Goldberg Coins and Collectibles

Sale 52

Manuscript, Collectibles and Aerospace Auction

U.S. Presidential Related

Lot	Photo	Description	Realized
Lot 116		[Clay, Henry] 1844 Presidential Campaign Ribbon. White silk with black imprint, 6¼ x 3". Featuring a portrait of Washington with "American Republican Procession April 8th, 1844" above and "History and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of a republican government" below. "Sold by E.F. Whattes / Courtlandt St. N.Y." Small frays at top edge; light toning, else fine. Estimated Value $100 - 150. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $63
Lot 117		[Douglas, Stephen] Douglas/Johnson Campaign Ribbon, 1860. Tan silk with dark brown imprint, 6¾ x 2". Featuring an oval portrait of Douglas at center. Above: "Little Giant"; below: "Douglas & Johnson." Faint stain at upper right edge; publishing information is light and a smudge affects the right side of Douglas' face. Very good. Estimated Value $500 - 600. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 118		"Gent. Grant & His Family" by John Sartain. Steel mezzotint engraving, published in 1868 by Bradley & Co., Philadelphia. Image measures 24" x 19'. the print has been professionally conserved and is laid onto an acid-free backing. Some scuffing to legend; a few minor problems to edges of borders, and a 2" mended tear in tree-line at upper left margin. This print most likely played a role in Grant's 1868 presidential campaign. Estimated Value $300 - 500. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 119		[Hayes, Rutherford B.]. A one-page letter dated Nov. 17, 1877, from a Pennsylvania labor leader named A. I. Quigley to Hon. W A Wallace, asking him to arrange "at your earliest convenience"a meeting with the Finance Committee of the Senate and the President "in front of the Presidents Mansion" for "a committee of 50,000 Business and Laboring men of Penna. The letter ends, "We are in dead Earnest." Fine. Estimated Value $200 - 300. View details	Unsold
Lot 120		Impeachment and Trial of Andrew Johnson. Philadelphia: Published by Barclay & Co., 124pp, 4to (partial paper replacement to title page obscures date of publication). Beginning with a "Biographical Sketchof the Managers of the Impeachment, and of the Counsel for the President," then the "Impeachment and Trial of Andrew Johnson," giving the day-to-day proceedings from March 30th through May 16th. The final two pages are titled: "The President Acquitted on the Second and Third Articles, and the Court Adjourned Sine Die." Small damp stain at lower right corner of first few pages and light toning throughout. Accompanied by a carte de visite of Johnson--a head-and-shoulders portrait within a raised, decorative, patriotic frame, and a very faded orange ticket to the April 28th session of the impeachment. Estimated Value $300 - 500. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $460
Lot 121		[Kennedy Assassination] November 25, 1963 Dallas Newspaper. November 25, 1963 issue of The Dallas Morning News showing Jack Ruby pointing a gun at Lee Harvey Oswald, in the process of fatally shooting him. Dallas detective James R. Leavelle, one of the detective who is pictured escorting Oswald to the county jail, wrote on his image: "I was handcuffed to Oswald when he was shot. James R. Leavelle / Dallas Detective." Paper is brittle and chipped at fold. With a copy of the November 23, 1963 issue reporting Kennedy's assassination. Estimated Value $100 - 150. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 122		[Lincoln, Abraham] 1860 NY Tribune With Lincoln Presidential Ballot. Historic Newspaper, New York Tribune, New York, dated Thursday, September 27, 1860. Pg. 4 Ballot for the Republican Nominations in bold type: "For President…Abraham Lincoln - For Vice-President…Hannibal Hamlin," listing electoral candidates in 33 districts, etc. Also, ads for Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass, Barnum's American Museum, and for theatrical apapearances by Laura Keene, the actress Lincoln went to see at Ford's Theatre on April 14, 1865. Edge chips and one tear at horizontal fold. Estimated Value $100 - 150. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $115
Lot 123		[Lincoln, Abraham] 1864 Union Presidential Ticket. Paper ballot for Ohio, 6¾ x 2 ¾", listing the electors on the Lincoln - Johnson ticket.and featuring Liberty holding a Union sword. "Miami County" is written in a period hand on the verso. Fine. Estimated Value $100 - 125. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $92
Lot 124		[Lincoln, Abraham] Carte de Visite. Published by E. & H.T. Anthony from a Brady negative. A seated, full-length, right profile portrait. Writing materials are the table at his left. A 2¢ revenue stamp on the verso is stamped " 1 NOV 1864." Light toning and minor background blemishes; one at lower right crosses Lincoln's ankle. Very good. Estimated Value $500 - 600. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $460
Lot 125		[Lincoln, Abraham] Carte-de-Visite Photograph. 3¼ x 2 1/8 photo affixed at top edge to a 9 x 5¼" board. Copy from an 1861 Brady negative that was owned by Meserve. Some silvering to photo and minor background blemishes. Very good. Estimated Value $100 - 150. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $104
Lot 126		[Lincoln, Abraham] Currier & Ives Memorial Lithograph. Black and white lithograph by Currier & Ives, "Death of President Lincoln. At Washington, D.C. April 15th 1865. The Nation's Martyr," 9¾ x 13½ in. (image is 8¼ x 12 5/8"), entered according to act of Congress, 1865. Fine; minor toning and a couple of small scratches in upper background at center. Matted and framed to an overall size of 16½ x 20½". Estimated Value $250 - 300. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $144
Lot 127		[Lincoln, Abraham] Memorial Ribbon, 1865. White silk with black imprint, 5½ x 2 ½". Featuring an oval portral of Lincoln at center. Above: "We Love Him In Life" and below: "We Mourn Him In Death. Born Feb. 12, 1809. Died April 15, 1865". Fine. Estimated Value $300 - 500. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $311
