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Goldberg Coins and Collectibles: Collectibles

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Auction Name Collectibles Total Sales (USD) 391,092.00
Auction Date November 14, 2020 - November 15, 2020 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 331,515.00
Sale Number #74 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 397,818.00
Total Lots 549
Sold Lots 408 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 459,290.00
% of Lots Sold 74.32% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 551,948.00
Unsold Lots 141 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 70.86%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
244

Mammoth Archive of 2000 + Signed Photos and Other Pieces, a 30 Years Long Accumulation of the Greatest Names in Hollywood.

USD 2,000.00 - 2,400.00 USD 19,800.00
18 Eisenhower, Dwight D.

1943 ALS Addressing Rumors About His Relationship With Kay Summersby (1890-1969) 34th President of the United States (1953-61); Supreme Commander of Allied Forces in World War II.

USD 4,000.00 - 4,800.00 USD 13,800.00
14 Bush, George H.W.

A Heartfelt ALS As President to His Pal and Political Opponent Dan Rostenkowski (1924-2018) 41st President of the United States (1989-1993).

USD 2,000.00 - 2,400.00 USD 8,880.00
158 Morgan, John Hunt

Autograph Album Signed by Morgan and 68 of His Officers While in the Ohio State Penitentiary in 1863.

USD 7,500.00 - 9,000.00 USD 7,680.00
176 Einstein, Albert.

Albert Einstein: Philosopher-Scientist Limited and Signed Edition.

USD 7,500.00 - 9,000.00 USD 7,200.00
249

Mammoth Archive of 500+ Signed Photos, Letters and Magazines from Television Stars from the 1950s to 1990s in Five (5) Huge Binders.

USD 750.00 - 900.00 USD 6,300.00
54

Washington, George - Ten Word Closing and Signature Clipped from Letter (1732-1797) First President of the United States (1789-97); Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolution.

USD 4,000.00 - 4,800.00 USD 6,120.00
953

Important Collection of 450+ Signed Photos & Covers by the Men and Women Who Flew in the Shuttle Program STS-1 through STS-118.

USD 2,500.00 - 3,000.00 USD 5,280.00
42 Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Signed Typescript Draft of FDR's Acceptance Speech For His Second Nomination as President (1882-1945) 32nd President of the United States (1933-45).

USD 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 4,800.00
115 Tolkien, John Ronald Reuel

ALS Referencing The Lord of the Rings (1892-1973) English writer, poet, philologist, and academic; best known for writing The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.

USD 2,500.00 - 3,000.00 USD 4,800.00
20 Eisenhower, Dwight D.

War-date ALS to Mamie Mentioning Kay Summersby Twice (1890-1969) 34th President of the United States (1953-61); Supreme Commander of Allied Forces in World War II.

USD 4,000.00 - 4,800.00 USD 4,560.00
29

Jefferson, Thomas and James Madison Four Language Ship's Paper Signed as President and Secretary of State (1743-1826) Third President of the United States (1801-09).

USD 3,500.00 - 4,200.00 USD 4,320.00
852

Project Gemini: 4 Inscribed and Signed Photos to Dick Underwood Including Signatures by Grissom, Armstrong, Aldrin, Conrad, Young, Scott + 2 more (1927-2011) Richard Dick Underwood was chief engineer on the production of the first topographic maps of the

USD 1,500.00 - 1,800.00 USD 4,080.00
44

Roosevelt, Franklin D., Personally Owned Teddy Bear For Years Inside White House Living Quarters, Exceptional Letter of Provenance (1882-1945) Appealing buff-colored Teddy Bear, approximately 8 inches in height, with black eyes, dressed in a rose-colored

USD 4,000.00 - 4,800.00 USD 3,840.00
87

Napoleonic Wars - Collection of All 26 Marshals of France Appointed by Napoleon Between 1804 and 1815.

USD 3,000.00 - 3,600.00 USD 3,360.00
245

200 + Signed 8 x 10' Photos of Film Stars Spanning 7 Decades.

