• A massive archive of the Buckner family, one of the Old South's largest slave and plantation owners, sold for $41,625 (prices include 11% buyer's premium on latter lot, 15% on following lots) ...

• A group of six letters of a World War I ace recounting the girl pilot who dressed as a boy and flew on the Western Front, and remembering von Richthofen - the Red Baron - as "a dedicated murderer," for $287.50 ...

• A lock of the Red Baron's hair, with authentication, for $1,012 ...

• A collection of 29 letters and photos of British flyers in the Battle of Britain, one describing being "shot down over the Channel with over 200 bullet holes," for $517.50 ...

• A pair of 1920s mailers advertising the movies Crimson Skull, "the big colored Western," and Black Gold, both made by a Florida producer of all-black-cast films, for $110.50 ...

• A promotional booklet for the St. Louis - of the Hamburg Line ironically founded by a Jew - printed four months before its tragic "Voyage of the Damned," with menu, for $221 ...

• A rare White Star Line schedule announcing the Titanic's maiden voyage that never was, aborted because the ship wasn't seaworthy, for $696 ...

• An 1857 letter from a New York farmer lamenting, "Have not one cent of money and can sell nothing for cash...," for $86 ...

• A first edition of the very first baseball novel, 1884, for $300 ...

• An oversize souvenir program for Gone With the Wind, originally sold in theatres for 25¢, for $126.50 ...

• An 1863 anti-slavery newspaper, The Liberator, with news of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, and his arm-in-arm walk to church with Tom Burns, the elderly man who joined the fighting at Gettysburg, for $632.50 ...

• A pass to the trial of the Lincoln assassination conspirators, signed by the presiding General, for $1,012 ...

• An eight-page letter of the author of "America the Beautiful," Katherine Lee Bates, on her memories which "illuminate the calendar," for $2,157 ...

• An 1815 letter from a Natchez merchant ordering coffee and candles, to be sent on the Mississippi River's very first steamboat, for $1,075 ...

And hundreds of other items in many different specialties.

• An oversize albumen photo with fifty postage-stamp-size portraits of Confederate leaders, sold for $695 (prices include 15% buyer's premium; cents omitted) ...

• A true mutiny-on-the-bounty letter from the captain of a whaling ship, 1857, describing how the ringleaders broke out of their irons, for $822 ...

• A postcard dropped from the sky over Cologne, Germany by the Hindenburg, as the zeppelin made its first - and last - trip to North America, with two other related items, for $316 ...

• A lifetime collection of over 50 autographs of America's Founding Fathers, including Washington, Adams, Jefferson, et al; among the rarest: a signature of John Glover, who manned the boats in the famous 1776 Christmas crossing at Trenton, for $474 ...

• A typewritten letter signed of Richard Nixon, about 'the vicious bias of our "friends" in the media...,' with envelope, 1988, for $1,581 ...

• A very rare candid photograph of Hitler's mistress Eva Braun, signed twice, with Easter greetings also in her hand, 1941, for $2,415 ...

• A broadside of Hitler's First Manifesto as Chancellor, issued just two days after his rise to power, 1933, urging 'world battle,' for $2,024 ...

• An early legal document, 1786, including 'one Negro wench...and one wagon,' reflecting slavery in Pennsylvania, for $1,897 ...

• An autograph letter signed of John James Audubon, anxious about slow payment by the very first American subscriber to his celebrated book on birds, for $2,580 ...

• A medieval leaf from Spain, advising priests on how to live a good life, from a book possibly commissioned by royalty, c. 1400, for $379 ...

• A rare, colorful lobby card for 'King of the Underworld' starring Humphrey Bogart, 1939, for $328 ...

• A U.S. Grant election palmcard - in German - 'for...the White Man,' appealing to German-speaking soldiers once under his command, for $278 ...

• A long letter of naval hero Lord Nelson, 1805, penned aboard the very ship Victory on which he would be killed later that same year, for $5,060 ...

• An 1847 letter from a Boston dentist, giving long-distance advice by mail to a man in rural New Hampshire on how to fix his teeth, for $115 ...

And hundreds of other items in many different specialties.
Cohasco's next Mail/Phone/Fax/Internet Auction is planned for late 2004, the firm's 58th year.

• The earliest novel to include a baseball game, Uncle Nat; or, the Good Time Which George and Frank Had..., 1865, sold for $2,213 (prices include 15% buyer's premium; cents omitted) ...
  

