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| Date | September 9, 2026 at 10:00 AM EDT |
| Type | Online only |
| Auction house | University Archives |
| Location | Wilton, Connecticut, 06897 · more auctions in Wilton |
| Lots | 409 |
| Estimates | $100 – $40,000 |
What's in this auction
409 lots, mostly memorabilia & autographs (21), firearms & militaria (20), fine art & prints (12), antiques & furniture (7). 409 lots have photos and 409 have full descriptions. Pre-sale estimates $100–$40,000 across 409 priced lots. Bidding is online through the auction house's catalog.
Highest-estimated lots
- Einstein "God Letter" on the Role of Science in Revealing "God's Secrets" — est. $30,000–$40,000
- G. Washington on the Eve of Sullivan Expedition Evoking Gen. Knox, Schuyler, Prisoners and — est. $22,500–$35,000
- Martin L. King, Jr. Boldly Signed Ebenezer Baptist Church Program Just 10 Days Before His — est. $20,000–$30,000
- “Chinese Gordon” & “Hero of Khartoum” Charles George Gordon, Fantastic — est. $20,000–$30,000
- Marilyn Monroe Early Model Release as "Norma Jeane Dougherty", PSA NM-MT 8 Slabbed w/ LOA — est. $17,000–$22,000
From the auction house
Rare Autographs, Manuscripts, Books & Photographs Full catalog and bidding: view on liveauctioneers .
In this auction (409 lots)
Categories: Memorabilia & Autographs (21) · Firearms & Militaria (20) · Fine Art & Prints (12) · Antiques & Furniture (7) · Pottery, China & Glass (3) · Stamps & Philately (3)
- Lot 0001 — JQ Adams Gives His Nephew Investing Advice: "invest the sum of money... in some public or private
- Lot 0002 — JQ Adams Signature - Exceptionally Bold!
- Lot 0003 — John Adams ALS: "Too many of our Clergy are going the Way of the Magi..." & That He Was Slandered in
- Lot 0004 — Louisa Adams ALS Five Months After Her Husband's Death
- Lot 0005 — After Garfield Assassination and Just in Office, President Arthur Convenes the Senate to Address a
- Lot 0006 — Chester Arthur Civil War Date ALS From Quartermaster's Dept. Providing Info On Union Army Caps,
- Lot 0007 — Chester Arthur Signed Clip as President, 1881
- Lot 0008 — J. Buchanan ALS to Staunch Secessionist Wm. Harris Re: Appointing a Judge in New Mexico
- Lot 0009 — J. Buchanan Offers Legal Advice Weeks Before Lee's Surrender
- Lot 0010 — George H.W. Bush & Cabinet Signed Program Framed with Pen Used to Sign
- Lot 0011 — Andrew Card Signed Photo: "America is under attack!", JSA COA
- Lot 0012 — Jimmy Carter Owned James Monroe Presidential China Set
- Lot 0013 — Joe Biden & Jimmy Carter Rarely Seen Signature Combo on One Photo, Beckett LOA
- Lot 0014 — Jimmy Carter's Personally Owned Georgia Beer Stein - Carter's Brother Started Billy Beer!
- Lot 0015 — Jimmy Carter "victory would not have been possible without... people like you" & Signed W.H.
- Lot 0016 — Post-Presidential Candid Photo, Signed and Inscribed by Jimmy Carter
- Lot 0017 — President Cleveland ALS Thanking Blanche Roosevelt Macchetta for a Copy of Her Book on Doré
- Lot 0018 — Grover Cleveland ALS & Executive Mansion Card, Attractively Presented
- Lot 0019 — Grover Cleveland ALS Re: Irish-Born Civil War Veteran & M.O.H. Recipient John M. Tobin
- Lot 0020 — Grover Cleveland Signed Executive Mansion Card & Albumen Photographic Portrait
- Lot 0021 — Grover Cleveland Bold Signature on a Card
- Lot 0022 — Bill Clinton & Netanyahu PSA GEM MT 10 Signed As Pres. Official WH Photo: "To the people of Israel -
- Lot 0023 — Bill Clinton TLS to Little Rock Supporter Re: Successful 1978 Gubernatorial Campaign
- Lot 0024 — Bill Clinton "Young Guns" Signed Newsweek Magazine
- Lot 0025 — Bill Clinton Signed Program & 1997 Inauguration Archive, 10 pcs.
