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Ronald Wade Collection
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1948 Senior Yearbook from Yale University
with future President George Bush as captain of the baseball team and with
several more photos of him inside. Autographed by President Bush for
Ron Wade exactly 50 years later in his Houston office. |
$350 |
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Limited Edition Yale Football Jersey #34
of 41 signed by former President George Bush. The Jersey shows him in
similar jersey was Captain of the 1948 Yale baseball championship team. |
$450 (Similar
sold for $1,000 in Heritage Auction, Dallas, May 29, 2001) |
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Topps baseball call issued in 1990
specifically for President George H. W. Bush. Only 100 of these cards
were made and presented by Topps to President Bush after one of George
Bush's grandsons informed him that he wanted to be a baseball player because
"politicians don't get their pictures on bubble-gum cards." The card
shows Bush as captain of the championship Yale baseball team of 1948 which
went to the College World Series. Labeled USA 1 this is the second
card I received from President Bush and he informed me that he had very few
left (June 2008). The accompanying letter where he sent the first card
is no longer in my collection. The card is. The article shown
came from a Newsweek article from 1990. |
$1400 |
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Dallas Cowboys Football Jersey presented
at the 1984 Republican National Convention in Dallas to Vice President
George Bush (photo shown) by Cowboys Coach Tom Landy and Roger Staubach and
Danny White
at the welcoming rally at the
Loews Anatole Hotel in Dallas, 8/22/1984
. He then gave the jersey to
his son, George W. Bush (see photo) who asked me if I would like to have it
and he gave it to me and I took it to former President Bush's office in
Houston to sign (see photo). I was at the rally in Dallas where this
jersey was presented to Bush and Reagan and took photos myself of the
presentation. |
$2500 |
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Original watchband and sweater tag owned
and worn by President George H. W. Bush and accompanying letter from the
daughter of President Bush, Doro Bush LeBlond. |
$150 |
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Camp David Wedding Program for Doro Bush
LeBlond to Robert Pardi Kock on June 27, 1992. Daughter of President
George Bush and sister of President George W. Bush. |
$45 |
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Business Card of Congressman George H. W.
Bush signed by him as a Congressman |
$125 |
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Visitor's pass to House Gallery signed by
Congressman George H. W. Bush in 1960's |
$75 |
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16" x 16" George Bush for President and
Dan Quayle 1988 poster issued by the Reagan-Roosevelt-Reed Revels Republican
Club of Mississippi. |
$35 |
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1989 George H. W. Bush Inaugural Ball Huge
Banner which hung at Smithsonian Air and Space Museum for Texas Delegation
to Bush Inaugural Ball. Only 50 of these were produced for all the
Inaugural Balls. Ron Wade brought back from the ball. Silk-like
fabric on wooden rod. |
$250 |
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1989 George H. W. Bush Inaugural Ball VIP
booth folding table (like a TV tray) which held gifts for $100,000
donors--champagne, etc. |
$50 |
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Empty bottle of
Champagne.
"Korbel 1989 Presidential Inaugural Curvee' Champagne.
Vintage 1989 - EXTREMELY DRY CHAMPAGNE."
The bottle has the Special Inaugural Curvee' Sticker
on the Front. The neck is wrapped in the Bush-Quayle
Presidential Inaugural Seal. Retrieved by Ron Wade at
Inaugural Ball of President George H. W. Bush. |
$45 |
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Florida 2000
Election Voting Machine
Museum exhibit looks
at voting (Palm Beach County poll machine that used "butterfly ballots"
featured)
BY CARL HARTMAN
The Associated Press July 17, 2004
WASHINGTON ● There, behind the glass, is one of the most famous
characters to emerge from the 2000 presidential election.
The Votomatic machine from Palm Beach County, which introduced America
to “butterfly ballots” and various kinds of “chads” – from pregnant to
dimpled to hanging, is part of an exhibit on voting that opened Friday at
the National Museum of American History.
The machine is behind glass for safety reasons. Curators aren’t afraid
it could break loose and wreak havoc with another election; it’s kept there
to make sure no one is injured by the accompanying stylus used by voters to
punch out chads, the bits of cardboard next to candidates’ names on the
much-disputed butterfly ballot.
The exhibit begins with a vast floor map of the United States with
color-coded data, county by county, showing the way voting is conducted in
each area. The Florida machine, one of the newest in the exhibit, stands in
a case at one corner of the map.
While visitors can try out other voting machines on display, they can
only look at the Votomatic and read the five-step instructions and a warning
in larger red capital letters: “Legal time for voting booth is five
minutes.”
One of the first visitors, Rob Stewart, of Detroit, eyed the machine
with a hint of skepticism. He said he wasn’t sure he could master the
Votomatic in the allotted time.
