Lot 808
[Nobel Prize - Chemistry].
First Day
Cover Signed. Profusely signed First Day Cover commemorating the 100th
Anniversary of the National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C. Postmarked
October 14, 1963, Washington, D.C., with an pictorial cachet depicting
President Lincoln at the Signing of the Academy Charter. Signed on the face of
the envelope by ten recipients of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry: Frederick
Sanger, Andrew Kendrew, Willard F. Libby, Lars Onsonger, Linus Pauling, Gerhard
Hertzberg, Max Perutz, Ronald G.W. Norris, Harold C. Urey, and Christian B.
Anfinsen. A choice assemblage of chemists. Very fine and attractive.
Matted and framed to an overall size of 8½ x 11".
Estimated
Value $200-300.
From the Gerald Burg collection.