- Lot 0026 — Calvin Coolidge TLS Accepting Boy Scout Presidency After Harding's Death
- Lot 0027 — Calvin Coolidge Declines Invite to Martha's Vineyard
- Lot 0028 — Calvin Coolidge Early Signed Check as Lawyer
- Lot 0029 — Calvin Coolidge Signed WH Card & Inaugural Invitation Display
- Lot 0030 — Dwight Eisenhower Signed Photograph From Signal Corps Office at Pentagon!
- Lot 0031 — D. Eisenhower on "the mandate of our countrymen" as President-Elect
- Lot 0032 — Dwight Eisenhower SP Presented to First Hawaiian Senators After Statehood
- Lot 0033 — Dwight Eisenhower Signed Lithograph w/ Corresponding Letters From Personal Assistant
- Lot 0034 — Dwight D. Eisenhower Cut Signature, PSA Slabbed
- Lot 0035 — M. Fillmore Denies Rumors About Removing Charles Hudson “on account of his abolitionism"
- Lot 0036 — Millard Fillmore War-Dated Card Signed One Year Before Lincoln's Assassination
- Lot 0037 — Gerald Ford's Decorative Chinese Porcelain Plate, Ex. Ford Estate
- Lot 0038 — G. Ford & McDonald Sign Lee Harvey Oswald Fingerprint Card!
- Lot 0039 — J. Garfield 1880 Presidential Campaign Letter Signed
- Lot 0040 — U.S. Grant ALS In MT Territory For Golden Spike RR Ceremony! "the resources of the country along
- Lot 0041 — President Grant ALS Receiving the Japanese Delegation
- Lot 0042 — U.S. Grant 3rd Person ALS Re: Declining Meeting Mexican Official During Mexico Free Trade Scandal
- Lot 0044 — 1st Ed. Two Volume Set of the "Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant"
- Lot 0045 — Ulysses S. Grant Signature Cut, PSA Slabbed
- Lot 0046 — Pair of CDVs of Ulysses S. Grant - Handsome Images on Untrimmed Mounts
- Lot 0047 — W. Harding TLS to RNC Vice Chair Harriet Taylor Upton Requesting a Meeting: "I do not care to
- Lot 0048 — Warren Harding TLS as Pres. Elect: "we can be very certain of the stability… of our country"
- Lot 0049 — Warren Harding & Sen. James Warren Signed Photo, ca. 1922
- Lot 0050 — Benjamin Harrison Gives His Position on Suffrage: "I am not yet persuaded that it would make the
- Lot 0051 — Benjamin Harrison LS: "I would be glad… to do anything that is just and right for any officer
- Lot 0052 — Benjamin Harrison Etching & Signed White House Engraving
- Lot 0053 — Benjamin Harrison Boldly Signed Clip
- Lot 0054 — Benjamin Harrison Matted Signature with Pach Bros. Portrait
- Lot 0055 — WH Harrison Rations Flour, Beef, & Whiskey to the Indians While Negotiating the Treaty of
- Lot 0056 — Rutherford B. Hayes "Affix the Seal" Doc Re: Franco-American Claims Convention Settling Civil War
- Lot 0057 — Rutherford Hayes Pardons a Bootlegger
- Lot 0058 — R. B. Hayes Appoints First Lieutenant of 11th Infantry Regiment
- Lot 0059 — Herbert Hoover ALS Days After Being Named Chief Bread-giver by Dakelh Tribe, Recounts "I have caught
- Lot 0060 — H. Hoover During WWII "avoid another debacle like Versailles" to Make "Lasting Peace"
- Lot 0061 — H. Hoover Eulogizes Samuel Gompers in Hopes of Gaining Labor Support for His Flailing Campaign
- Lot 0062 — Herbert Hoover DS Granting Travel For USFA Food Relief
- Lot 0063 — Herbert Hoover Signed Photo ca. 1914, JSA LOA
- Lot 0064 — Herbert Hoover Signed Portrait Engraving
- Lot 0065 — Andrew Jackson Electoral College Payment For Election vs. Clay!
