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May 2015 Auction Ends Thursday, May 28th, 5pm Pacific

Auction closed on 5/28/2015. Final prices include buyers premium.

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Lot #1: Nobel Prize Awarded to Physicist Leon Lederman in 1988 -- Won for His Groundbreaking Discovery of a New Atomic Particle -- One of Only 10 Nobel Prizes Ever to Be Auctioned

# Bids: 6

Min Bid: $325,000

Final Price: $765,002
Lot #2: Alexander Graham Bell Signed Card

# Bids: 1

Min Bid: $400

Final Price: $500
Lot #3: Thomas Edison Signed Portrait With His Trademark Umbrella Autograph

# Bids: 1

Min Bid: $1,000

Final Price: $1,000
Lot #4: Very Scarce Signature by Famed Scientist Edward Jenner, the ''Father of Immunology''

# Bids: 3

Min Bid: $1,000

Final Price: $1,664
Lot #5: Jonas Salk & Albert Sabin Signed First Day Cover

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $250

Final Price: Pass
Lot #6: Polio Vaccine Pioneer Jonas Salk 8'' x 10'' Signed Photo

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $200

Final Price: Pass
Lot #7: Discoverer of Planet Pluto, Clyde Tombaugh Collection of 4 Autographs -- ''...Discovered 9th planet...''

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $100

Final Price: Pass
Lot #8: Excellent Clyde Tombaugh Autograph Note Signed -- Regarding His 1980 Book Detailing His Discovery of Pluto

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $100

Final Price: Pass
Lot #9: John Adams Autograph Letter Signed -- Exceptional Content During War of 1812: ''It is of no other use to ruminate upon the faults, Errors & blunders of Washington in the revolutionary War...''

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $75,000

Final Price: Pass
Lot #10: John Adams Document Signed as President in 1801 & Countersigned by John Marshall -- Adams Grants Land to Two Revolutionary War Soldiers With a Large, Bold Signature

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $6,000

Final Price: Pass
Lot #11: John Adams Free Franked Signature -- With Holograph Address Leaf, to His Son Thomas Adams

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $3,250

Final Price: Pass
Lot #12: John Quincy Adams Land Grant Signed as President

# Bids: 6

Min Bid: $400

Final Price: $808
Lot #13: Chester Arthur Military Appointment Signed as President in 1882 -- Countersigned by Robert Lincoln, Abraham Lincoln's Son

# Bids: 4

Min Bid: $500

Final Price: $833
Lot #14: ''President for a Day'' David Rice Atchison Autograph Note Signed -- Atchison Was Acting President on 4 March 1849

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $600

Final Price: Pass
Lot #15: James Buchanan Naval Appointment Signed as President

# Bids: 1

Min Bid: $500

Final Price: $625
Lot #16: George H.W. Bush Typed Letter Signed as President -- ''...I'm sure he'll continue to do a great job at Ford...''

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $250

Final Price: Pass
Lot #17: George H.W. Bush Autograph Note Signed as Vice President -- ''...I wrote the attached to the kid that drew the card you sent me. Loved it...''

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $150

Final Price: Pass
Lot #18: George W. Bush Signed Limited Edition of His Memoir ''Decision Points''

# Bids: 1

Min Bid: $300

Final Price: $375
Lot #19: George W. Bush Signed Photo Jogging with His Dog

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $250

Final Price: Pass
Lot #20: George W. Bush Candid Signed 10'' x 8'' Photo

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $250

Final Price: Pass
Lot #21: George W. Bush First Edition of ''Decision Points'' With Signed Bookplate

# Bids: 1

Min Bid: $150

Final Price: $206
Lot #22: Jimmy Carter Typed Letter Signed & Autograph Note as President

# Bids: 1

Min Bid: $300

Final Price: $375
Lot #23: Jimmy Carter Signed Souvenir Excerpt From His Speech at the Egyptian-Israeli Peace Treaty Signing in 1979 -- ''...Peace, like war, is waged...''

