RARE !! Jesse Isidor Straus Esq. + FREE Colby check

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Definitely one of my rarest and even the worlds rarest signatures from this century!!  Even if you find another I truly doubt that it will be nearly as nice with any of the corroborating provenance for twice the starting price of mine !!  mortgage is on my okole and I am selling out to pay bills I will give an extra extra gift to each winning auction!!!
THIS REALLY IS AN UNBELIEVABLE OPPORTUNITY TO OBTAIN SUCH A RARE SIGNATURE
ON ACTUAL EMBOSSED STATIONARY FROM THE MOST FAMOUS OF ALL N.Y.C. ADDRESSES & Family !!
Look closely you can still see the embossed Straus family name on the private family stationary in the photo on the top left side of the signed document. this is truly a significant and timely document series.
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8) Jesse Isidor Straus Esq.-
letterhead 720 Park Avenue Jesse Isidor Straus- April 1 1932.
1 Personalized and signed private stationary invitation
to an informal dinner in honor of Senator Thomas F. Walsh of Montana on April 23
rd
1932.
2 carbon copies of Mr. Colbys replies
(April 29
th
1932) telling Mr. Straus that “it was an interesting evening.. of table talk.. and the occasion was one of rare pleasure and intellectual profit..” April 2 1932 a letter to Mr. Straus accepting the invitation.
(Historical note- This letterhead is directly from the most famous address in N.Y.C., (June 25, 1872–October 4, 1936) served as the American ambassador to France from 1933 to 1936. He was the eldest son of
Isidor Straus
(1845–1912), who died in the sinking of the
RMS
Titanic
, co-owner with his brother
Nathan Straus
of the department store
R.H. Macy & Co.
His uncle
Oscar Solomon Straus
(1850–1926) was the first Jewish United States Cabinet Secretary, serving as Secretary of Commerce and Labor from 1906 to 1909. Roosevelt appointed him Chairman of the state's Temporary Emergency Relief Administration (TERA), which provided unemployment assistance to ten percent of New York's families, in 1931.)
Jesse Isidor Straus
(June 25, 1872 – October 4, 1936) served as the American ambassador to France from 1933 to 1936. He was the eldest son of Isador Straus (1845–1912), who died in the sinking of the RMS Titanic, co-owner with his brother Nathan Straus of the department store R.H. Macy &Co.
.
His uncle Oscar Solomon Straus  (1850–1926) was the first Jewish United States Cabinet Secretary, serving as Secretary of Commerce and Labor from 1906 to 1909.
Life and career
Jesse Straus was born in Gutenburg,Germany. In 1879,he moved the United States to live in New York City. He graduated from Harvard College  in 1893. He and his brothers Percy and Herbert, both also Harvard graduates, donated funds that built Straus Hall  in Harvard Yard.
After college Jesse Straus was made to gain outside business experience before joining the family business. He worked as a clerk at the Hanover National Bank for a year and a half and then for a similar period as a department store salesman at Abraham & Straus, a Macy's rival. He married Irma Nathan in 1895. He began working at Macy's on September 3, 1896.
In 1929, he purchased a piece of land on New York City's Park Avenue to construct an apartment building because he found that the better buildings in the area would not accept Jews as residents. He moved his family into the topmost two floors, a seven-bedroom duplex with terraces, a thousand-square-foot library, and a baronial stone fireplace.
A political ally of New York Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt, in March 1931 Jesse Straus funded a poll of the delegates to the 1928 Democratic Convention to assess Roosevelt's chances in the race for the 1932 Democratic presidential nomination. Straus was president of his family's department store in the 1930s until Roosevelt appointed him Chairman of the state's Temporary Emergency Relief Administration (TERA), which provided unemployment assistance to ten percent of New York's families, in 1931.
When Roosevelt took office and the public anticipated a run on the banks, he bought full-page newspaper advertisements that announced:
I trust my government.
I trust our banks.
I do not expect the impossible.
I shall do nothing hysterical. If it is normal to carry little cash in my pocket when there is plenty to go round, I shall carry little now. There never was a time when everyone on earth could possess all his cash in is pockets, his socks, his safe-deposit box, or anywhere else.
I will not stampede. I will not lose nerve. I will keep my head.
