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Auction Name: Fine Autographs and Artifacts
Auction Date: 03/18/2026 - 03/18/2026
Sale Number: #737
Total Lots: 614
Sold Lots: 481.0
Lots Sold: 78.34%
Unsold Lots: 133

Total Sales (USD): 1,324,520.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD): 790,100.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD): 1,115,700.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (USD): 1,201,800.00
High Estimate of All Lots (USD): 1,688,700.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.: 78.43%

Top twenty five by sale price

Top twenty five lots by sale price
Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
114	King James VI	King James VI Document Signed, Discharging Walter Raleigh from the Tower of London	N/A	USD 60,000.00 - 80,000.00	USD 81,251.00
9	Abraham Lincoln	Abraham Lincoln Civil War-Dated Autograph Letter Signed as President to Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton, Interceding for a "devoted Union man"	N/A	USD 25,000.00 - 30,000.00	USD 42,071.00
606	Johann Strauss II	Johann Strauss II Handwritten Musical Manuscript from 'Prinz Methusalem'	N/A	USD 30,000.00 - 40,000.00	USD 37,500.00
1	George Washington	George Washington Signed 1768 Mountain Road Lottery Ticket	N/A	USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00	USD 35,314.00
628	Elvis Presley	Elvis Presley Collection of (5) Signed Photographs and (20) Candid Photographs - Dated to the King's 'Louisiana Hayride' Days	N/A	USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00	USD 32,830.00
101	Oliver Cromwell	Oliver Cromwell Letter Signed as Lord Protector, Readying Troops for the Defense of England	N/A	USD 25,000.00 - 30,000.00	USD 31,263.00
608	Richard Wagner	Richard Wagner Autograph Manuscript Signed, Announcing the Premiere of 'Der Ring des Nibelungen'	N/A	USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00	USD 27,500.00
2	Thomas Jefferson	Thomas Jefferson Letter Signed as Secretary of State, Forwarding Thomas Mifflin Legislation Allowing Slavery in Tennessee Territory	N/A	USD 20,000.00 - 25,000.00	USD 25,005.00
601	Jacques Offenbach	Jacques Offenbach Archive of Autograph Musical Sketches from 'La Vie parisienne,' 'OrphA(c)e aux enfers,' and 'Les contes d'Hoffmann'	N/A	USD 20,000.00 - 25,000.00	USD 25,005.00
759	Marilyn Monroe	Marilyn Monroe Signed Photograph - "Jack, It's a pleasure to know you"	N/A	USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00	USD 19,899.00
159	Thomas Edison	Thomas Edison Archive of (25) Documents Signed - Meeting Minutes of Edison's Phonograph Company	N/A	USD 12,000.00 - 15,000.00	USD 18,913.00
14	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Franklin D. Roosevelt World War II-Dated Typed Letter Signed to Lord Beaverbrook, Committing to Opening a Second Front Against Nazi Germany	N/A	USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00	USD 18,744.00
213	Howard Carter	Howard Carter Autograph Letter Signed on "The 'Tutankhamun Curse'"	N/A	USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00	USD 16,643.00
165	Albert Einstein	Albert Einstein Signed Photograph (1933) - Pictured During His First Visit to the California Institute of Technology	N/A	USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00	USD 15,503.00
193	Nikola Tesla	Nikola Tesla Autograph Letter Signed	N/A	USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00	USD 13,900.00
120	Queen Victoria	Queen Victoria Document Signed with Instructions to James Douglas, Governor of Vancouver Island and the 'Father of British Columbia'	N/A	USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	USD 12,986.00
614	Beatles: John Lennon and Paul McCartney	Beatles: John Lennon and Paul McCartney Rare Dual-Signed Photograph	N/A	USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00	USD 12,974.00
498	Mary Blair	Mary Blair oversized concept painting of a hot air balloon for the It's a Small World ride	N/A	USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00	USD 12,508.00
181	James Clerk Maxwell	James Clerk Maxwell Autograph Letter Signed, Requesting a Copy of George Eliot's Middlemarch on His Return to Cambridge	N/A	USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00	USD 12,505.00
155	Charles Darwin	Charles Darwin Signed Check to His Son and Fellow Scientist, George H. Darwin	N/A	USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00	USD 12,501.00

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