crew—an Apollo tradition. The first shows Snoopy bounding over the lunar terrain. Captioned “The Beginning Not The End,” the cartoon acknowledges Apollo 17’s place as the ultimate Apollo mission and looks toward the future.

The checklist consists of 25 spiral-bound double-sided pages, each measuring 3.5" x 2.5", attached to an aluminum wrist brace marked with part numbers, “P/N SEB 33100302-302, S/N 1028.” The original black Velcro wristband remains attached. The checklist’s pages are smudged with gray lunar dust, making its extensive use on the moon’s surface self-evident. These moon dust deposits were extensively analyzed by Prof. Dr.

Stephen J. Mojzsis, Research Professor

and

Senior Advisor

Director, Origins Research Institute Research Centre for Astronomy & Earth Sciences. His 99-page report, which includes

many electron microscope photos and spectrographic displays of the individual elements present in the samples, is included. Mojzsis concluded that the material “is indeed consistent with descriptions of dusts and other samples reported in the Apollo 17 Lunar Sample Information Catalogue, as well as in other published reports of lunar material. The items together are a national treasure, and whomever acquires this collection would be truly blessed with a piece of history unique to humanity.”

Accompanied by a detailed letter of provenance signed by Gene Cernan, as well as two pages signed by Cernan featuring images of him with the checklist (one on the moon in 1971, and one circa 2013). Cernan’s letter, in small part: “EVA1 was a high level work period. The cuff checklist reflects that by being completely smothered with lunar dust. The dust, more correctly named ‘Lunar Regolith,’ is the top soil of the Moon. The dust was very abrasive and clung to everything it came in contact with during our time on the Moon’s surface. I have kept this cuff checklist as a memento of my time on the Moon at the Valley of Taurus-Littrow after NASA returned it to me in 1973. On September 25, 2012, Congress passed bill HR 4158 that officially gave us possession of the mementos from our flights that had been in our collections for the past 40 years. This cuff checklist represents one of the rarest of Apollo artifacts as a piece of vital equipment that I used during my excursions on the lunar surface in the Valley of Taurus-Littrow.” Further enhancing the flown checklist is its remarkable, museum-quality display. This includes: a highly accurate replica of Cernan’s left-handed Apollo A7-LB EVA glove fabricated by renowned artist Ryan Nagata, whose work has appeared in Hollywood movies including the Neil Armstrong biopic First Man; a display case consisting of a custom-machined aluminum platform, engraved on the front, “Apollo 17 EVA1 Checklist, Worn by Commander Gene Cernan, 7 Hrs 12 Mins on the Lunar Surface, December 11, 1972,” with clear acrylic cover to protect the glove and checklist from contaminants; a laser-engraved aluminum presentation box displaying the Apollo 17 mission insignia, containing Cernan’s signed provenance documents and Dr. Mojzsis’s report on the lunar dust, which slides into a felt-lined slot in the rear of the base. Also included in the presentation box are photos of the checklist and copies of selected photos from EVA-1.

Starting Bid $50,000

Pristine Apple Computer check to Graphics West, signed by Steve Jobs in July 1976—the debut of the Apple-1

LOT 6071

Steve Jobs Signed Apple Computer Company Check to Graphics West (July 9, 1976)

Extraordinary Apple Computer Company check, 6 x 3, filled out and signed by Jobs, “steven jobs,” payable to Graphics West for $33.92, July 9, 1976. Headed “Apple Computer Company,” the check uses Apple’s first official address at “770 Welch Rd., Ste. 154, Palo Alto”—the location of an answering service and mail drop that they used while still operating out of the famous Jobs family garage. In very fine condition.

This exemplary Apple Computer check dates to the summer of 1976, as Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak were bringing their first product—the Apple-1 Computer—to market. Graphics West was a lithography and printing firm based in Palo Alto, and presumably used for production of early Apple-1 marketing or support materials: perhaps the covers for the Apple-1 Operation Manual, which featured the company’s original ‘Isaac

Newton’ logo, or the double-sided advertising slick that billed the pioneering microcomputer’s features and advantages. Memorably priced with repeating digits, the Apple-1 and its advertisements present an early example of Steve Jobs’s playful marketing genius: ‘Byte into an Apple....$666.66.’

Further, this check is connected to the graphics and printing revolution that was about to begin: within a decade, the introduction of Apple’s Macintosh computer, along with its LaserWriter companion, rendered some local printing and copy shops obsolete. Aspiring tech entrepreneurs following in Jobs’ footsteps would be able to easily produce marketing collateral from their living rooms (or their garages), rather than relying on companies like Graphics West. A fantastic, boldly signed Steve Jobs check, intimately connected with the rise of the Apple Computer Company.

Starting Bid $2,500

Original iPad prominently signed by Steve Jobs—sent to a Hawaii dentist as “a personal gift from Steve”

LOT 6072

Steve Jobs Signed iPad - “a personal gift from Steve”

Rare original Apple iPad, Model A1337, Part No. MC496LL/A (32GB), Serial No. GB028BZVETU, prominently signed on the back in thick black felt tip by the company’s founder, “steve jobs.” Complete with its original box, power supply, USB cable, and SIM tool. In fine condition. Jobs was a notoriously difficult signer, especially at this late stage of his career—the iPad debuted in April 2010, and he would pass away about a year and a half later. A tremendous rarity, to our knowledge this the only Jobs-autographed iPad to appear at auction.

Accompanied by a detailed letter of provenance from Hawaii dentist Frank H. Sayre, who describes treating Jobs for free during a trip there, and subsequently receiving the iPad as a donation for a Daniel Sayre Memorial Foundation fundraising event. Also includes the original transmittal letter from Steve Jobs’ administrative assistant, LaNita Burkhead, on Apple letterhead, August 24, 2010: “Steve asked me to send you the enclosed autographed iPad (32GB Wi-Fi + 3G)…because this is a personal gift from Steve, we are returning your check.”

Dr. Sayre’s letter, in part: “Sometime in the spring of 2010 I received a call at the office from a dentist in the Bay Area. He said that he had heard about me and asked if I could see one of his patients who was in pain and was vacationing over here. I told him that I could, but that I was booked up and that I’d need to bring him in at the end of the day. He said that that would work even better as his patient was a ‘high profile’ individual and would rather be in the office when there weren’t a lot of people around. Then he asked if I wanted to know who it was, I said, ‘sure,’ and he said that it was Steve Jobs. Steve arrived along with his wife and we diagnosed his

problem. While we were waiting for him to get numb he noticed a number of documents and photos on the walls of some of the Foundation events and awards. He asked about them and we explained it all to him. We then successfully treated his problem. As he was getting ready to leave he wanted to pay for the treatment. We explained that we had a policy that we never charged out of town visitors for any emergency treatment. They were our ‘Aloha Patients.’

