Unfortunately, this listing  was canceled after the auction ended yesterday because someone supposedly hacked into the winning bidder's account and used that account in an attempt  to purchase this item  fraudulently. Ebay informed me that the cancellation occurred due to bidding activity that took place without the account owner's authorization.  It saddens me that things such as this happen all too often. I have no record of any of the previous bidders and so, I am hoping that they will see this new listing as will other prospective bidders. Since I do not know if any new bidders will be reading this, I am going to take the liberty of repeating my brief history.

I have decided to sell my collection of memorabilia which I have amassed over the past 35 years. I will attempt to list new items each day for the next several months. This collection has been purchased from individuals who responded to my newspaper ads, dealers, auction houses, Ebay and the like. If the item has been personally obtained by me, I will note that in the listing.

This superb piece of history can be yours.  It is a signed typed letter from Mother Teresa.  It also includes a blessed medal from her.  Mother Teresa was  born in 1910.  She was an Albanian Roman Catholic nun who founded the Missionaries of Charity in Kolkata (Calcutta) India in 1950.  For over 40 years she ministered to the poor, sick, orphaned and dying, while guiding her Order's expansion, first throughout India and then in other countries.  By the 1970s she had become internationally known as a humanitarian and advocate for the poor and helpless.  She was the subject of a documentary and book and won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 for her work.  At the time of her death in 1997, her Charity was operating 610 missions in 123 countries.  Following her death she was beatified by Pope John Paul II and given the title of Blessed Teresa of Calcutta.  Many believe that it is only a matter of time before she is named a Saint.

This item was originally sent to Mr. Conrad Beebe in 1994 in response to a letter that he had sent to her.  She, in turn, sent him a typed letter signed by her and a blessed medal.  The medal was originally taped to the letter but was removed by Mr. Beebe. There is a slight indentation at the top of the letter made by the removal of the tape and medal but it in no way detracts from the near mint condition of the letter itself. I purchased this item from Mr. Beebe in 1999. This item includes the envelope that Mother Teresa sent her letter in, the signed letter itself and the blessed medal. I am also enclosing the COA from Mr. Beebe. The picture of Mother Teresa holding the child is the reverse side of the signed typed letter.   I have scanned both the front and back of the envelope.

I do not have a very good scanner.  I can assure you that the originals are in much better condition and quality than the scans appear to show.  If anyone has any questions about the scans or this listing or would like larger scans sent to their individual emails (it seems that the attachments to emails open up larger than they appear in Ebay listings) I would be happy to do so if requested.
   

  
Autographed Official Rawlings Major League
 Baseball by:
GERALD FORD

A nice signature on the sweet spot of the official Baseball.

The ball has been deemed authentic by PSA/DNA and comes with a serial numbered tamper proof label affixed to the ball.
This will also come with a matching Full Letter of Authenticity.
This Certificate matches the number of the tamper-proof label on the baseball.

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EXTREMELY RARE, ORIGINAL 1964 FIRST EDITION PRINTING OF “BENJAMIN FRANKLIN: POOR RICHARD’S ALMANACKS FOR THE YEARS 1733 – 1758”
ILLUSTRATED AND SIGNED BY NORMAN ROCKWELL. 
Limited to 1500 copies this volume is number 1013. Published in 1964 by the Limited Editions Club, this volume remains in near mint condition. Introduction by Van Wyck Brooks and Illustrated by
Norman Rockwell with 6 color plates (2 double-page) and numerous in-text drawings. 300pp. Tall 4to, handsomely rebound in 1/2 biscuit morocco over marbled boards; gilt-stamped red leather spine label. Rockwell’s signature is EXTREMELY SCARCE anywhere, let alone in a fine and presentable volume such as this, complete in its original slipcase box. 

