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3. [GREAT BRITAIN] John Arthur Godley, 1st Baron Kilbracken, GCB (1847 to 1932) was a British civil servant and the longest serving and probably the most influential Permanent Under-Secretary of State for India. ALS, 1872, 1p. signed as Private Secretary to Prime Minister Gladstone. Laid to another sheet. Mounting traces show. 4.5 x 7 in..............25-35
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4. [GREAT BRITAIN] Robert Sherard, 6th Earl of Harborough and Baron Harborough, 8th Baron Sherard (1797–1859). Signed address panel postmarked 1827, about 4-3/4 x 3 in.........Min. Bid $10
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5. [SCOTLAND] James Duff, 4th Earl of Fife, KT, GCH (1776-1857), was a Scot who became a Spanish general. He served with great distinction at the Battle of Talavera, where he was severely wounded in trying to rally the Spanish runaways, and was only saved from becoming a prisoner by the gallantry of his lifelong friend, Major (afterwards Lieutenant-general Sir) S. F. Whittingham. In that year, 1809, he became Viscount Macduff on his father's accession to the Irish earldom of Fife, but he still continued to serve in Spain, and was present during the defence of Cadiz against Marshal Victor, and was again severely wounded in the attack on Fort Matagorda in 1810. On 17 April 1811 he succeeded his father as fourth Earl Fife, and as Lord Lieutenant of Banffshire, and returned to Britain, after being made for his services a knight of the order of St. Ferdinand. He was elected M.P. for Banffshire in 1818, and made a lord in waiting in the following year. Four handwritten lines and his signatutre laid to sheet. About 7.5 x 3 in..................50-75
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6. [FILM] Michael Sarrazin (May 22, 1940 – April 17, 2011)[1] was a Canadian film and television actor who found fame opposite Jane Fonda in They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969). Warner Bros. paycheck, 1985, made out to Sarrazin for $34.17 but not endorsed on verso by him. VG.............25-35
7. [FILM] James A. Luisi (1928-2002) American professional basketball player and actor. Luisi is perhaps best known for his role as Lt. Doug Chapman, the apoplectic foil to detective Jim Rockford, in a total of 23 episodes during Seasons 3 through 6 of the television series The Rockford Files. Warner Bros. paycheck, 1984, made out to Luisi for $38.17 but not endorsed on verso by him. VG.............25-35
8. [CIVIL WAR] William A. Tooley (1841-1865) Union solider. At age 21 he enlisted, August 19, 1862, at Granville, to serve three years; mustered in as private, Co. K 123rd New York Infantry, September 1, 1862; captured in action, May 3,1863, at Chancellorsville, Va.; paroled, no date; killed in skirmish, April 10, 1865, at Aiken's Creek, N. C. Offered here is a 3 page letter written to his brother Eber, from Tennessee, April 1, 1864. He says - sorry that the President has had to make another call for me - says that only God can end the war, and not be force of arms - 2/3rds of the men were married during their 30 days furlough etc. About 5x8 in. VG................50-75
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9. [GERMANY] Prince Hermann von Hatzfeldt (1848-1933) was a German nobleman, member of the House of Hatzfeld, civil servant and politician. He represented the Deutsche Reichspartei in the Reichstag for a number of years. Envelope address but not signed by hom, postmarked 1924. About 6.5 x 4 in................25-35
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10. [MASONIC] ORDER OF THE EASTERN STAR, 1895 document signed by 3 members from Biddeford, Maine. Approx. 8x10 in. VG.................25-35
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11. Winthrop Rockefeller (1912-1973) American politician and philanthropist. Rockefeller was a son of John D. Rockefeller Jr. and Abby Aldrich Rockefeller. TLS, 1969, brief 1p. signed as Governor of Arkansas. VG...............30-40
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12. [DESERT STORM WAR] Original Kuwait Quarter Dinar note captured from Iraqi soldiers who had previously stolen this note from the Kuwaitis. When the Iraqi soldiers surrendered during Desert Storm this note was found on one of them. This csarce note bears the official MINISTRY OF DEFENCE handstamp. Few of these exist. About 4-1/2 x 2-3/4 in. VG.............100-150
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13. [ART] Wendell D. Volk (1884-1953) American artist. Signed 1943 bank check. Born El Paso, TX, buried Arlington Natinal Cemetery. He was a printmaker and woodcarver, married Jessie J. McCoig, also an artist (1904-2005). The Douglas Volk family built a rustic Tudor cottage, “Hewnoaks,” on the shores of Kezar Lake in Center Lovell, Maine. [Stephen A.] Douglas Volk was the son of Leonard [W.] Volk, who was famous for his many life casts of Abraham Lincoln. S.A. Douglas Volk studied in Paris and Italy. He taught at the Cooper Union, the Art Students League, and the National Academy of Design in New York and was a founder of the Minneapolis School of Fine Art. He participated in the 1893 Chicago Columbian Exposition and taught at the New York Society for Ethical Culture established by Felix Adler, where he met Karl von Rydingsvärd. He married Marion Larabee in 1881 and two of their children were dau. Marion and son Wendell. Daughter Marion helped Mother Marion run the Sabatos Studio, which produced woven and printed textiles. Wendell was also a weaver and learned woodcarving from Karl von Rydingsvärd. Wendell’s wife Jessie left Hewnoaks, lock, stock, and barrel, to the University of Maine. Hewnoaks was the heart of an Arts and Crafts community. Marion Volk decided to improve upon a generations-old native tradition of making “drawn” rugs and with the help of her son Wendell and daughter Marion she began Sabatos Handcrafts in 1901. The Volks gathered together residents of Center Lovell, who then carried out every part of the rug-making process. Twenty years later the Volks began producing block-printed textiles. The rugs and printed panels are extremely rare today. VG.....................50-75
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14. [WOMEN] Emma Stone Lawrence Blackwell (1851-1920), sister-in-law of Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell, who married George W. Blackwell; she became a school teacher, later worked for “The Woman’s Journal,” she was Lucy Stone’s niece, one-time president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association's New Jersey chapter; she was a founder of the New Jersey Woman Suffrage Association (NJWSA) and attended its initial meeting in February 1890. She served as its recording secretary in 1894-95. She served as the NJWSA secretary in 1900, historian in 1903, and president in 1905-07. Offered here is a 1907 ALS, 2pp. signed "Emma". Written to her father Henry Lawrence. Fine.........50-75
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15. Albert C. Ritchie (1876-1936) Maryland's ongest-serving governor, with almost 15 years of service (14 years, 11 months, and 27 days) and a record four terms. TLS, 1927, as governor, 1p. 8.5 x 11 in. Includes envelope. VG..............25-35
The following multiple lots offered for those who enjoying research.
16. [FRANCE] Mystery lot of misc. autographs. Includes: Jacques Tarride (1903-1994); Antoine de Levis Mirepoix (1884-1981); Olivier-Aleandre Barbier (1806-1882); plus 6 others. No doubt some SLEEPERS in here.................100-150
17. [FRANCE] Mystery lot of misc. autographs. Includes: Fernand Divoire (1885-1951); Albert-Edouard Portalis (1845-1918); Albert Bataille (1856-1899); plus 6 others. No doubt some SLEEPERS in here.................100-150
18. [FRANCE] Mystery lot of misc. autographs. Includes: Paul Margueritte (1860-1918); Kucien Descaves (1861-1949); Etienne Casimir Hippolyte Cordellier-Delanoue (1806-1854); plus 6 others. No doubt some SLEEPERS in here.................100-150
19. [FRANCE] Mystery lot of misc. autographs. Includes: Auguste Hesse (1795-1869); Stephen Liegeard (1830-1925); Abel Etienne Lous Transon (1805-1876); plus 6 others. No doubt some SLEEPERS in here.................100-150
20. Josiah William Bailey (1873-1946) American politician who served as a U.S. senator from the state of North Carolina from 1931 to 1946. Born in Warrenton, North Carolina, he grew up in Raleigh and graduated from Wake Forest College (now Wake Forest University). Before turning to a career in law, Bailey was editor of the Biblical Recorder, a newspaper for North Carolina Baptists. Elected to the United States Senate in 1930, defeating longtime incumbent Furnifold McLendel Simmons, Bailey earned a reputation as a conservative while in office. In 1937, he coauthored the bipartisan Conservative Manifesto, a document criticizing President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal and proposing more conservative alternatives. Among other things, the Manifesto called for lower taxes and less spending. During his time in office, he served as chairman of the Committee on Claims and Committee on Commerce. Signed Check dated 1924...............40-60
21. [NASA] John A. Manke (1932-2019) served as a research pilot, Chief of Flight Operations, and as site manager NASA's Flight Research Center, later the Dryden Flight Research Center, at Edwards, CA, during a 22-year career with NASA. SIGNED COVER HONORING MANKE POSTMARKED 1973. Fine............25-35
23. [THEATRE] Ellen "Nellie" Farren (16 April 1848 – 29 April 1904) was an English actress and singer best known for her roles as the "principal boy" in musical burlesques at the Gaiety Theatre. SIGNATURE 1885. Signed on verso by George F. Bird. Obtrusibe tape remains. Approx. 6-3/4 x 4. Right edge is glued to another sheet.....................25-35
24. [CIVIL WAR] 6-1/4 x 1-3/4 in. slip signed by 2 US congressmen, one on each side. (1) James Wolcott Wadsworth (1846-1926) American farmer, soldier and congressman from NY. He was the son of Civil War General James Samuel Wadsworth (1807–1864). In 1864, Wadsworth joined the Union army and served during the Civil War. On January 24, 1865, he was awarded a brevet major for "gallant and meritorious service at the Battle of Five Forks, Va." He honorably mustered out June 25, 1865. Other side is signed by Thaddeus Maclay Mahon (1840-1916) was a soldier, attorney, railroad executive, and a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. During the American Civil War, he enlisted in August 1862 as a private in Company A, One Hundred and Twenty-sixth Regiment of the Pennsylvania Volunteers. After a term of service in this regiment, he reenlisted as a veteran in January 1864 in the Twenty-first Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Cavalry, and served until September 1865. He was severely wounded at Hatchers Run, Va. Very good...............25-35
25. [FRANCE] Jules-Louis Breton (1872-1940) was a chemist-inventor and a French politician. He was a representative of the French Assembly, and the proponent of the Breton-Pretot machine, a wire-cutting armoured vehicle developed in France from November 1914. The vehicle was developed with M. Pretot, engineer. Breton was born in Courrières, Pas-de-Calais. He was a Socialist with Anarchist tendencies, and as a Natalist, endeavoured to giving more freedom to women. During World War I he was France's Undersecretary of State for Inventions, and later founded and directed the National Research and Invention Ministry. He was also Minister of Hygiene under President Millerand in 1920. ALS, 1921, 1p. Approx. 4.5 x 7". VG............50-75
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26. [CIVIL WAR] Leonard Myers (1827-1905) was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania during the American Civil War and the early years of Reconstruction. He was major of the Ninth Regiment, Pennsylvania Militia, during the emergency service of September 1862 when Pennsylvania felt threatened by Robert E. Lee during the Maryland Campaign.Nice signature on 7 x 3.5 in. slip. VG................20-30
27. [CIVIL WAR] James H. Platt Jr. (1837-1894) American physician, politician and businessman. He was a congressman from Virginia. Platt practiced medicine in Vermont. During the Civil War, he joined the Union Army as first sergeant of the Third Regiment, Vermont Volunteer Infantry. He was promoted to captain and eventually lieutenant colonel. He declined assignment to duty as chief quartermaster of the Sixth Corps. After the war, Platt settled in Petersburg, Virginia. CLIP SIGNATURE, about 3-1/4 x 1 in......Min. Bid $8
From Walt Kuhn Estate28. [ART] Maynard Walker (1896-1985). Walker, was the New York art dealer representating the Estate of Walt Kuhn's art work during this time. In 1933, while working at the Ferargil Gallery in New York, Mr. Walker organized an exhibition for the Kansas City Art Institute that for the first time brought together the work of the regionalist painters Grant Wood, Thomas Hart Benton and John Steuart Curry. After Mr. Walker opened his own gallery, at 108 East 57th Street, in 1935, these artists joined him and showed regularly there. The gallery was also among the first to show the work of George Grosz, the German painter and caricaturist, who moved to the United States in 1932. Offered here are (1) Maynard Walker ALS, 1958, 2pp. To Brenda telling her to relax regarding Philadelphia. They were in talking stage with possible Walk Kuhn exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. (2) List of 24 Walt Kuhn painting [1957] owed by Brenda Kuhn. The artist Walt Kuhn [her father] died in 1949. (3) Maynard Walker - 1962 ANS to Brenda saying that Fleishman has taken the Prendergast and will pay next week. Fleishman owned the Kennedy Galleries in NYC that would later represent the Walt Kuhn Estate. (4) Brenda Kuhn signed 1966 bank check. VG.........Min. Bid $50
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29. Bill Asher (1921-2012) American television and film producer, film director, and screenwriter. He was one of the most prolific early television directors, producing or directing over two dozen series. With television in its infancy, Asher introduced the sitcom Our Miss Brooks, which was adapted from a radio show. He began directing I Love Lucy by 1952. As a result of his early success, Asher was considered an "early wunderkind of TV-land," and was hyperbolically credited in one magazine article with "inventing" the sitcom. In 1964, he began to direct episodes of Bewitched, which starred his then-wife Elizabeth Montgomery. Asher and Montgomery befriended President John F. Kennedy, and, together with Frank Sinatra, planned Kennedy's 1961 inaugural ceremony. Offered here are 4 items that Asher sent to Peter Lawford, the actor. (1) Typed 1963 memo re: PASSIONATE SEASON - David Picker is reading the script. David Picker (1931-2019) was an American motion picture executive and producer, working in the film industry for more than forty years. (2) Typed 1963 memo saying David Picker re: FOUR DAYS - should make the picture with or without Patty Duke. Asher would like to do it in the Great Lakes region for under $200,000. (3) typed 1963 memo re: a comedy like Arsentic and Old Lace; its a little stiff. (4) Typed 1963 memo, 1-1/2 pp. to Lawford giving brief comments about certain film projects, mentioning Rod Serling, Patty Duke, Haley Mills, Cary Grant, Ray Stark, & Tony Curtis. All VG................100-150
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30. [ART] Walt Kuhn (1877-1949) American painter and an organizer of the famous Armory Show of 1913, which was America's first large-scale introduction to European Modernism. Walt Kuhn is best remembered today for his key role in planning the Armory Show. Ironically, a man who was in the forefront of the modern movement and was seen as an advocate of adventurous new art in 1913 came to be labelled, because of his on-going commitment to representation, a conservative artist by future generations of art historians. Nevertheless, he holds a place in American art history as a skilled cartoonist, draughtsman, printmaker, sculptor and painter. Although he destroyed many of his early paintings, his works that remain today are powerful and are a part of most major American art collections. His portraits of circus and vaudeville entertainers are some of the most memorable, confidently painted works of twentieth-century American art. They are reminiscent of commedia dell'arte actor portraits done by the French masters centuries earlier. The Tragic Comedians (1916) in the collection of the Hirshhorn Museum and The White Clown (1929) in the collection of the National Gallery of Art are intense, arresting images and are among his most respected paintings. Offered here are some handwritten notes written by Walt Kuhn on 2 pages. It begins with "On entering first gallery...." He continues talking about the art he was viewing there, whereever that was. Not dated but c. 1940-45. About 5-1/4 x 8-1/2 in. Beginning to separate at some fold lines. UNSIGNED. Rare!..............300-400...............one time Min. Bid $90
31. [SCIENCE] James McKeen Cattell (1860-1944) American psychologist, was the first professor of psychology in the United States, teaching at the University of Pennsylvania, and long-time editor and publisher of scientific journals and publications, most notably the journal Science. He also served on the board of trustees for Science Service, now known as Society for Science & the Public (or SSP), from 1921–1944. The New York Times hailed him as "the dean of American science." Yet Cattell may be best remembered for his uncompromising opposition to American involvement in World War I. His public opposition to the draft led to his dismissal from his position at Columbia University, a move that later led many American universities to establish tenure as a means of protecting unpopular beliefs. Offered here is a ALS, written in the 3rd person to Robert S. Woodward (1849-1924) American civil engineer, physicist and mathematician. Diller and his wife accept invitation from Woodward to meet the members of the National Academy of Sciences. All of the handwriting is by Cattell. Approx. 3-3/4 x 6 in. Very good. Provenance: Estate of Robert S. Woodward' s summer home in New Hampshire...............Min. Bid $50
See above32. [FRANCE] Charles-Robert Boutin (1722-1810) noted French lawyer. He was successively deputy of the Attorney General of the Parliament of Paris ( 1741 ), adviser to the first chamber of requests (February 5, 1743), master of requests (February 17, 1749), president of the Grand Council (April 19, 1754), King's Commissioner to the Compagnie des Indes ( 1756 ), Intendant of Bordeaux ( 1758 - 1766 ). In 1762, with Querdisien Tremais, he interfered with Canada's Intendant BIGOT's operations with the Jewish merchant Abraham Gradis and with Biot's dishonest fur trade in Canada. Offered here is a 1783 manuscript document concerning Boutin's garden and work done by Maingot, Master Sculptor. Not signed. Approx. 8 x 12.5 in. VG.............100-150
33. [GREAT BRITAIN] group of signed address panels: (1) Sir William Horne (1774 – 13 July 1860) was a British barrister and Liberal politician. Postmarked 1834. (2) Stephen Lushington (17892-1873) British judge, Member of Parliament and a radical for the abolition of slavery and capital punishment. He served as Judge of the High Court of Admiralty from 1838 to 1867.Postmarked 1833. (3) Benjamin Lumley (1811-1875) was a Canadian-born British opera manager and solicitor. Born Benjamin Levy, he was the son of a Jewish merchant Louis Levy. Postmarked 1833. (4) Sir James Mackintosh (1765-1832) Scottish jurist, Whig politician and historian. His studies and sympathies embraced many interests. He was trained as a doctor and barrister, and worked also as a journalist, judge, administrator, professor, philosopher and politician. Postmarked 1826. (5) Charles Manners-Sutton, 1st Viscount Canterbury, GCB, PC (9 January 1780 – 21 July 1845) was a British Tory politician who served as Speaker of the House of Commons from 1817 to 1835. Postmarked 1833. VG.............100-150
34.[SPILLANE] James B. O'Connell - Editor of Cavalier Magazine 1952-1958. In its original format, Cavalier was planned by Fawcett to feature novelettes and novel excerpts by Fawcett's Gold Medal authors, including Richard Prather and Mickey Spillane. TLS, 1956, 2pp, to Spillane offering a couple of ideas for non-fiction pieces. Interesting content. Front page shows some wear....................50-75 Scan 1
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44. [ART] Leonard Wells Volk (1828-1895) American sculptor. He is notable for making one of only two life masks of United States President Abraham Lincoln. In 1867 he helped establish the Chicago Academy of Design and served as its president until 1878. He made several large monumental sculptures, including the tomb of the politician Stephen A. Douglas, and statues of American Civil War figures. Offered here is a collection of 7 signed bank checks, all 1893. VG................700-900
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36. [SCIENCE] George Ferdinand Becker (1847-1919) American geologist. His most important work was in connection with the origin and mode of occurrence of ore deposits, especially those of the western United States. He was a leader in mining geology and geophysics, and for many years was the chief of the Division of Chemical and Physical Research in the United States Geological Survey. The investigations under his direction led to the establishment of the Geophysical Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution of Washington. In 1896 he examined the gold mines of South Africa and at the time of the Spanish-American War was detailed to serve as geologist on the staff of General Bell with the army in the Philippine Islands. He died on 20 April 1919 in Washington, D.C. ALS, 1908, written in the 3rd person, accepting invitation. Not mentioned but this was sent to Robert S. Woodward in regards to invitation to meet members of the National Academy of Sciences. Fine..........60-80
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38. [MILITARY] George Miller Sternberg (1838-1915) U.S. Army physician who is considered the first U.S. bacteriologist, having written Manual of Bacteriology (1892). After he survived typhoid and yellow fever, Sternberg documented the cause of malaria (1881), discovered the cause of lobar pneumonia (1881), and confirmed the roles of the bacilli of tuberculosis and typhoid fever (1886). Offered here is a 1896 bank check endorsed on the verso by Sternberg. The check was sent and signed by Robert Simpson Woodward (1849-1924) American civil engineer, physicist and mathematician. Woodward sends $100 to Sternberg who was Treasurer of the Pasteur Monument Committee. Fine. VERY RARE! ..........300-600
39. [SOMERSWORTH, NH] archive of documents from the Rollins Family, dating from 1807-1841. Includes Andrew Rollins (1770-1833), Daniel Rollins (1794-1879), Ichabod Rollins (1769-1843), and John Rollins. Andrew represented Somersworth in the
New Hampshire Legislature from 1816 - 1820. Others person included: Harper Ricker, Josiah Bean, James Richardson, Samuel Roberts, Benjamin Carter etc. Generally very good condition. 12 documents................Min. Bid $75
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40. [AMERICANA] 1793 manuscript document from Portsmouth, New Hampshire. John Manning (1753-October 6, 1793) promises to pay Robert O. Treadwell 1,795 pounds. Witness was Isaac Ringe who was quite prominent; aided in establishing the northeast boundary, and during Governor Wentworth's operations erected a house here. As he was a loyalist, the Provincial Congress directed him, November 15, 1775, to remove himself to some place at least fifteen miles from Portsmouth, there to remain until he was granted leave to go abroad. This restriction was removed January 3, 1776. Wolfeborough was doubtless the place of his exile, as he evidently lived here before and after Governor Wentworth left the town. Approx. 7 x 3.5 in. Bottom edge ruff but generally very good overall.............50-75
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41. Henry Hart Milman (1791-1868) English historian and ecclesiastic. An 1850 envelope ink addressed by Milman but not signed. 4 x 2.5 in. VG..............Min. Bid $10
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42. [JEFF DAVIS] printed gov. document signed in type by Jeff Davis, Sec. of War, Feb. 2, 1857, 2pp. ESTIMATES - BARRACKS AT CARLISLE, PENNSYLVANIA. Bottom left corner missing o/w VG.........25-35
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43.[JEFF DAVIS] printed gov. document signed in type by Jeff Davis, Sec. of War, March 3, 1856, 9pp. fortifications for proper defence of New York and Brooklyn. VG.........25-35
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45. [AMERICANA] Benjamin Wadsworth (1750-1826) undated manuscript document signed Mr. Wadsworth making a payment to Dr. Holten. Wadsworth was the pastor of the First Church in Danvers, Massacustetts. Samuel Holten was a Continental Congressman from Massachusetts. Approx. 6 x 3-3/4 in. VG................80-120
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46. [FILM] Peter Lawford (1923-1984) English-born American actor. He was a member of the "Rat Pack" and brother-in-law to President John F. Kennedy, and more noted in later years for his off-screen activities as a celebrity than for his acting. From the 1940s to the 1960s, he had a strong presence in popular culture and starred in a number of highly acclaimed films. Offered here is a signed & inscribed early vintage photograph, inscribed "For Ivory - Two years is an awful long time, Love & kisses from "The Teeth!" Peter Lawford". Great photo but the ink has lightened considerably. Last name of his signature is almost gone.......Min. Bid $50
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47. [PORTRAIT] of James Boaden (1762–1839) English biographer, dramatist, and journalist, engraved by William Ridley (1764-1838). Image approx. 4-1/2 x 3-1/4" plus margins. VG............Min. Bid $10
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48. [MUSIC] Buddy Cage (1946-2020) American pedal steel guitarist, best known as a longtime member of the New Riders of the Purple Sage. Popular both as a performer and session musician, he played with many bands and recording artists, including Anne Murray, Bob Dylan, Brewer & Shipley, David Bromberg, and the Zen Tricksters. Signed album page. Also signed on the verso John DeSanto. About 4x6 in. VG.............25-35
49. [FILM] Rudy Vallee (1901-1986) American singer, actor, bandleader, and entertainer. He was one of the first modern pop stars of the teen idol type. Signed 1934 bank check made out to Arthur Tanner. VG............30-40
50. [THEATRE] Ludwig Barnay (1842-1924) German stage actor. He traveled as a “star,” visiting London in 1881 with the Meiningen Court Company, and in 1882 making a successful tour of the United States. From 1887 to 1894 he managed his Berliner Theater in Berlin. Offered here is a few lines and his signature, the backside of a 1885 letter written by him. The front side has been cropped at the bottom. Approx. 5 x 4 in....................25-35
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51. [FILM] Martha Raye (1916-1993) American comic actress and standards singer who performed in movies, and later on television. Signed, inscribed page from publication, 8.5 x 11"........Min. bid $10
See Raye52. Herman Merivale CB (1806-1874) English civil servant and historian. In 1859 he was transferred to the permanent under-secretaryship for India, receiving the distinction of CB. In 1870, Merivale was awarded the degree of DCL by Oxford University. Signed hand-addressed envelope, 5 x 3-1/4 in. VG.................35-45
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53. [ART] Original c. 1900 ink drawing signed F.B.B. Paper size is about 5.5 x 10 in.............Min. Bid $15
54. [FILM] Edra Jean "E. J." Peaker (b. 1944) is an American actress. Peaker is best known for her appearances in the movie Hello Dolly! and in the TV musical series That's Life. Signed page on which she makes 3 sketches. 5-1/2 x 7-3/4 in. Five.............Min. Bid $10
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55. [AVIATION] Frank Datin (?-1929)
On October 4, 1929 a bit of aviation history took place in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, when the Grube Airport officially opened and the first airmail from that airport was flown; Transcontinental Air Mail Service Datin flew 2,200 letters to Pittsburgh, 300 of them signed by him; two days later he died in a biplane crash during a stunt exhibition at Ebensberg, Pennsylvania. Signed Postal Card, heavy stock 9 x 5 in., 1929. Addressed to Mr. G.L. Peebler [?]. Very good. Mild bit of wear. One side of this large picture postcard depicts a typical airplane of the day (likely a Transcontinental Air Mail Service plane) soaring amidst a cloudy sky. The message side bears the 5-cent "Air Mail" stamp and a McKeesport, Pennsylvania cancellation of 1929. The message portion bears a finely printed note: "Dear Sir: -- It was my privilege to carry your Air Mail yesterday. Thanks very kindly for your patronage. My reward will be your continued use of the Air Mail." Above the closing word "Pilot," Datin signs in black ink. A handsome and decorative piece, with a two large blue and red stripes running horizontally across the top with "VIA AIR MAIL" printed between. The record shows that special airmail envelopes were selling well on that day at the dedication -- presumably this very type of commemorative card bearing this special one-day-only cancellation. This would have been one of the 300 items signed by Datin flown on that very day. Ironically, by the time this was further cancelled in McKeesport, Datin had been dead for two days. A most unusual and scarce aviation and philatelic item.................Min. Bid $5056. ENTERTAINMENT] Tommy Sands (b. 1937) American pop music singer and actor. Working in show business as early as 1949, Sands became an overnight sensation and instant teen idol when he appeared on Kraft Television Theater in January 1957 as "The Singin' Idol". Signed sheet on which he draws a self-portrait [quickly]. Approx. 5-1/4 x 8 in. Fine...........Min. Bid $25
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57. [MAINE] Shipbuilding in Maine, a 1825 document from Steuben [Maine], buying oak planks wood, signed by Mark Wilson (1782-1866) and Moses Colson (1782-1860). Approx. 7-3/4 x 3-3/4 in. VG..................50-75
58. FREDERICK "Fritz" SOLOMON (1899-1980) German Expressionist artist. Original typed 110 page manuscript signed Fritz Solomonski on title paghhe. The title is: Das Westen des Expressionismus, Sein Entwicklung und das Problem der Naturferne. Anything signed Fritz Salomonski would have been written before he left Germany. He has written Berlin on the title page. NOT TRANSLATED. approx. 8.5 x 13 in. paper. Solomon won the Mowbray Prize [1944] in London; was listed in WHO'S WHO IN ART [1954 London edition]. He studied art with such famous German artist's as: Max Liebermann, Martin Brandenburg, Eugene Spiro & Willy Jaeckel [Masterclass]. Exhibitions: Berlin, Cologne, Capetown, Haifa, London [Royal Academy], U.S., and in 1958 had one-man show at the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Havana, Cuba. In 1956 several of his paintings were exhibited at the Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio. He died in the U.S. We purchased his personal papers and most of his drawings at his estate sale. His work is fairly scarce. The photos shown below DO NOT accompany this drawing and are not for sale. Also, showing below is a copy of Royal Academy of Arts notification that Samuel Courtauld has selected a painting by Solomon for purchase in 1945. Courtauld, who would died two tears later, was the founder of the Courtauld Art Institute in England. Courtauld had formed an important art collection including multiple works by Manet, Cezanne, Renoir etc., which he gave to the Courtauld and the Tate. He had purchased at least 5 paintings by Frederick Solomon and when he saw the painting JACOB at Solomon's exhibition at the JABE Gallery he ordered that the painting be sent to the TATE Gallery but he died a few days later and the purchase never took place................500-800
59. [FROM KUHN ESTATE] Mark Hanna (1917-2003) American screenwriter and actor. He was known for writing the screenplays for many science fiction B movies in the 1950s, particularly Attack of the 50 Foot Woman. His first major screenplay was Gunslinger in 1956. He continued to be prolific through the mid-1960s, after which his film credits become sporadic. His last screenplay was for Star Portal in 1998, five years before his death from stroke complications. TLS, 1943, 1p, to the artist Walt Kuhn, who is at Ogunquit, Maine in September. Says............it must be delightful in Maine - read reviews of LAUGH TIME vaude show which opened at the Shubert - terrific raves - helluva good list of acts includes Ethel Waters, Frank Fay & Bert Wheeler - will get tickets for you, Lily [Cushing - Kuhn painted her portrait] & myself - maybe Hope Richardson can make it a foursome. 7-3/4 x 10 in. VG..................50-75
