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Swann Galleries: Important Signed Photographs from a California Family Collection
Auction Reports
| Auction Name | Important Signed Photographs from a California Family Collection | Total Sales (USD) | 857,309.00 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Auction Date | May 07, 2026 - May 07, 2026 | Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) | 606,600.00 |
| Sale Number | #2739 | High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) | 908,300.00 |
| Total Lots | 126 | ||
| Sold Lots | 111.0 | Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) | 667,800.00 |
| % of Lots Sold | 88.10% | High Estimate of All Lots (USD) | 1,002,300.00 |
| Unsold Lots | 15 | Total Sales as a % of High Est. | 85.53% |
Top twenty-five by sale price
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 85 | Abraham Lincoln | Photograph Signed |
ND | USD 100,000.00 - 150,000.00 | USD 139,200.00 |
| 86 | John Wilkes Booth | Photograph Signed and Inscribed |
1862-1865 | USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 | USD 107,950.00 |
| 12 | Abraham Lincoln; Roderick M. Cole? | Photograph Signed and Inscribed |
1861; 1862; 1891; 1893; 1983; 2020 | USD 80,000.00 - 120,000.00 | USD 101,600.00 |
| 3 | Christopher ("Kit") Carson; Hoeloke & Benecke; George H. Carson; De Witt C. Peters | Photograph Signed |
1861-68; 1864; 1859; 1979 | USD 35,000.00 - 50,000.00 | USD 35,560.00 |
| 83 | John F. Kennedy; Dwight D. Eisenhower | Photograph Signed |
c. 1960 | USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 | USD 20,320.00 |
| 23 | Albert Einstein; Elsa Einstein | Two Photographs Signed |
1933 | USD 10,000.00 - 20,000.00 | USD 18,280.00 |
| 22 | Thomas A. Edison | Photograph Signed and Inscribed |
1904 | USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 | USD 15,240.00 |
| 109 | Woodrow Wilson; Vittorio Orlando; David Lloyd George; Georges Clemenceau; Raymond Poincare; Robert Cecil; Jan Smuts; Makino Nobuaki; K.V. Willington Koo; Edward M. House; Roman Dmowski | Group of 4 Photographs Signed |
1919 | USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 | USD 15,240.00 |
| 16 | William Tecumseh Sherman; Brady | Photograph Signed |
1869-91 | USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 | USD 11,430.00 |
| 41 | Babe Ruth | Photograph Signed |
ND | USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | USD 11,430.00 |
| 123 | Mark Twain | Large Photograph Signed and Inscribed |
1905 | USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 | USD 11,430.00 |
| 30 | Martin Luther King, Jr. | Photograph Signed and Inscribed |
c. 1960 | USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 | USD 10,795.00 |
| 100 | Theodore Roosevelt | Photograph Signed |
ND | USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | USD 10,795.00 |
| 26 | Mohandas K. Gandhi | Photograph Signed and Inscribed |
c. 1931 | USD 10,000.00 - 20,000.00 | USD 10,160.00 |
| 59 | Wilbur Wright | Photograph Signed and Inscribed |
ND | USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | USD 9,525.00 |
| 97 | Theodore Roosevelt; William McKinley | Large Photograph Signed |
c. 1900 | USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | USD 9,525.00 |
| 7 | James A. Garfield | Photograph Signed |
1863; 1881 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 8,890.00 |
| 115 | Charles Dickens | Photograph dated and Signed |
1868 | USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 | USD 8,890.00 |
| 46 | Edward Terry Sanford; George Sutherland; Pierce Butler; Harlan Fiske Stone; James Clark McReynolds; Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.; William H. Taft; Willis Van Devanter; Louis Brandeis | Large Photograph Signed |
c. 1925 | USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | USD 7,620.00 |
| 117 | Nathaniel Hawthorne | Photograph Signed |
ND | USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 | USD 7,620.00 |
| 15 | John Singleton Mosby; Isaiah W. Taber | Photograph Signed and Inscribed |
ND | USD 3,500.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 7,366.00 |
| 21 | Winston S. Churchill | Photograph Signed |
1952 | USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 | USD 7,112.00 |
| 5 | George Armstrong Custer; Brady | Photograph Signed |
1863-65; 1863; 1865 | USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | USD 6,858.00 |
| 77 | Rutherford B. Hayes | Photograph Signed |
1864-1865 | USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | USD 6,604.00 |
| 4 | Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain; Pierce | Photograph Signed |
ND | USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | USD 6,350.00 |
