MARC CHAGALL Signed in black grease pencil on Israeli maximum card for 1 lira postage stamp of 1973 showing Chagall's stained glass window for the tribe of Issachar, first day cancel on art card; signature clear & bold, VF (Image)

Est. $150-200 SE

SPACE Collection of autographed cvrs from the 1975 Apollo-Soyuz joint US-Soviet space program, incl event cvrs & cacheted souv cvrs, signatures include Brand, Slayton, Stafford, Leonov, Kubasov, Bykovsky, Yeliseyev; & some scientists, administrators, recovery team; also the stamp designer MacCall; total of (64) signatures w/ a couple dup; gen F-VF+ (Image)

Est. $250-350 L

Incredible collection of autographs & ephemera from various former & then-current world leaders of the 1980s-90s, accumulated by one collector, a popular radio journalist in Delaware, housed in (7) large photo albums; includes presidents, prime ministers, dictators, royalty & other government leaders, Roman Catholic cardinals, diplomats & some other famous persons; autographs mostly on photos or official letters responding to collector's requests, related ephemera included for each item incl original mailed envs, business cards, postage stamps & paper money (crisp Unc); many are household names such as the Dalai Lama, Pierre Trudeau, Ceausescu, Mother Theresa, Edvard Shevardnadze, Hosni Mubarak, Helmut Kohl, King Norodom Sihanouk, King Hussein of Jordan & his wife Queen Noor; some became famous later such as Cardinal Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI) & King Birendra of Nepal, killed in the 2001 royal family massacre; worldwide coverage of leaders from Ben Ali of Tunisia to Mayor Motoshima of Nagasaki, others from Tanzania, PNG, Norway, Switz, Colombia, Solomon Is, Israel (Barak, Netanyahu, Rabin, Shamir, Herzog, Peres), Macao, NZ, Panama, Poland (Jaruzelski), East Germany (Honecker), Sweden, Burkina Faso, Macedonia, Iceland & many many others; Cardinals from Karachi, Hong Kong, Manila, Mauritius, Milan, Warsaw; none from United States; several signatures are inscribed to the collector; one or two just sent photos (Queen Beatrix, King of Thailand); unusual & thoughtful collection from a dynamic period in history, impossible to dup; VF (Image)

Est. $1,000-1,500 L (2)