?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
INCLUDES THE GENERAL'S OWN HANDKERCHIEF EISENHOWER, DWIGHT D. Three items, each Signed, as Military Governor: Photograph * Typed Letter * His handkerchief. The photograph, half-length portrait showing him in 5-star general's uniform and looking into the camera. Signed in the blank lower margin. 8x6 inches; some loss to lower left corner (not affecting signature or portrait). The letter, to Mary Deveney, explaining that by sending his handkerchief he has made an exception to his rule not to send pieces of his personal uniform or equipment, and sending also a signed photograph [both present]. 1 page, 8vo, "Office of the Commanding General" stationery; faint uneven toning overall, some loss to lower left corner (not affecting signature or text), pinholes at upper corners. The handkerchief, signed diagonally at one corner, in pencil. 18x18 inches, white fabric, folded 4 times into small square. [Frankfurt, 23 October 1945]
"While I have had to make it a policy to decline to send items of personal uniform and equipment to individuals requesting such things from me, a handkerchief seems such a small thing, and the purpose of your organization seems so definitely good, that I am violating my practice in this case. "You will find enclosed a handkerchief, on which I have written my name as legibly as possible, together with the autographed photograph you requested." With--Newspaper clippings concerning the charity auction organized by The Good Neighbors of Holmes Presbyterian Church in Holmes, PA, and held on a Saturday in late 1945, at which the Eisenhower hankie achieved one of the top prices of $20.