• An ambrotype of an identified member of one of Robert E. Lee's favorite units, the hard-drinking Louisiana Tigers, for $1,797 ...
  

• An 'adversity newspaper,' printed on handmade peach paper just days before Natchez, Mississippi fell to the Union in 1862, for $442 ...
  

• The longest Civil War officer's letters seen, two letters totalling 31 pages, entirely in U.S.N. Commander John Goldsborough's hand, for $1,644 ...
  

• A presentation portfolio issued by the manufacturer of the Space Shuttle Columbia upon its maiden flight in 1981, containing fourteen items, for $373 ...
  

• A World War II-era bell actually made from the metal of German planes shot down over Britain, for $506 ...
  

• A lifetime collection of books about Civil War prisons, in 51 individual lots; among them, the excessively rare 1866 tome, Prison Life of Jefferson Davis, a sympathetic daily record by the U.S. Army doctor who cared for him, for $316 ...
  

• A typewritten letter signed of Teddy Roosevelt, 1898, proclaiming, 'I think I should practice what I have preached...,' for $3,795 ...
  

• One of the most famous photographs of the twentieth century, showing Truman holding aloft the 'Dewey Defeats Truman' newspaper, signed and inscribed by Truman, for $2,314 ...
  

• A rare 1968 booklet offering office space in the yet-unbuilt World Trade Center, for $158 ...
  

• A medieval Bible leaf from the time of the Last Crusade (the Eighth), c. 1260, ornamented with an orange and blue plume, for $278 ...
  

• An unusual sales folder for the 1950 Airway 'Flying Auto,' shown in flight over Southern California, for $88 ...
  

• A massive Luftwaffe aerial map of Central Europe, printed in multicolors on thick yellow oilcloth, for $246 ...
  

• One of the best-known posters of World War I, 'Remember...,' listing Argonne, Verdun, and eleven other bloody battles, for $221 ...
  

• In an autographic combination probably unique, a Civil War endorsement by the young George Custer, also signed by his commanding officer, Gen. George Meade, sold for $2,846 (prices include 15% buyer's premium) ...
  

• A carte photograph of R.E. Lee, signed on both front and back, with "Lee" in his hand three times in all, inscribed to another Lee - and coincidentally taken by a Richmond photographer also named Lee, for $2,720 ...
  

• A vivid letter of a Union soldier, describing the 1864 siege of Petersburg, concluding, "If I have to die, it is all right," for $304 ...
  

• A rare document signed by Lawrence of Arabia using the name he used to enlist anonymously in the Royal Tank Corps, T.E. Shaw, for $1,202 ...
  

• A secret British report on a Volkswagen captured from the Nazis in the Middle East in 1943, for $443 ...
  

• A dramatic document signed by then-N.Y. Gov. Theodore Roosevelt on the last day of the nineteenth century, Dec. 31, 1900, for $632.50 ...
  

• A seldom-seen signature of Annie ("Get Your Gun") Oakley, from the period when she starred in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, for $2,277 ...
  

• A medieval scroll believed from Pisa, Italy, 1326, for $1,897.50 ...
  

• A foldout book of views of the Statue of Liberty, printed one year before it was unveiled, for $569 ...
  

• A photo postcard of the Titanic, bearing details of the disaster and postmarked Apr. 30, 1912 - just fifteen days after it sunk, for $285 ...
  

• Extraordinary War Department document signed by Patton, rating Gen. Omar Bradley on his abilities ("a great soldier..."), for $2,024 ...
  

• An early letter from a future signer of Israel's Declaration of Independence, raising money to purchase land from Arabs, 1924, for $557 ...
  

• An unusual silver medal issued to a black soldier serving in Palestine, in the King's African Pioneer Corps, for $142 ...
  

• The newspaper, Pennsylvania Packet, June 16, 1789, containing the forerunner of the Bill of Rights - James Madison's proposed nine amendments to the Constitution, for $474 ...
  

• An 1841 illustrated broadside for a "Grand Balloon Ascent" by aeronaut Charles Green, who earlier traveled to America, for $1,265 ...
  

• An ornate cloisonn' badge for a New York trolley conductor, for $177.

• An oversize presentation photo of Woodrow Wilson's Armistice "Ship of Peace," signed by the President and 55 other dignitaries, sold for $1,485 (prices include 12-1/2% buyer's premium) ...
  

