The June 24, 2000, Gerald Burg & Dr. Kardatzke Collections, Sale 6
Lot 526 
Sherman, William Tecumseh. (1820-1891)
American Union Army General. Inscribed Visiting Card Initialed.
3½ x 2", on cream card stock. Signed, "W.T. Sherman / General. /
1887." .
Estimated Value $400-600.
Lot 527 
Sherman, William Tecumseh. Inscribed
Visiting Card Signed. 3½ x 2", on cream card stock. Signed,
"W.T. Sherman / General. / 1888." .
Estimated Value $400-600.
Lot 528 
Sherman, William Tecumseh. Inscribed
Visiting Card Signed. 3½ x 2", on white card stock. Signed, "W.T.
Sherman / General" in dark ink on verso. Mounting traces on recto.
Estimated Value $400-600.
Lot 529 
Sherman, William Tecumseh. Visiting Card
Signed. 3¾ x 2¼", on cream card stock. Boldly signed, "W.T.
Sherman/ General" on verso.
Estimated Value $400-600.
Lot 530 
Sherman, William Tecumseh. Visiting Card
Signed. 3¼ x 2", on cream card stock. Signed "W.T. Sherman /
General / 1887" in dark ink on verso. Slight stain on top of verso, not
affecting signature.
Estimated Value $350-500.
Lot 531 
Sherman, William Tecumseh. Inscribed
Visiting Card Initialled. 3½ x 2", on cream card stock. Inscribed by
the famous General on verso, "I will enclose to Leu Gen Walker very soon/
W.T.S."
Estimated Value $125-175.
Lot 532 
Sherman, William Tecumseh. Visiting
Card. 3½ x 2", on cream card stock.
Estimated Value $125-175.
Lot 533 
Sholokhov, Mikhail Alexandrovich. (1905-
1984) Russian Author of And Quite Flows the Don (1960), awarded 1965
Nobel Prize for Literature. Business Card Signed. 3½ x 2", on
laminated wood card stock. Signed in Russian on verso by the Nobel laureate.
Estimated Value $250-350.
Lot 534 
Sickles, Daniel Edgar. (1825-1914) American
Army Major General, New York Congressman. Inscribed Visiting Card Signed.
3¾ x 2½", on cream card stock. Inscribed on recto "Autograph
of D.Sickles / M.G. U. S. A. / (Nov. 10, 1877)." .
Estimated Value
$150-225.
Lot 535 
Simenon, Georges. (1903-1989) French
Novelist, created "Inspector Maigret." Inscribed Calling Card Signed.
4¾ x 2¾", on white card stock. Inscribed in French beneath the
author's printed name, "Avec les compliments de Georges
Simenon.".
Estimated Value $120-180.
Lot 536 
Sitting Bull. (1834-1890) Sioux name,
Tatanka Iyotake. Native American Statesman and Warrior. Sitting Bull was a
leader in the Sioux war and led the defeat of Custer and his men at Little Big
Horn. Toured with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. Visiting Card Signed.
Approximately 5 x 3", on an imprinted "Randall House" hotel card. Four years
after defeating Custer at Little Big Horn and successfully evading the U.S.
Army, Sitting Bull finally surrendered to U.S. troops at Fort Buford, in
Montana. He was sent to Standing Rock Reservation, but when his reception there
raised fears that he might inspire a fresh uprising, he was sent further down
the Missouri River to Fort Randall, where he and his followers were held for
nearly two years as prisoners of war. Despite its misleading text, which
describes "Randall House" as a pleasant frontier Hotel, this was an imposing
U.S. Army garrison in which the greatly feared Indian leader was kept prisoner.
Sitting Bull used this as his "Calling Card" while he was incarcerated at Fort
Randall. Boldly signed, "Sitting Bull" on the verso, the card is matted,
framed and set within an impressive curio cabinet display. The display measures
27 x 25", weighs 27lbs and includes a sepia-toned photo and a small
hand-colored sculpted bust of the Sioux warrior. Probably the finest of less
than a dozen examples known, most of which are impounded in institutions.
Estimated Value $8,000-12,000.
While perusing in a rare book store
in San Francisco, I saw a book by Nelson Appleton Miles, General in the Civil
War. Upon thumbing through the book I found the card signed by Sitting Bull. It
apparently was used as a bookmark! I, of course, purchased the book and it's
bookmark!!! It is now among the cards I treasure most. -- Gerry Burg.
