Mar 22, 2018 - Sale 2470

Sale 2470 - Lot 86

Price Realized: $ 500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(SUPREME COURT.) Two First Day Covers, each Signed by all 8 Justices of the 1969 Burger Court. The first, with a cachet showing a bust of JFK in profile. The second, with a cachet showing a copy of the U.S. Constitution and the courtroom of the U.S. Supreme Court, and with a 3-cent "Washington / National Capital Sesquicentennial" stamp. Each with a 13-cent "John F. Kennedy" stamp, cancelled on JFK's birthday, May 29, 1967. Each 3 1/2x6 1/2 inches. Np, circa 1969

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Warren Burger Hugo Black Thurgood Marshall William O. Douglas William Brennan Potter Stewart Byron White John Marshall Harlan II.
The Burger Court would not have nine justices until Harry Blackmun was confirmed in May of 1970.