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60. [COLONIAL] Solomon Williams (1700-1776) pastor of the Lebanon, Connecticut's First Congregational Church. He was the father of William Williams (1731-1811) who was a delegate for Connecticut to the Continental Congress in 1776, and a signatory of the Declaration of Independence. CLIPPED SIGNATURE, slight loss top edge. Please look at picture before bidding on this.........50-75
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61. [ART] A.B. GRIFFITH - caricature ink drawing of the actress Jean Arthur, signed and dated 1939. About 10-1/4 x 7 in. VG..............Min. Bid $40
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62. [from WALT KUHN ESTATE] LaSalle Spier (1890-1982) American pianist, organist, composer and teacher, also a painter. He was the brother-in-law of Vera Kuhn, wife of the noted artist, Walt Kuhn. Offered here is a collection of about 14 letters, not including envelopes. These were written to Walt Kuhn and wife Vera, and also the artist's daughter, Brend from 1934 to 1967. Content is better than routine. VG........300-400.................Min. Bid $75
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Scan 263. James Oppenheim (1882–1932) American poet, novelist, and editor. A lay analyst and early follower of Carl Jung, Oppenheim was also the founder and editor of The Seven Arts, an important early 20th-century literary magazine. ALS, 1910, 1p. 8.5 x 11 in. Sun-toned on verso.................50-75
64. [ART] RICHARD CARLE - deceased New England artist. Worked a lot around Boston and the north shore. ORIGINAL drawing, signed, c. 1980. Approx. 8 x 10 plus margins. Top of paper has some wrinkling o/w VG..............150-200
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65. Diana Canova (b.1953) American actress, director, and professor. Offered here is a signed sketch, 8-1/4 x 5 in. VG.............50-75
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66. [FILM] Susan Seaforth Hayes (born 1943) American dramatic actress. She is best known for her portrayal of Julie Williams on the NBC drama Days of Our Lives, and her intermittent portrayal of Joanna Manning on the CBS daytime drama The Young and the Restless. She began playing the role of Julie Olsen Williams on Days of Our Lives in 1968, and is the only actor to appear on the show for all six decades (1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, and 2010s) in which it has been on the air. Mrs. Seaforth Hayes still regularly appears on Days as Julie Olsen Williams. Offered here is her signed 1965 contract for the film BILLIE starring Patty Duke. She was paid $750 for 2 week's employment in the role of Jean Carol [changed to Jean Matthews]. Counter signed by Milt Ebbins (1912-2008) the well-connected show business manager who was a liaison between Hollywood and the Kennedy White House. Mr. Ebbins was a well-liked Hollywood insider who directed the careers of actors, musicians and comedians. For more than 30 years, he was the personal manager of actor Peter Lawford. Through Lawford, who was married to Patricia Kennedy, a sister of John F. Kennedy's, Mr. Ebbins became a favorite of JFK's and a frequent guest at the White House and on Air Force One. At Kennedy's 45th birthday party in 1962, Mr. Ebbins gave Marilyn Monroe a push onstage at Madison Square Garden as she went out to sing her sultry version of "Happy Birthday." Seaforth & Ebbins have also initialed 2 other pages. Approx. 8-1/4 x 14 in. VG.............75-100
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67. [ART - FRANCE] Pierre Filloeul (1696; died Paris after 1754) French printmaker. He was the son of the engraver Gilbert Filloeul (1644-1714). He was his father's pupil (and not, as is sometimes claimed, that of Jacques-Philippe Lebas). His oeuvre extends from 1731 to 1754 and numbers c. 150 prints. Original etching, Portrait of Louis Duc D'Orleans, image approx. 7-1/2 x 5-1/2" plus margin. This is an 18th century impression. VG. Mounting trace top edge on verso............100-150
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68. [MAINE] Joe Brennan (b. 1934) the 70th Governor of Maine from 1979 to 1987. He is a former commissioner on the Federal Maritime Commission. TLS, 1990, signed Joe. To a publisher, thanking him for sending a book about Maine. Three file holes along left edge. Signed as a member of the US congress..................Min. Bid $10
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69. [ART] Louise Jopling (1843-1933) English painter of the Victorian era, and one of the most prominent female artists of her generation. ALS, no date, 3pp, 4 x 5-3/4 in. Jopling exhibited her work at the Palace of Fine Arts and The Woman's Building at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois. She joined the Society of Women Artists (1880) and the Royal Society of Portrait Painters (1891); she became the first woman to be admitted to the Royal Society of British Artists (1901). VG...............75-100
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70. [BALLET-Texas] Mikhail Baryshnikov (b. 1948) born in Russia he is considered among the greatest ballet dancers of our time. Offered here is a PROCLAMATION signed by the Mayor of Beaumont, Texas. For "MIKHAIL BARYSHNIKOV DAY" AUGUST 2, 1983. Approx. 11 x 14 in. Middle fold & stains bottom right corner. Some handwriting on the verso?????. Provenance: Mikhail Baryshnikov personal collection, Swann's Auction, East Coast Books...............300-400
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71. Francis Elias Spinner (1802-1890) American politician from New York. He served as Treasurer of the United States from 1861 to 1875, and was the first administrator in the federal government to employ women for clerical jobs. He served under Presidents Lincoln, Johnson and US Grant. He served from
March 16, 1861 – July 30, 1875. Offered here is a lengthy 8 page ALS written to Spinner from John C. Hopper, Secretary, Office of the National Revenue Reform Association. Dated Sept. 20, 1875. Spinner has docketed and dated on the verso of last page. VG...................100-200
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72. [SCIENCE] David Eugene Smith (1860-1944) American mathematician, educator, and editor. He is considered one of the founders of the field of mathematics education. Signed booklet, RELIGIO MATHEMATICA, 16 pages, octavo. Reprinted in 1921. Presidential address delivered before the Mathematical Association of America. Two mounting traces on front edge o/w VG................50-75
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73. [TV] Lea Thompson (b. 1961) American actress and director. She is best known for her 1990s NBC situation comedy Caroline in the City and her portrayal of Marty McFly's mother in the Back to the Future trilogy. Signed/inscribed 8x10 photo. VG..........20-30
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74. [AVIATION] Ruth Rowland Nichols (1901-1960) American aviation pioneer. She was the only woman yet to hold simultaneous world records for speed, altitude, and distance for a female pilot. She has a very interesting biography including her connect to Amelia Earhart. In December 1930, she beat Charles Lindbergh's record time for a cross-country flight, completing the trip in 13 hours, 21 minutes. Offered here is a biographical sheet on which pens about 8 lines [not signed]. Approx. 6 x 8 in. VG............50-75
75. [From Walt Kuhn Estate] a week after his death in 1949, ART DIGEST referred to Walt Kuhn as "one of the most forceful, independent and self-disciplined painters of our time." That glowing evaluation is certainly just as valid today. [Written by Bennard B. Perlman, the art historian-author, from Baltimore]. Offered here are items from the Kuhn Estate in Maine. [1] Kennedy Galleries 1974 letter sending $3000 for month of June. At this time the Kennedy Galleries in New York was handling the Kuhn Estate and Brenda Kuhn received a monthly check of $3000 plus more if something sold. [2] Letter dated 1962 from attorney for Kuhn estate about Maine inheritane tax and a $125 bill for repairs to the painting "Landscape and Brook. [3] Dorsha Hayes (1897-1990) stage actress and dancer during the early 20th century. She was born in Galesburg, Illinois. She made her debut appearance in Pierre Loti's Daughter of Heaven in 1912. TLS, 1983, 1p. [4] Althea Bransom, neice of the noted artist Paiul Bransom. ALS, 1983, 1p. [5] Ruth M. Blaine - ALS, 1983, 2pp. about an UNSIGNED painting from the 1930s WPA project. She wants to know if Brenda thinks it is by Walt Kuhn. [6] Two letters, 1983, fromMaine Historical Society. 7] Brenda Kuhn (1911-1912) Co-manager, Kuhn Estate, New York City, 1949-1956; manager, Kuhn Estate, New York City, 1956-1966; Collection of Brenda Kuhn, Kuhn Estate, Cape Neddick, 1956-1966; founder, Cape Neddick Park, since 1965. President Kuhn Memorial Corporation, Cape Neddick, 1968-1975. Founder Walt Kuhn Gallery, Cape Neddick, since 1980. Brenda Kuhn has been listed as a noteworthy art historian by Marquis Who's Who. SIGNED 1967 bank check. [8] Thank you for donation card 1960, from Museum of Art, Ogunquit, Maine. [9] Synnove Haughom (1911-2005) From 1969 to 1978 she was in charge of the art museum at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine. Later she moved north to Camden and was curator at the Farnsworth Museum. She was a close friend of Brenda Kuhn. 1p. ALS saying she was in Portland and saw "your father's paintings in the Barridoff [gallery' and the Museum." [10] Synnove Haughom (1911-2005) ALS, 1985, 2pp. Mentions seeing painting by Walt Kuhn and Marsden Hartley. [11] Synnove Haughom (1911-2005) ALS, 1984 on postcard - mentions Tea Party painting by Walt Kuhn "still puzzles me." [12] Synnove Haughom (1911-2005) ALS, 1984, 2pp. Talks about Port Clyde, maine and the church there says that "the Wyeths attend a different church - Ridge". The Wyeths, of course, were Andrew and Betsey Wyeth. [13] 2 page TLS from an attorney about the sale of a Kuhn painting titled "Brenda in Ogunquit." Price $75,000. [14] Brief autograph note dated 1983 re" birthday of a 3 year old child [Cape Neddick, Maine]. [15] Group of 3 Walt Kuhn gallery consignment sheets signed by 3 different artists 1986 & 87. [16] 2 misc. items. In all approx. 20 pieces. VG..............Min. Bid $75
77. Charles Edward Montague (1867-1928) English journalist, known also as a writer of novels and essays. Montague was against the First World War prior to its commencement, but once it started he believed that it was right to support it in the hope of a swift resolution. In 1914, Montague was 47, which was well over the age for enlistment, but in order to enlist, he dyed his white hair black to enable him to fool the Army into accepting him. H. W. Nevinson would later write that "Montague is the only man I know whose white hair in a single night turned dark through courage." He began as a grenadier-sergeant, and rose to lieutenant and then captain of intelligence in 1915. Later in the war, he became an armed escort for VIPs visiting the battlefield. He escorted such personalities as H.G. Wells and Bernard Shaw. After the end of World War I he wrote in a strong anti-war vein. He wrote that "War hath no fury like a non-combatant." Disenchantment (1922), a collection of newspaper articles about the war, was one of the first prose works to strongly criticise the way the war was fought, and is a pivotal text in the development of literature about the First World War. Disenchantment criticised the British Press' coverage of the war and the conduct of the British generals. Montague accused the latter of being influenced by the "public school ethos" which he condemned as a "gallant robust contempt for "swats" and for all who invented new means to new ends and who trained and used their brains with a will". Montague was the father of Evelyn Aubrey Montague, the Olympic athlete and journalist depicted in the 1981 film Chariots of Fire. ALS, Oxford, England, 1927, 1p, 6 x 9 in. VG......................Min. Bid $25
76. MITZI GAYNOR - actress. Sig/inscribed 6x4 picture. VG...............Min. Bid $8
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78. [ENGLAND] June 17, 1619 document, LIONEL WRIGHT, executor of the will of Richard Wright, deceased, lately collector of the imposition on tobacco, pays the balance outstanding for two years and 46 days ending Aug. 9, 1617. Richard Wright had also been paymaster of the forces in the Low Countries. Odd size - 15 x 1-1/2 in. On vellum..............Min. Bid $20
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79. [ART] Morrie Turner (1923-2014) American cartoonist, creator of the strip Wee Pals, the first American syndicated strip with an integrated cast of characters. During World War II, where he served as a mechanic with Tuskegee Airmen, his illustrations appeared in the newspaper Stars and Stripes. After the war, while working for the Oakland Police Department, he created the comic strip Baker's Helper. In 1970 Turner became a co-chairman of the White House Conference on Children and Youth. In 1967, cartoonist Bil Keane created the Family Circus character Morrie, a playmate of Billy and the only recurring black character in the strip, based on Turner. In 2003, the National Cartoonists Society recognized Turner for his work on Wee Pals and others with the Milton Caniff Lifetime Achievement Award. Offered here is a First Day Cover, 1973, honoring American Revolution Bicentennial on which he does an ink drawing of "WEE PALS", signed. Great item. 6.5 x 3.5 in. Fine..............100-20080. [MEDICINE] Sir Benjamin Ward Richardson FRS FRCP (1828-1896) British physician, anaesthetist, physiologist, sanitarian, and a prolific writer on medical history. He was the recipient of the Fothergill gold medal, awarded by the Medical Society of London in 1854 and of the Astley Cooper triennial prize for an essay in physiology. He was a close personal friend, and professional colleague, of John Snow. On Snow's sudden death he took over the final editing of Snow's draft On Chloroform and Other Anaesthetics and supervised its publication in 1858. Richardson was a sanitary reformer, who busied himself with many of the smaller details of domestic sanitation which tend, in the aggregate, to prolong the average life in each generation. ALS, 1877, 2pp., written to Samuel Carter Hall (1800-1889) the Irish-born Victorian journalist who is best known for his editorship of The Art Journal and for his much-satirised personality. Fine.............100-150
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81. Mary Baird Bryan (1861-1930) wife of William Jennings Bryan. She was an American writer and suffragette. Mary Elizabeth would emerge as an important part of Bryan's career, managing his correspondence and helping him prepare speeches and articles. Mary passed the bar exam and learned German in order to help his career. ALS, not dated to Mr. Berger, 2pp. 5-1/2 x 8-1/4 in. On page 2 she says "I was never so proud of Mr. Bryan as now. He possesses powers of strategy & management of which I was not aware."................Min. Bid $45
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82. George Mitchell (b. 1933) United States Senator from Maine from 1980 to 1995 and as Senate Majority Leader from 1989 to 1995. He has taken a leading role in negotiations for peace in Northern Ireland and the Middle East, being appointed United States Special Envoy for Northern Ireland (1995–2001) by President Clinton and as United States Special Envoy for Middle East Peace (2009–2011) by President Obama. TLS, 1987, 1p. Sends editor thanks for sending a book. Signed George. VG...............25-35
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Douglas Volk artist 50 signed checks83. [ART] DOUGLAS VOLK [1856-1935] AMERICAN ARTIST. Douglas was born to be an artist. His father was the famous sculptor Leonard Wells Volk and his mother Emily Barlow Volk was counsin to Senator Steven Douglas. At a young age Douglas showed an ability to draw and was taken seriously later studying with George Inness, and at age 14 took classes at the Accademia San Luca in Italy. In 1873 Volk went to Paris to study at Ecole des Beaux Arts with the Master Jean-Leon Gerome. When he returned to the U.S. he began teaching at The Cooper Institute in New York and in 1886 was founder of the Minneapolis School Of Fine Art. In 1893 Volk was chosen for the selection committee at the Columbian Expo where he exhibited three paintings and the the gold medal, his first major award. In 1899 the National Academy granted him membership. His paintings hang in many important collections including the Metropolitan Museum in NY. Douglas Volk first ventured into Lincoln portraiture in 1908, and that canvas, reworked in 1917, eventually found its way into the National Gallery of Art. It also achieved a kind of anonymous familiarity between 1954 and 1968, when it was featured on the regular four-cent U.S. postage stamp. When in 1860, Lincoln sat in Leonard Volk's studio, a liittle child was running in and out. The great man took him on his knee and asked his name. It was Douglas. It was this boy, long grown to manhood who was the paint one of the most famous portraits of Lincoln. One of his Lincoln portraits hangs in the Lincoln Bedroom in The White House. Collection of 50 signed bank checks, dating 1896-1930.................Min. Bid $450
84. [ART] Charles Henry White (1878-1918) was born at Hamilton, Ontario, and was educated partly in Europe and partly in the United States. He studied for a time at the Art Student League in New York City, working at illustrations and especially pen drawing. It was Joseph Pennell, the prominent American etcher, whom Mr. White met in Venice, Italy, in 1901, who induced him to take up etching. Original etching, plate signed, [1903], tissue guard still attached, image approx. 3-1/4 x 4-7/8" plus margins. VG.........50-75
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85. [ART] Arnold W. Brunner (1857-1925) American architect. He was a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects after 1892 and was appointed by Theodore Roosevelt to the United States Commission of Fine Arts in Washington, D.C. Offered here is a 1923 bank check made out to Brunner, endorsed on verso by him. Check is signed by Douglas Volk (1856-1935) American portrait and figure painter, muralist, and educator. He taught at the Cooper Union, the Art Students League of New York, and was one of the founders of the Minneapolis School of Fine Arts. He and his wife Marion established a summer artist colony in western Maine. VG..............50-75
86. [PORTRAIT] Lydia H. Sigourney (1791-1865) popular American poet during the early and mid 19th century. She was commonly known as the "Sweet Singer of Hartford". Most of her works were published with just her married name Mrs. Sigourney. Original antique engraved portrait of Sigourney, image approx. 3.5 x 4.5 plus wide margins. VG...........25-35
87. [FILM] Iron Eyes Cody (1904-1999) Italian-American actor. He portrayed Native Americans in Hollywood films, famously as Chief Iron Eyes in Bob Hope's The Paleface (1948). He also played a Native American shedding a tear about litter in one of the country's most well-known television public service announcements, "Keep America Beautiful". Signed and inscribed newspaper clipping about Gen. george A. Custer. Approx. 6-3/4 x 10-1/2 in. VG.................25-35
88. [AMERICANA] The State of Maine imposes a $500 fine on the Town of Plymouth, Maine for not repaiting a road. Dated 1834, 1p, 7-3/4 x 12 in. VG................50-75
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89. [MUSIC] Elsa Clay - Assistant Executive Director of Composers and Lyricists Guild of America. TLS, 1964, 1p. to Milt Ebbins, informing Ebbins that Paul Anka, Bobby Darin, Adolph Green, Jule Styne etc. "....have been employed by at least one of the producers which as signed....." Includes list of composers. Fine.............40-60
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90. Hulett C. Merritt (1872-1956) American real estate developer, investor, rancher and art collector. He sold real estate in his hometown of Duluth, Minnesota, developed Texas City, Texas with other businessmen, and invested in real estate in Los Angeles, California, where he built the Merritt Building. He was a director and large shareholder of U.S. Steel. As a majority shareholder of the United Electric and Power Company, he installed electricity and gas in 17 cities in California, including Santa Barbara and San Diego. He owned a large ranch in Tulare County. TLS, 1949, 1p. to the Editors of Who's Who In America. Interesting. VG................50-75
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91. Jesse Column Dickey (1808-1891) was a Whig member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. He served as quartermaster and later paymaster in the United States Army during the American Civil War. Signed endorement on the back of 1869 bank check made out to him. VG..................25-35
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92. [AMERICANA] Louisa James writes a 1857 letter from Philadelphia to her sister. 4pp. in ink. Black history content. "............I told him Cunningham had become so obnoxious to the neighbors by his intimacy with the negroes that unless he had him removed I had no doubt he would be driven from the neighborhood..........I don't feel he is anything but a stranger to our family........who may be doing an injury to the negroes........rich but selfish........so forward you must keep him in his place. VG...............50-75
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93. [NAZI PERSECUTION] the following letters are from the personal papers of Frederick Solomon (1899-1980). Dr. Frederick K. “Fritz” Solomon (originally Solomonski) was born in Berlin, Germany in 1899. In 1938, when the synagogue he was serving at was torched by Nazis and he was subsequently summoned by the Gestapo, he fled Germany with his wife, Margot, and emigrated to England. While still in Europe, Solomon had studied art under the German-Jewish artists Max Liebermann, Martin Brandenburg and Eugene Spiro, and German expressionist Willy Jaeckel. In England, he continued his artistic career, exhibiting his religious and expressionistic work at various galleries throughout the country, including the Royal Academy and the Kensington Art Gallery in London, where he had a one-man show. His work is in the permanent collections of the Courtauld Institute, the Bazalel Museum in Jerusalem, and the Ben Uri Art Gallery St. John’s Wood, London (now incorporating the London Jewish Museum of Art). He was the curator of this latter gallery from 1943 to 1946. In 1954, Solomon left England to take up a position as rabbi for Temple Beth Ha Shalom in Williamsport, PA. After three years in Pennsylvania, he sought another position and, as a member of the Central Conference of American Rabbis, was appointed rabbi at Temple Beth Israel in the Vedado suburb of Havana, where he wrote sermons and hosted religious services for his congregation, a part of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations. Solomon was also active in the Jewish Progressive movement, frequently communicating with representatives of The World Union for Progressive Judaism throughout the 1950s in an attempt to officially associate his congregation with the organization. Dr. Solomon left Havana in 1960 and relocated to Laconia, N.H., where he served as rabbi at Temple B’nai Israel until 1963. He and his wife then moved to Rochester, N.H. in 1963, where he opened the New English Art Gallery and Studio. In his later years, Solomon served as the chair of the Department of Fine Arts at Nathaniel Hawthorne College in Antrim, New Hampshire. He died in in 1980. Offered here is a collection of letters written to Frederick Solomon. It includes items sent to Solomon from The United Restitution Organization (URO) that was established in 1948 as a legal aid service to assist victims of Nazi persecution living outside Germany in making restitution and indemnification claims against Germany and Austria. The URO has served over 250,000 clients. It helped Jews, Roma, and other victims of Nazi crimes. At its most expansive, the URO maintained 29 offices in 15 countries around the world. British barrister Norman Bentwich was the chairman of the URO board from 1948 until his death in 1971, and Kurt May, a German-born lawyer who had fled the Nazis in 1934 after he defended a leading Social Democrat wrongly accused of being a Communist, served as its director from the early 1950s until 1990. INCLUDES a TLS, 1939 signed by Alexander J. Burnstein (1900-1980) Rabbi who was born in Kiev, Ukraine and, after making his way to the United States, graduated from Northwestern University. On December 1, 1938, upon the successful arrangement of this position by Cyrus Adler (who had presided over Burnstein's ordination less than a decade before), became the executive secretary of the Advisory Committee on Refugee Jewish Ministers from 1938 to 1942. Burnstein was one of two Jews, both rabbis (the other being Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel), who contributed to a volume celebrating the lifework of Reinhold Niebuhr.[20] Burnstein, a Jewish "admirer" of Niebuhr, wrote of his disagreement with Niebuhr in focusing on teshuvah rather than original sin in understanding human behavior. Also Else Bienheim (1905-1998) TLS, 1970, from the United Restitution Organization (URO). A lengthy TLS, 1937 signed LUDWIG KLAAR from Stockholm. Not translated. Leslie I. Edger (1905-1984) TLS, 1939, 1p. Bruno Buchwald - TLS, 1938, 1p. PLUS 8 others dating 1938-39. VG. Certainly worthy of research. There are Solomon papers in the collection of the Univ. of New Hampshire and Miami University in Florida...................200-300
94. [AMERICANA] 1847 Stampless Cover BOSTON, MA Clothes Business, Styles ALBERT FULLER & CO. Offered here is a wonderful 1+pp. ALS (stampless cover, with a red Boston postal cancel), 7 3/4" x 10" (folded sheet), dated Boston August 4th 1847, sent to Mess. Albert Fuller & Co. in Scotland, CT, simply signed A.F. & Co., a fine letter concerned with the making of clothes: "... 10 ps lay. plaid vesting to be made in three styles one third single breasted 42 one third half double breasted 50 we get for making & triming one third Double breasted 62... [much more]." Folds (very small breaks), otherwise very good................Min. Bid $10
95. [PRESIDENT POLK] government document printed for the US Congress in1847 - from the President of the United States, James K. Polk. Ex. Doc. No. 11, FLOATING DRY DOCKS, 152pp., about 5-1/4 x 8-3/4 in. These are called Gov Docs. VG......Min. Bid $10
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97. [PORTRAIT] antique engraved portrait of Thomas Say (1787-1834) the American entomologist, conchologist, and herpetologist. His definitive studies of insects and shells, numerous contributions to scientific journals, and scientific expeditions to Florida, Georgia, the Rocky Mountains, Mexico, and elsewhere made him an internationally known naturalist. Say has been called the father of American descriptive entomology and American conchology. He served as librarian for the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, curator at the American Philosophical Society, and professor of natural history at the University of Pennsylvania. Image approx. 3-3/8 x 4-1/4 in. plus clean margins. Fine................Min. Bid $10
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183. [SCIENCE] Charles Frederick Marvin (1858-1943) American meteorologist. He was born at Putnam, Ohio. He graduated from Michigan State University in 1883, and was appointed to the United States Army Signal Corps of the United States Army. On July 1, 1891, an Act of Congress created the Weather Bureau from the signal service. All the men and duties relating to weather were transferred from the War Department. He became professor of meteorology in 1903 in the Weather Bureau, and chief there in 1913. Marvin conducted important experiments for determining the amount of moisture in the air, invented instruments for automatically measuring and recording rainfall, snowfall, etc., and produced other advancements during the time when man first began the employment of powered aircraft. Marvin wrote numerous pamphlets and papers published by the Weather Bureau. He contributed to the New International Encyclopedia. Offered here is a 1905 autograph note signed, written in the 3rd person, accepting invitation from National Academy of Sciences. 5-1/4 x 6-3/4 in. Fine..................75-100 98. [PORTRAIT] King William 4th (1765-1837) King of United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Antique original engraved portrait. Approx. 2-3/4 x 2-1/4" plus wide margins. VG..........Min. Bid $10
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99. [COLONIAL MAINE] small manuscript document, Kittery, Maine, dated 1781, paying Capt. Roger Mit(chell), signed by Charles Chauncy (1729-1809) he was the nephew of Sir William Pepperell (1696-1759). The right side is partially missing. Approx. 4 x 4-1/4 in. Signed 1782 on verso by Capt. Roger Mitchell (1742-1817). Expected age wear.............50-75
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100. [NEW HAMPSHIRE] Isaac A. Hill (1827-1903) Probate Court Register; he was the son of Isaac Hill, the governor and US Senator. Document Signed, 1873, about 7.5 x 9.5 in. VG.............25-35
101. [AMERICANA] Nathaniel Adams (1756-1829) served as private and corporal in the Worcester county militia. He was a surveyor and civil engineer from Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and clerk of the Superior Court from 1787 until his death. Justice of the Peace in Rockingham County, NH 1789-1806; First president of the Athenaeum 1829. Founder of the New Hampshire Historical Society & Portsmouth Library. Offered here is a 1824 document signed as Clerk. Land sale between Nath. A. Haven & John Haven. Some light spots o/w VG.................Min. Bid $25
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102. [From Walt Kuhn Estate] ARCHIVES OF AMERICAN ART 1962. TWO letters written in 1962 between Brenda Kuhn and William E. Woolfenden. Mostly about the Montress Gallery and the Armory Show 50th Anniversary Exhibition. William E. Woolfenden, who made it his mission to gather every artifact, photograph, scrap of paper and taped recollection he could about American artists, collectors, curators and dealers, was the director of the Smithsonian Institution's Archives of American Art. Mr. Woolfenden, who was born in Detroit and had bachelor's and master's degrees from Wayne State University, went to work for the Detroit Institute of Arts and was its director of education when the museum's director, Edgar P. Richardson, had an idea that would change both their lives. Mr. Woolfenden, who was associated with the archives from the beginning, was named assistant director in 1960, and after Mr. Richardson's retirement from the museum, he became the archives' first full-time director. During the next 19 years Mr. Woolfenden, who made Manhattan his headquarters, built what had begun as a modest depository into the world's largest archive devoted to American art, a treasure trove for scholars. The letter from Woolfenden was signed by his secretary. Brenda Kuhns letter was her signed retained COPY as was her practice when sending letters.......200-300 Min. Bid $50
103. [SCIENCE] Charles Frederick Marvin (1858-1943) American meteorologist. He was born at Putnam, Ohio. He graduated from Michigan State University in 1883, and was appointed to the United States Army Signal Corps of the United States Army. On July 1, 1891, an Act of Congress created the Weather Bureau from the signal service. All the men and duties relating to weather were transferred from the War Department. He became professor of meteorology in 1903 in the Weather Bureau, and chief there in 1913. Marvin conducted important experiments for determining the amount of moisture in the air, invented instruments for automatically measuring and recording rainfall, snowfall, etc., and produced other advancements during the time when man first began the employment of powered aircraft. Marvin wrote numerous pamphlets and papers published by the Weather Bureau. He contributed to the New International Encyclopedia. Offered here is a 1905 autograph note signed, written in the 3rd person, accepting invitation from National Academy of Sciences. 5-1/4 x 6-3/4 in. Fine..................75-100 104. J.P. Morgan Jr. (1867-1943), also known as Jack Morgan, was an American banker, finance executive, and philanthropist. Morgan Jr. inherited the family fortune and took over the business interests including J.P. Morgan & Co. after his father J. P. Morgan died in 1913. Document Signed, J.P. Morgan & Co., NY, 1896, 1p. To J.A. Barnard, Indianapolis, re: check $1673.75. Barnard was a railroad man. VG...............Min. Bid $50
105. [THEATRE] Sam Bernard (1863-1927) was an English-born American vaudeville comedian who also performed in musical theatre, comic opera and burlesque and appeared in a few silent films. Signature dated 1900. Not attractive. Approx. 5 x 2-3/4 in. Laid down. Provenance: Boothbay Theatre Museum, Boothbay, Maine............Min. Bid $8