He laughed and said that I was an excellent dentist, but that I was a ‘lousy business man.’ He then asked if there was anything that he could do for us. Having no idea about his attitude about autographing things, I said that we have a silent auction at our fundraiser and we would really appreciate it if he could donate a signed iPad. He said, ‘of course,’ and we chatted for a little while and they left. Some months went by and I never heard anything from him, but didn’t think much about it as they were on their way to Japan after they left Hawaii. Still not knowing about his position on autographing, I sent a letter to him along with a check for the cost of the iPad - $729. I heard back from his secretary, LaNita Burkhead, who returned my check and said that Steve wanted the iPad to be a gift, and sent the iPad.

At the event in September we decided to take the top 3 bidders at the silent auction and pit them against each other in a live auction during dinner. I was trying to bid up the price and was one of those top 3. During the live auction one of the bidders dropped out and it was just one other guy and myself and, again, I was trying to push the price up. Someone in the audience yelled out, ‘C’mon, let the Doc have it,’ and the other guy dropped out and I ended up with it.”

Starting Bid $1,000

Incredibly rare factory-sealed 4GB original iPhone—the ‘holy grail’ of all modern Apple products

LOT 6073 Apple iPhone - Rare 4GB Model (First Generation, Sealed)

Exceedingly rare unopened first generation, first release original Apple iPhone, Model A1203, Part No. MA501LL/A (4GB), Serial No. 7R729FGKVR0. The box features a lifesize image of the iPhone with twelve icons on the screen, indicating that it is from the earliest production (2007); a 13th icon, for iTunes, came later in the year. The 4GB iPhone is the rarest of all original iPhones, as it was discontinued by Apple on September 5, 2007, just over two months after the pioneering product’s debut. Priced at $499, the 4GB iPhone model encountered lackluster sales as most consumers opted for the $100 upgrade to double its storage capacity to 8GB. In brand new, factory-sealed condition.

Original, sealed Apple products have seen a dramatic increase in interest from collectors in recent years, with iPhones regularly achieving new record prices. Although we have offered other original 8GB iPhones, this is the first 4GB model we have encountered. It is considered the ‘holy grail’ of all modern Apple items—a similar example attracted worldwide media

attention when it sold for over $190,000 at another auction in July. Exceedingly rare unopened first generation, first release original Apple iPhone, Model A1203, Part No. MA501LL/A (4GB), Serial No. 7R729FGKVR0. The box features a lifesize image of the iPhone with twelve icons on the screen, indicating that it is from the earliest production (2007); a 13th icon, for iTunes, came later in the year. The 4GB iPhone is the rarest of all original iPhones, as it was discontinued by Apple on September 5, 2007, just over two months after the pioneering product’s debut. Priced at $499, the 4GB iPhone model encountered lackluster sales as most consumers opted for the $100 upgrade to double its storage capacity to 8GB. In brand new, factory-sealed condition.

Original, sealed Apple products have seen a dramatic increase in interest from collectors in recent years, with iPhones regularly achieving new record prices. Although we have offered other original 8GB iPhones, this is the first 4GB model we have encountered. It is considered the ‘holy grail’ of all modern Apple items—a similar example attracted worldwide media attention when it sold for over $190,000 at another auction in July.

Starting Bid $1,000

New-in-box example of the original iPhone, with Apple’s gift packaging

LOT 6074 Apple iPhone (First Generation, Sealed) with Gift Packaging

Unopened first generation original Apple iPhone, Model A1203, Part No. MA712LL/A (8GB), Serial No. 87805ASDWH8. The box features a life-size image of the iPhone with thirteen icons on the screen, indicating that it is from the later production run of original iPhones; the 13th icon, for iTunes, was introduced to the packaging in late 2007. The iPhone is housed in its original Apple gift box with red band and gift message card: “Bob, We appreciate your Canon and Tekgraf business. Enjoy the Iphone!” Additionally includes the original Apple packing list and bubble wrap bag. In brand new, factory-sealed condition. Accompanied by a letter of provenance from the original owner: “In early 2008, I was notified by a distributor that I was awarded an Apple iPhone for sales performance of Canon wide format printers. In February of 2008, Apple shipped me an original iPhone 8 GB model directly from the online Apple Store. I was thankful for the gift but I was a Windows and

Motorola Razr guy so I took the box and stored it in a closet. I had long forgotten about it but in 2018 I was cleaning out the closet and noticed that the box with the iPhone was still there.”

‘iPhone is a revolutionary and magical product that is literally five years ahead of any other mobile phone,’ Steve Jobs said during his keynote speech that introduced the innovative product. He was right. Developed in secrecy, the original iPhone is the smartphone that transformed the industry, revolutionizing cellphone design as one of the first ‘slate’ form factor phones. The iPhone removed nearly all physical controls in favor of an easy-to-use capacitive touchscreen interface. It put the internet into our pockets with the first full-featured mobile web browser, and essentially launched the market for apps with the introduction of the App Store, making third-party applications easy to access and download. The iPhone ushered in the modern age of the smartphone and catapulted Apple to the top of the charts as one of the world’s most valuable companies.

Starting Bid $1,000

Unique NFT of the first emoticons: the smiley :-) and frowny :-(

LOT 6075

The First Emoticons NFT: The Smiley :-) and Frowny :-( by Professor Scott E. Fahlman

The First Emoticons NFT: The Smiley :-) and Frowny :-( by Professor Scott E. Fahlman NFT, Non-fungible token (MP4) 3000 x 2000 pixels

Ed. 1/1

Minted on 9/1/2021

First proposed on ARPANET, Carnegie Mellon University, September 19, 1982

Smart Contract Address: 0x495f947276749ce646f68ac8c248420045cb7b5e

There is a ten percent (10%) future royalties requirement on secondary sales enforced by smart contract for this property.

This work is a unique digital artifact and is sold as a nonfungible token. The Emoticons NFT is accompanied by two essays written by their creator, Professor Scott E. Fahlman, about their creation: one written upon their 20th anniversary in 2002, and another composed specifically for the original NFT auction, hosted by Heritage in September 2021, reflecting on their creation. Also includes a framed certificate signed by Scott E. Fahlman, four Davos World Communication Forum emoticon paddles (one signed by Fahlman), a t-shirt honoring the creation of the emoticon signed by Fahlman, and some related ephemera.