USD 1,500.00 - 1,800.00 USD 3,360.00
861

Massive Archive of 450 8 x 10 Color Photos from Dick Underwood's Personal Collection Gemini, Apollo, Skylab and ASTP, Red Serial Numbers.

USD 800.00 - 960.00 USD 3,360.00
93

[Napoleon I] - Seven Friends and Foes Who Were On St.

USD 800.00 - 960.00 USD 3,240.00
49 Taylor, Zachary

Naval Commission Signed as President (1784-1850) 12th President of the United States (Mar.

USD 3,000.00 - 3,600.00 USD 3,120.00
71

Warren Court, Exceptional Signed Photograph by All Nine Members, June, 1959.

USD 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 3,120.00
501

Coca-Cola Rare 1906 Juanita Calendar, Outstanding Condition.

USD 1,200.00 - 1,440.00 USD 3,120.00
156

Badge of the Society of the Cincinnati, ca. 1900

USD 3,500.00 - 4,200.00 USD 3,000.00
507

Coca-Cola Rare 1909 Exhibition Girl Calendar in Fine Condition.

USD 1,200.00 - 1,440.00 USD 3,000.00
1 Floyd, William

DS by the Signer From New York (1734-1821) Signer of the Declaration of Independence from New York.

USD 2,500.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,880.00
189 McCarthy, Cormac.

Five Page Autograph Letter Signed ca.

