Collectibles and Original Historical Documents

Nazi Trio. 1) Bond, Nov. 1941, for 4% mortgage, 1000 Reichmarks. Berlin, 8 x 12, blue paper with farm motif on border. Very fine. 2) Catalog of Rolf...

Nazi Cartoons. Group of five anti-Hitler cartoons, 73/4 x 101/2, 1933-34, all satirizing Nazis. Each matted, four under glass. Fine.

War of Independence. "Haganah" or Jewish self-defense organization circular letter #9, May 11, 1948, just three days prior to Ben-Gurion&#...

Eliahu Dobkin. Signer of Israel's Declaration of Independence. T.L.S. on letterhead of Jewish Agency, Jerusalem, 1967, to Minister of Police, re...

Dr. Abraham Katznelson. Signer of Israel's Declaration of Independence. Later Ambassador and delegate to U.N., as well as numerous high posts. E...

Daniel Auster. Signer of Israel's Declaration of Independence. Acting Mayor of Jerusalem 1936-38 and appointed Mayor April 1948 while Jerusalem ...

Eliahu Berligne. Signer of Israel's Declaration of Independence. T.L.S., 1928, Tel-Aviv, on letterhead of Palestine Irrigation Co. (in English a...

Bekhor Shitreet. Signer of Israel's Declaration of Independence. Minister of Police and Minorities. T.L.S., on Hebrew/English letterhead of Isra...

Two Signers of Israel's Declaration of Independence. Moshe Kol (Kolodny) and Dr. Fritz (Peretz) Bernstein have both signed T.L.S., 1951, on Worl...

Rabbi Yitzchak Meier Levine. Signer of Israel's Declaration of Independence. Holocaust-related T.L.S., Jerusalem, 1946, in Hebrew, 1 p., to Gran...

David Remez. Signer of Israel's Declaration of Independence. A.N.S. twice, Aug. 1917, to a foreman about allocation of special flour discount vo...

Early State of Israel. Bond issued by Municipality of Ramat Gan, 1952. 10 (year), 4%. Printed entirely in Hebrew. 63/4 x 93/4, plus thirteen coupons r

Hero of the Holocaust: Jacob Edelstein. Czech Zionist Jewish leader, who chose to remain behind to negotiate with the Nazis on behalf of his group. By

Deportation of 2,000 Refugees. Holocaust related broadside of Nov. 8, 1940, issued in order to stop British authorities from deporting "2,000 t...

Menachem Begin. Signature on imprinted card, 4 x 5 1/2, as Prime Minister of Israel. Also awarded Nobel Peace Prize. Embossed Israeli crest at top.

Chaim Herzog. Sixth Pres. of Israel. Unusual T.L.S. as Brig. Gen., signed in red ink, as "Commander, 16th District Brigade," 1955. Address...

Hero of the Holocaust: Rudolf Schwarz. Austrian-Jewish pianist and conductor of Berlin Jewish Orchestra and musical director of Jewish Culture, Societ

Jewish Brigade. Broadside, Dec. 1943, part of their struggle for identity during World War II. As part of the British Army, they had been issued &qu...

Anti-Partition Map of Palestine. Actually taken off a street wall. Dated Dec. 1947, issued by the anti-British "Stern Gang," underground f...

Enlist! Official manifesto, Nov. 29, 1944, urging support for British in World War II. "...Increase our volunteering...War continues. Crisis is...

Right to Purchase Land in Palestine. Broadside, 1940, printed one side by Committee of Hebrew Community in Haifa, as a protest against the land ordina

Moshe Katzav. President of Israel. T.L.S., 1990 when Minister of Transportation, on official letterhead, Jerusalem. Describing a new procedure for veh

Shimon Peres. Prime Minister of Israel and an international statesman. T.L.S., 1976, on letterhead of Minister of Defense, marked "Personal.&qu...

...In Danger of Destruction. Small broadside, 1943, issued by Betar, Nationalist Youth Movement formed by Jabotinsky. Inviting youth to attend a debat

Rescue the Survivors. Broadside, 4 1/2x 6 1/2, in Hebrew, June 1945, requesting donation. "No exceptions - per capita...intended for rescue of ...