106. [FROM MELVILLE INGALLS FILES] small archive: [1] Melville Ingalls [1842-1914] TLS, 1900, 1p., to J.A. Barnard. [2] John T. Dye - 1900 TLS, 1-1/2 pp. re: estate of Abbie Ingalls, who was the grand-daughter of Melville Ingalls. [3] John Alfred Barnard (b. 1861) TLS, 1900, 1p. Barnard, John Alfred, Ex-General Manager Peoria & Eastern Ry. Address Indianapolis, Ind. Born Aug. 27, 1861, at Grenville, Que. Educated at the Galt Collegiate Institute at GaIt, Ont. Entered railway service 1878 as stenographer in general superintendent's office Kansas City St. Joseph & Council Bluffs Rd. since which he has been consecutively clerk in assistant and. general superintendents' offices; engineer's, auditor and assistant treasurer's offices; clerk in general manager's office Hannibal & St. Joseph Rd; clerk treasury department Chicago Burlington & Quiney Rd at Chicago, Ill.; one year assistant paymaster same road; 1887 to April 1889, purchasing department Ohio & Mississippi Ry at Cincinnati, O.; April to Oct. 1, 1889, purchasing agent same road; Oct. 1, 1889. to March 1, 1890. general manager Ohio Indiana & Western Rd; March 1, 1890 to July 1, 1891, assistant general manager Cleveland Cincinnati Chicago & St. Louis Ry; July 1, 1891 to Feb. 1905. general manager Peoria & Eastern Ry (Cleveland Cincinnati Chicago & St. Louis Ry Co., lessee); March 1900 to March 12, 1901, also vice-president Peoria & Pekin Union Ry; March 12, 1901 to March 10, 1903, also president Peoria & Pekin Union Ry. Plus other pages................200-300 Min. Bid $35
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Scan 5107. [Country Music] Charlie Pride (1934-2020) American country music singer. Signed & inscribed 8x10 color photo..........50-75
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108. [FILM] Warren Berlinger (1937-2020) American character actor, with Broadway runs, movie and television credits, and much work in commercials. His signed contract for the film "BILLIE", starring Patty Duke. Also signed by Milt Ebbins who was Peter Lawford's business manager. Includes 3 additional Rider pages, each signed with the initials of Berlinger and Ebbins. VG..........100-150
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109. Conrad K. Grieb (1905-1991) was the author of Uncovering the Forces for War. In the late 1930s he was office manager of Seward Collins's American Review Bookshop in New York. During the war he served with the United States Coast Guard. His book "Uncovering the Forces for War" was a unabashedly pro-German survey of the undercover forces for war: British World Empire, World Finance, and their constant companion, Organized World Jewry. The book was published by Grieb under his Examiner imprint and distributed widely among the remnants of the post-war American far right. Grieb later authored American Manifest Destiny and the Holocausts. Offered here is a full page 1949 TLS to George Andrews Moriarty (1883-1968) American genealogist. Moriarty went to work for the U. S. State Department in the foreign service, and served in consular and secretarial roles in Fiume, Italy; Mexico City; and Guatemala. He returned to Harvard once again to study law, and received his LL.B. in 1916. He practiced law in Providence, Rhode Island and Boston, Massachusetts for over a decade, which time also included a year in the U.S. Army at the end of World War I when he was a captain in military intelligence. In 1927 he ended his career in law and devoted the remainder of his life to historical and genealogical pursuits. In 1986 the National Genealogical Society instituted a Hall of Fame for individuals that had made significant strides in the field of genealogy. In 1990 G. Andrews Moriarty was inducted into that prestigious group, having been nominated by the Genealogical Society of Utah and the American Society of Genealogists. Moriarty was known to be anti-semitic per Maine State Police and a Nazi sympathizer. MORIARTY was deeply interested in the threat of Communism in the United States. He added he believed the Jewish people were behind the Communist Party over the whole world and were using the Russians and the Communist Party to eventually gain mastery over all the world's people. He stated he was desirous of ascertaining who the sender of certain literature was and would cooperate with the FBI in every way. He stated further he would recontact writer in the event he receives any more literature, particularly if a return address accompanies the literature. Offered here are many items from the personal papers of G. Andrews Moriarty. RARE! VG...............Min. Bid $30
110. [FILM] Catherine Deneuve (b. 1943) French actress. Signed color photo, 4-1/8 x 5-7/8 in. Fine...........35-45 See above
111. Lawrence F. Abbott (1859-1933) American editor and writer, son of Lyman Abbott. In 1891 he became president of the Outlook Company. As well as being a close friend to Theodore Roosevelt, throughout almost his whole life, he also served as secretary to Theodore Roosevelt during the latter's tour of Europe and Africa (1909–10), and edited Roosevelt's African and European Addresses (1910). He was the author of an article on Theodore Roosevelt in the Encyclopædia Britannica (1911), and of Impressions of Theodore Roosevelt (1919) and The Story of NYLIC (1930). Signed & inscribed 4-1/4 x 2-3/4 in. card, dated 1921. Attractive and fine...............25-35
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112. [FILM] Ralph Bellamy (1904-1991) American actor whose career spanned 62 years on stage, film, and television. During his career, he played leading roles as well as supporting roles, garnering acclaim and awards, including an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor for The Awful Truth (1937). Offered here is a signed sketch [a comical self-portrait], 5-1/4 x 8 in. He made the sketch but apparently didn't like it so he added NOT before the first name. VG.............50-75
See above113. [TAFT-HARTLEY BILL] Philip J. Philbin (1898-1972) Democratic U.S. Congressman from Massachusetts. From 1917 until 1919, during the First World War, served as a seaman in the United States Navy. In 1942, as the Democratic nominee, Philbin was elected to the 78th United States Congress and to the thirteen succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1943 - January 3, 1971). At the very end of the 91st United States Congress, he served as chairman of the Committee on Armed Services, due to the death of L. Mendel Rivers on December 28, 1970. Offered here are 3 typed pages of a speech made before congress against passage of the Taft-Hartley Bill. All of the ink notationa & handwriting on the pages was made by Philbin. Also included is the same typed speech without his handwriting. VG.............Min. Bid $50
114. [TAFT-HARTLEY BILL] Philip J. Philbin (1898-1972) Democratic U.S. Congressman from Massachusetts. From 1917 until 1919, during the First World War, served as a seaman in the United States Navy. In 1942, as the Democratic nominee, Philbin was elected to the 78th United States Congress and to the thirteen succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1943 - January 3, 1971). At the very end of the 91st United States Congress, he served as chairman of the Committee on Armed Services, due to the death of L. Mendel Rivers on December 28, 1970. Offered here are 4 typed pages of a speech made before congress. Appears to be about military pay [Bill H.R. 5007, circa 1950]. All of the ink notationa & handwriting on the pages was made by Philbin. Also included are 3 clean typed copies of the speech without his handwriting. VG.............Min. Bid $50
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115. Mystery Lot of 9 documents, dated 1828 - circa 1950. You do the research. Conditions mostly VG..........Min. Bid $15
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116. Lydia Maria Child (1802-1880) American abolitionist, women's rights activist, Native American rights activist, novelist, journalist, and opponent of American expansionism. Stamped postmarked Boston July 14 [no yr] envelope addressed in her hand to Mrs. Mary E. Stearns Care of George L. Stearns, 129 Milk St., Boston, Mass. NOT SIGNED. Mary Elizabeth [Preston] married George Stearns in 1843. George L. Stearns (1809-1867) was an American industrialist and merchant in Medford, Massachusetts, as well as an abolitionist and a noted recruiter of black soldiers for the Union Army during the American Civil War. Approx. 5.5 x 3 in. VG and Scarce!................80-120
118. [FILM] Butterfly McQueen (1911-1995) American actress. Originally a dancer, McQueen first appeared in film in 1939 as Prissy, Scarlett O'Hara's maid, in the film Gone with the Wind. She was unable to attend the movie's premiere because it was held at a whites-only theater. Often typecast as a maid, she said: "I didn't mind playing a maid the first time, because I thought that was how you got into the business. But after I did the same thing over and over, I resented it. I didn't mind being funny, but I didn't like being stupid." She continued as an actress in film in the 1940s, and then moved to television acting in the 1950s. Photocopy picture of her in role as Prissy. The signature is printed but she has added "as Prissy of G.W.T.W." 8.5 x 11 in. VG..........50-75........Min. Bid $20
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117. [LINCOLN] LEONARD W. VOLK (1828-1895) American sculptor. Most famous for making a life mask of American President Abraham Lincoln. In 1857, he settled in Chicago, where he helped to establish the Academy of Design and was for eight years its head. In 1860 he made a life mask of Lincoln, of whom only one other was ever made (by Clark Mills in 1865). In the early part of spring in 1860, during Abraham Lincoln's visit to Chicago, Volk asked him to sit for a bust. When Lincoln agreed, the artist decided to start by doing a life mask. Lincoln found the process of letting wet plaster dry on his face, followed by a skin-stretching removal process, "anything but agreeable." But he endured it with good humor, and when he saw the final bust, he was quite pleased, declaring it "the animal himself." Volk later used the life mask and bust of 1860 as the basis for other editions, including a full-length statue of Lincoln. OFFERED HERE: Signed 1895 National Bank of Illinois bank check, approx. 3 x 6.25 in., star & one other cancellation. Very good condition...................100-150
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119. [ART] RALPH BAKSHI - American animator/draftsman. In the late 1950s & early 1960s he worked at CBS-Terrytoons on such series as "Heckle and Jeckle" and "Mighty Mouse." From there he went to Famous Studios-Paramount, where he directed countless "Casper the Friendly Ghost" and "Little Audrey" cartoons, among others. During the 1960s he also animated Peter Max's commercials. When Famous Studios closed in 1967, Bakshi went into partnership with Steve Krantz. Their first venture was "Fritz the Cat", released in 1972. The success of "Fritz" prompted "Heavy Traffic" [1973], a funny-sad chronicle of life in New York's slums. Striking out on his own, Bakshi produced the sometimes brilliant, often disappointing "Coonskin" [1974]; also "Wizards" [1977]; "Lord of the Rings" [1978]. Ralph Bakshi occupies a somewhat ambiguous position in the animation world. He is one of the more original artists at work in the animated cartoon medium. He has become a cult figure. ORIGINAL pencil drawing, unsigned on 8 x 5 in. sheet. Fine. As this was a "working study" there was no reason for him to have signed it................50-75
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120. Maine Paper - approx. 85 old documents, the earliest being 1834 - to about 1935. Receipts & business & legal paper. Needs research. Varied conditions.................Min. Bid $60
121. [COLONIAL] John Hancock (1737-1793) American patriot, Signer of the Declaration of Independence. Offered here is a 1783 manuscript document. Ebenz. Winter Caless pays John Hancock. The docket handwriting on the backside was written by Hancock. Some loss of paper well away from Hancock's endorsement on the verso. Approx. 7-3/4 x 3-1/2 in.......Min. Bid $350
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122. [MIXED LOT] includes: (1) Louisa Eldridge (1829-1905) American actress also know as Aunt Louisa. As a member of New York's Union Square Theatre company, she specialized in playing older women. C;op signature 1898. (2) Lloyd "Sunshine" Olen Parker (1927-1999) American actor. He appeared in 25 films between 1959 and 1994. He is best known for his roles as Emmet in 'Road House' and Edgar Deems in 'Tremors." He typically played minor roles as either a bum or an old codger. Unsigned 1985 Warner Bros. paycheck. (3) Konstantin G. Fedoseev - TLS, Russian Embassy in Washington DC. TLS, 1956, 1o. Says that Mrs. Senuita does not wish to leave the Soviet Union for the US. (4) Bea Wain (1917-2017) American Big Band-era singer and radio personality born in the Bronx, New York City. She had a number of hits with Larry Clinton and his Orchestra. After her marriage she and her husband became involved in radio, helming a show titled "Mr. and Mrs. Music". Card signed and inscribed by Bea and her husband Andre Baruch(1908-1991) French-American film narrator, radio announcer, news commentator, talk show host, disc jockey and sportscaster. (5) Job Lyman (1781-1870) Vermont politician, attorney and banker who served as Vermont's State Auditor. Signed 1812 Vermont Supreme Court document, 7.5 x 12.5 in. VG. (6) Thomas Gray Fleming - signed printed poem, 1909. (7) Sudie Bond (1928-1984) American actress on film, stage, and television.......Min. Bid $50
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123. [GEORGE WASHINGTON] 2 antique engravings: (1) Washington's House, Mount Vernon. Image approx. 4-3/4 x 7-1/4 plus margins. (2) The Tomb of Washington, Mount Vernon. Image approx. 7 x 4 plus margins. VG.........50-75
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Scan 2125 From the Paper of Charles B. Rounds, Calais, Maine. Group of 11 documents plus one letter written to Rounds from Kansas City, Mo. 1873, 3pp, signed Geo. M. Chase. These date from 1869 to 1905. Six of them are signed by Rounds [some in the text]. Charles B. Rounds - served in the civil war and was a noted attorney and judge from Calais, Maine. He was First Lieut. in Company D, 32nd Maine Infantry. Mustered April 19, 1864; wounded in the arm May 12th at Spottysylvania. Rounds was at Elmira, NY guarding prisoners of war, having been assigned by Special Order No. 164 July 20, 1864..................Min. Bid $50
126. [COLONIAL] James Otis Jr. (1725-1783) was an American lawyer, political activist, pamphleteer, and legislator in Boston, a member of the Massachusetts provincial assembly, and an early advocate of the Patriot views against the policy of Parliament which led to the American Revolution. His well-known catchphrase "Taxation without Representation is tyranny" became the basic Patriot position. ALS, Boston, 1763, 1p. money transfer. Approx. 7-1/4 x 5 in.Nunerous old tape repairs detract..................Min. Bid $200
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127. MYSTERY LOT of 7 items, dating from 1840 to 1930............Min. Bid $15
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128. MYSTERY LOT of 7 items, dating from 1785 to 1962............Min. Bid $15
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129. MYSTERY LOT of 15 items, dating from 1889 to 1996............Min. Bid $25
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130. MYSTERY LOT of 13 items, dating from 1820 to 1984............Min. Bid $25
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131. MYSTERY LOT of 11 items, dating from 1828 to 1981............Min. Bid $25
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132. MYSTERY LOT of 10 items, dating from 1842 to 1985............Min. Bid $25
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133. MYSTERY LOT of 12 items, most are 19th century............Min. Bid $20
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134. [THEATRE] Florence Williams (1910-1995) American actress. She played many parts in summer stock, where she met future husband scenic designer Leon Whitten, and eventually landed on Broadway performing opposite legendary actress Lillian Gish. Florence left New York and her entertainment career behind in 1973, retiring with her husband to a quiet life in Rockport, Maine. Although she received many invitations to participate in community theater, Florence felt that she was too old to resume acting and politely declined. However, to keep herself active, she joined a local acting workshop at age 81. Encouraged by her peers, an initially reluctant Florence ultimately participated in The Belle of Amherst, a one-woman show based on the life of poet Emily Dickinson. Using the professional name Florence Marshall, she performed her show nationally for the public in a series of benefits for nursing homes and abused children. Florence continued to involve herself in local Maine theater productions until 1992, two years before her death at age 84. Offered here are 2 ALSs, 1980 and 1986, plus a Camden, Maine theatre program. Written to Franklyn Lenthall (1919-2001) director of the Boothbay Playhouse, Boothbay, Maine, and from 1975 to 1990 he managed the Boothbay Theater Museum which contained the nation's largest private theater collection. VG..........Min. Bid $25
135. [FILM] Eugene Arnstein (1907-1986) V.P. Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers Association. Group of 2 typed letters signed "Gene", 1965, one to the actor Peter Lawford and the other to Milton Ebbins, Lawford's agent/partner regarding Lawford. Plus 3 ink signed memo documents sent to All members of the Society of INDEPENDENT PRODUCERS, which included Marvin Mirisch, Otto Preminger, Ebbins and Lawford. Total of 5 ink signed by Arnstein..........Min. Bid $25
136. US NAVAL] Ellsworth Davis [1892-1946] American naval officer. He served on the U.S.S. Florida as a signal officer, official uniform inspector and flag lieutenant. During the U.S. occupation of Vera Cruz, Mexico on April 1914, Davis led a company onshore and overtook the town's postal service building. In addition to his service on the U.S.S. Florida, Davis served in the Mediterranean and off of the U.S. Atlantic Coast on the Brooklyn and the Fairfax. He was commanding officer of the USS Fairfax from 1934 to 1936. The Fairfax was a Wickes-class destroyer in the United States Navy during the World War I, later transferred to the Royal Navy as HMS Richmond (G88), as a Town class destroyer. The Fairfax took part in the Presidential Review taken by Franklin D. Roosevelt in San Diego in March 1933, and then sailed for the East coast, where she continued her reserve training duty. She also patrolled in Cuban waters, and in the summers of 1935, 1937, 1938, 1939, and 1940 sailed out of Annapolis training midshipmen of the Naval Academy. Between October 1935 and March 1937, she served with the Special Service Squadron out of Coco Solo and Balboa, Canal Zone, operating primarily on the Atlantic side of the Canal Zone. OFFERED HERE: A signed 1934 bank check, The Annapolis Banking & Trust Co. He signs "E. Davis USN". VG.................50-75
137. [NASA] Vance Brand - American astronaut. Signed 3x5 card.............Min. Bid $12
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138. [FILM] Don "Red" Barry (1912-1980) American film and television actor. He was nicknamed "Red" after appearing as the first Red Ryder in the highly successful 1940 film Adventures of Red Ryder; the character was played in later films by "Wild Bill" Elliott and Allan Lane. Barry went on to bigger budget films following Red Ryder, but none reached his previous level of success. On July 17, 1980, Barry shot himself in the head at his home, shortly after police had left the residence after investigating a domestic dispute.[5] He was estranged at the time from his second wife, Barbara, with whom he had two daughters. Offered here is a Warner Bros. check dated 1984 paying DECEASED Donald Barry $191.29, endorsed on the verso by Barbara Barry. Therefore not actually signed by Red Barry. Fine.................Min. Bid $10
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139. MYSTERY LOT of about 86 pieces from 19th & 20th century. Includes: letters; documents; 5 bank checks signed by the noted artist, Douglas Volk, known for his portraits of Abraham Lincoln, one used on postage stamp, and various ephemera. Oldest item in this lot is 1804. Good lot for eBay sellers or those who like researching items.....150-250 Min. Bid $75
140. [AMERICANA] Alexander Ladd (1784-1855) Merchant ship owner from Portsmouth, New Hampshire. He was also a state legislator and Proprietor of the P{ortsmouth and Concord Railroad. Manuscript document signed twice on page 2. Also signed by Robert G. Neil and Lory Odell (1801-1883) Judge. This document concerns the Estate of Nathaniel A. Haven. Approx. 7-1/2 x 12-3/4 in. VG.........Min. Bid $18
141. William Duren (1810-1888) he came from Waterville, Me., about 1827; engaged in lumbering and trade; has served as representative and senator in the Legislature of Maine, and as mayor of Calais, Maine 1872-75. DOCUMENT SIGNED, Calais, Maine, 1865. Land sale. Also signed by Levi Lincoln Lowell (1805-1880) [signed twice]. Approx. 8-3/4 x 13-1/2 in. Very fine condition...............25-35
142. Alice Muriel Williamson (1869 - 1933) British novelist. Born Alice Muriel Livingston, she married Charles Norris Williamson (1859-1920) in 1894 and many of her books were jointly written with her husband. After her marriage she introduced herself as Mrs. C.N. Williamson. A number of their novels cover the early days of motoring and can also be read as travelogues. Under the pseydonym Alice Stuyvesant she wrote "The Hidden House" serialised in The Cavalier 1913-1914. Alice apparently said of her husband "Charlie Williamson could do anything in the world except write stories": she said of herself "I can't do anything else." She continued to write after her husband's death in 1920. ALS, no year, 3 full pages. To Miss Marshall [journalist]. Nice content............50-75
143. [VERMONT] J.A. Randall - signed 186? Vermont document, 7-3/4 x 3 in..............Min. Bid $1
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144. [NUCLEAR HISTORY] William E. Ogle (1918-1984) American physicist. In 1944, Ogle went to work on the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos. He stayed on after the war to work at the Los Alamos National Laboratory for more than 25 years, and worked on every nuclear test in Nevada and in the Marshall Islands during that time. During Operation Ivy, the first American hydrogen bomb test, Ogle served as scientific commander. AUTOGRAPH SIGNATURE glued to large album page with magazine article glued around his autograph.......................50-75
146. [WORLD WAR I] William Jason Mixter, M.D. (1880-1958) prominent American surgeon. By the early 1930s, Mixter was considered to be one of the nation's leading experts in spinal surgery, and he went on to become the first chief of the neurosurgery department at Massachusetts General Hospital. He served in the U. S. Army in both world wars. In 1934, at the age of 54, Mixter and Joseph S. Barr published an article on the intervertebral disc lesion in the New England Journal of Medicine. That article fundamentally changed the popular understanding of sciatica at that time, and for this work Mixter is generally credited by his contemporaries as being the man who best clarified the relation between the intervertebral disc and sciatica. Mixter and Barr's landmark report helped to establish surgery's prominent role in the management of sciatica at the time. Over the next few decades, discectomy surgery increased in popularity tremendously, and some refer to that period as the "dynasty of the disc." Offered here are 5 items circa 1915 while Dr. Mixter was serving overseas. Two are documents plus a photo of him plus 2 other small photos. VG................100-150147. James Carnahan (1775-1859) American clergyman and educator who served as the ninth President of Princeton University. ALS, Princeton, 1826, 1p, 7.5 x 9.5 in. To G. D. Wall saying that he has engaged Richard Stockton as his counsel. Garret Dorset Wall (1783-1850) was a military officer and Senator from New Jersey. He was elected as Governor of New Jersey. VG...................75-100
148. [SPANISH - AMERICAN WAR] group of 6 color stereoview cards of fighting ships. VG..............50-75149. First Light Infantry of Providence, Letter sent from L.C. Warner, April 26, 1859, 1p. about 5 x 7-3/4 in. VG.......25-35
150. [OPERA] Emma Howson (1844-1928) Australian opera singer and actress primarily known as the creator of the principal soprano role of Josephine in the Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera H.M.S. Pinafore. Signed 4-1/4 x 3-1/4 card. VG.........25-35
151. [ART] RALPH BAKSHI - American animator/draftsman. In the late 1950s & early 1960s he worked at CBS-Terrytoons on such series as "Heckle and Jeckle" and "Mighty Mouse." From there he went to Famous Studios-Paramount, where he directed countless "Casper the Friendly Ghost" and "Little Audrey" cartoons, among others. During the 1960s he also animated Peter Max's commercials. When Famous Studios closed in 1967, Bakshi went into partnership with Steve Krantz. Their first venture was "Fritz the Cat", released in 1972. The success of "Fritz" prompted "Heavy Traffic" [1973], a funny-sad chronicle of life in New York's slums. Striking out on his own, Bakshi produced the sometimes brilliant, often disappointing "Coonskin" [1974]; also "Wizards" [1977]; "Lord of the Rings" [1978]. Ralph Bakshi occupies a somewhat ambiguous position in the animation world. He is one of the more original artists at work in the animated cartoon medium. He has become a cult figure. ORIGINAL pencil drawing, unsigned on 8 x 5 in. sheet. Fine. As this was a "working study" there was no reason for him to have signed it................50-75
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152. [RACING] Michael Andretti (b. 1962) American semi-retired auto racing driver and current team owner. Statistically one of the most successful drivers in the history of American open-wheel car racing, Andretti won the 1991 CART PPG Indy Car World Series and amassed 42 race victories, the most in the CART era and fourth-most all time. Signed color magazine picture, 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 in. Two fold lines...............25-35
153. [WASHINGTON] Early 19th century engraving of George Washington by W. Humphreys from a picture by Gilbert Stewart, printed at London by William Mackenzie. Fine, measures x 4 in. plus margins...............25-35
154 Coleman Barks (born1937) is an American poet, and former literature faculty at the University of Georgia. Although he neither speaks nor reads Persian, he is a popular interpreter of Rumi, rewriting the poems based on other English translations. Signed typescript poem titled THE PENGUIN, 1p., 8.5 x 11 in. VG.................35-45
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155. Bob Dole - a 1987 typed 4 page letter sending two Preferred Tickets to his for formal announcement to run for President of the United States. His signature is, of course, printed. One of the tickets is included here. All are in fine condition.........Min. Bid $15
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157. [FILM] Clive Clerk (1945-2005) successful dancer, actor, and artist, known for his roles in Send Me No Flowers (1964), Days of Our Lives (1965) and Billie (1965). He was married to actor Thomas Tryon 1970-1973. Following "A Chorus Line," he changed his name to Clive Wilson and worked professionally as an abstract painter artist. His work was displayed in galleries on both the East and West coasts. SIGNED 1965 contract for his role of Ted Chekas in the movie BILLIE starring Patty Duke. Also signed by H. Bud Otto (1934-2001) casting director. He is known for his work on WarGames (1983), Copycat (1995) and Short Circuit (1986). Includes a 2-page Rider also signed by Clive Clerk. 2 signeds document...................100-200................Min. Bid $40
158. [FILM] John L. Russell Jr. (1905-1967), sometimes credited as Jack Russell, was an American cinematographer who was known for his work on films like Psycho (for which he earned an Academy Award nomination) as well as his extensive work on TV. Offered here are 3 items: [1] His signed 1965 contract for the movie BILLIE starring Patty Duke, 12 legal size pages, signed by Russell and Milt Ebbins on the last page. [2] Unsigned carbon copy of Ebbins letter to Russell. [3] Memo from Ebbins, ink signed with his initials, to John Bowman about Russell's contract. All VG...........100-200.......Min. Bid $40
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159. Lorenzo Marrett (1816-1887) was born in Standish, Maine and graduated from Bowdoin College in 1838. He practiced law with a specialty in the administration of estates. He joined the Board of Aldermen in 1849 and was active in local and state politics. ALS, East Cambridge, 1857, 3 pages, 4-3/4 x 7-3/4 in. Includes original envelope [stamp removed]. VG........Min. bid $10
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160. Jacob K. Javitis (1904-1986) United States Senator from New York from 1957 to 1981. Brief TLS, 1980, plus unsigned photo. VG................Min. bid $10
161. [Of ABRAHAM LINCOLN INTEREST] Charles Selby (c. 1802 – 1863) was a 19th-century English actor and playwright, and translator of many French plays (often without attribution, not uncommon at the time).
Among his works was The Marble Heart (1854), a translation of Théodore Barrière's Les Filles de marbre. The play is best known today for a 9 November 1863 performance in Washington, D.C., where President Abraham Lincoln watched John Wilkes Booth, playing the villain Raphael. Booth directed some of his threatening lines directly to Lincoln, causing one of Lincoln's party to remark "he looks as if he meant that for you." Lincoln agreed, noting "he does look pretty sharp at me, doesn't he?" ALS, Covert Garden, 1844, 3pp, about 3-7/8 x 5 in. VG....................100-150
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162. [ART] Louise Jopling (1843-1933) English painter of the Victorian era, and one of the most prominent female artists of her generation. Jopling exhibited her work at the Palace of Fine Arts and The Woman's Building at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois. She joined the Society of Women Artists (1880) and the Royal Society of Portrait Painters (1891); she became the first woman to be admitted to the Royal Society of British Artists (1901). ALS, no date, 4pp, approx. 4 x 6 in. Mounting traces along edge on last page. VG...............75-100
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163. James Truslow Adams (1878-1949) American writer and historian. He was a freelance author who helped to popularize the latest scholarship about American history and his three-volume history of New England is well regarded by scholars. He coined the phrase "American Dream" in his 1931 book The Epic of America. TLS, London, 1932, 1p. Declines invitation to speak. 6 x 8 in. Fine..............40-60
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164. [LARGE LOT] Philip Joseph Philbin (1898-1972) was a Democratic U.S. Congressman from Massachusetts. From 1917 until 1919, during the First World War, served as a seaman in the United States Navy. He then went on to Harvard University, was center on the Harvard Football Team that won the Rose Bowl game in 1919 against Oregon. He graduated in 1920 and from Columbia University Law School, New York City, in 1924. He served in the US congress Signed as Secretary of the Board of from 1943-1971. Large misc. lot of about 107 pieces including 18 signed letters to Philbin.................Min. Bid $35
165. Theodatus Garlick (1805-1884) American surgeon and sculptor. Based in Cleveland, Ohio, Garlick was one of the world's first plastic surgeons. Along with colleague H.A. Ackley, he was known for successfully artificially propagating trout and other fish. He was also a talented fine art sculptor. It has been suggested that Garlick made the first daguerreotype photograph taken in the United States, and later the first daguerreotype taken in the shade. Rare ALS, Cleveland, 1867, to E.A. Brown. Some sort of financial matter. One page, 7.5 x 9.5 in. Envelope is included. This is another item just recently discovered amongst of holdings after many years. VG..................200-300
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166. [ENGLAND] Henry Brand, 1st Viscount Hampden GCB PC (1814-1892) British Liberal politician. He served as Speaker of the House of Commons from 1872 to 1884. ALS, 1889, 1p, 4.5 x 7 in. VG......40-60
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167. [ENGLAND] Apsley Pellatt (1791-1863) English glassware manufacturer and politician. His main interest lay in the chemistry of glass-making. In 1819, he took out his first patent for the manufacture of "sulfides" or Cameo Incrustations. Pellatt originally called them "Crystallo-Ceramie," reflecting their French origin. The process involved the embedding of ceramic figurines into the glass sides of paperweights, jugs, decanters, etc., by cutting a hole in the hot glass, sliding in the insert, and resealing the glass afterward.
