2026 Ephemera and Comics Auction

Approx. 15 Historical Manuscripts and Documents
to include an 1854 Charleston, South Carolina estate document with wax seals, signed by Mayor T. L. Hutchinson; an 1813 autograph letter signed by Joseph Story concerning constitutional and judicial matters; an 1868 letter discussing Morocco and diplomatic affairs; an 1863 Civil War letter by Confederate cavalryman John S. McBean describing the capture of General John Hunt Morgan; a 1907 State of New York election certificate for Willard Bartlett with official signatures and seal; together with an autograph album. Largest 8″ x 13″.

Estimate: $500 - $1000

Jackie Robinson Autographed Sports Illustrated Photo
signed “Best Wishes”. 8″ x 10″.

Estimate: $500 - $1000

Approx. 20 Theodore Roosevelt and Franklin D. Roosevelt Political Campaign Buttons
housed in shadow box case. Case 12″ x 16″.

Estimate: $100 - $300

Two United States Postage Stamp Albums
to include partial albums of the White Ace Historical Album Series one for the Commemorative Stamps of the United States, and the other for the Regular Issues of the United States.

Estimate: $100 - $300

Canada Stamp Collection, White Ace Historical Album
comprising an extensive collection of Canadian postage and revenue stamps housed in a White Ace Historical Album, including early Queen Victoria issues (1859,1890), Small Queens and later 19th century printings, and a substantial run of early 20th century commemoratives, 1897 Queen Victoria Jubilee Issue (partial set) including ½¢, 1¢, 2¢, 3¢, 5¢, 6¢, 8¢ and 15¢ examples
Early Large and Small Queen issues (1868,1890), various denominations including 6¢, 10¢, 15¢ and others.1933,1934 commemoratives including Postal Union (5¢), Jacques Cartier (3¢), Royal William (5¢), Grain Exhibition (20¢), Loyalists (10¢), early 20th century definitives and pictorial issues, selection of Canadian Revenues and Inspection stamps, including Gas Inspection issues (up to $10), Weights & Measures (up to $1), Customs Duty issues, and Ontario Law Stamps

Estimate: $300 - $500

Three United States Postage Stamp Albums
comprising of a three volume partial set of the American Plate Block Album. Books include the Airmails: 1918 to Date, Volume II 1938-1950, and Volume III 1951- Date.

Estimate: $100 - $300

20 U.S. Union Civil War Letters
written by Private David E. Hyde of the 9th Pennsylvania Reserve Infantry. Contents included mentions of General Burnside, General Lew Wallace falling back to Baltimore and making McHenry his headquarters, General McClelland driving the rebels from Yorktown, troop movements and quantities, the Fredericksburg campaign, and the rebel General Stonewall Jackson. Letters date from 1861-64. Most written and addressed to his cousin Sarah Hyde of Hartford Connecticut.

Estimate: $300 - $500

13 Confederate States of America Notes
to include four $5, four $10, one $20, and one $50, along with a framed group comprising of a $5, $10, and a $1 North Carolina Mount Hecla Stram Cotton Mills script.

Estimate: $100 - $300

7 Tintype Photographs of Civil War Soldiers
two in cases, one possibly a Confederate. Largest case 4″ x 4 1/2″.

Estimate: $300 - $500

11 Daguerreotype Photographs
depicting man and women, many still have complete cases. Largest case 3 3/4″ x 4 1/2″.

Estimate: $100 - $300

Two Copies of Eugene Fields My Books
with papers from the Library of Congress

Estimate: $200 - $400

Eight Volumes of Mark Twain (American, 1835-1910)
Including The Innocents Abroad; or, The New Pilgrims’ Progress, John Camden Hotten, Piccadilly, London; A Tramp Abroad, Rose-Belford Publishing Company, Toronto; The Prince and the Pauper, Charles L. Webster & Company, New York; Tom Sawyer, Detective and Other Stories, Grosset & Dunlap, New York; The Stolen White Elephant, George Newnes, London; Pudd’nhead Wilson, Chatto & Windus, London, 1894 (first English edition); and two copies of The American Claimant, Charles L. Webster & Company, New York, 1892 (both first editions).