Lot 128		[Lincoln, Abraham] Photograph. 4 1/8 x 2 5/8" photograph affixed at top edge to a 9 x 5¼" board with "War Department photograph / Copy" printed below. Penciled on back is "M. Brady Photo / 1863…" Fine. Estimated Value $100 - 150. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $104
Lot 129		[Lincoln, Abraham] Photograph. 3¼ x 2 1/8" photograph of Lincoln seated and pensively leaning forward on his left elbow; writing materials are on the table to his right. Some silvering to photo; one small chip missing at upper right edge. Very good. Estimated Value $100 - 150. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $98
Lot 130		Very Rare Lincoln Original Stereo View Photo. Original albumen stereograph (stereo view) card, 4 x 7", Taylor & Huntington imprint on verso with gallery's statement on the series: "This series of pictures are Original Photographs taken during the war of the Rebellion." Titular information on mount recto "1861 The War For the Union - Abraham Lincoln, President. Photograph taken in 1864." Stereoviews all have a double portrait to create a 3D effect, Lincoln is very rare in stereoviews. This stereoview has a double portrait of a standing Lincoln in formal attire with left arm behind his back, a bit of fading on the left to the image on the right, else in very good condition. This is a very rare stereograph of a Matthew Brady portrait taken on January 8, 1864. Cataloged as O-86A&B in Ostendorf's "Lincoln's Photographs", This stereoview provenance is from Ostendorf's own collection. Estimated Value $2,500 - 3,500. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 131		[Nixon, Richard] Roy Crocker Announces Nixon's First Run For Office In 1946. Typed letter signed by Roy Crocker as Chairman of the Executive Committee of Nixon for Congress, 1 page, 10 x 6¾", January 22, 1946. Addressed to two newspapermen at the L.A. Examiner, announcing that "A committee of over 100 citizens n the 12th Congresional District held 3 fact finding meetings….After full and deliberate consideration, Mr. Richard M. Nixon of Whittier was endorsed as the Republican candidate for Congress. Mr. Nixon is a native son, a veteran of World War II, a lawyer and a trustee of Whittier College…." Crocker extends an invitation to meet Mr. Nixon at a dinner to be held on February 5th in Santa Anita, California. One of the recipients of Crocker's letter, Carl Greenberg, was a registered Democrat. A penciled note on the letter indicates that he "Phoned regrets." Roy Crocker of Crocker National Bank (which had many California branches but was sold to Wells Fargo in 1986), spearheaded Nixon's introduction to the political arena and to the news media. A wonderful Nixon-associated letter. Estimated Value $750 - 1,000. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 132		[Reagan, Reagan] A Piece of the 1934 Oval Office Floor. A 1" x 2" piece of cork from the Oval Office floor President Franklin D. Roosevelt had installed in 1934 when he moved the Oval Office to its present location. It survived through the administrations of FDR, Truman, Eisenhower (who was an avid golfer and used to put his cleats on in the Oval Office and walk out to the Rose Garden to practice putting), Kennedy and Johnson. In 1969, LBJ decided to have it replaced with a wood grain designed linoleum, which was in place until the early 1980s when beautiful wood flooring was donated to the White House and installed during the Reagan presidency. It was then that a White House staffer remembered that some of the original cork floor had been saved in storage because of the historical significance of so many Presidents and other heads of state having walked on it. A limited number of pieces of the cork were encased in Lucite with etched writing and signature of Ronald Reagan, explaining the history of the cork. The lucite case is displayed in a very special navy blue leather box with the Presidential Seal etched in gold on the front and a handsome presidentia blue screen print on white satin of the exterior of the Oval Office on the inside. There was a limited number of these special gifts, and they were given out by President Reagan to a few senior staff people and special friends of the President. Estimated Value $1,500 - 2,500. From a former member of the Reagan administration. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $2,588
Lot 133		Bache, Benjamin Franklin. Remarks Occasioned by the Late Conduct of Mr. Washington As President of the United States. Remarks Occasioned by the Late Conduct of Mr. Washington As President of the United States," Philadelphia: Printed for Benjamin Franklin Bache, 1797, 8vo, 84pp. Later covers with "Loganian Library" bookplate. Early owner's name and date on title page. Small tear at top margin of last page. Pamplet attacking Washington as a general and as a politician, accusing him of acting only in his self interests. Bache (1769-1798) who was the grandson of Benjamin Franklin, was an anti-Federalist and a francophile. He published the General Advertiser/Aurora from 1790 and wrote politcal pamphlets. His 1798 arrest for publishing an important letter from French Foreign Minister Talleyrand played a role in Adams' signing of the Sedition Act. He was never tried because he died during the yellow fever epidemic that gripped Philadelphia that summer. Bache is now considered an early proponent of free speech. Evans 31759. Estimated Value $300 - 500. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $460
Lot 134		"Washington and His Family" by Sartain. Large steel mezzotint engraving by William Sartain based on a painting by G. Schussele of Philadelphia, published by Bradley & Co., Philadelphia, 1864. Image measures 17½" x 24½". Overall moderate toning and a water stain in the right side of the print and margin. Several nail holes along outer edges of upper and lower margins, with minor paper loss, can be easily covered by framing. Washington dressed in his military uniform, sits at a large table with Martha, surrounded by her two grandchildren and with Washington's faithful slave, William Lee, in the background. On the table lies the plan for the city of Washington. Estimated Value $300 - 500. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $460