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0023: AMERICAN ARCHIVES0118: [WYANDOTTE NATION PETITION]0591: GEORGE WASHINGTON
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UPLAND, CA, United States
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Auction XXI

Signature House

Signature House

With nearly 1200 lots, Signature House is featuring a collection of early Presidents, including two very early ALsS by George Washington; a letter signed by Thomas Jefferson as Secretary of State; a patent signed by Andrew Jackson; a military commission signed by Lincoln and an ALS by young John F. Kennedy.



We have Pope John Paul II, Saint John Neumann and other Judeo-Christian notables.



Colonial features a full nine-volume set of American Archives that includes a rare “wet ink” engraving of the Declaration of Independence by Peter Force, plus several Signers.



Americana highlights a rare 1807 petition of the Wyandotte Nation signed by eight chiefs with their totems.



In War Between the States is a war-date ALS by Robert E. Lee; several important Jefferson Davis items; a Confederate Kenansville Froelich sabre, an ALS by Union Major General George Armstrong Custer and other generals.



Military features “Bull” Halsey’s military hat; Ernest King’s presentation sword; letters by Patton and uniforms of important military generals.



Aviation Pioneers, Astronauts and Explorers feature a fine signature by James Cook and an archive pertaining to the first Trams Arctic Submarine Expedition aboard the Nautilus in 1930. Scientists include Einstein and Freud.



Our Heads of State & Royalty includes exquisite large signed lithographs of Edward VII and his Queen Alexandra, plus Napoleon and many others. We also have Artists, Cartoonists, Composers and Classical Musicians.



Literature features Virginia Woolf, Edith Wharton, Joyce Kilmer, D. H. Lawrence, Dickens, Hugo, Hemingway, Longfellow, Kipling. and many others.

Entertainment includes Marilyn Monroe’s last film script and gold and platinum albums presented to the Beatles including Sgt. Pepper and Magical Mystery Tour.



We have many Sports figures and collectibles, including a superb Babe Ruth signed ball, an ALS by Ty Cobb and a Cy Young signed HOF card, a fine photograph signed by John L. Sullivan and an SP by Jim Corbett.

