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February 2013 Auction Ends Wednesday, February 6th, 5pm Pacific

Auction closed on 2/6/2013. Final prices include buyers premium.

• Lot #730: Original Oil Painting Commissioned for an American Red Cross Poster -- by Artist Robert H. Dellett

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #731: Red Cross Original Artwork for ''Our Greatest Mother'' Campaign

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #732: WWII Red Cross Poster -- ''Mobilize For Defense'' -- Featuring Norman Rockwell Art -- 1951

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #733: Vintage Red Cross Poster -- 1971

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #788: Signature of General Frederick Dent Grant -- Son of President U.S. Grant -- 3.5'' x 2.5'' -- Signature Smudged, Else Fine

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #789: Ulysses S. Grant Document Signed as President in 1870

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $916

• Lot #790: Handwritten Invitation to Dance at the Home of General Ulysses S. Grant

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $238

• Lot #791: Abraham Lincoln's Vice President Hannibal Hamlin Document Signed -- Countersigned by Maine Republican Party Members

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #828: Abraham Lincoln 1861 Autograph Endorsement Signed ''A. Lincoln'' -- Just as the Civil War Was Beginning

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #829: Abraham Lincoln 1864 Document Signed as President -- With a Beautiful, Full Signature

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: $6,083

• Lot #830: Black Crepe Worn by Admiral C.H. Eldredge While Mourning the Death of President Lincoln

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #831: Rare ''Abraham Lincoln: A History'' 1890 First Edition 10-Volume Set -- Near Fine

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: $1,758

• Lot #832: Abraham Lincoln Mourning Card -- ''In Memory of / ABRAHAM LINCOLN...A Martyr to Freedom!''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #833: WITHDRAWN

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: W/D

• Lot #888: Samuel Adams 1795 Document Signed as Governor of Massachusetts

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: $1,934

• Lot #889: Declaration Signer & First Ever Maryland Senator Charles Carroll Autograph Letter Signed

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $1,477

• Lot #890: Scarce 1860 Print of The Declaration of Independence Published by Colton/Thayer -- One of Just a Handful Known to Exist

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #891: 1876 Printing of the Declaration of Independence -- Centennial Memorial Print

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #892: Autograph Letter by Declaration of Independence Signer William Ellery

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #893: 1778 London Chronicle -- ''...The Congress of America...ordered their thanks to Gen. Gates, and a medal of gold to be presented to him...''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #894: Very Rare Revolutionary War 1780 Muster Payroll -- With Seven Dorchester Company Minutemen Listed

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $1,969

• Lot #895: West Point Chief Engineer Stephen Rochefontaine Autograph Letter Signed -- From West Point in 1796, the Year of the West Point Fire

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #896: 1782 England Newspaper -- With Letter by George Washington on American POW's -- 4pp. -- Very Good

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $120

• Lot #1062: Nathaniel Banks Mathew Brady Civil War CDV -- 2.5'' x 4'' -- Excellent

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1063: Signature of ''Grant's Shadow'' Captain Samuel H. Beckwith -- ''...He carried with fidelity the secrets of the nation...''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1064: Thomas S. Bocock Signature -- Speaker of the Confederate States House of Representatives

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1065: General Benjamin Butler Document Signed -- 1863 Civil War Dated

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $349

• Lot #1066: General Adna Chaffee Signature -- Famed Civil War Soldier & U.S. Army Chief of Staff From 1904-1906 -- 3.5'' x 2.5'' -- Near Fine

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $120

• Lot #1067: Civil War General Henry Halleck CDV -- 2.5'' x 4'' -- Very Good Condition

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1068: Civil War Colonel William Jennings Signed CDV Photo -- 127th Pennsylvania Infantry

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1069: U.S. Admiral Eugene Henry Cozzens Leutze Signature -- Fought in the Civil War at 16 Years Old -- 5.25'' x 3.5'' -- Near Fine

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $120

• Lot #1070: Civil War Railroad Pass From 1864

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1071: William Rosecrans Mathew Brady Civil War CDV -- 2.5'' x 4'' -- Excellent

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1072: General William Sherman CDV Photo

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1073: Civil War Broadside Condemning Secession & War -- Quoting Confederate VP Alexander Stephens -- ''...for you to attempt to overthrow such a Government as this...is the height of madness...''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $317

