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Auction Name
Fine Autographs and Artifacts Featuring John F. Kennedy
Auction Date
05/14/2025 - 05/14/2025
Sale Number
#717
Total Lots
795
Sold Lots
603
Lots Sold
75.85%
Unsold Lots
192
Total Sales (USD)
756,898.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
435,000.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
686,200.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (USD)
810,200.00
High Estimate of All Lots (USD)
1,241,000.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.
60.99%

Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
692 Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroe Signed Photograph (Ca. 1949)

Ca. 1949 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 46,279.00
542 Charles Bukowski

Charles Bukowski Archive of (60+) Autographs, with Letters, Manuscripts, Signed Books, and Rare Ephemera

USD 10,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 17,438.00
1 George Washington

George Washington Document Signed as Commander in Chief of the Continental Army, Three Months After the American Revolutionary War (December 1783)

USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 16,805.00
37 John F. Kennedy

John F. Kennedy Signature

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 15,344.00
694 Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroe Signed Photograph as "Norma Jeane" (Ca. 1946)

Ca. 1946 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 15,313.00
543 Giacomo Casanova

Giacomo Casanova Autograph Letter Signed, Expressing Contempt for Mirabeau: "I had the hope of meeting him somewhere, kill him and watch him die"

USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 15,129.00
567 Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde Autograph Letter Signed on 'Vera; or, The Nihilists': "The tragedy, the essence of the play, is human"

USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 14,093.00
25 President John F. Kennedy

President John F. Kennedy (2) Typed Letters Signed on an Historic Fundraising Campaign for the United Negro College Fund

USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 13,589.00
234 Edward Jenner

Edward Jenner Autograph Letter Signed on Fossil Hunting: "I hope Miss Knapp has found the old Rock as rich as I describ'd it. She is scientific in mineralogy; my knowledge may be improved"

USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 11,526.00
230 Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein Autograph Letter Signed to His Cousin, Recalling His Youth with Nostalgia

USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 11,344.00
8 Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln Document Signed as President, Congratulating Christian IX on His Ascension to the Danish Throne

USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 11,229.00
515 Mary Blair

Mary Blair concept painting for the South Pacific exhibit from the It's a Small World ride

USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 10,001.00
516 Mary Blair

Mary Blair concept painting of the North Pole exhibit from It's a Small World ride

USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 10,000.00
218 Brigham Young:

Brigham Young: Original Land Deed for Pioneer Square, Where Mormons First Settled in Salt Lake City

USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 9,989.00
559 Ayn Rand

Ayn Rand Hand-Annotated Pages (3) from Her Screenplay for 'The Fountainhead'

USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 9,363.00
250 Jack Ruby:

Jack Ruby: Bullet Fired From the Gun that Shot Oswald

USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 9,203.00
249 Lee Harvey

Lee Harvey Oswald Hand-Addressed and Signed Envelope from Marine Corps Air Station, Santa Ana (1958)

1958 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 8,813.00
9 Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln Signature as President

USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 8,435.00
866 Babe Ruth

Babe Ruth Signed 1930 MLB Game Program - NY Yankees vs. Detroit Tigers

1930 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 8,335.00
206 Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill Signed Photograph by Walter Stoneman

USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 8,110.00

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