POOR RICHARD’S ALMANACK: These texts included within are the complete almanacks for the years 1733 – 1758. Poor Richard's Almanack (sometimes Almanac) was a yearly almanack published by Benjamin Franklin, who adopted the pseudonym of "Poor Richard" or "Richard Saunders" for this purpose. The publication appeared continuously from 1732 to 1758. It was a best seller for a pamphlet published in the American colonies; print runs reached 10,000 per year. Franklin, the American inventor, statesman, and publisher, achieved success with Poor Richard's Almanack. Almanacks were very popular books in colonial America, with people in the colonies using them for the mixture of seasonal weather forecasts, practical household hints, puzzles, and other amusements they offered. Poor Richard's Almanack was popular for all of these reasons, and also for its extensive use of wordplay, with many examples derived from the work surviving in the contemporary American vernacular.

NORMAN ROCKWELL: Norman Percevel Rockwell (February 3, 1894 – November 8, 1978) was a 20th century American painter and illustrator. His works enjoy a broad popular appeal in the United States, where Rockwell is most famous for the cover illustrations of everyday life scenarios he created for The Saturday Evening Post magazine over more than four decades. Norman Rockwell was very prolific, and produced over 4000 original works, most of which have been either destroyed by fire or are in permanent collections. Rockwell was also commissioned to illustrate over 40 books including Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. His annual contributions for the Boy Scouts' calendars between 1925 and 1976 (Rockwell was a 1939 recipient of the Silver Buffalo Award, the highest adult award given by the Boy Scouts of America), were only slightly overshadowed by his most popular of calendar works: the "Four Seasons" illustrations for Brown & Bigelow that were published for 17 years beginning in 1947 and reproduced in various styles and sizes since 1964. Illustrations for booklets, catalogs, posters (particularly movie promotions), sheet music, stamps, playing cards, and murals (including "Yankee Doodle Dandy", which was completed in 1936 for the Nassau Inn in Princeton, New Jersey) rounded out Rockwell's œuvre as an illustrator. The problem we all live with, In 1969, as a tribute to Rockwell's 75th year birthday, officials of Brown & Bigelow and the Boy Scouts of America asked Rockwell to pose in Beyond the Easel, the calendar illustration that year. Rockwell's work was dismissed by serious art critics in his lifetime. Many of his works appear overly sweet in modern critics' eyes,  especially the Saturday Evening Post covers, which tend toward idealistic or sentimentalized portrayals of American life— this has led to the often-deprecatory adjective "Rockwellesque." Consequently, Rockwell is not considered a "serious painter" by some contemporary artists, who often regard his work as bourgeois and kitsch. Writer Vladimir Nabokov scorned that Rockwell's brilliant technique was put to "banal" use, and wrote in his book Pnin: "That Dalí is really Norman Rockwell's twin brother kidnapped by Gypsies in babyhood". He is called an "illustrator" instead of an artist by some critics, a designation he did not mind, as it was what he called himself. Beyond the Easel, 1969 calendarHowever, in his later years, Rockwell began receiving more attention as a painter when he chose more serious subjects such as the series on racism for Look magazine. One example of this more serious work is The Problem We All Live With, which dealt with the issue of school integration. The painting depicts a young African American girl, Ruby Bridges, flanked by white federal marshals, walking to school past a wall defaced by racist graffiti.

His last painting for the Post was published in 1963, marking the end of a publishing relationship that had included 321 cover paintings. He spent the next 10 years painting for Look magazine, where his work depicted his interests in civil rights, poverty and space exploration. During his long career, he was commissioned to paint the portraits for Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon, as well as those of foreign figures, including Gamal Abdel Nasser and Jawaharlal Nehru. One of his last works was a portrait of legendary singer Judy Garland in 1969. A custodianship of 574 of his original paintings and drawings was established with Rockwell's help near his home in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, and the museum is still open today year round. For "vivid and affectionate portraits of our country," Rockwell received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1977, the United States of America's highest civilian honor. Norman Rockwell died November 8, 1978 of emphysema at age 84 in Stockbridge, Massachusetts.

 CONDITION: Limited and numbered leather volume signed by Norman Rockwell remains in Near Mint / Fine Condition with the following noted: protected by fine mylar casing as well as a thick box slip case; minor bump to corner of back cover. Most importantly, volume remains clean, tight and complete. Truly an important find and a unique item indeed!