Pellatt became the most famous and successful producers of sulfides in England from 1819 to the mid-century rivalled only by Baccarat in France. He described their manufacture in a book on glass-making entitled "Curiosities of Glassmaking" published in 1849. After his retirement around 1850, the glass-works went into decline in the hands of his brother Frederic. ALS, 1857, 2pp, 4-1/2 x 7-3/4 in. The edge is laid to backing sheet which doesn't allow the front page to show fully..................50-75
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168. [FILM] Eddie Quillan (1907-1990) American film actor and singer whose career began as a child on the vaudeville stages and silent film and continued through the age of television in the 1980s. Ink Signed page on which he answers two questions. His answers are typed. 8.5 x 11 in. VG..............40-60
169. [OPERA] Lucrezia Bori (1887-1960) Spanish operatic singer, a lyric soprano and a tireless and effective fundraiser for the Metropolitan Opera. An envelope partly addressed by her but not signed. The signature in a return address written on back of was not written by her. 3-1/2 x 2-3/4 in. VG...............Min. Bid $10
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170. Ernest Harold Baynes (1868–1925) American naturalist. He was "the closest thing New England, and the world for that matter, will ever get to a real-life Doctor Dolittle; all sorts of New England birds and animals–foxes, wolves, chickadees, bears and bison were known to roam around and in and out of his house." He treated animals like friends, but unlike Doolittle, never claimed to talk to them. He was instrumental in bringing to public attention the near demise of songbirds and of the bison. He founded the American Bison Society, of which President Teddy Roosevelt was honorary chairman. SIGNATURE clipped away from letter. About 5-1/2 x 2-3/4 in. VG..............50-75
171. Vassar Miller (1924-1998) was a writer and poet. She served as Poet Laureate of Texas (1988-1989). Three of her books won the annual poetry prize of the Texas Institute of Letters. In 1982 and 1988 Miller was named Poet Laureate of Texas, and in 1997 she was named to the Texas Women's Hall of Fame by the Governor's Commission for Women. Signed typed poem titled "Precision", 1p. Approx. 7 x 10 in. VG...................50-75
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172. [AMERICANA] Augustus Moore writes a 1833 letter from Charleston, South Carolina to his sister Lydia Moore in Frankfort, Maine. One full page + 1/2 page on address side which is postmarked [light now]. 7-3/4 x 9-3/4 in. VG...............50-75
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173. [BUSINESS] Frederick Fraley (1804-1901) American businessman, politician, and civic leader from Pennsylvania. He was involved in several successful businesses and served on the Philadelphia City Council and as a member of the Pennsylvania State Senate. He was one of the founders of the Franklin Institute and one of the first directors of Girard College in Philadelphia. He worked for seven years as secretary of the American Fire Insurance Company and for twenty-three years as president of the Schuylkill Navigation Company. He also worked for the Western Savings Fund Society and as president of the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company. He was associated with the Philadelphia Board of Trade and served as president of the National Board of Trade. In 1824 he was one of the founders of the Franklin Institute and served as treasurer for many years. In 1847, he became one of the first directors of Girard College. In 1853 Fraley became a trustee of the University of Pennsylvania. He also worked as president of the Western Saving Fund Society. In 1880, he received an honorary degree of LL.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. He was one of the founders of the Union League of Philadelphia. For the last twenty-one years of his life Fraley was the president of the American Philosophical Society. Document Signed, American Fire Insurance Co., 1842, approx. 5-1/4 x 4 in. The ink is a little light...........Min. Bid $25
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174. [POSTAL HISTORY] Richard Henry Dana Jr. (1815-1882) American lawyer and politician from Massachusetts, a descendant of a colonial family, who gained renown as the author of the classic American memoir Two Years Before the Mast. Both as a writer and as a lawyer, he was a champion of the downtrodden, from seamen to fugitive slaves and freedmen. Offered here is an envelope in the handwriting of Dana. The pencil signature at top was not written by Dana. 5 x 2-3/4 in. VG...........35-45
175. Henry Beadman Bryant (1824–1892) was an author and co-founder and namesake of Bryant & Stratton College and Bryant University in Smithfield, Rhode Island. CLIP SIGNATURE, approx. 4 x 2-1/4 in. VG..............Min. Bid $10
176. [ART] S.A. Douglas Volk (1856-1935) American portrait painter and the son of noted sculptor Leonard Volk. Best known for his portraits of Abraham Lincoln, one of which hangs in the Lincoln Bedroom at the White House. He was named after his mother's cousin (Abraham Lincoln's political rival) Stephen A. Douglas.Offered here is a bank check signed by Douglas Volk, 1924. VG.................25-35177. [AMERICANA] Freegift Vandervoort (1844-1929) was a prominent lawyer in Carrigo Springs, Texas; Union Veteran. Offered here is a letter to John E. Boos [famous Lincoln collector]. Says he was in an adjoining county and planned to go to the Lincoln-Douglas Debate but did not. Letter is dated 1917, 1p, 6.5 x 9 in. VG..............35-45
178. [SCIENCE] Hermon Carey Bumpus (1862-1943) American biologist, museum director, and the fifth president of Tufts College (later Tufts University). Bumpus joined the faculty of Brown as a professor of comparative zoology in 1890, where he emphasized active experimentation over the "didactic doldrums" of lectures. In 1893, Bumpus worked with colleagues Charles V. Chapin and John Howard Appleton in establishing a premedical program, one of the first premedical programs in the United States, with Bumpus as the director. Bumpus also established a Medical Association for physicians of Providence; in 1896 Bumpus demonstrated a Holtz machine to this group. TLS, 1895, 1p, plus envelope. VG...............50-75
179. [AMERICAN NAVAL] Commander John Mitchell Hawley - a native of Northampton, Mass., a descendant of one of the oldest and most prominent families of the town. He made his home here until he was appointed to the Naval Academy, from which he was graduated in 1868. In 1869 he was made an ensign, in 1870 a master, and in 1874 a lieutenant, and from the time of his graduation until 1887 he rendered valuable service in several coast survey expeditions and in the hydrographic office. From 1887 to 1890 he was executive officer of the Nipsic, one of the United States fleet sent to Apia, Samoan islands, during the uprisings in 1889. The American, British and German fleets in the bay were overwhelmed by a fearful hurricane which swept the islands in March, 1889, and the Nipsic was one of the two or three vessels that escaped total destruction. Commander Hawley received a vote of thanks from the Legislature of Massachusetts for rare courage and ability displayed during the hurricane, and was commended to the Navy Department by Rear Admiral Kimberley, '"for zeal and energy in getting the Nipsic afloat after -she was beached. He had entire charge of this work, and to his efforts, in a large measure, is due the fact that the Nipsic is now afloat without more serious injury." In 1894 he was promoted to be lieutenant-commander and in 1896 was ordered to duty as assistant to the chief of the Bureau of Navigation, having charge of enlisted men. During the Spanish-American war, he was engaged in recruiting men from the west for the navy, having charge of three parties who secured nearly two thousand men for the service. He was promoted to commander March 3, 1899, and in May was ordered to the command of the Hartford, Admiral Farragut's old flagship, which is to be used as a practice-ship. Offered is is a 1p. typed letter, undated but c. 1889, from John M. Hawley [signed only in type], sent to Lieut. Henry W. Lyons offering his testimony if desired. The dockets in pencil are in Lyon's hand. VG............100-150 Min. Bid $25
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180. [THEATRE] Charles Kelly (1839–1885) English actor/journalist and husband of actress Ellen Terry. Charles and Ellen met while appearing in Reade's plays, but they separated in 1881. Signature with inscription, Prince of Wales Theatre, Liverpool, 1870, approx. 4 x 4 in. VG..................20-30
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181. [PORTRAIT] antique engraved portrait of Benj. F. Butler, a major general of the Union Army. Page size approx. 8-1/2 x 5-1/4 in. This would work well if framed with an autograph...............Min. Bid $10
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182. [ART] Mervin Jules (1912-1994) American painter & printmaker. Jules' woodcuts are represented in numerous collections. He was a teacher of art at the Fieldston School, the Museum of Modern Art (1943-46), the Baltimore Educational Alliance, the Veterans' Art Center and at Smith College. After teaching at Smith College from 1946-1969, in 1969 he became Chair of the Art Department at the City College of New York. He kept a studio in Provincetown, Massachusetts, where he died. Brief 1981 ALS, 1p., about selling his prints. VG...............Min. Bid $20
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183. [RAILROAD] Daniel Woodworth Caldwell (1830-1897) President of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern and formerly president of the New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad company. Letter Signed, 1877, 2pp, about 8 x 9-3/4 in. This letter was sent to Melville E. In to ger a destroyed railroad car. Melville Ezra Ingalls (1842–1914), commonly abbreviated M. E. Ingalls, was a Massachusetts state legislator who went on to become president of the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad (the Big Four Railroad). Melville financed the construction of the Ingalls Building in Cincinnati, which was the world's first reinforced concrete skyscraper in 1903. The town of Ingalls, Indiana is named in his honor...............50-75
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184. Geo. W. Warvelle (1852-1940) noted Chicago Professor of Law, philosopher, legal scholar and author of many legal volumes still in print and found in contemporary law libraries. ALS, Chicago, 1885, 2 full pages, 8 x 10.5 in. To Henry Rawle. He asks for help with a manuscript he is writing on Vender and Purchser, which will be published. VG...............50-75
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185. [18th Century Portrait] 1776 engraved portrait of Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon (1707-1791) English religious leader who played a prominent part in the religious revival of the 18th century and the Methodist movement in England and Wales. She founded an evangelical branch in England and Sierra Leone, known as the Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion. Total size approx. 7.5 x 4.5 in. Condition is expected with this age. This originally was not printed on white paper. Rare!............50-75
186. TO THE SELECTMEN OF STEUBEN, MAINE - 1868 printed letter from D. Brastow asking that a list of the names and ages of all the orphans of soldiers and seamen of your town be sent to the Governor at Augusta or to Brastow. Stamped address portion................Min. Bid $10
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187. Roland Douglas Sawyer (1874-1969) was a Congregationalist minister and Massachusetts state legislator. He is best remembered as one of the leading Christian socialists of the first decade of the 20th century and as the author of an array of self-published books and pamphlets on genealogy and the local history of New England. In 1898, Sawyer took a position as a pastor at Hope Chapel in Brockton, Massachusetts, the first of four Congregational churches he would head. In about 1907, the previously conservative Sawyer began to gain an interest in Christian socialism, a growing movement in that day. Sawyer joined the Socialist Party of America and ran for Governor of Massachusetts on the Socialist ticket in 1912. Running as a Democrat in the fall of 1913, Sawyer ran for the Massachusetts General Court, the state legislature. Unlike his previous electoral experiences, this time Sawyer won his race for office. He ran for re-election and won every two years thereafter for more than a quarter century, sitting in the Massachusetts General Court until 1941. Sawyer took an interest in the case of Sacco and Vanzetti, two anarchists accused of murder in conjunction with a 1920 armed robbery in South Braintree, Massachusetts, and was active in the unsuccessful campaign to win the pair a stay of execution and a new trial. In the Massachusetts General Court, Sawyer was regarded as a crusader against political corruption. Group of 4 postcards sent to family in Kingston, NH, 1898-1926. One has minor corner fault..............Min. Bid $40
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Scan 2188. Nancy Huston Banks (1849-1934) American journalist, literary critic, and novelist from Kentucky. During the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893, Banks was on the Board of Lady Managers, and worked for the fair as a writer and editor. Banks moved to New York to pursue a writing career in the early 1890s. She was on staff at The Bookman magazine in its first year as a book reviewer. She also lived in London for a time, and reported from South Africa during the Boer War for a London newspaper. For a time in November 1899, she was reported caught in the Siege of Kimberley, blockaded by the Boer army, in the company of Cecil Rhodes and fellow New Yorker Amalia Küssner, a miniaturist. Nancy Huston Banks also wrote novels, including Stairs of Sand (1890), Oldfield: A Kentucky Tale of the Last Century (1902), Round Anvil Rock: A Romance (1903), and The Little Hills (1905). In reviewing the last title, Frederic Taber Cooper commented that "Few are so fortunate as Mrs. Banks in knowing the range and boundaries of their intellectual gardens, the thoughts and fancies that will best flower therein." ALS, NY, [1895], 2pp., to Mr. Bok. sends photographs. 4-1/4 x 6-3/4 in. VG..................50-75
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Scan 2189. [LAW] ORIGINAL PORTRAIT ETCHING of the esteemed jurist, Lemuel Shaw. This portrait is signed in pencil by the artist, James Samuel King [1852-1925] Painter and etcher, James S. King's etchings are featured in J.R.W. Hitchcock's three books on etching, 1880s. He was born in New York City in 1852 and studied at the Art Student's League, National Academy of Design, Ecole Des Beaux-Arts, Paris with Gerome and Bonnat. He belonged to the Salmagundi Club and the Allied Artists of America. King was active in exhibiting at the Parrish Art Museum; Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art; Boston Art Club; National Academy of Design; Art Institute of Chicago; the Corcoran Gallery; and the Society of Independent Artists. The subject of this original portrait is Lemuel Shaw [1781-1861] American jurist, b. Barnstable, Mass. Father-in-law of Herman Melville. Practiced in Boston (from 1804); drafted first charter of Boston (1822), which remained in effect until 1913; chief justice, Massachusetts supreme court (1830-60). Probably no other state judge has so deeply influenced commercial and constitutional law throughout the nation. This IS NOT a steel-engraving; it is an etching which is much less common. The image is large, 18 x 14.5" plus slim margins. Laid to heavy paper as issued. In very good condition for size and age with a few small light rubbed areas plus some foxing in signature area. Will frame up nicely. Upon request we will put picture up online. Scarce!...............100-150
190. George Harding - a patent lawyer who argued several cases before the U.S. Supreme Court. He was the son of Jesper Harding (1799-1865) was an influential U.S. publisher in Philadelphia. ALS, 1916, 2pp. The last page has partial browning from tape where attached to another sheet.............20-30
191. [ENGLAND] Brooke Foss Westcott (1825-1901) was a British bishop, biblical scholar and theologian, serving as Bishop of Durham from 1890 until his death. He is perhaps most known for co-editing The New Testament in the Original Greek in 1881. ALS, Auckland Castle, 1896, 1p., signed B.F. Durham. His handwriting is difficult to read. VG...........25-35
192. [ART] Leonard Wells Volk (November 7, 1828 – August 19, 1895) was an American sculptor. He is notable for making one of only two life masks of United States President Abraham Lincoln. In 1867 he helped establish the Chicago Academy of Design and served as its president until 1878. He made several large monumental sculptures, including the tomb of the politician Stephen A. Douglas, and statues of American Civil War figures. Signed 1893 bank check. VG..............100-150
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Roland Young "Topper" Gets a Letter From His Old Friend
193. [THEATRE & FILM] Matty (A.E. Matthews OBE) (1869-1960) English actor who played numerous character roles on the stage and in film for eight decades. Nicknamed "Matty", he was christened Alfred Edward Matthews. He was affectionately regarded by the British public over his extraordinarily long career. From World War II until his death he enjoyed renown as one of British cinema's most famous crotchety, and sometimes rascally, old men. Matthews' other most well-known films include The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, The Million Pound Note (with Gregory Peck), Inn for Trouble, The Magic Box, The Ghosts of Berkeley Square and Just William's Luck. Offered here is a 2-page ALS, signed "Matty" to his friend, and fellow actor, Roland Young [1887-1953] best remembered for his role as Topper. Dated Jan. 30 , no year. "Dear Roland and Lady Roland. The only reason we were left out of the honeurs is that we were ___? Leslie Banks and a fellow [I forget his name, he plays Macbeth & ?, have both stuck to their wives, well its too late now so lets forget it. Aubrey Smith id the same. Charles Hawbrey was an exception! I should have written you before we had a good time on tour. We do Boston next Monday for 2 weeks then back to New York. We rose to capacity in Chicago and Detroit we had 19 thousand - here we are going the same. What about you? Have you fixed anything - have you heard about Freddie's Play which opened last Monday or this Monday in Edinburgh. Pat tells me he is sailing for New York. What about we both doing a musical. I have suggested it to Shubert and he likes the idea. Better still we both open in London with a new play. Have read 4 and don't like any of them..............I gave up drtink the last week in Chicago I mean till after the Play, and have knocked 10 minutes off the play. Milton Shubert saw the Play and advised me to go back to the drink. I do hope you have a job for me. Love to you both Matty." Fine.......70-90
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194. [England] an old, very old album page containing 2 autographs glued to each side. On one side is Bishop of Ely, Bowyer Edward Sparke(1759-1836) & Bishop of Durham, William Van Mildert (1765-1836) was the last palatine Bishop of Durham (1826–1836), and one of the founders of the University of Durham. On the other side is the Bishop of London, Charles James Blomfield (1786-1857) British divine and classicist, and a Church of England bishop for 32 years & the Bishop of Norwich, Henry Bathurst (1744-1837) English churchman, a prominent Whig and bishop of Norwich. Overall 7 x 8.5 in. Not very attractive...............Min. Bid $25
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195. [ART] DOUGLAS VOLK [1856-1935] AMERICAN ARTIST. Douglas was born to be an artist. His father was the famous sculptor Leonard Wells Volk and his mother Emily Barlow Volk was counsin to Senator Steven Douglas. At a young age Douglas showed an ability to draw and was taken seriously later studying with George Inness, and at age 14 took classes at the Accademia San Luca in Italy. In 1873 Volk went to Paris to study at Ecole des Beaux Arts with the Master Jean-Leon Gerome. When he returned to the U.S. he began teaching at The Cooper Institute in New York and in 1886 was founder of the Minneapolis School Of Fine Art. In 1893 Volk was chosen for the selection committee at the Columbian Expo where he exhibited three paintings and the the gold medal, his first major award. In 1899 the National Academy granted him membership. His paintings hang in many important collections including the Metropolitan Museum in NY. Douglas Volk first ventured into Lincoln portraiture in 1908, and that canvas, reworked in 1917, eventually found its way into the National Gallery of Art. It also achieved a kind of anonymous familiarity between 1954 and 1968, when it was featured on the regular four-cent U.S. postage stamp. When in 1860, Lincoln sat in Leonard Volk's studio, a liittle child was running in and out. The great man took him on his knee and asked his name. It was Douglas. It was this boy, long grown to manhood who was the paint one of the most famous portraits of Lincoln. One of his Lincoln portraits hangs in the Lincoln Bedroom in The White House. Offered here are 5 signed bank checks, 1921-1923.................Min. Bid $45
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196. [PHOTOGRAPHY] Jack Dempsey - Boxing Champion. Original c. 1964 vintage UNSIGNED 8x10 photographer of Dempsey in business suit, photographer A. Bryce Currie. VG..............Min Bid $10
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197. [FILM] Beverly Bayne (1894-1982) American actress who appeared in silent films beginning in 1910 in Chicago, Illinois, where she worked for Essanay Studios. Vintage 1925 photo, 5x7. VG...........Min. bid $9198. Dover, New Hampshire - 4 documents, dated 1816-17, all signed by Mark Walker. He was from Dover. These are from the Andrew Rollins papers. Each about 7 x 3"...........Min. Bid $10
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199. [FILM] Group photo of friends Van Johnson, Mickey Rooney, Keenan Wynn and Peter Lawford. c. 1950s. 8 x 10 in.From the personal collection of Van Johnson. VG for its age.........150-200 Min. Bid $35
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200. Jack (John Ludlow) Gould (1914-1993) American journalist and critic, who wrote commentary about television. He started as a copy boy at the New York Herald Tribune in 1932. In 1937 he moved to The New York Times, writing for the drama department and in the 1940s writing also about radio. In 1944 he became the newspaper's radio critic, and in 1948 the chief television reporter and critic. At one point he had eight people working under him. In the early 1960s he was a CBS executive for a short time but returned to the Times. Gould's columns and reviews (along with those of rival John Crosby of the Herald Tribune) were widely read by decision makers in the fledgling medium of television, and Gould had many professional and personal relationships with prominent industry figures such as Edward R. Murrow and Fred Friendly. He did not hold back harsh criticism, even when The New York Times itself produced its own public affairs program in 1963; he was aware of the potential power of television as a force for social good. His colleagues dubbed him "the conscience of the industry", to his own embarrassment. Offered here is a TLS, NY Times, Dec. 19, 1967, 1p, approx. 8.5 x 7 in. To Orville S. Poland of Blue Hill, Maine. Interesting content people's opinions. VG............50-75
201. [WAR] Printed government document, Letter from The Secretary of War, J.C. Calhoun. March 15, 1820. Approx. 5 pages plus 21 foldout charts. Light foxing but very good.........50-75
202. [EPHEMERA] 1896 one page letter written from Bangor, Maine on illustrated letterhead. 8-1/4 x 5-1/2 in. VG.....................Min. Bid $9
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203. [THEATRE] Warren William (1894-1948) was a Broadway and Hollywood actor, immensely popular during the early 1930s; he was later nicknamed the "King of Pre-Code". UNSIGNED 1943 playbill, Wilson Theatre, starring in THERE'S ALWAYS JULIET. 6 x 9. Four pages. VG.............Min. Bid $9
204. Rudy Vallee (1901-1986) American singer, actor, and radio host. He was one of the first modern pop stars of the teen idol type. Signed 1935 bank check. VG................30-40
205. [FILM] Avery Brooks (b.1948) American actor, director, singer, and educator. He is best known for his television roles as Captain Benjamin Sisko on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, as Hawk on Spenser: For Hire and its spinoff A Man Called Hawk, and as Dr. Bob Sweeney in the Academy Award-nominated film American History X. Warner Bros. 1985 paycheck not signed by Cooksey..............Min. Bid $10
206. [MIXED LOT] includes: (1) John Moore (1730-1805) Archbishop of Canterbury in the Church of England. Six hnadwritten lines in his hand, signature & 1799 date removed from some letter and laid to page. (2) John Davis (1787-1854) Gov. of Mass. & US senator. Small closely cropped clip signature. (3) James Cameron Mackenzie(1852–1931) was an American educator and Presbyterian minister, born in Aberdeen, Scotland. TLS, 1896. (4) Brenda Kuhn (1911-1993) a founder of Cape Neddick Park, Cape Neddick, an art patron and historian. She was the daughter of American artist Walt Kuhn. Signed 1966 bank check. (5) James "Sunny Jim" Rolph Jr. (189-1934) American politician and a member of the Republican Party. He was elected to a single term as the 27th governor of California from January 6, 1931, until his death on June 2, 1934, at the height of the Great Depression. Previously, Rolph had been the 30th mayor of San Francisco from January 8, 1912, until his resignation to become governor. Rolph remains the longest-serving mayor in San Francisco history. Signed 1933 cover with cachet for Ground Breaking Ceremony San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, July 9, 1933. Pictures Rolph, FDR & Hoover. RARE! (6) Unsigned color photo of Ronald Reagan as President. (7) Daniel W. Bell (1891-1971) American civil servant and businessman. He was acting director of the Bureau of the Budget (now the Office of Management and Budget) from September 1, 1934, until April 14, 1939. (8) Interesting printed US senate government document dated 1842 - Report submitted to the Committee on Revolutionary Claims regarding John Polhemus's petition claim made in 1792 but apparently lost. Polhemus was made Major at Valley Forge by George Washington. 7 pages [unsigned]. (9) Charles Riborg Mann (1869-1942) American physicist. TLS, 1906, 2pp. to Prof. Robert S. Woodward. (10) Nice engraved portrait of James Warren Nye (1815-1876) Governor of Nevada Territory and a United States Senator from Nevada..............Min. Bid $50
207. [MIXED LOT] includes: (1) Stephen Lushington (1782-1873) British judge, Member of Parliament and a radical for the abolition of slavery and capital punishment. He served as Judge of the High Court of Admiralty from 1838 to 1867. ALS, 1860, 1p. (2) Edwin Francis Edgett (1867-1946) Literary Editor, Boston Evening Transcript. Lengthy TLS, 1930. (3) J. Lister Hill (1894-1984) US Senator from Alabama. Unsigned envelope bearing his printed Free Frank as a congressman, postmarked 1929. (4) Louise Andrews Kent (1886-1969) American author. Unsigned checking register filled out by her. (5) Dr. Darrell Bills - Research Technician who assisted in taking cardiograph of Namu's heart beat at Seattle Aquarium. CLIP SIGNATURE. (5) William Warfield - 2 page ALS with cover, American Legation Sofia. (6) Max G. SECKENDORFF (1852-1911). American journalist; chief, Washington bureau of the "New York Tribune" (1883-1911); a very influential journalist between the time of President Chester Arthur and President William Howard Taft. Signed Riggs National Bank check, 1910. (7) Philip J. Philbin - US congressman from Mass. 1946 telegram sent by him [signed in type]. (8) Edwin M. Stanton - Sec. of War. Printed 1866 gov. doc. re: Illinois Central Railroad, 4pp. Signed in type. (9) Jacob Bunn (1814-1897) important Illinois industrialist, financier, and close friend of Abraham Lincoln. Abraham Lincoln acted as the attorney for Jacob Bunn. He was also a Pallbearer at Lincoln's Funeral. 1877 bank document, not signed by Bunn. (10) G. William Miller (1925-2006) Sec. of the Treasury under Carter. SIGNATURE. (11) JOHN MCLEAN (1791-1830) Representative and a Senator from Illinois. Original engraved portrait by W.G. Armstrong after painting by Thomas Sully. His last name is misspelled under the engraving.........Min. Bid $50
208. [HANS HOFMANN] Burton Hasen (1921-2007) Paris-trained artist whose widely seen work was tinged with Cubism, Surrealism, and Abstract Expressionism. A long time teacher at the School of Visual Arts, Hasen's canvases and prints hang in the Smithsonian Institution, the Library of Congress, and the National Academy of Design. Offered here is a great 1972 letter, 2 pages. Hasen talks about studying with Hans Hofmann. He talks about the importance of Hofmann but how important to him was what he learned from all of the other artist studying there with him. He mentions artists like Larry Rivers, Mondrian, Albers, Peter Kahn. Basically he's saying that while he learned a great deal in case from hans Hofmann, he learned more after class from his fellow students probably drinking beer in a local bar or some studio. Lenthy 2 page letter................Min. Bid $90
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209. [ART] Dudley Hardy, RI, ROI, RBA, RMS, PS, (1867-1922) English painter and illustrator. In 1885 Hardy began exhibiting at the Royal Academy, an association that lasted to his death. Hardy's illustrative work is held at the Victoria and Albert Museum. AUTOGRAPH NOTE SIGNED, 1903, 4-1/4 x 6-1/2 in...........50-75
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210. [ART] Madeline Marrable (1833-1916) was a prolific London based watercolourist and oil painter specialising in landscapes with a preference for mountains and snowscapes. She traveled widely to places including Austria, France, Italy, Ireland, Switzerland and Venice. In 1886, Marrable was elected as the first President of the Society of Lady Artists (SLA), formerly the Society of Female Artists (SFA) and since 1899 is now known as the Society of Women Artists (SWA), she retired from the presidency in 1912. CLIP SIGNATURE, 4-1/4 x 1 in. VG..............25-35
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211. [WORLD WAR I] Henry Mackinnon (1852-1929) British Army General during World War I. He was later appointed Director of Auxiliary Forces in 1905 and Director General of the Territorial Force in 1908.[2] He was appointed General Officer Commanding-in-Chief for Western Command in 1910; he retired in 1916. CLIP SIGNATURE, about 4-1/2 x 1 in. VG..............25-35
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212. [ART] Mary Lucier (b. 1944) American video artist. Concentrating primarily on video and installation since 1973, she has produced numerous multiple- and single-channel pieces. Mary Lucier has presented solo exhibitions at different venues all around the world. Among those are The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the TV Gallery in Moscow , San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York, and the Media Test Wall at MIT. Signed 1985 exhibition brochure. Fine.............25-35
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213. [THEATRE] Benjamin Nottingham Webster (1797-1882) English actor-manager and dramatist. Webster was the lessee of the Haymarket from 1837 to 1853; he built the new Adelphi Theatre (1859); later the Olympic Theatre, Princess's Theatre, London and St James's Theatres came under his control; and he was the patron of all the contemporary playwrights and many of the best actors, who owed their opportunity of success to him. He wrote, translated or adapted nearly a hundred plays. As a character actor he was unequalled in his day. Offered here is a CLIP SIGNATURE 1831, approx. 7 x 2 in. VG. Great example!.................25-35
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214. [MAINE] Capt. Elisha Goodwin (1776-1842) farmer, shipbuilder, selectman of the town Eliot, Maine. Document signed, 1814, as tax collector. Maine was part of Massachusetts then. Approx. 7-1/4 x 2 in. VG.....................25-35
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215. [ART] Stephen James Ferris [1835-1915] influential Philadelphia painter and etcher. Original etching, "AN EASTERN PRINCESS", from a painting by J.G. Jacquet. Image 8-1/8 x 4-3/4" plus margins which are fairly clean with only the slightest signs of age.............80-120.................Min. Bid $25
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216. Exhibition of Art Work by Walt Kuhn at the Walt Kuhn Gallery, at Cape Neddick Park, Maine, approx. 5-1/2 x 8-1/4 in. Lists 11 oil paintings, 1 watercolor and 1 drawing, each with a price. 3 pages; no illustrations. Accompanied by a 1966 bank check signed by Brenda Kuhn. VG.............50-75
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217. [POSTAL HISTORY] Wilson Barrett (1846-1904) English manager, actor, and playwright. With his company, Barrett is credited with attracting the largest crowds of English theatregoers ever because of his success with melodrama, an instance being his production of The Silver King (1882) at the Princess's Theatre of London. The historical tragedy The Sign of the Cross (1895) was Barrett's most successful play, both in England and in the United States. Offered here is a postmarked envelope [1896] ink addressed by Barrett but not signed by him. VG...............25-35
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218. [ART] Francis Pasquier (1901-1969) French painter. He was a landscape, marine and genre painter, poster designer and illustrator. ALS. 1953, 1p. Not translated. 8x10 in. VG................25-35
219. (MAINE) JOCK [John R. McKernan, Jr.] - Gov. & U.S. congressman from Maine. Group of 7 TLSs, 1983-90, all signed Jock. 2 have punch holes along edge. VG..............Min. Bid $35
220. [MUSIC] Henry Russell (1812-1900) English pianist, baritone singer and composer. In an eventful life on both sides of the Atlantic, Russell wrote the songs "A Life on the Ocean Wave" and the tune to George Pope Morris's poem Woodman, Spare that Tree while living in the United States from 1835 to 1841, before settling in London to produce musical extravaganzas until he retired in 1857. Many of his songs championed social causes like abolition, temperance, and reform of mental asylums. CLIP SIGNATURE with sentiment...................25-35
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221. [ART] Charles Heath (1785-1848) English engraver, currency and stamp printer, book publisher and illustrator. Heath was the illegitimate son of James Heath, a successful engraver who enjoyed the patronage of King George III and successive monarchs. Heath owned a large studio, and a great deal of the work signed "Heath" is not actually by him; nevertheless he was very prolific. Charles Heath believed that custom entitled engravers to make and keep a limited number of impressions of their work. When he was sued by the publisher, John Murray, in 1826, as a result of having made and kept such impressions, he relied on that supposed custom, but, in 1830, a jury denied its existence. Then, in 1831, the judges of the Court of King's Bench held that his conduct had been unlawful at common law, though not a breach of the Prints Copyright Act 1777. Offered here is an original engraving c. 1827, image about 6-1/2 x 4-3/4 in. plus margins. VG..............40-60
