RUTH BABE: (1895-1948) American baseball player who achieved fame with the New York Yankees. Black fountain pen ink signature ('Babe Ruth') to a B...

TOLAND GREGG: (1904-1948) American cinematographer, Academy Award winner. Toland worked on a number of classic Hollywood movies including The Grap...

GARBO GRETA: (1905-1990) Swedish-American actress, the recipient of an Honorary Academy Award. D.S., Greta Garbo, being a signed cheque, n.p. (New...

BOSCO JOHN: (1815-1888) Don Bosco. Italian Roman Catholic Priest, Educator and Writer. He developed teaching methods based on love rather than pun...

FRANKLIN JANE: (1791-1875) English philanthropist, the second wife of the explorer John Franklin. Following her husband's disappearance in search ...

CARTER HOWARD: (1874-1939) English archaeologist and Egyptologist, discovered the Tomb of Tutankhamun in 1923. Manuscript D.S., with his initials ...

DUMAS ALEXANDRE: Fils (1824-1895) French Author and Dramatist. A good A.L.S., A. Dumas, three pages, 8vo, Paris, 28th January 1890, to Count Josep...

COCTEAU JEAN: (1889-1963) French poet, playwright, novelist, artist, filmmaker and critic. A brief A.L.S., Jean Cocteau, with a star beneath his s...

STEVENSON ROBERT LOUIS: (1850-1894) Scottish novelist of Treasure Island (1883), Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886) and Kidnapped (1886)...

BERTRAND HENRI-GATIEN: (1773-1844) French General who served during the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars, the third and last Gran...

ROOSEVELT FRANKLIN D.: (1882-1945) American President 1933-45. D.S., Franklin D Roosevelt, as President, being a signed cheque, New York, 15th Jun...

GARIBALDI GIUSEPPE: (1807-1882) Italian General and Politician, one of Italy's 'fathers of the fatherland'. A good L.S., `G. Garibaldi´, one page,...

Saddam Hussein requests a $5 billion dollar loan from the United States and for his regards to be conveyed to President Ronald Reagan HUSSEIN SAD...