The June 24, 2000, Gerald Burg & Dr. Kardatzke Collections, Sale 6
Lot 276 
Harrison, Caroline Scott. (1832-1892)
American Wife of 23rd President, Benjamin Harrison. Executive Mansion Card
Signed. 4½ x 2¾", on white card stock (age toned). Signed in full
on recto.
Estimated Value $300-450.
Lot 277 
Harrison, Caroline Scott. Executive
Mansion Card Signed. 4½ x 2¾", on white card stock. Signed in
full.
Estimated Value $300-450.
Lot 278 
Harrison, Caroline Scott. Visiting Card
Signed. 3¼ x 1¾", on cream card stock. Signed in full on verso.
Estimated Value $250-375.
Lot 279 
Harte, Francis Brett. (1839-1902) American
Author, best known for his classic short story, The Luck of Roaring Camp
(1870). Inscribed Visiting Card Signed. 4½ x 3½", on cream
card stock with raised blue imprinted address. Harte writes: "Saturday A.M.
My dear Douglas Murray, I accept your invitation for the 27th with great
pleasure. I am hard at work now, if I can get a free hour on Wednesday, I'll
drop in at 5. Sincerely yours, Brett Harte." Slight crease along
center.
Estimated Value $150-225.
Lot 280 
Harte, Francis Brett. Inscribed Visiting
Card Signed. 4¼ x 2¾", on cream card stock. "Friday P.M./ Dear
Lady D[?]/ I will come by your luncheon on Wednesday with great pleasure./
Yours always/ Brett Harte."
Estimated Value $150-225.
Lot 281 
Hawthorne, Nathaniel. (1804-1864) American
Novelist, author of the classic novel The Scarlet Letter (1850).
Inscribed Visiting Card Signed. 3¼ x 1¾", on off-white card
stock. A personal and unique visiting card from this masterful American
novelist, bearing small imprinted type with a gothic cast. Hawthorne has
identified the card as being "for Mr. Lentre," in pencil below his printed
name, and inscribed the card on the verso as follows: "Dear Mr. Lentre, I am
going to [ ? ], and shall not be back to keep my engagement on Monday. Please
excuse me. Yours most sincerely, Nath' Hawthorne."
Estimated Value
$750-1,250.
Lot 282 
Hayes, Lucy Webb. (1831-1889) American Wife
of 19th President Rutherford B. Hayes. Executive Mansion Card Signed.
4½ x 2½", on cream card stock. Signed in full on recto. Some
browning on edges. First example of an "Executive Mansion Card".
Estimated
Value $250-375.
Lot 283 
Hayes, Lucy Webb. Visiting Card
Signed. 3½ x 2", on cream card stock. Signed "Lucy W. Hayes"
in black ink on verso. Conspicuous mounting traces on recto.
Estimated
Value $175-250.
Lot 284 
Hayes, Rutherford B. (1822-1893) 19th
President of the United States. Visiting Card Signed. 4½ x 2
3/4", on off-white card stock. A very unusual card adorned with an embossed
design in red and black of a small hand spreading out a fan of "face" cards.
Signed in the center "R.B. Hayes."
Estimated Value $375-500.
Lot 285 
Hayes, Rutherford B. Visiting Card
Signed. 3¼ x 1¾", on cream card stock. Signed "R.B. Hayes"
in dark ink on verso.
Estimated Value $300-450.
Lot 286 
Hayes, Rutherford B. Executive Mansion
Card Signed. 4¼ x 2½", on "Executive Mansion" card. Dec. 13,
1878. Signed "R.B. Hayes" on recto.
Estimated Value $300-450.
Hayes is believed to be the first to use such named cards.
Lot 287 
Hayes, Rutherford B. Military Card
Signed. 4 x 2¼", on off-white card stock. Being a card autographed as
Aide-de-Camp-on Staff of Commander-in-chief. Card features a multicolored
embossed cartouche and medal in upper left. Signed in full on verso.
Estimated Value $300-450.
