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Public Auction #417

Click here for pre-auction bidding, ended August 23, 2013 at 7:00pm (New York time)
Bids updated August 23, 2013 at 6:10pm (New York time)

MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIBLES — Autographs
LotConditionDescriptionValue/Bidding
686*Group of autographs, Irish political tracts, international lottery tickets, etc. Includes a Patricia Hearst signed letter, photo, and book, Candy Barr and Blaze Starr signed letter/picture, Richard J. Daley signatures, and signatures of the three remaining Civil War veterans. Other unusual printed things may also pique your interest so take a look.Cat. Value: S.B. 500.00
Price Realized: $450.00
687*Autographed photograph of Amelia Earhart. Found among the notices in a beat up remaindered scrapbook kept by the famous clairvoyant Mrs. Clara Jepson of Vermont who had the reputation of being able to locate the missing from the handling of items touched by the missing person. In July of 1937 she wrote to George Palmer Putnam (Amelia’s handler, agent, and husband) asking for things she had handled. Includes his signed reply dated July 31, 1937 where he describes the items including “a photograph she inscribed” along with newspaper account of her successful “finds”. Eerie and wonderful provenance.Cat. Value: S.B. 400.00
Price Realized: $550.00