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c1909 Chinese Photo Album Travels & Local Life, Ming Tombs, Avenue of Stone Animals
Auction estimate: $300-$400
Sold for
$500
Incl. Buyer’s Premium
1816 Chapbook by Peter Loural: A Deaf, Dumb Dwarf’s Visionary Prophecies for America
Auction estimate: $75-$100
Sold for
$992
Incl. Buyer’s Premium
1844 American First Edition “A Christmas Carol” Charles Dickens
Auction estimate: $2,500-$3,000
Sold for
$3,400
Incl. Buyer’s Premium
Photo of Mark Twain: Early c1872 Cabinet Card by Burlock, Philadelphia
Auction estimate: $400-$500
Sold for
$620
Incl. Buyer’s Premium
1862 Civil War Diary, Battle of Williamsburg & Michigan Family Archive
Auction estimate: $200-$300
Sold for
$1,200
Incl. Buyer’s Premium
Judy Garland Signed “To Judy, Love Judy” Inscription 1954 Oversize Photo
Auction estimate: $600-$700
Sold for
$930
Incl. Buyer’s Premium
1879 Stereoview of Nez Perce Chief Joseph & Yellow Bull
Auction estimate: $150-$200
Sold for
$850
Incl. Buyer’s Premium
Humphrey Bogart Signed Photo: 1940s Candid Portrait
Auction estimate: $500-$600
Sold for
$992
Incl. Buyer’s Premium
1860s Civil War CDV of Union Gen. E.J. Farnsworth, Killed at Gettysburg
Auction estimate: $125-$150
Sold for
$4,216
Incl. Buyer’s Premium
Ernest Hemingway “The Sun Also Rises,” First Edition 1926
Auction estimate: $10,000-$12,000
Sold for
$14,739
Incl. Buyer’s Premium
The Works of William Shakespeare with Split Double Fore-Edge Paintings, c1870
Auction estimate: $600-$800
Sold for
$2,214
Incl. Buyer’s Premium
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