“That’s really awful, only five minutes,” he said.
The machine is among the museum’s 90,000 items related to politics.
Forty have been chosen for the exhibit, called “Vote: the Mechanism of
Democracy.” Curators Larry Bird and Harry Rubenstein will go to this
summer’s Republican and Democratic political conventions to collect more
material for the museum’s collection.
Before the contested 2000 presidential election, it was thought modern
machines like the Votomatic ensured more honest, accurate accounting of
votes.
But the butterfly ballot – which some voters found confusing – and the
chads led to five weeks of recounts and legal wrangling. A ruling by the
Supreme Court ultimately awarded Bush the victory in Florida by just 537
votes, giving him the state’s electoral vote and the White House.
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$250 |
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Palm Beach County OFFICIAL SAMPLE BALLOT November 7,
2000. The Controversial Presidential Butterfly Ballot explained in
detail before the election. This booklet was mailed to each voter in
advance of the election
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$20 |
Letter & Items
Newspaper Story |
Letter from daughter of President George
Bush sending to Ron Wade a watch band and shirt name tag for her father.
Also Dallas Morning News newspaper clipping telling how Bush had quit using
these colorful "preppy" watch bands to boost his image. |
$250 |
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Gift bottle of wine from the Weeping
Radish Micobrewery on Roanoke Island, NC made expressly for President George
H. W. Bush. |
$65 |
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A George H. W. Bush
Presidential Seal Official Presidential Gift Pewter Plate. A magnificent
polished Pewter Plate with a three dimensional Presidential Seal in the
middle and "Seal of the President of the United States" around the rim. The
plate is 10.25" in diameter. |
$150 |
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Presidential commemorative set of 5 coins
issued by the Republican National Committee in honor of 5 Republican
Presidents, Eisenhower, Nixon, Ford, Reagan, and George H. W. Bush. |
$45 |
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Vice Presidential Gift paperweight from
Vice President George H. W. Bush |
$75 |
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Presidential commemorative oval portrait
of President George H. W. Bush |
$35 |
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Home of President George Bush in
Kennebunkport, Maine wooden model in 3-d by Shelia, 1991. |
$125 |
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Home of President George Bush in
Kennebunkport, Maine wooden model in 3-d by The Cat's Meows, 1992,
autographed in person by President Bush for Ron Wade in his Houston Office. |
$125 |
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Presidential Gift from President George H.
W. Bush of desk clock from HMX-1, the Presidential helicopter. |
$45 |
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George H. W. Bush Presidential Library
Dedication gift knife, etc. |
$25 |
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Presidential gift cigarette lighter from
President George H. W. Bush |
$65 |
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United Nations flag sent to Ron Wade by
then-United Nations Ambassador George Bush in 1971. |
$45 |
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Air Force Two seating card for Mrs.
Barbara Bush sent to Ron Wade by her. |
$25 |
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Limited edition medal in wooden box issued
to commemorate the January 10, 2009 launching of the CVN 77 (USS George H.
W. Bush). Minted by the Royal Mint in the United Kingdom in .958 pure
silver with 32.454 grams of silver in 40.00mm Proof it has a portrait of
President Bush in flight jacket and the U.S. flag on the obverse and a
modern jet superimposed on President Bush's TBM Avenger torpedo bomber and
the aircraft carrier on the reverse. This was given by hand by
President Bush to Ronald E. Wade on Dec. 22, 2009 in President Bush's
Houston Office and is Serial # 3. |
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Challenge coin for the U.S.S. George H. W.
Bush Carrier (2 of them) given to Ronald E. Wade by President George H. W.
Bush in his office on Dec. 22, 2009 on a visit by the Wade family |
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High-quality ink pen by Quill Pen Co. of
Providence, R.I. with blue presentation box with "George Bush" on lid.
Pen has "George Bush 41" on barrel and is one of three presented to
the Ron Wade family on a visit by the family with President Bush on Dec. 22,
2009 in the President's office in Houston. (3 of them)
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George H. W. Bush large ceramic statue
holding his dog, Millie. |
$65 |
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George H. W. Bush commemorative clock from
Desert Storm in shape of Iraq with portraits of President Bush, Gen.
Swartzkopf, Colin Powell, and Dick Cheney. |
$65 |
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10" square plaster on wood plaque
"George Bush 41 st President" by the Summitville Tile, Inc., of Summitville,
Ohio with information on reverse including Bush's Presidential Announcement
Speech of Oct. 11, 1987. |
$45 |
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Bush Aids Flag showing skulls and cross
bones as stars poster from the 1992 Republican National Convention protest
area in Houston. |
$35 |
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Rare poster issued by the government of
Malta for first meeting between President George Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev.
