U.S. and Worldwide Stamps
May 29-30, 2002
| Images | Description | Current Bid |
| Lot #350 AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE BRITISH ROYALTY. Queen Victoria, 1886 Royal Warrant signed "Victoria Re", also letter of Sir W.Thompson to the War Office to Col. T. Fraser accompanying the Royal Warrant, fine-v.f. | Price Realized $180.00 | |
| Lot #351 AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE CHALIAPIN, FEODOR. (1873-1938) Russian Operatic bass singer, famous for his acting and his voice; he settled in France after the Russian Revolution. A 1918 signed photo showing Chaliapin in full costume, v.f. | Price Realized $210.00 | |
| Lot #352 AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE CHALIAPIN, FEODOR. Russian Opera singer, two page ALS dated 1925, Paris, framed under glass along with a picture postcard of Chaliapin in the role of "Boris Godunov", one of his major successes | Price Realized $160.00 | |
| Lot #353 AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE GAGARIN, YURI. (1934-68), Soviet cosmonaut, first man in space. His capsule was launched on April 12, 1961 and orbited the earth once. Signature on original black & white photograph showing Gagarin and three other cosmonauts in uniform, v.f. | Price Realized $130.00 | |
| Lot #354 AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE GAGARIN, YURI. (1934-68), Soviet cosmonaut, first man in space. His capsule was launched on April 12, 1961 and orbited the earth once. Signature on color ppc showing young Gagarin in uniform | Price Realized $140.00 | |
| Lot #355 AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE GAGARIN, YURI. (1934-68), Soviet cosmonaut, first man in space. His capsule was launched on April 12, 1961 and orbited the earth once. Signature on envelope, headed Estado do Rio de Janeiro, inside there is an invitation for the cosmonaut to attend an Embassy reception, along with Nikita Krushchev, 30 July, 1961 | Price Realized $230.00 | |
| Lot #356 AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE HARDING, Warren. U.S. President, signed Proof of Publication, dated 9th April, 1892, while Harding was a publisher of the "Marion Star" | Unsold | |
| Lot #357 AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE HOOVER, HERBERT. U.S. President, clipped signature mounted on page with an original photograph (4.5x7inches) of Hoover fishing | Price Realized $550.00 | |
| Lot #358 AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE ITALIAN ROYALTY. Selection of seven diff. signed documents incl. Vittorio Emanuelle II, partly printed document, Vittorio Emanuelle III, two items, each additionally signed by Benito Mussolini; also ALS dated 1861 and signed by GiuseppeGaribaldi, two letters signed by Vittorio Emanuelle Orlando, plus an 1892 document signed S.M.Umberto I, fine lot | Price Realized $450.00 | |
| Lot #359 AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE LINDBERGH, Charles. 1926 first flight cover Chicago-St.Louis route, Springfield, ILL, home of Abraham Lincoln cachet, addressed to Harry S. New, postmaster general, signed "C.A. Lindbergh", pilot, also W.H. Conkling,postmaster of SPringfield, v.f. and attractive Lindbergh cover  | Price Realized $3,500.00 | |
| Lot #360 AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE NAPOLEON. Bonaparte. French Emperor, partly printed document headed "Rapport a Sa Majeste l'Empereur et Roi", dated 20 March, 1810, signed "NAP", countersigned by the Minister of War, fine | Price Realized $475.00 | |
| Lot #361 AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE RABIN, Yitzhak. Israeli statesman, signed photo (7x9), accompanied by a 1995 letter from the Prime Minister's Office ("Dear Friend, on behalf of the Prime Minister, thank you for your recent letter. As requested, I am enclosing an autographed photograph of the Prime Minister, with warm greetings from Jerusalem.., signed Jacqueline Hahn-Efrati, Head of the Diaspora Affairs Dept., v.f. | Price Realized $475.00 | |
| Lot #362 AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE RIEPIN, ILYA. Famous Russian painter, signed photo, dated 9 Feb., 1929, eight line inscription in Russian, v.f. | Price Realized $220.00 | |