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222. William Arthur Purtell (1897-1978) was an American businessman and politician. A member of the Republican Party, he represented Connecticut in the United States Senate in 1952 and from 1953 to 1959. His family was poor, his father and mother being tobacco workers. He dropped out of school at 15 and worked as a janitor, water boy, and car checker for the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad. During World War I, he served with the radio section of the U.S. Army Expeditionary Force in France, being discharged as a corporal in 1919. After working as a salesman from ten years, Purtell co-founded the Holo-Krome Screw Corporation of West Hartford in 1929 and served as its president, treasurer, and general manager until 1952. He was also director of the Hartford Red Cross and one of the executive directors of the Connecticut State Prison. Signed 1931 cover honoring Wethersfield, Ct............Min. Bid $10
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223. [POSTAL HISTORY] Henry Wilson (1812-1875) was the 18th vice president of the United States (1873–75) and a senator from Massachusetts (1855–73). Before and during the American Civil War, he was a leading Republican, and a strong opponent of slavery. Hand addressed envelope, 5-1/4 x 3 in. Torn along top edge....................50-75
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224. [ART] Henry Macbeth-Raeburn RA (1860?1947) Etching, THE TRAVELLERS, signed in the plate, image approx. 5-1/2 x 3-1/2 in. plus margins. VG................Min. Bid $10
225. [IRELAND] Very Rev Dr William Connor Magee DD DCL (1821-1891) was an Irish clergyman of the Anglican church, Bishop of Peterborough 1868–1891 and Archbishop of York for a short period in 1891. In 1868 the question of the disestablishment of the Irish church came to the fore, and Magee threw himself into its defence with his usual energy and vivacity. The success of his orations caused Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli to offer him the bishopric of Peterborough, England. Mounted address panel signed by Magee, postmarked 1871. Approx. 4-1/4 x 2-1/4 in. VG........Min. Bid $10
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226. [NASA] group of 6 covers postmarked 1962-1983. VG................Min. Bid $25
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227. President George W. Bush - unsigned Jan. 20, 2001 Inauguration cover plus Bush For President bumper sticker. Both are VG.................Min. Bid $10
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228. [MAINE] Henry Richards (1848-1949) He married Laura Elizabeth Howe, daughter of Samuel Gridley and Julia Ward Howe. They married in Boston on June 17, 1871. Reverend James Freeman Clark officiated the ceremony, which took place at Church of the Disciples Unitarian. In 1876, they moved to Gardiner, Maine. In 1900 the Richards Paper Company was consolidated with International Paper Company, which purchased the property in Gardiner. At this point Henry worked as an architect during the winters while his summers were spent carrying on a boys camp at a property they purchased on Great Pond in Belgrade, Maine. That camp was known as Camp Merryweather and it was the very first camp for boys opening in 1900. Henry was very involved locally, serving as chairman of the Gardiner school board, trustee of Gardiner Water District, director of the Public Library of Gardiner (he even designed the building), and a member of city council. He was also a vestryman for some year at Christ Church. TLS, 1899, 1p. Re: bonds to pay off debt. VG...............Min. Bid $15
229 [MIXED LOT] includes: (1) John Scott Williams (1897-1976) artist known for mural painting, illustration, etching. ALS, 1960. (2) Rene Le Vant (b.1947) actor, known for Rocky II (1979), We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story (1993) and The Incredible Hulk (1977). Unsigned 1984 Warner Bros. pay check. (3) Jeff Melman (b. 1947) American television director and producer. Unsigned 1985 Warner Bros. pay check. (4) Danny Rogers (d. 2021) Danny has been in the motion picture industry for the past 42 years as a stuntman and stunt coordinator. Unsigned 1985 Warner Bros. pay check. (5) Alice Playten (1947-2011) was an American actress and voice actress. Unsigned 1985 Warner Bros. pay check. (6) John Riker Brady (1822-1891) American judge, a Justice of the New York Supreme Court, and best known for administering the presidential oath of office to Chester A. Arthur. He served as president of The Lambs from 1888 to 1890, and was first nontheatrical person to serve as shepherd. CLIP SIGNATURE. (7) Charles R. Buckalew (1821-1899) US Senator from Penn. during the civil war. Ink Free Frank signature on front portion of cover. (8) Printed 1840 gov. doc. Re: Pensions. 1p. (9) Robert Michaelis (1878-1965) French-born actor and singer who worked in musical theatre, mainly in England, but he also made appearances on Broadway. SIGNATURE. (10) Francis E. Walter (1894-1963) Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. Walter was a prominent member of the House Un-American Activities Committee from 1951 to 1963. His printed Free Frank on congress of US envelope postmarked 1962. (11) Isaac H. Doutrich (1871-1941) US congressman from Pa. Printed Free Frank of 1932 postmarked envelope. (12) Godlove Stein Orth (1817-1882) United States Representative from Indiana and an acting Lieutenant Governor of Indiana. SIGNATURE. (13) Sir John Soane RA FSA FRS (1753-1837) English architect who specialised in the Neo-Classical style. The son of a bricklayer, he rose to the top of his profession, becoming professor of architecture at the Royal Academy and an official architect to the Office of Works. He received a knighthood in 1831. Original 1813 engraved portrait. (14) DOUGLAS VOLK (1856-1935) Portrait Painter. DS, a check dated 1922................Min. Bid $75
230. [MIXED LOT] includes: (1) Carleton S. Coon (1904-1981) American anthropologist. A Professor of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania, lecturer and professor at Harvard University, he was president of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists. Signed card. (2) Claude M. Fuess (1885-1963) American author, historian, educator, and Headmaster of Phillips Academy Andover from 1933 to 1948. TLS, 1946, 1p. (3) Jacob Bunn (1831- 1920) American corporate leader, financier, industrialist, and personal friend of Abraham Lincoln. 1877 Second National Bank document issued to him but not signed. (4) Skip Ward (1932-2003) producer & actor. Warner Bros pay check, 1985, endorsed on verso by Ward. (5) Melvin Price (1905-1988) Illinois Congressman. Signed card. (6) [CIVIL WAR] Charles B. Rounds - served in the civil war and was a noted attorney and judge from Calais, Maine. He was First Lieut. in Company D, 32nd Maine Infantry. Mustered April 19, 1864; wounded in the arm May 12th at Spottysylvania. Rounds was at Elmira, NY guarding prisoners of war, having been assigned by Special Order No. 164, July 20, 1864. Signed Calais, Main, 1890 bank check. (7) Louise Andrews Kent (1886-1969) American author. Signed 1946 bank check. (8) Clinton B. Sears, before becoming a Cadet, enlisted as a Private, Aug. 20, 1862; discharged, Sep. 16, 1863. Served as Corporal and Color-Sergeant, 95th Regiment, Ohio Volunteers; on detached service in Army of the Cumberland during first six months' service; in Battle of Richmond, Ky., under General Nelson, and in Crittenden's Corps, was in the Battle of Perryville, or Chaplin Hills, Ky., and Stone River, Ten.; returned to duty with Regiment in Feb., 1863, and under General Indicates a West Point graduate and gives his Class.Sherman in the 15th Corps participated in the campaign against Vicksburg, being in the Battle of Jackson, Mis., in both Assaults against Vicksburg, May 18 and 22, and in the second Attack on Jackson, Miss. Signed album page as Capt. (9) Harry S. Hatch signed membership card for Sons of Veterans, Geo. A. Custer Camp.......Min. Bid $50
231. [WALT KUHN ESTATE] Aunt Margaret writes to Walt Kuhn 1920 from Jamaica, NY, 1p. saying that Walt's father says he thinks he would be better off staying in a hospital. She says that Walt should make the decision. Includes original envelope addressed to Mr. Walter Kuhn, Canoe Place, Good Ground, L.I. Walt Kuhn has written in pencil on the envelope. Signed bank check by Brenda Kuhn included. VG...............50-75
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232. [SILENT FILM] Marie (Mosquini) de Forest (1899-1983) American film actress. She appeared in 202 silent films between 1917 and 1929. After leaving high school she became the resident ingenue at the Hal Roach studio, appearing opposite Roach's comedy stars Harold Lloyd, Snub Pollard, and Stan Laurel. In October 1930, Marie retired from acting and married an inventor 26 years her senior: Lee de Forest, American inventor, self-described "Father of Radio", and a pioneer in the development of sound-on-film recording used for motion pictures. She became his fourth and longest-lasting wife, staying with him until his death in 1961. Offered here is an ALS, dated Dec. 14 [no year] plus a Christmas card from here. VG.................75-100
233. [MULTIPLE MIXED LOT] includes: (1) Florence Morse Kingsley (1859-1937) American author of popular and religious fiction. Signature on 3.5 x 2.5 in. card which has darkened somewhat. (2) Dee Barton (1937-2001) American jazz trombonist, big band drummer, and prolific composer for big band and motion pictures. Barton is known for his horror-esque style of composing in action thriller films. He created the soundtrack to the Clint Eastwood films Play Misty for Me, and the eerie soundtrack to the 1973 film High Plains Drifter. Warner Bros. 1985 check made out to him but not signed by him. VG. (3) [AMERICANA] three 1840 manuscript documents dated 1840. Shipping goods from New York to New Orleans. Each about 7.5 x 10 in. These are from the Roland G. Hazard papers. VG (4) George Rice Carpenter (1863-1909) was a noted educator, scholar and author. SIGNATURE, approx. 5 x 2.5 in. VG. (5) John Middleton Murry (1889-1957) English writer. He was a prolific author, producing more than 60 books and thousands of essays and reviews on literature, social issues, politics, and religion during his lifetime. A prominent critic, Murry is best remembered for his association with Katherine Mansfield, whom he married in 1918 as her second husband, for his friendship with D. H. Lawrence and T. S. Eliot, and for his friendship (and brief affair) with Frieda Lawrence. Following Mansfield's death, Murry edited her work. ALS, 1932, 1p., 4-1/4 x 7 in. VG. (6) [IOWA] William B. Allison (1829-1908) US Congressman and Senator from Iowa. By the 1890s, Allison had become one of the "big four" key Republicans who largely controlled the Senate. Three different Republican presidents asked Allison to join their Cabinet, but Allison declined each offer. A significant number of delegates supported his presidential nomination at the 1888 and 1896 Republican National Conventions. CLIP SIGNATURE on 3 x 1 in. slip. VG. (7) Philip J. Philbin (1898-1972) was a Democratic U.S. Congressman from Massachusetts. From 1917 until 1919, during the First World War, served as a seaman in the United States Navy. He then went on to Harvard University, was center on the Harvard Football Team that won the Rose Bowl game in 1919 against Oregon. He graduated in 1920 and from Columbia University Law School, New York City, in 1924. He served in the US congress from 1943-1971. Offered here are 3 Western Union telegrams from Philbin & 13 to the congressman. Mostly VG. (8) Joseph E. Brennan - TLS, no date, 1p, as Gov. of Maine. VG (9) Brenda Kuhn (1911-1993) the only child of the famous American artist, Walt Kuhn. Signed 1966 bank check. ..............Min. Bid $65
234. [PRISON REFORM] RARE letter by LOUIS DWIGHT (1793-1854) American Philanthropist. He graduated from Yale in 1813, and Andover Theological Seminary in 1819. He was prevented from preaching because of weak lungs, caused by inhaling a gas during a college chemical lecture. In 1824 he married Louisa Willis, sister of N.P. Willis, the poet. In that same year [1824] he embarked on a six month horseback ride for his health distributing Bibles among prison inmates in various states. The abuses that became known to him led to the formation in 1825 of the Prison Discipline Society, of which he was the practical manager until his death, effecting many needed reforms. In 1846 he visited Europe and inspected prisons there. The 29 annual reports published by Dwight contained a vast amount of valuable information not to be found elsewhere. Offered here is a ALS, Andover [Mass], 1822, 4pp. Written to Rev. Alfred Ely (1778-1866) who was born in West Springfield, MA. Ely worked as a clerk in Springfield and Hartford, CT before graduating from the College of New Jersey (Princeton) in 1804. In 1806, Alfed Ely was ordained pastor of the Congregational Church in Monson, MA, where he remained until his death in 1866. Ely was named as a trustee in the founding charter of Amherst College and served as a trustee from 1825 to 1854. Excellent content letter. VG..................200-300
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235. [ART] RICHARD CARLE - deceased New England artist. Worked a lot around Boston and the north shore of Mass. ORIGINAL drawing, not signed, c/ 1980. This is a Gloucester Harbor scene. Paper size approx. 9 x 7 in. VG................50-75
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Original Etching By German Expressionist 236. [ART] FREDERICK "Fritz" SOLOMON (1899-1980) German Expressionist artist. Original etching, unsigned, image approx. 5 x 3.5 in. plus margins. Comes with biographical information. This is, without doubt, by Solomon and guaranteed to be so without a time limit. Solomon won the Mowbray Prize [1944] in London; was listed in WHO'S WHO IN ART [1954 London edition]. He studied art with such famous German artist's as: Max Liebermann, Martin Brandenburg, Eugene Spiro & Willy Jaeckel [Masterclass]. Exhibitions: Berlin, Cologne, Capetown, Haifa, London [Royal Academy], U.S., and in 1958 had one-man show at the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Havana, Cuba. In 1956 several of his paintings were exhibited at the Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio. He died in the U.S. We purchased his personal papers and most of his drawings at his estate sale. His work is fairly scarce. The photos shown below in 2nd scan DO NOT accompany this etching and are not for sale........100-150
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237. [MIXED LOT] includes: (1) Ellsworth Davis [1892-1946] American naval officer. He served on the U.S.S. Florida as a signal officer, official uniform inspector and flag lieutenant. During the U.S. occupation of Vera Cruz, Mexico on April 1914, Davis led a company onshore and overtook the town's postal service building. Signed 1934 bank check, The Annapolis Banking & Trust Co. He signs "E. Davis USN." VG. (2) Gene Arnstein - VP of Society of Independent Producers. Ink signed 1965 memo. (3) Souvenir Map of World's 1940 Fair. (4) E.B. Rideout - Meteorologist. TLS, 1937. (5) Dr. Jose C. Montero - assisted in removal of a live shell from a soldier's body during the Spanish Civil War. Signature. (6) Singer Sewing Machine 1871 letter. (7) Philip Philbin - Mass. congressman. 1944 telegram. (8) Post Offices in Vermont - 1850 printed gov. doc. (9) Jacob Bunn (1814-1897) Springfield businessman, friend & pallbearer at Lincoln's funeral. 1872 letter to Bunn [not signed by him].First National Bank of Elgin. (10) [CIVIL WAR] Charles B. Rounds - served in the civil war and was a noted attorney and judge from Calais, Maine. He was First Lieut. in Company D, 32nd Maine Infantry. Mustered April 19, 1864; wounded in the arm May 12th at Spottysylvania. Rounds was at Elmira, NY guarding prisoners of war, having been assigned by Special Order No. 164, July 20, 1864. Calais, Maine, 1905 bank check. The signature is not Rounds - its an estate signature...........Min. Bid $50
238. [MIXED MULTIPLE LOT] includes: (1) Robert Henry Goldsborough (1779-1836) US Senator from Maryland. CLIP SIGNATURE. (2) Geo. R. Dennis (1822-1882) Senator from Maryland. CLIP SIGNATURE. (3) John S. Spence (1788-1840) Senator from Maryland. CLIP SIGNATURE. (4) William D. Merrick (1793-1857) Senator from Maryland. CLIP SIGNATURE. (5) James B. Groome (1838-1893) Gov. and Senator from Maryland. CLIP SIGNATURE. (6) Edwards Amasa Park (1808-1900) American Congregational theologian. Park was one of the most notable American theologians and orators. He was the most prominent leader of the new school of New England Theology. Signature on envelope. (7) George Frisbie Hoar (1826-1904) was a prominent American politician and United States Senator from Massachusetts from 1877 to 1904 who belonged to an extended family that became politically prominent in 18th- and 19th-century New England. DS, receipt dated 1904 a couple months before he died. (8) Jimmy Carter - Jan. 20, 1977 Inauguration cover, not signed............Min. Bid $40
239. [MULTIPLE MIXED LOT] includes: (1) S. Ward Loper - Curator, Museum Westleyan University. Brief ALS 1896. Soiled. (2) DOUGLAS VOLK (1856-1935) Portrait Painter. DS, a check dated (1909, made out to, and endorsed on verso by Alfred L. Seligman (1864-1912) sculptor. (3) Limerick Nation Bank [Maine] 3 checks, 1920. (4) Paul Reid Roman (1936-1991) actor. Warner Bros. pay check to him [not signed on back] 1985 . (5) Thurl Arthur Ravenscroft (1914-2005) American actor, voice actor and bass singer known as the booming voice behind Kellogg's Frosted Flakes animated spokesman Tony the Tiger for more than five decades. He was also the uncredited vocalist for the song "You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch" from the classic Christmas television special, Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! Unsigned Warner Bros. pay check 1985. (6) Brenda Kuhn (1911-1993) the only child of the famous American artist, Walt Kuhn. Signed 1958 bank check. (7) Charles Reade (1814-1884) English novelist and dramatist, best known for The Cloister and the Hearth. Stamped envelope addressed by Reade [not signed], 1857. Soiled. (8) Secretary of the Treasury 1836 printed gov. doc. signed in type by Levi Woodbury. (9) Edwin Whitefield (1816-1892) was a landscape artist who is best known for his lithographed views of North American cities and for a number of illustrated books on colonial homes in New England. Original lithograph from c. 1880.................Min. Bid $35
240. [MULTIPLE MIXED LOT] includes: (1) US Sec. Navy 1840 printed gov. doc signed in type by J.K. Paulding. 2pp. (2) Bill of Lading, goods being shipped by R.G. hazard from Boston to New Orleans inn1841. (3) New Hampshire 1809 document about property tax. (4) RETREAT FOR THE INSANE, Hartford, Ct. 1823 document. (5) Jacob Bunn (1814-1897) important Illinois industrialist, financier, and close friend of Abraham Lincoln. Abraham Lincoln acted as the attorney for Jacob Bunn. He was also a Pallbearer at Lincoln's Funeral. 1868 bank document, not signed by Bunn. (6) Sheet signed by ? Buchanan, 2nd Comptroller US Treasury and E.B. French, Auditor US Treasury. (7) Print of US Treasury building in Washington DC. (8) Group of 4 Limerick National Bank checks [Maine] 1925. ....Min. Bid $25
241. [SHOW BIZ] includes: (1) John Schneider (b. 1960) actor best known for The Dukes of Hazzard. Signed, inscribed 8x10 photo. (2) Warner Baxter (1889-1951) American film actor from the 1910s to the 1940s. Baxter became known for his role as the Cisco Kid. Unsigned color photo. The following are 1984 & 1985 Warner Bros. paychecks. None are signed (endorsed) on verso. (3) R.B. MITTLEMAN (4) Michael J. London - actor, known for Police Story (1973), ER (1994) and Falcon Crest (1981). (5) Robert C. Lindsley {b. 1949) English stage and TV actor. (6) Mugwump Prods. (7) R.L. Getchell (8) Heather Skillman (9) John A. Fegan Jr. - editor, producer. (10) Lee Barton is an actor and director, known for A Debt in the Life (2009), Let It Bleed (2016) and Scramble (2017). (11) Todd Basse - actor, known for Mitchell (1975), Gunsmoke (1955) and Run, Joe, Run (1974). (12) Brooke Baxes - actress, known for Friends (1994), Monkeybone (2001) and The Price Is Right (1972)................Min. Bid $40
242. [MIXED LOT] includes: (1) Karl E. Mundt (1900-1974) US Senator from South Dakota. TLS, 1964. (2) Red Adair (1915-2004) American oil well firefighter. He became notable internationally as an innovator in the highly specialized and hazardous profession of extinguishing and capping oil well blowouts, both land-based and offshore. Signed, inscribed 5 x 6-3/4 in. color photo. Signed twice [contrast isn't very good because photo is darker]. (3) Brenda Kuhn, daughter of the noted American artist Walt Kuhn. Signed 1965 bank check. (4) C. Delano - Sec. of the Interior. Signed in type 1875 printed gov. document, INDIAN SERVICE IN CALIFORNIA. (5) Douglas Volk - artist known for his portraits of Abraham Lincoln, one used on postage stamp. Signed 1906 bank check. (6) James Edward Murray (1876-1961) US Senator from Montana, and a liberal leader of the Democratic Party. He served in the United States Senate from 1934 until 1961. (7) Tony Lavelli (1926-1998) NBA player. Sig. inscribed 3x5 card. (8) George Mitchell - US Senator from Maine. TLS, 1985, signed George. Thanks publisher for sending him a book. (9) Group of 26 Limerick, Maine bank checks c. 1917. (10) [ILLINOIS-LINCOLN] Jacob Bunn (1814-1897) important Illinois industrialist, financier, and close friend of Abraham Lincoln. Abraham Lincoln acted as the attorney for Jacob Bunn. He was also a Pallbearer at Lincoln's Funeral. Offered here is a document dated 1877 made out to Bunn but not signed by him. Approx. 5.5 x 7.5 in. VG..................Min. Bid $50
243. [MIXED MULTIPLE LOT] includes: (1) Edward Jordan (1820-1899) American lawyer who served as Solicitor of the United States Treasury. LS, Treasury Department, 1866, 2pp. Much mounting trace along left edge. (2) James L. Edwards - clip signature. He was Commissioner of Pensions [1836]. Signed on other side by Joseph Healy [1836] US congressman from New Hampshire. (3) Seaman Block Jacobs(1912-2008) American screenwriter. He wrote episodes for several TV shows, such as The Addams Family, The Lucy Show, I Dream of Jeannie, F-Troop, The Andy Griffith Show, Here's Lucy and Diff'rent Strokes. He was nominated for an Emmy Award in 1978 for Outstanding Writing in a Comedy-Variety or Music Special for The George Burns One-Man Show in 1977. Warner Bros. 1884 check for him [not signed on back]. (4) Maude Raymond - signed card dated 1910. Think she was a dancer. (5) James E. Carter Inauguration cover [not signed] postmarked Annapolis, MD, Jan. 20, 1977. (6) Shirely O'Hara - wife of the noted artist Eliot O'Hara. ALS, 1932, 2pp. (7) Gordon Dorrance (b. 1890-?) publisher, author. TLS, 1936, 1p, ro the noted cartoon Wally Wallgren. (8) Philip Philbin - US Congressman from Mass. Group of 5 carbon copy typed letter [not signed]. (9) Chancery of New Jersey court document, 1907. (10) Printed 1852 gov. doc. in the US Senate re: land claim in Louisiana, 1p. (11) Brenda Kuhn (1911-1993) the only child of the famous American artist, Walt Kuhn. Signed 1965 bank check. (12) [CIVIL WAR] Charles B. Rounds - served in the civil war and was a noted attorney and judge from Calais, Maine. He was First Lieut. in Company D, 32nd Maine Infantry. Mustered April 19, 1864; wounded in the arm May 12th at Spottysylvania. Rounds was at Elmira, NY guarding prisoners of war, having been assigned by Special Order No. 164, July 20, 1864. Signed Calais, Maine promisory document, 1901. Lines drawn over signature means paid. (13) Unidentified clip signature 1864 from Treasury Dept. (14) Socialist Labor Party - Who Speaks For Socialism. 4 page handout. ? date. (15) Styles Bridges (1898-1961) 63rd Governor of New Hampshire before a twenty-four-year career in the United States Senate. US Senate envelope bearing printed Free Frank signature, postmarked 1947................Min. Bid $75
244. [MIXED LOT] includes: (1) Max Gebhard SECKENDORFF (1852-1911). American journalist; chief, Washington bureau of the "New York Tribune" (1883-1911); a very influential journalist between the time of President Chester Arthur and President William Howard Taft. Signed Riggs National Bank check, 1910. (2) Douglas Volk -American artist. Signed 1923 bank check. (3) Ellsworth Davis [1892-1946] American naval officer. He served on the U.S.S. Florida as a signal officer, official uniform inspector and flag lieutenant. During the U.S. occupation of Vera Cruz, Mexico on April 1914, Davis led a company onshore and overtook the town's postal service building. Signed 1934 bank check, The Annapolis Banking & Trust Co. He signs "E. Davis USN." VG (4) Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow, (1731-1806) served as Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain for fourteen years and under four Prime Ministers. Antique engraved portrait, about 5-1/4 x 3-1/2 in. (5) Charles Clayton Morrison(1874–1966) American Disciples of Christ minister and Christian socialist. TLS 1926, 1p. (6) Hugh Cecil (1869-1956), styled Lord Hugh Cecil until 1941, was a British Conservative Party politician. Signed card. (7) James R. Whiting (1803-1872) American lawyer and politician from New York. ANS 1866. (8) S.G. Winchester - clip signature 1835. (9) John E. Jacob (b. 1934) U.S. civil rights leader. He served as the president of the National Urban League between 1982 and 1994. Signed 4-3/4 x 4-3/4 in. photo. Signed in dark area so poor contrast. (10) Ashbel Green, Jr. (b. 1811) signature..........Min. Bid $50
245. [ART] Judith Zilczer - American art historian and former museum curator. She is known for her work with artists such as Horace Pippin, Raymond Duchamp-Villon, Willem de Kooning, and Richard Lindner. Zilczer was interested in the connections between music and art, which she described as "the mystical strain of artistic synesthesia." She curated an exhibit titled "Visual Music: Synaesthesia in Art and Music Since 1900".[4][5] Zilczer served at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (HMSG) in various capacities from 1974-2003. From 1992 to 2003, she was Curator of Paintings. Her papers are held by the Smithsonian Institution Archives. TLS, Sept. 20, 1983, 4pp. To Brenda Kuhn, daughter of the artist Walt Kuhn. She thanks Brenda for granting her permission to study the restricted Walt Kuhn Papers in the Archives of American Art. Excellent art content letter. Also includes a signed 1962 Brenda Kuhn bank check. Fine......80-120......Min Bid $25
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246. [FILM & THEATRE ACTORS LOT] includes: (1) Joel Siegel (1943-2007) American film critic for the ABC morning news show Good Morning America for over twenty-five years. Warner Bros. 1984 check made out to him but not signed by him. VG. (2) John A. Stevens (1844-1916) American playwright, actor, and theatre manager, best known for playing the title part in The Unknown. CLIP SIGNATURE. (3) Dennis McGovern (1944-2003) actor. ALS on 1981 Season's Greetings. (4) Blake Edwards (1922-2010) American filmmaker. He is best-known films include Breakfast at Tiffany's, Days of Wine and 10, Victor/Victoria, and the hugely successful Pink Panther film series with British actor Peter Sellers. Warner Bros. 1984 check made out to him but not signed by him. VG. (5) Joan Didion (b. 1934) writer of screen plays including A STAR IS BORN. Warner Bros. 1984 check made out to him but not signed by him. VG. (6) John Tresahar - 19th c. English actor. CLIP SIGNATURE. (7) Christiane Schmidtmer (1939-2003) German born actress. She was the beautiful mistress of José Ferrer in Ship of Fools (1965), but most people will remember her as the evil wardress in the exploitation women-in-prison film, The Big Doll House (1971). Signed, inscribed 8x10 photo dated 1985. (8) Harry Conor (c. 1856 – 1931) American comic actor, best known for playing the role of Welland Strong in A Trip to Chinatown. CLIP SIGNATURE, 1902. (9) PLUS group of 7 unidentified clip signatures of early actors from the collection of the former Boothbay Theatre Museum in Maine. 15 pieces in all.............Min. Bid $50
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247. [BRITISH] Richard Whately (1787-1863) English academic, rhetorician, logician, philosopher, economist, and theologian who also served as a reforming Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin. He was a leading Broad Churchman, a prolific and combative author over a wide range of topics, a flamboyant character, and one of the first reviewers to recognise the talents of Jane Austen. Signed address panel, addressed to the Archbishop of Canterbury, postmarked 1840. Stain on front is from the red wax seal. Approx. 4-3/4 x 3 in. Large hole on front does not detract...............25-35See above
248. MAINE] George Mitchell (b. 1933) served as a United States Senator from Maine from 1980 to 1995 and as Senate Majority Leader from 1989 to 1995. TLS, 1992, 1p, 8.5 x 11 in. VG..............25-35
249. [BRITISH] Sir Austen Henry Layard GCB PC (1817-1894) was an English traveller, archaeologist, cuneiformist, art historian, draughtsman, collector, politician and diplomat. He is best known as the excavator of Nimrud and of Nineveh, where he uncovered a large proportion of the Assyrian palace reliefs known, and in 1851 the library of Ashurbanipal. Signed address panel postmarked 1862. About 4-1/4 x 3-1/4 in. VG................25-35
250. [SCIENCE] Sir Walter Calverley Trevelyan FGS FRSE (1797-1879) English naturalist and geologist. The standard author abbreviation Trevelyan is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name. ALS, no year, written on both sides of 3-1/2 x 4-3/4 in. paper. VG..............100-150
251. [PORTRAIT] original 1814 engraved portrait of Robert Southey (1774-1843) English poet of the Romantic school, and Poet laureate from 1813 until his death. Like the other Lake Poets, William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Southey had begun as a radical, but became steadily more conservative, as he acquired respect for Britain and its institutions. Other romantics, notably Byron, accused him of siding with the establishment for money and status. He is principally remembered as author of the poem After Blenheim and the original version of Goldilocks and the Three Bears. Image area itself is approx. 4 x 3 in. plus name & margins. Slightly toned..................25-35
252. Pauline Erskine (1878-1945) wife of John Erskine the American educator, author, pianist and composer. Pauline and John were the grand-parents of actress Lindsay Crouse. Erskine Place, a street in Co-op City in the New York City borough of The Bronx, was named after him. ALS, 1926, 2pp. to the journalist Mrs. Marshall. Approx. 5 x 6.5 in. Fine................50-75
ORIGINAL PORTRAIT ENGRAVINGS OF PRESTIGIOUS AMERICANS FROM THE FIELD OF LITERATURE. THESE ARE CLEAN & READY TO FRAME WITH AUTOGRAPHS. NO ESTIMATES. Literary portraits are much more scarce than military or presidents. Min. Bids $10 each 253. SAMUEL P. BATES (1827–1902) was an American educator, author, and historian. He is known for his reference works on the American Civil War.
254. GEO. W. CHILDS (1829–1894) was an American publisher who co-owned the Philadelphia Public Ledger newspaper with financier Anthony Joseph Drexel.
255. FREDERICK S. COZZENS (1818–1869) was an American humorist, who sometimes wrote under the name Richard Haywarde.
256. DONALD GRANT MITCHELL {1822-1908) American essayist and novelist who usually wrote under the pen name Ik Marvel.
257. GEORGE P. MORRIS (1802-1864) American editor, poet, and songwriter.
258. FLETCHER HARPER (1806-1877) American publisher in the early-to-mid 19th century.
259. GEO. D. PRENTICE (1802-1870) newspaper editor, writer and poet who built the Louisville Journal into a major newspaper
260. JOHN R. BARTLETT (1805-1886) American historian and linguist.
261. N.P. WILLIS (18061867) American author, poet and editor who worked with several notable American writers including Edgar Allan Poe and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. He became the highest-paid magazine writer of his day.
262. FITZ-GREEN HALLECK (1790-1867) American poet notable for his satires and as one of the Knickerbocker Group. *******************************************
263. [ART] Judith Zilczer - American art historian and former museum curator. She is known for her work with artists such as Horace Pippin, Raymond Duchamp-Villon, Willem de Kooning, and Richard Lindner. Zilczer was interested in the connections between music and art, which she described as "the mystical strain of artistic synesthesia." She curated an exhibit titled "Visual Music: Synaesthesia in Art and Music Since 1900". Zilczer served at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (HMSG) in various capacities from 1974-2003. From 1992 to 2003, she was Curator of Paintings. Her papers are held by the Smithsonian Institution Archives. TLS, Hirschhorn Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Oct.. 4, 1983, 1p. To Brenda Kuhn, daughter of the artist Walt Kuhn. She thanks Brenda for granting her permission to study the restricted Walt Kuhn Papers in the Archives of American Art. Fine............50-75
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264. [ART] S.A. Douglas Volk (1856-1935) American portrait painter and the son of noted sculptor Leonard Volk. Best known for his portraits of Abraham Lincoln, one of which hangs in the Lincoln Bedroom at the White House. He was named after his mother's cousin (Abraham Lincoln's political rival) Stephen A. Douglas. Offered here is a bank check signed by Douglas Volk, 1907. VG.................25-35
265. [BOOKS] Eben Francis Thompson (1859-1939) American lawyer and one of the most interesting literary figures that Worcester [Mass.] ever produced. Although Mr. Thompson was for over half a century a lawyer, it was for his literary pursuits that he was most widely recognized. For years he collected the varying editions of the Persian poet, Omar Khayyam, including the immortal translation by Fitzgerald. With the full realization of the magnificence of Fitzgerald's English verse, he wondered whether he could essay a poetical translation of the Persian text, but one which would more closely follow the original. Stimulated by the advice of his friend, Nathan Haskell Dole, he began to learn Persian. By 1906 he had finished his monumental task, bringing out in a volume of 290 pages his own translation of 878 quatrains of Omar, an achievement remarkable both for his poetic ability and his diligence. This volume he followed in 1907 with a work reproducing Fitzgerald's text, the Persian original with a transliteration, and his own versified translation. Finally, in 1910, he published a little volume of verse. The Rose Garden of Omar Khayyam, Founded on the Persian. This trilogy of Omar books brought him into close touch with many admirers of Persian literature. In 1900 he founded the Omar Khayyam Club of America, of which he was secretary for twenty years, and later, president.
Another hobby of Mr. Thompson's was his interest in Shake- speare. As early as 1887 he had published the text of "A Mid- summer Night's Dream" for public reading. Long an actor in amateur dramatics, and especially conversant with all of Shakespeare's plays, he travelled several times to England to study Shakespeare traditions and scenes, to search for manuscripts, and to acquire what early printed works his purse would allow. He owned the second and fourth folios and possessed a respectable Shakespearian library. He wrote a brochure in 1923 entitled "Bacon Not Shakespeare, being an Argument to Show that Francis Bacon, not William Shakespeare, Wrote the Plays and Poems Commonly Attributed to the Latter, by Adam Nutt, with an Introduction by Way of Dissent by Eben Francis Thompson," which really was an ingenious and amusing refutation of the Baconian theory. In his later life, Mr. Thompson compiled for his own use what he called a "reading translation" of Shakespeare, in which he marked on all of the hundred thousand lines of Shakespeare's plays with accents to show the correct pro- nunciation of Elizabethan words. In 1938, the year before his death, he wrote a pamphlet entitled Some Hints on Public Speak- ing, and in the introduction referred to his early attempts to perfect himself in Shakespearian speech, modelling his pronunciation upon that of Edwin Booth. In the meetings of the Worcester Shakespeare Club, organized in 1887, he participated for over fifty years.