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1929 Nobel winner Thomas Mann autograph letter signed !

Thomas Mann (1875-1955) Author and humanitarian. Awarded the 1929 Nobel Prize for Literature.

Beautiful 5.5" x 8.25" (14cm x 21cm) autograph letter signed. Dated November 4, 1951. Fountain pen on a thin, bonded,writing paper. Excellent state of preservation, crisp, clean and bright. In German, untranslated.

This item is a wonderful,original document dated 1801, the port of Charlestown, Massachsuetts where David Bates aboard the schooner Susan has returned from Baltimore with Russian goods...signed by Benjamin Lincoln as Collector and James Lovell as Naval Officer...8x14, folds,older tape re-enforcement on back side fold lines, else fine

James Lovell, patriot, born in Boston, Massachusetts, 31 October, 1737 ; died in Windham, Maine, 14 July, 1814, was graduated at Harvard in 1756, and was his father's assistant in the South grammar-or Latin-school till it was dispersed on 19 April, 1775, on account of the siege. He was also master of the North grammar-school, afterward called the Eliot school. He delivered, 2 April, 1771, the first anniversary oration on the Boston massacre. In the Revolution he took the side of the Whigs, and was imprisoned after the battle of Bunker Hill, carried to Halifax with the British army, and kept in close confinement, while his father was there as a Tory refugee, until, in November, 1776, he was exchanged for Colonel Philip Skene.

On his return to Boston he was elected a member of the Continental congress, and served from December, 1776, till 1782. During the quarrel between General Horatio Gates and General Philip Schuyler, early in 1777, Lovell was a correspondent and confidant of the former, and the recipient of his plan of campaign. He encouraged Gates in dealing directly with congress, over the head of General Washington, and was one of the malcontents that sought to make Gates commander-in-chief, threatening Washington, in a letter dated 11 October, 1777, with a "torrent of public clamor and vengeance," and in another describing him as a general that collected men to wear out shoes and breeches, and that had "Fabi-used matters into a very disagreeable posture."

Lovell was a diligent member of the committee on foreign correspondence. Some of his letters were printed in Richard H. Lee's life of his brother Arthur. He was receiver of taxes at Boston from 1784 till 1788, then collector of the port till 1790, and after that naval officer till his death

Benjamin Lincoln (24 January 1733–9 May 1810) was a major general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War.

In 1776, he was promoted to brigadier general, then major general, then commander of all Massachusetts troops in the Boston area. After the British evacuation of Boston, Lincoln joined General George Washington at New York, commanding the right wing at the Battle of White Plains. Shortly after seeing action at Fort Independence, he was commissioned into the Continental Army as a major general.

From 1781 through late 1783 or early 1784, Lincoln served as the first "Secretary of War," also called the "Secretary at War." He was appointed by the Confederation Congress under the Articles of Confederation.

In 1787, Lincoln was a member of the Massachusetts state convention that ratified the United States Constitution. Earlier in 1787, Lincoln helped put an end to an uprising of farmers known as Shays' Rebellion. The uprising, which led to calls for a stronger central U.S. government, ended when the militia under Major General Benjamin Lincoln attacked the rebels and forced them to surrender in February.

He stayed active in public life in various capacities, including a term as Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts and many years as the Collector of the Port of Boston. He retired from public life in 1809 and died in Hingham on May 9, 1810.

..Please view the other historical and Civil War related documents I'll be listing this week.SEE SCAN.I now accept PAYPAL, personal checks or money orders. I allow International bidders and will ship Internationally, usually an $8 fee. Buyer pays shipping(usually $4 within the US and $8 for International),payment must be received within 14 days.

You will receive a 1967 Vice Presidential Signature card. This card reads " Admit to The Vice President's Gallery, United States Senate Chamber ", and then has a gentlemans name hand wrote with the date of 1967. Hubert H. Humphrey's authentic signature is on the bottom line. The card is in fine condition, having some discoloration, and water spots on the back side. Please see pictures for more details.