• Lot #1074: Lincoln-Appointed Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles Signed Discharge -- ''...the war...having been brought to a successful termination...''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1075: General Henry ''Hap'' Arnold's Personal Command Pilot Wings -- With Two of His USAAF Headquarters Insignia Patches and an Autograph Note Signed by Arnold

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $2,291

• Lot #1076: General Omar Bradley Signed 8'' x 10'' Glossy Army Photo -- 1957 -- ''To Kayo Roy / With best wishes / Omar Bradley'' -- Near Fine

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1077: Army Secret Intelligence Report on Battle of the Bulge -- ''...enemy artillery continued firing...and heavy enemy mortar fire fell in the Rollesbroich area. Enemy aircraft engaged in bombing and...

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1078: General Mark W. Clark Signed 8'' x 10'' Photo -- With JSA COA

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1079: General Mark W. Clark TLS ''...Thanks for your letter...It's always good to hear from the men who served their country so successfully...''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1080: General Mark Clark Signed First Edition of ''Calculated Risk''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1081: Signature of WWII British Admiral Andrew Cunningham -- Green Ink, 4.5'' x 2.5'' -- With Envelope & Reply Letter -- Very Good

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1082: Rare 1940 Dachau Concentration Camp Prisoner Letter -- ''...All lies in God's hands and hope that all will sort itself out, slowly but surely and that we will see each other again...''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1083: 10'' x 8'' Black and White Glossy Original Wire Photo of American Soldiers Attending to Injured D-Day Soldiers -- Near Fine

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1084: World War II Original 10'' x 8'' Black and White Glossy Press Photo -- D-Day Dedication at Utah Beach, France

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1085: Original World War II D-Day 10'' x 4'' Black and White Glossy Press Photo -- Omaha Beach, France -- Near Fine

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1086: Karl Donitz Signs 10'' x 8'' Glossy Photo of Nuremberg Trial -- ''Donitz 25.7.80'' -- Very Good

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1087: Dwight Eisenhower Signed Photo as Allied Commander

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1088: WWII Enola Gay Printed Poem Signed by Five Crew Members Including Tibbets, Jeppson, Caron & Ferebee -- Bold Signatures -- Fine Condition

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1089: U.N. Non-Proliferation Treaty FDC Signed by Six Enola Gay Crew Members Including Jacob Beser

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1090: Signed 10'' x 8'' Collage Photo of Enola Gay -- Signed by Tibbets, Beser, Ferebee, Van Kirk and Caron -- Near Fine

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1091: WWII Lt. Cmdr. Richard Gaines Portrait Inscribed ''To Admiral Blakely - In deep appreciation of...Dick Gaines'' -- 7.25'' x 11''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $288

• Lot #1092: General Roy Geiger April 1945 Typed Letter Signed -- Declines Clippings Concerning Iwo Jima -- 6.25'' x 9.25'' -- Very Good

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1093: Rare 1914 Wartime Postal Cover to Germany Marked ''Undeliverable'' -- With Letter Stating ''...Owing to the most regrettable War...we beg to refrain from continuing our business relations...''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1094: Album of Photographs From Japan During WWII -- With Sobering Post-Nuclear Scenes From Obliterated Hiroshima

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $2,886

• Lot #1095: 'The New York Times'' From 2 May 1945 -- ''Hitler Dead in Chancellery, Nazis Say...'' -- ''...Britain to Insist Germans Show Hitler's Body...''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1096: World War II General Courtney H. Hodges 1945 Typed Letter Signed and Envelope -- Very Good Condition

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1097: Two WWII Photographs Showing the Execution of Nazi Spy Richard Jarczyk -- 5.5'' x 8.5'' -- Near Fine

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1098: Fleet Admiral Ernest King's Navy Pilot Wing -- With Signed ''E.J. King'' Card by the WWII Legend

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1099: Fleet Admiral William D. Leahy 1939 Typed Letter Signed -- As Chief of Naval Operations

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1100: General Curtis Lemay Typed Letter Signed -- ''...Our new Sports Car Club at Andrews Air Force Base is shaping up fine...''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1101: Charles W. Lindberg, Iwo Jima Flag Raiser, Typed Letter Signed -- ''...After we raised the flag, the enemy started coming out of their caves...'' -- Letter Documenting Iconic WWII Moment

