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Do You Know What Your President Signed?
The President of the United States is a very busy person. Their entire day is mostly meetings with staff, with constituencies, with groups, with the media, with government officials, with ambassadors,...
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Letter to Rush Limbaugh Sells for $2.1 million
Recently on Ebay, a letter signed by 41 Democratic Senators including Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, New York Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, Joe Biden and Barbara Boxer. It sold on Ebay for $2.1...
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Immigration, learning from our antiques
As the founder of WorthPoint, I have been asked countless times what I collect. I think it is a funny question, as I have learned that a collector’s attention span is usually measured in a 5-6 year...
View ArticleBrimfield Antiques & Collectibles: An Indentured Servitude Contract
Download video! Problems viewing videos? youtube.com At Brimfield, WorthPoint’s Tom Carrier finds a unique English document from 1799 for an indentured servant. Interviewed: Paul Norton from Hartco...
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Collecting Historical Autographs – Basic info
When collecting autographs, it is better to collect letters and documents and avoid clipped signatures (signatures that were cut from letters or documents). First, there is nothing historical about a...
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Properly Framing your documents, prints and maps
Properly Framing Your Documents, Prints and Maps By Rick Badwey My start in the archival framing business occurred about 20 years ago when I bought and sold rare coins and fiscal/historical paper...
View ArticleExamining a 1799 Indenture Document
By Tom Carrier WorthPoint Worthologist EDITOR’S NOTE: Visiting the small New England town of Brimfield, Mass., is usually a normal, everyday occurrence, as you roll right through Route 10 on the way...
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Franklin Pierce-Jefferson Davis Signatures Document
One of the most unique things about this document is that it bears the original signatures of Franklin Pierce (who served as President of the United States) and Jefferson Davis (who was the only man...
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Rare Garfield Appointment Signature
James Garfield held the second-shortest term as President of the United States. Only William Henry Harrison served a shorter term—in 1841 for only one month—when he died of pneumonia. In an...
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Hidden Surprises: Signatures on Old Checks art Part of Lithuanian History
Kazys Bizauskas, a signer of Lithuania’s founding document, also signed this check, drawn on the Munsey Trust Co. in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 27, 1926. (Check from author’s collection) By Gerald...
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Collecting JFK: Reviewing the Dave Powers Kennedy Presidential Auction
This 1960 campaign poster “Kennedy for President / Leadership for the 60′s,” measuring 44 by 28 inches, brought $2,250 at the Presidential Auction at John McInnis Auction Gallery, held earlier this...
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Collecting the Royals: Kings, Queens and Pretenders to the Throne
Royal autographs are always a big hit. Here, a special-event card bears the signature of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, who recently stepped down in favor of her son, King Willem-Alexander. There...
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That Stiff, Yellowing Copy of the Declaration of Independence: Is it Real? Or...
This folded 1776 Dunlap copy of the Declaration of Independence was still crisp and clean when found in 1989. It sold at Sotheby’s two years later for $2.4 million dollars. In 1989, when a lucky...
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Collecting Outlaws: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
This set of antique cabinet cards shows the outlaw Jessie James. Recently, gangsters were in the news in many ways. Jimmy Hoffa was “unearthed”—or wasn’t—again. Respected actor James Gandolfini, who...
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Oswald, Pollock, Houdini Featured in October Sale
This letter from Lee Harvey Oswald to the head of the Communist Party USA headlines the sale. LYNBROOK, N.Y. — A handwritten letter by JFK assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, a copy of “LIFE Magazine” from...
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Upcoming Legends Auction Retells the Story of JFK and Camelot One item at a Time
The bust bronze “John F. Kennedy” by Felix de Weldon (1907-2003), signed by the artist. This is one of only four made. Two reside in the Kennedy Library in Boston and the last is at Kennedy Space...
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Iconic Sports Memorabilia Reach Impressive Numbers at Platinum Night Auction
This watch, awarded to Babe Ruth after the New York Yankees defeated the New York Giants in the 1923 World Series, gaveled for $717,000. The back of the Babe Ruth watch. The tradition of awarding...
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Orson Welles Auction offers Insight to Famed Actor & Director
Orson Welles’ Bell & Howell 240 16-mm movie camera, will be among the 70 lots put up for auction by his daughter Beatrice at Heritage Auctions. Welles used the camera in 1962 to film his...
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Official Thanksgiving Proclamation are Attractive and Cherished Collectibles
Very few of the holidays get officially recognized as Thanksgiving does. That’s because it is usually done through an official Thanksgiving Proclamation, which make for fun and historic collectibles....
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A Family History Discovered on eBay is a True Fabulous Find
Some of the “Holdeman Archive” Fabulous Find as recovered through an eBay transaction. It all began in April 2014, as I was conducting on-line research into my maternal grandfather’s military service...
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