Upcoming
Sales and
Events
April 17, 2012
10:30 AM & 1:30 PM
REVOLUTIONARY AMERICANA FROM THE ALLYN KELLOGG FORD COLLECTION / AUTOGRAPHS


wann conducts several Autograph auctions a year-offering letters, historic documents, literary and musical manuscripts, inscribed books and signed photographs.

Our sales feature Presidents, Signers of the Declaration of Independence, military figures, statesmen, royalty and nobility, writers, scientists, artists, musicians, and entertainers. We are pleased to talk with you about your area of Autograph collecting interest.

We accept consignments of individual items and collections or archives, and accept material throughout the year.

 



Photograph Signed and Inscribed, as President, "With best wishes from / Theodore Roosevelt / Nov 21st 1904," showing the President in Rough Rider uniform standing beside a tent at Camp Wikoff, Montauk, sold on April 22, 2010 for $15,600.



Letter Signed, "G:Washington," to the Reverend Doctor John Lathrop ("Sir"), Mount Vernon, 22 February 1788, sold on October 29, 2009 for $18,000.



Vocal score with music signed, or signed and inscribed, by over 100 principal cast members and staff of the original Carousel production and of 9 revivals, 1945; inscriptions: 1945-73, sold for $7,200 on October 29, 2009.



The Beautiful and Damned, signed and inscribed, and with a small ink drawing, on the front free endpaper: "For Henry Kingsley / from / F. Scott Fitzgerald / In memory of an / early morning / race between / Richmond and New York," 1922, sold for $12,000 on April 22, 2010.



Autograph Letter Signed by John Adams, to Governor of NH William Plumer ("Respected Sir"), informing him that he is sending his grandsons to England and wondering what lies in the future for his son, 11 April 1815, sold on November 4, 2010 for $28,800.

 

Contact the Specialists

George S. Lowry, Director
212-254-4710 ext.303
glowry@swanngalleries.com

Marco Tomaschett
212-254-4710 ext.12 mtomaschett@swanngalleries.com



AUTOGRAPHS
November 03, 2011
Features items related to key figures in literature, politics, science, military and music. The cover image is from a volume of 120 illustrated Autograph Letters Signed by illustrator Frederick Stuart Church, 1913-1917.



AUTOGRAPHS
April 21, 2011
Included an autograph musical quotation inscribed and signed, "I. Stravinsky," consisting of a page of fragments from Symphony in Three Movements, 1952, $4,560.



Performing Arts Memorabilia Online Auction
January 10, 2011
Through Feb. 1. Approximately 400 lots of photographs and playbills signed by stage and screen actors, opera singers, classical musicians, celebrities, ballet dancers and more. Shown is a program for Diamond Lil, signed and inscribed by Mae West on the cover.



AUTOGRAPHS
November 04, 2010
Included two autograph inscriptions signed by Thomas Edison declaring Abraham Lincoln his favorite American hero.



AUTOGRAPHS
April 22, 2010
Featured a photograph of Theodore Roosevelt in his Rough Rider uniform standing beside a tent at Camp Wikoff, Montauk, in 1904, signed and inscribed by the President, which brought $15,600.