- Lot 0066 — Andrew Jackson Bold Free Franked Signature
- Lot 0067 — T. Jefferson on John Adams: "I never offer prayers to heaven… without including [him]"; Marie
- Lot 0068 — A. Johnson "Affix the Seal" Signed for an Unconditional Pardon
- Lot 0069 — Lyndon Johnson Signed and Inscribed Photograph
- Lot 0070 — Jackie Kennedy ALS To Robert McNamara Re: "final pledge" Funding JFK Presidential Library! Ex-Robert
- Lot 0071 — JFK & RFK Signed Photos & 14K Gold Medal to 1st Young American Female Recipient! PSA Authenticated
- Lot 0072 — John F. Kennedy Archive, Ca. 1948-1995, 200+ Pcs Incl. 1952 JFK TLS! Items Signed by Joseph Sr.,
- Lot 0073 — JFK Blood Stained Leather Housed in Blessed Crucifix
- Lot 0074 — John F. Kennedy Boldly Signed U.S. Senate Memorandum, 2 Weeks Before "Profiles In Courage" Was
- Lot 0075 — Capt. Katsumori Yamashiro, Commander Who Collided with JFK's PT-109, SP & Manuscript
- Lot 0076 — Blaze Starr on Supposed Liaison With JFK
- Lot 0077 — John F. Kennedy Campaign Speech Broadside, One Week Before Election!
- Lot 0078 — John F. Kennedy "A New Leader For the 60s" Presidential Campaign Brochure
- Lot 0079 — Kennedy & Kennedy-Era Oversized Photos, 4 Pcs, Incl. Cecil Stoughton
- Lot 0080 — (20) First Ladies: Dealer's Lot, From Garfield to L. Bush! (30) Pcs Total Incl. (5) "White House"
- Lot 0081 — Gorgeous Lincoln Signature & Bold Seward Signature, PSA Slabbed
- Lot 0082 — A. Lincoln Appoints Captain of Revenue Service, Precursor to U.S. Coast Guard
- Lot 0083 — A. Lincoln Military Appointment for an Officer in the 5th Regiment of Artillery - Newly Created to
- Lot 0084 — E. Stanton's Telegram Announcing Lincoln's Death
- Lot 0085 — George Meade's Announcement to the Army: President Lincoln's "death by assassination"
- Lot 0086 — [Lincoln Assassination] Lot of 13 Newspapers Discussing Booth & Conspirators, 1865-1867
- Lot 0087 — Abraham Lincoln for President in 1864! A Soldier's Used Mail-In Ballot from Ohio
- Lot 0088 — MA Photographer's Diaries Recording the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
- Lot 0089 — Two Abraham Lincoln Woodcuts and Trumbull's "Declaration of Independence" Lithograph
- Lot 0090 — Abraham Lincoln, Gardner's First Sitter! Meserve Printed & Collected
- Lot 0091 — Beardless Abraham Lincoln Photo, Meserve Printed & Collected
- Lot 0092 — Abraham Lincoln Photo, Meserve Printed & Collected
- Lot 0093 — Prayer Book Presented to Boston Corbett, "Lincoln's Avenger"
- Lot 0094 — J.W. Booth's Father on Concern for his Children, Signed 4x! Very Rare ALS!
- Lot 0095 — Highly Unusual Content ALS to Pres. James Madison Re: Partnering on a Secret Gold Mine
- Lot 0096 — James Madison Full Signature and Sentiment
- Lot 0097 — William McKinley Boldly Signed Check as President
- Lot 0098 — Wm McKinley LS Together w/ Scarce Bereavement Acknowledgment Card Sent to a CSA Veteran
- Lot 0099 — James Monroe ALS on Appointment of John Lawrence to the Swedish Delegation During the War of 1812
- Lot 0100 — In Financial Straits, James Monroe Sells Land in Albemarle - ALS as President
- Lot 0101 — James Monroe as Pres. Signed U.S. Land Grant, 1821
- Lot 0102 — James Monroe DS For Land in Ohio
- Lot 0103 — Richard Nixon Signed Moon Landing Plaque with Apollo Lunar Module Kapton Foil, PSA Mint 9
- Lot 0104 — Richard Nixon (2) Signed Books, "Six Crises" & "Memoirs"
- Lot 0105 — Barack Obama Signed True 1st Ed. "Dreams From My Father" (1995), With JSA LOA & Orig. Times Books
- Lot 0106 — Franklin Pierce ALS Regarding Property War Claims in "Mexico and stolen or destroyed by the enemy"
- Lot 0107 — Franklin Pierce Handwritten Manuscript, "upon the Dred Scott decision," 4 Pages!