Roosevelt appointed him U.S. Ambassador to France in 1933 and he presented his credentials in Paris on June 8, 1933. He served in that office, returning to the U.S. several times for health care, until he resigned for health reasons on August 18, 1936. He was fluent in French and was the first Jew to serve in the position.He reported to the President that public morale there was low and the country was unprepared for war.
In the 1930s he warned against efforts on the part of American Jews to organize opposition to the Nazi regime in Germany in the belief that is was "stirring up trouble" on an issue in which their involvement only demonstrated their inability to integrate themselves fully into American life. According to a biography in the Straus family newsletter, he "felt that Judaism was a religion, not a nationality, and that Jews, and members of all religious groups in any country, should assimilate....He refused all traffic with the Zionists and rigidly opposed pro-Jewish discrimination at Macy's."
He was one of the founders of the Lycée français de New York.
He died of pneumonia at his home at 720 Park Avenue in New York City on October 5, 1936. He is buried in Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx, New York.
In response to New Deal legislation increasing estate taxes to 60%, he had distributed some of his assets and revised his will.
Time
called his actions a "protest" and the result of "troubled thought." First he gave away one fourth of his Macy's stock, paying far less tax than had the shares remained part of his estate. Then, On July 31, 1934, he revised his 1933 will to remove a list of gifts to 18 educational and charitable institutions because:
The present Federal and State estate tax laws impose substantially increased tax burdens upon the estates of decedents and may under certain conditions cause undue hardship and financial sacrifice and loss resulting from untimely sale and liquidation of assets of estates to provide for the payment of such taxes. The increased estate taxes upon the estates of decedents are devoted in large part to Governmental social programs. Under the circumstances now existing, I deem it advisable to cancel and revoke the bequests made by me...in my [earlier] last will and testament.
His widow died in 1970 at the age of 94.
Straus was a noteworthy collector of fine arts and memorabilia. He left a collection of autographs to his granddaughter, who donated them to Vassar College, where they form the Jesse Isidor Straus Autograph Collection (ca. 1727-1873).
New York City's PS 199, the Jesse Isadore Straus School on West 70 Street, is named for him.
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MOST OF OUR AUCTIONS ARE HUGELY IMPORTANT AMERICAN HISTORICAL FIGURES AND DOCUMENTS OF THIS NATURE BASICALLY DO NOT EXIST ANYWHERE AT ANY COST.
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IMPORTANT NOTE !!--- THE CHECKS OFFERED AND SENT MAY BE DIFFERENT THAN THE SCANS SHOWN, BUT ARE ALL FROM THE SAME COLLECTION AND BANKS !
Remember Mr. Colbys autograph itself is worth between .00 and 99.00
so this alone is a great way to set precedence to the authenticity of your purchase !!!
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INFO ON THE HONORABLE BAINBRIDGE COLBY
Up for auction are the items shown in the scans.  The Honorable Bainbridge Colby- (Woodrow Wilsons last Secretary of State and Mark Twains lawyer, as well as the man who ratified the 19th amendment which gave woman the right to vote !!!, I have seen on the net that Mr. Colbys autograph alone has sold for between .00 and .00. And since carbon relies of the era did not come with signatures I have decided to add a check and signature so as to add a direct provenance to your acquisition. . He was a gentleman who helped shape the U.S. Political foreign affairs during the 1920's - 1940's. I grew up in his hometown and the caretaker for the family estate called Little Brook Farm, at Sunset Bay, near Bemus Point. The Colby family farms caretaker after Mr. Colbys death in 1950 and Mrs. Colbys death in 1963 was my Sunday school teacher (Mr Sydney Taylor) in the Maple Springs Interdenominational church from when I moved there in 1964 until his death in 1967. Us kids would walk Mr. Taylor home several miles each Sunday after church through the beautiful woods that later became Long State Park after Mr. Taylor passed away and we would help him in his duties of cleaning up the property and my father would haul the truckloads of junk we piled up every few weeks to the Ellery Center Dump which is when I kept a couple small boxes of the stuff and carried around until I began to research it this past two years. I just kick myself now realizing that we must have thrown away several tons of paperwork and old books that were most probably filled with original mark Twain items and other significant words of men and womans gifts, books, manuscripts that today would be a treasure of Americana history. I just thank God that Mr. Taylor told me to save the little bit.
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