His third interest was miniature books. He owned a large collection, with over two hundred examples. His crowning achievement in this field was the production of the smallest printed book in the world, which in conjunction with Hamilton B. Wood of the Commonwealth Press, he issued in 1933. This tiniest of volumes, six-sixteenths by three-sixteenths inches in size, contained the printing of forty-six quatrains of The Rose Garden of Omar Khayyam, and can be read only with the aid of a magnifying glass. After seven years of trial and error, the book was produced, a triumph of printing, but chiefly the result of Mr. Thompson's imagination and persistence. Offered here is a signed album page, approx. 7 x 4.5 in. Fine.............Min. Bid $20266. [SCIENCE] William John McGee, LL.D. (1853-1912) American inventor, geologist, anthropologist, and ethnologist. While largely self-taught, McGee attended a rural one-room schoolhouse north of Farley, Iowa during the four winter months from about 1858 to 1867. He devoted his early years to reading law and to surveying. He invented and patented several improvements on agricultural implements. He was appointed geologist for the United States Geological Survey (USGS) in 1881. In 1884 McGee authored the article Map of the United States exhibiting the present status of knowledge relating to the areal distribution of geologic groups for the USGS Journal. While with the USGS, McGee travelled to Charleston, South Carolina, in 1886 for the purpose of studying the earthquake disturbances in its vicinity. McGee was ethnologist in charge of the Bureau of American Ethnology from 1893 to 1903. In 1895, he explored the Isla del Tiburón, Gulf of California, home of the Seri Indians. In 1904 he was chief of the department of anthropology that organized the "Anthropology Days" at the 1904 Summer Olympics / Louisiana Purchase Exposition, the 1904 World's Fair. In 1907 he was appointed a member of the Inland Waterways Commission by President Roosevelt. His other prominent positions were: acting president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1897–1898); president of the American Anthropological Association (1902–1912); and president of the National Geographic Society (1904–1905). Excellent TLS, 1895, 2pp. to Professor Robert S. Woodward. 8 x 10.5 in. VG..............100-200
267. [ART] mixed group from the estate of artist Walt Kuhn (1877-1949) who was an American painter and an organizer of the famous Armory Show of 1913, which was America's first large-scale introduction to European Modernism. In 1909, Kuhn had his first solo exhibition in New York. In the following years, he took part in founding the Association of American Painters and Sculptors, the organization ultimately responsible for the Armory Show. Kuhn acted as the executive secretary and was delegated as one of the men to find European artists to participate. Following the Armory Show, Kuhn acted as an art advisor to the lawyer and collector John Quinn and assisted in the formation of his unique collection of modern art, unfortunately dissolved and sold at the time of Quinn's death in 1924. By the 1940s, Kuhn’s behavior began to take on unsound characteristics. He became increasingly irascible and distant from old friends. When the Ringling Brothers Circus was in town, he attended night after night. During a hard-pressed period in the 1920s, Kuhn had worked as a designer and director for revues and circus acts. He also became frustrated by the lack of attention his own work was receiving and was particularly strident about the Museum of Modern Art's support of abstraction and neglect of American art in the postwar period. In 1948, he was institutionalized, and on July 13, 1949, he died suddenly from a perforated ulcer. Offered here (1) Brenda Kuhn [daughter] ALS, 1986, 3 full pages. Goof art content. (2) small 1950 photo of the Kuhn home in Cape Neddick, Maine 3-1/2 x 2-1/4. (3) Mid 1940s photo of Walt Kuhn standing with Brenda 2-1/2 x 3-1/2 in. RARE. (4) Photo of Kuhn's painting "MARIO", 5 X 7 in. (5) Two 1965 bank checks signed by Brenda Kuhn. (6) Newpaper clipping from 1987 INFLUENTIAL ART WORKS NOW ON EXHIBIT. This is an interesting article. It mentions Kuhn's painting The White Clown which sold for $10,000 in 1949 to W. Averell Harriman. This was the highest price ever paid for a painting by a living American artist. Harriman married Marie Norton Whitney (1903–1970), who had left her husband, Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, to marry him. On their honeymoon in Europe, they purchased oil paintings by Van Gogh, Degas, Cézanne, Picasso, and Renoir. She and her husband later donated many of the works she bought and collected, including those of the artist Walt Kuhn, to the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.....................Min. Bid $50
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268. [MUSIC] Thomas Harper Jr. (1816-1898) English trumpet musician. He was the son of Thomas Harper (1786-1853) the English trumpet player, playing in important concerts of the day. ALS, 1857, 2pp, 4-1/2 x 7-1/4 in. He writes to Roger Kerrison saying the offer for payment is not less than he has been getting for other concerts. Fine.........50-75
269. [COLONIAL TIMES] John Keyes (1674-1768) John Keyes, youngest son of Solomon and Frances, was born in Chelmsford, Mass. We first hear of him in Marlboro, Mass., where is recorded the birth of his children. He probably moved to Shrewsbury about 1720, and was one of the founders of the church there. He married March 11, 1696, Mary, daughter of Gersham and Hannah (Johnson) Eames. Gersham Eames died in Watertown, Mass., Nov. 25, 1676, and Mary was born four months after her father's death. Her mother subsequently married a Ward, and became the m128yes, in Shrewsbury. On the night of the 7th, the house being nearly finished, was burned, as also the old one near it in which Major John was then residing. Six persons were sleeping in the new house. Three sons of Capt. Keyes, and two of Bragg's apprentices were burned, and Bragg saved himself by jumping from the window. John, usually known as the famous Major John Keyes, lived with his wife 72 years. Their son-in-law, Daniel Rand, married Martha Bruce for his 2nd wife, was married by Major John who had then passed his 95th year, and afterward lived with his father-in-law. His farm was subsequently known as the Rand farm, and was purchased by Col. Joseph Henshaw of Rand or his heirs. Maj. John died March 31, 1768. Mary, relict of Maj. John died April 16, 1772, aged 95 years and one month. Offered here is a signed document, Shrewsbury [Mass], 1747, signed by Jonathan Livermore (1700-1801). Signed on the verso by John Keyes. A land transaction. Approx. 6 x 5.5 in. VG..............100-150..................MIN. BID $40
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270. Walter Perceval Yetts (1878-1957) British surgeon and sinologist. He entered the Royal Navy Medical Service in 1903 and retired with the rank of staff surgeon in 1912. He was acting medical officer at the British legation in 1913 and served in the Royal Army Medical Corps during World War I. From 1920 to 1927 he was a medical officer in the Ministry of Health. In 1930 he made a major career change when he was appointed the first lecturer in Chinese art and archaeology at the School of Oriental Studies at London University. In 1932 he became Professor of Chinese Art and Archaeology at London University and held the post until his retirement in 1946. Signed album page, dated 1940, approx. 6 x 7.5 in. To the left in pencil it says "From our inscription 2000 years old Great Good, Luck. Characters used in that age. It is assumed that Yetts wrote the ink character letters in the middle of the page. Fine..............50-75
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271. [ART] RICHARD CARLE - deceased New England artist. Worked a lot around Boston and the north shore. ORIGINAL drawing, not signed, 1980. Approx. 9 x 11.5 in. paper size. VG..............50-75
272. [FILM] DON PORTER [1912-1997] actor who appeared in a number of films in the 1940s, including Top Sergeant and Eagle Squadron. ISP, 8 x 10.......Min. bid $10
273. [THEATRE] George Rignold (1839-1912) English-born actor, active in Britain and Australia. Rignold gained a reputation as an actor, playing in London the parts of William in Black-Eyed Susan and Romeo in Romeo and Juliet. In 1869, he was part of the company at the Queen's Theatre, Long Acre. He then toured the United States (where women would fight over the good-looking actor) and Canada from 1875, where he made a great impression — a reference in The Atlantic Monthly in 1938 shows that memory of him persisted. He then toured in Australia. He spent a season playing Henry V at Drury Lane, where Staffordshire replicas were made of Rignold as the king on horseback. He then had a considerable career in Australia as a theatrical impresario and manager, often in conjunction with James Allison and F. H. Pollock. Rignold again toured the United States and then settled in Australia. He held the lease for Her Majesty's Theatre, Sydney when it opened 10 September 1887 and held it for seven years. Rignold played Henry V on opening night. Offered here is a AUTOGRAPH QUOTATION SIGNED, dated 1875. Approx. 7.5 x 5 in.................50-75
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274. [STOCK CERTIFICATE] 1940 Stock Detroit and Cleveland Navigation Company , 1950. Vignette at top center. About 11 x 7 in. VG..........Min. Bid $10
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275. [THEATRE] Herbert Kelcey (1856-1917) English-born American stage and film actor. In 1902 Kelcey became the second actor in history to play Sherlock Holmes after famed William Gillette. Signed 7-1/4 x 4-3/4 in. album page. Large bold signature. Also signed on the other side by Anna Boyd Coyne (died 1916) actress. Dated 1899. VG...........25-35
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276. [WALT KUHN ESTATE] items from the estate of Brenda Kuhn, daughter of Walt Kuhn (1877-1949) famous American artist. Includes: Edmund Muskie 1968 TLS. Walt Kuhn's Wells, Maine property tax 1948 receipt. Photo of the Kuhn home in Cape Neddick, Maine up on the hill. Photo of later Brenda Kuhn building just down the road. Brenda Kuhn signed check 1967. Cape Neddick Park brochure featuring Walt Kuhn. VG.............Min. Bid $40
277. [THEATRE] antique engraving of the actor Edwin Forrest (1806-1872) prominent nineteenth-century American Shakespearean actor. His feud with the British actor William Macready was the cause of the deadly Astor Place Riot of 1849. In this print he is Hamlet. The engraver was John Chester Buttre (1821-1893) American steel-plate engraver and lithographer, responsible for some 3,000 engraved portraits of American political, naval and military personalities. He published "The American Portrait Gallery" in 3 volumes (1880–81) with text by his daughter, Lillian C. Buttre. Overall size 8.5 x 11 in. Stun-toned line above image & soft crease....................25-35
278. [WAR] 1840 printed government document from the Secretary of WAR, J.R. Poinsett, 19pp. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 in. VG.................Min. Bid $10
279. [THEATRE-MUSIC] Sofia Scalchi (1850-1922) was an Italian operatic contralto who could also sing in the mezzo-soprano range. Her career was international, and she appeared at leading theatres in both Europe and America. Scalchi helped to make history when she sang in the newly constructed New York City Metropolitan Opera's first ever staged work, Charles Gounod's Faust, which inaugurated the theatre on October 22, 1883. She returned to Mapleson's troupe a year later but went back to the Metropolitan in 1891, where she would spend five further seasons. Offered here is a signed card dated 1882, about 3.5 x 2 in. Fine..............Min. Bid $15
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280. [NORTH CAROLINA] Josiah Bailey (1873-1946) was a Democratic U.S. senator from the state of North Carolina between 1931 and 1946. Before turning to a career in law, Bailey was editor of the Biblical Recorder, a newspaper for North Carolina Baptists. Signed 1920 bank check. VG..............40-60
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281. [AMERICANA] 1845 PRINTED GOVERNMENT DOCUMENT, 84pp, 5-1/2 x 9 in. Message from the President of the US [John Tyler], signed in type. About Silas Reed, principal surveyer of Missouri and Illinois. VG........Min. Bid $20
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282. Scott O'Dell (1898-1989) American author. Signed picture, 8.5 x 11. VG...............Min. Bid $10
283. (ART) Alexander POPE [1849-1924] Notable American sporting artist, hailing from Dorchester, Massachusetts and studying under William Copley. One of America's popular gaming artists. As a youth, Alexander Pope carved and sketched animals around his home in Massachusetts. In the 1860s, he worked for his family's lumber business. Pope studied carving, painting, perspective, and anatomy with William Rimmer, an important romantic-baroque sculptor, painter, and influential teacher of many Boston artists. From 1879 to 1883, Pope created many well-received carvings of game. Czar Alexander III of Russia acquired two of the carvings. In 1893, Pope began painting animal portraits and, later, pursued a career as a portrait painter. Eventually, he was considered one of the best Bostonian trompe l'oeil painters of the 19th century Pope's work is recognized in many private collections and museums, including the M.H. De Young Memorial Museum and the National Museum of Wildlife Art. Offered here is one of his childhood sketches. Small sheet, unsigned, with minor sketches on both sides. On one side - 1 head, 1 partial face, 2 small apples. On the verso is childish sketch of man. He has also written an arithmetic problem on the better side. Lined paper, 7.5 x 4.25. Top corner missing. An opportunity to purchase a minor piece by a major artist...............100-200.................Min. Bid $40
284. [ART] William Grainger - 18th century British engraver, active 1784-1793. Original copperplate engraving c. 1790s, image size approx. 3-3/4 x 3-3/4" plus margins. Clean image area and surrounding; spots and stain in outer margins. VG......50-75
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285. [POSTAL HISTORY] Louise Chandler Moulton (1835-1908) American poet, story-writer and critic. Offered here is an envelope addressed by her. The LCM initials written top left was likely written by her. Approx. 4-1/8 x 2-3/4 in. VG..........50-75
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Roland Young "Topper" Gets a Letter From His Old Friend
286. [THEATRE & FILM] Matty (A.E. Matthews OBE) (1869-1960) English actor who played numerous character roles on the stage and in film for eight decades. Nicknamed "Matty", he was christened Alfred Edward Matthews. He was affectionately regarded by the British public over his extraordinarily long career. From World War II until his death he enjoyed renown as one of British cinema's most famous crotchety, and sometimes rascally, old men. Matthews' other most well-known films include The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, The Million Pound Note (with Gregory Peck), Inn for Trouble, The Magic Box, The Ghosts of Berkeley Square and Just William's Luck. Offered here is a 2-page ALS, signed "Matty" to his friend, and fellow actor, Roland Young [1887-1953] best remembered for his role as Topper. Not dated. Signed Matty." VG...........Min. Bid $35
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287. [ART] RALPH BAKSHI - American animator/draftsman. In the late 1950s & early 1960s he worked at CBS-Terrytoons on such series as "Heckle and Jeckle" and "Mighty Mouse." From there he went to Famous Studios-Paramount, where he directed countless "Casper the Friendly Ghost" and "Little Audrey" cartoons, among others. During the 1960s he also animated Peter Max's commercials. When Famous Studios closed in 1967, Bakshi went into partnership with Steve Krantz. Their first venture was "Fritz the Cat", released in 1972. The success of "Fritz" prompted "Heavy Traffic" [1973], a funny-sad chronicle of life in New York's slums. Striking out on his own, Bakshi produced the sometimes brilliant, often disappointing "Coonskin" [1974]; also "Wizards" [1977]; "Lord of the Rings" [1978]. Ralph Bakshi occupies a somewhat ambiguous position in the animation world. He is one of the more original artists at work in the animated cartoon medium. He has become a cult figure. ORIGINAL Ink drawing, unsigned on 6-3/4 x 8 in. sheet. As this was a "working study" there was no reason for him to have signed it. VG.....100-150
288. Joseph P. Lash (1909–1987) was an American radical political activist, journalist, and author. A close friend of Eleanor Roosevelt, Lash won both the Pulitzer Prize for Biography and the National Book Award in Biography for Eleanor and Franklin (1971), the first of two volumes he wrote about the former First Lady. The Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact of August 23, 1939 deeply shook Lash's growing leanings towards the Communist Party, causing him to resign as executive secretary of the American Student Union. Three months later he was subpoenaed to appear before the House Un-American Activities Committee (colloquially known as the "Dies Committee" after its chairman) to be questioned about his activities with the American Student Union and the American Youth Congress. Lash was a hostile witness on Nov. 11, refusing to cooperate with the committee in its effort to obtain the names of members of the Communist Party and to expound upon their influence. SIGNED 1p. typescript from some unknown work. VG...........50-75
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289. [ENGLAND] Charles Lloyd (1784-1829), Regius Professor of Divinity and Bishop of Oxford from 1827 to 1829. Eventually he had to leave and took a job as a tutor to Lord Elgin's children at Dunfermline. This didn't last long as he was asked to return to Oxford to teach mathematics. One of his first jobs was to prepare Robert Peel for his exams. Peel later became prime minister. Charles Lloyd soon gained a reputation as an effective teacher. Address panel signed Charles Oxford, postmarked 1829, a few months before he passed away. Rex wax seal on backside. Fine................40-60
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290. [WORLD WAR 11] Louis W. McKeehan (1887-1975) Director of the Physics Laboratories Yale. He took leave of his teaching position to help out with the war effort. He was the driving force behind the creation of the torpedo called Fido. Capt. Louis McKeehan, head of the Mine Warfare Branch of the Bureau of Ordnance. Scientists at the Naval Torpedo Station at Newport, Rhode Island had been considering acoustic homing torpedoes for fifteen years but insisted that torpedoes made too much noise themselves to be able to home on any external noise source and until McKeehan came along to challenge them they seemed to have a point. But McKeehan was not a career naval officer. He was a reserve officer, on active duty for the duration, whose peacetime job was director of the physics laboratories at Yale University. Unimpressed by the received wisdom of Navy engineers, McKeehan turned to HUSL and BTL where his idea for an acoustic homing torpedo quickly bore fruit. With support and funding from the NDRC, HUSL and BTL proved Newport wrong and only seventeen months after the beginning of the project Fido had entered service and made his first kill. After the war, the scientists at Bell Labs who had worked on Fido returned to telephone work, Captain McKeehan returned to Yale, and Harvard - like some other universities - anxious to shed the military connection as soon as possible took back its buildings and ended its classified work. Louis McKeehan was, among other things, author of Yale Science: The First Hundred Years, 1701-1801 (New York: H. Schuman, 1947). Offered here is an unsigned autograph manuscript page dated 1 Nov. 1944, written on both sides, 8 x 10-1/2". These are notes he kept for himself. Rare! VG...............100-150
See McKeehan notes291. George Hodges (1856–1919) American Episcopal theologian, born at Rome, New York, and educated at Hamilton College (A.B., 1877; A.M., 1882; LL.D., 1912). He served at Calvary Church, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, from 1881 to 1894. In 1893 he helped establish the Kingsley Association in Pittsburgh, an organization dedicated to helping immigrant workers. Afterward, he became the dean of the Episcopal Theological School at Cambridge, Massachusetts. "The high esteem in which his religious messages are held by the reading public" resulted in a number of his books being reissued as a second edition in 1914. ALS, 1907, 1p., approx. 5 x 8 in. VG...............50-75
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292. [WW II] EVELYN W. FARRAND. Assist. to Mrs. Kermit Roosevelt, Chairman of YOUNG AMERICA WANTS TO HELP, operated under the auspices of the British War Relief Society, Inc. Typewritten Letter Signed, New York, July 21, 1941, to Mrs. Burton Musser, the president of the Utah British War Relief Society. One page, 4to. Sending three pages of information on projects for raising funds for immediate aid of the children in Britain to the additional objective of "crystalliz[ing] the sympathy of the youth of America for the youth of Great Britain." Four pages total.........40-60
293. [RHODE ISLAND] a 1840 document signed by Isaac Peace Hazard (d. 1862) and Samuel Rodman (1800-1882) signed on verso. In 1835 Samuel Rodman bought the small mills at Rocky Brook in South Kingstown just to the north of Peace Dale, and there rebuilt a single, more substantial mill seat. Samuel Rodman's mills manufactured woolens and jean cloth for southern markets. Samuel's son Isaac entered into the family business by managing the Rocky Brook Store, selling dry goods and textiles to the mill hands and local neighborhood (see ad from the Narragansett Times, January 14, 1860). By this time Samuel Rodman had followed his wife Mary (nee Peckham) into the Wakefield Baptist Church, and Samuel had become a staunch supporter of the local temperance movement. Despite a long family association with the Society of Friends, Samuel's children were all raised as Baptists. Samuel's son was Isaac Rodman, a native son of South Kingstown, Rhode Island, was the highest ranking officer from Rhode Island to fall in the Civil War. Antietam National Battlefield had "Rhode Island Day" on August 11, 2012, and held a memorial to General Rodman. Approx. 7 x 3 in. Fine..............Min. Bid $25
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294. Ruth D. Wilson - author. West Indies Sugar Corporation. See this295. Watson L. Savage - M.D. The North American Edison Co. See this
296. Karl Mundt - senator. West Indies Sugar Corporation. See this
297. Leroy Maeder - physician. North American Light & Power Co. See this
298. Jas. J. Minot - stock broker. West Indies Sugar Corporation. See this
299. Laurence M. Marks - business. West Indies Sugar Corporation. See this
#################################300. Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa (1906-1992) was a Canadian-born American academic and politician of Japanese ancestry. A professor of English, he served as president of San Francisco State University and then as U.S. Senator from California from 1977 to 1983. Offered is is a 6 x 4 in. card signed. Below is a stamp. Attacked to this card is a POST IT NOTE on which he describes the red stamp. Also included is another 6x4 in. card on which Hayakawa writes 9 lines of autobiography. This card is not signed. Both are FINE..............75-100
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301. [ENGLAND] George Pryme (1781-1868) British economist, academic and politician. In 1799, Pryme entered Trinity College, Cambridge, winning a scholarship there in 1800 and graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in 1803. In 1804, he began studying law at Lincoln's Inn, and was called to the Bar in 1806, practising in London until health problems forced him to return to Cambridge in 1808. In 1816, Pryme began conducting lectures on political economy at Cambridge, the first teaching of such a topic at any English university, and in that same year his lectures were published as a book entitled A Syllabus of a Course of Lectures on the Principles of Political Economy. In 1828, he was made Professor of Political Economy by the university senate, although a chair was not established for the topic at Cambridge until just before his retirement. He was politically active, and successfully opposed parliamentary candidates sponsored by the Duke of Rutland, and eventually winning a seat in the House of Commons representing Cambridge as a Whig. Pryme worked hard in the parliament, pushing for university reform at Oxford and Cambridge until his poor health prompted his family to urge his retirement from parliament. He returned to Cambridge and bought an estate in Wistow while continuing to lecture and practice as a barrister on occasion. He died in 1868. In 1870, his memoirs were published, Autobiographic Recollections of George Pryme, edited by his daughter Alicia Bayne. ALS, 1837, written on both sides. To Joshua Walmsby accepting invitation to dinner of the Reform Association of Liverpool.............50-75
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302. Herbert Lehman (1878-1963) he was the 45th governor of New York and represented New York State in the United States Sete from 1950 until 1957. Signed bank check dated 1934. Separated half way at middle fold................50-75
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304. [From Walt Kuhn Estate] Gift from Kuhn to Whitney Museum of American Art. Receipt from the Whitney Museum of American Art to Walt Kuhn, dated Jan. 29, 1946. receoved from Walt Kuhn LONGHORN MUSEUM & WESTERN CAFE. Approx. 5 x 7-3/4 in. The handwritten notes on the verso are most likely by Walt Kuhn. Poor condition; beginning to separate at fold.........200-300
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305. [ART] Florence Grippi (1910-2010) a talented artist in her own right, she was the wife of noted sculptor and printmaker Peter Grippe. The pair worked and exhibited beside some of the most recognizable figures in the abstract expressionist movement of the 1950s including de Kooning, Nevelson, Grippi, and Kline. Florence Grippe's works have been displayed in numerous museums, galleries, and institutions including the American Museum of Natural History, the Brooklyn Museum Art School, the New School for Social Research, and Boston College. Original pencil signed etching, limited to 140, dated 1985, approx. 15-1/2 x 13-1/4 in. VG. Her work is very scarce.................150-250
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306. [THEATRE] 1958 program starring Sana Andrews & Anne Bancroft in TWO FOR THE SEESAW. VG..............Min. Bid $5
307. [NYC] Offered here is a Charles Magnus handcolored wood engraving, c. 1850-1890, BOWLING GREEN, image approx. 7 x 3 in. plus margins. Charles Magnus [1826-1900] was a German immigrant who published popular Civil War views and maps and after the war was known for his color views, song sheets, maps and illustrated stationary. His claim to lasting fame was as a colorist and designer, using novel methods and inks. “Bowling Green is a small public park in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan, New York City, at the southern end of Broadway, next to the site of the original Dutch fort of New Amsterdam. Built in 1733, originally including an actual bowling green (a venue for lawn bowling), it is the oldest public park in New York City and is surrounded by its original 18th-century fence. The iconic Charging Bull sculpture is exhibited on its northern end” [Wikipedia]. VG........Min. Bid $50
308. [AMERICANA] Ephraim Cooke (1756-1824) - document signed, Cambridge [Mass.], 1790, signed as tax collector. Nathan Fessenden pays his property tax. Nathan Fessenden (1749-1797). He was a member of Capt. Parker's Co. of Minute Men at the Battle of Lexington. Approx. 7-1/4 x 2-1/2 in. Small holes in middle.................75-100
See above309. [ART] Lawrence B. "Larry" Salander (born 1949) is a former New York City art dealer. His company, the Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, was cited by the Robb Report in 2003 as the best gallery in the world. By late 2007, Salander had been sued by numerous customers and business partners who claimed that Salander and his company had defrauded them. In November 2007, Salander filed for personal bankruptcy, listing John McEnroe among his creditors. Offered here is a letter dated 1984, 1p, sending money to the Estate of Walt Kuhn for a Kuhn painting sold for $35,000 to Tommy LiPuma. Tommy LiPuma (1936-2017) was an American music producer. He received 33 Grammy nominations, 5 Grammy wins, and his productions sold over 75 million albums. LiPuma worked with many musicians, including Barbra Streisand, Miles Davis, Bill Evans, George Benson, Phil Upchurch, Al Jarreau, Anita Baker, Natalie Cole, Claudine Longet, Dave Mason, the Yellowjackets, the Sandpipers, Michael Franks, Diana Krall, Paul McCartney, Ben Sidran, The Crusaders, Joe Sample, Randy Crawford and Dr. John. Signed Lawrence. An interesting piece of art history. File holes otherwise very good..........100-150..............Min. Bid $35
310. MIXED MYSTERY LOT of about 61 pieces: documents, letters, prints, postcards, Sargent Shriver for President 1976 brochure; old photos, etc. Nothing great.............Min Bid $25
311. [GOLF] JOHNNY MILLER (b.1947) American former professional golfer. He was one of the top players in the world during the mid-1970s. He was the first to shoot 63 in a major championship to win the 1973 U.S. Open. Signed napkin, 5x5 in. VG.................25-35................Min. Bid $10
See above312. [AVIATION] Original booklet with 16 cinderella stamps each honoring a particular aviator. Circa 1938. CAPTAIN MIDNIGHT'S STAMP ALBUM AIR HEROES." Given as a free premium by Skelly. Shows Captain Midnight in aviation attire with airplane in background. Among the aviators honored are Wilbur and Orville Wright, Jimmy Doolittle, Amelia Earhart, Richard E. Byrd, Louise Thaden (first woman to hold the Bendix trophy), Frank M. Hawks, Jack Knight, Wiley Post and Gladys O'Donnel (winner of the Amelia Earhart Memorial Trophy Race 1937. Expected age/handling wear................50-75
313. [THEATRE] William Horace Lingard (1837–1927) English comic singer. In 1868, Lingard immigrated to America (along with his wife, Alice Dunning Lingard). He made his comic debut in New York City that year. After this debut—held at the Theatre Comique, on 6 April 1868—Lingard became known as one of the funniest men of the time. He continued his career in New York, and later became manager of Wood's Theatre there. Signed 4 x 2.5 in. The brown area on left edge could be removed................25-35
See above314. Roger Nash Baldwin (1884-1981) was one of the founders of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). He served as executive director of the ACLU until 1950.Many of the ACLU's original landmark cases took place under his direction, including the Scopes Trial, the Sacco and Vanzetti murder trial, and its challenge to the ban on James Joyce's Ulysses. Baldwin was a well-known pacifist and author. Signed cover [not postmarked]. Also signed by Karl Augustus Menninger (1893-1990) American psychiatrist and a member of the Menninger family of psychiatrists who founded the Menninger Foundation and the Menninger Clinic in Topeka, Kansas. Fine..............80-120
315. Original engraved Portrait of Nathaniel Southgate Shaler (1841–1906) was an American paleontologist and geologist who wrote extensively on the theological and scientific implications of the theory of evolution. Born in 1841, Shaler studied at Harvard College under Louis Agassiz and would go on to become a Harvard fixture in his own right, as lecturer and professor of paleontology for two decades (1869–1888) and as professor of geology for nearly two more (1888–1906). Early in his professional career Shaler was broadly a creationist and anti-Darwinist. This was largely out of deference to the brilliant but old-fashioned Agassiz, whose patronage served Shaler well in ascending the Harvard ladder. When his own position at Harvard was secure, Shaler gradually accepted Darwinism in principle but viewed it through a neo-Lamarckian lens. Shaler extended Charles Darwin's work of the importance of earthworm soil bioturbation to soil formation to other animals, such as ants. Like many other evolutionists of the time, Shaler incorporated basic tenets of natural selection—chance, contingency, opportunism—into a picture of order, purpose and progress in which characteristics were inherited through the efforts of individual organisms. Shaler was also an apologist for slavery and an outspoken believer in the superiority of the Anglo-Saxon race. In his later career, Shaler continued to support Agassiz's polygenism, a theory of human origins that was often used to support racial discrimination. In his 1884 article, "The Negro Problem", published in the Atlantic Monthly, Shaler claimed that black people freed from slavery were "like children lost in the wood, needing the old protection of the strong mastering hand," that they became increasingly dominated by their "animal nature" as they grew from children into adults, and American slavery had been "infinitely the mildest and most decent system of slavery that ever existed." In his later career, Shaler served as Harvard's Dean of Sciences and was considered one of the university's most popular teachers. He published scores of long and short treatises in his lifetime, with subjects ranging from topographical surveys to moral philosophy. Original engraved portrait, signed in pencil by the artist [Campbell - not sure about first name]. Plate mark approx. 13-1/3 x 9-3/4" plus margins. On stiff paper. Light-toned line at left eye level...........100-150.....................Min. Bid $35
316. [PORTRAIT] Jonathan Trumbull Sr. (1710-1785) was the only man who served as governor [Connecticut] in both an English colony and an American state, and he was the only governor at the start of the American Revolutionary War to take up the Patriot cause. Offered here is a 1863 engraved portrait of Trumbull, image approx. 5.25 x 7.25 in. plus clean margins...............Min. Bid $10
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317. Roger C. Sullivan (1861-1920), was a member of the Cook County Democratic Organization during the early twentieth century. Sullivan dominated the Illinois Democratic Party for two decades and was a national figure during the age when urban Democratic organizations reached the height of their power and prestige. Sullivan became controversial when he became effectively the chief operating officer of the Ogden Gas Company and the Cosmopolitan Electric Company, about a year after the franchises of which were approved by the city council on 25 February 1895. There is no evidence that Sullivan in any way originated the idea for two companies, and he probably became first involved by convincing his political partner, Mayor John P. Hopkins not to veto the ordinances. The amount he made was reported by the New York Times to be $8,000,000, but the exact amount has been the subject of much speculation. However, by the standards of the time, there was nothing illegal about the franchise. Indeed, it involved many of the city's leading men, including the brother-in-law of Governor John P. Altgeld, who became a shareholder. Sullivan wealth was also derived from a number of independent business investments. The most notable of these was the Sawyer Biscuit Company, a corporation he organized with his brothers and others about 1900. This became one of the nation's leading manufacturers of cookies, crackers, and pastries. It eventually became part of Keebler. Roger C. Sullivan was never indicted for anything, nor even accused of any criminal activity even by his most vehement opponents. The historian Forrest McDonald in his work on Samuel Insull has conceded that Sullivan introduced a new approach to municipal politics by forgoing raids on the public till, and confining himself and his associates profits from city contracts and jobs, all within the boundaries of the law. TLS, 1914, laid to album sheet...............Min. Bid $10