Estimate: $200 - $400

Group of Approximately Forty Antique and Vintage Literature Books
Including titles such as Artemus Ward, Complete Works (illustrated), Capital and Labor, The Angel in the House, works of Rudyard Kipling (Limits and Renewals), Nights with Uncle Remus by Joel Chandler Harris, Robert Louis Stevenson, John Steinbeck (The Wayward Bus), Upton Sinclair (Oil!, Little Steel, William Fox), F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Last Tycoon), A. Conan Doyle (The Valley of Fear), John Cheever (The Wapshot Chronicle), along with additional 19th and 20th century literary works.

Estimate: $500 - $1000

Large Collection of 45 Esther Gentle Reproduction Lithographs
Nine: Joan Miro (Spanish 1893-1983) Three “Mural I” 1933, three “Mural II”, 1933, three”Mural III”, 1933, Serigraphs, Esther Gentle Color Reproductions, New York
13″ x 40″ sheet size, 8 3/4″ x 39″ image size
Four: Abraham Rattner (American 1893-1978) “Figures Waiting”, 1947, Scene with five figures sitting around a dining table, Screenprints by Esther Gentle Reproductions, New York, Both signed in plate Rattner, Composition, Figures Waiting, 1947, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Milton Lowenthal
23″ x 35″ image size
15: Paul Klee (Swiss/German 1879-1940) “Dance of the Grieving Child” (Tanz des trauernden Kindes) 1922, Lithographs in black and white, An Esther Gentle Reproduction, Collection of Mrs. and Mr. Clifford Odets
15 1/2″ x 14 1/4″ sheet size, 10 3/4″ x 10 1/4″ image size
Eight: Abraham Rattner (American 1893-1978), “Still Life of Oysters”, Screenprints, by Esther Gentle Reproductions, New York, Signed in plate Abraham Rattner-Still Life of Oysters
19 1/2″ x 25 1/2″ image size
Six: After Pablo Picasso (Spanish 1881-1973) “Femmes a Leur Toilette” (Women at their Toilette), Heliogravure intaglio etching/print on two sheets, Published Paris. Maeght for Derriere le Miroir No. 36-37-38
15″ x 22″ sheet size, 13 3/4″ x 20 1/2″ image size
Three: Abraham Rattner (American 1893-1978) “God’s Light”, Featuring Jewish symbols of the Ark of the Covenant, Lithographs in color
30″ x 22″ sheet size

Estimate: $200 - $400

Ron Cobb (American 1937–2020) Civil Rights Era Poster
Remember… Uncle Tom Says—”Only You Can Prevent Ghetto Fires”, 1967
Lithograph political cartoon poster published by Sawyer Press, Los Angeles, featuring Cobb’s satirical commentary on race and urban unrest during the Civil Rights era.
33″ x 22 1/2″

Estimate: $200 - $400

Huey Newton Black Panther Party for Self Defense Civil Rights Era Poster
Rare lithographed poster depicting Huey P. Newton seated in a wicker chair holding a rifle and spear, flanked by African artifacts and a zebra hide rug. Featuring a quotation by Newton and the Black Panther Party logo.
Published by the Black Panther Party for Self Defense, Emeryville, California, circa 1968.
35″ x 23″
“‘The racist dog policemen must withdraw immediately from our communities, cease their wanton murder and brutality and torture of black people, or face the wrath of the armed people.’ / Huey P. Newton, Minister of Defence.”

Estimate: $300 - $500

Collection of Civil Rights Era, Black Panther, and African American Interest Posters
posters and broadsides, including Gene Tarpey and Tim Murnane’s If Not Now, When? (1968), Diane Davies’ We’ve Earned Our Rights to Life, Liberty and Equality (1968), Ken Cockrell’s Education and Politics (1975), a portrait poster by Link, Langston Hughes’ What Happens to a Dream Deferred?, George Stewart’s portrait of Kwame Nkrumah (1971), R.O. Brown’s family portrait poster, Sojourner Truth’s “Ain’t I a Woman?”, G. Lewis’ African Mother and Child, two lithographs by Herman “Kofi” Bailey created for the Poor People’s Campaign, 1968, 10″ x 7″, together with a Malcolm X commemorative folder
along with several rolled maps

Estimate: $300 - $500