Auction XXVI - Autographs & Memorabilia

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UPLAND, CA, United States

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Auction XXVI - Autographs & Memorabilia

Signature House

Signature House welcomes you to our 26th catalog offering of over 885 lots featuring a wide selection of autographs, documents, and related collectibles in all categories. Our popular Presidents category is highlighted by the much sought after Society of Cincinnati certificate signed by George Washington; an ALS by Thomas Jefferson; also an autograph letter signed by Abraham Lincoln as President and two signed receipt statements in his holograph as a young attorney. We have Signers of the Declaration of Independence, including Benjamin Franklin; autograph letters signed by Annie Oakley and Pat Garrett plus an archive from the famed Ames Manufacturing Co. with business letters penned by founders Nathan and James Ames. Civil War features an early check signed twice by Robert E. Lee and a signature from his report on the Second Battle of Manassas plus a rare signed cabinet photo of Jefferson Davis. Also featured is an identified uniform coat belonging to an officer of The Ancient and Honorable Artillery of Massachusetts and an archive from the War of 1812. We offer a touching wartime letter penned by Dwight Eisenhower to his wife Mamie remembering their 26th wedding anniversary. Plus personal narratives penned by participants in the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombing missions. A document signed by James I and a signed photograph of Winston Churchill are included with a host of other royalty and heads of state. Famed jurist Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. signs a rare document as Captain in the Union Army. We have Edison discussing his concrete houses; artists such as John Singleton Copley and Whistler; authors Hemingway, D. H. Lawrence and Kate Greenaway; plus an intimate photo signed by Helen Keller and her teacher Annie Sullivan Macy. Business leaders include Henry Ford, Alva Roebuck & John D. Rockefeller. Entertainment features favorite Wizard of Oz characters and Sports has highly desirable trading cards. All this and much more!

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WERNHER VON BRAUN: 498. WERNHER VON BRAUN ISP with sentiment, b/w, 8"x10" quarter-length portrait. Boldly inscribed and signed beside his image in blue fountain pen. Ink only slightly uneven; tiny abrasion near left

0498: WERNHER VON BRAUNEst. US$200-US$400

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CHARLES A. LINDBERGH: 499. CHARLES A. LINDBERGH (1902-1974). American aviator and engineer who in 1927 becoming the first person to fly nonstop in a solo flight across the Atlantic. A national hero, he was dubbed "Lucky

0499: CHARLES A. LINDBERGHEst. US$500-US$900

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[CHARLES A. LINDBERGH]: 500. [CHARLES A. LINDBERGH] Air Mail envelope carried by Lindbergh upon returning to his Post Office job flying mail after his historic flight. Horseshoe stamp proclaims "Lindbergh Again Flies the

0500: [CHARLES A. LINDBERGH]Est. US$100-US$200

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[THE NINETY-NINES]: 501. [THE NINETY-NINES] An early international group of pioneer women aviators. Signed FDC honoring aviatrix Blanche Stuart Scott, the first US woman to pilot an airplane. Attractive cachet featuring

0501: [THE NINETY-NINES]Est. US$100-US$200Lot Passed

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HANNA REITSCH: 502. HANNA REITSCH (1912-1979). Record setting German aviatrix; world's first female test pilot and helicopter pilot, the only woman ever to be awarded the Iron Cross and Luftwaffe Diamond Clasp.

0502: HANNA REITSCHEst. US$150-US$300

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ROALD AMUNDSEN: 503. ROALD AMUNDSEN (1872-1928). Norwegian polar explorer, the first to reach the South Pole in 1911. During his Gjöa voyage 1903-06, he sailed the Northwest Passage and determined the position of

0503: ROALD AMUNDSENEst. US$200-US$400

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[BALLOON AVIATION]: 504. [BALLOON AVIATION] Unusual souvenir commemorating the first 1935 Stratosphere Flight which took place in the Black Hills. Clay ashtray with raised relief view of the balloon extending almost the

0504: [BALLOON AVIATION]Est. US$50-US$100

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SIR JOHN BARROW: 505. SIR JOHN BARROW (1764-1848). British statesman and geographer after whom Point Barrow, the northernmost land point of the US was named; founder of Royal Geographical Society who encouraged

0505: SIR JOHN BARROWEst. US$80-US$160

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RICHARD E. BYRD: 506. RICHARD E. BYRD (1888-1957). American Admiral, polar explorer and aviator; author; awarded Congressional Medal of Honor. Vintage ISP with sentiment, silver print, 7"x9" quarter-length portrait

0506: RICHARD E. BYRDEst. US$100-US$200

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RICHARD E. BYRD: 507. RICHARD E. BYRD TLS "Dick Byrd," 1p, 8½"x11", Boston, May 29, 1933. On his imprinted address letterhead to Congressman Hiram Bingham, (1875-1956), himself a noted explorer, who discovered the

