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April 2012 Auction Ends Monday, April 30th, 5pm Pacific

Auction closed on 4/30/2012. Final prices include buyers premium.

• Lot #1: Abraham Lincoln's Opera Glasses -- Pair He Brought to Ford's Theatre and Held in His Hands at The Time of His Assassination -- Thrilling Piece of History From the Night That Forever Changed America

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #15: Abraham Lincoln 1864 Document Signed -- Excellent Full Signature

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: $6,691

• Lot #19: George Washington Free Frank Signed -- Scarce

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: $9,799

• Lot #112: British General John Burgoyne 1790 Document Signed -- Rare Document Signed by Man Who Surrendered to America at Saratoga

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #113: Guy Carleton Autograph Note Signed 1748 -- Commander-in-Chief of British Forces During the Revolutionary War

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #114: 1876 Printing of the Declaration of Independence -- Centennial Memorial Print

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #115: British General Thomas Gage 1784 Autograph Letter Signed -- Gage Precipitated American War of Independence

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $468

• Lot #116: Revolutionary War General Moses Hazen Autograph Letter Signed From 1784 -- ''...Mr McCauly who had a credit on you is gone to England...''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $288

• Lot #117: Continental Army General William Irvine 1792 Document Signed

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $349

• Lot #118: America Revolutionary General William Moultrie Autograph Note Signed -- 1793

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #119: American Revolutionary General Stephen Moylan 1794 Autograph Letter Signed -- Request for His Continental Army Pension

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $349

• Lot #120: Scarce Ebenezer Richardson Autograph Note Signed -- British Man Whose Royal Pardon for Murder Sparked Outrage Leading to the American Revolution

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #121: Thomas S. Bocock Signature -- Speaker of the Confederate States House of Representatives

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #122: Mathew Brady Civil War Photo -- ''Inflating Balloon Intrepid''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $1,008

• Lot #123: 4 Civil War Letters by NH Captain of ''Colored Troops'' -- ''...We made the longest march in the same space of time that has been made during the War...''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $603

• Lot #124: 1863 Confederate Bond -- $1000 Bond Issued By Jefferson Davis' Confederate Government

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #125: Official Jefferson Davis Confederate Document

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #126: Jefferson Davis Signed Cabinet Photo

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #127: Civil War General Alfred N. Duffie Autograph Letter Signed -- Just Days After His Celebrated Charge at The Battle of Kelly's Ford

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #128: Lot of Three Indiana Civil War Letters -- ''...we have to stand...Heath's abuse again. He made a man cary a rail the other day 8 hours in the rain for fireing his gun in camp...''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $145

• Lot #129: Civil War General George Meade Signed CDV Photo

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #130: Union General John Pope Autograph -- ''John Pope / Maj Genl USA'' -- 5'' x 4'' -- With Original 5.5'' x 3.25'' Envelope Postmarked from San Francisco -- Very Good

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $196

• Lot #131: General Samuel Sturgis 1886 Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...I was what was called a '49er...it was at San Louis Obispo...I prepared...my small Company of Dragoons for an expedition against the...

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #138: 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 #139: General Hap Arnold Signed First Edition of ''Global Mission'' -- Autobiography Tells of Army Air Forces in WWII

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #140: Scarce WWII Holocaust Railroad Ticket to Auschwitz From Lyon

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $1,969

• Lot #141: Five Star General Omar Bradley Signed 8'' x 10'' Semi-Matte Photo -- ''Omar N Bradley'' -- Near Fine

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $196

• Lot #142: WWII General Mark Clark Typed Letter Signed -- Along With Shoulder Patch

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #143: General Lucius D. Clay Typed Letter Signed as Commander in Chief, U.S. Forces in Europe -- 1947

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #144: Karl Donitz Typed Letter Signed -- Hitler's Successor

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #145: General Jimmy Doolittle Signed 8'' x 10'' Photo -- ''To 'Skip': Sincerely / J.H. Doolittle'' -- Pinholes, Very Good

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $238

• Lot #146: Enola Gay Crew Members Signed Cover -- Paul Tibbets, Dutch Van Kirk, Tom Ferebee, Jacob Beser & Dick Nelson -- ''From Sea to Shining Sea'' FDC Postmarked 1981 -- Very Good

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #147: 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 #148: Signed 9'' x 7'' Photo of Enola Gay -- Signed by Tibbets, Beser, Ferebee, Van Kirk and Caron -- Near Fine

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #149: Envelope Signed ''W.F. Halsey'' -- Photo of Halsey Attached & Small Chip Not Affecting Signature -- Very Good -- PSA Slabbed

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #151: Original American Red Cross 1917 Poster by Cornelius Hicks -- Historic Piece of World War I American Propaganda

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $349

• Lot #152: WWII General Curtis E. LeMay Signed First Edition of His Memoir ''Mission With LeMay''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #153: Chester Nimitz Signed 13.75'' x 10.5'' Photo of Japanese Surrender -- Excellent Signature on Iconic Photo

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $1,477

• Lot #154: Chester Nimitz Twice Signed Program

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #155: George S. Patton Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...Dear Mama...I fear I will get fat I have in fact gained already...''

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #156: Iconic Red Cross Poster From WWI -- ''Have you answered the Red Cross Christmas Roll Call?'' -- 1918

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #157: Iwo Jima General Keller E. Rockey Typed Letter Signed -- March 1945, Just Days After the Battle! -- ''...we will probably be moving so fast...''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #158: Norman Rockwell's 1943 World War II ''Four Freedoms'' Poster -- ''Freedom From Want'' -- Large 28'' x 40'' Size

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #159: Nazi Erwin Rommel Signed Wartime Document -- 1942

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $566

• Lot #160: Iwo Jima General Harry Schmidt Typed Letter Signed -- April 1945

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #161: WWII Iwo Jima General Holland ''Howlin' Mad'' Smith Typed Letter Signed -- 1945

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #162: Albert Speer Typed Letter Signed -- ''...My mental overload through the success of my new book has increased...''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #163: Theodore ''Dutch'' Van Kirk on the Hiroshima Mission: ''The first atomic bomb was dropped from 30,600 ft. It exploded 43 seconds later, about 1800 feet above the ground. The city of Hiroshima was...

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $624

• Lot #186: Vintage Red Cross Poster -- ''Mobilize For Defense'' -- Featuring Norman Rockwell Art -- 1951

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass