RR Auction: Fine Autographs and Artifacts, 713, Amherst

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
March 12, 2025 - March 12, 2025
Page Size: 628 items in 26 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
26 Millard Fillmore

Millard Fillmore Autograph Letter Signed on Franklin Pierce's Government and an Audience with Pope Pius IX

USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,880.00
27 Franklin Pierce

Franklin Pierce Autograph Letter Signed on the Eve of War - "Even if there be no purpose to bring on civil war, will not halting, blundering, arrogant imbecility stumble on it?"

USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 Not Sold
28 Franklin Pierce

Franklin Pierce Autograph Letter Signed to His Former White House Secretary, Referring to Nathaniel Hawthorne and Jefferson Davis

USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 3,126.00
29 Franklin Pierce

Franklin Pierce Autograph Letter Signed, Alluding to the Lincoln-Douglas Debates: "If Douglas is defeated and the party overthrown in Illinois I do not see how we are to retain a northwestern state"

USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 3,265.00
30 Franklin Pierce

Franklin Pierce Document Signed as President for a Treaty with Russia, Related to US Neutrality in the Crimean War

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,251.00
31 Franklin Pierce

Franklin Pierce Naval Document Signed as President

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,034.00
32 James Buchanan

James Buchanan Autograph Letter Signed on Franklin Pierce: "I recollect him as a radical & inflexible Democrat in all his votes"

USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 Not Sold
33 James Buchanan

James Buchanan (2) Documents Signed for the Treaty of Tientsin, Negotiated with China

USD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 USD 17,858.00
34 Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln Document Signed as President - Ten Days After the Battle of Fort Sumter

USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 11,229.00
35 Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln Document Signed as President, Appointing Eli Whitney III as American Commissioner to the 1862 London Exhibition of Industry

USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 13,589.00
36 Abraham Lincoln:

Abraham Lincoln: The Civil War Scrapbook of Abraham Jonas, State Legislator, Valued Friend of Lincoln, Father of Union and Confederate Soldiers - Containing (120+) Pages of Period Clippings and Publications (Both Sides of the Conflict)

USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 4,109.00
37 Andrew Johnson

Andrew Johnson Autograph Letter Signed on His Campaign for Congress and a Potential Vice Presidency: "I am a democrat in the enlarged and proper sense of the term"

USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 Not Sold
38 Andrew Johnson

Andrew Johnson Document Signed as President - Sending a Letter to the King of Greece, George I

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,034.00
39 U. S. Grant

U. S. Grant Civil War-Dated Handwritten Statement Directed to Henry Halleck for a Potential North Carolina Campaign

USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
40 U. S. Grant

U. S. Grant Autograph Letter Signed as President, Honoring the Union's War Dead While Declining to Attend an Army of the Cumberland Reunion

USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,756.00
41 U. S. Grant

U. S. Grant Signed Check as President to "Mrs. U. S. Grant," Endorsed by First Lady Julia Dent Grant

USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 3,670.00
42 U. S. Grant

U. S. Grant Letter Signed as President to the Newly Elected President of Peru

USD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,290.00
43 Benjamin Harrison

Benjamin Harrison Letter Signed as President on Immigration: aEUoeWe do not treat any other people as we do the ChineseaEU

USD 2,500.00 - 3,000.00 USD 17,379.00
44 Benjamin Harrison

Benjamin Harrison Document Signed as President for Johnstown Flood Relief

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
45 Benjamin Harrison

Benjamin Harrison Typed Letter Signed: "The Benjamin Harrison to whom you refer was the nephew of my grandfather, President William Henry Harrison"

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
46 Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt Document Signed as President, Sending a "letter of felicitations to His Majesty Edward VII"

USD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 USD 2,189.00
47 Woodrow Wilson

Woodrow Wilson Typed Letter Signed on the United States' "fatuous refusal to enter the League of Nations"

USD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
48 Dwight D. Eisenhower

Dwight D. Eisenhower War-Dated Autograph Letter Signed to Mamie

USD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 Not Sold
49 President Dwight D. Eisenhower

President Dwight D. Eisenhower Appoints Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. as the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations

USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,970.00
50 John F. Kennedy

John F. Kennedy Original Sketches as a Massachusetts Senator

USD 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 9,151.00