Goldberg Coins and Collectibles

Sale 6

Manuscript and Collectibles Auction

The Gerald Burg Collection of Autographs

Lot	Photo	Description	Realized
Lot 262		Withdrawn	Unsold
Lot 263		Withdrawn	Unsold
Lot 264		Withdrawn	Unsold
Lot 265		Hamlin, Hannibal (1809-1891) American Vice President under Lincoln. Calling Card Signed. 3¼ x 2", on white card stock. Signed in full below his printed name. Browned on edges but still attractive. Estimated Value $120 - 180. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $138
Lot 266		Hamlin, Hannibal. Calling Card Signed. 3¼ x 2", on white card stock. Signed in full on verso. Some foxing on edges. Estimated Value $120 - 180. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $345
Lot 267		Hardin, John Wesley. Hardin material is exceedingly scarce. (1853-1895) American Outlaw, gunfighter, gambler and attorney. Business Card. Approximately 3 x 2", on cream card stock. A business card for the notorious gunfighter, in his later role of Attorney at Law. The printed card reads, "John W. Hardin Esq./ Attorney At Law /Practice In All Courts." Estimated Value $600 - 900. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $403
Lot 268		Harding, Florence Kling (1860-1924) Wife of 29th President Warren G. Harding. First Family Card Signed. 3½ x 2½", on cream card stock with gold embossed federal seal. Signed in full in black ink. Estimated Value $120 - 180. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $75
Lot 269		Withdrawn	Unsold
Lot 270		Harding, Warren G (1865-1923) 29th President of the United States. Inscribed Presidential Visiting Card Initialed. 3½ x 2", on cream card stock. Brandishing the printed legend, "The President," above which Harding has inscribed the sentiment: "With wishes for a Merry Christmas," and signed his initials beneath the printed text. Estimated Value $350 - 525. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $230
Lot 271		Harding, Warren G. White House Card Signed. 4½ x 2½", on cream card stock. Boldly signed in full beneath the executive imprint. Some age toning. Estimated Value $350 - 525. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $288
Lot 272		Harding, Warren G. Inscribed Visiting Card. 3 x 1½", on off-white card stock. Penned "a Merry Christmas" above his printed name. Estimated Value $200 - 300. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $121
Lot 273		Hardy, Thomas (1840-1928) British Novelist and Poet, found success with Far from the Madding Crowd (1874). Inscribed Calling Card Initialed. 4½ x 3½", on cream card stock. "Aug 31, 1905 / Dear Mr. Northrop: I have not been able to find time for the drive you kindly propose, & as I am going away shortly I fear I shall not be able to do so. I hope you will come away with a good impression of Dorchester. / yours truly T.H." Estimated Value $200 - 300. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $460
Lot 274		Harrison, Benjamin (1833-1901) 23rd President of the United States. Inscribed Visiting Card Signed. 3½ x 2", on cream card stock. Penned "June 6th 1895" on recto and signed "Benj Harrison" on verso. Mounting traces on border of verso. Estimated Value $450 - 650. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $242
Lot 275		Harrison, Benjamin. Inscribed Visiting Card Signed. 3½ x 2", on cream card stock. Signed in full, "Benj Harrison" on verso. Estimated Value $450 - 650. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $265
Lot 276		Harrison, Caroline Scott (1832-1892) American Wife of 23rd President, Benjamin Harrison. Executive Mansion Card Signed. 4½ x 2 3/4", on white card stock (age toned). Signed in full on recto. Estimated Value $300 - 450. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $443
Lot 277		Harrison, Caroline Scott. Executive Mansion Card Signed. 4½ x 2 3/4", on white card stock. Signed in full. Estimated Value $300 - 450. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $403
Lot 278		Harrison, Caroline Scott. Visiting Card Signed. 3¼ x 1-3/4", on cream card stock. Signed in full on verso. Estimated Value $250 - 375. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $150
Lot 279		Harte, Francis Brete (1839-1902) American Author, best known for his classic short story, The Luck of Roaring Camp (1870). Inscribed Visiting Card Signed. 4½ x 3½", on cream card stock with raised blue imprinted address. Harte writes: "Saturday A.M. My dear Douglas Murray, I accept your invitation for the 27th with great pleasure. I am hard at work now, if I can get a free hour on Wednesday, I'll drop in at 5. Sincerely yours, Brett Harte." Slight crease along center. Estimated Value $150 - 225. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $92
Lot 280		Harte, Francis Brete. Inscribed Visiting Card Signed. 4¼ x 2-3/4", on cream card stock. "Friday P.M./ Dear Lady D[?]/ I will come by your luncheon on Wednesday with great pleasure./ Yours always/ Brett Harte." Estimated Value $150 - 225. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $92
