Minimum Bids Updated, Friday April 18, 2008, 4:45 p.m
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1. Hand-Painted Ceramic Mug
Professor Weigel’s personal coffee mug, hand-painted with the South Texas College of Law seal and the words Dr. C. Weigel.
Fair-Market Value: Priceless
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2.Cannon
Metal-and-wood, desk-sized replica of a nineteenth-century cannon.
Fair-Market Value: $10
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3. Cannon Sundial
Brass-and-marble, desk-sized sundial with magnifying glass and miniature cannon attachments.
Fair-Market Value: $100
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4. Laser-Engraved Nautical Desk Set
Nine-piece walnut desk set, each piece of which features a laser engraving with a nautical theme. Consists of a pair of book ends, a business-card holder, a business-card index box, a pen holder, an envelope holder, and a calendar stand, each of which displays an engraving of a different type of sailing ship; a pad holder that displays an engraving of gulls flying over the sea; and a ruler that displays an engraving of a sailing ship, dolphin, gull, and lighthouse.
Fair-Market Value: $45
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5. Nautical Sandglass Timer
Ship’s brass-and-glass, fifteen-minute sandglass timer, hanging upon a brass-and-wood stand.
Fair-Market Value: $10
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6. Century-Old Typewriter
L. C. Smith & Brothers typewriter from the early 1900s.
Fair-Market Value: $75
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7. Kaleidoscope
Unique triangular kaleidoscope by Arlene Blattel with stained-glass surface.
Fair-Market Value: $15
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8. USS Constitution Pen Set
1927 pen set with jade base and iron ship’s-wheel figure encircling an engraving of the USS Constitution, Old Ironsides. The figure is made of iron from the historic ship.
Fair-Market Value: $25
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9. Abraham Lincoln Set
Set consisting of an early-twentieth-century edition of the book Life of Abraham Lincoln, Illustrated, possibly written by Samuel Paynter Wilson, and a metal-framed print of a Matthew Brady photographic portrait of President Lincoln.
Fair-Market Value: $50
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 10. Christmas 1914 Keepsake Box
Brass keepsake box, decorated with an intricate embossed design, that was originally used to send small gifts from England for Christmas 1914 to a British serviceman stationed overseas. Each British serviceman who was overseas that Christmas got such a box, which was filled with small items like cigarettes or candy, as a “gift from the nation.” The gift boxes were created through a “Sailors and Soldiers Christmas Fund” that had been created by Princess Mary, the seventeen-year-old daughter of King George V and Queen Mary.
The surface of the box’s lid depicts the profile of Princess Mary in the center, surrounded by a laurel wreath and flanked on either side by her “M” monogram. At the top, a decorative cartouche, flanked by a scabbard and sword, contains the word “Imperium Britannicum.” On the lower edge, another cartouche, flanked by the bows of battleships at sea, contains the words “Christmas 1914.” In the corners, small roundels contain the names of the Allies Belgium, Japan, Servia, and Montenegro. On the left and right edges, each enclosed in circles and superimposed over three furled flags, are the names of the Allies France and Russia.
Inside the box is a pair of umbilical scissors, in the design of a stork, kept there by Professor Weigel.
Fair-Market Value: $10
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11. Berlin Wall Artifacts
Three artifacts from the Berlin Wall—a piece of concrete, a piece of barbed wire, and an East German uniform patch—mounted in a small plastic display case upon which is printed the words Berlin-Wall 13. 8. 61 – 9. 11. 89.
Fair-Market Value: $30
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12. “Complaint Department” Hand Grenades
Two hand grenades that Professor Weigel kept on his desk: One is mounted on a wooden stand with a brass sign engraved with the words Complaint Department Take a Number, and has attached to it a small plastic square with the number 1 engraved on it. The other is a stand-alone grenade that has attached to it a small cardboard rectangle with #1 printed upon it. Accompanying this grenade is a paperboard sign reading To Review Your Final, Take a Number.
Fair-Market Value: $25
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13. Antique Telegraph
Early-twentieth-century telegraph set, containing both sender and receiver, mounted on a wooden base.
Fair-Market Value: $75
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14. Framed 1967 Weigel Christmas Card
Watercolor scene painted by Professor Weigel of a sailboat on the water under a streaked sky containing a cross-shaped star. Signed CW/67.
Fair-Market Value: Priceless
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15. Framed 1970 Weigel Christmas Card
Pen-and-ink scene drawn by Professor Weigel of a church within a grove of trees under a blue-tinted sky containing a cross-shaped star. Signed CW. ’70.