# Bids: 1

Min Bid: $250

Final Price: $313
Lot #24: Oath of Office Souvenir Slip Signed by Jimmy Carter & Gerald Ford

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $125

Final Price: Pass
Lot #25: Presidential Travel China Plate by Syracuse -- Likely Used on Presidential Rail Car ''Ferdinand Magellan''

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $200

Final Price: Pass
Lot #26: Grover Cleveland Signed Military Appointment as President

# Bids: 2

Min Bid: $300

Final Price: $413
Lot #27: Grover Cleveland Document Signed as President

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $300

Final Price: Pass
Lot #28: Grover Cleveland 1896 White House Invitation

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $125

Final Price: Pass
Lot #29: Clinton White House-Used China -- Cup & Saucer Set by Lenox From the Year 2000 -- Part of the First Order -- Fine

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $1,250

Final Price: Pass
Lot #30: Bill Clinton Senate Impeachment Trial Ticket

# Bids: 2

Min Bid: $200

Final Price: $303
Lot #31: Bill Clinton Signed First Edition of ''Giving: How Each of Us Can Change The World'' -- Fine

# Bids: 1

Min Bid: $150

Final Price: $206
Lot #32: Hillary Clinton Signed ''It Takes a Village'' -- Near Fine

# Bids: 1

Min Bid: $125

Final Price: $173
Lot #33: Calvin Coolidge Signed First Edition of His Autobiography -- Uninscribed

# Bids: 1

Min Bid: $400

Final Price: $550
Lot #34: Calvin Coolidge Document Signed as President

# Bids: 1

Min Bid: $250

Final Price: $313
Lot #35: President Calvin Coolidge Signed 1927 Birth Certificate -- Also Signed by First Lady Grace Coolidge

# Bids: 1

Min Bid: $250

Final Price: $313
Lot #36: Calvin Coolidge Thank You Card -- Lot Also Includes Diplomatic Invitations

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $100

Final Price: Pass
Lot #37: Dwight D. Eisenhower Signed D-Day Speech From ''Crusade in Europe'' -- Rare Signed Speech Is Very Desirable Among Presidential & WWII Collectors

# Bids: 1

Min Bid: $2,250

Final Price: $2,250
Lot #38: Eisenhower Autograph Letter Signed in 1940 Regarding His Son's Admission to West Point -- ''...I'm enclosing a statement of John's qualifications...I expect to mail copies...to get endorsements...''

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $1,100

Final Price: Pass
Lot #39: Dwight Eisenhower 1945 Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...A...parade of visitors...Just spent an hour with a Senator...Tomorrow I go to Berlin and...must go...for a conference with [Gen.] McNarney...''

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $1,100

Final Price: Pass
Lot #40: Dwight Eisenhower WWII Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...to anyone else my writing would merely represent illiteracy or indifference...''

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $1,100

Final Price: Pass
Lot #41: General Dwight Eisenhower WWII Autograph Letter Signed to His Wife, Mamie From London -- ''...we never have a dull moment...but mornings & nights are lonely...''

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $1,100

Final Price: Pass
Lot #42: Eisenhower Letter Signed as President: ''...If you are so cowardly...as to agree...to this atrocious amendment, I shall regard you as practically a traitor...'' & ''...This is a slaves life...''

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $800

Final Price: Pass
Lot #43: Eisenhower Letter Signed as President Regarding FDR, His Democratic Predecessor: ''...one President desperately tried to arrogate himself greater power than contemplated in the Constitution...''

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $800

Final Price: Pass
Lot #44: President Dwight Eisenhower Campaign Picnic Lighter -- From His Re-election Campaign in 1956

# Bids: 1

Min Bid: $400

Final Price: $605
Lot #45: President Dwight D. Eisenhower Matchbooks Flown Aboard His Presidential Airplane

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $300

Final Price: Pass
Lot #46: Dwight D. Eisenhower Signed Souvenir Presidential Oath of Office -- ''...I, Dwight D. Eisenhower, do solemnly swear...''

