Archives International Auctions Sale 60 U.S., Chinese & Worldwide Banknotes, Scripophily, Coins, Historic Ephemera, Security Printing Ephemera, Stamps & Postal History July 7 & 8, 2020

Archives International Auctions - Sale 60 221 July 7-8,2020 Archives International Auctions www.archivesinternational.com Ephemera - Autographs - Military Connecticut 1416 1416Hiram Percy MaximCorrespondence and Portrait, 1932 Connecticut, 1932. Letter written by Hiram Percy Maxim on Maxim Silencer Company letterhead to friend Charles B. Whittelsey regarding “old times,” with Maxim’s signature, also included is a 4x6 inch portrait of Maxim in later years. The Maxim Silencer Company was a successful firearms company that manufactured silencers to muffle the sound of gunshots. Rare autograph of Maxim.��������������������������������������������������������������������� Est. $120-240 Ephemera - Autographs - Photography Illinois & Iowa 1417 1417Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific 1915 Stock Certificate ITADSB Frederick H. Meserve. IL and IA. 5 Shares, Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway Co., I/C, Black on orange border, Train L-R, Endorsed by Manserve on back. S/N A12491. Frederick Hill Meserve, (1865 -1962), New York City businessman, and one of America’s premier Lincoln collectors. Meserve began collecting in 1880, when he set out to find photographs to illustrate the Civil War diary his father was writing. When he bought a packet of photographs at auction for $1.10 that included 100 Mathew Brady salted paper prints, he was hooked. By 1911, he had tracked down and catalogued 100 Lincoln photographs. The photographs document the changes in Lincoln’s face over the years, as he struggled with the tragedy of the Civil War and the death of his son. (Ex. John E. Herzog Collection, June 12, 1997, R.M Smythe) ��������������������������������������� Est. $300-600 Ephemera - Autographs - Politics Washington D.C. 1418 1418United States Senate Committee on Labor & PublicWelfare letter signed by Robert F. Kennedy, 1968 Letter from Senator Robert F. Kennedy referring to his position on Social Security, Letter was written 2 weeks before Kennedy’s assassination on June 5th, 1968. During the spring of 1968, Kennedy campaigned in presidential primary elections throughout the United States. Kennedy’s campaign was especially active in Indiana, Nebraska, Oregon, South Dakota, California, and Washington, D.C.. He had been making progress in building Democratic support for his nomination when he was assassinated at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California, on June 5, 1968. XF condition. ������������������������������������������������������������ Est. $750-1500 Ephemera - Autographs - Technology New York 1419 1419Letter from Thomas J. Watson to Willis K. Whitney Regarding George Eastman, 1931 Schenectady, NY, January 12, 1931 Society of the Genesee, Inc.. Letter to Mr. Whitney (an American chemist and founder of the research laboratory of the General Electric Company) detailing a Society of the Genesee event honoring George Eastman and his contributions to film and celebrating his patents. Hand signed typed letter from Thomas Watson as president of the society. Thomas John Watson Sr. (1874 – 1956) was an American businessman. He served as the chairman and CEO of International Business Machines (IBM). He oversaw the company’s growth into an international force from 1914 to 1956. Watson developed IBM’s management style and corporate culture from John Henry Patterson’s training at NCR. He turned the company into a highly-effective selling organization, based largely on punched card tabulating machines. A leading self-made industrialist, he was one of the richest men of his time and was called the world’s greatest salesman when he died in 1956. The letter refers to an award dinner given to George Eastman, who was frequently approached to receive awards and honors that would have focused public attention on him, but invariably Eastman “escaped” these offers. His typical reply was this response to the Society of the Genesee, whose membership included most of his long-time friends and business associates: “I deeply appreciate the honor, and deeply regret that it is wholly impossible for me to accept such an invitation. … I should be embarrassed beyond measure on such an occasion and do not feel that I could go through the ordeal.” In April 1930, after Tom Watson took over as president of the Genesee Society, the salesman went to work and succeeded in convincing Eastman to attend. He wanted this great industrialist to receive the public recognition of his peers that he so richly deserved. The press documents that Watson made a personal trip to Rochester and “prevailed upon him [Mr. Eastman] to accept the honor” from the “twelve-hundred-member society.” In June, the Society announced George Eastman’s acceptance. The organization celebrated Watson’s “noteworthy achievement” in overcoming Mr. Eastman’s “ever-increasing desire to retire from the public eye,” because everyone wanted to say thank you for the employment he had created locally, nationally and internationally, and acknowledge the estimated $80 to $100 million he had donated to worthy projects in his city, state, country and world. (From the John E. Herzog Collection)������������������������������������ Est. $350-700