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Sale 49
Manuscript, Collectibles and Aerospace Auction
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Lot 671 |
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Ford, Henry, With Lee Iacocca and Others. Lot of nine items--cards, envelopes and letters--signed by assorted notables. Includes a First Day of Issue Cover, commemorating the automotive industry signed "Henry Ford," "Lee Iacocca," and "Leonard Woodcock," (October 15, 1960, Detroit, Michigan). Other autographs include Cecil Day-Lewis (Poet Laureate of England); Bernard Buffet, and Korczak Ziolkowski (artists) and Sir Bernard Lovell, of the Nuffield Radio Astronomy Laboratories, England. Overall fine.
Estimated Value $400 - 600.
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Lot 672 |
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Morgan, J. Pierpont (1837-1913) American banker and financier. Signature cut from a vellum document, n.p., n.d., 1x4½ in. Matted with a copy of a 10x12½ in. photograph of Wall Street taken in 1911 by Irving Underhill, a 6 x 4½ in. image of Morgan, and a plaque engraved "J. Pierpont Morgan / Owner of the Titanic" and handsomely framed to an overall size of 20¾ x 26½ inches. Morgan's company, International Mercantile Marine, bought the White Star Line in 1902. White Star decided to build the largest, most luxurious ships in the world. The first was the Olympic; the second was the ill-fated Titanic that sank in 1912.
Estimated Value $300 - 400.
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Lot 673 |
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Willys, John N (1873-1935) Pioneering automobile manufacturer; U.S. ambassador to Poland from 1930-1932. A fine association of these two important early automobile industry pioneers. Typed letter signed on engraved "The Willys-Overland Company" letterhead, 10½ x 7¼ in., Toledo, Ohio, 22 Nov. 1926. To Harold C. Wills, Henry Ford's early partner in the automotive business (Ford bought Wills out), concerning production of a new six-cylinder automobile. In part: "…No doubt you have heard rumors of a new company to market a six-cylinder Knight car. It is the intention, however, to have the assembly done in Detroit, which will only require a building suitable for assembly purposes. On that account we would not be interested in any extension along the line you mention…." There are a couple of rust marks at top, else fine. Willys began his career as a bicycle manufacturer, then moved to four-wheeled-vehicles, manufacturing Willys and Overland automobiles at a plant in Toledo, Ohio.
Estimated Value $300 - 500.
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