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Richard Petty's signature, in black felt tip pen on glossy photo (approx 35.5x28cm) of his number 43 car engulfed in flames. Very fine.
Estimate $80
SOLD $90
Pink signature, in black felt tip pen on glossy photo (approx 20x25cm) in stage performance costume, signed 'To George, Pink'. Fine.
Estimate $100
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Pierre S. du Pont signature, in ink as President of The Johnson Company and countersigned by the Treasurer, W A Donaldson, on cheque number 300, for South Lorain Savings Co, Lorain, Ohio, dated Feby 28, 1900 for $2,883.20 payable to South Lorain Savings Co, all details written in another hand. Two vertical folds, scattered toning and soiling, numbers on back as well as soiling, a few small edge tears, otherwise fine.
Estimate $180
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Lynyrd Skynyrd - Artimus Pyle signature, on blue felt tip pen on colour glossy photo (12.5x17.5cm) of Lynyrd Skynyrd "Street Survivors" featuring all seven band members. Very fine.
Estimate $60
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Samuel Remington signature, in ink on a cheque filled out in another hand and drawn on The Ilion Bank, February 14, 1854, payable to Cancelled Note for 360 dollars 37 and signed, 'S. Remington'. Cancellation cut to centre and some light toning, otherwise fine and an excellent example for its age.
Estimate $100
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Rodgers and Hammerstein signatures, the first on an undated copy of a letter to Mr. Richard O. York of Roy Productions, Inc. regarding the payment of one percent of the gross weekly proceeds from the production of the play, The Boys from Syracuse, written by Rodgers and Hammerstein, signed in ink by Richard Rogers, and also agreed to with signature of Richard O York, the second is the signature of Oscar Hammerstein on an off-white card (approx 12.5x7.5cm) and with his printed name and address in New York affixed to the bottom right corner of the card. A few creases and folds, otherwise fine.
Estimate $100
SOLD $140
Lionel Rose, framed signed photo. Issued by Prestige Memorabilia 4U. Extremely fine.
Estimate $500
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Jack Ruby signature, in ballpoint pen on a U.S. Treasury Department - Internal Revenue Service form SS-10 (Rev. 6-57) (approx 20x26.5cm), dated 1 Oct 1959, typed details on form limiting the assessment of taxes on the property of Ruby's Club Vegas establishment at Dallas, Texas, also bears signatures of Internal Revenue representative and Ruby's attorney/agent. Intersecting folds and tape remnant along the back top edge, otherwise fine.
Estimate $300
SOLD $300
Jack Ruby signature, in ballpoint pen on cheque number 111 of Mercantile National Bank at Dallas, Texas, dated 8/26 1957 for $5.00 payable to Mara Flanary, details written in his hand and signed under name of 'MIN-I-RON Co Inc', matted and above a double matted b&w glossy photo of Ruby gunning down Lee Harvey Oswald while under police escort, set under glass in a black wooden frame (approx 39x44.5cm). Faint vertical fold and usual bank stamp to first name, writing faded, otherwise fine.
Estimate $270
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David O. Selznick signature, in ink on his named cheque number 5196 with Bank of America, Culver City, California dated May 20, 1941 for $100.00 payable to Mervyn Le Roy, all details typed, punch hole cancelled 'PAID/52441, bank stamp dated May 24, 1941 of Security-First National Bank, Los Angeles on reverse as well as penned endorsement, 'For deposit only to the acct of Mervyn Le Roy'. Folds and creases, otherwise fine.
Estimate $140
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O.J. Simpson and Johnnie Cochran signatures, in black felt tip pen on colour photo (25.3x20.3cm) of Simpson and Cochran and one other in a court room scene during Simpson's trial. A few small creases, a corner bend, and surface marks, fine.
Estimate $80
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Rod Stewart signature, in blue felt tip pen on album cover 'Foolish Behaviour', record included. With some scattered light cover wear and creasing and a bit of mild contrast to signature, fine.
Estimate $80
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Rod Stewart signature, in blue felt tip pen on album cover 'Blondes have more fun', record included. With partial separation along bottom edge, several creases and light 'ring of wear', very good.
Estimate $80
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Rod Stewart signature, in blue felt tip pen on album cover 'Foolish Behaviour', record not included. With some scattered light cover wear and creasing, very good.
Estimate $60
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Rod Stewart signature, in black felt tip pen on album cover 'Never a Dull Moment', record included; another but in blue felt tip pen and no record included. With some cover and edge wear, a stain on first cover and a bit of mild contrast to second signature, fine. (2)
Estimate $70
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Taylor Swift memorabilia, framed lithograph of autographed colour photo of 'Speak Now', featuring a rowdy wedding scene, under perspex with silvered frame (approx 70.5x32cm). Good extremely fine.
Estimate $40
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James Taylor signature, in blue felt tip pen on two album covers, Gorilla and One Man Dog, records not included. Scattered wear and creasing to both covers, otherwise very good. (2)
Estimate $80
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Alfred Lord Tennyson signature, in ink on manuscript bank draft of a folded page (18x11.5cm folded), in his hand to his lawyer, Odling Osborne & Co, Clement's Lane, London, posted from Freshwater with one penny stamp hand cancelled 'July 18th 1862' and stamped 'PAID', across centre is written, 'Pay M Jerennal Nerwood (or Merwood) or order eleven pounds and at bottom left corner '£11', crossed diagonally with two lines and written '& Co', in centre oval bank stamp of London & Westminister Bank, Lothbury, also stamp of National Provincial Bank of England ??? (illegible), signed 'A Tennyson', on back written in ink, 'Isu.Mist (?) Merwood/his mark (with X beside)', below 'Witness (signed) J.F.Isaacson'. Second, light bank stamp over signature, scattered light creasing and wrinkling, otherwise very good.