| Lot #363 AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE ROOSEVELT, FRANKLIN D. U.S. President, 1929 typewritten judicial proposal, rejected by Roosevelt as governor of New York, with gold seal of the state affixed alongside, countersigned by the secretary, v.f. | Price Realized $1,300.00 | |
| Lot #364 AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE ROOSEVELT, FRANKLIN D. U.S. President, 1932 typewritten judicial proposal, rejected by Roosevelt as governor of New York, with gold seal of the state affixed alongside, countersigned by the secretary, v.f. | Price Realized $1,100.00 | |
| Lot #365 AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE RUSSIAN ROYALTY. CATHERINE II, THE GREAT (1729-1796), Empress of Russia, 1762-1796, best known for modernizing reforms. She greatly extended Russian territory by annexing Crimea and partitioning Poland. She was a great patron of the arts and one of the most colorful and important of Russian rulers; an ornate (hand-painted borders) document, framed under glass, written in cyrillic, signed "Ekaterina", dated 1777, with part of the wax seal still present, rare | Price Realized $1,700.00 | |
| Lot #366 AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE RUSSIAN ROYALTY. ELIZABETH, PETROVNA (1709-62), Empress of Russia from 1741, younger daughter of Peter the Great & Catherine I, 1744 royal decree headed "We Elizabeth I", with full seal, countersigned by various officials, some toning, otherwise fine | Price Realized $1,300.00 | |
| Lot #367 AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE RUSSIAN ROYALTY. NICHOLAS I (1796-1855), Tsar of Russia, 1825-55 despot and autocrat, absolutely opposed to all liberal reforms or independent thought. A document datelined St.Petersburg 11 February 1832 awarding order of "St.Anna ThirdClass", fine-v.f. and rare | Price Realized $1,100.00 | |
| Lot #368 AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE RUSSIAN ROYALTY. NICHOLAS II (1868-1918), the last Tsar of Russia whose ineptitude and misgovernment helped bring about the Bolshevik Revolution and the overthrow of his dynasty, three page document awarding a high decoration, dated 16thOctober, 1914, boldly signed "Nikolai", countersigned by other officials, with oval 8 Nov. datestamp, fine-v.f. and extremely rare | Price Realized $3,500.00 | |
| Lot #369 AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE RUSSIAN ROYALTY. PAUL I (1754-1801), Tsar of Russia from 1796-1801. His despotism at home and erratic policies abroad caused widespread discontent. He was assassinated by the Guard officers anxious to secure the succession of his son Alexander, document headed "We Paul I" awarding the "Order of St.Anna" July 31, 1797 and signed "Pavel" at bottom, fine and very rare | Price Realized $3,750.00 | |
| Lot #370 AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE SPACE. 1958-69 balance of the collection, with 111 covers, incl. many early flights (late 1950s), primary recovery ship covers incl. 1961 U.S.S. Randolph (Capt. Virgil Grissom), many interesting cachets and dates that chronicle the history of U.S. Space program, also several autographed covers incl. two signed by Russian cosmonauts (Valentina Tereshkova etc,), John Glenn, Allan Shepard, Gordon Cooper, Werner Von Braun, Buzz Aldrin, James Lowell etc. A great Space lot | Price Realized $950.00 | |
| Lot #371 AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE SPACE. 1961 (May 5), U.S.S. Lake Champlain CVS-39 Recovery Ship for the First U.S. Manned Space Flight, cover addressed to Fort Leonard Wood, Mo., addressee's name erased, cover roughly opened at bottom right, showing return address ofFPO Lake Champlain, fine and rare cover | Price Realized $3,000.00 | |
| Lot #372 AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE SPACE. 1961 (May 5), U.S.S. Lake Champlain CVS-39 Recovery Ship for the First U.S. Manned Space Flight, cover bearing the appropriate cachet, signed by the rescue pilot, canc. May 12, 1961 U.S.S. Lake Champlain, v.f. and attractivecollateral item | Price Realized $1,700.00 | |
| Lot #373 AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE SPACE. Saturn Program/Project Mercury commemorative folder, franked with Project Mercury 4c Plate Block, canc. Cape Canaveral Oct. 3, 1962, signed by Werner Von Braun (head of Saturn program), also by E.Reese, H.H. Gorman, D.H. Newby,F.C.McCall etc | Price Realized $450.00 | |
