Goldberg Coins and Collectibles

Sale 40

Manuscript and Collectibles Auction

Businessmen

Lot	Photo	Description	Realized
Lot 37		(Businessmen, Explorers, Scientists, Reformers, etc.). Group of First Day Covers: one by J.P. Getty; one by Sir Edmond Hillary; one by Nobel Peace Prize winner Rene Cassin; one by one by nine winners of the Nobel Prize in Physics; one by Gloria Steinem; one by Washington Post editor Benjamin Bradlee; one by nine newscasters (such as Cronkite, Reasoner, Smith, Mudd); one by UAW president Leonard Woodcock; one by Clyde W. Tombaugh, discoverer of the recently-discredited planet Pluto; plus five other miscellaneous covers. Accompanied by a 10" x 8" Photograph Signed by broadcast journalist Ed Murrow. Estimated Value $250 - 350. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $184
Lot 38		Federal Bureau of Investigation. First Day Cover Signed by J. Edgar Hoover (1895-1972), the powerful, controversial director of the FBI for 48 years. With a FDC signed by L. Patrick Gray (1916-2005), acting director of the FBI from 1972-73; nominated as permanent director by Richard Nixon in 1973, his nomination was withdrawn after he admitted to destroying documents given to him by White House counsel, John Dean. Estimated Value $150 - 200. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $230
Lot 39		Gould, Jay (1836-92) Financier. Green and cream Stock Certificate for 100 shares in the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway Company Signed as President, one page, 8" x 15½", New York City, 24 March 1880. Issued to W.E. Connor and cancelled 12 April 1880. Fine condition; two punch cancellelations affect Gould's signature. Estimated Value $400 - 500. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 40		Kennedy, John F., Jr (1960-99) Lawyer and publisher; son of President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy; Kennedy, his wife, and sister-in-law died when the plane he was piloting crashed into the Atlantic on 16 July 1999. Inaugural issue of the magazine George signed on the cover by Kennedy, the publisher, with a black, felt-tip pen, and by Cindy Crawford, the model who is featured on the cover, with a blue, felt-tip pen, no place, no date. The issue is in excellent condition and is dated October/Novembwer 1995. George ceased publication in 2001. Estimated Value $400 - 600. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 41		Rockefeller, John D (1839-1937) Founder of Standard Oil; philanthropist. Ornately-bordered Stock cCrtificate issuing 100 shares of the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway Company Signed on the verso by Rockefeller, who transfers the stock to Arnold Fox, n.p., 21 Sept. 1891. Very good; overall light toning, darker at edges; the word "Railway" is abraded from title on recto; punch cancellations are away from Rockefeller's name. Estimated Value $800 - 1,200. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 42		Greeley, Horace (1811�1872) American journalist and politician; founder of The New York Tribune; presidential candidate (1872). Autograph Letter Signed, on Office of the Tribune letterhead, one page, 8¼" x 5", New York, 17 June 1866. Fine; matted with an image of Greeley to an overall size of 14¼" Regarding an invitation for a lecture: "…fix it so that I may do so the night before New Hampshire Thanksgiving….I fully mean to be with you." Estimated Value $150 - 200. View details	Unsold