• Confederate soldier's description of meeting Robert E. Lee during the War, riding in a field ambulance with his arm in a sling, for $383 ...
  

• A large albumen photo of a beardless Lincoln, taken in Springfield, Illinois in 1860, for $1,732 ...
  

• An unusual four-door locket holding three daguerreotypes - of mother, father, and daughter, and a lock of the daughter's hair, for $247 ...
  

• A 1926 signed photo of Babe Ruth--holding a golf club, while his companion brandishes a baseball bat, for $1,608 ...
  

• A World War II diary of an American gunner, telling of his trip through Pearl Harbor, "...going to give the Japs hell!," for $742 ...
  

• A silk ribbon showing the Statue of Liberty in 1878--eight years before its unveiling in New York Harbor, plus an 1883 postcard, for $731 ...
  

• A 1962 brochure soliciting tenants for the planned World Trade Center, shown in an original low-rise design with cargo ships berthing against the structure itself, for $247 ...
  

• Four Oregon Territory newspapers, 1856, in which Brigham Young threatens to "smite any Gentile casting eyes" at his 70 wives, for $154 ...
  

• Excessively rare signature of Count von Stauffenberg, who tried to kill Hitler with a bomb in 1944, for $2,165 ...
  

• A miniature watercolor portrait on ivory of an American woman in powdered wig, c. 1790, for $464 ...
  

• An 1877 postcard from San Francisco's Vigilante Committee, announcing "the necessary weapons for your protection will be furnished," for $245 ...
  

• The earliest known American auto racing poster, showing the Duryea Motor Wagon at an 1897 Fair, autographed by J. Frank Duryea, for $4,950 ...
  

• Russian cartoon-style poster in color, c. 1918-22, showing Lenin with a broom, making a "clean sweep" of Kings, capitalists, bankers, and religious of the world, for $374 ...
  

• Massive 1634 volume of Sir Walter Ralegh's Historie of the World, written while imprisoned in the Tower of London, for $1,125 ...

• From Orville Wright's personal library, a 1906 leaflet with the first published recognition of the Wright Brothers' invention of "an aeroplane type of flying machine", sold for $4,331 (prices include 12-1/2% buyer's premium) ...
  

• Excessively rare manuscript from mediaeval Hungary, 1490/91, concerning a dwelling near the Abbot's house, for $544 ...
  

• An ambrotype of a Confederate militiaman, with large "Secession" badge on his coat, for $1,020 ...
  

• An Autograph Letter Signed of Queen Mary, sending thanks for helping make the Dolls' House, the miniature 40-room palace with running water, working elevator, and a piano that played, for $618 ...
  

• A Civil War glazed pitcher, with flags, eagle, and George Washington's portrait in brilliant colors, for $532 ...
  

• A carte de visite of Stonewall Jackson, unsigned, with New Orleans imprint, for $433 ...
  

• Record album, signed in person on jacket by Elvis Presley, at his first live performance in nine years, in Las Vegas, 1969, for $675 ...
  

• A three-page Autograph Letter Signed with envelope from U.S. Grant, about his son, and thanking writer for his letter of July 4th, for $2,306 ...
  

• A charming Stevengraph, a picture woven of silk, showing Signing of the Declaration of Independence, in old frame, for $340 ...
  

• Cloth armband worn by member of National Guard of Jerusalem, when under siege in April 1948, for $309 ...
  

• Menu of the Hamburg-America Line's St. Louis, bearing Hitler's portrait, the ship later host to "Voyage of the Damned", for $112.50 ...
  

• Group of covers including four postmarked on board ships later sunk at Pearl Harbor, and Reuben James, first U.S. warship sunk in WW II, for $247 ...
  

• A section from a seat in the Polo Ground's V.I.P. section, in never-seen-before original orange paint, for $365 ...
  

• Reward poster for runaway slave "who stoops forward when walking", 1854, for $3,093 ...
  

• An oversize albumen photo of Lincoln and son Tad, by Mathew Brady, 1864, for $2,025 ...
  

• A 1626 map of Europe by John Speed, with sea monsters, for $835 ...
  

• A color photo showing Nixon greeting just-returned Apollo 11 astronauts in quarantine, signed by Nixon and Neil Armstrong, in elaborate frame, for $804 (all prices include 12-1/2% buyer's premium) ...
  