The strictly textual nature of the internet in its earliest iterations—local electronic mail and online bulletin-board systems, or ‘bboards,’ often hosted on university intranets—brought about a problem that continues today: the absence of tone or body language in the written word. On September 19, 1982, Carnegie Mellon University computer science professor Scott E. Fahlman offered a solution: “I propose that the following character sequence for joke markers: :-) Read it sideways. Actually, it is probably more economical to mark things that

are NOT jokes, given current trends. For this, use :-(“

These, the first emoticons—sideways symbols for a smiley face and frowny face—soon came to signify the human emotions of ‘happy’ and ‘sad’ within the digital realm. In an early example of ‘viral’ and ‘meme’ internet culture, the use of :-) and :-( spread as the internet users spread from research institutions to university networks to public libraries and private homes. Professor Fahlman comments on the universality of the emoticons in his essay that accompanies the digital artifact: “The :-) emoticon is the distilled, abstract essence of a smile. It has no gender, no race, no age, no religion, no politics… It’s just a smile. This is a big advantage over the emoji versions. With :-) we don’t have to argue about how many different versions we have to create for different groups. It looks like all of us.” Today, the emoticons and their evolutionary successors—including more sophisticated ASCII symbols and emojis—are estimated to be used billions of times on a daily basis.

The first emoticons represent humankind’s ever-advancing technological progress, yet recall the earliest of human texts: the pictograms, ideograms, and hieroglyphics used to communicate ideas in prehistoric and ancient times. Like some of the latter tangible artifacts, these digital artifacts were the subject of an ‘archeological dig’ through Carnegie Mellon’s backup tapes, led by Mike Jones and Jeff Baird. Fahlman’s original message proposing the emoticons, and the discussion it was a part of, were successfully retrieved on September 10, 2002, after being ‘lost’ for two decades.

Just as the internet redefined communication around the globe, NFTs are revolutionizing the traditional collecting space with proof-of-ownership and authenticity for digital artifacts. The emoticons stand among the most significant digital artifacts of the early internet, having become ubiquitous as a universal means of expression.

Starting Bid $25,000

Walt Disney makes trustee revisions to his Last Will and Testament

LOT 6076

Walt Disney Signed 1955 Codicil to His Last Will and Testament

DS, signed “Walter E. Disney,” six pages, 8.5 x 12.5, November 9, 1955. Codicil to the will of Walt Disney, which opens: “I, Walter E. Disney, a resident of Los Angeles, California, hereby make and declare this to be a Codicil to my Last Will and Testament dated June 9, 1951.” Disney approves the amending of 11 sections of his will, which relates to the sale and bequeathal of his “Trustees’ certificate for shares of Common Stock of Walt Disney Productions…together with any and all beneficial interest…to my said wife Lillian B. Disney, my brother Roy O. Disney, and my friend and attorney Gunther R.

Lessing, and to the survivors or survivor of them.” Disney also adds a sentence related to the trust granted to his sister, Ruth Disney Beecher, and asserts that should his wife predecease him, “said residue shall go to my said two daughters, Diane Marie Disney and Sharon Mae Disney.” Signed prominently at the conclusion in ballpoint by Walt Disney. In fine condition. Although Disney would die prematurely in 1966 at the age of 65 from lung cancer, his creative endeavors were alive and well in 1955, the year the world first watched Lady and the Tramp and was introduced to the Disneyland theme park in Anaheim, California.

Starting Bid $1,000

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Stunning Mary Blair concept art for a classic Walt Disney folktale

(Walt Disney Studios, 1946) Original concept painting by Mary Blair for Song of the South, depicting Br’er Fox excitedly running ahead of his oversized partner, Br’er Bear, his hand holding a leash attached to the neck of Br’er Rabbit, who is hopping high into the air. Inspired by a classic folktale as told by Joel Chandler Harris in his ‘Uncle Remus’ stories, Blair brilliantly executes the Southern scene, capturing a dry and sun-drenched landscape with wild brush and tree snags against a beautiful peach-colored sunset. Accomplished in tempera on 10.5 x 10 artist’s board. In fine condition, with tack holes at corners.

Starting Bid $1,000

6077

Mary Blair concept painting of Br’er Rabbit, Fox, and Bear from Song of the South

Cinderella’s moonlit rendezvous with her prince, conceived by

the legendary Mary Blair

LOT 6078

Mary Blair concept painting of Cinderella and Prince Charming from Cinderella

(Walt Disney Studios, 1950) Original concept painting by Mary Blair showing Cinderella and Prince Charming from Cinderella. Accomplished in tempera on a 7 x 6 illustration board, the scene portrays the pair holding hands in a checkerboard courtyard at the top of a castle, the light of a cloud-covered moon revealing watchtowers and vines running the length of the parapets, and the work’s balance of whites, grays, and purples lending the scene an ethereal and dreamlike quality. Matted and framed to an overall size of 13.5 x 12.5. In fine condition.

Starting Bid $500

Mary Blair’s panoramic painting of Alice’s mad tea party of Wonderland

(Walt Disney Studios, 1951) Brilliant original panoramic concept painting by Mary Blair for Alice in Wonderland, showing Alice seated with the Mad Hatter, the March Hare, and the Dormouse at a long winding table during the famous ‘Tea Party’ scene. Blair spotlights the bright pink table and its curious occupants against a dark blue nocturnal backdrop, with large red chairs at either end and the trailing and zig-zagging steam of the Hatter’s teapot swirling ghostlike about the four characters. Accomplished in tempera on 19.25 x 9 artist’s board. In fine condition, with tack holes at corners.

Starting Bid $1,000

LOT 6079

Mary Blair panoramic concept painting of Alice, the Mad Hatter, the March Hare, and the Dormouse from Alice in Wonderland

Three pieces of impressive Sleeping Beauty concept artwork by Disney legend Eyvind Earle

LOT 6080

Sleeping Beauty:

(3) Concept Paintings by Eyvind Earle

Remarkable collection of three concept storyboard paintings for Walt Disney’s 1959 classic Sleeping Beauty, all done by legendary Disney artist Eyvind Earle. 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. In these concept paintings, Earle marvelously renders the Sleeping Beauty castle and its surrounding landscape, Prince Phillip on his trusty steed, and Princess Aurora in her cradle as a baby.

