CHRISTA MCAULIFFE American teacher & astronaut killed on the Space Shuttle Challenger on mission STS-51-L, she was serving as a payload specialist, signed & postmarked on date of death on cover along w/ photo & placard (Image)

Est. $500-600 HWC-FLAT

(29) Signed photos of movie & TV actors/actresses, B&W and color, glamour shots & scenes from shows; incl Susan Sarandon, Tai Babilonia, Valerie Bertinelli, Justine Bateman, Christina Ricci, F Murray Abraham, Robert Vaughn, Margot Kidder, Chase Masterson, others; in black Sharpie, all IDed, couple inscribed, VF (Image)

Est. $150-200 LE

Collection (18) signed photographs of German WWII era Knight's Cross winners, all pilots or paratroopers from the Luftwaffe; each photo shows them wearing the medal; collector has IDed each & provided bio; VF (Image)

Est. $200-250 LE

Collection (30) photographs, signed by American WWII Aces, incl Gabreski, Mahurin, Scott, Anderson, others; many inscribed, gen VF (Image)

Est. $200-300 LE

(2) Binders of autographs on documents, letters or photographs, from collector requesting them of various famous national & world leaders; many appear to be secretarial or autopen but there are genuine as well; Lady Bird Johnson, Robert McNamara, Edmund Muskie, Henry Cabot Lodge, P.W. Botha, Netanyahu, Portillo (Pres of Mexico), others; additional group of Sharpie signed photos of various television journalists, most appear to be from Los Angeles area; gen VF

Est. $200-300 L

Accum abt (20) political autographs w/ many Nixon & Vice President George H. Bush, also incl Teddy Roosevelt, Herbert Hoover (certified), Jackie Kennedy, Sandra Day O'Connor, Warren Berger & more, some secretary signed & autopen, gen F-VF (Image)

Est. $300-400 L

Collection abt (42) signed B&W photographs of German WWII era Knight's Cross winners, small to med size photos show each wearing the medal; collector has IDed all but (3) & provided bios for each; VF (Image)

Est. $400-500 LE

Variety of collectibles culled from a philatelic dealer's estate; (5) original boxed sets of Marcat miniature military figurines incl US Green Berets, 2nd British India Regiment, US WWII paratroopers, Warwickshires and one other; small box of cufflinks in a variety of styles & shapes; small baggie of political & patriotic pins; (2) white busts of Elvis Presley produced post-death by Goebel in West Germany, in original box; (2) original boxed Bari pipes from Denmark; selection of German & Soviet pins & medals for various Holocaust & other WWII locations; gen VF

Est. $150-250 L

Interesting & Valuable Accum of (330) collector spoons from locations around the country & around the world, plus some non-specific designs & themes; ranges from 1893 Columbian Expo up to 1977 QEII Silver Jubilee, mostly from US cities & states, European countries & cities; noted Los Angeles, Wilmington, VT, Huntingdon, WV, Kansas City, Detroit, Wash DC, Portland, OR, Wilmot, Ohio (world's largest cuckoo clock), Sun Valley; Delaware, Colorado, Connecticut, New York, Luzerne, Moscow, Aruba, Capri, Monaco, Cannes, Reims, Iceland, Hong Kong, Panama Canal, Buenos Aires; also St. Louis World's Fair, President McKinley, NASA, Mickey Mouse, serpents and swastikas, Christmas, more; a couple small forks slipped in the mix; range from simple to quite elaborate; base metal, sterling as well as silver plated; most attached to our old Bid Board cards w/ some IDed & prices paid (range from $2 to $16 ea); gen VF (Image)

Est. $600-800 L

(3) Early American newspapers: Columbian Centinel March 9, 1796 (Boston); Niles' National Register March 5, 1842 (Baltimore); Harper's Weekly April 13, 1861 (New York) w/ drawing of the ship "Daniel Webster" at Point Isabel, Texas; some aging esp Centinel but all intact and F-VF (Image)

Est. $100-150 HWC-FLAT

AUSTRIA Interesting Accum of paper handouts or fliers encouraging a Yes vote in the 1938 post-Anschluss plebiscite, with slogans like "For a free Austria," Fatherland Front symbol, young people will vote, vote for the youth's future, etc, seldom seen items, F-VF+ (Image)