Fair-Market Value: Priceless
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16. Framed 1971 Weigel Christmas Card
Pen-and-ink scene drawn by Professor Weigel of a child standing in the snow in a rundown urban neighborhood and writing the words Merry Christ... upon a brick wall. Above the child, on the wall, a big peace sign has been drawn. Signed C.Weigel ’71.
Fair-Market Value: Priceless
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17. Framed 1975 Weigel Christmas Card
Pen-and-ink scene drawn by Professor Weigel of a child standing on a snowy hillside and holding the rope to a sled behind him while he looks out upon a grove of trees. Painted on the sled is the word ..sebud. Signed Weigel 75.
Fair-Market Value: Priceless
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18. Framed 2003 Weigel Christmas Card
This card, entitled The Long Road Home, displays a pen-and-ink scene drawn by Professor Weigel of a road in a snowy countryside setting beside which stand several trees, one wind-blown, and a mailbox attached to which is a wreath and red ribbon. Signed C.Weigel . ’03.
Fair-Market Value: Priceless
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19. 1919 Abraham Lincoln Picture
Framed cover of the February 1919 issue of The Ladies Home Journal, featuring a portrait by J. L. G. Ferris of Abraham Lincoln pointing skyward with one hand while he hoists the American flag with the other. Beneath Lincoln are framed his handwritten words: we here highly resolve that these dear shall not have died in vain— that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom – Abraham Lincoln.
Fair-Market Value: $75
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20. “To Life Boats” Sign
Brass wall sign with the words To Life Boats sitting upon an arrow pointing right.
Fair-Market Value: $35
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21. Battle of Britain Book-Photograph Set
Set consists of a framed 1940 UPI photograph of Air Chief-Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding, commander-in-chief, Fighter Command, British Royal Air Force, and the book The Battle of Britain: New Perspectives, by John Ray. Attached to the glass of the photograph frame is an authentic Battle of Britain medal. The front sleeve of the book, which was published in 1994, features a copy of the same Dowding photograph.
Fair-Market Value: $75
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22. Robert’s Primer of Parliamentary Law
1925 edition, by Joseph T. Robert. Contains Professor Weigel’s signature on the flyleaf.
Fair-Market Value: $15
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23. Legal Thesaurus
1981 regular edition, by William C. Burton. Contains Professor Weigel’s signature on the flyleaf.
Fair-Market Value: $15
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24. Cases and Materials on Torts
Seventh edition, by William L. Prosser, John W. Wade, and Victor E. Schwartz, published in 1982. Contains annotations by Professor Weigel.
Fair-Market Value: $15
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25. Prosser, Wade, and Schwartz’s Torts: Cases and Materials
Eleventh edition, by Victor E. Schwartz, Kathryn Kelly, and David F. Partlett, published in 2005. Contains annotations by Professor Weigel.
Fair-Market Value: $10
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26. Texas Justice
Autographed copy of Texas Justice: The Life and Times of the Third District Court of Texas, by Jack K. Selden, Jr., published in 1997.
Fair-Market Value: $10
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27. Roe vs. Wade
“Motion and Brief Amicus Curiae of Certain Physicians, Professors, and Fellows of the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology in Support of Appellees” in case no. 70-18, Jane Roe, et al., vs. Henry Wade, and case no. 70-40, Mary Doe, et al., vs. Arthur K. Bolton, in the Supreme Court of the United States, October Term, 1971.
Fair-Market Value: $15
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28. Trial Tactics and Methods
1954 edition, by Robert E. Keeton, Harvard University professor of law.
Fair-Market Value: $15
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29. Commentaries on the Laws of England, Volumes 1-4
A 1979 facsimile of the first edition of 1765–69, by William Blackstone. The set is gold-stamped with Professor Weigel’s last name on the spine.
Fair-Market Value: $100
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30. A Social History of English Law
1973 edition, by Alan Harding.
Fair-Market Value: $15
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31. Canonical Procedure
1961 edition of Canonical Procedure: Philosophical-Juridic Study of Book IV of the Code of Canon Law, by Fernando Della Rocca, translated by Rt. Rev. Monsignor John D. Fitzgerald. Contains Professor Weigel’s signature on the flyleaf.
Fair-Market Value: $15
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32. Command at Sea
Third edition of the book by Harley F. Cope, revised by Howard Bucknell III, published by the United States Naval Institute. Contains Professor Weigel’s signature on the flyleaf.
Fair-Market Value: $15
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33. The Army Lawyer
The Army Lawyer: A History of the Judge Advocate General’s Corps, 1775–1975, published by the U.S. Army in celebration of the bicentennial of the JAG Corps.
Fair-Market Value: $15
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34. War Slang
1994 edition of War Slang: Fighting Words and Phrases of Americans from the Civil War to the Gulf War, by Paul Dickson, the country’s foremost authority on American slang.
