Images | Description | Current Bid |
![](_thumb.asp?filename=277%2Ejpg) | Lot #277 AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE GAGARIN, Yuri (1934-1968), Russian Cosmonaut, first man in space, color picture postcard of Gagarin and Herman Titov (the second man in space), both in uniform and signed, v.f. and scarce
| $350.00 Bidding Closed |
![](_thumb.asp?filename=278%2Ejpg) | Lot #278 AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE GAGARIN, Yuri (1934-1968), Russian Cosmonaut, first man in space, black and white picture postcard of Gagarin with Herman Titov (second man in space), both in uniform, signed by both, v.f. and scarce
| $350.00 Bidding Closed |
![](_thumb.asp?filename=279%2Ejpg) | Lot #279 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 certificate
| $4,500.00 Bidding Closed |
![](_thumb.asp?filename=280%2Ejpg) | Lot #280 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 certificate. Documents actually signed by JFK are very rare
| $4,500.00 Bidding Closed |
![](_thumb.asp?filename=281%2Ejpg) | Lot #281 AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE 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"
| $240.00 Bidding Closed |
![](_thumb.asp?filename=282%2Ejpg) | Lot #282 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
| $800.00 Bidding Closed |
![](_thumb.asp?filename=283%2Ejpg) | Lot #283 AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE NAPOLEON, Bonaparte (1769-1821), Emperor of France, two page folio, dated Paris, 17 Feb.1809, interesting contents dealing with military matters, corrections made by Bonaparte himself at top, with various financial calculations on the reverse side, boldly signed "NAPOL", fine and rare historical document
| $2,300.00 Bidding Closed |
![](_thumb.asp?filename=284%2Ejpg) | Lot #284 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
| $1,400.00 Bidding Closed |
![](_thumb.asp?filename=285%2Ejpg) | Lot #285 AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE NAPOLEON, Bonaparte. A single page folio dated 28 November, 1808 addressed "Au Prince Eugene Napoleon", written from the Imperial Camp at Aranda. Napoleon writes "Mon Fils" and addressed the Army of Italy, signed "Vote Affectionnee Pere" and signed NAPOL, fine and scarce letter from the Emperor to his stepson Eugene (de Beauharnais, was adopted by Napoleon in 1806, though excluded from succession to the French Empire)
| $2,300.00 Bidding Closed |
![](_thumb.asp?filename=286%2Ejpg) | Lot #286 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
| $700.00 Bidding Closed |
![](_thumb.asp?filename=287%2Ejpg) | Lot #287 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.
| $325.00 Bidding Closed |