U.S. & Worldwide Stamps
September 11-12, 2013
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 | Lot #80 AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE 1858 Davis, Jefferson (1808-1889) American statesman and leader of the Confederacy, serving as President for its entire history. Davis served as the United States Secretary of War under President Franklin Pierce. Both before and after his time in the Pierce administration, he served as a Democratic U.S. senator representing the state of Mississippi. A small envelope (torn and partly mended at top) signed free frank "JeffersDavis U.S.S." with Washington D.C., Free" postmark alongside, addressed to Thos S. Twiss, agent for Indian Affairs, Port Laramie, Nebraska Territory (USMA Graduate, class of 1826; Twiss, born in New York; appointed from the State of Vermont; Graduated No.2 in his class and was commissioned into the Corps of Engineers; Resigned in 1829 and was a professor from 1829 to 1847; Railroad engineer from 1850-55; Indian agent from 1855-61. Died in Nebraska 18 Jan 1871)  | Price Realized $650.00 |
 | Lot #81 AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE 1855 Davis, Jefferson, free frank signature as Secretary of War (under President Franklin Pierce 1853-1857), cover addressed to Mrs. Alfred Mordecai, Washington Arsenal, D.C., vertical filing fold, otherwise fine. Alfred Mordecai (1804-1887) was commander of the Washington Arsenal, now Fort McNair. Mordecai also served as assistant to the Secretary of War and as part of a U.S. military commission to Crimea. In 1861, Mordecai sought an army post in California to avoid fighting in the Civil War. When the request was denied, he resigned his commission rather than serve against his native North Carolina | Price Realized $450.00 |
 | Lot #82 AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE 1858 Douglas, Stephen Arnold (1813-1861) American politician from Illinois, designer of the Kansas-Nebraska act. He was a U.S. Representative, a U.S. Senator, and the Democratic Party nominee for President in the 1860 election, losing to Republican Abraham Lincoln. Douglas had previously defeated Lincoln in a Senate contest, noted for the famous Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858. He was nicknamed the "Little Giant" because he was short in physical stature, but a forceful and dominant figure in politics. A free-frank envelope, signed "S.A. Douglas" with "Washington D./C. Free 1858" pmk alongside, addressed to Prof. Asa Gray, Cambridge Mass (Asa Gray is considered the most important American botanist of the 19th century. He was instrumental in unifying the taxonomic knowledge of the plants of North America. Of Gray's many works on botany, the most popular was his Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States. This book, known simply as Gray's Manual, has gone through a number of editions with botanical illu | Price Realized $350.00 |
 | Lot #83 AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE 1908 Dumont, Alberto-Santos (1873-1932), Brazilian-born, French-educated, achieved the first officially observed powered European flight on October 23, 1906, in France. By flying nearly 200 feet in the "14-bis," he won the Deutsch-Archdeacon Prize of 3,000 francs for surpassing 25 meters (about 80 feet). On November 12, 1906, he improved upon this performance by flying 722 feet in 21 seconds and won the Aero-Club de France prize of 1,500 francs for the first flight of at least 100 meters (240 feet). This flight fell three years and 150 feet short of what the Wright brothers accomplished in 1903 at Kitty Hawk. Santos-Dumont was probably one of only a few aviation pioneers who could claim significant accomplishments in both lighter-than-air and heavier-than-air flying machines. His early experiments were in dirigible airships of his own design. After many failures, he built a dirigible that in 1901 won the Deutsch Prize, as well as a prize from the Brazilian government, for being the first to fly in a given ti | Price Realized $475.00 |
 | Lot #84 AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE 1881 Greely, Adolphus Washington (1844-1935) an American Polar explorer, a United States Army officer and a recipient of the Medal of Honor. He entered the United States Army at the age of 17 and achieved the rank of brevet Major by the end of the Civil War. He joined the regular Army and was promoted to First Lieutenant. In 1881, First Lieutenant Greely was given command of the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition on the ship Proteus. Promoted by Henry W. Howgate, its purpose was to establish one of a chain of meteorological-observation stations as part of the First International Polar Year. The expedition was commissioned by the US government to collect astronomical data and to search for the "USS Jeannette", lost north of Ellesmere Island. Greely was without previous Arctic experience, but he and his party were able to discover many hitherto unknown miles along the coast of northwest Greenland. The expedition also crossed Ellesmere Island from east to west. In 1882, Greely sighted a mountain range during a dog sl | Price Realized $900.00 |
 | Lot #85 AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE 1918 Lindbergh, Charles A. (1859-1924), check payable on the First National Bank of Little Falls, Minn. to his more famous son, Chas A Lindbergh, Jr (1902-1974), dated Dec.14, 1918 in the amount of $25, stamped "Paid" and signed on back "C A Lindbergh Jr." An interesting Lindberghiana item, signed by the 16-year old Lindberg Jr. Charles Sr. (Charles August Lindbergh Sr. was a United States Congressman from Minnesota's 6th congressional district from 1907 to 1917. He opposed both American entry into World War I and the 1913 Federal Reserve Act. He is of course known as the father of famous aviator Charles Lindbergh) | Unsold |
 | Lot #86 AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE 1963 Space. A special booklet printed by Goznak, 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 | Price Realized $700.00 |
 | Lot #87 AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE 1849 Stephens, Alexander Hamilton (1812-1883) American politician from Georgia and a slave owner. He was Vice President of the Confederate States of America, also served as a U.S. Representative from Georgia (both before the Civil War and after Reconstruction) and as the 50th Governor of Georgia from 1882 until his death in 1883. A free frank envelope endorsed "free Alexander Stephens" with red "Free Washington D.C. 2 Dec" pmk alongside, also signed and dated on back A.H.Stephens, 2 Dec. 1849, overall toning, otherwise fine | Price Realized $250.00 |