- Lot 0108 — Franklin Pierce Hand Colored Lithograph by Kellogg
- Lot 0109 — J. Polk ALS as President Calling for a Cabinet Meeting
- Lot 0110 — James K. Polk & George Dallas Colored Lithographs by Currier
- Lot 0111 — 30+ Item Archive: Numerous Presidents Incl. G. Ford on the "many mistakes in Vietnam," Plus
- Lot 0112 — Presidents of the United States (1844) Hand Colored Lithograph by Currier & Ives
- Lot 0113 — (20+) Vice Presidents! Dealer's Lot Incl. Barkley, Calhoun, Cheney, Hamlin, Humphrey, Mondale,
- Lot 0114 — Ronald Reagan ALS: "Hollywood anti-communist fight", Great Content, Hoover Too! JSA LOA
- Lot 0115 — Reagan on 'Political fun & Games & no rest" amid California Budget Crisis & Tax Bill. A Unique ALS!
- Lot 0116 — Ronald & Nancy Reagan Signed Photo
- Lot 0117 — Warren Burger's Personally Owned Reagan Seal of Pres. Tie Clip
- Lot 0118 — Franklin & Eleanor Roosevelt SP Presented to Missy LeHand, His Purported Mistress!
- Lot 0119 — Franklin D. Roosevelt Signed Harris & Ewing Photo
- Lot 0120 — Franklin D. Roosevelt Color Collotype Portrait After Shoumatoff, Signed On His Penultimate Birthday!
- Lot 0121 — FDR Touts the Value of Small Businesses: "their solution have always seemed to me of the utmost
- Lot 0122 — FDR "Patriotic Response...until victory is won" Boldly Signed "Eyes for the Navy" Letter
- Lot 0123 — Franklin Roosevelt, Pres. Candidate, Fights Back Against Walter Lippmann, Who Is "actually making
- Lot 0124 — FDR On Football! "Wasn't that Yale game grand!" ANS
- Lot 0125 — Teddy Roosevelt ALS Consoling Harvard Chum's Widow: "I know how very hard it is for you to be left -
- Lot 0126 — T. Roosevelt TLS as President from Sagamore Hill
- Lot 0127 — William Taft As Pres. Personally Worn Derby Hat, Acquired By Collector At Taft's Historic 1909
- Lot 0128 — William H. Taft's Real Thoughts About League of Nations Leaked To Press In July 1919
- Lot 0129 — Wm. H. Taft TLS Re: Federal Judicial Appointment in Chicago
- Lot 0130 — Z. Taylor Twice Signed Letter as President in Support of American Innovation
- Lot 0131 — Harry Truman & 11 Others Sign 1948 Cabinet Photo - Incl. Marshall & Clark - During "Do Nothing
- Lot 0132 — Harry Truman Signed Photograph, Huge! More Than 20" High
- Lot 0133 — Harry Truman Early ALS Discussing His Library, Four Years Before Its Dedication
- Lot 0134 — Harry Truman As VP Rare TLS With Holographic Postscript Re: "Smithsonian appointment"
- Lot 0135 — Harry Truman Early TLS to Future Treasury Secretary
- Lot 0136 — H. Truman on Recovering from Surgery: "it takes more time when you are seventy-eight and not
- Lot 0137 — Harry Truman Signed White House Engraving
- Lot 0138 — Harry Truman TLS to Budget Director re: "testimony before… Committees of Congress", With 3pp
- Lot 0139 — Harry Truman Signed Portrait
- Lot 0140 — J. Tyler Cautions that Britain "countenances a movement for the abolition of slavery" in Texas
- Lot 0141 — Van Buren ALS: An Invitation to Dinner "the day after [his] 70th Birthday!!!!"
- Lot 0142 — G. Washington on the Eve of Sullivan Expedition Evoking Gen. Knox, Schuyler, Prisoners and
- Lot 0143 — George Washington "Eagle with Star" 1789 Inaugural Button
- Lot 0144 — Woodrow Wilson TLS to Former Prime Minister Asquith Re: League of Nations
- Lot 0145 — Woodrow Wilson TLS To Senator 2 Days Before Special National Thanksgiving Day For Recent Armistice,
- Lot 0146 — Ansel Adams TLS in Card Featuring Important Image of Yosemite Dogwood Blossoms, Re: 1979 Book
- Lot 0147 — Chester Gould Signed "Dick Tracy" Sketch
- Lot 0148 — Walter Gropius Signed Invitation to Preview New University of Baghdad Project
- Lot 0149 — Yousuf Karsh Signed & Inscribed Self Portrait
- Lot 0150 — Pablo Picasso PSA GEM MT 10 Rare ALS Dated Just Before "War & Peace" at Vallauris Chapel Was
- Lot 0151 — NY Art Dealer's Collection of 80+ Lithographs After Picasso, Dali, Miro, Chagall, Calder, Braque &
- … and 259 more lots
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