• A signed photo of Yuri Gagarin, first man to travel in space, for $433 ...
  

• A receipt entirely in the hand of William Henry Harrison, signed by his wife Anna, Cincinnati, 1812, for $1,912.50 ...
  

• A T.L.S. on postcard of author and poet Herman Hesse, 1929: "I think it improper than an Editorial Board will throw an author's letters unread into the wastebasket...Either print or return my manuscript", for $340 ...
  

• A 1948 stamp souvenir sheet issued by San Salvador, depicting Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt, signed boldly by Eleanor, for $297 ...
  

• A signature on card of Clarence Darrow, for $495 ...
  

• A Union soldiers letter, Fredericksburg, 1862, with envelope, reporting that local Virginians are being captured and sent to Washington, "to stop them from carrying news to the rebels...", for $155 ...
  

• A T.D.S. of Rudolf Hess, from the Brown House, 1938, with significant content, attesting that "Party Member Graf" saved Hitler's life on the day of Munich Putsch fifteen years earlier, expensively framed, for $990 ...
  

• A handsome D.S. of Sam Houston as Governor of Tennessee at age 33, for $1,114 ...
  

• An Autograph Endorsement Signed of A. Lincoln, "Let this man take the oath...", for $3,217.50 ...
  

• A collection of 16 autographs, including ten signed photographs, of WWII German U-boat commandants, collectively responsible for loss of about 250 ships and an unknown number of lives, for $495 ...
  

• A strikingly attractive lower portion of D.S. of Z(achary) Taylor, Fort Crawford, 1834, receiving cords of wood, for $787.50 ...
  

• A heretofore unique Executive Mansion card variant, with the engraved imprint centered rather than at the right, signed by Grover Cleveland, for $928 ...
  

• A Letter Signed twice by a young Martin Van Buren, recently admitted to Bar, writing a colleague that he intended to employ him as counsel "but forgot it," for $773 ...
  

• A two-page, detailed T.L.S. of Admiral Rickover, written At Sea aboard the new nuclear-powered cruiser Texas, with cacheted envelope, for $173 ...
  

• A rare enlistment document of a Virginia farmer "of dark complexion" as "a soldier in army of the Republic of Texas", 1837, for $681 ...
  

• A small manuscript fragment from Monte Cassino, Italy, c. 1060, their scribes singularly responsible for preserving many of the great works of ancient literature through their dedication to copying, for $953 ...

• A custom-made cigarette case in satin holder, autographed in the solid gold itself by the President of Brazil and presented to Franklin D. Roosevelt, sold for $1,670 (prices include 12-1/2% buyer's premium) ...
  

• A letter of Eleanor Roosevelt with instructions for "one of my favorite recipes: huckleberry pudding," for $525 ...
  

• An ambrotype of an identified Confederate drummer boy from Georgia, for $1,361 ...
  

• A letter of John Sutter, founder of Sacramento and son of the man whose Mill triggered the Gold Rush of '49, for $990 ...
  

• A lengthy letter to future Pres. Polk, in which leading Democratic Sen. Silas Wright warns of campaign bribes and party intrigue, for $3,062 ...
  

• A rare Pennsylvania "Printers Lad" newspaper carrier's broadside, 1777, with verses of patriotic defiance, for $4,145 ...
  

• A steel engraving showing slaves in chains, the Capitol Building in background, dated 1830--the year before John Quincy Adams introduced a petition to abolish slavery in Washington, D.C., for $433 ...
  

• A pristine official document portion, curiously signed by Lincoln and Seward in blank, for $3,675 ...
  

• A manuscript from the aftermath of the Black Plague, 1354, referring to a French castle and palace under English rule, for $408 ...
  

• Broadside issued just before Hitler's 1934 election as President and Prime Minister, proclaiming, "The son of the people will lead the people," for $990 ...
  

• Letter of Gen. Maxwell Taylor, on the nature of warfare: "The Army ... has the flexibility to make the punishment fit the crime...," for $556 ...
  

• Signed photo of Glenn Miller holding trombone, with letter of the bandleader, and separate signatures of all five Modernaires, for $525 ...
  

• Archive of 28 notebooks of spiritualist Arthur Reynolds, his seance visitors including Washington, Lincoln, Nero, and Benedict Arnold, for $1,012.
  

