Auction Reports
Lion Heart Autographs
Auction Info
- Auction Name
- A Landmark Offering of Rare & Important Autograph Letters & Manuscripts—Fresh to the Market and Unseen for Decades
- Auction Date
- 05/20/2026 - 05/20/2026
- Sale Number
- #52026
- Total Lots
- 284
- Sold Lots
- 195.0
- Lots Sold
- 68.66%
- Unsold Lots
- 89
- Total Sales (USD)
- 378,627.00
- Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
- 256,875.00
- High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
- 297,650.00
- Low Estimate of All Lots (USD)
- 350,725.00
- High Estimate of All Lots (USD)
- 406,800.00
- Total Sales as a % of High Est.
- 93.07%
Top twenty five by sale price
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 188 | Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) | Verzweiflung |
ND | USD 42,000.00 - 45,000.00 | USD 82,350.00 |
| 171 | George Washington (1732-1799) | DS safe passage order |
1775 | USD 15,000.00 - 18,000.00 | USD 18,910.00 |
| 66 | Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) | Manuscript DS |
1787 | USD 14,000.00 - 16,000.00 | USD 15,860.00 |
| 41 | Alfred Dreyfus (1859-1935) | Cinq Annees de ma Vie |
1901 | USD 12,000.00 - 15,000.00 | USD 14,640.00 |
| 2 | John Adams | DS granting land to John Wilkins Jr. |
1798 | USD 3,500.00 - 4,000.00 | USD 14,030.00 |
| 102 | Marie Antoinette (1755-1793) | DS to Marc Antoine Francois Marie Radon de la Tour |
1787 | USD 10,000.00 - 12,000.00 | USD 14,030.00 |
| 91 | Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968) | TLS to Samuel Brent Oliver III |
1962 | USD 12,000.00 - 14,000.00 | USD 10,065.00 |
| 57 | Albert Einstein (1879-1955) | TLS to Lawrence Udell |
1955 | USD 3,250.00 - 3,500.00 | USD 7,625.00 |
| 113 | Horatio Nelson (1758-1805) | ALS to Alleyne Fitzherbert, Baron St. Helens |
1801 | USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | USD 6,405.00 |
| 6 | John Jacob Astor | DS discharging a mortgage debt |
1828 | USD 1,500.00 - 1,600.00 | USD 5,246.00 |
| 85 | Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826); James Madison (1751-1836) | Partially printed vellum DS |
1802 | USD 4,500.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 5,124.00 |
| 222 | Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (1809-1847) | Letter to Karl Klingemann |
1844 | USD 2,600.00 - 2,800.00 | USD 4,880.00 |
| 35 | Charles Darwin (1809-1882) | LS to Dear Sir |
1876 | USD 3,000.00 - 3,500.00 | USD 4,758.00 |
| 266 | Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) | Autograph Musical Quotation Signed from Les vepres siciliennes |
1857 | USD 5,500.00 - 6,000.00 | USD 4,758.00 |
| 210 | Harold “Hal” Flartey | Jazz Archive |
1949-1959 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 4,392.00 |
| 92 | Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968) | Signed program of the Eighth Annual Address of the National Baptist Laymen's Convention |
1960 | USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | USD 4,148.00 |
| 219 | Jules Massenet (1842-1912) | Concours de 1861 manuscript |
1861 | USD 500.00 - 600.00 | USD 4,148.00 |
| 247 | Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921) | Manuscript of The Wagnerian Illusion |
1899 | USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | USD 4,148.00 |
| 86 | Carl Jung (1875-1961) | ALS |
1951 | USD 2,400.00 - 2,600.00 | USD 4,148.00 |
| 44 | Georges Clemenceau (1841-1929) | AMs article on the amnesty bill |
1900 | USD 3,500.00 - 4,000.00 | USD 3,904.00 |
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