Collectibles and Original Historical Documents

Red Ball Express. Wool khaki Eisenhower-style jacket owned by a black soldier in the 466th Quartermaster Truck Corps, Motor Transportation Service a b

Killed in Action. Dramatic collection of thirteen items relating to Sgt. Richard E. Shumard of U.S. Army Air Force, killed in action. Including two sn

Lili Marleen. A song that has been called the unofficial anthem of all soldiers in World War I. Three bars of music with lyrics, "Wie einst, Li...

Buffalo Division." The noted all-black Army division. Original wool khaki dress tunic, or long-style jacket, with provenance. Belonged to artil...

World War II Heroes. 1) Maj. Gen. John F. O'Ryan, with A.E.F. in World War I, holder of numerous foreign decorations including Croix de Guerre; ...

Uncle Sam. Poster by James Montgomery Flagg, one of the most famous war posters made. "I am telling you...I expect you to enlist in the army of...

Lincoln War Bond Poster. "Buy Liberty Bonds," showing Lincoln in profile, 20 x 30. With motto on poster, "That government of the peop...

The American Riddle. Anti-F.D.R., anti-American, anti-black, anti-Semitic booklet, 64 pp., by Seibert, published 1941 by NSDAP, Berlin. Paper wrappers

German Naval War. Oversize German poster, 24 x 34, in greentone rotogravure, featuring eleven photos and four maps showing naval war activity. Issued

World War I Poster. Soldier with gun, titled "And They Thought We Couldn't Fight." In color, 32 1/2x 40 1/2. Imprinted at lower portio...

Joan of Arc War Poster. Dressed in armor, 20 x 281/2, color. Imprinted below, "Save Your Country - Buy War Savings Stamps." Drymounted, sh...

Remember Belgium. World War I poster, with strong anti-war image of German soldier taking hostage in silhouette. "Buy Bonds - Fourth Liberty Lo...

We Must Feed Them. Poster by Townsend, with scene of starving people in a village. "War Rages in France - We Must Feed Them." Issued as pa...

Mother and Child. Poster by Clinker and Dwyer, showing a suffering mother holding her child by her side. "Don't waste food while others sta...

League of Nations Badge. Delegate's badge for League of Nations Peace Conference, 11/2 x 4. For an American delegate, 1919. Very scarce.

World War I. Group of ten sepia postcards of Kaiser and Generals festooned with medals. All different. Two mailed, balance unused and mint. 1916. With

Stars and Stripes. Soldiers newspaper, World War I. A complete file of The Stars and Stripes, printed in France from Feb. 8, 1918 to June 13, 1919. Il

The United Allies - Souvenir of the European War, 1914. Scarf, 171/2 x 171/2, fine hemstitched border, ivory pongee cloth, five monarchs pictured in c

Our Front. Color map, 18 x 231/2, of Germany's Eastern and Western fronts, with fourteen small portraits of their generals. On verso, seven smal...

German/Austrian Sea and Air. Group of 11 items: 1) Otto Hersig, U-boat commander. Photo in uniform wearing Blue Max medal, signed on verso. 2) Gen. Al

End of the War to end all Wars. Newspapers of Nov. 12, 13, and 14, 1918: three issues of Portland Evening Express, Maine, 10 to 16 pp. each, headlinin

World War I. Decorative certificate of enlistment in the Army, color lithograph, 12 x 16, 1918. Printed by Arthur Edward Luzzi. Embellished with patri

September 4, 1939. Two newspapers from beginnings of the war: "British Blockade Germany" in Washington Post, 8 pp. Many photos. Fold wear....

Berlin - and now London. Terrifying illustration, red and black on front of World War II propaganda for buzz bombs, 5 1/2x 8, dropped by air by German

In Their Country's Service. Women-Soldiers of the 2nd Polish Corps, 1946. Many photos, about 65 pp. Binding shaken, else about fine. Rare.

