U.S. and Worldwide Stamps & Postal History
June 10-11, 2014
| Images | Description | Current Bid |
 | Lot #152 AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE FREDERICK William II (1744-97), King of Prussia, nephew and successor of Frederick the Great. His lack of administrative ability caused Prussia to decline; he joined Austria in support of French Royalty banished during the French Revolution. Manuscript letter signed, in French, as King, 1/2 page, 4to, Berlin, March 4, 1797, to an author in praise of his latest book which has given the King much pleasure, fine | Price Realized $250.00 |
 | Lot #153 AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE GAGARIN, Yuri (1934-1968), Russian Cosmonaut, first man in space, black and white ppc of Gagarin with Herman Titov (second man in space), both in uniform, signed by both, v.f. and scarce  | Price Realized $350.00 |
 | Lot #154 AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE GAGARIN, Yuri (1934-1968), Russian Cosmonaut, first man in space, color ppc of Gagarin and Herman Titov (the second man in space), both in uniform and signed, v.f. and scarce | Price Realized $350.00 |
 | Lot #155 AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE JEFFERSON, Thomas (1743-1808), third U.S. President, signed as President on a free-frank letter, dated 29th Aug. 1802, docketed on arrival, letter sheet reduced, with wax seal missing, mounted on paper, v.f., rare, with Stephen Koschal cert. | Price Realized $4,500.00 |
 | Lot #156 AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE KENNEDY, John F. (1917-63), 35th U.S. President, signed as senator, a handwritten two-page letter, not dated, on imprinted stationery of the "United States Senate, Washington, D.C. John F.Kennedy, Mass.", v.f., with Stephen Koschal cert. Documents actually signed by JFK are very rare | Price Realized $4,500.00 |
 | Lot #157 AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE 1836 MANN, Horace (1796-1859), American education reformist, Congressman from Massachusetts, brother-in-law to author Nathaniel Hawthorne. Arguing that universal public education was the best way to turn the nation's unruly children into disciplined, judicious republican citizens, Mann won widespread approval from modernizers, especially in his Whig Party, for building public schools. Most states adopted one version or another of the system he established in Massachusetts. He has been credited by educational historians as the "Father of the Common School Movement." A folded letter from Boston to a George W. Warren in Charlestown, red departure pmk, charged "6", signed "Horace Mann" | Price Realized $230.00 |
 | Lot #158 AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE MONROE, James (1758-1831), fifth U.S. President, document signed as President, July 27, 1824 granting land in Palestine, Illinois to a certain Smith Shaw, countersigned by George Graham, commissioner of General Land Office | Price Realized $800.00 |
 | Lot #159 AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE 1961 MONROE, Marilyn (born Norma Jeane Mortenson,1926-1962) an American actress, model, and singer, who became a major sex symbol, starring in a number of commercially successful motion pictures during the 1950s and early 1960s. A typewritten note on personal embossed stationery (6x9inches), dated July 14, 1961 to her chauffeur "Dear Rudy, Thank you for your message. I'm sorry I was delayed with the check but thanks again for taking care of things after I left. I send my love", signed "Marilyn" (addressed to Mr. Rudy Kautzky in Los Angeles). The letter sheet has been extensively folded and has been strengthened in places, the signature is rather faint (probably due to exposure to light, as it has been framed and professionally matted under glass.), ex-Superior Auctions 1992 | Price Realized $1,300.00 |
 | Lot #160 AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE NAPOLEON, Bonaparte. LS addressed "Au Premier Consul de la Republique Francaise" and signed by Gen. Gauthier; annotated in margin and signed "Buonaparte" by the Emperor, with red "Secret Pap." oval hs, v.f. Documents signed "Buonaparte" are very rare | Price Realized $4,500.00 |
 | Lot #161 AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE NAPOLEON, Bonaparte. A partly printed LS headed "Rapport a la Majeste l'Empereur et Roi", from Minister of War, dated 1810, signed "NAP" by Napoleon in margin, also signed by Marshal Berthier, as Minister of War at bottom | Price Realized $1,400.00 |
 | Lot #162 AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE 1844 PETER the Great, Peter I (1672-1725), ruled the Russian Empire from 1682 until his death. A large single page (text on both sides), probably a military commission, written in old Slavonic and signed "Petr" in the right margin. Also included an etching of Peter, plus an old map of Russia. A rarity | Unsold |
 | Lot #163 AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE PICKETT, George E. (1825-1875), Confederate general of the disastrous "Pickett's charge" fame in the battle of Gettysburg. The Southern Telegraph Companies, received at Richmond May 9, 1864 from Petersburg to Gen. Bragg, contents relating to military actions at Swift Creek, handstamped "Examined for War Records", with two facsimile signatures of Maj. Gen. Pickett, some paper strengthening and stains, fine and very rare Civil War telegram | Unsold |
 | Lot #164 AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE ROOSEVELT, Franklin D. (1882-1945), 32nd U.S. President, 1914 signed, typewritten letter headed "The Assistant Secretary of the Navy" to Martin H.Glynn, Governor of New York. Roosevelt writes: "My dear Governor: I have been asked to speak a good word for Calvin J. Hudson, Commissioner of Agriculture... I am sure he will do much to swing both the Grange and State Agricultural Society back behind you and your fight for bills for agriculturalists...", v.f. | Price Realized $325.00 |
 | Lot #165 AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE 1850 SEWARD, William Henry (1801-1872) was the 12th Governor of New York, United States Senator and the United States Secretary of State under Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson. A determined opponent of the spread of slavery in the years leading up to the American Civil War, he was a dominant figure in the Republican Party in its formative years, and was widely regarded as the leading contender for the party's presidential nomination in 1860 – yet his very outspokenness may have cost him the nomination. Despite his loss, he became a loyal member of Lincoln's wartime cabinet, and played a role in preventing foreign intervention early in the war. On the night of Lincoln's assassination, he survived an attempt on his life in the conspirators' effort to decapitate the Union government. As Johnson's Secretary of State, he engineered the purchase of Alaska from Russia in an act that was ridiculed at the time as "Seward's Folly." A letter dated March 28,1850, Washington, signed, also an envelope, cancelled "Washin | Price Realized $210.00 |
 | Lot #166 AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE SPACE. A duplicated collection of 1,145 autographs, individual signatures on 739 mostly Space-related covers and first day covers, also on picture postcards, original photographs and other documents, all by various Russian cosmonauts, with many early items including seven signatures of Yuri Gagarin, Komarov (5), Volkov (4), Levchenko, also Titov, Tereshkova, Bykovsky, Beregovoi, Popovich etc. Also included are 8 original "Krasnaya Zvezda" newspapers from 1980-81, signed by Savitskaya, Gorbatko, Glazov, Lebedev, Berezovoi, Popov, Dzanibekov, Makarov (all signed under their photographs), fine-v.f. and attractive lot | Price Realized $9,000.00 |
 | Lot #167 AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE 1844 VICTORIA, Regina, Queen of England (Alexandrina Victoria,1819-1901) was the monarch of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death). A four page document, dated June 24, 1844 - Queen Victoria writes to the U.S. President John Tyler, confirming appointment of U.S. Consul to Hobart town (Tasmania), site of the early penal colony. The document is also signed (inner leaf) by Lord Aberdeen (George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen, 1784-1860, a British politician, who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1852 until 1855), boldly signed by Queen Victoria at top, royal wafer seal largely intact, some ageing, also an etching of an early portrait of Vitoria | Price Realized $575.00 |
