Auction Date:2013 Nov 13 @ 18:00 (UTC-05:00 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
Handwritten notations on the first page of a two-page letter to Chamberlain from Nabisco, Inc, February 10, 1992, addressing Chamberlain’s attorney and terminating his contract to promote Oreos based on the release of his autobiography. Letter reads, in part: “The statements in your letter indicate that you are not aware of several critical facts related to this matter. Let me begin with Nabisco’s contract with Mr. Chamberlain dated July 15, 1991. Specifically, Paragraph 16 of the contract clearly states that if Mr. Chamberlain commits any act ‘which reflects unfavorably’ upon his reputation, then Nabisco may immediately terminate the agreement and Nabisco shall have no further obligation to Mr. Chamberlain. The 20,000 sexual encounters of Mr. Chamberlain, and his subsequent exploitation of the encounters in the media, are acts which reflect unfavorably on his reputation and Nabisco was, therefore, within its rights to terminate the agreement and make no payments to Mr. Chamberlain.” Along the top Chamberlain writes, “I told them about the book they knew nothing about the book, Gave them permission to read the manuscript.” At the bottom he writes, “Because of the Magic Situation = Heat came my way Because of a figure of speech—20,000.” Accompanied by a 1964 Philadelphia 76ers vs San Francisco Warriors program scorecard, 8 x 10.5, January 17, 1964, Convention Hall, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Signed on the back cover by Chamberlain, Nate Thurmond, Al Attles, Jerry Greenspan, Hubie White, Ken Sears, Guy Rodgers, Dolph Schayes, Alex Hannum and two others. In very good condition, with central horizontal and vertical folds, staple hole to top left, and scattered staining to both pages of letter. Chamberlain arrived at the 20,000 number after a ten-day ‘experiment’ in Honolulu gave him a baseline to arrive at the impressive total. Unfortunately, his dalliances also cost him additional income as evidenced by the above letter.
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