SLEEPING BEAUTY CASTLE:

(Walt Disney Studios, 1959) Original concept storyboard painting featuring the landscape from Sleeping Beauty, showing the green tree-lined grounds, including Earle’s recognizably stylized square trees, with the castle with pointed towers looming in the distance. Signed in the lower right by Earle. Painting, measuring 11.5 x 6, is framed to an overall size of 20.75 x 15. In fine condition. An absolutely stunning piece of artwork with vivid colors that aptly capture the enchanting feel of the film. By this time Disney had already made two fairy-tale feature films, Snow White and Cinderella, so Walt Disney desired to make Sleeping Beauty stand out from its predecessors with a different visual aesthetic-eschewing the soft, rounded look of the earlier movies in favor of a more stylized one, as seen in this concept artwork. Sleeping Beauty was also made using Super Technirama 70, which allowed more detailed and complex backgrounds than ever before.

PRINCE PHILLIP:

(Walt Disney Studios, 1959) Gorgeous original concept storyboard painting featuring a weary Prince Phillip on his horse, from Sleeping Beauty. This is from the dungeon scene where Maleficent shows Prince Phillip that he will be prisoner for nearly a lifetime, then released as an old man, missing his chance for a life of love with Sleeping Beauty. Signed in the lower right by Earle. Painting, measuring 11.75 x 5.75, is framed to an overall size of 23 x 17. In fine condition. This shows Phillip on the brink of a key moment in the story-at the castle gates Prince Phillip faces a fierce battle with Maleficent, who has assumed dragon form. A positively beautiful painting that served as inspiration for Disney’s animators.

BABY AURORA:

(Walt Disney Studios, 1959) Original concept storyboard painting featuring Aurora in her cradle as a baby from Sleeping Beauty, showing a ray of light hovering over the cradle. This blue ray of light is Merryweather the blue fairy coming to put her final spell on Aurora to protect her from Maleficent’s evil spell. Signed in the lower right by Earle. Painting, measuring 11.25 x 5.5, is framed to an overall size of 20.5 x 15. In fine condition. Earle’s work in this piece is magnificent in its rendering of a medieval room using modern artistic sensibilities, a distinct style that continues throughout his designs for Sleeping Beauty. An absolutely stunning piece of artwork with vivid colors that aptly capture the enchanting feel of the film.

Starting Bid $1,000

Gorgeous custom set-up from Lady and the Tramp’s romantic ‘Bella Notte’ sequence

LOT 6081 Lady and Tramp production cels from Lady and the Tramp

(Walt Disney Studios, 1955) Original production cel set-up of the two title characters from Lady and Tramp, showing the canine couple eating spaghetti in an alleyway behind Tony’s Restaurant during the film’s memorable ‘Bella Notte’ sequence. Deriving from the personal collection of a Disney animator who had the character cels trimmed to image and then applied to a custom-prepared background that he handpainted himself. Completing the marvelous display setup is a hand-painted foreground cel, featuring a linen-draped table,

a lit candle, breadsticks, and a plate of spaghetti, strands of which were also painted hanging from the mouths of the two dogs. Character images measure 3.5 x 5.5 (Tramp), 3.25 x 4.25 (Lady), and 11 x 7.75 (table with candle), with overall dimensions of 16.5 x 13.5. In fine condition. Though the background is custom-prepared and not a production-used example, the result is extremely vibrant and professionally accomplished — this rare and beautiful setup brings to life the memorable ‘Bella Notte’ scene that climaxes in the ‘spaghetti kiss,’ an iconic moment in American cinema.

Starting Bid $1,000

Dee Dee’s prodigious punk rock portrait of guitarist Johnny Ramone

LOT 6082

Ramones: Dee Dee

Ramone Large Original Artwork of ‘Johnny Ramone’

Huge original artwork by punk rocker Dee Dee Ramone of his Ramones bandmate Johnny Ramone, accomplished in multicolored felt tip markers on stretched canvas measuring 30˝ x 40˝ and signed below in green marker by Dee Dee. The artwork, entitled “Johnny Ramone,” depicts Johnny playing his Mosrite Ventures II guitar and wearing a ‘Gabba Gabba’ pinhead shirt against a background annotated in red marker by Dee Dee, who mixes the Ramones’ early history with apparent quotes from his band members. In fine condition

Starting Bid $1,000

“Gabba Gabba Hey”— iconic stage-used banner from the Ramones’ 1977 tour

LOT 6083

Ramones 1977 Stage-Used

“Gabba

Gabba Hey” Banner

Historic stage-used oversized “Gabba Gabba Hey” canvas banner from 1977, handmade by Ramones artistic director Arturo Vega, measuring approximately 52˝ x 34˝, featuring the Ramones’ famous ‘Pinhead’ catchphrase in large handpainted black block letters against a white background. Stencil and tape marks surrounding the letters are evident upon close inspection. The banner is mounted on wooden rollers sewn into the top and bottom, with a mounting wire at the top. In very good to fine condition, with general wear from age and use, including a small hole towards the bottom.

This iconic “Gabba Gabba Hey” sign is seen in numerous concert photos from the era, including those taken at gigs in London and New York. It was given to guitar tech Lee Dickson (best known for his decades-long collaboration with Eric Clapton) after the tour by Arturo Vega, the late, great artistic director for the Ramones. It was recently displayed as part of the “Hey! Ho! Let’s Go: Ramones and the Birth of Punk” exhibit, held at the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles from September 16, 2016–February 28, 2017.

Accompanied by a provenance statement from Dickson, noting that he received the banner from Ramones art director Arturo Vega after the 1977 tour.

Starting Bid $1,000

Twice-signed early 1956 agency contract approved by Presley, fresh off the release of his first RCA single ‘Heartbreak Hotel’

LOT 6084 Elvis Presley Twice-Signed 1956 Five-Year Agency Contract

DS signed twice by Elvis Presley, one page, 8.5 x 18, January 31, 1956. A William Morris Agency contract by which Elvis Presley agrees to employ the agency for a period of five years. Presley agrees to pay the agency “a sum equal to 10% of the net monies or other considerations earned or received by myself and/or my orchestra, directly or indirectly,” with that percentage increasing depending on the Federation scale and engagement. Signed twice at the conclusion in fountain pen by Presley, who also signs his initials, “E.P.” to a rider stapled to the front of the document. In very good to fine condition, with pin and staple holes to left and upper borders, and two tape-repaired tears to the right side.