Lot 537 
Soult, Nicolas Jean de Dieu. (1769-1851)
French Army Marshall. Visiting Card Signed. 2¾ x 1¼, on
manilla card stock. Mounting traces on verso.
Estimated Value $150-225.
Lot 538 
Sousa, John Philip. (1854-1932) American
Composer and Bandmaster, orchestrated the popular march "The Stars and Stripes
Forever" (1896). Inscribed Visiting Card With Autograph Musical Quotation
Signed. 3 x 1½", on cream card stock. Signed in full and dated,
"97" on verso. Traces of archival tape on recto, otherwise fine.
Estimated Value $400-600.
Lot 539 
Sousa, John Philip. Inscribed Visiting
Card With Autograph Musical Quotation Signed. 3 x 1½", on cream card
stock. Signed in full and dated "97" on verso.
Estimated Value
$400-750.
Lot 540 
Southey, Robert. (1774-1843) British Poet
Laureate. Visiting Card Signed. 2¾ x 1½", on manilla card
stock. Signed "Mr Southey" above his printed name. Some age toning.
Estimated Value $120-180.
Lot 541 
Speer, Albert. (1905-1981) German Architect,
Nazi Minister of Armaments & War production, close friend of Hitler.
Inscribed Visiting Card Signed. 3½ x 2", on white linen card
stock. Inscribed, "With good wishes/ Speer" in blue ink above and below
his printed name.
Estimated Value $150-225.
Lot 542 
Speer, Albert. Visiting Card Signed.
3½ x 2", on off-white linen card stock. Signed in full and dated "M.
IX 74" on recto.
Estimated Value $120-180.
Lot 543 
Stanley, Sir Henry M. (1841-1904) British
Explorer and Journalist. Annotated Calling Card. 4 x 2", on white card
stock. Stanley's card as an employee of the "New York Herald." With a
curious inscription on the verso which appears to be a note about weights and
measures: "10 pieces in a [ ? ]. 5 - ½ a [same word]." Moderate
staining to periphery of recto.
Estimated Value $300-450.
Lot 544 
Stanley, Sir Henry M. Visiting Card
Signed. 4 x 2½", on grey card stock with gold edges. Signed in full.
Mounting traces on verso.
Estimated Value $300-450.
Lot 545 
[Stein, Gertrude]. (1874-1946) American
Writer. Inscribed Visiting Card Signed by Alice B.Toklas. 2¾ x 2", on
cream card stock, with both Gertude Stein's and Alice B. Toklas' names printed
on the front. Inscribed in Toklas' hand with a simple greeting in French,
penned above their printed names, which have been delicately crossed out with a
single line. Accompanied by original transmittal envelope addressed in Toklas'
delicate hand.
Estimated Value $120-180.
Lot 546 
Steinbeck, John. (1902-1968) American
Novelist, author of the American classic, The Grapes of Wrath (1939),
for which he won a Pulitzer Prize. Awarded a Nobel Prize for Literature in1962.
Visiting Card Signed. 3½ x 2", on cream card stock. Signed in
full in deep blue ink below his printed name.
Estimated Value $400-600.
Lot 547 
Steinbeck, John. Visiting Card
Signed. 3½ x 2", on cream card stock. Signed in full in blue ink
below the author's printed name. Very faint mounting traces on verso.
Estimated Value $400-600.
Lot 548 
Stevenson, Robert Louis. (1850-1894)
Scottish Writer, author of Treasure Island (1883), et al. Inscribed
Visiting Card. 3 x 1½", on cream card stock. Inscribed, "Prof
Stuart Esq / Union club" above his printed name. This was evidently one of
Robert Louis Stevenson's club cards, and the name "Athenaeum Club, London" is
given as a printed address at bottom left below the author's name.
Estimated Value $175-225.
Lot 549 
Stevenson, Robert Louis. Inscribed
Visiting Card. 3 x 1½", on cream card stock. Penned, "Prof
Liversridge Esq / Union Club" above his printed name. Bears a faint
horizontal band of discoloration across center, but is still attractive.
Estimated Value $175-225.
Lot 550 
Stevenson, Robert Louis. Inscribed
Visiting Card. 3 x 1½", on off white card stock with black mourning
border. Inscribed in pencil, "Mrs. Fairchild ," above Stevenson's
printed name, and then "a person very open to a visit" below. The card
gives the "Savile Club, London" as Stevenson's address in London, and
"Sherryvore, Bournemouth" as his address outside the city. Inscription
somewhat light, but still legible.
Estimated Value $120-180.