Promise of payment, half page, "To Pay Capt. William Manning Two hundred Pounds Lawful Money being part of this States Bounty to fill up his Comy." dated June 26, 1777 and signed by Founding Father Oliver Ellsworth and two others; Manning signed, as well as Treasurer John Lawrence (of Connecticut); Ellsworth was a member of the Continental Congress in 1777, later he was involved in the Constitution, was a CT Senator and later chief justice of the Supreme Court; F-VF bonus: BEP engraved portrait (Image)

Est. US$200-300 LE

SALVADOR ALLENDE, President of Chile, inscribed & signed a special souvenir sheet of stamps issued in 1972 to publicize the nationalization of the copper industry (footnote Scott #423-24); VF (Image)

Est. US$250-350 SE

APOLLO Space Program (48) autographed cvrs, mostly on Recovery Ship cacheted cvrs, from 1966 Unmanned flight AS202, 1968 Apollo 7 to 1972 Apollo 17, Skylab & Apollo-Soyuz (1975); autographs IDed on cover by collector, genuine & a few suspected autopens or fakes (Neil Armstrong & others), both astronauts & staff, incl Eisele, Lovell, Anders, Schirra, Schweickart, Cernan, Aldrin, Gordon, Collins, Bean, Conrad, Haise, von Braun, director Ross, others; couple later cvrs are crew-signed; besides recovery ship cvrs, there is a typed poem signed by Lousma & a photograph of Ed Gibson in space suit, inscribed, print of Skylab also signed & inscribed by Gibson; gen VF (Image)

Est. US$600-800 L

SIMON BOLIVAR, The Liberator, undated half sheet w/ six-line text and full, strong signature at bottom, addr to Peruvians, F-VF (Image)

Est. US$400-500 LE

SIMON BOLIVAR, The Liberator, full page w/ water staining at bottom, undated 11-lined text above w/ full bold signature, mentions Venezuela and Colombia; F+ (Image)

Est. US$400-500 LE

BRITISH Accum of autographs from various British personalities of the past; most IDed by sellers; incl cuts, documents & handwritten or typed letters; both known names & the more obscure, incl many Peers & politicians, explorers, scientists, others; examples incl Sir Charles Fellowes, Gen. Charles Napier, Alexander Adam, Walford Davies, Sir Willmott Lewis, Sir John Scott Keltie, Rowland Hill (incl a separate Penny Black cover but stamp is damaged), Sir Oswald Mosley, Sir Henry Wood, Sir Frances Rose, George Robey, Mountbatten of Burma, Lord Canning (handwritten invite to visit House of Lords), Flinders Petrie, Sister Kenny, Sir Julian Huxley, Havelock Ellis, Sir Henry Bulwer, Viscount Astor and others; some are from a collector's requests for autographs and so the letters & envs are also included; (84) items total; gen F-VF

Est. US$400-500 L

CUBA (4) Slips of paper w/ handwriting & signatures of socialist revolutionaries Che & Fidel; slip of paper w/ names incl Fidel, unsure if signature; (3) slips of paper w/ writing & signature Che, two dated 1958; from huge autograph estate but w/ no Certs, sold as-is; F-VF (Image)

Est. US$150-200 LE

ECKENER & LEHMANN Signed 1936 press photo, in blue ink, photo is trimmed showing two airships Graf Zeppelin & Los Angeles (original photo had 3 ships per note on back); Lehmann would perish the next year in the Hindenburg disaster; VF (Image)

Est. US$350-450 LE

ENTERTAINMENT Group (100+) on photos, programs & other ephemera, incl Dorothy Lamour, Gatlin Brothers, Cheryl Ladd, Joe Pesci, Sharon Stone, Meryl Streep, Lauren Bacall, Forest Tucker, Joan Collins, Jimmy Durante, Michael Eisner, The Guess Who, Lily Tomlin, etc, gen F-VF (Image)

Est. US$350-450 L

GEMINI Space Program (31) signed covers, ea w/ one signature & cachet from a Recovery Ship, 1965-66, some famous names (Schirra, Carpenter, Young, Glenn, Lovell, Aldrin, Stafford, Gordon, others) but there are some autopens present (see web photos); no Certs, many addr to same collector; gen VF (Image)

Est. US$200-300 LE

BENITO JUAREZ 1856 Oaxaca State government document signed as Governor (later he became President of Mexico); other signatures & black state seal handstamp at LL; minor aging, F-VF (Image)

Est. US$300-400 LE

LATIN AMERICA Group of signatures from various Latin American writers & artists (handwritten documents signed unless noted): incl Pablo Casals w/ doodle, Alejandro Carrion, Pablo Neruda (2), signed on title page of his anti-Nixon book & handwritten note on Italian hotel stationery 1965, Alberto Baeza Flores, Jose Santos Chocano, Jose Ortega y Gasset, Ruben Dario, Claudio Arrau photo from magazine, Gabriela Mistral, others; most IDed by dealer or internet sellers (none w/ Certs), gen F-VF (Image)