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $250

Final Price: Pass
Lot #47: Dwight Eisenhower Typed Letter Signed as President -- Eisenhower Invites a Friend to a ''Stag Dinner'' & Requests It Be Kept ''Confidential''

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $225

Final Price: Pass
Lot #48: Dwight D. Eisenhower Typed Letter Signed as President Regarding Supreme Court Vacancy -- ''...I assure you that I have the matter under serious consideration...''

# Bids: 1

Min Bid: $175

Final Price: $219
Lot #49: Dwight Eisenhower Letter Signed as President -- ''...Whether [campaigners] will...reach...every single voter who favors the Administration...is something we shall have to find out...''

# Bids: 1

Min Bid: $175

Final Price: $219
Lot #50: Dwight D. Eisenhower & Richard Nixon Presidential Inauguration Invitation and Program

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $125

Final Price: Pass
Lot #51: Millard Fillmore Military Document Signed as President

# Bids: 3

Min Bid: $400

Final Price: $605
Lot #52: Gerald Ford Typed Letter Signed as President, Just After His Defeat in the 1976 Election -- ''...Long after the hard work and hurried pace of these past weeks are forgotten...''

# Bids: 3

Min Bid: $200

Final Price: $303
Lot #53: Gerald Ford's Memoir ''A Time To Heal'' Signed

# Bids: 2

Min Bid: $150

Final Price: $228
Lot #54: Gerald Ford Signature

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $100

Final Price: Pass
Lot #55: Scarce James Garfield Document Signed as President -- From 7 June 1881

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $7,000

Final Price: Pass
Lot #56: James Garfield Autograph Letter Signed in 1880 -- ''...I should be glad to be present at the reunion of that noble regiment which did such gallant service...''

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $400

Final Price: Pass
Lot #57: James Garfield Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...sit with the committee while they go over the Estimates for the Executive proper. I think we shall need you for a little while...''

# Bids: 1

Min Bid: $250

Final Price: $313
Lot #58: Presentation Gavel Made of Pine Wood From the White House & Hickory From Mount Vernon -- Circa 1928

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $500

Final Price: Pass
Lot #59: Lot of 10 Checks Signed by Conservative Icon Barry Goldwater

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $100

Final Price: Pass
Lot #60: Ulysses S. Grant Signed CDV Signed as Lieutenant-General of the Union Army

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $3,250

Final Price: Pass
Lot #61: Ulysses S. Grant Document Signed as President

# Bids: 1

Min Bid: $700

Final Price: $875
Lot #62: Ulysses S. Grant Signature

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $400

Final Price: Pass
Lot #63: Ulysses S. Grant Dinner Invitation to Three Separate Dinners -- ''General & Mrs. Grant, At Home'' -- With a Mention of Dancing

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $225

Final Price: Pass
Lot #64: CDV of Ulysses S. Grant in Civil War Uniform -- With Anthony Backmark

# Bids: 1

Min Bid: $200

Final Price: $250
Lot #65: President Ulysses S. Grant Signed Print

# Bids: 1

Min Bid: $1,000

Final Price: $1,000
Lot #66: Warren G. Harding Document Signed as President

# Bids: 2

Min Bid: $300

Final Price: $413
Lot #67: Benjamin Harrison Military Appointment Signed as President

# Bids: 3

Min Bid: $300

Final Price: $454
Lot #68: President Benjamin Harrison 1891 Dinner Invitation Addressed to New Hampshire Governor Person Colby Cheney

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $125

Final Price: Pass
Lot #69: William Henry Harrison Document Signed as Governor of the Indiana Territory in 1811

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $2,000

Final Price: Pass
Lot #70: Rutherford B. Hayes Document Signed as President

# Bids: 1

Min Bid: $300

Final Price: $375
Lot #71: Rare Herbert Hoover Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...Herewith is a good luck token that I have had for 20 years. It works pretty well...I don't need it for very long...''

# Bids: 1

Min Bid: $600

Final Price: $750
Lot #72: Herbert Hoover Typed Letter Signed as President -- ''...such an organization is an important contribution to the cause of spiritual progress...''