World War II Air Propaganda. Two leaflets dropped by air: 1) Shell-fired by Nazis, margin scorched, picturing "happy" Russian prisoners-of...

World War II Propaganda. Dropped from the air by Germans (2), Allies (3), Americans (2), and R.A.F. (1), in various languages: English, German, and Fr

Maps of World War II. Collection of three issues: 1) "First Six Months of War," maps and pictures in Special Gravure Section of Sunday Sta...

Battle for Caucasian Oil. Group of 6 military maps: five German (1940-42) and one Russian (1936-38). Color, assorted sizes 15 x 16 to 19 x 25, some wi

Aid for Refugees. Group of 18 covers, following end of World War II, to various agencies and persons assisting in relocation and rehabilitation of dis

Red Cross Relief. Collection of 20 covers, c. 1945, sent to Red Cross in Geneva, Switzerland from various French localities, both persons and organiza

The War is Over. Issue of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C., Aug. 14, 1945, 12 pp. "White House Announced the War is Over." Light edge we...

Germany Surrenders. Newspaper headline in Times Herald, Washington, D.C., Apr. 28, 1945, 4 pp. Photos of Nazis. With, "Patton Cuts Off Bavaria ...

Rare Anti-Communist Poster. 1933, issued by Dr. Alfred Hugenberg, head of the "Green Shirts." He was President of Krupp, member of Reichst...

Early Nazi Cartoon. Small broadside, 6 x 81/4, Dec. 1924, a year after Hitler's Beer Hall Putsch. The 1924 German elections weakened the moderat...

Anti-Nazi Broadside. "Fort Mit Schlag," brightly colored, printed one side, 1933, 121/2 x 171/2, showing twelve cartoon scenes, each with ...

Election Ballot. Entitled "Reichstag fur Freiheit und Frieden," showing "Adolf Hitler" as main candidate of NSDAP Party. Names o...

Anti-Nazi Broadside. Issued Nov. 1932 by Social Democratic Party, 81/2 x 111/2, to oust Hitler from the scene. Headline at top, "Hitler Can Go,...

Hlinka and Nazi Sympathizers. Group of eight pieces: 1) Andrej Hlinka, virulent pro-Nazi cleric, head of Slovak People's Party, known as Hlinka ...

Sachsenhausen (Oranienburg). Letter, Dec. 20, 1942, written on lettersheet of this concentration camp, from inmate to his wife in Poland. A paragraph

Warsaw Ghetto Set. Complete set of six notes, made by the Jewish postal government in Warsaw during World War II. Probably the only currency produced

Buchenwald Concentration Camp. Pair of notes, consecutive numbers, 50 RM each, 3 x 4, green and black, printed on tan paper. Choice condition. Many no

Ravensbruck. Note for 1 RM, 2 x 3, from the infamous women's concentration camp. Black printing on tan paper, triangle stamped in blue in center...

Westerbork Concentration Camp. Where Anne Frank was sent before being shipped to Auschwitz. Complete "AA" denomination set, four pieces: 1...

Letters from Auschwitz Concentration Camp. Group of three, written in late 1943, from a Mr. Markowics, to his wife in Cracau, in pencil, on the typica

Camp Binderwichl (formerly Mathausen). Cover from inmate, name and block number on return address, censor sent by air to Jewish Labor Committee, N.Y.C

Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp. Group of three covers from displaced refugees at the camp, addressed to Jewish Labor Committee, N.Y.C. Each with han

Ernst Roehm. Founder of "Brown Shirts," Chief of S.A., powerful in eliminating opposition to the Nazis. Brochure released in 1934 by NSDAP...

Konversions Kasse. Certificate of conversion for emigrés leaving Germany, June 1937, for $1,000, presented as being convertible into funds of t...

Count Ernst Reventlow. German Nazi officer, member of Nazi Party since 1924, member of Reichstag, chief editor of Nazi Reichswort newspaper. Advocate

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 ...