Ripley Auctions: Humanitiques Live! Collecting Diversity and Eccentricities of Humanity, 61225, Indianapolis

Auction Details

Auction Date: June 12, 2025 - June 12, 2025

Page Size: 91 items in 4 pages

Lot Number	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
22	Original Madam CJ Walker "Silver Print" portrait photograph.		Not Available	Not Sold
23	Madam C.J. Walker Manufacturing Company Financial Document,	1919	Not Available	Not Sold
24	Original 12-Page Complete Course of Instructions on "The Walker Method of Hair Culture"		Not Available	USD 1,187.50
25	Original "The Walker 1949 Almanac"		Not Available	USD 593.75
26	Mme. C.J. Walker Manufacturing Co. Order Blank,	1919	Not Available	USD 2,000.00
27	Madam Walker Manufacturing Company Business Payroll Document		Not Available	Not Sold
28	Letter Written By Madam C.J. Walker To Attorney & Office Manager,	1917-04-17	Not Available	Not Sold
29	13 Original 1918 Mme. C.J. Walker Mfg. Co. Order File Cards	1918	Not Available	USD 1,750.00
34	Currier & Ives 1883 Baseball print 'Slugged Out. Better luck next time.'	1883	Not Available	USD 87.50
51	Antique 1901 Opium Receipt Rutlam India Opium Agency for 10 chests of opium.	1901	Not Available	USD 75.00
52	Antique US IRS Narcotics Stamp unused.		Not Available	USD 25.00
53	1928 Prohibition Liquor Prescription unused.	1928	Not Available	USD 75.00
54	Antique 1867 Internal Revenue License IRS tax form.	1867	Not Available	USD 12.50
74	American Printing Co. 1904 NYC LARGE SCALE lithograph; hand colored image taken from Richard Rummell	1904	Not Available	Not Sold
77	New York The Commercial Cable Company vintage advertisement in plastic sleeve		Not Available	USD 37.50
79	CDV portrait photograph of Charles Stratton "General Tom Thumb" with Lavinia Warren Bump in case along with a tintype found inside.		Not Available	USD 87.50
81	TV-Radio Service We Use RCA Tubes light up dealership advertising sign		Not Available	USD 437.50
82	Louis McKay archive and estate papers, husband of Eleanor McKay aka Billie Holiday		Not Available	USD 37.50
83	Louis McKay archive and estate papers, controversial last husband of Eleanor McKay aka Billie Holiday		Not Available	USD 625.00
84	Louis McKay archive & estate papers - various ephemera		Not Available	USD 12.50
85	Louis McKay archive and estate papers, controversial last husband of Eleanor McKay aka Billie Holiday		Not Available	USD 37.50
86	Louis McKay archive and estate papers, husband of Eleanor McKay aka Billie Holiday		Not Available	USD 750.00
87	Two handwritten songs by authors Jack Reardon and Gloria Ebeling, "Involved Again" and "Troubles"	1959	Not Available	USD 37.50
88	4 charts for trumpet, trombone and violin, Hal Miles copies of Ray Ellis and Ernie Wilkins arrangements for Billie Holiday, ...		Not Available	USD 62.50
89	Ray Ellis charts for "Sleepy Time Down South" and "Some Changes Made"		Not Available	USD 62.50

Sotheby's
Fine Books, Manuscripts & More
Available for Immediate Purchase

Sotheby’s: Ian Fleming. Casino Royale, London, 1953. First edition, first printing. $58,610.

Sotheby’s: A.A. Milne, Ernest Howard Shepard. Winnie The Pooh, United Kingdom, 1926. First UK edition. $17,580.

Sotheby’s: Ernest Hemingway. Three Stories And Ten Poems, [Paris], (1923). First edition of Hemingway’s first published book. $75,000.

Sotheby's
Fine Books, Manuscripts & More
Available for Immediate Purchase

Sotheby’s: L. Frank Baum. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chicago, 1900. First edition. $27,500.

Sotheby’s: Man Ray. Photographs By Man Ray 1920 Paris 1934, Hartford, 1934. $7,860.

Sotheby’s: Thomas Pennant. Zoologia Britannica, Augsburg, 1771. $49,125.
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