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1102: Nazi POW Document -- ''...The Polish War Criminal...was discharged from the prison camp 'Rosenblatt' Lodz...'' --1939

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1103: Douglas MacArthur 1958 Autograph Note Signed -- ''...Such a letter could not have been written by my Father...''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1104: WWII General Douglas MacArthur Signed Photo

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $288

• Lot #1105: Douglas MacArthur Typed Letter Signed & Christmas Card -- ''...I...regret deeply the illness of your fine father. He is a lifelong friend...'' -- 1963

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1106: Glossy 6'' x 8'' Press Photo of General Douglas MacArthur -- 26 June 1942 -- Near Fine Condition

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1107: George C. Marshall 1955 TLS -- 7'' x 9'' -- Near Fine on His Stationery

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1108: Josef Mengele 1942 Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...So tender, lovely, graceful, beautiful, good and pure, and...not really masculine...after the war, we can indulge again in this world...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1109: Original May 1945 Memorandum From Bernard Montgomery Upon Taking Control of Germany

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1110: Bernard Montgomery Signed Program for 1945 Thanksgiving Service

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1111: Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery Signed Copy of ''A Tale of Two Cities'' -- For a Young Friend's Birthday

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1112: Set of 16 WWII 1944 Postcards From the Krupps' Markstadt Work Camp in Poland -- ''...There was a death in our room. Censorship does not allow me to say how he died...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1113: Nazi Air Force Trooper's Personal WWII Photo Album -- Includes Drawings and Pictures of German Fighter Jets, Zeppelin, Naval Ships, Color Photo of Nazi Tank & the Poland Military Campaign

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $349

• Lot #1114: Admiral Chester Nimitz Cover Signed -- Reportedly Signed With WWII Surrender Pen

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1115: Original World II 10'' x 8'' Black and White Glossy Press Photo of Omaha Beach Channel -- Very Good

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1116: Original World War II 8'' x 10'' Black and White Glossy Press Photo of Omaha Beach, France -- Three Days after D-Day Invasion -- Near Fine

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1117: U.S.S. Bushnell and Crew Panoramic Photo -- 4 June 1932 -- Ship Would Defend Pearl Harbor Nearly 10 Years Later

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1118: Rare 1918 WWI French Broadside -- Commemorates General John Pershing's American Expeditionary Force

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $238

• Lot #1119: WWI American Red Cross Poster -- ''what are you giving?''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1120: General Matthew Ridgway Cover Signed for the 35th Anniversary of Normandy -- ''M.B. Ridgway General...6 June 1944'' -- 6.5'' x 3.5'' -- Fine

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1121: WWII Norman Rockwell Poster -- ''Save Freedom of Worship'' -- 28.5'' x 40''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1122: Iwo Jima Photographer Joe Rosenthal Autograph Letter Signed

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1123: Photographer Joe Rosenthal Signed Photo -- ''Best wishes to Ed Brooks from Joe Rosenthal'' -- 7.5'' x 3.75'' Glossy With Photo Collage of Rosenthal & His Work -- Very Good

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1124: Iwo Jima General Harry Schmidt Typed Letter Signed -- April 1945

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1125: WWII Iwo Jima General Snowden Signed 8'' x 10'' Glossy Photo -- ''...L.T. Snowden Major General, USMC Chief of Staff US Forces, Japan'' -- Fine

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1126: Jubilant Victory 9 May 1945 ''New York Times'' Declares Germany's Surrender -- War Department Runs Poster Saying ''JAP...You're Next!''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $145

• Lot #1127: Signature of General Friedrich von Bernhardi Dated 24 May 1914 -- Author of ''Germany and the Next War'' -- 5.25'' x 3.5'' -- Toning

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $120

• Lot #1128: Admiral Eduard von Knorr Handwritten Letter Twice-Signed -- Credited With Establishing Germany's Colonial Empire -- 4.5'' x 7''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1129: Simon Wiesenthal Signed 10'' x 8'' Glossy Photo With a Short Bio of the Holocaust Survivor Turned Nazi Hunter -- -- Signed in Austria in 2000 -- Near Fine

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1130: Admiral Winslow Signature -- ''July 11, 1912. C.McR. Winslow, Rear-Admiral, U.S. Navy.'' -- 5'' x 3.25'' Card -- Near Fine

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $120