U.S. and Worldwide Stamps & Postal History
June 12-13, 2018
| Images | Description | Current Bid |
 | Lot #572 AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE 1880 Letter on his personal stationery, written in Hebrew by his secretary, but signed in English MOSES MONTEFIORE (Sir Moses Haim Montefiore, 1st Baronet, FRS was a British financier and banker, activist, philanthropist and Sheriff of London. Born to an Italian-Jewish family, he donated large sums of money to promote industry, business, economic development, education and health among the Jewish community in the Levant, including the founding of Mishkenot Sha'ananim in 1860, the first settlement of the New Yishuv. As President of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, his correspondence with the British consul in Damascus Charles Henry Churchill in 1841-42 is seen as pivotal to the development of Proto-Zionism) | Price Realized $375.00 |
 | Lot #573 AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE 1880 Typed Letter on personal stationery signed by RABBI A. KOOK (Abraham Isaac Kook was an Orthodox rabbi, the first Ashkenazi chief rabbi of British Mandatory Palestine, the founder of Yeshiva Mercaz HaRav Kook, a Jewish thinker, Halakhist, Kabbalist, and a renowned Torah scholar) | Price Realized $325.00 |
 | Lot #574 AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE 1896 (23 March) handwritten letter signed by THEODORE HERZL (founder of the political form of Zionism, a movement to establish a Jewish homeland. His pamphlet The Jewish State (1896) proposed that the Jewish question was a political question to be settled by a world council of nations) | Price Realized $2,500.00 |
 | Lot #575 AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE 1899 Handwritten signed letter ALFRED DREYFUS (a French Jewish artillery officer whose trial and conviction in 1894 on charges of treason became one of the most tense political dramas in modern French history with a wide echo in all Europe. Known today as the Dreyfus affair, the incident eventually ended with Dreyfus's complete exoneration) | Price Realized $800.00 |
 | Lot #576 AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE 1900 Signed photo CHAIM NACHMAM BIALIK (a Jewish poet who wrote primarily in Hebrew but also in Yiddish. Bialik was one of the pioneers of modern Hebrew poetry. He was part of the vanguard of Jewish thinkers who gave voice to the breath of new life in Jewish life. Bialik ultimately came to be recognized as Israel's national poet) | Price Realized $95.00 |
 | Lot #577 AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE 1905 handwritten Letter and envelope signed by MAX NORDAU (a Zionist leader, physician, author, and social critic. He was a co-founder of the World Zionist Organization together with Theodor Herzl, and president or vice president of several Zionist congresses) | Unsold |
 | Lot #578 AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE 1908 (26 Aug) postcard handwritten and signed by HARRY HOUDINI (an illusionist and stunt performer, noted for his sensational escape acts. He first attracted notice in vaudeville in the US and then as "Harry Handcuff Houdini" on a tour of Europe, where he challenged police forces to keep him locked up. Soon he extended his repertoire to include chains, ropes slung from skyscrapers, straitjackets under water, and having to escape from and hold his breath inside a sealed milk can with water in it)  | Price Realized $325.00 |
 | Lot #579 AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE 1909 handwritten letter, signed SOLOMON RABINOWITZ (Solomon Naumovich Rabinovich, better known under his pen name Sholem Aleichem, was a leading Yiddish author and playwright. The musical "Fiddler on the Roof", based on his stories about Tevye the Dairyman, was the first commercially successful English-language stage production about Jewish life in Eastern Europe) | Price Realized $625.00 |
 | Lot #580 AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE 1915 registered cover (stamp missing) sent from Gallipoli by CAPT. TRUMPELDOR to Miss. E. Rosoff in Alexandria, Egypt, endorsed "Zion Mule Corps, Mediterranean Exped. Force Gallipoli", with British Army Post Office July 29 departure cds, arrival pmk (7.8.15), some cover wear, fine letter from Joseph Vladimirovich Trumpeldor (an early Zionist activist and war hero. He helped organize the Zion Mule Corps and bring Jewish immigrants to Israel) | Price Realized $260.00 |
 | Lot #581 AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE 1915 (26 July) registered cover (flap missing) from "Zion Mule Corps", S.Z. 1 Army Post Office cds (Gallipoli) addressed to Miss E. Rosoff (girlfriend) in Alexandria, endorsed "from Captain (Joseph) TRUMPELDOR Zion Mule Corps, Mediterranean Exped. Force Gallipoli" (the Zion Mule Corps was formed in 1915, considered to be the first all-Jewish military unit organized in close to two thousand years, and the ideological beginning of the Israel Defense Forces) | Price Realized $375.00 |
 | Lot #582 AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE 1915 typewritten letter, on KKL (Jewish National Fund) stationery, signed by Menachem Ussishkin (a Russian-born Zionist leader and head of the Jewish National Fund) | Price Realized $100.00 |
 | Lot #583 AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE 1916 Telegram to Menachem Ussishkin in Odessa, from Weizman (Chaim) in London requesting "please send message first number Zionist Review of Political (sp) Organ Federation = Weizman" | Price Realized $140.00 |
 | Lot #584 AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE 1915 (1 Oct) letter on "Zionist Bureau For New England" stationery, signed by JACOB DE HAAS (a British-born Jewish journalist and an early leader of the Zionist movement in the United States. Jacob De Haas was born in London. He was the secretary of the First Zionist Congress and he introduced Theodor Herzl to the UK in the Jewish World newspaper. In 1896, he was the first member of Hovevei Zion to encourage the movement) | Price Realized $80.00 |
 | Lot #585 AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE 1917 letter and envelope, from GEN. EDMUND ALLENBY, to American Consul General, Cairo, both signed "ALLENBY" (On the first day of Hanukkah in December 1917, the Battle of Jerusalem resulted in the city of Jerusalem falling to British forces led by General Allenby, after 400 years under Turkish rule. Allenby was an accomplished horseman and it would have made sense for him to ride triumphantly into the city. However on 11 December Allenby entered on foot out of his great respect for the Holy City, becoming the first Christian to control the city in centuries) | Price Realized $290.00 |
 | Lot #586 AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE 1920 selection of seven covers, all written by Z. JABOTINSKY, from his travels all over the world. Poor condition, interesting lot (Ze'ev Jabotinsky, MBE, was a Russian Jewish Revisionist Zionist leader, author, poet, orator, soldier and founder of the Jewish Self-Defense Organization in Odessa. With Joseph Trumpeldor, he co-founded the Jewish Legion) | Price Realized $95.00 |
 | Lot #587 AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE 1920 handwritten love letter from ZEEV JABOTINSKY to girlfriend NINA BERLIGNE (Berlin), with Registered envelope signed on reverse | Price Realized $350.00 |
 | Lot #588 AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE 1919 Picture Postcard with message signed by BELLA BERLIN with postscript by NINA Berlin (Bella and Nina Berligne, the daughters of a Palestinian olive oil manufacturer, were romantically involved with Jabotinsky) | Unsold |
 | Lot #589 AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE 1924 (10 Dec), typewritten letter, England, signed "BALFOUR" (Lord Arthur James Balfour was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1902 to 1905. Later, as Foreign Secretary, he was notable for the Balfour Declaration in 1917, a letter to Lord Rothschild affirming the government's support for the establishment of a "national home for the Jewish people" in Palestine, then part of the Ottoman Empire) | Price Realized $270.00 |
 | Lot #590 AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE 1939 (15 Feb) Princeton, N.J., typed letter and original envelope to Jewish Press Agency, signed A. EINSTEIN (Albert Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics. His work is also known for its influence on the philosophy of science) | Price Realized $1,600.00 |
 | Lot #591 AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE 1941 envelope and card signed by BEN HECHT (an American screenwriter, director, producer, playwright, journalist, and novelist. A journalist in his youth, he went on to write thirty-five books and some of the most entertaining screenplays and plays in America. He received screen credits, alone or in collaboration, for the stories or screenplays of some seventy films, including Scarface, It's a Wonderful Life, Gunga Din) | Price Realized $95.00 |
 | Lot #592 AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE 1941 Letter on "Jewish Agency for Palestine" stationery, signed by DR. ARTHUR RUPPIN (Arthur Ruppin was a Zionist thinker and leader. He was one of the founders of the city of Tel Aviv, and directed Berlin's Bureau for Jewish Statistics and Demography from 1902 to 1907. Ruppin joined the Zionist Organization in 1905 and in 1907 he was sent by David Wolfsohn, the President of the ZO, to study the condition of the Yishuv (the Jewish community in Palestine), then in the Ottoman Empire, to investigate the possibilities for development of agriculture and industry. He reported on what he saw, which was distressing, and gave recommendations for improving the situation. In 1908 Ruppin came to live in Palestine by decision of the eighth Zionist Congress. He opened the Palestine Office of the Zionist Organization in Jaffa, with the aim of directing the settlement activities of the Zionist movement. His work made Practical Zionism possible and shaped the direction of the Second Aliya, the last wave of Jewish immigratio | Price Realized $110.00 |
