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The Union Fairgrounds Show University Archives’ Auction

Rescheduled to August 2024 of Rare Books & Ephemera

NEW HAMPSHIRE – The Union Fairgrounds Show, which was WILTON, CT – Typed letters signed by Martin Luther King, Jr.,
originally scheduled for August 3 & 4, 2023, is being rescheduled Steve Jobs and Albert Einstein, as well as a Mickey Mouse sketch signed
to August 2024. Goosefare Antiques & Promotions had about 45 by Walt Disney, are just a few of the many desirable and highly
dealers signed up for the show this August but ran into conflicts with collectible items in University Archives’ online-only Rare Autographs,
the New Hampshire Antiques Week and with the availability of Photographs & Books auction (plus PSA slabbed rarities) planned for
buildings and tents. Wednesday, June 28th, beginning at 11 a.m. EST.
This show was shooting for a show of 65-75 exhibitors to make the Highlights include a two-page typed letter signed by Martin Luther
show feasible and one in which customers and dealers alike would be King, Jr. on Dexter Avenue Baptist Church stationery, dated
pleased. They stated that they were not able to reach that this year November 13, 1958 (est. $50,000-$75,000); a rare Walt Disney signed
because many dealers save merchandise for the New Hampshire sketch of Mickey Mouse as well as additional autographs and sketches
Antiques Week shows and did not want to take the chance that they from Walt Disney Studios employees, among them the animators of
would sell it at Union and not have it for NH. Goofy, Pluto, Donald Duck and J. Thaddeus Toad (est. $25,000-
There was also a feeling that the Union Show should go back to $30,000); a one-page typed letter signed by Steve Jobs, then the Acting
a time after NH Antiques Week as it was in the past. Another real Vice President of Marketing at NeXT, Inc., addressed to David Nagy,
concern was that two of the buildings that have always been used at the an Apple product manager, who turned down Jobs’s “insanely great”
Union Show were not available this year because they would not be offer (est. $25,000-$30,000); and a one-page typed letter in German
clean enough following the actual Union Fair the week before. So signed by Albert Einstein and dated April 23, 1932, recounting to a fel-
Goosefare contacted the Fairgrounds to see if they could reserve the low physicist how the former’s “latest results in general relativity,” and
space for a later time in August 2024. recent work collaboration with Dutch astronomer William de Sitter,
The Fairgrounds agreed and everyone is looking forward to returning had changed Einstein’s “position on the cosmological problem,” or
in 2024 to its original timeframe. For more information, contact how to scientifically characterize the universe (est. $15,000-$20,000).
Goosefare Antiques & Promotions at PO Box 45, Saco, Maine, or at All 413 lots in the catalog are up for viewing and bidding now at
goosefare@gwi.net. For information, visit www.goosefareantiques.com www.UniversityArchives.com and other popular online auction sites.

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