Est. $140-180 LE

Jumbled carton of ephemera & collectibles; old photos, pamphlets, trade cards, prints, playbills, travel photo-books, Life magazine (MLK murder, Nimitz), even an old postal scale; happy hunting; flts to VF

Est. $100-150 L

Collection of Religious ephemera incl pamphlets, Bible lesson picture cards, prayer cards incl Lord's Prayer, catechism bklts, songs, Victorian colorful cut-outs, fancy bookmarks, saints & more; also an album w/ (50+) medals & pendants of various saints; incl both Catholic & Protestant material, mostly first half 20th Cent; gen F-VF

Est. $140-180 L

Abt (100) items incl passport, Hong Kong Bknts, bklt on 1924 Presidential Facts, ornate telegrams from 1947 Belgium, seals, labels, vintage stereo cards & more, gen Fine or better, worth a closer look (Image)

Est. $150-200 B

Box of ephemera wide variety incl abt (250+) PPCs of various topics, 19th Cent checks, political buttons, 1950s hunting licenses & few old photos & much more, gen F+

Est. $180-220 L

(5) Oversize flat boxes packed w/ several (100) paper items from the past; majority of items are newspapers of various sizes & ages 1820s-1960s incl some Civil War related, many from this region incl a German-language paper from Philadelphia & newspaper from Delaware County, PA; also some old sheet music from turn of the last century, prints & engravings taken from books or other publications, a Confederate bond (no coupons) & other miscellany (even a sheet of 44¢ postage stamps); additional bundle of framed items; sold as-is as received by consignor, some are sleeved & protected previously from retail or country auction, others loose; expect some foxing, water stains or rough edges on many items due to age & past storage; F+

Est. $200-300 OVERSIZE (6)

Accum interesting w/ couple (100) items incl document w/ Revenue stamps, pins, tickets, postcards, labels, seals, US thrift card w/ stamps & much more, great lot for breakdown or retail sales, gen Fine or better

Est. $200-300 B

Fascinating Collection of photographs & ephemera from the African American experience in the Navy c.1940s; incl group photos, individuals, family members, in uniform, lady friends, parades, dances, playing sports (baseball, boxing, basketball); some scenes in Hawaii from a construction battalion; gen F-VF (Image)

Est. $140-180 B

Group (75) "The Illustrated War News" journals from London, 1914-16, full of interesting photographs from all around the Great War; scenes from Galicia, Italy, the front lines & trenches, Dardanelles, Iraq, Egypt, Russia, Serbia; some w/ detached or torn covers, majority are VF to XF (Image)

Est. $250-350 L

Large Accum of US Naval collectibles, incl bklts for commissioning, de-commissioning, inactivation ceremony, launching & "welcome aboard," several other items as photographs, stickers, menus & event programs; material from 1965-2007, ships & submarines, some dup, gen VF

Est. $500-700 L (2)

(150) Vintage arcade cards, virtually all are actors, especially in the cowboys & Indians genre, big band musicians; also regular photos & a few actresses, aircraft & astrology; pics B&W, graytone & monochrome colored; some wrinkles or light edge wear, gen F-VF (Image)

Est. $100-140 B

(5) Binders filled w/ collection of Sci-Fi related material; incl photographs (portraits & scenes from films), trading cards, other ephemera; incl Stargate, Star Trek (original, Next Generation, Enterprise), Battlestar Galactica, other TV shows; tons of photographs, most are IDed, many are autographed (some COA); gen VF (Image)

Est. $250-350 L

Accum 20th Cent ephemera, incl prints of old style pretty ladies, sheet music w/ attractive covers, circus, motorcycle & machinery topics of adv, pamphlets, receipts & letterhead; stack of VF unused adv postcards for 1981 model cars (Ford, Chevy); abt (100) sleeved PPC white border to early chrome, more; a few items w/ dup; gen F-VF

Est. $80-120 L

Accum Railroad related stock certificates: The Western Pacific Railroad Company (abt 150) $1,000 bonds, same design; The Atlanta and Charlotte Air Line Railway Company shares (abt 65) couple w/ revenues on reverse, same design; Northern Railroad Company (2); The New York Central and Hudson River Railroad Company (abt 160) $1,000 and $5,000 bonds in various colors w/ several diff designs; F-VF

Est. $100-150 L