What's it worth? Prices realized for high end manuscripts

Important historical documents have been favorites of collectors for a long time. They capture a part of our heritage and freeze it in time. Below is a slide show of documents, books and manuscripts sold at auction on November 7th, 2009, by Ira and Larry Goldberg

Among other things, the slide show below includes actual prices realized for:

• A leaf from the Book of Job in the original Guttenberg Bible
• A certificate of clearance for the Titanic
• A 1947 Naval Acadamy book signed by Jimmy Carter
• A letter by Civil War General Ulysses S. Grant
• A typed letter signed by John F. Kennedy as President
• A document signed by Abraham Lincoln

…and more, view the slide show for prices.

Prices realized for historic manuscripts

Here are some highlights for prices realized at a recent Goldberg’s manuscript auction. All prices include bidder’s premium.

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2 Titanic Certificate for Clearance, Dated April 11, 1912 Titanic Certificate for Clearance, Dated April 11, 1912. Certificate for Clearance issued by the Board of Trade, being a blue, partly-printed form