Lot 288 
Hayes, Rutherford B. Military Card
Signed. 4 x 2¼", on off-white card stock. Being a card autographed as
Aide-de-Camp-on Staff of Commander-in-chief. Card features a multicolored
embossed cartouche and medal in upper left. Signed in full on verso.
Estimated Value $300-450.
Lot 289 
Hayes, Rutherford B. Inscribed Visiting
Card Signed. 3 x 1½", on cream card stock. Inked on verso, "With
best wishes/ R.B. Hayes." .
Estimated Value $250-375.
Lot 290 
Hayes, Rutherford B. Visiting Card
Signed. 3 x 1½", on cream card stock. Signed and dated on verso
"Rutherford B. Hayes / Fremont, O./ Nov 12 1887." Mounting traces on recto.
Estimated Value $250-375.
Lot 291 
Hayes, Rutherford B. Visiting Card
Signed. 3¼ x 1¾", on manilla card stock. Signed "R.B. Hayes" on
verso. Mounting traces on recto.
Estimated Value $250-375.
Lot 292 
[Hayes, Rutherford B.]. Visiting Card
Signed by the First Lady. 3 x 1½", on cream card stock. Signed by
Wife Lucy on verso and additionally signed by his wife on the recto. Mounting
traces on recto.
Estimated Value $300-400.
Lot 293 
Helmholtz, Hermann Ludwig von. (1821-1894)
German Physiologist and Educator. Inscribed Visiting Card. 3½ x
2¼", on cream card stock. Inscribed in German above and below the printed
name.
Estimated Value $175-250.
Lot 294 
Hemingway, Ernest. (1899-1961) American
Novelist and Short Story writer, considered one of America's greatest writers.
Author of A Farewell to Arms (1929), The Old Man and the Sea
(1952), and others. Awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954.
Inscribed Visiting Card Signed. Approximately 3 x 1½", on cream
card stock. Hemingway uses this card to accompany a gift that he presents to
some close friends. He has crossed out the "Mr." that appears before his
printed name to personalize the card, and inscribes: "Dear Bud and Helen :
Hope you find these funny - Best always - Ernest . ".
Estimated Value
$1,500-2,250.
Lot 295 
Herbert, Victor. (1859-1924) Irish Composer
of Babes in Toyland and Naughty Marietta. Inscribed Visiting
Card With Autograph Musical Quotation Signed. 3 x 1½", on cream card
stock. Inscribed "from 'Hero and Leandra' Sincerely Victor Herbert / Nov.
1903" on verso. Mounting traces on printed name on recto.
Estimated
Value $250-375.
Lot 296 
Herzl, Theodor. (1860-1904) Hungarian Lawyer
and Journalist and Founder of Zionism. Inscribed Visiting Card Signed. 4
x 2¼", on cream card stock. With a four line untranslated inscription
penned below Herzl's printed name.
Estimated Value $1,000-1,500.
Lot 297 
Herzl, Theodor. Inscribed Visiting
Card. 4 x 2¼", on cream card stock. With a five-line untranslated
inscription penned below Herzl's printed name and dated, "Feb. 7, 1899."
Estimated Value $400-600.
Lot 298 
Himmler, Heinrich. (1900-1945) Nazi
Reichsführer of the SS. Inscribed Visiting Card Signed. 3½ x
2", on cream card stock. Inscribed in German, in dark black ink on the verso:
"Many hearty good wishes from my wife and myself on the birth of your boy.
Devotedly, H. Himmler." Dated 5.12.37.
Estimated Value $500-750.
Lot 299 
Himmler, Heinrich. Inscribed Visiting
Card Signed. 3½ x 2", on parchment card stock. Inscribed in German,
"Many good wishes and friendly on your birthday. Heil Hitler." Signed
"H.Himmler" and dated "30.II.38" on verso. Also signed by Himmler's
wife, Marga.
Estimated Value $500-750.
Lot 300 
Himmler, Heinrich. Inscribed Visiting
Card Signed. 4¼ x 2½", on cream card stock. In German, to his
mistress, Edith von Color, sending a book and cancelling an engagement with her
because of "a crazy amount of work." Signed, "Heinrich" and dated Jan.
15, '34.
Estimated Value $500-750.