Past Autographs & Documents Auction

Oct. 29, 2005 at 7:30 pm ~ Boston, MA at the Hilton Boston Back Bay Hotel

Previews: Friday, 12:00 pm - 5:00 pm &
Saturday, 10:00 am - 7:30 pm


Session One   -   Session Two

        

 

Historical          Celebrities

Online catalogs with photos &  prices realized

are available by clicking above links.

Including
American Historic Signatures and Documents & Celebrity Memorabilia and Autographed Photos

 

Please read below for auction background & provenance.

    

 

Jefferson signature Maria Callas,
R.Champion,
Marilyn Monroe

 

 

 

Items will be sold Live in which bidders can be represented by left-bids or in some cases,
phone-bids, as well as

www.liveauctions.ebay.com or  www.artfact.com

(Please note Celebrities numbers will begin on eBay
as 500+ as opposed to C-1, as in the catalog)

 For more information, call 781-834-7774 or
e-mail wha@willishenry.com

Karel & Willis Henry
22 Main St., Marshfield, Ma, 02050

Session I: Part One Collection of historically significant autographs: The first part of this important autograph and document collection was discovered in a dome top trunk here on the South Shore. It belonged to a noteworthy family who have been in Massachusetts in Danvers since the 1700’s. The actual autographs were located in a collector’s scrapbook, which was started in 1841 and continued through the Civil War. Foremost in the collection are rare important Presidential signatures of George Washington, John Adams and John Tyler, and important documents from John Hancock, with Mass. broadsides from 1776. There are other signed letters and documents dating from the17th, 18th and 19th centuries.

17th c. items include legal documents, one by 17th c. Salem Judge Hawthorne, the same judge who presided over the infamous witch trials. There are 18th c. Revolutionary War documents as a commission dated May 1775 signed by Joseph Warren, Pres. of the Congress of the Bay Colony. He ordered Paul Revere’s ride one month before signing a document to warn, "The British are coming!", and one month after he was unfortunately the first killed in the Battle of Bunker Hill, making this a valuable historic document, as there are few known examples of his signature. Other important consignments are a Thomas Jefferson signed letter, a signed Abraham Lincoln document, and a photograph of the Wright Brothers signed by both Orville and Wilbur Wright. There are documents and signatures that were found including 19th c. politicians, Governors, Senators from New England States including Daniel Webster. Famous authors’ signatures and letters are represented in the auction including Ralph Waldo Emerson, etc. The collection also offers Civil War documents, broadsides, letters & orders from both the Confederate and the Union sides.

Session II: Part Two offers a rare selection of documented celebrity signed photographs and locks of hair from such famous personalities as Marilyn Monroe, Maria Callas, Rita Hayworth, and Jackie Kennedy. The collection is from the estate of Robert Champion, who was the "Hair Dresser to the Stars" for many years at Bergdorf-Goodman in New York City. He wrote about Marilyn on the night of J.F. Kennedy’s Birthday party (where she sang in Madison Square Garden, "Happy Birthday, Mr. President") "I refreshed her lip color, powdered her nose, checked her blusher, ..." This is her lipstick blotted tissue, which he saved along with the original program of the event. Many other stars autographs, photos and memorabilia will be auctioned from this collection, which are documented in his journal. Another collection to be sold is photos autographed by stars as Cary Grant, Jack Benny, Jimmy Durante, Boris Karloff, Tallulah Bankhead, Helen Hayes, etc

For more information, call 781-834-7774 or
email wha@willishenry.com

Karel & Willis Henry, 22 Main St., Marshfield, MA, 02050

Warren signature