Goldberg Coins and Collectibles

Sale 6

Manuscript and Collectibles Auction

The Gerald Burg Collection of Autographs

Lot	Photo	Description	Realized
Lot 312		Houston, Samuel (1793-1863) American Soldier and Statesman. President of the Texas Republic and later Governor of Texas. Visiting Card. 3-3/4 x 2½", on white card stock. Printed with a bold facsimile signature. Mounting traces on verso, and some minor soiling on recto. Estimated Value $250 - 375. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $529
Lot 313		Houston, Samuel. Visiting Card. Approximately 3½ x 2", on cream card stock. Printed with a bold facsimile signature. Estimated Value $250 - 375. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $391
Lot 314		Houston, Samuel. Visiting Card. Approximately 3½ x 2", on cream card stock. Printed with a bold facsimile signature. Mounting traces on verso. Estimated Value $250 - 375. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $391
Lot 315		Houston, Samuel. Visiting Card. Approximately 3 x 2", on smooth, cream card stock. Some minor foxing and smudging, otherwise fine. Estimated Value $250 - 375. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $460
Lot 316		Withdrawn	Unsold
Lot 317		Humperdinck, Engelbert. Inscribed Visiting Card. Approximately 4 x 2¼", on cream card stock. Inscribed in German below his printed name. Estimated Value $150 - 225. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $288
Lot 318		Withdrawn	Unsold
Lot 319		Ibsen, Henrik (1828-1906) Norwegian Dramatist and Poet. Ibsen exerted a powerful force in modern theater through such plays as A Doll's House (1879). Inscribed Visiting Card. 4¼ x 2½", on cream card stock. With a lengthy inscription in Norwegian written below the author's printed name and dated 10.3.99. Estimated Value $300 - 450. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $173
Lot 320		Ibsen, Henrik. Inscribed Visiting Card. 4¼ x 2½", on cream card stock. Inscribed "to the lady in London, A Christmas greeting whom I regret not to have the pleasure to know" below his printed name. Estimated Value $300 - 450. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $173
Lot 321		Withdrawn	Unsold
Lot 322		Withdrawn	Unsold
Lot 323		Indy, Vincent d'. Inscribed Visiting Card Signed. 3½ x 2", on cream card stock. Delicately scribed below the printed name "all my thanks for your kind article about the 'Estafette'… " and signed "V. d' Indy." Estimated Value $150 - 250. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $127
Lot 324		Withdrawn	Unsold
Lot 325		Withdrawn	Unsold
Lot 326		Withdrawn	Unsold
Lot 327		Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique (1780-1867) French Painter, a leading exponent of the Classical tradition. Inscribed Visiting Card. 3 x 1½", on white card stock. Penned below the printed name "would you be so kind as to believe, Mrs. Vinit, all my sad sympathy." Estimated Value $150 - 225. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $86
Lot 328		Irwin, James Benson (1930-1991) American Astronaut, a member of the Apollo 15 mission. Moonwalker, author of To Rule the Night. Business Card Signed. 3½ x 2", on white card stock with color. Signed in full on verso. Estimated Value $120 - 180. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $69
Lot 329		Irwin, James Benson. Inscribed Business Card Signed. 3½ x 2", on white card stock with color. Signed in full with "Apollo 15" and a crescent moon. Estimated Value $120 - 180. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $92
Lot 330		Irwin, James Benson. Business Card Signed. 3½ x 2", on white card stock with color. Signed in full on verso. Estimated Value $120 - 180. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $75
Lot 331		Irwin, James Benson. Business Card Signed. 3½ x 2", on white card stock with color. Signed in full. Estimated Value $120 - 180. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $92
Lot 332		Irwin, James Benson. Business Card Signed. 3½ x 2", on white card stock with color. Signed in full. Estimated Value $120 - 180. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $92
Lot 333		Isabella II, Queen (1830-1904) Queen of Spain. Inscribed Royal Visiting Card. 4 x 2 3/4", on cream card stock. Inscribed in French below her printed name, "14th of March 1882/ With her sincere congratulations for the party of a dear friend The Princess Mathilda." Estimated Value $450 - 650. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $276
Lot 334		Jackson, Andrew (1767-1845) 7th President of the United States. Visiting Card. 3½ x 2", on white card stock. Simply printed "Mr. & Mrs. Jackson / Hermitage". Estimated Value $200 - 300. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $334