 | Lot #593 AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE 1915 letter from BELLA BERLIN to ARTHUR RUPPIN with a handwritten reply from him (Arthur Ruppin was a chief Zionist land agent. He helped to get a loan for Ahuzat Bayit, later Tel Aviv, and acquired land on the Carmel, in Afula, in the Jezreel Valley, and in Jerusalem) | Unsold |
 | Lot #594 AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE 1948 Charcoal Portrait (12c16in) of CHAIM WEIZMANN by Famous Jewish Artist, Joseph Budko and personally signed by Chaim Weizmann and Joseph Budko (Chaim Azriel Weizmann was a Zionist leader and Israeli statesman who served as President of the Zionist Organization and later as the first President of Israel. He was elected on 16 February 1949, and served until his death in 1952. Weizmann convinced the United States government to recognize the newly formed state of Israel) | Unsold |
 | Lot #595 AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE 1948 Vellum with memorial for soldier who fell in the 1948 War of Independence, signed DAVID BEN GURION (the primary national founder of the State of Israel and the first Prime Minister of Israel) | Price Realized $180.00 |
 | Lot #596 AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE 1959 (15 Sep), typewritten letter, New York, signed "B.M. BARUCH" (Bernard Mannes Baruch was an American financier, stock investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant. After his success in business, he devoted his time toward advising U.S. Presidents Woodrow Wilson and Franklin D. Roosevelt on economic matters, and became a philanthropist) | Price Realized $120.00 |
 | Lot #597 AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE 1960 Typed Letter on his stationery, signed MENACHEM SCHNEERSON, folded and some stains, rare (Menachem Mendel Schneerson, known to many as the Rebbe, was a Russian Empire-born American Orthodox Jewish rabbi, and the last rebbe of the Lubavitcher Hasidic dynasty. He is considered one of the most influential Jewish leaders of the 20th century) | Price Realized $525.00 |
 | Lot #598 AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE 1960 Typed Letter on his stationery, signed RABBI I. SCHNEERSON (Menachem Mendel Schneerson, known to many as the Rebbe, was a Russian Empire-born American Orthodox Jewish rabbi, and the last rebbe of the Lubavitcher Hasidic dynasty. He is considered one of the most influential Jewish leaders of the 20th century) | Price Realized $700.00 |
 | Lot #599 AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE 1972 Israeli Space cover signed by JOHN GLENN (an aviator, engineer, astronaut, and United States senator. He was one of the "Mercury Seven" group of military test pilots selected in 1959 by NASA to become America's first astronauts) | Unsold |
 | Lot #600 AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE 1977 Tel Aviv to Cairo first flight cover, signed by President RONALD REAGAN (40th President of the United States from 1981 to 1989) | Price Realized $150.00 |
 | Lot #601 AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE 1981 U.N. "Palestinian Rights" FDC signed by Y. ARAFAT (Yasser Arafat may have been reviled in Israel and some parts of the international community as the architect of countless gruesome acts of violence, and viewed with disdain in Western (and even some Arab) capitals for alleged diplomatic duplicity, but among his own people he has been lionized as nothing less than the father of the Palestinian Nation) | Price Realized $95.00 |
 | Lot #602 AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE 1987 handwritten letter, signed JONATHAN POLLARD (a former intelligence analyst for the United States government. In 1987, as part of a plea agreement, Pollard pleaded guilty to spying for and providing top-secret classified information to Israel. He was sentenced to life in prison for violations of the Espionage Act) | Price Realized $350.00 |
 | Lot #603 AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE 2001 Israel First Day Cover with Astronaut stamp, signed in Hebrew and English ILAN RAMON (an Israeli fighter pilot and later the first Israeli astronaut for NASA. He was the space shuttle payload specialist of STS-107, the fatal mission of Columbia, in which he and six other crew members were killed in the re-entry accident. At 48, he was the oldest member of the crew. Ramon is the only foreign recipient of the United States Congressional Space Medal of Honor, which he was awarded posthumously) | Price Realized $160.00 |