• Early, illustrated baseball scorecard, 1883, Providence vs. Boston, for $433 ...
  

• Carte photo of Union Gen. Joseph Knipe, by Brady/Anthony, for $816 ...
  

• Glamorous photo signed by Nancy and then-Gov. Ronald Reagan, for $202.

• A Union sailor's letter, nearly every page embellished with his sketches of sea life during the Civil War, sold for $2,070 (prices do not include buyer's premium)...
  

• A manuscript fragment circa 1050, penned at "the paramount cradle of Western civilization," Monte Cassino, Italy, for $880...
  

• A four-page Autograph Letter Signed of Jeff Davis, with a clergyman's turn-of-century provenance describing how he found it in Davis' ransacked home, for $3,100...
  

• A seldom-seen Naval appointment signed by Pres. Zachary Taylor, who served only sixteen months in office, for $3,498...
  

• Ornate invitation to "meet General Custer," together with a Christmas card to his wife, with notation in her hand, for $346.50...
  

• A certificate for one share of Gold Rush stock, San Francisco, 1851, with vignette, for $385...
  

• A choice, intact Great Seal affixed to a vellum document from the reign of Elizabeth I, for $880...
  

• Signed check of the originator of the Teddy Bear, political cartoonist Clifford Berryman, 1912, for $110...
  

• Nazi handbill proclaiming "Hitler - one name - hope for millions!," late 1920's, for $440...
  

• The actual Nuremberg Trial questionnaire filled out by Wilhelm Frick, who drew up the Nuremberg Laws, and was hung, for $1,250...
  

• Portion of an envelope and letter recovered from the zeppelin Hindenburg, with burn marks, and supporting documentation, for $1,980...
  

• Roster of guards from notorious Confederate Libby Prison, for $286...
  

• Document signed by Lincoln, as President, bearing his full signature, for $4,180...
  

• 1832 freedom document for "a yellow woman," for $242...
  

• Seven-page manuscript listing 63 slaves for sale, for $220...
  

• Section of pre-Columbian Inca textile, depicting cyclops, for $250...
  

• Original artwork for the Lincoln automobile radiator emblem, 1923, as used by Classic Era coachbuilders Murphy of Pasadena, for $605...
  

• Three realphoto postcards of rodeos and cowboys, for $60...
  

• A Bible printed in England, signed by Martin Luther King, Jr., sold for $1,870 (prices do not include 10% buyer's premium)...

• Document dated 1328, York, England, with bizarre drawings of a flamingo-like bird and a monk, addressed to "the counts and barons and...the lords and their fellows...in all my forests (and) castles...," for $1,375...

• Multicolor handbill -- believed the earliest example of multi-color printing done in America bearing an imprint -- depicting the 26-star flag, from around the time of Texas' annexation, realized $522.50...

• Poignant 1881 diary of a New Jersey schoolboy, describing Garfield's assassination, for $187...

• A pair of Typewritten Letters Signed by Teddy Roosevelt, written four days apart in 1918, offering to enclose a mother's letter to her son in the Army, with his own letter to his son, Ted Jr., for $852.50...

• The three words, "has been given," in Lincoln's hand, from an 1843 document when he was a young lawyer, for $450...

• An excessively rare Civil War-date stock certificate of the Cayuga Gold and Silver Mining Co., dated a year before Nevada's Statehood, for $561 (and other Western shares for up to $660)...

• Lithographed "Self-Portrait" of Picasso, signed, for $1,182...

• An 1855 reward poster for runaway slave Mathew, who "is very black... and talks and laughs loud...," for $1,540...

• Signed transcript of Jimmy Doolittle's report from Chunking, China, on his raid over Tokyo, for $577.50...

• Original Nazi broadside announcing the May 1923 rally at which Hitler was the fateful speaker, promising "Honor, Freedom and Bread," for $1,001...

• Historically important broadside pasted on a wall within hours of Israel's Declaration of Independence in 1948, for $770...

• 1910 baseball pass signed by Hall of Famer Joe McGinnity, teammate of Christy Mathewson, probably unique, for $1,931.00...

• Miniature Bible, 1615, with genuine gold fleur-de-lis on polished vellum, for $335...

• Colorful World War I poster, "Join the Air Service," for $660...

• Printed political cartoon lampooning Andrew Jackson, for $731.50...

If we can be of service to you, contact us at:

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