Fair-Market Value: $15
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35. International Law for Seagoing Officers
Third edition, published in 1977 by the Naval Institute Press, of the book by Burdick H. Brittin and Liselotte B. Watson covering the theory and practice of international law as it affects those on the sea.
Fair-Market Value: $15
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36. Navigation Dictionary
Second edition, published in 1969 by the U.S. Naval Oceanographic Office, of this comprehensive dictionary of navigational terms.
Fair-Market Value: $15
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37. The Story of the U.S. Cavalry, 1775–1942
1984 edition of this succinct history of the American cavalry by John K. Herr and Edward S. Wallace.
Fair-Market Value: $25
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38. Farwell’s Rules of the Nautical Road
1982 edition by Frank E. Bassett and Richard A. Smith, published by the Naval Institute Press, of this classic mariner’s reference to the rules of the road.
Fair-Market Value: $20
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39. United States Navy Memorial
The United States Historical Society’s 1987 edition of United States Navy Memorial: A Living Tradition, by John W. Alexander, published by the U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation.
Fair-Market Value: $15
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40. Perez on Medicine
1993 edition of Perez on Medicine: The Whimsical Art of Jose S. Perez. Perez’s unique illustrations together with William R. Spence’s text offer “a visit to the world of medicine—specialty by specialty.”
Fair-Market Value: $5
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41. Plague, Pox, and Pestilence
1997 edition of Plague, Pox, and Pestilence: Disease in History, edited by Kenneth F. Kiple. An extraordinary world history of human disease.
Fair-Market Value: $10
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42. Gunshot Injuries
Revised, second edition, published in 1991, of Gunshot Injuries: How They Are Inflicted, Their Complications and Treatment, by Colonel Louis A. La Garde, U.S. Army Medical Corps (Retired).
Fair-Market Value: $10
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43. In the Wake of Trauma
1957 edition, by James W. Brooke.
Fair-Market Value: $15
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44. A Study in Hospital Efficiency
1992 edition of the classic by E. A. Codman, first published in 1916.
Fair-Market Value: $15
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45. The Principles and Practice of Medicine
1978 reprint of the classic by William Osler, first published in 1892.
Fair-Market Value: $15
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46. Coroner
1983 edition, by Thomas Noguchi with Joseph DiMona. Autographed by Noguchi, the renowned and controversial chief medical examiner of Los Angeles County.
Fair-Market Value: $10
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47. The Broker
Autographed copy of the 1996 novel by R. Darryl Fisher about the international black market for transplant organs.
Fair-Market Value: $10
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48. The Ship Captain’s Medical Guide
Twentieth edition, published in 1967, of the guide by the UK Board of Trade.
Fair-Market Value: $20
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49. The Ship’s Medicine Chest and Medical Aid at Sea
1978 edition, published by the U.S. Public Health Service.
Fair-Market Value: $15
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50. Piloting, Seamanship, and Small Boat Handling
Fiftieth-anniversary, 1972 edition of this classic by Charles F. Chapman.
Fair-Market Value: $20
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51. The Sailing Doctor
1992 edition by Martin Luray of “the essential shipboard companion.”
Fair-Market Value: $15
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52. Pilot Error
Second edition, published in 1982, of Pilot Error: The Human Factors, edited by the father-and-son team of Ronald Hurst and Leslie R. Hurst.
Fair-Market Value: $15
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53. Report of the President’s Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy
1964 report by the Warren Commission on John F. Kennedy’s assassination. Contains Professor Weigel’s signature on the flyleaf.
Fair-Market Value: $25
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54. The Pentagon Papers
The Senator Mike Gravel edition of The Pentagon Papers: The Defense Department History of United States Decisionmaking on Vietnam, Volumes 1–4, published in 1971. An extraordinary look into the mentality and premises of U.S. policymakers during the Vietnam era.
Fair-Market Value: $50
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55. The Fire That Consumes
Autographed copy of the 1982 edition of The Fire That Consumes: A Biblical and Historical Study of Final Punishment. Author Edward William Fudge offers a provocative look at this controversial doctrine.
Fair-Market Value: $15
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56. Burke’s Speech on Conciliation with America
1897 edition, edited by Hammond Lamont, of Edmund Burke’s March 22, 1775, speech to the British Parliament proposing peace and conciliation with the rebellious American colonists.
Fair-Market Value: $15
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57. Torts/Domestic Relations
1913 edition of American and English Law Library, Volume 2: Torts/Domestic Relations, by George Luther Clark and Albert Martin Kales.
Fair-Market Value: $15
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