U.S. & Worldwide Stamps & Postal History
May 7-8, 2019
| Images | Description | Current Bid |
 | Lot #2108 AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE 1917 CARUSO, Enrico (1873-1921) Italian operatic tenor. He sang to great acclaim at the major opera houses of Europe and the Americas, appearing in a wide variety of roles from the Italian and French repertoires that ranged from the lyric to the dramatic. A picture postcard signed and dated in white ink, partly matted and ready for framing, v.f.  | Unsold |
 | Lot #2109 AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE 1862 GARIBALDI, Giuseppe (1807-1882), Italian patriot and general, one of the creators of modern Italy. Signed "G.Garibaldi" on small card with mounted photo, printed "Taken from Life by order of the Central Garibaldian Committee of Genova", dated Dec.3, 1862, very rare | Unsold |
 | Lot #2110 AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE 1914 GLAZUNOV, Alexander P. (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 $230.00 |
 | Lot #2111 AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE 1939 HITLER, Adolf, partly printed "In Namen des Deutschen Volkes" document for the "Deutschen Mutter", dated 21 May, 1939 Berlin, boldly signed by Adolf Hitler as "der fuhrer and Reichskanzler", countersigned by "Meisner", with official embossing, some peripheral creases | Unsold |
 | Lot #2112 AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE LINDBERGH, Charles Augustus, 1927 partly printed "Pilot's Message" (PAA logo), signed by Charles A. Lindbergh, as pilot, dated 4/28 with message "Passed Northbound 4:37 Midchannel" (probably Cuba or Dominican Republic), little edge toning, otherwise fine and scarce | Price Realized $1,400.00 |
 | Lot #2113 AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE 1865 MAZZINI, Giuseppe (1805-1872), Italian patriot and a leading propagandist of the Risorgimento. A small ALS dated 22 Dec., 1865 and signed "Gius. Mazzini", very rare | Unsold |
 | Lot #2114 AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE NAPOLEON I, Bonaparte (1769-1821), Emperor of France, four page letter discussing military matters, signed "NAP", dated 28 November, 1813 at Paris, addressed to Monsieur le Duc de Feltre (Minister of War), with a small attached note bearing corrections in Napoleon's hand, fine and rare document | Price Realized $2,300.00 |
 | Lot #2115 AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE NICHOLAS II (1868-1918), the last Tsar of Russia (whose misgovernment helped bring about the Russian Revolution and the overthrow of the dynasty), partly printed document awarding a high decoration, dated 6 December, 1914 at bottom, boldly signed "Nikolai", also with oval 15 Dec. 1914 datestamp, rare | Price Realized $1,400.00 |
 | Lot #2116 AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE RABIN, Yitzhak (1922-1996), Prime minister of Israel, signed color photo (17x20cm), accompanied by a 1995 letter from the Prime Minister's Office "as requested, I am enclosing an autographed photograph of the Prime Minister" | Price Realized $230.00 |
 | Lot #2117 AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE 1964 RICHTER, Sviatoslav Teofilovich (1915-1997), Soviet pianist of Russian-German origin, who is generally regarded as one of the greatest pianists of the 20th century, signed musical program 1965 Teatro Donizetti Bergamo, Italy ("Recital del Pianista Sviatoslav Richter") | Unsold |
 | Lot #2118 AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE 1880 TOLSTOY, Lev Nikolayevich, usually referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910), a Russian writer who is regarded as one of the greatest authors of all time, best known for the novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina. A framed (professionally matted) picture postcard, boldly signed Lev Tolstoy (in Cyrillic letters) on picture side, with handwritten inscription in German "to my friend Ingold Kundre on his birthday May 31, 1905, Rolf Biedermann", fine | Unsold |