USD 1,500.00 - 1,800.00 USD 2,880.00
  • Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Winston Churchill. The Second World War. Set of First-Edition Volumes. 6,000 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: A.A. Milne, Ernest H. Shepard. A Collection of The Pooh Books. Set of First-Editions. 18,600 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Salvador Dalí, Lewis Carroll. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Finely Bound and Signed Limited Edition. 15,000 USD
    Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ian Fleming. Live and Let Die. First Edition. 9,500 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter Series. Finely Bound First Printing Set of Complete Series. 5,650 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell to Arms. First Edition, First Printing. 4,200 USD
  • Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A RUTH BADER GINSBURG BEADED JUDICIAL COLLAR. $80,000 - $120,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: ONLY KNOWN COPY OF THE ONLY BOOK BY THE REMARKABLE EVE ADAMS. $8,000 - $12,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A COMPLETE RUN OF VISIONAIRE MAGAZINE THROUGH 2010. $6,000 - $9,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: LAW REVIEW OFFPRINT SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY RUTH BADER GINSBURG. $3,000 - $5,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: META REBNER'S WORKING SCRIPT OF THE LOVED ONE. $1,500 - $2,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A KATHY GROVE PORTRAIT OF CYNDI LAUPER FOR THE FEBRUARY 1989 DETAILS COVER. $800 - $1,200
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A PLASTIC COAT BY MILLIE DAVID FEATURED IN SOHO NEWS STYLE SECTION, FROM THE COLLECTION OF ANNIE FLANDERS. $500 - $700
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A RUTH BADER GINSBURG JEWELRY BOX. $600 - $900
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A SET OF JONI MITCHELL LYRICS FOR "IF I HAD A HEART." $2,000 - $3,000
  • 19th Century Shop
    Catalogue 198 just published
    19th Century Shop. Darwin and Wallace, first printing of the first paper on natural selection
    19th Century Shop. Shakespeare’s Poems, first collected edition
    19th Century Shop. Walt Whitman portrait inscribed with a Leaves of Grass poem
    19th Century Shop. Major Elizabeth Barrett Browning manuscript notebook
    19th Century Shop. Spock's Baby Book, original MS
    19th Century Shop. Cellarius, Harmonia Macrocosmica, the great celestial atlas
  • Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [RUTH, George Herman “Babe” (1895-1948)]. Signed photograph. Circa 1930s. 191 x 248 mm. $1,500 to $2,500.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: HARRISON, Benjamin. Document signed (“Benj Harrison”) as governor of Virginia, certifying the service of Daniel Cumbo, a Black Revolutionary soldier. $6,000 to $9,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: ONE OF THE FIRST PRINTED ANNOUNCEMENTS OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: FIRST PRINTING OF LINCOLN’S IMMORTAL GETTYSBURG ADDRESS. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: HIGHLY IMPORTANT MORMON ARCHIVE. ALLEY, George. Archive of 23 Autograph Letters Signed by Mormon Convert George Alley to His Brother Joseph Alley. $10,000 to $20,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [AVIATION]. [ARMSTRONG, Neil A.] Aviation Hall of Fame Gold Medal MS64 NGC, Awarded to Neil Armstrong in 1979. $2,000 to $3,000.
    Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: NEWLY DISCOVERED FIRST PRINTING OF "WITH MALICE TOWARDS NONE... " FROM THE ONLY NEWSPAPER ACTUALLY ALLOWED TO PARTICIPATE IN LINCOLN’S SECOND INAUGURAL PROCESSION. $4,000 to $8,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: THE MOST IMPORTANT GEORGE WASHINGTON DOCUMENT IN PRIVATE HANDS; GEORGE WASHINGTON’S COMMISSION AS COMMANDER IN CHIEF, 1775, ONE OF ONLY TWO ORIGINALS. $150,000 to $250,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: A VERY RARE ACCOUNT OF BLACKBEARD’S DEATH AND ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT PIRATE ITEMS EXTANT. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: EDISON, Thomas. Patent for Edison’s Improvements on the Electric-Light, No. 219,628. [Washington, D.C.: U.S. Patent Office], 16 September 1879. $2,000 to $3,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [VIETNAM WAR]. The original pen used by Secretary of State William P. Rogers to sign the Vietnam Peace Agreement, Paris, 27 January 1973. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: SONS OF LIBERTY FOUNDER COLONEL BARRÉ ANNOTATED TITLE-PAGE, “WHICH OUGHT TO ROUSE UP BRITISH ATTENTION”. $4,000 to $6,000.
  • Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: [Langland (William)]. The vision of Pierce Plowman, nowe the seconde time imprinted..., Roberte Crowley, 1550. £8,000 to £10,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: [Shakespeare (William)]. [Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies], second folio edition, [by Tho.Cotes, for Robert Allot], [1632]. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Bible, Czech Biblia Bohemica, first complete Bible printed in the Czech vernacular, Prague, August 1488. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: Shabthai Tzvi.- Collection of four printed and illustrated broadsides detailing the appearance, rise and fall of the false messiah, Shabthai Tzvi, Augsburg, 1666-67. £40,000 to £60,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Leaf from the Beauvais Missal, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment, [Northern France (perhaps Beauvais or Amiens)], [fourteenth century (c.1310)]. £4,000 to £6,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Aubrey (John). [Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme], manuscript in English, Latin and Greek, [c. 1693]. £30,000 to £50,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: Byron (George Gordon Noel, Lord). Poems on Various Occasions, first edition, Harriet Maltby's copy, Newark, Printed by S. & J. Ridge, 1807. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Tolkien (J.R.R.) The Hobbit, first edition, second impression with dust-jacket, 1937 [but 1938]. £7,000 to £10,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Blake (William).- Thornton (Robert John). The Pastorals of Virgil, 2 vol., engraved plates by William Blake, 1821. £8,000 to £12,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: America.- Mount (William J.) & Thomas Page. The English Pilot…, [bound with] The Fourth Book, describing The West Indies Navigation from Hudson's-Bay to the River Amazones, 1721. £20,000 to £30,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Oldfield (Henry Ambrose), Rajman Singh Chitrakar & others. An album of 160 photographs and 13 original artworks, (1833-1919), [c. 1850s-1880s]. £20,000 to £30,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Audubon (John James) [and William MacGillivray]. Ornithological Biography…, 5 vol., first edition, presentation copy inscribed by Audubon, Edinburgh, 1831-49 [i.e. 1831-39]. £10,000 to £15,000.
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