SOLD
THOMAS A. EDISON: 556. THOMAS A. EDISON (1847-1931). American inventor and entrepreneur, patenting over 1000 inventions during his lifetime, playing a critical role in introducing the modern age of electricity. A b/w,
0556: THOMAS A. EDISONEst.
$800
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$1,000
SOLD
THOMAS A. EDISON: 557. THOMAS A. EDISON DS, 4pp, large 4to, West Orange, Nov 20, 1923, West Orange. Pages 35-38 of the "Minutes Of A Special Meeting Of The Stockholders Of Warren County Warehouse Company." The
0557: THOMAS A. EDISONEst.
$600
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$800
SOLD
THOMAS A. EDISON: 558. THOMAS A. EDISON TDS "Thos A Edison," 1p 4to, [West Orange, NJ], circa 1920s. The final page of minutes of a Board of Directors meeting of one of the Edison companies; the text concerns the
0558: THOMAS A. EDISONEst.
$675
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$775
SOLD
THOMAS A. EDISON: 559. THOMAS A. EDISON Partly printed DS, an Edison Botonic Research Corporation check drawn on the Savings Investment & Trust Company, East Orange, NJ, Mar 22, 1928. Boldly signed as president. Made
0559: THOMAS A. EDISONEst.
$600
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$700
SOLD
THOMAS A. EDISON: 560. THOMAS A. EDISON AES "Edison," 1p, 12mo, [Orange, NJ], Feb 4, 1924. Edison approves clean-up work for a mining property beneath ANS to him by Henry Lanahan requesting his authorization. In full,
0560: THOMAS A. EDISONEst.
$400
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$600
SOLD
SIGMUND FREUD: FREUD CRITIQUES YOUNG POET'S BOOK561. SIGMUND FREUD (1856-1939). Austrian neurologist and founder of psychoanalysis. ALS "Freud" in German on both sides of his personal note card, Vienna, Bergasse
0561: SIGMUND FREUDEst.
$2,500
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$3,500
SOLD
RICHARD J. GATLING: SECRETARY OF WAR LINCOLN & GEN. BRUIT WANT GATLING GUNS562. RICHARD J. GATLING (1818-1903). American inventor of the rapid-fire Gatling gun, patented in 1862. It was first used during the American
0562: RICHARD J. GATLINGEst.
$1,000
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$1,200
SOLD
RICHARD J. GATLING: 563. RICHARD J. GATLING DS "R.J. Gatling," 1p, 4to, Marion County, IN, Oct 1857. A legal document in the case of Richard J. Gatling v. Martin Robbins, in which "...the Plaintiff shall prosecute his
0563: RICHARD J. GATLINGEst.
$800
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$1,000
SOLD
CHARLES GOODYEAR: 564. CHARLES GOODYEAR (1800-1860). American inventor who discovered the process called vulcanization by which rubber and sulfur are heated together at a high temperature, the basis of the
0564: CHARLES GOODYEAREst.
$250
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$350
SOLD
HIRAM P. MAXIM: 565. HIRAM P. MAXIM (1869-1936). American inventor and manufacturer known especially for the "Maxim silencer" gun attachment. TLS "H. P. Maxim" as Superintendent, 1p, 4to, Lynn, MA, Aug 1, 1893. On
0565: HIRAM P. MAXIMEst.
$100
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$200
SOLD
[MAYO BROTHERS]: 566. [MAYO BROTHERS] Physicians who founded the renowned Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, CHARLES H. MAYO (1865-1939) and WILLIAM J. MAYO (1861-1939). Individually signed cards, each 4¼"x2¾", boldly
0566: [MAYO BROTHERS]Est.
$300
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$400
LINUS PAULING: 567. LINUS PAULING (1901-1994). Nobel Prize-winning chemist and physicist. He later won the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to stop nuclear weapons testing. Brief TLS, 1p, 4to, Palo Alto, Mar 21,
0567: LINUS PAULINGEst.
$100
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$150
Lot Passed
SOLD
JONAS SALK: 568. JONAS SALK (1914-1995). American physician and epidemiologist who developed first vaccine against polio (1952). SP, b/w, approx 7"x9" half-length portrait in lab coat beside his microscope.
0568: JONAS SALKEst.
$100
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$150
SOLD
JAMES COOK: 569. JAMES COOK (1728-1779). British explorer and navigator, famous for his three voyages of exploration in the South Pacific Ocean and the coastal waters of North America. Clipped signature,
0569: JAMES COOKEst.
$3,000
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$4,000
SOLD
STANLEY & LIVINGSTONE: 570. STANLEY & LIVINGSTONE Scottish explorer and missionary DAVID LIVINGSTONE (1813-1873) who discovered the Zambezi River and was the first white man to see Victoria Falls. Considered lost and
0570: STANLEY & LIVINGSTONEEst.
$600
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$800
[TRANS ARCTIC SUBMARINE NAUTILUS]: 27 YEARS BEFORE ITS TIME571. [TRANS ARCTIC SUBMARINE NAUTILUS] In 1930, SIMON LAKE (1866-1945) joined forces with Australian explorer and aviator SIR GEORGE HUBERT WILKINS (1888-1958), polar aviator
0571: [TRANS ARCTIC SUBMARINE NAUTILUS]Est.
$1,200
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$1,800
Lot Passed
SOLD
CHARLES A. LINDBERGH: AMERICA'S HERO SIGNS IN 1927572. CHARLES A. LINDBERGH (1902-1974). American aviator and engineer who landed his single-engine monoplane, Spirit of St. Louis, at Le Bourget field near Paris in 1927
0572: CHARLES A. LINDBERGHEst.
$800
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$1,000
SOLD
AMELIA EARHART: 573. AMELIA EARHART (1898-1937). America's "First Lady of the Air", the first woman to make a transatlantic flight and, later, the first person to fly the Atlantic alone, establishing a new time
0573: AMELIA EARHARTEst.
$500
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$600
[EXPLORER II]: 574. [EXPLORER II] Two unused postcard photographs, b/w, 3½"x5½" of Capt. Orvil Anderson and Capt. Albert W. Stevens standing in front of the gondola of the Explorer II balloon which carried them
0574: [EXPLORER II]Est.
$80
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$100
Lot Passed
SOLD
FLOYD GIBBONS: 575. FLOYD GIBBONS (1887-1939). Famous aviator and war correspondent. He was with Villa in the Mexican Revolution in 1915 and with Pershing in Mexico in 1916. TLS, 1p, 8vo, n.p., Apr 1, 1930. On his
0575: FLOYD GIBBONSEst.
$100
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$150
SOLD
LAURA INGALLS: 576. LAURA INGALLS Pioneer aviatrix, a celebrated stunt pilot who was the first woman to make a nonstop cross country flight; won the 1934 Harmon Cup for her fights over South America; first woman to
0576: LAURA INGALLSEst.
$150
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$250
SOLD
SAMUEL P. LANGLEY: 577. SAMUEL P. LANGLEY (1834-1906). American astronomer and aeronautical pioneer who built the first successful heavier-than-air flying machines. He directed the Smithsonian Institution from 1887 to
0577: SAMUEL P. LANGLEYEst.
$250
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$350
SOLD
WILEY POST: 578. WILEY POST (1899-1935). American aviator who set two around the world flight records in his monoplane, the Winnie Mae, and proving the value of automatic pilot; killed with humorist Will Rogers
0578: WILEY POSTEst.
$250
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$350
SOLD
IGOR SIKORSKY: 579. IGOR SIKORSKY (1889-1972). American aeronautical engineer and inventor of the first helicopter and multi-engined plane. TLS on Sikorsky Aircraft letterhead, 1p, 8"x11", Stratford, CT, Jul 8,
0579: IGOR SIKORSKYEst.
$100
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$150