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Americana featuring the Estate of Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter | February 25, 2026

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We kick off our Semiquincentennial celebration with over 200 personal and presidential items from the Estate of President Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter. Featuring paintings by the President, a rare gold inaugural medal, personal fishing and hunting gear; signed editions from his personal library; dinner and glass ware, ephemera, decorative arts, jewelry worn by the President and Mrs. Carter, and more. Also featured is an extensive collection of presidential signatures; important fine art and jewelry from relatives of George HW Bush; American Furniture, fine and decorative arts, silver, and more.
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Lot 586

Group of Ephemera, Jimmy Carter Provenance

Estimate: $200 - $400
Current Bid
$100

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card to "Vote for Jimmy Carter, Candidate for State Senator" in 1962; approximately 200 "Elect Jimmy Carter Governor" flyers; President Carter aide memo for state visit to Nigeria; 32 page typed draft of "Inaugural Book" by Alex Haley, possibly unpublished, with what appears to be Carter's hand written margin corrections; typed poem by former poet laureate Robert Dana; First Family menus; dinner menu of January 5, 1978 for the Carters in Versailles, France, with a Marc Chagall cover; White House dinner card of February 28, 1978 for Mrs. Carter, in honor of The Governors of the States and Territories; ten or so Mr. or Mrs. Carter place cards for various dinners or concerts; invitations and luncheon menu for inauguration of Barack Obama's first term; Egyptian Railways itinerary of "The Special Train of Mr. G. [sic] Carter, The President of the United States"; books for Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter to the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize Concert; other Nobel related ephemera circa 2002-2003; 16 photographs from travels abroad; funeral program for Hubert H. Humphrey, where Carter and Mondale were speakers; 12 x 14 in. print of Lefevre Cranstone's The President's House, Washington; a second print, this one bearing signatures of Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter

Provenance: The Estate of Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter

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The Estate of Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter

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