318. [ENGLISH THEATRE] Robert E. Chatterley - originally a surgical instrument maker in Cannon Street filled subsequently a post in connection with Drury Lane Theatre. He was the father of William Simmonds Chatterley (1787-1822) the actor who appeared at Drury Lane Theatre. Robert was also an actor who fl. 1792-1818. Document Signed 1817 - his salery for 1816-17. Approx. 7-1/4 x 2-3/4 in. Laid to stiff paper................50-75
319. Major Reginald Owens (1884-1928) British Army officer who married Ruth Baird Bryan in 1910. She was elected to two terms in the U.S. House of Representatives and was the first woman appointed as a United States ambassador. She was a Democrat, who in 1929 was elected from Florida's 4th district as Florida's first female U.S. Representative. In 1933, she became the first woman to be appointed as a U.S. ambassador, when President Franklin D. Roosevelt selected her as Ambassador to Denmark and Iceland. Offered here is a 1929 bank check signed by Douglas Volk to Maj. Reginald Owen who has endorsed on the verso. Volk, of course, was a well-known American artist. VG...............50-75
320. [THEATRE] Katharine Cornell (1893-1974) American stage actress, writer, theater owner and producer. Dubbed "The First Lady of the Theatre" by critic Alexander Woollcott, Cornell was the first performer to receive the Drama League Award, for Romeo and Juliet in 1935. Cornell is noted for her major Broadway roles in serious dramas, often directed by her husband, Guthrie McClintic. The couple formed C. & M.C. Productions, Inc., a company that gave them complete artistic freedom in choosing and producing plays. Offered here are 3 items from her estate: (1) Her EXXON credit card made out to her married name K.C. MCCLINTIC. (2) Unsigned 1973 original color photo 3.5 x 5 in. (3) Unused Katharine Cornell post card. All in in excellent condition.........80-120
321. Charles B. Rounds - Noted Maine Judge. Served in the Civil War and was a noted attorney and judge in Calais, Maine. He was a first lieutenant in Company D, 32nd Maine infantry. He Mustered April 19, 1864, and was wounded May 12th at Spottysyvania. Rounds was at Elmira, New York guarding prisoners’ of war, having been assigned by special order no. 164 July 20, 1864. Signed Check dated 1890. VG...........Min. Bid $10
322. [CUBA] (Daniel M. Braddock 1906-1980) was serving as Chargé d'affaires ad interim when the United States severed diplomatic relations with Cuba in January 1961. On January 3, 1961, in a 1 a.m. telegram, the U.S. embassy in Cuba reported receipt of a diplomatic note from the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Relations indicating that the size of the American diplomatic and consular presence in Habana must be cut to 11 persons within 48 hours. Daniel Braddock, the U.S. Charge d’Affaires in Cuba, reported that a staff of that size could not maintain a useful operation and recommended breaking relations. President Dwight Eisenhower held a meeting at 9 a.m. the same day to discuss how to respond to the Cuban note. Even though there was some sentiment to move with more deliberation, President Eisenhower decided to break relations and ordered Secretary of State Christian Herter to take that action as soon as possible. Offered here is a ALS [signed Dan], 1972, 1p. 7 x 10-3/4 in. To Frederick Solomon who was a Rabbi in Havana, Cuba during the time leading to severed relations with Cuba. Friendly letter about getting back together. Envelope is present. Included here is a TLS signed R.E. Stedman [Claims Department] Foreign Offer, dated 1967, 1p. To Solomon. Headed CUBA-PROPERTY CLAIMS. Two letters................75-100
323. Ron Moody (1924-2015) English actor, singer, composer and writer best known for his portrayal of Fagin in Oliver! (1968) and its 1983 Broadway revival. Moody earned a Golden Globe Award and an Academy Award nomination for the film, as well as a Tony Award nomination for the stage production. Other notable projects include The Mouse on the Moon (1963), Mel Brooks's The Twelve Chairs (1970) and Flight of the Doves (1971), in which Moody shared the screen with Oliver! co-star Jack Wild. 2 signed items: (1) Signed and inscribed 3.5 x 5.5 photo. (2) Signed questionaire on which has has written around lines + signature. Both fine..............50-75
324. [MAINE] John L. Hodsdon (1815-1895) Adjutant General of the State of Maine. Signed album page/ Dated June 14, 1861. VG.................25-35
325. [From Mickey Spillane Papers] Bob Fellows (1903-1969) American film producer who was once a production partner with John Wayne and later with Mickey Spillane. TLS, May 2, 1956, 1p, approx. 8.5 x 11 in. To Mickey Spillane. This letter has good content. He talks in a negative way about Victor Saville (1896-1979) English film director, producer, and screenwriter who directed 39 films between 1927 and 1954. He also produced 36 films between 1923 and 1962. As an independent producer he had purchased the film rights to A. J. Cronin's novel The Citadel. He was persuaded to sell them to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in return for the chance to produce the film and another big-budget adaptation, Goodbye Mr Chips (1939). Both films starred Robert Donat and were a great success in the USA as well as in Britain, providing Saville with a passport to Hollywood. After the war Saville continued directing films for MGM but eventually returned to Britain. Saville acquired production rights for Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer mysteries and produced a few features, though Spillane thought he as interested in doing so only to acquire the money to produce The Silver Chalice. Mentioned also is Bert Allenberg, Frank Sinatra's agent. Sun-toned along bottom edge.....100-150 Min. Bid $50
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326 . George Trumbull Ladd 1842-1921) American philosopher, educator and psychologist. During 1879 to 1882 he lectured on theology at Andover Theological Seminary, and in 1883 at Harvard University, where during the time period of 1895 to 1896 he conducted a graduate seminar in ethics. Between 1892 and 1899, at the invitation of the Government of Japan, he served as a diplomatic adviser and helped the Cabinet under Prime Minister Hirobumi Ito (1841–1909) to promote mutual understanding between Japan and the United States. ALS, 1898, 1p., laid to sheet. VG................50-75Scan 1
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327. [THEATRE] Fanny Janauschek (1829-1904) Czech born stage actress. She came to America in 1867 and first performed at the Academy of Music, New York City, on October 9, 1867. She spoke no English, only German and often worked with all English speaking casts.[6] In three years time since arriving in the US she mastered enough English dialect to communicate with American audiences and decided to make America her home. Some of her performances, especially Medea, were compared to the revered Italian tragedienne Adelaide Ristori. She became famous acting in great Shakespearean parts and other famous parts. Signed 4.5 x 3 in. card. Mounting trace shows on left edge.......Min. Bid $25
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328 [AMERICANA] Samuel Penhallow (1722-1813) from Portsmouth, New Hampshire he was a highly respected local magistrate and deacon of the North Church, Penhallow lived here for more than 60 years. As a judge, he was known for his swift and impartial dispensation of the law. Autograph Document Signed, 1803, 1p. Rockingham County, NH court case of theft. About 7 x 5-3/4 in. VG...............50-75
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329. [MIXED LOT] includes: (1) Frank Richards (1909-1992) American character actor, typically portraying a hoodlum or thug with a menacing appearance. Warner Bros. 1985 paycheck not signed by Richards. (2) Engraved 1863 portrait of John Jay, light toning. (3) Little Mexican Lottery ticket 1893. (4) Louise Andrews Kent (1886-1969) American author. Signed 1947 bank check. (5) Edwin Hubbell Chapin (1814-1880) American preacher and editor of the Christian Leader. He was also a poet, responsible for the poem Burial at Sea, which was the origin of a famous folk song, Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie. CLIP SIGNATURE. (6) Printed portrait of President Franklin Pierce. (7) Grover A. Whalen(1886–1962) was a prominent politician, businessman, and public relations guru in New York City during the 1930s and 1940s. Signed card. (8) Frank H. Buck (1887-1942) U.S. Representative from California from 1933 to 1942. House of Rep. 1942 envelope bearing his printed Free Frank signature. (9) [CIVIL WAR] Charles B. Rounds - served in the civil war and was a noted attorney and judge from Calais, Maine. He was First Lieut. in Company D, 32nd Maine Infantry. Mustered April 19, 1864; wounded in the arm May 12th at Spottysylvania. Rounds was at Elmira, NY guarding prisoners of war, having been assigned by Special Order No. 164, July 20, 1864. Signed Calais, Maine, 1899 bank check. (10) Brenda Kuhn (1911-1993) the only child of the famous American artist, Walt Kuhn. She spent her whole life overseeing the Kuhn Estate, was a philanthropist, Kuhn scholar, amateur photographer. Signed 1963 bank check. (11) Bill Badalato (b. 1940) He is a producer and production manager, known for Alien: Resurrection (1997), Men of Honor (2000) and Broken Arrow (1996). Warner Bros. 1984 paycheck not signed...................Min. Bid $50
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330. [AMERICANA] Richard E. Pairo, Attorney Ar Law writes an 1885 letter to attorney J.W. Pickering in Boston. It seems that Margaret Mockler made a claim as the widow of Thomas Mockler, deceased, formerly a Laudsman on the USS Fernandina and collected $36.13 Prize money. Years later a man claiming to be Thomas Mockler makes a claim. 3-1/3 pages, 5-1/2 x 8-3/4 in. Pairo is asking for additional information to begin the process of determing who the imposter is, Margaret or the other man. VG..........Min. Bid $25Scan 1
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331 Albert Stanburrough Cook (1853-1927) American philologist, literary critic, and scholar of Old English. He has been called "the single most powerful American Anglo-Saxonist of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries." ALS, New Haven, 1893, 4pp. About 5 x 8 in. VG.................75-100
332. [FRANCE] Turgot, Anne-Robert-Jacques. Baron de l' Aulne [1727-1781]. French administrator and economist. Intendant of Limoges (1761-74); minister of marine (1774); controller general of finance (1774-76); removed because of opposition to his Six Edicts. Member of the Physiocrats. As intendant, abolished the corvée, constructed roads and bridges, reformed interest rates, and distributed the burden of taxation more justly. As finance minister, introduced a rigid economy, abolished certain feudal privileges, and attempted to restore free trade in grain between the provinces. Best known works were Lettres sur la tolérance (1754) and Réflexions sur la formation et la distribution des richesses (1766). ORIGINAL ENGRAVED PORTRAIT of Turgot [1853], image approx. 5 x 4 in. plus margins. Engraved by W.T. Fry. UNSIGNED, of course. Very good condition..............Min. bid $10
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333. [WESTERN AMERICANA] H. Webster - Frontier veterinarian. Document signed, Leadville, Colorado, 1882. Vetinary Bill that dates to early Colorado statehood. Approx. 8-1/2 x 4-1/4"............Min Bid $5
334. MUSIC] Walter Cecil Macfarren (1826-1905) English pianist, composer and conductor, and a teacher at the Royal Academy of Music. Signature [mounted]....... Min. Bid $7
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335. [PORTRAIT] circa 1840 engraved porait of Sir William Jones (1746-1794) Anglo-Welsh philologist, a puisne judge on the Supreme Court of Judicature at Fort William in Bengal, and a scholar of ancient India, particularly known for his proposition of the existence of a relationship among European and Indo-Aryan languages, which he coined as Indo-European. Jones is also credited for establishing the Asiatic Society of Bengal in the year 1784. Engraved after a painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds. The image is about 5 x 4 in. plus margins. VG.................50-75
336. Fiber McGee Press Conference Sponsored by Johnson Wax, December 5, 1972, Celebrity Guest List signed by Peter Donald & Walter Kinsella. Peter Donald (1918-1979) was a British-born actor who worked in American radio and television. He has been called "one of radio's great dialecticians." Walter Kinsella (1900-1975) American theater, television and radio actor. Kinsella's most noted television role was that of Happy McMann in NBC's detective drama Martin Kane, Private Eye. VG.......25-35
337. [BASEBALL] Early vintage real photo [postcard]. Player & date unknown. Soft top right corner crease; small bottom left corner chip missing..................Min. Bid $10
338. [MAINE] Joseph E. Brennan (b. 1934) 70th Governor of Maine from 1979 to 1987. He is a former commissioner on the Federal Maritime Commission. Group of 4 TLSs, 1987 & 1989, each 1p. to a book editor/publisher. All are authentically signed as US congressman. Each letter has 3 punch holes along edge.......Min. Bid $30
339. Maurice Nathan Eisendrath (1902-1972) was a leader of American Reform Judaism, the head of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations from 1943 until his death, an author, and an activist, particularly active in the U.S. Anti-war Movement of the 1960s. The Maurice N. Eisendrath Bearer of Light Award, one of the highest honors bestowed by the American Reform Movement, is named in his honor. Offered here is a TLS, 1961, signed Maurice. 1p. approx. 7-1/4 x 10-1/2 in. To Rabbi Frederick Solomon, who was also a noted painter. VG..................Min. Bid $25
334. [ART] Stephen James Ferris [1835-1915] influential Philadelphia painter and etcher. Original etching, "Mrs. Nicklin", from a painting by Gilbert Stuart. Stuart painted the portrait of Mrs. Nicklin about 1795, when she was in her thirtieth year. She was one of Philadelphia's celebrated beauties, the wife of Mr. Philip Nicklin, and the daughter of Chief-Justice Benjamin Chew. This plate shows notable characteristics in Mr. Ferris's method of etching, he believing in finish, and striving to obtain depth of tone and suggestion of color by close and careful working. Image 7-1/4 5-1/2" plus fairly clean marhins. Top left corner is soiled.........75-100
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335. [FILM] Whoopi Goldberg - American actress. Signed American Film magazine, Dec. 1985. Signed on cover picturing her, in silver ink. VG.........Min. bid $10
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336. Richard Rovere (1915 – 1979) American political journalist. During the Great Depression, he joined the Communist movement and wrote for the New Masses. In 1939, as a result of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, he broke with Stalinism and became an anticommunist liberal. Signed 3x5 card dated 1978. VG..............Min. Bid $9
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Bill of Sale For $75,000 Walt Kuhn Painting337. [ART] Brenda Kuhn (1911-1993) the only child of the famous American artist, Walt Kuhn. She spent her whole life overseeing the Kuhn Estate, was a philanthropist, Kuhn scholar, amateur photographer. Typed Document signed by Brenda Kuhn, an AGREEMENT AND BILL OF SALE, for a painting by Walt Kuhn titled "Brenda in Ogunquit." The painting was 50 x 30 in., sold by the Midtown Galleries in New York for the Kuhn Estate. The document has the signature of a Notary Public, dated 1989. VG......100-150......Min. Bid $25
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338. Emma Speed Sampson author who wrote the last 5 books from The Bluebird Books series of novels popular with teenage girls in the 1910s and 1920s. Signature, inscribed [pencil] 1923...........Min. Bid $1
339. [ART] Salvatore Grippi (1921-2017) important American artist. One of the underrepresented figurative expressionist members of the New York School featured in Herskovic’s book is Salvatore Grippi, who was born in 1921 in Buffalo. After participating in the major invasions in Europe during World War II, Grippi came back to New York and attended the Art Students League under the G.I. Bill from 1945 to 1948. From 1951 to 1953, Grippi was at Atelier 17, the famous printmaking studio run by British artist Stanley William Hayter, who taught printmaking to Pollock and Rothko, among many other abstract expressionists. Grippi would later contribute an etching to the well-known portfolio Twenty-One Etchings and Poems [1958], including work by such artists and poets as Frank O’Hara, Franz Kline, Grippi’s brother Peter Grippe, and Dylan Thomas. From 1953 to 1955, Grippi worked in Florence, Italy, with the support of a Fulbright Scholarship. He taught for several years at the Cooper Union Art School before moving to California to teach at Pomona College. In 1968, Grippi was asked to start the art department at Ithaca College and taught there until 1991. Grippi, who worked and exhibited alongside the likes of de Kooning, Nevelson, and Kline during the heyday of Abstract Expressionism in the 1950s. In 2011, he was honored with a solo retrospective at Cornell University's Johnson Museum of Art. He was a significant figure in postwar abstraction and his work from this period has graced the walls of MoMA, the Whitney, and the Met but has seldom appeared at auction. Offered here is a graphite drawing, not signed, approx. 4-3/4 x 4-1/4 in. VG. Providence: Grippi Estate............Min. Bid $50
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340. [WALT KUHN] Maynard Walker (1896-1985) American art dealer in New York City for nearly 40 years who was among the first to show the works of leading American regionalist painters. In 1933, while working at the Ferargil Gallery in New York, Mr. Walker organized an exhibition for the Kansas City Art Institute that for the first time brought together the work of the regionalist painters Grant Wood, Thomas Hart Benton and John Steuart Curry. After Mr. Walker opened his own gallery, at 108 East 57th Street, in 1935, these artists joined him and showed regularly there. The gallery was also among the first to show the work of George Grosz, the German painter and caricaturist, who moved to the United States in 1932. The gallery moved to 117 East 57th Street after the war. Offered here is a 1958 letter on which he has written 5 lines plus signature. This is a copy sent to Brenda Kuhn, daughter of the artist Walt Kuhn. Walker had written to Harold Korzenik saying that there is not enough art work by Kuhn to have an exhibition. Harold Korzenik, a Brooklyn civic leader and counsel to the United Knitted Outerwear Association, the National Textile Processors Guild, the Knitwear Employers Association and the Knitwear Manufacturers Council. Walker says "So soup - We can't afford to participate in such stuff......" Envelope is included. During the 1950s and early 60s Maynard Walker was handing the estate of Walt Kuhn. VG...........75-100....Min. Bid $25
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341. The 3 Laycock Girls, antique photograph. Fine............Min. Bid $10 CLICK here to see
342. Oriental original watercolor, signed, 10.5 x 9.5 in. VG.....Min. Bid $10 CLICK here
343. [KUHN ESTATE] Archive of about 35-40+ letters and documents concerning the Estate of the noted American artist Walt Kuhn (1877-1949). Includes: Brenda Kuhn ALS [1]; 15 TLSs by Brenda Kuhn; 13 letters from estate accountants [or attorneys ??]; 5 Brenda Kuhn signed bank checks; several Tax documents. These date 1961-1963. Some of Brenda's letters have good art content about her father, esp. his paiting ATHELETE IN WHITE FACE. Needs further research for sure. VG..........400-600...........Min. Bid $150
344. [MUSIC] Johanna Emilia Agnes Gadski (1872-1932) German soprano. She was blessed with a secure, powerful, ringing voice, fine musicianship and an excellent technique. These attributes enabled her to enjoy a highly successful career in New York City and London, performing heavy dramatic roles in the German and Italian repertoires. Large bold signature dated 1916 on 5 x 6.5 in. paper. Fine............25-35345. [FILM] Robert "Bobby" Banas (b. 1933) is an American dancer and actor. He is known for his work on movies such as West Side Story (1961), Always (1989) and Down and Out in Beverly Hills (1986), as well as a viral video of a televised performance of the Nitty Gritty dance, which accumulated 3.6 million views in four years. Natalie Wood was his dancing partner in the Michael Panaieff Children’s’ Ballet Company, to which he received a scholarship and in which Jill St. John and Stefanie Powers were members. Banas also attended the Hollywood Professional School. He auditioned for the production of Carousel at the LA Civic Light Opera and was cast as Enoch Snow Jr. After that, he appeared in stage productions of Kiss Me Kate, Annie Get Your Gun, Brigadoon, Plain and Fancy, and Peter Pan. Offered here is his signed contract appearing as a dancer in the 1965 film BILLIE starring Patty Duke. Also signed by H. Bud Otto (1934-2001) Producer. Approx. 8.5 x 13 in, 1p. Includes a 2 page RIDER ink signed by Bob Banas. VG.................80-120
346. [NAVAL] N.H. Farquhar (Rear Admiral Norman Von H. Farquhar, USN, (1840-1907). Letter Signed, marked "Copy", USS Trenton, Apia, Samoa, April 22, 1889, 2 pages, 7-3/4 x 10". We assume that Farquhar did not sign this letter. The original was sent to the Secretary of the Navy, Washington DC [Benjamin F. Tracy]. This "copy" letter was sent to Henry Lyon, who became commander of the Nipsic. Dated about a month after this famous naval incident (The Samoan Crisis ). This letter is of high praise for Lieut. Commander Henry W. Lyon, saving the Nipsic "...to his excellent service during the Hurricane of March 16th and 17th, 1889, and since then in saving valuable property from the wreck. During the gale, he intelligently carried out my orders; personally supervising the many plans to keep out water, getting lines to the Vaudalia to prevent the total destruction of the Trenton and many other duties besides..." Norman Von Heidreich Farquhar (1840-1907) was born in Pottsville, Pennsylvania, attended the U.S. Naval Academy during 1854-59. After graduation, he served with the Africa Squadron until September 1861. Lieutenant Farquhar spent most of the Civil War off the U.S. Atlantic coast and in the West Indies, serving in the gunboats Mystic, Sonoma and Mahaska and the cruisers Rhode Island and Santiago de Cuba. He was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant Commander in mid-1865, a few months after the fighting ended, and was on duty at the U.S. Naval Academy from then until September 1868. For the rest of the 1860s and into the next decade, Farquhar served in the warship Swatara, was Executive Officer of USS Severn and USS Powhatan and Commanding Officer of USS Kansas. He also had two tours at the Boston Navy Yard on ordnance duty and as Executive Officer. Advanced in rank to Commander in December 1872, Farquhar spent nearly five years at the Naval Academy. He commanded the training ship Portsmouth in 1877-78, and the steam sloops Quinnebaug and Wyoming in European waters in 1878-1881. Five more years of Naval Academy duty were followed by torpedo instruction at Newport, Rhode Island, in 1886. From May 1887 until her loss in the March 1889 Samoan hurricane, Captain Farquhar commanded the steam frigate Trenton. He then served on several of the Navy's boards and, in March 1890 became the Chief of the Bureau of Yards and Docks. During 1894-97, he was Commandant of the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Commanding Officer of the cruiser Newark, and President of the Naval Examining Board. While holding the ranks of Commodore and Rear Admiral, Farquhar was Commandant of the Norfolk Navy Yard in 1897-99, commanded the North Atlantic Station during 1899-1901 and was Chairman of the Lighthouse Board in 1901-02. He retired from active duty in April 1902, upon reaching the statutory service age limit of 62. Rear Admiral Farquhar died at Jamestown, Rhode Island, on 3 July 1907. The letter is in very fine condition. Provenance: Estate of Admiral Henry W. Lyon, who had a distinguished Naval career, was honored for his service in the Spanish-American war where he commanded the U. S. S. Dolphin. Lyon and his wife, Liela, bought a house in Paris Hill, Maine in 1899 and moved there full time when he retired from the Navy in 1907. Picture of Farquhar is not included here..........200-350
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347. [PHOTOGRAPHY] circa 1941 photograph [MG 85323] of Lana Turner, approx. 13 x 10 in. This was taken by Eric Carpenter (1909-1976) who worked at MGM, aside from a couple of short breaks, from 1933 to the 1960s. Elevated from office boy, he succeeded Virgil Apger as Bull's assistant and continued in that capacity until he got his union card. He finally became a portrait photographer at precisely the moment when MGM was cultivating a new crop of stars--Lana Turnerr, Esther Williams and the popular team Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney. A decade later Carpenter photographed Marilyn Monroe when she made 'The Asphalt Jungle' (1950). He also worked as a uncredited still photographer on many great films including 'The Wizard of Oz' for which he did some wonderful Kodachrome stills, 'Singing in the Rain,' 'The Swan'--Grace Kelly's last film--'Gigi', 'Ben Hur,' and 'Please Don't Eat the Daisies' with Doris Day. With his spirited and beautiful portraits, Carpenter quickly became the favorite photographer of the studio's rising young stars, like Ava Gardner and James Craig, among others. His rapport with Lana Turner began when she signed with MGM and lasted up to her departure from the studio in the late fifties. Carpenter was responsible for the most of her torrid, memorable gallery portrait sittings. His photographs of her are lush and immediate in dazzling whites and sophisticated, plungingly deep backs. More dynamic than almost any of the other glamour portraits of the era, their effect recalled the Harlow portraits and and anticipated the ones of Monroe at Fox in the early fifties--acres of white fur, opalescent skin, poses inviting by thier ease. Not signed of course. VG...............200-300
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348. [PHOTOGRAPHY] circa 1941 photograph [MG 85714] of Lana Turner, approx. 13 x 10 in. This was taken by Eric Carpenter (1909-1976) who worked at MGM, aside from a couple of short breaks, from 1933 to the 1960s. Elevated from office boy, he succeeded Virgil Apger as Bull's assistant and continued in that capacity until he got his union card. He finally became a portrait photographer at precisely the moment when MGM was cultivating a new crop of stars--Lana Turnerr, Esther Williams and the popular team Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney. A decade later Carpenter photographed Marilyn Monroe when she made 'The Asphalt Jungle' (1950). He also worked as a uncredited still photographer on many great films including 'The Wizard of Oz' for which he did some wonderful Kodachrome stills, 'Singing in the Rain,' 'The Swan'--Grace Kelly's last film--'Gigi', 'Ben Hur,' and 'Please Don't Eat the Daisies' with Doris Day. With his spirited and beautiful portraits, Carpenter quickly became the favorite photographer of the studio's rising young stars, like Ava Gardner and James Craig, among others. His rapport with Lana Turner began when she signed with MGM and lasted up to her departure from the studio in the late fifties. Carpenter was responsible for the most of her torrid, memorable gallery portrait sittings. His photographs of her are lush and immediate in dazzling whites and sophisticated, plungingly deep backs. More dynamic than almost any of the other glamour portraits of the era, their effect recalled the Harlow portraits and and anticipated the ones of Monroe at Fox in the early fifties--acres of white fur, opalescent skin, poses inviting by thier ease. Not signed of course. Creased at bottom right corner & light off-setting caused by printed label on back but overall VG...............200-300
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349. Burton Holmes (1870–1958) was an American traveler, photographer and filmmaker, who coined the term "travelogue". Travel stories, slide shows, and motion pictures were all in existence before Holmes began his career, as was the profession of travel lecturer; but Holmes was the first person to put all of these elements together into documentary travel lectures. Signed, inscribed soft cover A LIFE STORY, approx. 9 x 12 in. Published 1939. Good condition..................50-75
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350. [From Walt Kuhn Estate] Original 5-3/4 x 4-3/4 in. photograph of the Walt Kuhn painting YOUNG CLOWN, painted in ?................60-90
351. [From Walt Kuhn Estate] Offered here is a letter from Teresa Jabelmann to the noted artist Walt Kuhn, March 30, 1943, 2 pages. She was the wife of Otto Jabelmann (1892-1943). He was considered a mechanical genius, and the "hard-nosed ruler of the Union Pacific Railroad mechanical department. He led the team that developed The Big Boys locomotives. He died in Jan. 1943 while in England visiting England to investigate railway problems at the behest of W. Averell Harriman and concluded that British railways needed 1200 more locomotives. Apparently Otto was in poor health then and Teresa says in this letter ".....I did worry constantly as I knew Otto would never try and save himself in any way..." Envelope is included..............50-75
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352 . [ART] Eugene-Abdre Champollion (1848-1901) French engraver and illustrator, pupil of Leon Gaucherel. Trained by Gaucherel and Edmond H_douin , Champollion masters the art of etching as well as most of the engraving techniques . He collaborated with the review Paris etching between 1873 and 1876, then with the Gazette des beaux-arts .He exhibited several times at the Salon of French artists and at the Universal Exhibitions of 1889 and 1900 . Offered here is an original etching called IN THE REIGN OF TERROR, c. 1893, not signed as usual, image approx. 10-3/4 x 8-1/4 in. plus margins. This was etched after a painting by Jessie MacGregor. VG.................100-150
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353. [CONGRESS] Philip Joseph Philbin (1898-1972) Democratic U.S. Congressman from Massachusetts. Offered here is an archive of letters & carbon copies, 1948 concerning appearl of Mr. Remo Rossi that his daughter, Inez Rossi, residing in Italy, be permitted to enter the United States for permanent residence. Two of the letters are signed by Philbin. About 43 pieces in this lot.................Min. Bid $35
354. Dan Quayle (b. 1947) the 44th vice president of the United States from 1989 to 1993. Quayle was also a U.S. representative from 1977 to 1981 and a U.S. senator from 1981 to 1989 from the state of Indiana. Signed 8x10 photo. VG............75-100
355. [MUSICAL THEATRE] 1964 theatre program for THE STUDENT PRINCE starring Allan Jones. William Lewis & Elaine Malbin. Signed by 10 people: Hal Frank, Douglas Mellor, Elaine Malbin, Joe Ross, Frances Koll, Charles Caron, Tom Bate, Mary Stevenson, William James, and Hans G. Wurman. Approx. 9 x 12 in. VG.............50-75
357. House of Rep. FREE TRADE 1858 gov. doc, 24pp.......Min. Bid $10 CLICK here to see
358. FEDERAL UNION WORLD, 1941, 12pp..........Min. Bid $10 CLICK here to see
359. Palmer Austin ALS, 1855, Boston, 1p..........Min. bid $10 CLICK here
360. [MIXED MULTIPLE LOT] includes: (1) Arthur A. Ross (1920-2008) American film and television screenwriter, best known for co-writing The Creature from the Black Lagoon. Warner Bros. 1984 check made out to him but not signed by him. VG. (2) [BASEBALL] Charles Ruffing - This is a Baseball Magazine Company Premium Photo. (3) Edward Harold Begbie (1871–1929), also known as Harold Begbie, was an English author and journalist who published nearly 50 books and poems and contributed to periodicals. Besides studies of the Christian religion, he wrote numerous other books, including political satire, comedy, fiction, science fiction, plays and poetry. Signed 4.5 x 3.5 in. card. (4) Sir Richard Temple, 2nd Baronet CB, CIE (1850-1931) British Chief Commissioner of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands and an anthropological writer. Brief ALS, 1883, 1p. 4-1/4 x 7 in. There is a tear in the middle but no loss of paper. Ink has lightened some. (5) Capt. John Cowdon, 1881 gov. doc. (6) Hon. Justin S. Morrill [Vermont] speech 1869, 16pp. (7) AUSTRIA - CORREhttps://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/mss/mnwp/152/152009t.gifSPONDENCE 1854 gov. doc., Franklin Pierce. (8) SONS OF VETERANS, U.S.A. - George A. Custer Camp No. 11, Mass., 1907. About 7 x 3.5 in...................Min. Bid $25
361. [PORTRAIT] Sir Joseph Banks, 1st Baronet, GCB, PRS (1743-1820) English naturalist, botanist, and patron of the natural sciences. Original engraved portrait c. 1850, image approx. 5-1/4 x 4 in. plus wide clean margins. Fine...............40-60
362. [NASA] group of 8 covers postmarked 1983. VG..................50-75
363. Benjamin Barker Odell Jr. (1854-1926) American businessman and politician who served as the 34th Governor of New York from 1901 to 1904. Document Signed 1901 - THANKSGIVING PROCLAMATION signed as Governor. Also signed by his secretary. Approx. 9-3/4 x 15 in. Gold embossed seal and document are in very good condition....................80-120
364. Frederick Smyth (1819-1899) American banker, railroad executive, and politician from Manchester, New Hampshire. Born in 1819 in Candia, New Hampshire, he became City Clerk of Manchester at the age of 30. A Republican, he served four terms as mayor of Manchester from 1852 to 1854 and again in 1864, and was twice elected Governor of New Hampshire. Document Signed, 1865, approx. 15 x 11 in. Justice of the Peace appoinment. Edge tears repaired on verso. Red seal is in very good condition...........75-100
365. [ART] Frederick Nelson Atwood Senior (1844-1900) American artist and a decorative painter of some prominence. He lived and worked in the Maine - Boston area and was a friend of the well known painter Horace R Burdick. Offered here 4 page humorous handwritten letter to Horace Burdick on Atwood's letterhead about decorative painting he is sending estimates for - with two small ink illustrations made by him in the letter. He is writing from Chicago. Approx. 8 x 10.5 in., Jan. 25, 1876, usual folds, brown ink has lightened a little bit. He says he is going to make an estimate to fresco the ceiling in the Grand Pacific Hotel..…& continues with the measurements & what he will paint with watercolors in each panel. …have to compete with Chicago & New York. Next page begins with Hylas! …No job!. He provides estimates for jobs at Geneva Lake for N.K. Fairbank the great card man…..summer Villa the largest dwelling house in Wisconsin…had the same job last spring but the whole thing burned down flat last fall….Fairbank also building finest Club House in US Chicago Gentleman’s Club. He has chided Burdick humorously throughout the letter to stay with his painting & not get discouraged. Says .....Speed on thy brush that you may outdo the muse you serve. Commend me to Gilnorton and his twisted waves, also the general daubers of the hub. Signed Yourn - Tholer. A great letter from one artist to another..............Min. Bid $50
