Goldberg Coins and Collectibles

Sale 105

June 30 - July 1 2018 Manuscript, Space and Collectibles Sale

U.S. Statesmen

Lot	Photo	Description	Realized
Lot 47		California Governors--Group of 16, From 1860 to the Present, Including Earl Warren and Arnold Schwarzenegger. John G. Downey (governor from 1860-62), endorsed check dated 1877; Newton Booth (1871-75), signature and "Cal" on 1½ x 6" blue paper; William Irwin (1875-80), signature, title, and dates as governor on 3¼ x 6½" paper; George C. Perkins (1880-83), 2 x 3½" card with, "With salutations I am yours truly Geo. C. Perkins, Sacramento August 29th/81; Henry H. Markham (1891-95), Signature and title on 2 x 3¾" card; George Pardee (1903-07), signature and title on 2 x 4" paper; Hiram Warren Johnson (1911-17), signature, state and date (Sept. 1935) as U.S. senator (he was the Republican presidential nominee against Harding in 1920); William D. Stephens (1917-23), signature with typed title on a 1¾ x 3¼ card; Friend W. Richardson (1923-27), 1924 TLS as governor; C. C. Young (1927-31), signature on envelope from Governor's Office; Frank Merriam (1934-39), signed Governor 's card; Earl Warren (1943-53), signed Governor's card; Goodwin J. Knight (1953-59), signed Governor's card; Edmund G "Pat" Brown, Sr. (1959-67), two cards signed, one with signature, and one inscribed, signed, and dated (3/18/52); George Deukmejian, Jr. (1983-91), signature on a 3½ x 6" card; Arnold Schwarzenegger (2003-11), signature on 2¾ x 6" paper; and Edmund G. "Jerry" Brown, Jr. (1975-83 and 2011-present); 10 x 8" SP and 3 x 5" card signed. Overall fine. Housed in a black leather album and matching case. Estimate Value $250 - UP The Michael Hecht Autograph Collection. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $204
Lot 48		California--19th Century Leaders Including Commodore Stockton, C.P. Huntington, Crocker, Stanford, Hearst, Sutro, Geary, Ralston. Commodore Robert Stockton (conquered California in 1846), holograph address panel free franked "R.F. Stockton" and addressed to H. Brierly in Clinton, CO; Leland Stanford (one of "The Big Four" investors in the Central Pacific Railroad), cut signature; C.P. Huntington (one of "The Big Four"), closing and signature from a letter (soiled); Charles Crocker (one of "The Big Four"), closing and signature from a letter, in a PSA/DNA holder; H.R. Crocker (established first printing and lithography plant in San Francisco). 1898 TLS; an 1878 Buy/Sell form from The Carson City Savings Bank; John W. Geary (first mayor of San Fran., governor of "Bleeding Kansas"), signed coupon for a San Francisco bond; William Chapman Ralston (founder of SF's Palace Hotel and The Bank of California), 1874 ALS to R.D. Atherton; George Hearst (Mining magnate), signature on 2x3¼" card (some staining); and Adolph H.J. Sutro (creator of Sutro Tunnel), 1892 Wells Fargo check signed. Twentieth century names in this lot are John Steven McGroarty, Julius Kahn, Eugene E. Schmitz, Alma de Bretteville Spreckels, Jesse M. Unruh, and Eric Hoffer. Items are overall very good. All housed in a black leather album with matching case. Estimate Value $750 - UP The Michael Hecht Autograph Collection. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $660
Lot 49		Court of St. James - American Ambassadors, Group of 13. George Bancroft, cut signature with "Whitehall" on a ¾ x 4 ½" piece of paper; Abbot Lawrence, cut signature affixed to a larger page; Edward Everett, Civil War-date (1861) ALS regarding copy for pamphlets; John Hay, 1898 ALS as ambassador; Walter H. Page, signature, with "London, 15 July 1914" on Hotel Savoy card, two weeks before the start of World War I; Andrew W. Mellon, 1930 TLS as Secretary of the Treasury (toning and glue residue do not affect signature); Averell Harriman, ISP; Winthrop W. Aldrdich, signature; David H.E. Bruce, signature with "Paris, 14 June 1971"; John Hay Whitney, signed FDC; Kingman Brewster, Jr., signed 1964 program for his inauguration as president of Yale; Walter Annenberg, signed envelope; and Anne Armstrong, signature as ambassador with "Best wishes." Overall fine. Estimate Value $250 - UP The Michael Hecht Autograph Collection. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $154
