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Hamilton beats original estimate by a landslide
The Hamilton letter joins other historical documents which also sold for well over original estimates in the Lion Heart Autographs Auction No. 13 held earlier this week.
NEW YORK, NY
.-Lion Heart Autographs, Inc. announced that a rare letter from Alexander Hamilton to James Madison (1790) sold for well over the original estimate at $113,850. The original estimate at auction was $8,000-$10,000. The Lion Heart Auction No. 13 took place on Wednesday, April 28, 2021 in New York.
The unique 1790 Alexander Hamilton handwritten letter to James Madison mentioning Thomas Jefferson: the only letter between the two ever to appear at auction and likely the last one still in private hands chronicled the events which inspired The Room Where It Happens, from the musical Hamilton.
The Belfast-built H.M.S. Titanic was thought to be unsinkable after it set sail from Cobh, Co. Cork, on its fated maiden voyage. Of the roughly 2,220 people aboard the Titanic, around 164 were Irish, only 54 of whom were found amongst the ship’s 700-some survivors. Its wreckage lay undiscovered until September 2, 1985, and now on the 30th anniversary of the discovery several Titanic artifacts will go on auction, and are likely to sell for hefty sums. The items come from Abraham Lincoln Salmon, who was one of the 12 survivors on the infamous Lifeboat No. 1, nicknamed the “money boat” due to unsubstantiated allegations that these survivors bribed the crewmen to paddle away from danger while others struggled to survive.
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A copy of Robert Frostâs renowned poem âStopping by Woods on a Snowy Eveningâ written in the poetâs own hand will be auctioned next week by a New Yorkâbased dealer.
The âfair copyâ of the poem, as such artifacts are known, is not the original manuscript but nonetheless quite rare, according to David Lowenherz, president of Lion Heart Autographs, the dealership handling the auction.
Frost wrote the poem â in which the speaker pauses to marvel at âlovely, dark, and deepâ woods before reminding himself that he has âmiles to go before I sleepâ â in a flash of inspiration one summer morning in 1922 at his home in Shaftsbury, now the Robert Frost Stone House Museum at Bennington College. The work was published the following year as part of the poetâs Pulitzer Prizeâwinning collection âNew Hampshire.â
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