Auction 85 Part 1
Historical Militaria and Autographs - Day 1
By Alexander Historical Auctions LLC
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Oct 28, 2020
98 Bohemia Ave., St. 2, Chesapeake City, MD 21915, United States
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Nearly 1,600 lots of historical militaria from all conflicts; historical autographs and ephemera from all fields of collecting.
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LOT 458:
RUDOLF HESS'S DEATH NOTICE FROM HIS FAMILY
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Sold for: $100
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Estimated price :
$60 - $80
Buyer's Premium: 30%
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RUDOLF HESS'S DEATH NOTICE FROM HIS FAMILY
Printed card, 1p. 4.5 x 7 in., Sep. 1987, expressing thanks for the '...expressions of sympathy, respect and reverence..' received by the family of RUDOLF HESS (1894-1987) following his suicide in Spandau prison. The card bears a printed black border, and bears a handwritten message on the verso from Hess' son WOLF RUDIGER HESS (1937-2001), lamenting that '...the four powers have destroyed everything belonging to my father with the exception of his books and the letters we wrote...' and offering to send him his father's collection of 'National Geographic' magazines. Includes the original black-bordered transmittal envelope. Fine. Also present are a 3.5 x 5.5 in. real-photo Hoffmann postcard depicting Hess as an SS-Gruppenfuhrer, and a 5 x 7 in. b/w photograph of EUGENE K. BIRD (1926-2005), the American governor of Spandau Prison, who lost his position for secretly collaborating with Hess on a book about the latter's mysterious flight to England.