| Lot #374 AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE SPACE. Armstrong, Neil (Apollo 11), signature on 1966 U.S. Navy Recovery Force cover, also signed by Maj. David R. Scott and the crew of the recovery ship | Price Realized $1,900.00 | |
| Lot #375 AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE SPACE. Armstrong, Neil, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins (Apollo 11), signatures on 1969 United Nations stationery card, with special cachet on back, v.f. | Price Realized $1,500.00 | |
| Lot #376 AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE SPACE. Armstrong, Neil, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins (Apollo 11), signatures on 1969 Elgin AFB Apollo 11 cover with special handstamped cachet, v.f. | Price Realized $2,900.00 | |
| Lot #377 AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE SPACE. Armstrong, Neil, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins (Apollo 11), signatures on 1969 Apollo 11 recovery cover, with inscription at bottom "We came in Peace for all Mankind", v.f. | Price Realized $2,400.00 | |
| Lot #378 AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE SPACE. Armstrong, Neil, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins (Apollo 11), signatures on 1969 Apollo 11, July 20 Cape Canaveral cacheted ("Orbit Covers") cover, also signed James Devitt | Price Realized $2,300.00 | |
| Lot #379 AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE SPACE. Armstrong, Neil, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins (Apollo 11), signatures on 1969 Apollo 11 July 20 cover, with inscription "We came in Peace for all Mankind", special Nasa cachet at bottom, Kennedy Space Center, July 20 pmk, v.f. | Price Realized $2,700.00 | |
| Lot #380 AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE SPACE. Grissom, Virgil, I. (Gus), signature on 1961 U.S.S. Randolph Helicopter Rescue cover, also signed by the Exec. officer of USS Randolph | Price Realized $280.00 | |
| Lot #381 AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE SPACE. Grissom, Virgil, I. (Gus), signature on 1965 First Manned Flight Gemini U.S. Navy Recovery Force cover, also signed by John Young | Price Realized $525.00 | |
| Lot #382 AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE SPACE. Resnick, Judith, also Sally K. Ride, Kathryn Sullivan, Ann Lee Fisher, Rhea Seddon etc., signatures on 1978 White Sands Missile Range cover. A v.f. space cover signed by female astronauts; Judith Resnick subsequently died in Challenger 6 explosion in 1985 | Price Realized $400.00 | |
| Lot #383 AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE SPACE. A special boooklet containing 13 color ppcs of various Soviet cosmonauts, signed on their photographs by Yuri Gagarin, A.G. Nikolayev, P.R. Popovich, V. Bykovsky, Valentina Tereshkova, V.M. Komarov (died in crash) and P.I. Belayev, others not signed, v.f. and scarce | Unsold | |
| Lot #384 AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE SPACE. A large color photograph of six early Soviet cosmonauts, signed by Yuri Gagarin, Valentina Tereshkova, etc., v.f., with Novosti Press Agency hs dated 1964, rare | Price Realized $1,100.00 | |
| Lot #385 AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE SPACE. A large black & white photograph of 10 early Soviet cosmonauts, signed by seven of them incl. Yuri Gagarin, Valentina Tereshkova, etc., rare | Price Realized $425.00 | |
| Lot #386 AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE WILHELM, Kaiser. German Emperor, partly printed ("Wir Wilhelm Deutscher Kaiser, Konig von Preussen..."), dated 1902 and boldly signed "Wilhelm", with large embossed royal seal, additionally countersigned by the royal secretary, fine | Price Realized $240.00 | |
| Lot #387 AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE WILHELM, Kaiser. German Emperor, partly printed ("Wir Wilhelm Deutscher Kaiser, Konig von Preussen..."), dated 1910 and boldly signed "Wilhelm", with large embossed royal seal, also additional seven royal documents signed by various officials, fine and appealing lot | Price Realized $350.00 |