Estimate $180
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William Makepeace Thackeray signature, in ink on a penned invitation (approx 9.5x11.5cm) from 18 Young St, Kensington, June 10, that reads, 'I wish you would come to tea afterwards. I mean after the leg of mutton. I have only asked 2 or 3 select ladies: ???? should be very glad of course if the great man of Chelsea would come, and if Miss Tewksbury also would like a cup of our best Congo. You know (though I doubt see you often) that I am always yours a....ly' and there is a footnote, 'P.S. I offer to do things handsome and to send you back in the flyer.', matted and a b&w photo of Thackeray, also matted, framed under glass (approx 18.5x34cm). With uniform shade of toning, heavier along edges, scattered areas of damp staining and a mild haloing effect throughout much of the text, otherwise very good.
Estimate $270
SOLD $240
Paul Tibbets USAF pilot's signature, in blue felt tip pen as 'Paul W. Tibbets' on a mini sheet of ten USA stamps issued as part of the series (1991-1995) to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of WWII. Scattered black marks on reverse gum from storage in protective stamp page, otherwise MUH.
Estimate $40
SOLD $60
Last Titanic survivor's signature, in black felt tip pen on colour glossy photo (approx 45.5x30cm) of an artist's portrait of the R.M.S.Titanic being docked by three tugs, top right signed, 'Millvina Dean, youngest survivor of the R.M.S.Titanic'. Very fine.
Estimate $200
SOLD $140
The Who's Peter Townshend signature, in black felt tip pen on glossy colour photo (approx 35.5x27.5cm) of him playing guitar on stage. Fine.
Estimate $80
SOLD $100
Mike Tyson signature, in ballpoint with small photo in corner of card (12.6x7.6cm) and inscription, 'To Tom from Mike Tyson'. Encapsulated in a sealed plastic PSA/DNA authentication holder, fine.
Estimate $100
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Orson Welles signature, in felt tip on an original pencil sketch on off-white sheet (approx 17.5x28cm), marked, 'The Great Mr. Orson Welles', and signed by the artist (1976). Fine.
Estimate $120
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Orville Wright signature, on bank cheque no.778 dated January 19, 1934 at Dayton, Ohio, filled out in another hand and signed by Orville Wright to the Winters National Bank & Trust Co, Dayton, Ohio to pay his secretary Mabel Beck the sum of $59.52, with a photo of the first flight and also a plaque titled 'Orville/Wright/1871 - 1948', each item cloth matted, all framed under glass (approx 33.5x45.5cm). Cheque with usual bank cancellation marks and perforations, not affecting signature, fine.
Estimate $500
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Crew of (John Kennedy's WWII boat) PT-109 signatures, in biro on a commemorative cover with a cachet of John F. Kennedy and a map of the Solomon Islands and the word Survival, postal cancellation 'Washington D.C. Oct 14 A.M. 1968', with signatures of Ed Drewitch, Charles A. Harris, Maurice L. Kowal, Pat McMahon, John Maguire, Gerard E. Zinser, all indicating PT-109 and one other illegible below the cachet without PT-109 indicator. Fine.
Estimate $140
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Luftwaffe Aces signatures, in blue and black felt tip on a colour glossy photo (approx 44x30cm) of three ME 109s taking off, with nearly 50 Luftwaffe aces' signatures with many adding the number of victories, includes Martin Becker, Hans-Ekkehard Bob, Adolf Borchers, Hugo Broch, Willi Crinius, Hugo Dahmer, Arnold Doring, Peter Duttmann, Franz Eisenach, Heinz Ewald, Wolfgang Ewald, Adolf Glunz, Hermann Greiner, Gunther Hannak, Erich Hartmann, Hajo Herrmann, Jans Joachim Jabs, Wolf-Dietrich Huy, Wilhelm Johnen, Karl Kennel, Josef Kraft, Heinz Lange, Karl Lion, Stefan Litjens, Walter Loos, Heinz Marquardt, Ludwig Meister, Walter Ohlrogge, Johannes Pichler, Rolf Pingel, Gunther Rall, Karl Rammelt, Oskar Romm, Edmund Rossman, Erich Rudorffer, Helmut Ruffler, Wolfgang Schenck, Winfrid Schmidt, Leo Schuhmacher, Otto Schultz, Gunther Seeger, Bruno Stolle, Fritz Tegtmeier, Gerhard Thyben, Hannes Trautloft, Hans Weik, Franz Woiditch, Walter Wolfrum, and Paul Zorner. A few mild dings, otherwise fine condition.
Estimate $500
SOLD $360
Pearl Harbor survivors' signatures, in ink and felt tip pen on individual white cards (approx 11x6.5cm), with narrative of Franklin D. Roosevelt's comments the day after the bombing and his photo, the signatures are those of Herb Weatherwax, Fred Johnson, Julius Finnern, James Bounds, Donald Stratton, George Lininger, Cecil Calavan, Paul Goodyear, John Newnam and Sterling Cale, some include their posting at the time of the attack, all cards and narrative double matted on white board (approx 33x61cm). Fine.
Estimate $80
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Three Tenors signatures of two members, one in felt tip pen and the other in biro, on a glossy colour photo (approx 22.5x14cm) signed by Placido Domingo and Jose Carreras under their images. Extremely fine, certificate of authentication grading of fine.
Estimate $70
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