Lot 281		A Very Desirable Nathaniel Hawthorne Inscribed Visiting Card (1804-1864) American Novelist, author of the classic novel The Scarlet Letter (1850). Inscribed Visiting Card Signed. 3¼ x 1 3/4", on off-white card stock. A personal and unique visiting card from this masterful American novelist, bearing small imprinted type with a gothic cast. Hawthorne has identified the card as being "for Mr. Lentre," in pencil below his printed name, and inscribed the card on the verso as follows: "Dear Mr. Lentre, I am going to [ ? ], and shall not be back to keep my engagement on Monday. Please excuse me. Yours most sincerely, Nath' Hawthorne." Estimated Value $750 - 1,250. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $719
Lot 282		Hayes, Lucy Webb. First example of an "Executive Mansion Card". (1831-1889) American Wife of 19th President Rutherford B. Hayes. Executive Mansion Card Signed. 4½ x 2½", on cream card stock. Signed in full on recto. Some browning on edges. Estimated Value $250 - 375. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $391
Lot 283		Hayes, Lucy Webb. Visiting Card Signed. 3½ x 2", on cream card stock. Signed "Lucy W. Hayes" in black ink on verso. Conspicuous mounting traces on recto. Estimated Value $175 - 250. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $121
Lot 284		Hayes, Rutherford B (1822-1893) 19th President of the United States. Visiting Card Signed. 4½ x 2 3/4", on off-white card stock. A very unusual card adorned with an embossed design in red and black of a small hand spreading out a fan of "face" cards. Signed in the center "R.B. Hayes." Estimated Value $375 - 500. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $368
Lot 285		Hayes, Rutherford B. Visiting Card Signed. 3¼ x 1 3/4", on cream card stock. Signed "R.B. Hayes" in dark ink on verso. Estimated Value $300 - 450. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $207
Lot 286		Hayes, Rutherford B. Executive Mansion Card Signed. 4¼ x 2½", on "Executive Mansion" card. Dec. 13, 1878. Signed "R.B. Hayes" on recto. Estimated Value $300 - 450. Hayes is believed to be the first to use such named cards. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $920
Lot 287		Hayes, Rutherford B. Military Card Signed. 4 x 2¼", on off-white card stock. Being a card autographed as Aide-de-Camp-on Staff of Commander-in-chief. Card features a multicolored embossed cartouche and medal in upper left. Signed in full on verso. Estimated Value $300 - 450. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $242
Lot 288		Hayes, Rutherford B. Military Card Signed. 4 x 2¼", on off-white card stock. Being a card autographed as Aide-de-Camp-on Staff of Commander-in-chief. Card features a multicolored embossed cartouche and medal in upper left. Signed in full on verso. Estimated Value $300 - 450. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $242
Lot 289		Hayes, Rutherford B. Inscribed Visiting Card Signed. 3 x 1½", on cream card stock. Inked on verso, "With best wishes/ R.B. Hayes." . Estimated Value $250 - 375. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $403
Lot 290		Hayes, Rutherford B. Visiting Card Signed. 3 x 1½", on cream card stock. Signed and dated on verso "Rutherford B. Hayes / Fremont, O./ Nov 12 1887." Mounting traces on recto. Estimated Value $250 - 375. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $173
Lot 291		Hayes, Rutherford B. Visiting Card Signed. 3¼ x 1-3/4", on manila card stock. Signed "R.B. Hayes" on verso. Mounting traces on recto. Estimated Value $250 - 375. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $184
Lot 292		[Hayes, Rutherford B.]. Visiting Card Signed by the First Lady. 3 x 1½", on cream card stock. Signed by Wife Lucy on verso and additionally signed by his wife on the recto. Mounting traces on recto. Estimated Value $300 - 400. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $184
Lot 293		Withdrawn	Unsold
Lot 294		A Treasured Inscribed Hemingway Visiting Card (1899-1961) American Novelist and Short Story writer, considered one of America's greatest writers. Author of A Farewell to Arms (1929), The Old Man and the Sea (1952), and others. Awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954. Inscribed Visiting Card Signed. Approximately 3 x 1½", on cream card stock. Hemingway uses this card to accompany a gift that he presents to some close friends. He has crossed out the "Mr." that appears before his printed name to personalize the card, and inscribes: "Dear Bud and Helen : Hope you find these funny - Best always - Ernest ." Estimated Value $1,500 - 2,250. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $1,725
Lot 295		Herbert, Victor (1859-1924) Irish Composer of Babes in Toyland and Naughty Marietta. Inscribed Visiting Card With Autograph Musical Quotation Signed. 3 x 1½", on cream card stock. Inscribed "from 'Hero and Leandra' Sincerely Victor Herbert / Nov. 1903" on verso. Mounting traces on printed name on recto. Estimated Value $250 - 375. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $489
Lot 296		A Pair of Extremely Rare Theodore Herzl Inscribed Visiting Cards (1860-1904) Hungarian Lawyer and Journalist and Founder of Zionism. Inscribed Visiting Card Signed. 4 x 2¼", on cream card stock. With a four line untranslated inscription penned below Herzl's printed name. Estimated Value $1,000 - 1,500. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $16,100