Lot 335		James, Henry (1843-1916) American novelist, acknowledged master of the psychological novel, as evidenced by his masterpiece The Ambassadors (1903). Inscribed Visiting Card Signed. 3 x 1½", on cream card stock. In pencil on recto/verso"Sunday 2.30 / Thought there might be a chance of finding you, but will try soon again - or at your house. / H. James." Estimated Value $250 - 375. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $345
Lot 336		Exceedingly Rare Thomas Jefferson Personal Signature Visiting Card. Only three such cards are known to exist, and this one is considered the finest. When the eminent card collector, Fred Schang acquired his, he wondered if George Washington had not fashioned a similarly designed presentation card. Alas, Schang never found one, but Charles Hamilton, the noted dealer, was able to locate one in time to include it in his well-known book, "American Autographs." Certainly, one of the highlights of the Burg Collection. (1743-1826) 3rd President of the United States. Visiting Card Signed. 2½ x 1¼", on off-white card stock. Jefferson's signature "Mr Jefferson" is centered in an ornate printed oval. The card has been handsomely mounted and framed with a steel engraving to an overall size of 11½ x 16". Estimated Value $4,000 - 6,000. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $13,800
Lot 337		Johnson, Andrew (1808-1875) 17th President of the United States. Visiting Card Signed. 3 3/4 x 2¼", on cream card stock. Bears Johnson's printed name in an ornate type which as been expunged by a single hand-drawn line. Signed four times, with the topmost signature in pencil, which is then expunged with a single line. An ink signature is placed beneath the printed name and two more are on verso. Mounting traces on verso edges, not affecting signature. Estimated Value $500 - 750. I was told that Andrew Johnson was practicing his signature on this card. I believe it! -- Gerry Burg. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $2,415
Lot 338		Johnson, Lyndon Baines (1908-1973) 36th President of the United States. White House Card Signed. Approximately 4 x 2½", on white card stock. Signed in full. Slightly age toned. Estimated Value $400 - 600. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $633
Lot 339		Johnson, Lyndon Baines. Government Card Signed. Approximately 3½ x 1 3/4", on cream card stock. Being Johnson's Democratic Leader / United States Senate card, signed in full in blue ink above his printed name. Estimated Value $250 - 375. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $184
Lot 340		Very Rare James Joyce Inscribed Visiting Card (1882-1941) Irish Novelist, a powerful force of modernism in literature, most famous for his novel Ulysses (1922). Inscribed Visiting Card. 4 x 2½", on cream card stock. "Congratulations again from" penned above his printed name with "and Mrs." inserted between Mr. and James. "Paris, le 11 juin 1936" in lower left. Faint green spotting around edges, inscription unaffected. Estimated Value $1,000 - 1,500. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $604
Lot 341		Jung, Carl (1875-1961) Swiss Psychiatrist, established theory of "analytical psychology," "archetypes," and the "collective unconscious." Visiting Card Signed. 3-3/4 x 2¼", on white card stock. Signed "C.G. Jung" in dark ink on verso. Estimated Value $600 - 900. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $633
Lot 342		Withdrawn	Unsold
Lot 343		Withdrawn	Unsold
Lot 344		Kai-Chek, Chiang (1887- 1975) Chinese President and Army General. Government Card Signed. 2 3/4 x 4 3/4", on white card stock with a small blind embossed stamp of a sun at top center. Signed in black ink in Chinese characters. Miniscule smudge on bottom edge, not affecting signature. Estimated Value $150 - 225. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $345
Lot 345		Karloff, Boris (1887-1969) American Actor, star of countless monster movies including Frankenstein and the Mummy. Inscribed Visiting Card Signed. 3 x 1½", on off-white card stock. "Many Happy Returns / with fewer heavy dates. Boris." Estimated Value $250 - 350. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $322
Lot 346		Withdrawn	Unsold
Lot 347		Kennedy Onasis, Jacqueline Bouvier (1929-1994) American Wife of 35th President John F. Kennedy. Inscribed Visiting Card Signed. 3-3/4 x 3", on cream card stock. Inscribed "Dear Mr. Forestal - So many thanks for your sweet letter - I did enjoy 'Gentlemen and the Horse!' / My best to you always / Jackie," with her printed name, "Mrs. John Fitzgerald Kennedy" expunged with a line of blue ink. Estimated Value $550 - 750. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $690
Lot 348		Desirable JFK Signed Senate Card (1917-1963) 35th President of the United States. United States Senate Card Signed. 3½ x 1½", on cream card stock, with gold embossed federal seal in upper left. Signed in full above his printed name. Estimated Value $1,500 - 2,250. Senator Kennedy was kind enough to hand me this card personally. -- Gerry Burg. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $2,990
