Note: The Oscar Wilde, Amelia Earhart, Jimmy Stewart, Kennedy letter and Hawthorne signatures did not pass PSA authentication. However, the following autographs were certified by PSA and come with their own LOA: Mark Twain, Orson Wells, Vidocq, Ambrose Bierce, Arthur Conan Doyle, Henry Irving and Azorin.
Some great items literally centuries old are available in this collection of autographs from historical figures ranging back to 1603, then 1800s to late 20th century. Poets, politicians, iconic figures, journalists, authors, Prime Ministers, Kings, scientists and much more are featured in these letters, photos, cuts, checks, documents and other ephemera. Highlights include: 1) Oscar Wilde signature from handwritten dosument. 2) Orson Welles cut signature. 3) Amelia Earhart signed page from "The Fun of It." 4) Mark Twain cut signature. 5) Abraham Lincoln handwritten document clipping. 6) 1603 Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset signed letter to Mary Queen of Scots of her impending execution. 7) "Peter Pan" creator Sir James Barrie signature from a handwritten letter. 8) Nathaniel Hawthorne document signature. 9) Signed limitation pages: Arthur Conan Doyle signed "The Crowborough Edition of The Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle" and W.B Yeats signed "The Variorum Edition of the Poems of W.B Yeats". 10) 1840 Edward Tuckerman, botanist, signed handwritten letter to his father while attending Harvard. 11) 1950 Cornell Woolrich signed check for "Bonus: The Death Stone". 12) 1950 Olaf Stapledon signed handwritten letter. 13) Agatha Christie cut signature. 14) Jorge Luis Borges cut signature. 15) 1920 Vicente Blasco Ibanez signed handwritten letter. 16) Frederick Jackson Turner signed book excerpt. 17) King Umberto II signed 1969 FDC. 18) 1827 Eugène François "Vidocq" signed page from "Memories de Vidocq." 19) 1904 Jack London signed check. 20) Jimmy Stewart signed "Harvey" sketch. 21) 1888 William Gladstone signed envelope. 22) 1937 R. Austin Freeman signed handwritten letter. 23) 1968 Robert F. Kennedy signed letter (secretarial). 24) Ambrose Bierce autographed limitation page. 25) 1949 Leon Blum signed Harris & Ewing oversized photograph. 26) 1934 Harry Ruby & Dick Powell signed Official National League (Heydler) baseball. 27) Harry Ruby signed handwritten score page. 28) 1949 Gummo Marx signed contract. 29) 1898 Frederic Weatherly signed handwritten letter. 30) Arthur Machen signed limitation page. 31) 1847 John Sartain signed check. Other signatures include: Jose Martinez Ruiz "Azorin", 1897 Julian Hawthorne signed handwritten letter, Christopher Isherwood, 1925 Edmund C. Bentley handwritten signed letter, 1880s/90s Henry Irving signed Window & Grove studio photograph, Anthony Hope Hawkins, Richard Harding Davis, Mario Llosa, Rex Stout, William Le Queux, W.W. Jacobs handwritten letter, 1852 Mark Lemon letter, William Cullen Bryant, Catherine Crowe autographed handwritten note, Signed FDC by Isaac Asimov and Chuck Gould, (5) 1854 Angus Reach signed manuscripts, Ngaio Marsh, 1800's Andre Dupin, Jack Bilbo, Carolyn Wells signed handwritten letter, Walter Van Tilburg Clark signed handwritten letter, Tom Taylor handwritten letter, 1957 Charles Einstein & Fritz Lang signed contract and much more. There will be some secretarial signatures due to quantity of the collection, but no major stars. Lot offered as is.