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Lot 1017: Jackie Robinson Signed Check

ITEM DESCRIPTION

 
Reserve: $200.00
Winning Bid: $479.01
Price Realized: $572.42
Auction Date:11/30/2005 9:00 PM EST

Check signed by Jackie and dated Feb. 7, 1956 – three months after his last World Series appearance and two months after his retirement from the game he forever transformed, having quit rather than accepting the Brooklyn Dodgers trading him to the Giants. Drawn in the amount of $30.00 and made out in Jackie’s hand on a check imprinted Goldstein, Golenbock & Barell, his accounting firm, and signed by someone there, with Jackie signing in the left-hand date/amount box in blue ink, a tight, crisp signature grading 9/10. 3 x 8.5” light brown check is NRMT.

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