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

Auction Details

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
394 Dwight D. Eisenhower

Dwight D. Eisenhower Typed Letter Signed on Bikini Atoll Atomic Bomb Tests: "The forthcoming tests are designed as a military experiment, with particular regard to the effect of the bomb on navel vessels"

1946 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 4,973.00
395 Dwight D. Eisenhower

Dwight D. Eisenhower War-Dated Autograph Letter Signed to Mamie

[1944] USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 Not Sold
396 Dwight D. Eisenhower

Dwight D. Eisenhower Signed Book - Crusade in Europe (Ltd. Ed. #503/1426)

NY 1948 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 3,670.00
397

Guadalcanal Coastal Battlefield Map of the 1st Marine Division (August 1942) - The First Major Conflict Between Allied and Japanese Forces in the Pacific Theater

1942 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 368.00
398 Rudolf Hess

Rudolf Hess Nuremberg Trial Document Signed, Summoning a Witness for His Defense Against Charges of "Persecution of Jews," Documenting His Flight to Scotland

1946 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 14,949.00
399 John F. Kennedy

John F. Kennedy War-Dated Typed Letter Signed to a Fellow PT-109 Survivor, with Hand-Addressed Mailing Envelope from "Lt. J. F. KennedyaEU

1944 USD 2,500.00 - 3,000.00 USD 4,523.00
400 Douglas MacArthur

Douglas MacArthur Signed Photograph - Pictured Aboard the USS Cleveland in Borneo (1945)

1945 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 Not Sold
401 George S. Patton

George S. Patton Autograph Letter Signed, Preparing for a Summer Trip: "I am taking three guns two rifeles and a shot gun"

no date but circa late 1890s USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,880.00
402 George S. Patton

George S. Patton Typed Letter Signed

1945 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 3,336.00
403 George S. Patton

George S. Patton Signed Menu for His 60th Birthday Celebration (November 11, 1945) - Less Than a Month Before His Tragic Accident

1945 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 4,109.00
404 Pearl Harbor

Pearl Harbor Attack: Naval Archive of News Flashes, Bulletins, and Photographs

1939 USD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 USD 2,756.00
405 Franklin D. Roosevelt

Franklin D. Roosevelt Typed Letter Signed as President, Three Days Before the 1935 Neutrality Act: "Things do look serious in Europe"

1935 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Not Sold
406 Franklin D. Roosevelt

Franklin D. Roosevelt WWII-Dated Typed Letter Signed as President, Pledging the "uninterrupted production of the weapons and materials" needed by those "fighting the good fight for democracies"

1941 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 2,756.00
407 President Franklin D. Roosevelt

President Franklin D. Roosevelt Letter on Nazi-ism and 'Another crisis in Germany' (February 1938)

1938 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 Not Sold
408 Franklin D. Roosevelt

Franklin D. Roosevelt Typed Letter Signed as President: "Child labor should be permanently abolished"

1937 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 Not Sold
409 President Franklin D. Roosevelt

President Franklin D. Roosevelt Accepts a Birthday Gift Paperweight "made from an engine part of a Japanese plane shot down during the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941aEU

1942 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 2,819.00
410 Henry J. Renzi's

World War II: Henry J. Renzi's Photographic Archive (700+) as a Coast Guard Cameraman During the European and Pacific Campaigns

1943 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 11,526.00
411 Lt. Gen. Thomas Hickey's

Lt. Gen. Thomas Hickey's 20th Century War Archive: WWI, WWII, and Korea, with Typed Letters Signed by Patton (2), Kennedy, Eisenhower, and Nixon (2)

1945 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 19,899.00
412

World War II 'Freedom Is In Peril' and 'Your Courage Will Bring Us Victory' Rare British Propaganda Posters (Large)

1939 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 Not Sold
413

World War II (4) Maps of France

circa 1943 USD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 Not Sold
414

World War II Anti-American Propaganda Poster by Gino Boccasile

circa 1944 USD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 Not Sold
415

World War II Cipher Message: Eisenhower's Total Ceasefire Order (May 7, 1945), Announcing the "unconditional surrender of all German land, sea, and air forces in Europe"

1945 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 Not Sold
416

World War II Teleprinter Message: Eisenhower's Total Ceasefire Order (May 7, 1945), Transmitted by 1st Canadian Army

1945 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 Not Sold
417

World War II: 'Victory Order of the Day' from V-E Day (May 8, 1945)

1945 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 Not Sold
418

World War II: V-E Day Proclamation White House Press Release

1945 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 Not Sold
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