Fine Selection of Autographs and Manuscripts

Auction Details

We are pleased to announce our latest auction catalog featuring fine autographs and manuscripts in all fields of collecting. The auction will be in two parts and will include a live auction to take place at the Shelburne Murray Hill Hotel, 303 Lexington Ave. (@37th. St.) New York, NY on March 2, 2002 with an absentee auction closing March 6, 2002 at 10:00pm Eastern Time.

Dozens of lots shall include prominent figures and events of the Civil War and the American Revolution, including a proposal in the hand of Signer Arthur Middleton calling for the death penalty for people caught trading with the British; fine Civil War correspondences and images; a letter from James Madison to Thomas Jefferson detailing the faculty recruitment efforts for the University of Virginia. Of particular interest are documents from the estate of Judge Irving Kaufman who tried and sentenced Ethel and Julius Rosenberg to death for espionage in 1951 including his appointment as District Judge for the Southern District of New York signed by Harry Truman as well as his appointment to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals signed by John and Robert Kennedy. We are also pleased to offer a fine selection of material concerning the assassination of John F. Kennedy including candid snapshots taken on November 22, 1963, suits worn by Jack Ruby, as well as fine content documents and letters of Kennedy, Oswald and Ruby. As usual we will also offer lots sold on an absentee basis, closing Wednesday, March 6, 2002 at 10:00 P.M. Eastern Time.

We will hold a public viewing for lots offered in the live auction on Friday, March 1, 2002 at the Shelburne Hotel from 11 A.M. to 5 P.M. and Saturday, March 2, 2002 from 9 A.M. to 11:30 A.M. Viewings at our offices may be arranged by appointment.
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(S.S. ST. LOUIS INCIDENT)1229 - (S.S. ST. LOUIS INCIDENT)
Alexander Autographs
"An unusual relic, being a menu from the Jewish refugee ship the S.S. St. Louis, printed in both German and English, dated July of 1938. On M...
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Estimate : 100.00 - 150.00
 
 
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(BUCHENWALD AND NAZI WAR CRIMINALS)1230 - (BUCHENWALD AND NAZI WAR CRIMINALS)
Alexander Autographs
"A most important collection of over 200 signatures of Buchenwald administrators, staff members, generals and top army officers captured by uni...
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,500.00
 
 
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(DACHAU CONCENTRATION CAMP LETTERS)1231 - (DACHAU CONCENTRATION CAMP LETTERS)
Alexander Autographs
"An interesting group of three letters, each over 3pp. 8vo., on official Dachau Concentration Camp stationery, written by Aubau Natenek, prison...
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Estimate : 200.00 - 300.00
 
 
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(LITTMANNSTATT CAMP MONEY)1232 - (LITTMANNSTATT CAMP MONEY)
Alexander Autographs
"An uncommon group of three pieces of currency issued in the Jewish ghetto of Littmannstatt, all bearing the Star of David and Menorah, issued ...
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Estimate : 150.00 - 200.00
 
 
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(NAZI SLAVE LABOR IDENTITY CARD)1233 - (NAZI SLAVE LABOR IDENTITY CARD)
Alexander Autographs
A Nazi-issued work permit given to an ""ostarbeiterin"", or a slave worker imported from the east, 4pp. 12mo., [n.p.], May 11, 1...
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Estimate : 60.00 - 80.00
 
 
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(HENRY FORD ANTISEMITIC PUBLICATION)1234 - (HENRY FORD ANTISEMITIC PUBLICATION)
Alexander Autographs
"Henry Ford's anti-Semitic book The International Jew: The World's Foremost Problem (Dearborn, Michigan, Dearborn Publishing Nov. 1920)...
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Estimate : 200.00 - 300.00
 
 
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(ETERNAL JEW COMMEMORATIVE POSTCARD)1235 - (ETERNAL JEW COMMEMORATIVE POSTCARD)
Alexander Autographs
"A color postcard advertising the showing of the anti-Semitic exhibit ""The Eternal Jew"" and bearing the infamous caricatu...
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Estimate : 150.00 - 200.00
 
 
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(HENRY FORD`S THE INTERNATIONAL JEW)1236 - (HENRY FORD`S THE INTERNATIONAL JEW)
Alexander Autographs
Rare printing, a 16pp. 12mo. outline of Ford's anti-Semitic tract The International Jew, reissued later by the Christian Nationalist Crusade in ...
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Estimate : 50.00 - 75.00
 
 
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(BROOKLYN, N.Y. HITLER YOUTH ANTISEMITIC PAMPHLET)1237 - (BROOKLYN, N.Y. HITLER YOUTH ANTISEMITIC PAMPHLET)
Alexander Autographs
"A most unusual anti-Semitic book ""Der Madelshaft"", 32pp. 8vo., Berlin, 1937, in German, printed for the benefit of the ...
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Estimate : 200.00 - 300.00
 
 
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(RENOWNED AVIATORS)1238 - (RENOWNED AVIATORS)
Alexander Autographs
An excellent pair of signed posters, each 26"" x 7 1/2"", bearing the color portraits, names, specific aircraft and pencil signa...
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Estimate : 200.00 - 300.00
 
 
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