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Royalty
Great Britain
King George III - nice vellum commission in which the King
appoints a lieutenant of volunteers as Great Britain expands its home
defense during the Napoleonic Wars, 6-27-1798, unframed
King Edward VIII - The Duke of Windsor -
bold handwritten sentiment
signed and dated by the former King in April 1951, when he released his
memoir, A Kingʼs Story, unframed
The
Duke and Duchess of Windsor - album page boldly signed by the Duke
and Duchess in 1956, the year the Duchess published her memoir, The
Heart Has Its Reasons, unframed
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh - very scarce typed letter signed
sending thanks for an art print while nonetheless offering to
give it up for charity, 11-19-1982, unframed
World Leaders
Austria
Kurt von Schuschnigg - scarce signed
postcard photograph of the Austrian chancellor who opposed Hitlerʼs takeover
of Austria, unframed
Canada
Brian Mulroney - beautiful inscribed, signed formal portrait of
the conservative Canadian Prime Minister, unframed
China (Nationalist)
Madame Chiang Kai-shek - excellent letter in which Madame Chiang writes
of the morale of Nationalist Chinese troops, the cooperation between the
United States and the Republic of China, and the bonds of friendship between
nations, 2-111961, unframed
Cuba
Fidel Castro - Castro signs, in person, a copy of the centerpiece
of his revolutionary reforms: the Cuban Agrarian Reform Act of 1959,
with documents of provenance, unframed
Germany
Adolf Hitler - scarce early Nazi party document expelling a
member for failure to attend an SA meeting, signed by Hitler and Nazi party
Supreme Court president Walter Buch,
3-31-1927, unframed
[Adolf Hitler] -
Hitler’s personal war-related books—three
concerning Nazi Germany’s military operations during World
War II—from his massive personal
library
Philippines
Carlos P.
Romulo - typed letter signed regarding his appearance on the
television reality show This Is Your Life, 1-15-1959, unframed
Russia / Soviet Union
Vyacheslav
Molotov - in his role as Chairman of the Council of People’s Commissars,
Molotov forwards to Soviet statesman Anastas Mikoyan,
an Armenian, a three-page letter of complaint by the prominent Armenian
writer Nairi Zarian, circa December 1937, unframed
World Military
Germany
Werner von Blomberg - rare personal
handwritten letter by the
German Minister of War and Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces,
7-1-1938, unframed
[Hermann Göring] Emmy Göring -
extremely rare, perhaps unique, oversize signed photograph of the second wife
of Nazi Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring, together with an unsigned family portrait,
unframed
Albert Speer - Hitlerʼs chief architect and Nazi Reich Minister of
Armaments sends thanks for reviews likely of his first book, Inside the
Third Reich, 3-24-1971, unframed
Holocaust and
WWII Related Items
Adolf Eichmann - rare and important war-dated directive by
Eichmann to Theodor Dannecker, Nazi head of the Jewish Department in Paris, to create a register of Jews for
efficiency in actions against Jews, 9-28-1941, unframed
Rudolf Höss -
extremely rare letter by Höss, the
Commandant at Auschwitz, requesting the assignment of more staff
officers for the infamous Nazi extermination camp, 7-16-1944, unframed
Pastor Martin Niemöller -
autographed letter signed on a postcard by
the German anti-Nazi dissident sending birthday greetings to a
friend, 6-15-1976, unframed
Miscellaneous
World History Fields
Authors
Brendan Behan - typed letter signed to the editor of The
Atlantic Monthly expressing his eagnerness to write an article,
5-18-1958, unframed
Alexandre Dumas, fils - autograph note signed by the author
of The Lady of Camellias—Camille—expressing his regret at
missing a visitor, unframed
T. S. Eliot - typed letter signed declining to publish the poems
of Howard Nemerov, later a Pulitzer Prize winner, 10-26-1955, unframed
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