Collectibles and Original Historical Documents

Mother Teresa. Small sheet bearing prayers on front and back with a photo of Mother Teresa holding a child. Her signature in blue ink. 3 x 6. A moving

Evangeline Booth. Commander of Salvation Army in London, Canada, and U.S.; orator, poet, musician, and author; seventh child of William Booth, founder

Duke and Duchess of Windsor. Photo of the former King Edward VIII with the former Wallis Simpson. Vintage photo by Vachon, 7 x 91/2. Both have signed

Hendrik van Loon. Journalist, author, illustrator, whose books reached their apex of popularity in the 1920s and '30s. His writings include The ...

Felix Frankfurter. F.D.R.'s appointee to Supreme Court, serving from 1939 to 1962. Cofounded ACLU. T.L.S., 1940, on his Supreme Court letterhead...

Lawyers. Two brief A.Ls.S.: 1) David Dudley Field, council to Jay Gould and James Fisk. Work on law codifications. 1866. 2) G.S. Hillard, Boston, 1872

Baseball, Music, Cartoons, Literature, and More. Group of nine items: 1) Baseball's Ralph Kiner, Sibby Sisti, and Sid Gordon, each signing in in...

Discoverer of Ninevah. Sir Austen Layard, archæologist whose exploration of Assyrian ruins in 1845 in Nimrod made him world famous. Later "...

Sir John Lubbock. Also known as Baron Avebury. English naturalist, banker, member of Parliament, author on books on animals, flowers, Switzerland, coi

Lewis Evans. British mathematician, Master at Royal Military Academy. D.S., 1813, 1 p., in which Evans swears he has conformed to an order of the Acad

Gen. and Mrs. Tom Thumb. Stars of P.T. Barnum's "Museum of Curios." Carte by Brady of Mr. and Mrs. Stratton, titled "The Family W...

Sabin, DeBakey, and Goldwater. Pair of First Day Covers: 1) Signatures of heart surgeon Michael DeBakey and inventor of oral polio vaccine Albert Sabi

Signatures. Group of nine: 1) Department store tycoon John Wanamaker. 2) Artists Howard Chandler Christy and J.C. Platt. 3) Yachting Capt. Charles Bar

William Smith. D.S. as Governor of Virginia, 1848 (his first term as Gov.), awarding 80 acres of land in Wayne County to Daniel Welcher. 11 x 14, orig

Canada. (Sir) Wilfred Laurier, signature with conclusion of letter, 11/2 x 43/4. Prime Minister 1896-1911, who made tariff arrangements with U.S., sup

Winston Churchill. Signature of the British statesman and leader in World War II, with letter from secretary. Also with brief A.L.S. of Clementine (Mr

Albert Einstein. L.S., Mar. 9, 1933, 1 p. Uncommon usage, on letterhead of California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, where he was a professor, new

The U.N. Farce. Lengthy T.L.S. of Madame Chiang Kai-shek, Taiwan, July 1, 1975, 1 full p., with salutation and close also in her hand. Acknowledging s

Sick of Whaling.... Letter, Fairhaven, July 23, 1838, 2 pp., integral address-leaf with circular stamped postmark. From father to son in New York, con

A Sealing Voyage.... Letter, Boston, Aug. 7, 1800, 3 pp., from John Cort, with integral address-leaf, to Capt. Daniel Pryor, N.H. The ink "10&q...