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Auction Info

Sale Name
Historic African Americana Signature Auction
Auction Date
10/19/2022 - 10/19/2022
Year of Sale
2022
Sale Number
#6248
Total Lots
147
Sold Lots
144
Lots Sold
98.0%
Unsold Lots
3
Price Unknown
0
Total Sales (USD)
1,069,860.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
0.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
0.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (USD)
0.00
High Estimate of All Lots (USD)
0.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.
Inf%
Currency
USD
Inflation Adjusted Price in U.S. Dollars
987,569.00

Top twenty five by sale price

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Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
47090 Martin Luther King, Jr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Signed Copy of Stride Toward Freedom, Inscribed to A. Philip Randolph.

1958

 USD - 125,000.00
47097 "I Am a Man" Triptych Set of Posters.

circa1968

 USD - 71,875.00
47050 Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass Ambrotype.

circa1870s

 USD - 65,625.00
47002 Phillis Wheatley. Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral by Phillis Wheatley.

1773

 USD - 57,500.00
47058 Sojourner Truth] [Sojourner Truth]. Narrative of Sojourner Truth; a Bondswoman of Olden Time, with a History of her Labors and Correspondence, Drawn from Her "Book of Life."

USD - 50,000.00
47032 [Civil War]. Tintype Portrait of Unknown U.S.C.T. Officer.

USD - 35,000.00
47088 Malcolm X Large Group of Malcolm X Postcards Together with Material Relating to the Shabazz Family and Gordon Parks.

USD - 27,500.00
47072 Slides Relating to The Great Migration Produced by The Methodist Episcopal Church.

Circa 1920s

 USD - 26,250.00
47033 [Civil War]. Tintype Studio Portrait of Unknown Black Soldier.

USD - 22,500.00
47092 Martin Luther King, Jr Extensive Archive of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Speeches and Sermons.

1958-1968

 USD - 22,500.00
47086 Malcolm X Malcolm X Autograph Letter Signed and Initialed from Prison with one of the Earliest Uses of His Name.

1950

 USD - 21,250.00
47051 Frederick Douglass by J. P. Ball. Frederick Douglass Carte de Visite by J. P. Ball.

[circa 1867]

 USD - 20,000.00
47028 1856 Aetna Life Insurance "Slave Policy."

1856

 USD - 18,750.00
47087 Malcolm X Malcolm X Typed Letter Signed to Elijah Muhammad Announcing His Marriage.

1958

 USD - 16,875.00
47009 Mathew Carey 1789 Slave Ship Broadside.

[1789]

 USD - 16,250.00
47080 Scottsboro Boys Collection of Trial Material Relating to Clarence Norris and Haywood Patterson.

USD - 16,250.00
47018 Frederick Douglass Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave by Frederick Douglass.

1848

 USD - 16,250.00
47085 Henry A. Wallace "Jim Crow is His Enemy" Campaign Poster.

circa 1948

 USD - 13,750.00
47012 The Mirror of Misery; or Tyranny Exposed.

1807

 USD - 13,125.00
47019 Frederick Douglass Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave Written by Himself.

1845

 USD - 12,500.00
47130 C. W. Larison. Silvia Dubois, (Now 116 Years Old.) A Biografy of The Slav who Whipt her Mistres and Gand her Fredom by C. W. Larison.

1883

 USD - 11,875.00
47054 James C. Beard. The Fifteenth Amendment Lithograph by James C. Beard.

1870

 USD - 11,250.00
47014 "Slave Market of America" Broadside with 1836 Imprint.

1836

 USD - 10,625.00
47030 [Slavery and Abolition]. Baltimore Railroad Broadside.

1858

 USD - 10,625.00
47060 Collection of Letters and Ephemera Concerning Peter H. Clark.

USD - 10,000.00
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