Major Estate Auction - February 17 & 18, 2007
    
Ephemera ~ Books ~ Collectibles
   

“Rare Piece of History”, a dinner menu hosted by Jack Dempsey on November 29 th, 1937 for Babe Ruth; the menu of wild game shot by Ruth, Bob Edge, Jack Matthews and Messrs. It is signed by Babe Ruth, Robert Ripley, of “Ripley’s Believe It or Not”, Lynn Bogue Hunt, Howard Chandler Christy, Grantland Rice, Commissioner of Baseball, plus more…including Edge, Matthews, and Driscoll. A 20” Mickey and Minnie Mouse dolls from the 1940s, probably by Charlotte Clarke; 19 th C. Hobby Horse; Eastern Airlines dinner flight program hosted by Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker - (WWI fighter pilot hero) - on October 2, 1935 with a guest list and several signatures including Rickenbacker, Gene Vidal, George Gershwin, Dusty Rhodes, A. W. Winter, Carl Lindberg and more!! Boston Garden memory includes the Western Union office with chairs; also from the opening of the Ted Williams Museum is a signed print and invitation to the opening in 1994; also lots of books, including 50+ book lots. Books include 4 volumes of Ethnology 1906, 1907, 1908 and 1909, reporting the activities of the American Indian; several interest books; lots of magazines; “The Pigtail of An Lee Ben Loo” by John Bennett with dust jacket, plus more!!

   
Babe Ruth autograph on menu

Boston Garden Western Union room
Brochure with Capt Rickenbacker lot

Capt Eddie Rickenbacker Eastern Air Lines 1935
George Gershwin among others on flight

Rare Mickey and Minnie dolls

Bruce Gamage, Jr.
Antique Estate Auctioneer, Maine License #AR480
467 Main Street, Rockland, ME 04841
Tel: 207-594-4963 Fax: 207-594-0674
email: bgamage@midcoast.com