… Impressed with this sentiment and at the same time fully convinced that our affairs will take a more favorable turn. The Congress have judged it necessary to dissolve all connection between Great Britain and The American Colonies …
Monthly Archives: September 2012
Charles De Gaulle Announces the Unconditional Surrender of Germany
In a broadcast to the French people: …La guerre est gagnee! Voici la Victoire! C’est la Victoire des Nations Unies et c’est la Victoire de la France! … Honneur pour toujours a nos armees et a leurs chefs! Honneur a…
The Beatles Promo Card
A promo card dating from October/November 1962 very boldly signed on verso by all four. It pictures The Beatles aboard “The Salvor”. This was one of a number of photos of the group taken at various venues in Liverpool. Light…
Schindler’s List
This exceedingly rare original Schindler’s List is the only one to ever be on the market. It emanates from the family of Itzhak Stern, Schindler’s accountant and right hand man (played in the movie by Ben Kingsley). The provenance is…
Elvis Presely’s Gun
Elvis A. Presley purchased the above pistol (Serial No.688344) Nov. 6, 1970 from Kerr’s Sporting Goods in Beverly Hills, Calif. The pistol has leaf and scroll engraving outlined by sweeping borders of inlaid gold and silver with carved ivory handles…
Igor Stravinsky Signed Photo
Igor Stravinsky- A beautiful quarto 8.5″x11″ , bust pose, signed I Stravinsky 1954, taken in Cuba by Espinosa. A striking image.
Louis Armstrong Signed Photo
Louis Armstrong- An extremely early quarto Signed Photo depicting Armstrong sitting in a chair, trumpet in lap, looking directly into camera by Ava Studios in London. Inscribed” My best wishes/ To Nell Clarke/ From / Louis Armstrong/ 14/9/33. The earliest…
Booker T. Washington
A remarkable TLS,1 page, small quarto, February 21, 1910, to a Mr. Vick. “For some months now, I have been trying to assist the Trustees in clearing of the indebtedness of the property owned by the late Frederick Douglass located…
Birth of the Republican Party in California
The Territory of California, ceded to the United States by the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848, adopted a Constitution which was ratified on November 1849. It outlawed slavery and, as a result, Federal recognition of California’s status was blocked…
1932 Walt Disney’s Mickey Mouse Annual With Racial Epithets
A FANTASTIC PIECE OF BLACK MEMORABILIA THAT IS BEING OFFERED TO THE PUBLIC DOMAIN. 1932 MICKEY MOUSE ANNUAL Book Includes Racial Epithets. THIS 1932 MICKEY MOUSE 200 PAGE ANNUAL WAS PUBLISHED IN GREAT BRITAIN BY DEAN AND SONS WITH THE…
Double Fantasy Album Signed by John Lennon for Mark Chapman
(Five hours before Lennon’s death) Moments in Time’ s President, Gary Zimet, has announced that the record album Double Fantasy by John Winston Lennon autographed for Mark David Chapman prior to Chapman’s assassination of the legendary Beatle is being offered…
Teddy Roosevelt Opines on Harvard’s Clubs
Typed signed letter on his Outlook letterhead, Phoenix, AZ March 21, 1911. for the time TR’s opinion was a very enlightened one to espouse; few of his colleagues would have agreed.