0507: RICHARD E. BYRDEst. US$100-US$200Lot Passed

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RICHARD E. BYRD: 508. RICHARD E. BYRD His clothbound book, Little America, 422pp, 6½"x9½", G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1930. With frontispiece and illustrations. Boldly signed on half-title page, "R E Byrd" in

0508: RICHARD E. BYRDEst. US$100-US$200

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JACQUELINE COCHRAN: 509. JACQUELINE COCHRAN (1910-1980). American aviator and business executive; the first woman to break the sound barrier (1953). She received the Distinguished Service Medal as head of Women's Air

0509: JACQUELINE COCHRANEst. US$50-US$100

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DOUGLAS CORRIGAN: 510. DOUGLAS CORRIGAN (1907-1995). "Wrong-Way" Corrigan set out in 1938 to fly his airplane from New York for Los Angeles - but landed in Ireland, instead. This "minor" miscalculation brought him

0510: DOUGLAS CORRIGANEst. US$60-US$120

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ADOLPHUS W. GREELY: 511. ADOLPHUS W. GREELY (1844-1935). Arctic explorer and brigadier general, having served in the Civil War and Spanish-American War. Awaiting relief during an arctic expedition north of Greenland

0511: ADOLPHUS W. GREELYEst. US$60-US$120

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SIR GEORGE HUBERT WILKINS: 512. SIR GEORGE HUBERT WILKINS (1888-1958). Australian explorer and aviator. He accompanied Steffanson on Arctic exploration in 1913-16; and accompanied or led various expeditions to Antarctic and

0512: SIR GEORGE HUBERT WILKINSEst. US$50-US$100

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ROGER CHAFFEE: JUNGLE SURVIVAL TRAINING IN PANAMA513. ROGER CHAFFEE (1935-1967). Astronaut. Navy commander killed aboard Apollo spacecraft along with Gus Grissom and Ed White at Cape Kennedy Jan 27, 1967. Mexican

0513: ROGER CHAFFEEEst. US$500-US$900

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MICHAEL COLLINS: 514. MICHAEL COLLINS (b. 1930). Astronaut, member of Gemini 10 mission (1966); piloted the orbiting capsule during the Apollo 11 moon mission; under secretary of the Smithsonian. SP, color, 8"x10"

0514: MICHAEL COLLINSEst. US$250-US$500

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MICHAEL COLLINS: 515. MICHAEL COLLINS Commemorative First Day Of Issue of the "Agreement On The Rescue Of Astronauts, The Return of Astronauts and The Return Of Objects Launched Into Outer Space" on Parchtext

0515: MICHAEL COLLINSEst. US$150-US$300Lot Passed

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EDWIN "BUZZ" ALDRIN: 516. EDWIN "BUZZ" ALDRIN (b. 1930). Astronaut, space-walker and as member of Apollo 11 lunar mission, became the second man to set foot on the moon. His hardcover book with John Barnes, Encounter

0516: EDWIN "BUZZ" ALDRINEst. US$100-US$200

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EDWIN "BUZZ" ALDRIN: 517. EDWIN "BUZZ" ALDRIN SP, color, 8"x10" standing portrait standing on the moon with lunar module and fellow astronaut Neil Armstrong reflected on his helmet visor. Boldly signed in blue felt tip,

0517: EDWIN "BUZZ" ALDRINEst. US$80-US$150

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[APOLLO 7]: 518. [APOLLO 7] A fine relic, an approx 2" section of cable carried about the spacecraft during its ten-day mission in November 1968. This segment was originally part of a 108" cable supplying power

0518: [APOLLO 7]Est. US$50-US$100

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GUION BLUFORD, JR: 519. GUION BLUFORD, JR (b. 1942). First black US astronaut and Vietnam veteran, a mission specialist aboard the second flight of the shuttle Challenger. Printed NASA SP, color, 8"x10" quarter-length

0519: GUION BLUFORD, JREst. US$50-US$100

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CHARLES CONRAD: "AN ISLAND OF REFUGE…"520. CHARLES CONRAD (1930-1999). Moonwalker; Apollo 12 command pilot in November 1969. He previously piloted two Gemini missions. SP, b/w, 10"x8" still on the lunar surface

0520: CHARLES CONRADEst. US$100-US$200

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GORDON COOPER: 521. GORDON COOPER (b. 1927). Original Mercury astronaut; commander of Gemini V flight. Boldly penned signature on unlined card, 5"x3", beneath typed inscription. Fine example. MB: $40 Presented by

0521: GORDON COOPEREst. US$40-US$80Lot Passed

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