The late Theodore Roosevelt Stillwell – who worked for the Ephrata post office for 36 years – once wrote Jackie Robinson a letter and asked him for a signed baseball. The first player to break Major ...

Sotheby’s is honoured to offer for sale fine and important music manuscripts and letters from a distinguished private collection, amassed in the first half of the twentieth century, and unknown and ...

The auction house Raab Collection has sold a heartfelt and historically significant letter written and signed by Founding Father and second U.S. president John Adams. The contents of the letter had ...

There's still a lot of little kid in Jack Krasula when it comes to autographs. The difference now is that he has broader horizons, and there's no grumpy nun smacking his hand with a ruler. Maybe she'd ...

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