Lot 50		New York Governors: Al Smith, Herbert Lehrman, and Thomas Dewey. Alfred Smith (1873-1944) Four-time Governor of NY and Democratic U.S. presidential candidate in 1928. 1932 TLS as president of Empire State, Inc., saying, "I lost as much myself in Warner Brothers stock as he paid for his stock." Toned. Herbert H. Lehrman (1878-1963) served as Governor from 1933 until 1942, then as US Senator (1949-1957). Card signed as Governor of New York, with title. Thomas Dewey (1902-71) Governor (1943-54), and 1944 Republican nominee for President, losing to FDR. Signature cut from a letter. (3 items) Est. $100-125. Estimate Value $100 - UP The Michael Hecht Autograph Collection. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $60
Lot 51		Presidential Advisors, Cabinet Members, Vice Presidents, Secretaries, Etc., Including Members of FDR's Brain Trust. Various items signed by a wide variety of people: Joel Poinsett, Col. Edward M. House, Josephus Daniels, William G. McAdoo, Patrick J. Hurley, C.F. Adams, Felix Frankfurter (holograph envelope unsigned), Hugh S. Johnson, Robert F. Wagner, M.A. Le Hand, Louis McHenry Howe, George Akerson, Charle G. Ross, Thomas G. Corcoran, Raymond Moley, Ben V. Cohen, Adolf Berle, Jr., Rexford G. Tugwell, James F. Byrnes, Helen G. Douglas, Alben W. Barkley, Nelson Rockefeller, John Dean, Daniel P. Moynihan, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Edwin Meese III, Robert E. Rubin, Jim Carville, Rahm Emanuel, Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, and Robert M. Gates. Overall fine. This group should be examined in person to be fully appreciated. Estimate Value $300 - UP The Michael Hecht Autograph Collection. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $252
Lot 52		[Roosevelt, Franklin D.] Nine Cabinet Members. Henry Wallace, Vice President 1941-45, Signature and date; Henry Morgenthal, Jr. Secretary of the Treasury, 1936 TLS on official letterhead, re a young man's stamp collection; Cordell Hull, Secretary of State, sentiment and signature; Edward R. Stettinius, Jr. Head of Lend-Lease who succeeded Cordell Hull as Secretary of State, signature on a 5 x 7" album page; Harold L. Ickes, Secretary of the Interior, signature on official card; Harry Hopkins, Secretary of Commerce (1938-40), signature on official card; Jesse H. Jones, Secretary of Commerce (1940-45), ANS as Secretary giving autograph, with old tape marks at corners; James A. Farley, Postmaster General, signature; and Francis Biddle, Attorney General who later served as the primary American judge at Nuremberg, a 1943 TLS on Dept. of Justice letterhead firing an FBI clerk-typist, and his signature and date (9/15/47) on a proof page from Who's Who. Overall fine. Estimate Value $150 - UP The Michael Hecht Autograph Collection. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $90
Lot 53		Two Statesmen From New York: Alfred E. Smith and Hamilton Fish, Jr. Fish, Hamilton Jr. (1888-1991). Congressman Fish introduced legislation that provided for the return of the remains of an unknown American soldier killed in France during World War I for interment in a hallowed tomb to be constructed in Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia. Today known as the Tomb of the Unknowns, it is guarded 24 hours a day by the most elite sentries of the US Army. Right-profile photo inscribed and signed to Walter L. Reynolds, 14 x 11", April 2, 1935. Very fine. With a typed letter signed by Alfred E. Smith as Governor of New York, 1½ pages, on Executive Chamber letterhead, 10½ x 8", Albany, Jan. 7, 1924. To John Golden, Hudson Theatre, NYC, regarding the constitutionality of the "ticket speculator act" and informing Golden that "you could not raise the question of the State's police power in a matter of this kind." Fine. Estimate Value $150 - UP View details and enlarged photo	Realized $96