Lot 297		Herzl, Theodor. Inscribed Visiting Card. 4 x 2¼", on cream card stock. With a five-line untranslated inscription penned below Herzl's printed name and dated, "Feb. 7, 1899." Estimated Value $400 - 600. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $978
Lot 298		Himmler, Heinrich (1900-1945) Nazi Reichsführer of the SS. Inscribed Visiting Card Signed. 3½ x 2", on cream card stock. Inscribed in German, in dark black ink on the verso: "Many hearty good wishes from my wife and myself on the birth of your boy. Devotedly, H. Himmler." Dated 5.12.37. Estimated Value $500 - 750. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $460
Lot 299		Himmler, Heinrich. Inscribed Visiting Card Signed. 3½ x 2", on parchment card stock. Inscribed in German, "Many good wishes and friendly on your birthday. Heil Hitler." Signed "H.Himmler" and dated "30.II.38" on verso. Also signed by Himmler's wife, Marga. Estimated Value $500 - 750. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $776
Lot 300		Himmler, Heinrich. Inscribed Visiting Card Signed. 4¼ x 2½", on cream card stock. In German, to his mistress, Edith von Color, sending a book and cancelling an engagement with her because of "a crazy amount of work." Signed, "Heinrich" and dated Jan. 15, '34. Estimated Value $500 - 750. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $719
Lot 301		Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945) Austrian, German Führer, Nazi Dictator. Government Card Signed. 3-3/4 x 2½", on cream card stock. Stamped with the gold embossed seal of the Third Reich, and gilt imprinted with Hitler's name. Boldly signed in full, "Adolf Hitler." Estimated Value $1,500 - 2,250. I had a friend in the OSS whose team entered the Reichstag early on. Upon seeing signed documents throughout, they placed the material in boxes and sent them 'home'. When my friend died, his widow called to ask my help with some of the material. In gratitude, she gave me the Hitler cards. -- Gerry Burg. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $2,875
Lot 302		Hitler, Adolf. Government Card. 3-3/4 x 2½", on cream card stock. Stamped with the gold embossed seal of the Third Reich and gilt imprinted with Hitler's name. Estimated Value $500 - 750. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $575
Lot 303		Hitler, Adolf. Visiting Card. 4 x 2½", on cream card stock. Gilt imprinted with the dictator's name, "Adolf Hitler" in large gold letters. Estimated Value $500 - 750. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $299
Lot 304		Honegger, Arthur (1892-1955) Swiss Composer of King David (1921). Inscribed Visiting Card Signed. 3 x 1½", on cream card stock. A brief thank-you note penned on recto/verso, signed "Arthur & Laura." Estimated Value $250 - 375. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $403
Lot 305		Hoover, Herbert (1874-1964) 31st President of the United States. Business Card Signed. 3½ x 2", on cream card stock. Being the Stanford University card of the 31st President, signed in full. Estimated Value $250 - 375. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $150
Lot 306		Hoover, Herbert. White House Card Signed. 4¼ x 2-3/4", on cream card stock. Signed upside down on verso of the card. Estimated Value $250 - 375. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $150
Lot 307		Hoover, J. Edgar (1895-1972). Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Calling Card Signed. 4-3/4 x 2-3/4", on cream card stock. Signed in full above his printed name. Estimated Value $120 - 180. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $121
Lot 308		Hoover, J. Edgar. Calling Card Signed. 4-3/4 x 2-3/4", on cream card stock. Signed in full above his printed name. Estimated Value $120 - 180. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $276
Lot 309		Hoover, J. Edgar. FBI Autograph Card Signed. 4 x 2½", on cream card stock. Signed in full above his printed name. Estimated Value $120 - 180. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $75
Lot 310		Withdrawn	Unsold
Lot 311		The Ultimate Harry Houdini Inscribed Visiting Card (1874-1926) American Magician and Escape Artist. Inscribed Visiting Card Signed. 3 x 2", on manila card stock. An engraved portrait adorns the right portion of Houdini's calling card, which brandishes the printed name "Houdini" at upper left, and gives the elusive magicians "permanent" address at bottom left. Houdini has written a playful inscription on the verso of the card in bright green ink which reads: "Only Judy will be able to open this chest! Houdini." Also includes an inscribed Calling card from Houdini's wife, Beatrice. Two water spots are evident in the inscription, one affecting the J in "Judy", the other is located on the H in "Houdini." Estimated Value $1,000 - 1,500. While visiting an antique store in San Diego, I saw an old frame with the Houdini card which I, of course purchased. -- Gerry Burg. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $2,760

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