This document dates to four days after the release of ‘Heartbreak Hotel,” Presley’s first single on his new record label RCA Victor. The song topped the Billboard Top 100 for seven weeks and became Presley’s first record to reach a million sales. Eight months later, Presley made his acting debut in the musical Western film Love Me Tender. Originally entitled The Reno Brothers, the film’s title was changed when his performance of ‘Love Me Tender’ on The Ed Sullivan Show resulted in advanced sales of the single going Gold before even being released—an industry first.

Starting Bid $1,000

Lennon on the hippie scene and the growth of meditation

LOT 6085 Beatles: John Lennon Autograph Letter

Signed on Transcendental Meditation

ALS signed “John, x,” one page, 5.5 x 7, September 6, 1967. Addressed from his “Kenwood” estate, a handwritten letter from John Lennon to Caroline Mayne, in full: “You don’t have to wait for our new Academy — you can start right away. — S.R.M. Foundation Movement. 20. Grosvenor Place, London, S.W.1. If there is a nearer place they will tell you — I only have the one address — but I know there are quite a few around Britain. You are right about most of the flower people but they’ll find out. I can’t help you personally — maybe some later date — but this is the place we are learning at.” In fine condition.

The Spiritual Regeneration Movement, the Maharishi’s London organization headquartered at 20 Grosvenor Place, Westminster, was first registered in Britain in 1962 as a charitable organization, which has set up training centers for meditation in 50 countries. The Beatles began practicing transcendental meditation in 1967 after an introduction to Eastern spirituality and methods of ‘expanding their consciousness.’ They became associated with the Maharishi and traveled to his ashram in Rishikesh in February 1968, where they found creative inspiration and wrote prolifically over the course of seven weeks — 18 songs written during their time there appeared on the White Album.

Accompanied by the original mailing envelope hand-addressed by Lennon, and by a letter of provenance from the original recipient.

Starting Bid $1,000

Are You Experienced, the debut record from the Jimi Hendrix Experience

LOT 6086 Jimi Hendrix Experience Signed ‘Are You Experienced’ Album

Original U.S. stereo issue of Are You Experienced?, the debut album from the Jimi Hendrix Experience (Reprise Records, RS 6261), signed prominently on the back cover over their respective likenesses in black felt tip by Jimi Hendrix, Noel Redding, and Mitch Mitchell. In very good condition, with scuffing, creasing, an old tape stain, and separation along the spine. Includes its original printed inner sleeve with advertisements for other Reprise Records releases; the record is not included.

Released in 1967, Are You Experienced? was an immediate critical and commercial success and is now widely regarded as

one of the greatest albums in rock and roll history. The record showcased Jimi Hendrix’s innovative approach to song-writing and electric guitar playing which soon established a new direction in psychedelic and hard rock music. Fully signed examples of Are You Experienced are exceptionally rare, with this album — appealingly signed over their images — representing just our third example in nearly 25 years.

Starting Bid $1,000

“This is the first letter I’ve written in years”

LOT 6087 Jerry Garcia Ultra-Rare Autograph Letter Signed with Sketch of Grateful Dead at Greek Theatre

Extremely rare two-part ALS signed twice, “Jerry.” First part is on two pages both sides, 5.25 x 8.5, no date but circa late May-early June 1982, and second part is on one page both sides, 8.5 x 11, Hotel Parker Meridien, New York letterhead, no date but postmarked June 22, 1982. Written to a woman he met at a NYC party in 1980, in part: “The Grateful Dead just played our first outdoor show of the year at a place called the Greek Theatre (a nice amphitheatre in back of The University of Calif. in Berekley [sic] kind of like this).”

Here, Garcia draws a very detailed sketch showing all elements of their performance at the Greek Theatre: the columns lining the back of the stage; the band on stage, which he labels “us”; and the audience, labeled “them.” He continues, writing: “A really nice site, we played for three days and the weather was really delicious although the last day (Sunday) was the beginning of a short hot spell and was a trifle uncomfortable but it was nice to play outdoors. I’m going to be playing in and around New York in June (while you’re in London naturally) and I’m sorry I’ll be missing you again: write me more, if you like that is, and thank you again for the card.” He also adds a brief postscript, indirectly attesting to the extreme rarity of this item: “P.S., Pardon my handwriting, this is the first letter I’ve written in years.”

The ALS continues on in a second part, written later on Hotel Parker Meridien, New York letterhead, postmarked June 22, 1982. In part: “Now, weeks later I’m in N.Y.C. Received your 2nd postcard (gasp) and I’m just getting (that is) around to mailing my first letter. Partly, it’s a sort of mail fright, like stage fright and partly editorial misgivings (Let’s see, is it legible? Spelled correctly? Am I constructing these sentences properly? God I hope she doesn’t think I’m an idiot for running off at the pen like this)...Latest news from England is of course the Royal birth...I’m on the road again. This time with my own band & also doing some more of those two piece shows (me and John Kahn) (bass)...am starting to adjust to and become aware of the musical possibillitys [sic] of that acoustical format.

It’s exciting tho still scary.” In overall fine condition, with a few small stains to earlier portion of letter. Accompanied by the original mailing envelope, addressed in Garcia’s own hand. Also accompanied by full letters of authenticity from REAL and PSA/DNA.

Garcia admittedly had uncharacteristic “stage fright” with this method of correspondence as he repeatedly revealed, waiting so long he added a second part. When he finally mailed this letter from NYC, he was prepping for his June 25th acoustic solo act with John Kahn at The Palladium. The legendary front man mentions a little bit of everything including the June 21, 1982 birth of Prince William, “Latest news from England is of course the Royal birth.” The rarity of this handwritten letter cannot be overstated—research indicates no others ever being on the market—and even Garcia himself notes, “this is the first letter I’ve written in years.” The unique sketch he draws of the Grateful Dead’s historic home-base venue, the Greek Theater, is particularly poignant as it relates to their Bay Area roots.

