RR Auction: Fine Autographs and Artifacts Featuring World War II, 719, Amherst

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Auction Report
Auction Date
June 11, 2025 - June 11, 2025
Page Size: 840 items in 34 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
368 Karl Donitz

Reich President Karl Donitz Signed German Surrender Negotiation Document Presented to the Allies by Col. Gen. Alfred Jodl (May 6, 1945)

1945 USD 100,000.00 - 200,000.00 USD 166,333.00
369 Erwin Rommel

Erwin Rommel Autograph Letter Signed, One Day After D-Day: "Situation not very encouraging...the superiority in aeroplanes, tanks and ships, is massive" (June 7, 1944)

1944 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 18,761.00
370 Operation Manna:

Operation Manna: Secret 'Food Drop' Document Signed by Freddie de Guingand and Ernst Schwebel, Representing the End of WWII in the Netherlands (April 28, 1945)

1945 USD 5,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 5,170.00
371 Hans-Georg von Friedeburg

Hans-Georg von Friedeburg Hand-Drawn Seating Chart for the German Surrender at LA1/4neburg Heath (May 4, 1945)

1945 USD 5,000.00 - 10,000.00 Not Sold
372 Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill Rare Signed Color RAF Portrait by David Waddington - One of Five Known Examples

USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 8,536.00
373 Hirohito

Hirohito Signed Photograph

USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 Not Sold
374

Allied 'Instrument of Surrender' Document to the Japanese at Java (1942), Retained by the Commander of the Texas 'Lost Battalion'

1942 USD 20,000.00 - 40,000.00 USD 24,994.00
375

Japan 'Instrument of Surrender' Document Ceding Hong Kong to the British, Signed by Cecil Harcourt and Japanese Military Representatives (September 16, 1945)

1945 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 24,865.00
376 Neville Chamberlain

Neville Chamberlain Typed Letter Signed, Two Weeks After Nazi Germany's Annexation of Austria (March 28, 1938): "The National Government remains determined to promote peace by conciliatory means"

1938 USD 10,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 6,250.00
377 Neville Chamberlain

Neville Chamberlain Typed Letter Signed with Autograph Postscript, on the Precipice of War with Germany (August 26, 1939): "I still hope we may avoid the worst, but if it comes we are thank God prepared for it"

1939 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 8,536.00
378 Neville Chamberlain

Neville Chamberlain World War II-Dated Autograph Letter Signed to Lord Beaverbrook, Four Days Before His Resignation (May 6, 1940): "So many are sounding the defeatist note over a minor set back"

1940 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 9,390.00
379 Robert Capa

Robert Capa 'Omaha Beach During the D-Day Landings' Wire Photograph

1944 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 Not Sold
380 Chiang Kai-shek

Chiang Kai-shek Oversized Signed Photograph

USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 2,505.00
381 Winston Churchill:

Winston Churchill: The Second World War, Vols. I-VI (First Edition Set)

London 1948-1954 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 Not Sold
382 Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill Typed Letter Signed to His Swedish Publisher on Books

1954 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 Not Sold
383 Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill Typed Letter Signed on Trade Unions and Socialism

1950 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 2,500.00
384 Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill Typed Letter Signed on Conservative Leadership: "We shall certainly persevere in working for peace in the world"

1955 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 Not Sold
385 Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill Typed Letter Signed on National Debt

1928 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 Not Sold
386 Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill Autograph Letter Signed on the Canadian Cattle Embargo

1922 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Not Sold
387 Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill Signed Book Set - A History of the English-Speaking Peoples

London 1956-1958 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 2,505.00
388 Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill Signed Book Set - The Second World War

London 1948-1954 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 3,025.00
389 Winston Churchill:

Winston Churchill: First Editions of His Wartime and Post-War Speeches (13 Volumes)

1938 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 3,750.00
390 Winston Churchill:

Winston Churchill: First Edition Set of His Magnum Opus, The World Crisis (6 Volumes)

London 1923-1931 USD 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 Not Sold
391 Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill Typed Letter Signed

1958 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,880.00
392 Charles de Gaulle

Charles de Gaulle WWII-Dated Autograph Letter Signed to Gen. Weygand, from Exile in London on June 20, 1940: "I shall join any French resistance movement that may be organised"

1940 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 Not Sold
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