autographs of famous people - Stamp Auctions
 Lot 603 - autographs of famous people - Cherrystone Auctions U.S. and Worldwide Stamps and Postal History2001 Israel First Day Cover with Astronaut stamp, signed in Hebrew and English ILAN RAMON (an Israeli fighter pilot and later the first Israeli astronaut for NASA. He was the space shuttle payload specialist of STS-107, the fatal mission of Columbia, in which he and six other crew members were killed in the re-entry accident. At 48, he was the oldest member of the crew. Ramon is the only foreign recipient of the United States Congressional Space Medal of Honor, which he was awarded posthumously) Cherrystone Auctions U.S. and Worldwide Stamps and Postal Historyautographs of famous people |
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 Lot 601 - autographs of famous people - Cherrystone Auctions U.S. and Worldwide Stamps and Postal History1981 U.N. "Palestinian Rights" FDC signed by Y. ARAFAT (Yasser Arafat may have been reviled in Israel and some parts of the international community as the architect of countless gruesome acts of violence, and viewed with disdain in Western (and even some Arab) capitals for alleged diplomatic duplicity, but among his own people he has been lionized as nothing less than the father of the Palestinian Nation) Cherrystone Auctions U.S. and Worldwide Stamps and Postal Historyautographs of famous people |
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 Lot 602 - autographs of famous people - Cherrystone Auctions U.S. and Worldwide Stamps and Postal History1987 handwritten letter, signed JONATHAN POLLARD (a former intelligence analyst for the United States government. In 1987, as part of a plea agreement, Pollard pleaded guilty to spying for and providing top-secret classified information to Israel. He was sentenced to life in prison for violations of the Espionage Act) Cherrystone Auctions U.S. and Worldwide Stamps and Postal Historyautographs of famous people |
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 Lot 582 - autographs of famous people - Cherrystone Auctions U.S. and Worldwide Stamps and Postal History1915 typewritten letter, on KKL (Jewish National Fund) stationery, signed by Menachem Ussishkin (a Russian-born Zionist leader and head of the Jewish National Fund) Cherrystone Auctions U.S. and Worldwide Stamps and Postal Historyautographs of famous people |
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 Lot 581 - autographs of famous people - Cherrystone Auctions U.S. and Worldwide Stamps and Postal History1915 (26 July) registered cover (flap missing) from "Zion Mule Corps", S.Z. 1 Army Post Office cds (Gallipoli) addressed to Miss E. Rosoff (girlfriend) in Alexandria, endorsed "from Captain (Joseph) TRUMPELDOR Zion Mule Corps, Mediterranean Exped. Force Gallipoli" (the Zion Mule Corps was formed in 1915, considered to be the first all-Jewish military unit organized in close to two thousand years, and the ideological beginning of the Israel Defense Forces) Cherrystone Auctions U.S. and Worldwide Stamps and Postal Historyautographs of famous people |
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 Lot 599 - autographs of famous people - Cherrystone Auctions U.S. and Worldwide Stamps and Postal History1972 Israeli Space cover signed by JOHN GLENN (an aviator, engineer, astronaut, and United States senator. He was one of the "Mercury Seven" group of military test pilots selected in 1959 by NASA to become America's first astronauts) Cherrystone Auctions U.S. and Worldwide Stamps and Postal Historyautographs of famous people |
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 Lot 596 - autographs of famous people - Cherrystone Auctions U.S. and Worldwide Stamps and Postal History1959 (15 Sep), typewritten letter, New York, signed "B.M. BARUCH" (Bernard Mannes Baruch was an American financier, stock investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant. After his success in business, he devoted his time toward advising U.S. Presidents Woodrow Wilson and Franklin D. Roosevelt on economic matters, and became a philanthropist) Cherrystone Auctions U.S. and Worldwide Stamps and Postal Historyautographs of famous people |
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 Lot 590 - autographs of famous people - Cherrystone Auctions U.S. and Worldwide Stamps and Postal History1939 (15 Feb) Princeton, N.J., typed letter and original envelope to Jewish Press Agency, signed A. EINSTEIN (Albert Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics. His work is also known for its influence on the philosophy of science) Cherrystone Auctions U.S. and Worldwide Stamps and Postal Historyautographs of famous people |
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 Lot 583 - autographs of famous people - Cherrystone Auctions U.S. and Worldwide Stamps and Postal History1916 Telegram to Menachem Ussishkin in Odessa, from Weizman (Chaim) in London requesting "please send message first number Zionist Review of Political (sp) Organ Federation = Weizman" Cherrystone Auctions U.S. and Worldwide Stamps and Postal Historyautographs of famous people |
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 Lot 584 - autographs of famous people - Cherrystone Auctions U.S. and Worldwide Stamps and Postal History1915 (1 Oct) letter on "Zionist Bureau For New England" stationery, signed by JACOB DE HAAS (a British-born Jewish journalist and an early leader of the Zionist movement in the United States. Jacob De Haas was born in London. He was the secretary of the First Zionist Congress and he introduced Theodor Herzl to the UK in the Jewish World newspaper. In 1896, he was the first member of Hovevei Zion to encourage the movement) Cherrystone Auctions U.S. and Worldwide Stamps and Postal Historyautographs of famous people |