Starting Bid $1,000

“The Grateful Dead just played our first outdoor show of the year at a place called the Greek Theatre

(a nice amphitheatre in back of The University of Calif. in Berekley kind of like this)”

Choice pressing of Led Zeppelin II, fully signed, obtained by an 18-year-old fan during their 1969 Canadian tour

LOT 6088

Led Zeppelin Signed Album – Led Zeppelin II –Obtained by an 18-Year-Old Fan During Their 1969 Canadian Tour

Beautiful Canadian pressing of Led Zeppelin II, the landmark second studio album from Led Zeppelin (Atlantic, SD 8236, Stereo, Red Label, Seven Arts), signed neatly on the front cover in black ballpoint by the full band: vocalist Robert Plant, guitarist Jimmy Page, bassist and keyboardist John Paul Jones, and drummer John Bonham. In fine condition, with some skipping to the Jones signature. The record is included. There are

reportedly less than 30 known fully signed Led Zeppelin albums extant, with this example all the more remarkable given its lack of inscriptions and crisp, clean autographs. The consignor notes: ‘My late husband went to their concert back in 1969 on their tour of Southern Ontario, Canada. He purchased the Led Zeppelin album and was caught up in the crowd. He said he went down the wrong corridor and the band was sitting in their dressing room having a drink with the door open. They invited him in and signed the album at that time. He got to meet them and it was quite a thrill. He was only 18 at the time.’

Starting Bid $2,500

Exceedingly rare 1988 Lovesexy Tour poster signed by Prince and his full band

LOT 6089 Prince and Band Signed 1988 Lovesexy Tour Poster

Exceedingly rare original color 24 x 36 official tour poster of Prince and his Lovesexy band, beautifully signed in black felt tip by Prince, “’Love God,’ P., ‘88,” and by the rest of his band: Sheila E., Boni Boyer, Doctor Fink, Miko Weaver, Levi Seacer, Jr., Eric Leeds, Atlanta Bliss, and Cat Glover. Framed and in fine condition. Consignor notes that their cousin, Prince’s trumpet player Atlanta Bliss (who adds “Cousin” and a trumpet sketch to his signature here), personally obtained the autographs at the Civic Arena in Pittsburgh on October 28, 1988, during Prince’s Lovesexy Tour. While we have sold a handful of Prince-signed posters, this is the first autographed example of the Lovesexy poster—and the only poster signed by his full band—that we have ever encountered. It is an extraordinary, well-preserved, and highly displayable Prince piece.

The Prince Estate is not affiliated, associated, or connected with RR Auction or this auction, nor has it endorsed, authenticated or sponsored the items available for auction. Further, The Prince Estate has not licensed any of its intellectual property to RR Auction.

Starting Bid $1,000

Featuring Einstein, Oppenheimer, Bohr, and dozens more—a

LOT 6090

Manhattan Project: Atomic Bomb Signed Book with Einstein, Oppenheimer, Bohr, Enola Gay Crew, Nobel Prize Winners, and Nuclear Researchers

Signed book: Atomic Energy in the Coming Era by David Dietz. Sixth printing. NY: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1949. Hardcover with dust jacket, 5.25 x 7.5, 184 pages. Signed on the endpapers and throughout by a remarkable 49 individuals, representing a who’s who of 20th century physics—among these are 14 scientists awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics or Chemistry for their monumental achievements, as well as pioneering nuclear researchers, military personnel, and Manhattan Project organizers.

Signers include:

• Albert Einstein

• Robert Millikan

• J. Robert Oppenheimer

• Ernest O. Lawrence

• Leslie R. Groves

• Vannevar Bush

• Robert Van de Graaff

• Harold Urey

• David Lilienthal

• K. T. Bainbridge

• Arthur Compton

• Karl Compton

• W. H. P. Blandy

• W. S. Parsons

• Isidor I. Rabi

• Carl Spaatz

• Otto Hahn

• Niels Bohr

• Lise Meitner

• James Chadwick

• Thomas Ferebee

• Paul Tibbets, Jr.

• Robert A. Lewis

• George A. Caron

• Hans A. Bethe

• Alfred O. Nier

• G. B. Kistiakowsky

• R. F. Bacher

• George Weil

• Glenn Seaborg

• John Ray Dunning

• Kermit Beahan

• Charles Sweeney

• Samuel Allison

• W. D. Coolidge

• E. T. S. Walton

• J. D. Cockcroft

• Carl Anderson

• H. D. Smyth

• Eugene Wigner

• Philip Abelson

• Robert Wilson

• Norris Bradbury

• Warren Magnuson

• Hyman Rickover

• Eugene Wilkinson

• Richard Riddell

• David Dietz

• Doris Dietz Turner

Autographic condition: overall fine, with old tape stains to gutters of signed endpapers. Book condition: G/VG, with some repairs and toned tape inside, dampstaining and tape to boards, and the supplied dust jacket clean and bright. Housed in a handsome custom-made half morocco clamshell case. In his famous column ‘The Bomb and Civilization,’ published on August 18, 1945, Bertrand Russell observed: ‘From the scientific point of view, the atomic bomb embodies the results of a combination of genius and patience as remarkable as any in the history of mankind.’ This remarkable compendium of autographs of the scientists and military men that played a role in the development of the bomb is an absolutely one-ofa-kind piece—an irreplaceable relic of the most momentous development of the 20th century.

Starting Bid $5,000

one-of-a-kind chronicle of the atomic age, signed by the geniuses who made the bomb possible

Harry Houdini’s personally-owned leg irons— a great piece from the escape artist’s collection

LOT 6091 Harry Houdini’s Personally-Owned Lilly Leg Irons

Pair of Harry Houdini’s personally-owned leg irons, manufactured by Lilly, with each locking shackle ring measuring about 3.5˝ in diameter, attached together by a thirteen-link 11˝-long chain. The key is missing, and the irons exhibit an overall patina. Provenance: Houdini Magical Hall of Fame, Lot 419, Butterfield & Butterfield, November 15, 1999.

Houdini came to international fame as an escape artist beginning with his 1900 tour of Europe, where he challenged local police departments of each city he visited to restrain him. Houdini, of course, inevitably escaped and he became famous as the ‘King of Handcuffs,’ or, more simply, Harry ‘Handcuff’ Houdini. A fantastic relic from the legend’s personal collection.

Starting Bid $1,000

Harry Houdini’s famous mail bag—a personal prop from the prolific escape artist’s collection

LOT 6092

Harry Houdini’s Personally-Owned Mail Bag Escape Trick

Harry Houdini’s personally-owned large black-and-white striped canvas mail bag, measuring approximately 52˝ x 58˝, with a worn leather band at the top containing brass ring grommets for cinching. The bag exhibits substantial wear and soiling, with a various holes, rips, and repair work throughout. Includes a large lighted display box from the Houdini Magical Hall of Fame, reading: “Houdini regarded the mail bag escape as the most genuine challenge he ever had to accept. In 1907 Houdini made his first mail bag escape in Los Angeles. There was an element of officialdom introduced with the escape, having the superintendent of mail lock him in a U.S. government mail bag. To complete the effect a rotary lock belonging to the U.S Government was used.”