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366. [WORLD WAR 2] Dr. Ralph D. Bennett (1900-1994) His career was varied and most distinguished. He served as a professor of physics at M. I.T; as a naval officer, responsible for the Naval Ordnance Laboratory in Washington; and director of the Vallecitos Atomic Laboratory near Livermore, Calif., for the General Electric Co. He subsequently became V.P. and director of research for Martin Marietta. Dr. Bennett was a man uniquely placed to bring about significant changes in the way the Navy handled its research and development in those early years. Having both a Captain's rank and a respected technical background, he played a major role in the development of the Military-civilian partnership at NOL, and saw its use accepted universally in the rest of the Navy's R&D management. The Navywide system of Commander/Technical Director management owes its origins to Dr. Bennett. Offered here is an ink signed memorandum from Bennett to Capt. L.W. Mckeehan, Naval Ordnance Laboratory, Navy Yard, Washington DC, 8 December 1943, 2pp. Discusses, by names, using certain people. Louis Mckeehan has written and signed a response on page 2. Approx. 8 x 10.5 in. Louis W. McKeehan (1887-1975) Director of the Physics Laboratories Yale. He took leave of his teaching position to help out with the war effort. He was the driving force behind the creation of the torpedo called Fido. Capt. Louis McKeehan, head of the Mine Warfare Branch of the Bureau of Ordnance. VG.................150-250
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367. [SCIENCE] Louis Agricola Bauer (1865-1932) American geophysicist, astronomer and magnetician. Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, he graduated from the University of Cincinnati in 1888, and he immediately started work for the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey. During 1895-1896, he was instructor in mathematical physics at the University of Chicago, after which he worked in various positions at different locations. The most important of these was as the first director of the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, which was established in 1904. In this position, he set up and carried out a large-scale program of two and a half decades to map the Earth's magnetic field on land and at sea in an attempt to provide accurate, up-to-date information about this important feature. Offered here is a 1896 bank check made out to Bauer and endorsed on the serso by him. The check is signed by R.S. Woodward. Robert Simpson Woodward (1849- 924) was an American civil engineer, physicist and mathematician. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1896. In 1898-1900 he was president of the American Mathematical Society, and in 1900 he became President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 1915 he was appointed to the Naval Consulting Board. VG................100-150
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368. [BUSINESS] Sir Frederick J. Bramwell, 1st Baronet (1818-1903) British civil and mechanical engineer. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1873 and served as president of the Institution of Civil Engineers between December 1884 and May 1886 and the president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science in 1888. He was knighted in 1881 and created a baronet on 25 January 1889. Bramwell trained as an engineer and studied steam propulsion. In 1843 he constructed a locomotive for the Stockton and Darlington Railway; set up his own business concentrating legal and consultative work (1853). He was the first engineer to practice as a technical advocate and later was adviser to the London water companies. ALS, 5 Great George Street, Westminister, S.W., 1887, 1p., to Balfour Brown. Re: not able to dine with Brown. Excellent condition. About 5 x 8 in................50-75
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369. Sam Bartlett (1752-1821) American patriot, and a noted silversmith from Concord, Mass. He was a founder of the Massachusetts Bible Society, a member of the Cambridge Humane Society, and also from 1795-1820 the elected Register of Deeds for Middlesex County, Massachusetts. Deafened by cannon fire during the Boston massacre, he gave up his acedemic studies and became a smith. He worked from circa 1775 to 1795 as a silversmith in Concord Mass.. Although he worked in the town for two decades, Bartlett's most active period in Concord seems to have been between 1785 and 1795. With the aid of journeyman silversmith Joseph Lasinby Brown, of Concord, Bartlett executed communion silver commissions for three towns in Middlesex County, and produced domestic silver for resale and wholesale markets. At the end of the period, he was elected register of deeds for Middlesex County and moved to Cambridge, retiring from the role of silversmith. Bartlett marked 12 pieces of communion silver, including three flagons, one tankard and eight cups. About 25 pieces of Bartlett's domestic hollowware are known, including canns, porringers, creampots, and a unique miniature teapot. In addition, Bartlett marked teaspoons, tablespoons, ladles, and shoe buckles. Offered here is a 1816 Charlestown, Mass. deed, estate of John Trumbull of Newton. Signed on front by John Trumbull & Nancy Trumbull. Sam Bartlett has signed on the back as Register of Deeds, Middlesex County, Mass. Very good condition although just beginning to separate at some folds...............200-300
370. [FILM-MUSIC] Evelyn Case (1906-2006) She began singing in San Antonio before pursuing a singing career in New York City under the name of Evelyn Case, singing in operas, musicals, and on numerous radio broadcasts. She appeared in a few film shorts, notably as the lead in a Roy Mack short, "Projection Room" (1939), which seems to have also been the first film appearance for a teen-aged Gower Champion. When "Projection Room" came out, her hometown paper said it was her fourth film appearance. For several years she was a featured soloist at Radio City Music Hall. During World War II she toured the British Isles for the USO. She sang in the first opera televised by NBC, "La Boheme." In 1951 she married George F. Handel and the they lived in New York City and spent winters in Boerne, Texas. After his death she settled in Texas, living at Boerne and San Antonio. In 1971 she married Henry Stearns, a rancher. She became an ardent painter, exhibiting and selling landscapes of scenes from around Boerne. Signed & inscribed vintage c. 1940 photograph, 8x10 in. Mounting traces on verso; creasing on front................Min. Bid $10
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371. Robert Collyer (1823–1912) was an English-born American Unitarian clergyman. In 1860 he organized and became pastor of the Unity Church, the second Unitarian church in Chicago. Under his guidance the church grew to be one of the strongest of that denomination in the West, and Collyer himself came to be looked upon as one of the foremost pulpit orators in the country. During the American Civil War, he was active in the work of the Sanitary Commission. Signed album page. VG................25-35372. Samuel Sullivan "Sunset" Cox (1824-1889) American Congressman and diplomat. He represented both Ohio and New York in the United States House of Representatives, and also served as United States Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire. CLIP SIGNATURE, approx. 3.5 x 1.5 in. See scan for condition...............Min. Bid $4
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372. J.S. DILLER (Joseph Silas) [b. 1850] American geologist, born in Plainfield, Pennsylvania. He was graduated at Lawrence scientific school of Harvard in 1879, and spent two years in postgraduate studies at Harvard and at the University in GSttingen. From 1873 till 1877 he taught in the State normal school in Westfield, Massachusetts, and from 1881 till 1883 was geologist of the Assos expedition. In 1883 he became assistant geologist on the U. S. geological survey, and in that capacity has traveled extensively throughout the United States. He is a member of several scientific societies, and author of numerous papers that have been published in scientific journals in the United States and in Europe, the principal of which are "Notes on the Geology of the Troad" (1883); "Diamonds in the United States" (1886) ¥ and "Notes on the Geology of Northern California" (1886). TLS, US Geological Survey, Nov. 5, 1907, 1p, 4to. To Dr. R.S. Woodward. Sends copy of Miss Bascom's letter. "If there are steep slopes near the 'Race Course' to furnish the angular blocks her view seems possible but the evenness of the upper surface would still be difficult to understand...."etc.................100-150
373. [NEW YORK] Amasa Dana (1792-1867) was a U.S. Representative from New York. Document Signed, NY Supreme Court, Tmpkins County, 3pp, signed as a judge. Approx. 8 x 12 in. VG....................50-75
374. [ART] Richard Elmore (fl. 1852-1885) British painter first based in London and later moved to Tunbridge Wells, England. His distinctive and subtle landscapes depicting views in Devon, Surrey and Kent were widely exhibited at the Royal Academy, the Society of British Artists and the British Institution. Elmore’s painting of Twickenham is in the collection of the Cardiff museum. ALS, 1878, 4pp, to the art critic Samuel Carter Hall. VG...........50-75
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375. [POSTAL HISTORY] Lord Eldon, John Scott [1st Earl] (1751-1838) British barrister and politician. He served as Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain between 1801 and 1806 and again between 1807 and 1827. Hand addressed envelope, 4-5/8 x 3 in., signed lower left by Eldon. Dated 1831 and signed by Eldon on the verso. VG...................80-120
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376. [MICKEY SPILLANE] Arthur Florman (1917-2001) Cinematographer. He sends this letter to Mickey Spillane looking for a job after hearing of Mickey's upcomh TV film series. Says he was the camerman who shot the screen test for Mickey in Newburgh. He goes on to compliment Mickey. Dated 1955. 1p, 7 x 10-1/4 in. Fine..........40-60
377. [FILM] Dominic Frontiere (1931-2017) American composer, arranger, and jazz accordionist. He is known for composing the theme and much of the music for the television series The Outer Limits. At age twelve, he played a solo recital at Carnegie Hall. After a period with a big band in the late 1940s and early 50s, Frontiere moved to Los Angeles, where he enrolled at UCLA. He eventually became musical director at 20th Century Fox. He scored several films under the tutelage of Alfred and Lionel Newman, while also recording jazz music. An association with director and producer Leslie Stevens led to several projects, such as his innovative blend of music and sound effects for The Outer Limits. He scored several iconic themes of the '60's such as The Rat Patrol, Branded, The Flying Nun, and for producer Quinn Martin The Invaders, The Fugitive, and Twelve O'Clock High. After scoring for TV shows, he went on to compose the music for the Clint Eastwood film Hang 'Em High. The title theme for that movie became a top-10 hit for the group Booker T. & the M.G.'s. He also composed the soundtrack to the 1971 motorcycle documentary On Any Sunday, which featured Steve McQueen and was directed by Bruce Brown. Frontiere became head of the music department at Paramount Pictures in the early 1970s, where he again worked on television and film scores, while concurrently orchestrating popular music albums for, among others, Chicago. Examples of Frontiere's sweeping, cinematic orchestrations appear in the opening and closing songs of the 1977 album Nether Lands by Dan Fogelberg. He won a Golden Globe for the score to the 1980 film The Stunt Man. He also composed a jingle for the studio's television division. In 1986, Frontiere was incarcerated for nine months in a federal penitentiary after scalping tickets to the 1980 Super Bowl, which he obtained through his then-wife, Los Angeles Rams owner Georgia Frontiere. He was estimated to have scalped as many as 16,000 tickets, making a half million dollars in profit that he failed to report to the Internal Revenue Service. Frontiere pleaded guilty and was sentenced to a year and one day in prison, three years probation, and fined $15,000 for failing to report income from the sale of the tickets and for lying to the IRS. Georgia Frontiere filed for divorce shortly after Dominic's release from prison. OFFERED HERE is a 1965 contract for composer for the movie BILLIE starring Patty Duke. Also signed by Milton Ebbins (1912–2008) Film executive, songwriter ("Yale Blues", "Basic Boogie") and composer. Ebbins helped produce JFK’s 1961 Inaugural Ball and the subsequent 1962 JFK Anniversary Gala. In May of 1962, Ebbins escorted a very late Marilyn Monroe to Madison Square Garden where she famously — and breathlessly — sang “Happy Birthday, Mr. President.” He was also the man that Lawford called after speaking to Monroe the night of her death in August of 1962. Ebbins was one of the few allowed inside the White House after the JFK assassination. As the link between Washington and Hollywood, Ebbins helped Kennedy family patriarch and former ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy navigate through the movie business, not only keeping him apprised of his son-in-law’s career moves but at one point advising him against purchasing United Artists’ movie studio. At the time of his death, Ebbins was working with his friend, actor Bill Paxton, on an HBO project about the Kennedy assassination. Ebbins music career began in 1936, he formed his own orchestra, then became music director at CBS, and went to New York in 1938, joining an advertising agency's radio department. He also had been a road manager for the Jack Jenny and Count Basie orchestras, and then a personal manager. He left his career as bandleader and became a talent manager, rising to become one of Hollywood’s top personal managers, guiding the careers of Count Basie, Sarah Vaughn, Billy Eckstine and singer Vic Damone. Because of Ebbins’ musical background and his adeptness at arranging scores, he had a knack for picking hit songs for his clients. He also represented actresses Elizabeth Montgomery and Patty Duke, comedian Mort Sahl and actor Peter Lawford, who Ebbins managed for 35 years. Signed in the final page 11. Fine condition....................200-300
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378. [THEATRE] Anne Hartley Gilbert (1821-1904) professionally billed as Mrs. G. H. Gilbert was a British actress. Her first conspicuous appearance on stage was made as a dancer, in the Norwich theatrical circuit, England, in 1845. In 1846 she married George H. Gilbert (d. 1866), a performer in the theatre company of which she was a member. Together they filled many engagements in English theatres, moving to America in 1849. One of the most brilliant and decisive successes of her professional life was gained at the Broadway Theatre[2] where, on 5 August 1867, Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Florence presented Thomas William Robertson's comedy Caste, for the first time in America. Signed 3x2 in. card, dated 1904. See scan for condition.................25-35
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379. [WORLD WAR 2 NAVAL] George Frederick Hussey Jr. (1894-1983) was United States Navy Vice admiral during World War II, who served as the Chief of Naval Ordnance from December 1943 to September 1947. During the Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor, Hussey served with the USS Hopkins within directing the off-shore patrol off Hawaii. Hussey was ordered to Washington, D.C., where he was appointed the director of production within the Bureau of Ordnance. In December 1943, Hussey succeeded Rear admiral William H. P. Blandy and became the Chief of the Bureau. In this capacity, he was responsible for the directing of development and production of Naval arms during World War II. Hussey was decorated with the Navy Distinguished Service Medal for his service during the War and finally retired from the Navy in September 1947. Offered here is a April 21, 1944 one page memo from Hussey [not ink signed] to The Chief of the Bureau of Ships. Captain L.W. McKeehan is nominated for Special Board, Bureau of Ordnance. McKeehan has signed in ink at bottom left and he has written 21 Apr 1944 in right corner. Approx. 8 x 10.5 in. VG................100-150
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380. Edmund Valpy Knox (1881-1971), was a poet and satirist who wrote under the pseudonym Evoe. He was editor of Punch 1932–1949, having been a regular contributor in verse and prose for many years. ALS, 1932, 1p. He sends proofs "dated as you ask. I gathered there was some objection to the Kipling ..." About 5.5 x 7 in. VG..............min. bid $10
See above 381. Father John Keller (1900-1977) was a Roman Catholic priest in the Maryknoll Order. In 1945 he founded of The Christophers, a Christian inspirational group which broadcast a weekly inspirational television show (of the same name) on ABC. ABC canceled the show in the mid-1960s; Keller continued to produce it, however, and it is still syndicated to local television stations. The Christophers also award the Christopher Awards each year, primarily to media that exemplify the human spirit, and have a weekly syndicated radio show. Next to Bishop Fulton Sheen, Father James Keller was probably the best known priest in the United States. Signed 1-page typscript from TO LIGHT A CANDLE. VG................50-75
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382. [ENTERAINMENT] a 1961 contract signed by Peter Lawford [the actor] of Chrislaw Productions Inc. and Billy Asher [employee]. 11 pages, signed at conclusion by Lawford and Asher. You already know who Peter Lawford is - Bill Asher (1921-2012) was one of the most prolific early television directors, producing or directing over two dozen series. With television in its infancy, Asher introduced the sitcom Our Miss Brooks, which was adapted from a radio show. He began directing I Love Lucy by 1952. In 1964, he produced and directed Bewitched, which starred his then-wife Elizabeth Montgomery. As a result of his early success, Asher was considered an "early wunderkind of TV-land," and is credited in one magazine article for 'inventing' the sitcom. Included here is a carbon copy of another letter plus a copy of a contract with William Asher. VG..................300-400
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383. [POSTAL HISTORY] Levi P. Morton (1824-1920) the 22nd vice president of the United States from 1889 to 1893. He also served as United States ambassador to France, as a US representative from New York, and as the 31st governor of New York. Offered here is a postmarked envelope. 1900, hand-addressed by Morton [not signed] to Lola Greene Baldwin (1860-1957) who was one of the first policewomen in the United States. In 1908, she was sworn in by the City of Portland, Oregon as Superintendent of the Women's Auxiliary to the Police Department for the Protection of Girls (later renamed the Women's Protective Division), with the rank of detective. Approx. 4-3/4 x 3-3/4 in. VG...............50-75
His abstention from voting assured Thomas Jefferson's election as President
384. [VERMONT] Lewis Richard Morris (1760-1825) United States Representative from Vermont and a nephew of Gouverneur Morris and Lewis Morris. Born in Scarsdale, New York, he attended the common schools. He moved to Springfield, Vermont, and from 1781 to 1783 was secretary of foreign affairs. He was a member of the Springfield meeting-house committee in 1785, was tax collector in 1786 and 1787, Windsor County court clerk from 1789 to 1796 and was judge of the same court until 1801. He was clerk of the Vermont House of Representatives in 1790 and 1791, and was a member of the convention to ratify the United States Constitution . He was secretary of the constitutional convention in Windsor in 1793. He attended the Vermont ratifying convention in Bennington, where he voted in support of the Constitution. Morris was a brigadier general in the State militia in 1793 and major general of the First Division from 1795 to 1817. He was a member of the Vermont House of Representatives from 1795 to 1797 and 1803 to 1808, and served as speaker. He was elected as a Federalist to the Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh Congresses, holding office from March 4, 1797 to March 3, 1803. His abstention from voting assured Thomas Jefferson's election as President over Aaron Burr in the House of Representatives in February, 1801. DOCUMENT SIGNED, signed twice, 4pp. 7 x 12 in., [Windsor County, VT] April 1795. Court document, toned along right side. Picture of him is NOT included..............Min. Bid $150
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385. [World War 2] Louis W. McKeehan (1887-1975) Director of the Physics Laboratories Yale. He took leave of his teaching position to help out with the war effort. He was the driving force behind the creation of the torpedo called Fido. Capt. Louis McKeehan, head of the Mine Warfare Branch of the Bureau of Ordnance. Scientists at the Naval Torpedo Station at Newport, Rhode Island had been considering acoustic homing torpedoes for fifteen years but insisted that torpedoes made too much noise themselves to be able to home on any external noise source and until McKeehan came along to challenge them they seemed to have a point. But McKeehan was not a career naval officer. He was a reserve officer, on active duty for the duration, whose peacetime job was director of the physics laboratories at Yale University. Unimpressed by the received wisdom of Navy engineers, McKeehan turned to HUSL and BTL where his idea for an acoustic homing torpedo quickly bore fruit. With support and funding from the NDRC, HUSL and BTL proved Newport wrong and only seventeen months after the beginning of the project Fido had entered service and made his first kill. After the war, the scientists at Bell Labs who had worked on Fido returned to telephone work, Captain McKeehan returned to Yale, and Harvard - like some other universities - anxious to shed the military connection as soon as possible took back its buildings and ended its classified work. Louis McKeehan was, among other things, author of Yale Science: The First Hundred Years, 1701-1801 (New York: H. Schuman, 1947). Captain Louis W. McKeehan, United States Navy, was awarded the Legion of Merit for exceptionally meritorious conduct in the performance of outstanding services to the Government of the United States while attached to the Research and Development Section, Bureau of Ordnance, from the outbreak of hostilities in 1941 to March 1944. Offered here signed March 17, 1941, 1p. document, American Embassy in London. 8 x 10.5 in. VG................50-75
See above386. Leueen MacGrath (1914-1992) English actress and playwright and the second wife of George S. Kaufman,[1] from 1949 until their divorce in 1957. ALS, not dated, written to Franklyn Lenthall, 1p. Lenthall (1919-2001) was an actor, known for Kiss of Death (1947) and Carnegie Hall (1947). He was the Founder of the Boothbay [Maine] Theatre. Provenance: The Boothbay Theatre Museum Collection. VG..............40-60
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387. [US NAVAL] Navy Department Orders for Lieut. Commander Ellsworth Davis, 7 April, 1925, both sides with signatures. Signed by John Irwin Jr., E.H. Campbell, and on other side signed by J.L. Kauffman, W.D. Brotherton, Jas. P. Aitken, E.HG. Barber, and A.B. Canham. Concerns Ellsworth Davis's duty on the U.S.S. Mississippi. Brief information on some of the signers: Edward Hale Campbell (1872-1946) became a Vice Admiral - with the US being pulled into World War I, he took the precaution of drawing up plans to protect the new Panama Canal; James L. Kauffman (1887-1963) Vice Admiral, the USS Kauffman (FFG-59), in 1986 was named for him and his son; also signed by Ellsworth "Dave" Davis [1892-1946] American naval officer. He served on the U.S.S. Florida as a signal officer, official uniform inspector and flag lieutenant. During the U.S. occupation of Vera Cruz, Mexico on April 1914, Davis led a company onshore and overtook the town's postal service building. In addition to his service on the U.S.S. Florida, Davis served in the Mediterranean and off of the U.S. Atlantic Coast on the Brooklyn and the Fairfax. He was commanding officer of the USS Fairfax from 1934 to 1936. The Fairfax was a Wickes-class destroyer in the United States Navy during the World War I, later transferred to the Royal Navy as HMS Richmond (G88), as a Town class destroyer. The Fairfax took part in the Presidential Review taken by Franklin D. Roosevelt in San Diego in March 1933, and then sailed for the East coast, where she continued her reserve training duty. She also patrolled in Cuban waters, and in the summers of 1935, 1937, 1938, 1939, and 1940 sailed out of Annapolis training midshipmen of the Naval Academy. Between October 1935 and March 1937, she served with the Special Service Squadron out of Coco Solo and Balboa, Canal Zone, operating primarily on the Atlantic side of the Canal Zone. Normal age wear..................100-200
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388. [GREAT BRITAIN] Henry Pelham Fiennes Pelham-Clinton, 5th Duke of Newcastle (1811-1864), styled Earl of Lincoln before 1851, was a British politician. From 18 June 1859 to April 1864, he served as Secretary of State for the Colonies in Lord Palmerston's Liberal administration. In 1860, while holding this office, he went to Canada and the United States, in company with the Prince of Wales. Neatly inlaid. VG...............75-100
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389. [VERMONT] Edward John Phelps (1822-1900) was a lawyer and diplomat from Vermont. He is notable for his service as Envoy to Court of St. James's from 1885 to 1889. In addition, Phelps was a founder of the American Bar Association, and served as its president from 1880 to 1881. President Grover Cleveland intended to appoint him as U.S. Chief Justice in 1888, but Phelps was concerned that his tenure as ambassador to the Court of St. James's in Great Britain would cause the Democratic Party to lose the support of Irish Americans, and he declined. Offered here is a 1859 Vermont Supreme Court pre-printed document, 2pp, approx. 8-/8 x 12-3/4 in. The handwriting [includes Phelps] on verso was written by Phelps. VG..............75-100
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390. [GREAT BRITAIN] Henry Philpott (1801-1892) Anglican bishop and academic. He was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge on three occasions (1846, 1856, 1857). Philpott was awarded the degree of Doctor of Divinity (D.D.) by royal letters patent in 1847 and was Bishop of Worcester from 1860 to 1890. He was Clerk of the Closet from 1865 to 1891 and Chairman of the Cambridge University Commission in 1878. ALS, 1863, 1p. laid to another sheet. VG................40-60
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391. [US NAVAL] Rear Admiral Raymond Perry Rodgers (1849-1925) was an officer in the United States Navy. He served as the second head of the Office of Naval Intelligence and as the 12th President of the Naval War College and fought in the Spanish–American War. From October 1892 until 1897, he served consecutively as U.S. naval attaché to France in Paris, to the Russian Empire in Saint Petersburg, and to Spain in Madrid, and was promoted to lieutenant commander in July 1894. Rodgers reported aboard the battleship USS Iowa in June 1897 as her executive officer. Aboard Iowa, he saw action in the Spanish–American War of 1898, participating in the bombardment of San Juan, Puerto Rico, on 12 May 1898 and the blockade of the Cuban port of Santiago de Cuba. For his "imminent and conspicuous conduct" in the Battle of Santiago de Cuba, in which U.S. Navy forces destroyed the Spanish Navy squadron of Admiral Pascual Cervera y Topete on 3 July 1898, he advanced five numbers in grade. Offered here is an ALS, U.S. Embasy, Paris, 11 March 1897, 4pp, about 4.5 x 7 in. This is written to Admiral [John Grimes Walker]. Mentions Walker ".....you will have reached your 62nd year and retired from active service...." John Grimes Walker (1835-1907) was an admiral in the United States Navy who served during the Civil War. After the war, he served as Chief of the Bureau of Navigation, head of the Lighthouse Board, and commander-in-chief of the Squadron of Evolution and of the North Atlantic Squadron. In retirement, he led commissions to investigate the construction of a Central American canal connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Fine..............80-120
392. [EARLY AUTOMOBILES] Dan (Daniel Alden Reed 1875-1959) American football player, coach, and U.S. Representative from the state of New York. Reed was attorney for the excise department of New York from 1903 to 1909. He served in the House of Representatives as a Republican from 1919 until his death in Washington, D.C., on February 19, 1959. After playing football at Cornell University, Reed coached at the University of Cincinnati, Pennsylvania State University, and his alma mater Cornell. Offered here is a TLS signed Dan, Pontiac, Michigan, May 30, 1915, 2 pages, 4to. With original envelope. To his wife and children. This is a definitive letter describing an eyewitness account of the production line which created Ford automobiles. This letter was written the year after Ford instituted profit sharing. Reed describes the machine shop and the assembling room. He goes into great detail about the assembling of Ford automobiles. ............"I timed the operation and found that an automobile, or rather a Ford, left the end of the belt every twenty seconds...." A MAGNIFICENT addition for early automotive collection. Envelope is present. VG..............200-300................Min. Bid $45
393. Reginald John Campbell (1867-1956) British Congregationalist and Anglican divine who became a popular preacher while the minister at the City Temple and a leading exponent of 'The New Theology' movement of 1907. His last years were spent as a senior cleric in the Church of England. As his fame spread he was invited on a preaching tour of America and Canada. He left Southampton on 13 June 1903, arriving in New York on 20 June. He preached or spoke at venues in New York, Boston, and Chicago. At Ocean Grove he spoke to a crowd of 10,000. He also preached in Toronto and Montreal, visiting Niagara Falls on the way. CLIP SIGNATURE, about 2-3/4 x 1-1/4 in. VG.............50-75
394. Alfred Robert Tucker (1849–1914) Anglican Bishop of Eastern Equatorial Africa (covering the contemporary countries of Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania), from 1890 to 1899, and Bishop of Uganda from 1899 to 1908. Following in the footsteps of his family, he became an artist, exhibiting at the Royal Academy. In 1913, a year before Bishop Tucker's death, Uganda's first theological college was formed. On his death, it was named Bishop Tucker Theological College. In 1997, it became Uganda Christian University. In 2004, the University's theology faculty was named "The Bishop Tucker School of Divinity and Theology." CLIP SIGNATURE, about 4 x 3/4 in. VG...............40-60
395. Anthony Wilson Thorold (1825-1895) Anglican Bishop of Winchester in the Victorian era. The son of a Church of England priest, he also served as Bishop of Rochester. It was in that role that he travelled throughout North America and met with leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. While he wrote a number of devotional books, he is best remembered for having recruited Isabella Gilmore to revive the female diaconate in the Anglican Communion. CLIP SIGNATURE, about 3-1/2 x 1-3/4 in. VG..............35-45
396. [ART] Bettina Heinen-Ayech (1937-2020) was a German painter. She became known for her colorful landscape views of Algeria. Between 1955 and 2017 she had many exhibitions worldwide and won several prizes. Original ink drawing, signed, dated 1964, approx. 8x6 in. VG..............200-300
397. [Suffragist] Sallie W. Hovey (1872-1932) Charity Worker and Suffragist from Portsmouth, NH. In 1913 Sallie was elected President of the Woman's Suffrage Association in Portsmouth. She ran the organization from her home at 214 State Street, and was active both on the state and national levels of the movement. Sallie W. Hovey was the New Hampshire representative to the national board of the National Woman’s Party, and she picketed the 1920 Republican convention in Chicago, where, as is mentioned in The Suffragist, she was pulled aside by the governor of New Hampshire and commended for her work. In 1924 Sallie wrote a book titled The Rehabilitation of Eve that was published by Hyman-McGee. There is little known about the book other than it was 214 pages and was considered a feminist manifesto. Sallie, beyond fighting for women’s right to vote, remained active in the women’s rights movement and became part of the 1924 Valentine’s Day delegation to Washington, D.C. to visit President Coolidge, where she helped champion the Equal Rights Amendment. Sallie was photographed there with other women of the National Woman’s Party. Offered here is a July 1931, 2 full ALS, written from Eliot, Maine. She lived in Eliot the last two years of her life. This letter talks about being sued by Emery. In 1931 Sallie was involved in Emery v. Hovey, a case brought before the New Hampshire Supreme Court. Emery had earlier sued Sallie in Maine for the same issue, and the court had ruled against Emery. The New Hampshire court refused to hear the case again. Interesting letter about her court trial, saying that plaintiff's lawyers were dishonest. She says that one of the opposing lawyers was so disgusted by the opposing lawyers that he came over to her side to help her. Fine..............400-600
398. [THEATRE] Very interesting theatre broadside, Queen's Theatre 1863, approx. 5-1/2 x 11-1/4 in. TICKET-OF-LEAVE CERTIFICATES. For those convicts who worked hard and stayed out of trouble there was the prospect of receiving a ticket-of-leave, or even a pardon before the completion of their sentence. Small defects top edge.........75-100
399. [BOBBY FISCHER] Robert James Fischer (1943- 2008) was an American chess grandmaster and the eleventh World Chess Champion. Offered here are 2 items once owned by Fischer. We bought his chess magazines at the Fischer Auction held in NY at Swann's Auction. Back around 1968 Fischer arranged thru a book dealer to sell his personal library because he needed money. The Brooklyn Library purchased in library. Years later Swann's sold many items from the libraries collection. Offered here are 2 items: (1) A 1968 softcover brooklet titled FROM THEORY TO ACTION, 64pp. 8-1/2 x 10-3/4 in. (2) A 1961 page from a chess publication. Fischer subscribed to CHESS ARCHIVES EDITIONED BY DR. MAX EUWE. They would mail to Fischer on some regular schedule multiple page of chess games. These would then be assembled in a notebook. One pahe included here............50-75
400. MR. SELFRIDGE - TLS, Selfridge & Co., 1930, 1p. signed by the private secretary for Mr. Selfridge. Re" the game od bridge. Wonderful letterhead. Fine. Approx. 8 x 9-3/4................50-75
401. [ART] Louis Raemaekers (1869-1956) Dutch painter and editorial cartoonist for the Amsterdam newspaper De Telegraaf during World War I, noted for his anti-German stance. The most important aspect of Raemaekers’ career is undoubtedly his role in Allied war propaganda. ALS, 1916, 3 pages, approx. 5-1/4 x 7 in. VG.................50-75
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