U.S. & Worldwide Stamps & Postal History
September 7-8, 2006

ImagesDescriptionCurrent Bid
Lot #500
AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE
Baseball.
Babe Ruth, signature on 1939, June 12 cacheted (A Century of Baseball) Cooperstown FDC, v.f. and rare autograph on a baseball cover
Envelope
Price Realized
$2,000.00

Lot #501
AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE
Baseball.
Certificate "Reward of Merit", ca 1860 hand-colored note, issued by a teacher to his student, showing books, an anvil, a globe, and at center a young man with a baseball bat ready to swing at a ball in midair, with arunner from third base approaching home. A fine and rare early baseball item
Unsold
Lot #502
AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE
Baseball.
John Peter (Honus) Wagner (1874-1955), signature on 1939, June 12 cacheted Crosby FDC, v.f. and rare. Honus Wagner is considered one of Baseball's greatest players, inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1936. A Honus Wagnerbaseball card recently sold for over one million dollars
Envelope
Price Realized
$2,000.00

Lot #503
AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE
Garbo, Greta.
1983 USA-Sweden Issue, FDC signed by Greta Garbo, one of the greatest film stars of all times, v.f.
Envelope
Price Realized
$350.00

Lot #504
AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE
Malenkov, G.
(Successor of Stalin), signed and dated (22.III.56) in cyrilic letters on back of a menu card for dinner given at his honor, v.f. Malenkov's signatures are very rare because of his short term in office as a Prime Minister.He was exiled by Krushchev after an attempted coup d'etat
Unsold
Lot #505
AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE
Stalin, Joseph.
Also Andrei Gromyko (Foreign Minister), signed in cyrilic letters on partly printed document with official Supreme Soviet hs, fine and very rare
Unsold
Lot #506
AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE
Space.
Russian Cosmonauts, Gagarin, Titov, Nikolayev and Popovich, four signatures of the Cosmonauts of Vostock 1-4, signed on black and white group photo, v.f.
Price Realized
$300.00

Lot #507
AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE
Space.
Russian Cosmonauts, duplicated accumulation of 574 autographs on variety of covers, photographs (incl. rare items), ppcs and documents, including Gagarin (12), Titov (8), Valentina Tereshkova (7), Belayev (4), Komarov (3), all early cosmonauts and all through the 1960s-80s, with some later including International participants, some up to five of each, all guaranteed genuine, fine-v.f. An incredible group, difficult to assemble
Envelope
Unsold
Lot #508
AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE
Space.
Russian Cosmonauts, Soyuz 6-8 (Shonin, Kubasov, Filipchenko, Volkov, Gorbatko, Shatalov, Eliseyev), also Soyuz 12-19, 21, 23-24 and 39, a total of 31 Cosmonaut autographs on 15 Soviet Space FDCs, v.f. Volkov's signature is rare(he died in Space two years after the flight), v.f.
Envelope
Unsold
Lot #509
AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE
Wellington, Arthur Wellesley.
(Duke Wellington), endorsed "Free/Wellington", front only of a free frank envelope, with red "Free Nov. 3, 1824" pmk, addressed in his hand, with mounting remnants at edges. Wellington defeatedNapoleon at Waterloo
Unsold

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