Historic and Military Autographs, & Militaria

A charming 4" x 6" sepia portrait of a youthful jockey ca. early 1900s, posed with whip in hand. In very good condition in original cardbo...

(1916 - 1997) American jockey who won more American classic races than any other jockey in history and is the only rider to have won the U.S. Triple C

A pair of vintage signatures by champion billiards players, each penned on a small sheet. Includes JUSTUS FERDINAND POGGENBURG II and MAURICE DALY. Da

(1913 - 1991) American billiards champion and trick-shot specialist, considered one of the greatest pool players. A neat Mosconi item, an official siz

(1913 - 1991) American billiards champion and trick-shot specialist, considered one of the greatest pool players. A great Mosconi item, a regulation #

(1913 - 1991) American billiards champion and trick-shot specialist, considered one of the greatest pool players.A neat Mosconi item, an official size

Terrific very early bowling letterhead, 1p. 8vo., New York, Aug. 6, 1909 in which bowling alley builder Justus Bruns arranges a meeting with one Carl

A group of seven items by sports stars, all S.P.s 8" x 10" format with one exception, includes: O.J. SIMPSON, PELE, JONATHAN HAYES (signat...

A collection of six vintage pins: a blue and white striped "Yale" pinback; two Army and Navy pins with 3-D ram and donkey figures; a pinba...

"Booth said to me: 'The Lord will take care of us...it is Hell's half acre'...We met with a rough welcome…" JOHN THRESHER (b....

Rare imprint, The Humble Petition of the Lords and Commons to the King, for Leave to Remove the Magazine at Hull to the Tower of London: And Also to T

PIUS VI(1717 - 1799) Pope from 1775 to 1799, captured by Napoleon's forces and died in captivity. His tragic pontificate was the longest of the ...

AMBROGIO DAMIANI ACHILLE RATI (1857 - 1939), Pope (1922-1939), signed the Laternan Treaty with Mussolini in 1929 establishing Vatican City, later deno

First class relic of St. Francis of Assissi (1182-1226), the founder of the Franciscan Order and one of the most venerated religious figures in histor

DWIGHT L. MOODY (1837-1899) American evangelist, made two tours with Ira D. Sankey and was widely popular. His signature, along with IRA SANKEY, execu

(1820 - 1910) English nurse and hospital reformer, she headed a team of nurses in the Crimean War, and later founded the first institution for the tra

(1821 - 1912) American nurse who tended the wounded in the Civil War and later founded the American Red Cross.A great signed item, Barton's Repo...

(1820 - 1906) American reformer active in suffrage, temperance and abolitionist movements instrumental in obtaining women the right to vote. Signature

(1913 - 2005) American civil rights leader whose refusal to move to the back of a bus sparked a boycott and led to a concerted civil rights movement.

(1787-1863) English rhetorician, logician, economist, and theologian who also served as the Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin. A.Ms. (unsigned) 1

(1926 - 1989) Controversial recipient of the first sex-change operation, from man to woman. Her volume Christine Jorgensen: A Personal Autobiography (

A group of 5 A.Ls.S., differing sizes and dates, social content and mounted to period album sheets. Along with signatures of family members: THOMAS H.

A group of three reformers, includes: ELIHU BURRITT (signature on a small sheet with quote in Latin); GEORGE THOMPSON (two signatures adding address);

(1778 - 1862) American radical Presbyterian clergyman who became pastor of the Rutgers Street Church, New York City, in 1822. A leader in the general

(1842 - 1919) American philanthropist, feminist and suffragist, the mother of William Randolph Hearst. She was a major benefactor of the University of

(1865-1923) German religious leader and neo-pagan, a Gnostic and mystic considered a visionary. A most curious and beautiful A.L.S. 1p. 4to., Munich,

(1774-1857) Scottish minister and scientist known for his works on astronomy. A.Ms. (unsigned), 2pp. 8vo., [n.p., n.d.], a tract, possibly from a serm

(1805-1866) Scottish Hebrew scholar and theologian. Fine religious content A.Ms.S. 2pp. 8vo., Bristol, April 18, 1862, in small part: "...And P...

A group of more than 25 signatures of clergymen from the nineteenth to early twentieth-centuries, most on small cards mounted, includes: J. CARDINAL G

A group of nine signatures on small sheets, mounted. Includes: ELBERT HUBBARD, ALMON GUNNISON, FANNY CROSBY, EDWARD HOWARD GRIGGS, BERTHA C. HUBBARD,

(1857 - 1941) English soldier and the savior of Mafeking who later founded the Boy Scouts. Fine bold signature on a small card. Mounting traces to ver

(1918 - 1940) The tallest person in medical history, the "Alton Giant" stood 8 feet 11.1 inches tall with hands 12 3/4" long. Signed ...

Two fine small Torah pointers. The first, 7 1/2" long, bears a lion rampant at the top with a blue stone cabochon within a Star of David below,...

A fine Torah pointed measuring over 11" long, topped with a crown and filigree motif, a small turquoise cabochon below and scrolled rope decora...

A fine Torah pointer from the late nineteenth-century Torah pointer, measuring 10 1/2" long, bears a lion at top beneath which are filigree dec...

In the early nineteenth century, much of the news of England's murders and executions was brought to the masses through penny and half-penny bro...

A brilliant land scam that took in hundreds of dupes… Certificate evidencing one of the greatest scams of all time, an engraved land grant of 400 acr

(1849 - 1927) Born "Joe Horner", Canton was a frontier bank robber-turned-lawman and the top enforcer of the Wyoming Stock Grower's As...

Interesting manuscript D.S. 1p. legal folio, Lincoln County, N.M., July 10, 1878 a bond for the O. Roberts estate, in part: "...Know all men......

JESSE JAMES, JR. (1875-1951) "Tim", the only son of noted outlaw Jesse James born in Nashville during the height of his father's care...

Early printed "Wanted" broadside measuring 6" x 9", issued on May 1, 1886 by the Eureka Detective Agency of Charleston, West Vir...

(b. 1944) Jordanian citizen who was convicted for the assassination of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy. Prisononer's complaint made against Sirhan, 1p. l...

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Excellent group of 43 original wire photographs of criminals, Mafiosi, crime scenes and mayhem spanning the years from the Twenties to the Sixties, sh

BONNIE PARKER AND CLYDE BARROW (d. 1934) American outlaw lovers, robbers and murderers who terrorized the Southwest for two years before meeting their

(1903-1934) American bank robber and murderer, in 1933 and 1934, he and his gangs undertook a string of bank robberies in the Midwest, with narrow esc

(1907 - 1979) American bank robber and kidnapper captured by J. Edgar Hoover in 1936. His bail was the highest ever at the time, and he escaped the el

(1907 - 1979) American bank robber and kidnapper captured by J. Edgar Hoover in 1936. His bail was the highest ever at the time, and he escaped the el

(1901 - 1980) "Willie the Actor", American bank robber of dozens of banks. When asked why he robbed banks, he replied: "Because that&...

SINA GALLO Widow of "Crazy" Joe Gallo, the infamous organized crime figure whose assassination she witnessed in 1972. Uncirculated, never ...