From Refugees. 1946, group of seven covers from displaced persons in American Zone of Germany, Poland, and members of U.N.R.R.A. Team. Four with censo

Postcards from Refugees. Group of three, 1944-48, each in a different language: 1) From Jewish Committee, U.S. Zone, Germany, to Camp Binderwichl (Mat

French Anti-Semitism. Gabrielle de Mirabeau, Countess de Martel, bestselling French novelist in early 1900s under pen name of "Gyp." Notor...

Border State Slave Bill of Sale. Jan. 24, 1860, Rodney's Landing, Missouri, affirming "...I have bargained, sold and delivered...unto J.P. ...

Missouri Slave Bill of Sale. March 14, 1860, Bird's Point, Missouri, signed by J.B.Y. Haynes, with manuscript seal, affirming sale of "a bl...

New York City Slave Document. 1755, signed by William Kempe, Attorney General for the Crown in New York State. Jenny, a slave owned by Judith Van Horn

Slave prices in Memphis are high.... Letter, 1855, from Thomas Homer to brother in Little Reed, S.C., 2 pp., with envelope. Writes of yellow fever in

For a Negro Boy about five years old. Named Warrick. Slave bill of sale, 1829. John Terry paid $150 to Andrew Berry for "said Negro to be sound...

Hanging of a Negro Woman. Letter, Richmond, Va., 1852, 2 pp., from one cousin to another. "There is to be a Negro woman hung in this city on th...

Kentucky Bill of Sale. For a five-year-old boy named Charles, "slave for life," 1832, for $135, paid by George Steele of Davidson County. ...

Blanche K. Bruce. First slave to become a member of U.S. Senate, serving from 1875 to 1881, from Mississippi. Appointed Register of the Treasury by Pr

Ishmael Keith. African-American, connected with Wilberforce College (now University) in Ohio. A.L.S., Cin(cinnati), Dec. 12, 1846, 11/2 pp., to Willia

Unusual Bill of Sale. For "a certain mulatto boy, Thomas...19 years," for $800, 1842, "a slave for life...healthy in body and mind......

Thurgood Marshall. Appointed by Pres. Johnson to Supreme Court 1967, after a distinguished career with the NAACP and court system. Signature on First

Sale of a Slave. During period of Sherman's March to the Sea. Bill of sale dated Apr. 7, 1864, for $300, "in full payment for a Negro Girl ...

School Integration during Reconstruction. Letter from L.L. Cross, New Orleans, Sept. 29, 1877, 1 p., to his sister, regarding Louisiana Agricultural a

Harper's Weekly. Group of ten prints, 1870s-1880s, all full page, 12 x 16, showing: Working with tobacco; "Grand Walking Match"; carni...

1843, from Burnsville, Ala. Letter from Cloe McCalley to cousin Martha Lanford in Huntsville, Ala., 11/2 pp., with news from home. "...We have ...

Bankruptcy and Slaves. Letter from Brandon, Miss., Apr. 20, 1843, 31/2 pp., integral address-leaf with circular Brandon postmark, manuscript "1...

Runaway Slave Document. To C. Hubberts, Jailer, to office of Miner's Recorder, May 12, 1837, $7.25 for fourteen insertions of "Reeves, a ru...

Please to pay to Negro Boy Granderson.... "The amount due for hauling...." Written and signed by Francis S. Manning, Mar. 8, 1839, Love Sp...

Black Slaves in South America, 1805-1812. Group of seven documents (six partly printed, one manuscript) in Spanish, detailing sale in the seaport city

Barbra Streisand. Singer, actress, director, and one of the top entertainers of the twentieth century. A rare in-person signature with inscription, ...

Songs my Mother Never Taught Me. Book of about fifty songs by John Jacob Niles, American folk singer, and Douglas Moore, composer (opera "Devil...

Dracula's Author. As Manager for actor Sir Henry Irving: Interesting pair of A.Ls.S., 1890s, from newspaperman W.E. Bruant to a theatregoer. On ...