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Royalty
Great Britain
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
World Leaders
Austria
Kurt von Schuschnigg - scarce signed
postcard photograph of the Austrian chancellor who opposed Hitlerʼs takeover
of Austria, 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
France
[Napoleon Bonaparte] - Robert Pooley - outstanding
autograph letter signed by the American consular official, a native of St.
Helena, regarding the
exhumation of Napoleon Bonaparte’s body in 1821 for its return to
France, 12-16-1895, unframed
Germany
Joachim von Ribbentrop - autograph letter signed by Nazi Germany’s
Foreign Minister to an unnamed recipient to ask for a further meeting,
unframed
Great Britain
Sir Julian Pauncefote - bold signature and title of the noted
diplomat, Britain's first ambassador to the
United States, 1895
Philippines
Carlos P.
Romulo - typed letter signed 1-15-1959, unframed
World Military
Germany
Hermann Göring - rare, poignant signed photo of Göring holding his
infant daughter, Edda, before her christening, July 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
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
Invention and Science
Charles Darwin - bold signature of the father of the theory of
evolution on a card, unframed
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