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $250

Final Price: Pass
Lot #73: Herbert Hoover Signed First Printing of ''America's First Crusade''

# Bids: 1

Min Bid: $175

Final Price: $241
Lot #74: Herbert Hoover Signature

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $125

Final Price: Pass
Lot #75: President Herbert Hoover White House Invitation

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $100

Final Price: Pass
Lot #76: Andrew Jackson Land Grant Signed as President -- Large Document Measures 25'' x 16''

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $800

Final Price: Pass
Lot #77: Thomas Jefferson Four-Language Ship's Paper Signed as President -- Countersigned by James Madison as Secretary of State

# Bids: 3

Min Bid: $6,000

Final Price: $9,983
Lot #78: WITHDRAWN

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $5,000

Final Price: W/D
Lot #79: Thomas Jefferson Ship's Paper Signed as President -- Countersigned by James Madison as Secretary of State

# Bids: 2

Min Bid: $4,000

Final Price: $6,050
Lot #80: Thomas Jefferson Signature

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $3,000

Final Price: Pass
Lot #81: Andrew Johnson Document Signed as President

# Bids: 3

Min Bid: $600

Final Price: $908
Lot #82: Andrew Johnson Lot of 3 Military Appointments with Stamped Signatures

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $500

Final Price: Pass
Lot #83: Lyndon B. Johnson Typed Letter Signed as President -- ''...It is with reluctance that I accept your resignation...''

# Bids: 5

Min Bid: $250

Final Price: $558
Lot #84: Lyndon B. Johnson Signed Book: ''The Professional''

# Bids: 1

Min Bid: $250

Final Price: $344
Lot #85: President Lyndon B. Johnson Signed National Gallery Book of Artwork

# Bids: 1

Min Bid: $175

Final Price: $241
Lot #86: President John F. Kennedy Fact Sheet on the White House China Room -- With Interesting Content Detailing Each President's Addition to the China Collection

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $200

Final Price: Pass
Lot #87: Jackie Kennedy White House Press Release -- Announcing the Resignation of the Artistic Curator During the Famous Renovation of the White House

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $200

Final Price: Pass
Lot #88: President John F. Kennedy Signed ''Profiles in Courage'' -- Beautiful, Uninscribed Copy -- With COA From University Archives

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $2,750

Final Price: Pass
Lot #89: John & Jackie Kennedy Owned & Used Mirror That Hung in Their Hyannis Port Home -- 20'' x 28''

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $2,750

Final Price: Pass
Lot #90: John F. Kennedy Typed Letter Signed as President

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $2,000

Final Price: Pass
Lot #91: John F. Kennedy Letter Signed as President -- Sent to DC Police Chief: ''...You and the members of your department have been very kind and thoughtful to us...'' -- With University Archives COA

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $2,000

Final Price: Pass
Lot #92: John F. Kennedy Presidential China -- Used in the Dining Room of the Presidential Yacht, the ''Honey Fitz''

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $1,250

Final Price: Pass
Lot #93: ''The Kennedy Family'' Photo Album, Owned by JFK as President

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $1,000

Final Price: Pass
Lot #94: Ticket From ''New York's Birthday Salute To President Kennedy'' at Madison Square Garden -- Where Marilyn Monroe Sang Her Sexy Rendition of ''Happy Birthday'' to JFK

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $500

Final Price: Pass
Lot #95: John F Kennedy PT-109 Crew Member Autographs on a JFK Commemorative Envelope

# Bids: 1

Min Bid: $300

Final Price: $375
Lot #96: JFK Press Release on the Cuban Missile Crisis -- ''...the Soviet Government in secretly introducing offensive weapons into Cuba...''

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $300

Final Price: Pass
Lot #97: JFK Statement Urging Congress to Halt Communism and ''Castroism'' and Reverse the Vote on Foreign Aid -- 16 August 1961

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $200

Final Price: Pass
Lot #98: Invitation to Dinner Welcoming JFK to Texas the Night of His Assassination

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $350

Final Price: Pass
Lot #99: Press Badge for JFK's Texas Welcome Dinner Scheduled for 22 November 1963

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $350

Final Price: Pass
Lot #100: Transcript of the Address John F. Kennedy Planned to Give the Night of His Assassination

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $300

Final Price: Pass

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