Lot 349		Kennedy, Robert F (1925-1968) American, brother of President J.F. Kennedy and Attorney-General in his brother's administration. Attorney General Card Signed. 4 x 2 ½", on white card stock, with a gold embossed stamp. Signed in full in black ink. Estimated Value $350 - 550. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $357
Lot 350		Kennedy, Robert F. Attorney General Card Signed. 4 x 2 3/4", on white card stock, with a gold embossed stamp. Signed in full in black ink. Mounting traces on verso. Estimated Value $350 - 550. Robert Kennedy was kind enough to hand me this card personally. -- Gerry Burg. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $391
Lot 351		Kipling, Rudyard (1865-1936) British author of The Jungle Book, awarded 1907 Nobel Prize for Literature. Inscribed Visiting Card. 3 x 1½", on cream card stock. Mr Kipling has inscribed "With" and "compliments" on either side of his printed name. Estimated Value $150 - 225. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $150
Lot 352		Kossuth, Lajos (1802-1894) Hungarian Statesman, leader of the 1848 Hungarian Revolution. Inscribed Visiting Card Signed. 3½ x 2", on cream card stock with black border (signifying mourning). Penned in black ink "Turin April 12th 1883 / Louis Kossuth"below his printed name. Estimated Value $250 - 375. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $150
Lot 353		Kubelik, Jan (1880-1940) Czech Violinist and Composer. Autograph Musical Quotation Signed. 3 x 1½", on manilla card stock. Penned on verso, "yours very sincerely" and signed in full. Mounting traces evident, with some soiling. Estimated Value $120 - 180. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $138
Lot 354		Lafayette, Marquis de (1757-1834) French Army General, entered American service in Revolutionary War. Visiting Card. 2 3/4 x 1 3/4", on off-white card stock. Slightly discolored. Estimated Value $200 - 300. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $518
Lot 355		Langley, Samuel Pierpont (1834-1906) American Astronomer and Airplane Pioneer, the first to build a heavier-than-air flying machine, a steam-powered model aircraft. Inscribed Visiting Card Signed. Approximately 3 x 1½", on cream card stock. Penned in red ink "Aug 25 / Daniel Canal, Please pardon me for leaving my note books so long with you. I have now taken them. SP Langley" on verso. Mounting traces on recto. Estimated Value $375 - 500. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $391
Lot 356		Lawrence, D. H (1885-1930) British Novelist, author of Sons and Lovers (1913) and Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928). Inscribed Visiting Card Initialed. 3½ x 2", on cream card stock. Inscribed on recto/verso in pencil to art dealer Albert Stoppard "The Hon. Albert Stoppard / Dear Stoppard - Benediciti - addio- I shall see you again one day. This is Carmela whose photograph we promised her should be taken. Dear Stoppard, if it is a nuisance, say the camera is broken. addio D.H.L.". Estimated Value $400 - 600. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $483
Lot 357		Lawrence, James (1781-1813) American Naval commander,whose famous appeal "Don't give up the ship!" became a rallying cry for U.S. sailors. Visiting Card Signed. 2¼ x 1½", on cream card stock. Signed, "Capt Lawrence / U.S. Navy" in dark ink on recto. Mounting traces along left edge, not affecting signature. Estimated Value $500 - 750. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $299
Lot 358		Lee, Fitzhugh (1835-1905) Confederate States of America Major General, Virginia Governor. Inscribed Visiting Card Signed. 3 x 1½", on cream card stock. With a small drawing of a hand and the word "over" written below his printed name, and the inscription, "Fitzhugh Lee/ Governor of Virginia" on verso. Some age toning. Estimated Value $120 - 180. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $173
Lot 359		Lee, Fitzhugh. Governor's Card Signed. 3½ x 2", on cream card stock. Signed in full and dated "October 9th 1886". Estimated Value $120 - 180. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $138
Lot 360		Lee, Fitzhugh. Governor's Card Signed. 3½ x 2", on cream card stock. Signed in full and dated "March 14 1887." Some age toning. Estimated Value $120 - 180. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $132
Lot 361		Lee, Fitzhugh. Inscribed Visiting Card Signed. 3 x 1½", on cream card stock. With the word, "over" inscribed below his printed name, and a full signature on verso. Estimated Value $120 - 180. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $98

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