Sale 1090 — United States, Possessions and Confederate States Stamps and Postal History
Sale Date — Wednesday-Friday, 17-19 December, 2014
Category — Other Signatures and Free Franks
Lot
Symbol
Photo/Description
Cat./Est. Value
Realized
1984
Checks and Financial Document Signed by American and English Writers and Poets. 15 incl. 14 different signatures on checks or other financial instruments, mounted on pages, nearly all with engraved portrait with facsimile signature beneath, incl. Richard Henry Dana, Jr. ("Two Years Before the Mast"), Charles Dickens ("Oliver Twist"), Ralph Waldo Emerson, Oliver Wendell Holmes ("Old Ironsides"), John Greenleaf Whittier, Ernest Hemingway ("A Farewell to Arms"), Julia Ward Howe ("Battle Hymn of the Republic"), two James Russell Lowell (edited "Atlantic Monthly"), Harriet Beecher Stowe ("Uncle Tom's Cabin"), John Ruskin ("King of the Golden River"), George Bernard Shaw ("My Fair Lady"), Alfred Lord Tennyson ("Ulysses", "Charge of the Light Brigade"), Christina Rossetti ("Goblin Market"), also Henry Ward Beecher, congregational clergyman and eloquent preacher, virtually all Fine-Very Fine, ex Tolman
E. 1,000-1,500
2,700
