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Items signed by Einstein, Davy Crockett and Lee Harvey Oswald for online sale

A letter handwritten in German and signed by Albert Einstein from 1937, a two-page letter written and signed by Davy Crockett in 1834 while he was a U.S. Congressman from Tennessee, and a two-page letter written and signed by Lee Harvey Oswald to his brother from 1961 are just a few of the expected top performers in University Archives’ online-only Rare Autographs, Manuscripts, Books & Americana auction planned for Wednesday, August 7th.

The auction will start promptly at 10:00 am Eastern time. All 572 lots in the catalog are up for viewing and bidding now – on the new and improved University Archives website – www.UniversityArchives.com – as well as Invaluable.com, Auctionzip.com and LiveAuctioneers.com. Phone and absentee bids will also be taken. Items signed by many of history’s brightest luminaries will come up for bid.

University Archives’ offices are located at 88 Danbury Rd. (Suite #2A) in Wilton, Conn. For more information about University Archives and the 572-lot, online-only Rare Autographs, Manuscripts, Books & Americana auction scheduled for Wednesday, August 7th, starting at 10:00 am Eastern time, please visit www.universityarchives.com.

Lot 82 is an 1865 colored broadside lithograph titled After a Little While, depicting a triumphant Abraham Lincoln on horseback reuniting the war-torn republic, printed by the acclaimed lithographer Charles Magnus (est. $2,000-$3,000).