Vol.3,Iss.4:New Acquisitions and Interesting Finds

Name	Thomas Jefferson	ID#	55011
Headline	A compassionate Jefferson sends $400 for the wives of Italian sculptors Michele and Giacomo Raggi to join their husbands in America as the brothers had requested, as they carved the Ionic and Corinthian capitals on the columns of the Rotunda of the University of Virginia
Date	February 15, 1820	Price
Place	Monticello, Virginia	$16,000.00

Name	Robert E. Lee	ID#	54498
Headline	Beautiful signed CDV of Robert E. Lee.
Date	1864	Price
Place	n.p.	$7,500.00

Name	Thomas J. 'Stonewall' Jackson	ID#	54235
Headline	Stonewall Jackson introduces Lt. James Boswell for a reconnaissance of Harpers Ferry.
Date	February 25, 1862	Price
Place	Winchester, VA	$25,000.00

Name	Babe Ruth	ID#	54952
Headline	Strong Pre-Certified pencil signature of the Sultan of Swat.
Date	c. 1940s	Price
Place	n.p.	$2,900.00

Name	Fidel Castro	ID#	54961
Headline	One of the most important documents extant in the history of the world! In the second half of the 20th century,Castro sends his first and most important communique to Nikita Khrushchev, an impassioned thanks for the support of the Revolution and a plea for arms. These 225+ words written entirely by Castro would bring us within a hair of World War III.
Date	May 27, 1960	Price
Place	Havana, Cuba	$65,000.00

Name	Wilt Chamberlain	ID#	54976
Headline	“Because of the Magic Situation = Heat came my way because of a figure of Speech – 20,000,” writes Wilt Chamberlain upon being notified that his contract to promote Oreo cookies has been terminated because he is no longer “an appropriate spokesperson” after writing about his “20,000 sexual encounters” in his new autobiography – Magic Johnson lost endorsements after he announced he had the HIV virus three months earlier.
Date	February 1992	Price
Place	n.p.	$3,500.00

Name	The Three Stooges Moe Howard	ID#	54990
Headline	“Must have been a very lovely crew that bought the Rink. You should have thrown a bomb into the place. Oh I’ve had dealings with Killers like you mention before but I always had them straightened out and they never forgot it.
Date	n.d.	Price
Place	Los Angeles, California	$550.00

Name	Paleontology/Anthropology Dinosaurs	ID#	54997
Headline	Hadrosaur fossilized dinosaur egg.
Date	c. 71-84 million B.C.	Price
Place	n.p.	$2,500.00

Name	Charles Mingus Florence Cadrez	ID#	55012
Headline	Legendary jazz bassist Charles Mingus, then 19 years old, writes to the Board of Directors of his union.
Date	May 5, 1941	Price
Place	[Los Angeles, California]	$1,000.00

Name	John Adams Benjamin Stoddert	ID#	55007
Headline	Appointment of Peter Clopper to be “a Sailmaker in the Navy of the United States” with his orders to prepare sails for the new USS Baltimore which sailed with the USS Constitution and later carried the ratified peace treaty to France ending the Quasi-War – Included is a related archive that has rare printed forms.
Date	January 16, 1799	Price
Place	Philadelphia, PA	$8,000.00

Name	Football	ID#	54999
Headline	Huge Signed Pro Football Card Collection spanning four decades – over 750 in all!
Date	1968-1990s	Price
Place	Various	$4,000.00

Name	John Tyler (President)	ID#	55000
Headline	One day after Fort Sumter and the beginning of the Civil War, in the midst of serving as a delegate to the Virginia Secession Convention, ex-U.S. Pres. John Tyler writes Confederate Pres. Jefferson Davis, Wishing your republic a happy issue out of all its difficulties…”
Date	April 13, 1861	Price
Place	Richmond, Virginia	$22,000.00

Name	Militaria	ID#	54995
Headline	Collection of eight British military medals awarded to soldiers who fought in the Boer War, World War I, and World War II
Date	1895-1945	Price
Place	Various	$2,000.00

Name	Olympics Black Americana	ID#	54985
Headline	Signed iconic photograph of the Black Power salute at the 1968 Summer Olympics.
Date	2011	Price
Place	n.p.	$950.00

Name	Ansel Adams	ID#	54994
Headline	Signed Special Edition of “Yosemite and the Range of Light.”
Date	1980	Price
Place	Carmel, California	$500.00

Name	[Joe DiMaggio]	ID#	55009
Headline	Cashmere sweater from the Joe DiMaggio estate sale.
Date	n.d.	Price
Place	n.p.	$500.00