Renowned as an escape artist extraordinaire, Houdini’s dramatic mail bag escape was one of his greatest stunts. In an article entitled ‘Houdini the Enigma,’ the great writer Arthur Conan Doyle makes mention of the trick in a list of his most famous escapes: ‘On December 2nd, 1906, he leaped from the Old Belle Isle Bridge at Detroit heavily handcuffed, and released himself under icy water, which would paralyse any man’s limbs. On August 26th, 1907, he was thrown into San Francisco Bay with his hands tied behind his back and seventy-five pounds of ball and chain attached to his body. He was none the worse. He escaped from a padlocked United States mail-bag, as many a parcel has done before him. Finally, he was

but lived to tell the tale.’

Provenance: Houdini Magical Hall of Fame, Lot 439, Butterfield & Butterfield, November 15, 1999.

Starting Bid $1,000

manacled, tied up in a box, and dropped into the East River at New York,

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LOT 6093

Enrico Caruso Lengthy 15-Page Autograph Letter Signed, Discussing His Concert for King Edward VII

Superb ALS in Italian from legendary tenor Enrico Caruso, 15 total pages, 6.5 x 10, June 2, 1908. Addressed from London, a lengthy handwritten letter to his friend, Marziale Sisca, the founder and publisher of the Italian‐language journal La Follia di New York, in part (translated): “It is useless to describe my sorrow upon receiving the tragic news. As soon as Father Tonello said my dear father’s name, in a flash, I knew that he had died…Poor old one! Dying without having his children around him! It is said that God is just; then why not wait a day or two? No Sir! It seems that some great sin I must carry on my shoulders and for this I must be punished by never seeing my father again!...Here are some details of the concert of May 30th. Enormous success. I was called by the King to his box and he expressed to me his condolences and sympathy

for the loss of my father. From the King and others I received many thanks for having given the concert and appreciation for my performance in this time of sorrow. They also expressed their disappointment at my not performing at Covent Garden this season and hoped that I will return soon. All the English newspapers have written a great deal about the concert, my voice and the reception by the King…[Caruso’s only 1908 appearance in London was at a charity concert at the Royal Albert Hall on May 30th, alongside Melba, Tosti, and McCormack].” Housed in a handsome custom leather-bound folio with gilt lettering to the front cover; the consignor notes that the letter was encapsulated and bound at the Eisenhower library at Johns Hopkins University. In very good to fine condition, with a few small stains, and splitting to the intersecting folds. Accompanied by the original hand-addressed mailing envelope and a 1989 provenance letter from Sisca’s son Michael.

Starting Bid $1,000

“All the English newspapers have written a great deal about the concert, my voice and the reception by the King”

“I was called by the King to his box,” an intimate 15-page letter from Enrico Caruso on his celebrated performance for Edward VII

Warhol autographs an exhibition poster featuring his iconic Marilyn Monroe

LOT 6094

Andy Warhol Signed Exhibition Poster

Original color 19.75 x 29.75 promotional poster for an Andy Warhol exhibition held at London’s Tate Gallery from February 17 to March 28, 1971, featuring an iconic image of the artist’s silkscreened Marilyn Monroe, entitled ‘Shot Sage Blue Marilyn,’ signed along the bottom in black felt tip, “Andy Warhol.” Printed by the Hillingdon Press. Nicely mounted and framed to an overall size of 23.75 x 33.75. In fine condition. Accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from University Archives.

The month of Monroe’s tragic death, Warhol, who had only just begun experimenting with the silkscreen process, decided to pay tribute to the late screen legend with a series of multicolored paintings. The basis of this image, and those that represent Warhol’s iconic ‘Marilyn Diptych,’ derives from a publicity shot by Gene Korman for the 1953 film Niagara. A gorgeous vintage Warhol exhibition poster in its own right, this museum-quality display piece finds Warhol signing one of his most identifiable and desirable subjects. The original silkscreen painting of ‘Shot Sage Blue Marilyn’ recently sold at auction for a record $195,000,000.

Starting Bid $500

Unique ‘Cow’ silk screened cereal box by Andy Warhol, signed for an NYC model

LOT 6095

Andy Warhol Signed Original ‘Cow’ Screenprint on Kellogg’s Cereal Box

Original one-off ‘Cow’ screen print by Warhol on an unfolded cereal box for Kellogg’s 40% Bran Flakes, 13 x 19.5, signed and inscribed on the reverse in black felt tip, “To Yelitza, Andy Warhol.” Also bears an “Andy Warhol” stamp near the bottom of the reverse. Box is marked with a “Better If Used Before” date of January 23, 1979. In fine condition, with expected wear to the edges. The recipient of this piece was Yelitza Karolyi, who was a New York City model in the 1970s and 80s. She befriended artists such as Warhol and photographers such as Peter Beard, and today is a fine artist herself.

The inspiration for Warhol’s ‘Cow Series’ came from art dealer Ivan Karp, who once ironically suggested to him: ‘Why don’t you paint some cows, they’re so wonderfully pastoral and such a durable image in the history of the arts.’ In 1966, Warhol denounced painting as ‘dead’ and committed himself to printmaking as an art form. His printer, Gerard Malanga, chose this particular image to use. The ‘Cow Series,’ which Warhol published between 1966 and 1976, featured four variations: ‘Pink Cow on Yellow Background,’ ‘Brown Cow on Blue Background,’ ‘Yellow Cow on Blue Background,’ and ‘Pink Cow on Purple Background.’ This unique piece—which could be called ‘Black Cow on Cereal Box’—combines the iconic cow image with Warhol’s interest in mass-produced consumer product packaging, made most famous by his Campbell’s Soup works. Warhol had also previously experimented with Kellogg’s boxes, creating a series of Corn Flakes boxes for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 1971. An interesting and unique hand-signed piece by the innovative Pop artist.

