U.S. and Worldwide Stamps
September 25-26, 2002
| Images | Description | Current Bid |
| Lot #500 AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE ALEXANDER II (1818-81) Tsar of Russia from 1855, known as the "Liberator" (emancipated the serfs, assassinated in 1881), partly printed double page document, dated 7 Sept, 1867 awarding a military decoration, boldly signed, v.f. | Price Realized $750.00 | |
| Lot #501 AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE BERNADOTTE, Jean-Baptiste, Jules (1763-1844) Napoleonic Marshal and King of Sweden, 1794-1834, three signed letters, one dated 1794 regarding infantry matters, another partly printed "Armee de L'Ouest" document dated 16 Ventose; last dated 1834, as Charles XIV, King of Sweden, fine and scarce group of letters from this controversial figure | Price Realized $650.00 | |
| Lot #502 AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE BRAHMS, Johannes ), (1833-97) relative documents, postcards, photographs of his home, also four letters written by friends of the composer, two from Agathe von Siebold, 1859 and 1899 to Joseph Joachim, also a book (in English) with somerare compositions etc., interesting lot | Price Realized $375.00 | |
| Lot #503 AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE BYRD, Richard E. (1888-1957), American explorer and aviator, made the first aeroplane flight over the North Pole, typewritten letter headed "HQ Rhode Island, Naval Militia", dated April 4, 1917 to Admiral Sims asking for an active command because "a desk job does not appeal to me half as much as a ship when the country is at war", signed "R. E. Byrd Jr" as Lt (j.g.), U.S.Navy | Price Realized $250.00 | |
| Lot #504 AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE EARHART, AMELIA. (1898-1937), American pioneer aviatrix, signature on 1923 first flight cover from St.Louis to Fort Worth, v.f.  | Price Realized $550.00 | |
| Lot #505 AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE EARHART, AMELIA. (1898-1937), signature on 1932 first flight cover from Los Angeles to Lakewood, Ohio, also signed by ten other aviators, all participants in Los Angeles Airport Sweepstakes Air Derby, v.f. andrare aviation cover, with cert. | Price Realized $1,100.00 | |
| Lot #506 AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE GAGARIN, Yuri Alekeseyevich (1934-1968), Soviet Cosmonaut, first man in space, signature dated 29.8.61 on inside page of a book authored by Gagarin "Doroga v Kosmos" (Road to Space), 175 pages, with illustrations, released in 1961, rare | Price Realized $400.00 | |
| Lot #507 AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE GLAZUNOV, Alexander, K (1865-1936) Russian composer, studied under Rimsky-Korsakov and was director of the St.Petersburg Conservatory from 1906 until the Revolution, 1914 partly printed ALS headed "Director SPB Conservatory", with several handstamps and countersignatures, v.f. and rare | Price Realized $450.00 | |
| Lot #508 AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE HILLER, Ferdinand (1811-1885) German pianist and composer, friend of Mendelssohn whom he succeeded as concert master at Gewandhaus in 1842, continuing until Schumann took over in 1850, two ALS dated 1868 and 1870, first, a two page ALSto Kufferath (pianist and composer, student of Mendelssohn); the second a four page ALS, v.f. | Price Realized $425.00 | |
| Lot #509 AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE HITLER, Adolf. Nazi Leader, document headed "In der Namen der Reich", dated Berlin 10 April, 1937 and signed as "Fuhrer and Reichskanzler", naval commission for a Sea Captain, also two other related documents, one signed by admiral Reader | Price Realized $1,600.00 | |
| Lot #510 AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE HOOVER, Herbert Clark (1874-1964) 31st President of the United States, signed photo (7.5x11 inches), with sentiment "to Royal ..., with kind regards of Herbert Hoover", partly matted, fine | Price Realized $260.00 | |
| Lot #511 AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE HOOVER, Herbert President of the United States, Department of Commerce stationery, typewritten letter, dated May 9, 1922 to the Peruvian Ambassador in Washington, regarding proposed tariff on Peruvian cotton and wool, signed Herbert Hoover, as Secretary of Commerce, fine | Price Realized $250.00 | |
| Lot #512 AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE LEE, Robert Edward (1807-1870), commander of the Confederate armies in the American Civil War, ALS dated 3 Aug. 1861 "Hd. Qrs. Huntersville" to Gen. S. Cooper in Richmond, mentioning generals Loring, Floyd and Wise, regarding their movemements, signed "R. E. Lee, Gen. Commanding", endorsed "forward letters from Genls Wise & Floyd relative their movements to the advance of the enemy", also "received Aug.7" in red, fine and scarce war-date Lee ALS | Price Realized $13,500.00 | |
| Lot #513 AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE LINCOLN, Abraham. President of the United States, document signed as President on 8th June, 1861, for Christopher Robinson as Ambassador to Peru, countersigned by Secretary of StateSeward, v.f. and rare War-date Consular document | Unsold | |
| Lot #514 AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE LINDBERGH, Charles Augustus (1902-1974) Famous American aviator, a September 17, 1927 "dinner menu in honor of Col. Charles A. Lindberg" (sic), Sacramento, Ca., signed "Charles A. Lindbergh", some toning, otherwise fine | Unsold | |
| Lot #515 AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE LINDBERGH, Charles Augustus September 6, 1927 "Complimentary Dinner to Col. Charles A. Lindbergh", Helena, Montana, signed "Charles A. Lindbergh", slight ink smearing, otherwise v.f. | Unsold | |
| Lot #516 AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE LINDBERGH, Charles Augustus , 1933 (Jul. 15) autographed letter signed Charles A. Lindbergh, while on board the S.S. Jelling making a study of bases and weather condition for North American flights on behalf of Pan American Airways, alsotwo original photographs of Lindbergh and his wife Anne (and another of Anne only) at Grand Falls in 1933. The "SS Jelling" was the floating base from which the Lindberghs operated. Minor paper flaws, fine and scarce document | Unsold | |
| Lot #517 AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE NICHOLAS II (1868-1918), last Tsar of Russia, bold signature at bottom of partly printed 4-page official document awarding a military decoration, dated 17 March 1914, with Imperial Chancellery datestamp at bottom countersigned by variousofficials, v.f. and rare | Price Realized $1,500.00 | |
| Lot #518 AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE PAUL I (1754-1801), Emperor of Russia, second son of Peter III and Catherine the Great, succeeding his mother in 1796, assassinated by the Guard officers to pave the way for his son Alexander I, a six-line LS in quarto, dated 6 May, 1797and signed "Pawel" at bottom, fine and rare autograph | Price Realized $675.00 | |
| Lot #519 AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE RACHMANINOV, Sergey V (1873-1943) Russian composer and pianist, 1914 typewritten single page letter to "The Imperial Theater", signed and dated at bottom, v.f. | Price Realized $900.00 | |
| Lot #520 AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE WORLD'S MILITARY. Collection of 50+ letters, documents, signed cards and photographs of military leaders incl. Major General Edwin A. Walker, John J. Pershing, Jeffrey Amherst, General Diaz, A.T.Bledsoe (Assistant Confederate Secretary of War), Maxwell Taylor, Matthew Ridgeway with a long typewritten manuscript of "Talk Tough to a Russian", John Dix, Warren Hastings, the British Governor of India, Sir Henry Evelyn Wood, Philippe Petain and lots of miscellaneous material | Price Realized $2,600.00 |