Est. US$200-300 LE

LATIN AMERICA Collection of autographs of various presidents; Menem of Argentina; Jorge Garcia Granados of Guatemala (pres. candidate); Pedro Maria de Anaya (interim, 1847) & Emilio Portes Gil of Mexico; the rest are from CHILE: Patricio Aylwin & wife, Pedro Montt, Jeronimo Mendez, Arturo Alessandri (photo & Christmas card), Jose Miguel Carrera (1813), Eduardo Frei, Ramon Barros Luco, Frederico Errazuriz (1868 letter & 1900 document); a couple w/ Mueller Certs, gen VF

Est. US$200-300 LE

LATIN AMERICA Group of signed documents by various Founding Fathers of South American independence from Spain; incl Bernardo O'Higgins (5) from 1813-40 incl payment note during war; his father Ambrosio O'Higgins, Jose San Martin (4) incl one w/ extra signature of Gabriel Ocampo; Martin Guemes, Antonio de Sucre & Andres Bello (2); all w/ info from seller but no Certs; F-VF (Image)

Est. US$500-600 LE

Emperor MAXIMILIAN of Mexico, clearly written document promising 130 pesos for a French dramatic group, dated July 3, 1865, signed below; installed by French intervention, the Austrian duke only ruled for a few years before being overthrown & killed in 1867; VF (Image)

Est. US$300-400 LE

BERNARDO O'HIGGINS, Liberator of Chile, full page handwritten & signed folded letter from Lima dated June 26, 1839, no postal markings, signed at bottom "B. O'Higgins" he lived in exile in Peru from 1823-1842; VF (Image)

Est. US$200-250 LE

PERON (5) Autographs: Juan Peron as Minister of War signed a typed document on armed forces stationery w/ several handstamps, signed simply Peron; others are of his wife; 1949 typed card for a teacher, signed Eva Peron; 1950 paperback Su Palabra Su Pensamiento Su Accion, signed Eva Peron on title page & inscribed (scuffs on book cover), 1949 typed greeting on card, signed Eva Peron; undated booklet Significacion Social del "Descamisado" inscribed & signed Evita on title page (Image)

Est. US$300-400 LE

PICASSO (2) sketches on small pieces of paper; one is dark blue pen drawing of topless bride w/ "Picasso XXXIII" at LR; 2nd is sketch in black of "Picasso in Spain" w/ man in hat, building and church, several lines of text in French, addressed to a friend and signed "ton ami Picasso" w/ his address in Barcelona ("Rue de la Merced 3"); some foxing to blue pen sketch; gen VF (Image)

Est. US$400-500 LE

POLITICAL Group abt (60) on business cards, letterhead & photos, incl Sargent Shriver, Daniel Inouye, Dixie Lee Ray, Clark Clifford, Orrin Hatch, Tip O'Neill, Michael Dukakis, Al Gore, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, other governors & congressmen; gen VF (Image)

Est. US$250-300 L

RASPUTIN Infamous Russian "priest," mystic and charlatan, cut from bottom of written note, in pencil, word "work" at left, underlined signature at bottom, similar in characteristics to another genuine letter sold recently, with the word work or labor ("trud") & signature; he was practically illiterate thus his writing resembles a child's; cut is marked 1914; VF (Image)

Est. US$300-400 LE

SALLY RIDE (6) Autographs in pen on (6) diff PBKs of space themed postage stamps (Scott #1193, 1332b, 1371, 1529, 1570a, C76); ea signed in selvage by the first American woman in space; VF (Image)

Est. US$300-400 LE

ANTONIO LOPEZ de SANTA ANNA, Signed official military document, at Veracruz dated July12, 1841, where he was in command between presidential terms; most notably known in the US as the Mexican general at the Alamo, later surrendering to Sam Houston & accepting Texas Independence in 1836; VF (Image)

Est. US$400-600 LE

SOUTH AFRICA Autographs of famous South Africans, incl Prime Minister Voorster signed photos (2 diff), President de Klerk signed photo (2), Zulu Chief Buthelezi, PM Smuts signed card; Desmond Tutu signed photo; a couple w/ corresp, gen VF (Image)

Est. US$200-300 LE

SPANISH KINGS (3) Documents signed by el Rey: 1654 contemporary archive copy of letter from King Philip IV to the Archbishop of Valencia, signed simply "yo el Rey" (I am the King), some pencil notations and document from manuscript dealer; 1905 document signed by Alfonso XIII, mourning announcement of the death of Infanta Amalia in Munich, addressed to the President of Bolivia, 1908 document signed by Alfonso XIII, also addressed to the President of Bolivia, announcing the birth of his 2nd child Jaime; both Alfonso docs w/ Mueller Certs; F-VF (Image)

Est. US$200-300 LE

Douglas MacArthur on 3¢ Iwo Jima FDC (Brookman $530), Kittinger (aviation) & few others on covers or Ceremony Programs, gen F-VF (Image)

Cat. US$530 LE