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Auction Name
Decoding History: Kryptos, Enigma, and the Rosetta Stone
Auction Date
11/20/2025 - 11/20/2025
Sale Number
#730
Total Lots
14
Sold Lots
9.0
Lots Sold
64.29%
Unsold Lots
5
Total Sales (USD)
1,120,040.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
531,000.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
840,800.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (USD)
638,000.00
High Estimate of All Lots (USD)
990,800.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.
113.04%

Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
2001 Jim Sanborn

The Complete Secrets of Kryptos: Jim Sanborn's Private Archive

 USD 300,000.00 - 500,000.00 USD 962,500.00
2002

Rosetta Stone: Archive of 19th-Century British Working Papers, Decoding the Lost Language of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphics

 19th-Century USD 200,000.00 - 300,000.00 USD 113,799.00
2014 Alan Turing

Alan Turing Signed Book - The Distribution of Prime Numbers (Turing's Own Copy)

 1932 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 18,750.00
2011 Moe Berg

Moe Berg Hand-Notated Spy Manuscript on Atomic Chain Reactions (1944) - Penned by a Physicist Who Shared Intelligence on Nazi Germany's Nuclear Weapons Program

 1944 USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 13,309.00
2008 Mata Hari

Mata Hari World War I-Dated Autograph Letter Signed on Her Wartime Efforts: "I know that during long nights I am in their mind, as they are in mine"

 1916 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 9,384.00
2012 William Friedman

William Friedman Typed Letter Signed

 1949 USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 USD 1,283.00
2010 Herbert Yardley

Herbert Yardley Signed Return Receipt

 1943 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 491.00
2009 Thomas H. Dyer

Thomas H. Dyer Signature

 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 275.00
2013 David Balme

David Balme Signed Photograph

 1941 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 250.00
2003 Jean-Francois Champollion

Jean-Francois Champollion Amazing Autograph Letter Signed with Hieroglyphic Illustrations:

 1826 USD 50,000.00 - 70,000.00 Not Sold
2004 Jean-Francois Champollion

Jean-Francois Champollion Handwritten Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Manuscript, Explaining the Figurative, Symbolic, and Phonetic Nature of the Symbols

 no date but circa 1828-1830 USD 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 Not Sold
2005 Howard Carter

Howard Carter Signed Book Set - The Tomb of Tutankhamen

 1923-1933 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 Not Sold
2006 Claude Philibert Dabry de Thiersant

Claude Philibert Dabry de Thiersant: Military Phrasebook in Chinese, French, and English (1859)

 1859 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 Not Sold
2007

China: Secret British Military Reconaissance Reports on Kwangtung and Fukien Provinces

 1926-1928 USD 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 Not Sold
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