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107

(VIETNAM WAR.) Reproduction of a watercolor depicting the USS

Pueblo

(AGER-2), Signed by 19 members of its 1968 crew, including the captain and 3 officers.

Some signatures in red ink, some include rank. 16x20 inches; matted and framed.

Np, nd

[400/600]

Lloyd Mark “Pete” Bucher

* Edward R. Murphy Jr. *

F. Carl Schumacher * Don

E. Bailey * Policarpo Polla

“PP” Garcia * Donald R.

Peppard * Robert J. Chicca

* Donald R. McClarren *

Paul D. Brusnahan (2) *

John W. Grant * Ralph

McClintock * Steven J. Robin

* Richard E. Arnold *

Ro b e r t W. Hi l l , J r. *

Thomas W. Massie * John

A. Mitchell * Richard J.

Rogala * Ramon Rosales *

Edward S.“Stu” Russell.

On January 23, 1968, one

we e k p r i o r t o t h e Te t

Offensive in Vietnam, the

USS

Pueblo

was seized by North Korea and its crew were taken as prisoners of war. Eleven months

later, after enduring ill-treatment of various kinds and degrees of intensity, the crew were released.

108

WEBSTER, DANIEL. Document Signed, “Dan’l Webster,” as Secretary of State,

passport for R.G. Fairbanks, who is “bearing Despatches from this Department to the

Legation of the United States” in St. Petersburg. 16

1

/

2

x10

1

/

2

inches; some bleed-through

from docketing and endorsements on verso, folds.

Washington, 7 February 1843

[300/400]

109

(WORLD WAR I.) Group of 4 Photographs Signed or Signed and Inscribed, by

military heroes, each shown in uniform. Format and condition vary.

Vp, vd

[600/900]

Ferdinand Foch.“F.Foch,” bust portrait by Harris & Ewing. Signed on the mount. 9x6 inches

(image), 13

1

/

2

x9

1

/

2

inches; some silvering. Np, nd * Horatio Herbert Kitchener. “Kitchener,”

bust portrait. Signed in the image. 7

1

/

2

x4

3

/

4

; mounted to larger board. Np, nd * John

Rushworth Jellicoe.“Jellicoe,”

3

/

4

-length portrait. Signed in the image. 8

1

/

2

x4

3

/

4

inches; mounted

to board trimmed to size. Np, nd * Felix von Luckner. “felix grafvluckner,” with holograph

inscription in Swedish and German,

1

/

2

-length portrait by Langhammer, showing him and his

second wife. Inscribed on the mount above and below the image. 6

3

/

4

x7

1

/

2

inches (image),

9

1

/

2

x12

1

/

2

inches overall; some silvering. NewYork, 25 October 1927.

WITH

First day cover commemorating Winston Churchill, Signed by Clementine Churchill,

Louis Mountbatten of Burma, Anthony Eden (“Avon”), Montgomery of Alamein, and two

others.With US 5-cent Churchill postage stamp cancelled on May 13, 1965. Oblong 12mo.

Np, nd.

110

(WORLDWAR II.) MACARTHUR, DOUGLAS. Photograph Signed, bust por-

trait by U.S. Army, showing him in uniform as 5-star general. Inscribed in the image, lower

right. 9

1

/

2

x7

1

/

2

inches. (TFC)

Np, circa 1945

[250/350]