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July 16: Many births: July 26, 1856: George Bernard Shaw was born
This Month in Collecting Roald Amundsen, 1872, the first in Dublin, the only person to win both the Nobel Prize

(1925, Literature) and an Academy Award (Pygmalion,
History: JUNE to South Pole 1938; Imdb.com).
“Shoeless” Joe Jackson, 1887
Barbara (Ruby Stevens) July 26, 1928: Film director Stanley Kubrick
By: Mike McLeod Stanwyck, 1907 premiered in life and eventually produced classics:
Ginger Rogers, 1911.
Spartacus (1960), which made $60 million worldwide, and
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), $68.7 million total (the-
July 3, 1908: The passing of A 1911 "Shoeless Joe" Jackson signed photo graded numbers.com). In 2015, The Academy of Motion Picture
Joel Chandler Harris, aka Uncle PSA/DNA Mint 9 sold for $179,250 in 2015 at Heritage Arts and Sciences purchased 2001’s model Aries 1B Trans-
Remus, at the age of 59. A cast iron Auctions. It is the only signed and graded photo known; Lunar Space Shuttle for $344,000 at a Premiere Props
Uncle Remus mechanical bank, 5 Jackson was illiterate so his signatures are rare. He has auction. Kubrick destroyed most of the props after the
3/4 inches long, manufactured by been called the greatest hitter of the decade. From 1908 movie to prevent their being recycled into other movies
Kyser & Rex, sold for $22,000 at to 1920, his batting average was .356 with 1,772 hits. (latimes.com, 3/29/15). However, he did not completely
Morphy Auctions in 2012. destroy HAL (Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic),
July 17, 1899: The singer/ the murderous master computer on the Discovery One
dancer/“gangster”/actor James
Joel Chandler Harris Cagney was born in 1899. The spacecraft. Christie’s
in 1873 sold one of the front
only known one-sheet Style A panels that held the HAL
movie poster of Cagney’s The
July 5, 2002: Baseball legend Ted Williams passed Public Enemy (1931) auctioned 9000’s red camera eye
away. In April 2012, Hunt for $167,300, and his screen-worn for $27,615 in 2010. Also
Auctions sold his memorabilia suit from Yankee Doodle Dandy included in the sale was
for $3.5 million. His 1949 sold for $11,950, both at Heritage an aluminum key similar
American League Most Auctions. to that used by astronaut
Valuable Player Award plaque, Dave Bowman to access
.344 batting average, hit Cagney’s Yankee Doodle HAL’s memory and shut
$260,000, and his 1957 Babe Dandy suit (Photo courtesy of it down.
Ruth Sultan of Swat Award, Heritage Auctions) The Aries 1B
earned with a batting average (Photo courtesy of Premiere Props)
of .388, rose to $200,000
(without 15% buyer’s premium). July 28, 1929: The birthday of First Lady Jacqueline
July 19, 1834: The famous painter of ballet dancers, Bouvier Kennedy Onassis. A signed Jacques Lowe photo
horse races, and women at their toilette, Edgar Degas
July 10, 1834: The birthday of James Whistler who was born this day. He never married. Also a sculptor, of her sold for $1,000 at Heritage Auctions in 2015.
made his mother Anna Matilda McNeill Whistler famous his Petite Danseuse de Quatorze Ans (Little Dancer of
with his painting, Arrangement in Grey and Black No.1, Fourteen Years) auctioned for $24,998,740 at Sotheby’s July 29, 2010: Winston Churchill's false teeth sold
aka Whistler’s Mother. It resides in the Musée d'Orsay in in 2015. He was also an early innovator in photography. for $23,700 at Keys Auction House in Aylsham, U.K. (cnn.
Paris. com, 7/29/10).
Arrangement in July 21, 2012:
Grey and Black The war shirt of July 29, 1982: Harold Sakata passed away at the
No. 2 was not of Chief Joseph of the age of 62. A Hawaiian of Japanese descent, Harold was
his father George Nez Perce sold for an Olympic Silver Medalist in
W ashing t on $877,500 at the weight lifting at the 1948 Summer
Whistler, as one Coeur d'Alene Art Olympics, a professional wrestler
might think, Auction in Reno, and—Oddjob! One of the greatest
but of Scottish Nevada. A painting henchmen in the Bond movies,
satirist Thomas of him wearing Harold was famous for tossing his
Carlyle. Doyle New that shirt is in the deadly, slicing hat like a Frisbee.
York auctioned Smithsonian, and One of the steel-brimmed hats
Whistler’s pastel White and Pink (The Palace) of a palazzo that image was worn by Oddjob in Goldfinger hit
in Venice for $650,500 in May 2012. used for a U.S. $110,000 at Guernsey’s in 2008.
postage stamp The other sold at Christie’s in 1998
July 12, 2014: A Babe Ruth-signed letter written (deseretnews.com, for $104,408. (Photo courtesy of
while a consultant on the set of Pride of the Yankees sold 7/22/12). jamesbondautographs.blogspot.com)
for $9,750 at Goldin’s Auction (Forbes.com, 7/7/14). The
letter was part of a scrapbook of letters from celebrities July 22, 1882: The birthday of renowned artist
that had been purchased at an estate sale for $1. Edward Hopper. In 2013, his East Wind Over Weehawken
skyrocketed to $40,485,000 at Christie's. Hopper is
July 13, 1942: The carpenter-turned-actor Harrison perhaps best known for Nighthawks, a painting of people
Ford was born. A screen-used bullwhip from Indiana at a cafeteria counter seen through a window at night. It
Jones sold for $204,000 at Profiles in History in 2015.
was sold to the Art Institute of Chicago for $3,000 soon
July 15, 1779: after it was completed in 1942 (EdwardHopper.net).
Birthday of Clement Clarke July 24, 1897: Amelia
Moore, author of “A Visit Earhart was born. In 1991, a July 30, 2002: A 1933 $20 Double Eagle coin
From St. Nicholas,” or sheet of aluminum believed designed by Augustus Saint-Gaudens sold for $7.59
“’Twas the Night Before to be a patch on her plane million—plus $20 to make it legal tender—at Sotheby's.
Christmas.” A handwritten was found (news.discovery.
and signed copy of it sold com, 10/28/14). A pair of July 31, 1965: Joanne Rowling, known as “JK,” was
for $280,000 in 2006 in her goggles worn in 1932 born. The chair she sat in while writing Harry Potter and
a private sale brokered in her solo flight across the the Sorcerer’s Stone and Harry Potter and the Chamber
by Heritage Auctions. Atlantic—the first woman of Secrets sold at Heritage Auctions on April 6, 2106 for
Three other copies are in to do so—was sold for $394,000. She signed the backrest and wrote on the
museums (hhhistory.com). apron of the seat: “I wrote / Harry Potter / while sitting
$141,600 in 2009 at Profiles / on this chair.”
in History. All photos public domain, PD-US,
unless otherwise credited. Credit: Timelines.ws