Starting Bid $5,000

LOT 6096 Hugh Hefner Personally Gifted First Printing of Playboy #1 - Directly From Playboy’s Archives

TLS signed “Hugh M. Hefner,” one page, 8.5 x 11, Playboy letterhead, November 21, 1955. Letter to John Basil, including a first edition of the very first issue of Playboy from the magazine’s own archives. In full: “Anyone who would pay $5.00 for the first issue of Playboy thinks a good deal of the magazine and deserves to have that issue. I’ve dug this copy out of our editorial file, especially for you. Consider it a gift. Make your payment by continuing to boost Playboy with your friends and giving lots of Playboy gift subscriptions this Christmas.” Includes the extremely rare first version of the first issue, with the third page numbered, from December 1953. Letter in fine condition, with a trivial chip to one corner. Accompanied by a full letter of authenticity from PSA/DNA. The magazine was previously graded by CGC as 6.5, noting a tiny piece of tape to repair a thin short break at the base of the fold, and two small pieces of tape used to affix the letter to the first page; the magazine has been removed from the slab (CGC’s label preserved) and tape has been professionally removed, leaving just subtle shadows on the page that correspond with those on Hefner’s letter, confirming that this is the exact copy he sent.

This is not only the first issue of Playboy ever produced, but also contains a pair of classic images of an American icon— Marilyn Monroe graces both the front cover and is featured in a full-color nude inside. Only the first printing of this first issue had the number “3” on the third page, which is the rarest version—according to some estimates, this variant comprises fewer than 5% of the Playboy #1 magazines extant. As this was once held by the company as a file copy, it is likely one

of the earliest printed, perhaps within the first hundred or so. Once held in the Playboy editorial archives and presented by Hugh Hefner himself, this is a true rarity and important piece of pop culture history.

Starting Bid $1,000

“I’ve dug this copy out of our editorial file”— extremely rare first printing of Playboy presented by Hefner himself in 1955

Marilyn Monroe’s 1958 State of Connecticut driver’s license, signed with her married name: “Marilyn Monroe Miller”

Remarkable original “State of Connecticut Motor Vehicle Operator’s License,” 2.5 x 3.25, July 8, 1958, signed along the bottom in blue ballpoint, “Marilyn Monroe Miller.” The license is filled out in type with her personal info, including name (“M. M. Miller”), address (“Tophet Rd, Roxbury”), height (5´ 5˝), birth date (6-1-26), and operator number (181034533). In fine condition, with wear and creasing to edges. This rare, historic driver’s license was issued while Marilyn Monroe was residing with her husband, playwright Arthur Miller, in a farmhouse on Tophet Road in scenic Roxbury, Connecticut. Encapsulated in a PSA/DNA authentication holder.

Starting Bid $2,500

LOT 6097

Marilyn Monroe

Signed Driver’s License

Signed membership card for Bruce Lee’s first gung fu school

LOT 6098

Bruce Lee Signed Membership Card for the First Jun Fan Gung Fu Institute

Unissued ‘blue stripe’ student membership card for Bruce Lee’s Jun Fan Gung Fu Institute of Seattle, Washington, 3.75 x 2.5, signed at the bottom as president in bold black ink, “Bruce Lee.” In fine condition, with an old tape stain on the back. This card was given directly by Bruce Lee to Herb Jackson, a close friend, student, and confidant of Lee who took an active role in improving Lee’s training equipment. Accompanied by a signed letter of provenance from Jackson’s son, Mark Ashton-Jackson, in part: “This item was given to my father Herb Jackson as a gift from Bruce Lee in and around 1968.”

Starting Bid $1,000

Imposing full-length portrait of Babe Ruth

LOT 6099

Babe Ruth Signed Oversized Photograph

Magnificent vintage matte-finish 16.25 x 20 photo of Babe Ruth at the plate in his Yankees road uniform, following the trajectory of another monster blast, circa 1933-34, signed and inscribed in fountain pen, “To Bob Schrecengost, from Babe Ruth, 1947.” Professionally restored to near fine condition, with expert repairs to two tears at the top, touch-ups to the dark upper seating area, and flattening to multiple horizontal creases.

Accompanied by a full letter of authenticity from PSA/DNA.

A truly ‘Ruthian-sized’ photograph of the beloved baseball icon, shown here in dramatic post-swing anticipation in the later stages of his record-breaking career. Oversized examples of Ruth displaying his fabled Yankees batting power are quite rare and highly sought by collectors—an excellent opportunity to own a prodigious Babe Ruth autographed photo.

Starting Bid $1,000

LOT 6100

Secretariat Retirement Artifacts: 16-inch Length of Tail Hair and Horseshoe

Two artifacts that were removed from the legendary Thoroughbred racehorse Secretariat: an incredible 16˝ length of chestnut hair cut from the skirt of Secretariat’s tail, and a beautiful 5˝ x 5˝ ‘hot forged’ Diamond horseshoe, both of which were obtained from Claiborne Farm near Paris, Kentucky, in the summer of 1975. Includes a vintage pendant for Secretariat, “Super Horse, 1973 Triple Crown Winner.” In overall fine condition.

Accompanied by three color photos of Secretariat taken at Claiborne Farm, and by a certificate of authenticity from the

original recipient, who states that the three photos of Secretariat, which were “personally taken by me at Claiborne Farm, Kentucky,” date to the summer of 1975 and depict his wife, his seven-year-old daughter, and the farm’s trainer, the latter who “personally gave to my daughter the horseshoe (represented as one from Secretariat) as well as the tail hairs. My daughter, even at that age, loved horses and aspired to become a veterinarian (which she did). This undoubtedly was a factor in the trainer becoming enamored of my daughter and motivated the giving to her the treasured items…The photos have never been published and the originals remain in our family belongings.”

Starting Bid $500

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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

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.

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.

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 Auction’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 Bid-

der’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.

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.

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. The states that are affected are: ARIZONA, ARKANSAS, CALIFORNIA, COLORADO, CONNECTICUT, FLORIDA, GEORGIA, ILLINOIS, INDIANA, IOWA, KANSAS, KENTUCKY, MAINE, MARYLAND, MASSACHUSETTS, MICHIGAN, MINNESOTA, NEBRASKA, NEVADA, NEW JERSEY, NEW YORK, NORTH CAROLINA, OHIO, OKLAHOMA, PENNSYLVANIA,RHODE ISLAND, TENNESSEE, TEXAS, UTAH, VIRGINIA, WASHINGTON, WISCONSIN

If we have not achieved nexus in a particular state it is still your responsibility to pay sales tax on your purchases.

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%.

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.

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,

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

Section 7 Sales Tax

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 ”do-not-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 sub-part (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 dam-

age 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.

20.5 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.

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.

20.7 Liquidated Damages for Specific Breaches

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

Certificate of Auction, Certificate of Authenticity and Goods Acquired:

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.

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