Autographed for me (Ron Wade) in his Houston office by President Bush in his
full name "George Herbert Walker Bush" on January 16, 1998. As I
watched he had trouble writing out his full name without thinking carefully
since he normally didn't use his full name. |
$250 |
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Huge official Delegation sign from the
Delegate floor of the George Bush 1992 Republican National Convention in
Houston for the Rhode Island Delegation made of masonite and wooden board.
This weighs a lot and as Bush concluded his speech and confetti came down
with balloons I lifted this from a heavy metal pole, having scouted it out
before. The Texas sign had already been taken. I took it back to
the hotel on the delegation bus to much amusement by other delegates asking
if I was from Rhode Island. |
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1988 Republican National Convention Bush-Vrdolyak
11" x 17" for George Bush for President and Edward R. (Eddie) Vrdolyak of
Chicago, Illinois who was Cooke County Democratic Party Chairman and
switched to Republican Party. |
$25 |
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Autographed photograph of President George
H. W. Bush with President Gorbachev in Malta |
$200 |
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Letter from President Bush on Malta
Conference with Gorbachev |
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Original Malta stamp from Malta Conference |
$10 |
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Press Document issued on Malta Conference
issued by Malta Government |
$20 |
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Press Information document issued by Malta
Government |
$25 |
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Press Information document issued by Malta
Government |
$25 |
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Cigarette Lighter with President George H.
W. Bush and Gorbachev |
$45 |
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Suspenders with President George H. W.
Bush and Gorbachev |
$75 |
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Soviet made watch of George Bush and Gorbachev from summit with hands of
watch nuclear bombs. |
$45 |
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Russian-made watch with President George
H. W. Bush and Gorbachev with Russian Cosmonaut on watchband
-- manufactured in Russia by "Boctok" circa
1990 to commemorate strategic arms treaties between Presidents Mikhail
Gorbachev and George Herbert Walker Bush
in the name of the Soviet Union and the United States
of America. The watches were Limited Edition. |
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George Bush and Gorbachev rectangle
version of watch made in Russia
-- manufactured in Russia circa 1990 to
commemorate strategic arms treaties between Presidents Mikhail Gorbachev and
George Herbert Walker Bush in the name
of the Soviet Union and the United States of America. The watches were
Limited Edition. |
$35 |
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Russian-made watch with President George
H. W. Bush and Gorbachev
round version
-- manufactured in Russia circa
1990 to commemorate strategic arms treaties between Presidents Mikhail
Gorbachev and George Herbert Walker Bush
in the name of the Soviet Union and the United States
of America. The watches were Limited Edition. |
$45 |
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Westminster College 1992 Conference button
with President George H. W. Bush and Gorbachev |
$20 |
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2 1/4" Russian-made plastic button with
President George H. W. Bush and Gorbachev |
$20 |
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Russian-made bade of President George H.W.
Bush and Gorbachev. |
$10 |
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Russian-made bade of President George H.W.
Bush and Gorbachev. |
$10 |
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Russian-made bade of President George H.W.
Bush and Gorbachev. |
$10 |
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Russian-made bade of President George H.W.
Bush and Gorbachev. |
$10 |
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Russian-made bade of President George H.W.
Bush and Gorbachev. |
$10 |
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Russian-made bade of President George H.W.
Bush and Gorbachev. |
$10 |
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Rubber Christmas tree ornaments of Bush and Gorbachev |
$20 |
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Russian-made salt and pepper shakers of Bush and Gorbachev |
$45 |
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Rubber doggy toys of Bush with Quayle in pocket and Gorbachev |
$20 |
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President George H. W. Bush rubber
keychain |
$15 |
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Gorbachev rubber keychain |
$15 |
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Russian-made badge of Gorbachev |
$10 |
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George Bush and Gorbachev 1992 German 1/2
Litter Beer Stein. Has Statue of Liberty with Russian and U.S. Flags
and dove of peace with sun behind and above their likenesses. The date
is at the base of the statue. Underneath on a scroll with ends the
color of the German flag reads "Glasnost U Perewstroika" and underneath that
"Machen Es Moglich" -- (It is Possible to Work). From historic meeting
between Bush and Gorbachev in Germany in 1992. 5 1/2" tall with
tapered form with decorative fines and barley relief. |
$45 |
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Limited edition print of Presidents George
H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, and Governor Jeb Bush. |
$45 |
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Model of Avenger aircraft flown by
President George H. W. Bush as the youngest pilot in World War II. |
$35 |
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1989 Inaugural Staff ID tag for George
Bush Inauguration (I was on Inaugural Committee) |
$15 |
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Legitimate 1992 Texas License plate I had
on my automobile "Go Bush" personalized plate. |
$35 |
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Official 1989 personalized Inaugural
license plate from the Inauguration of President George Bush. |
$35 |
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Air Force One Presidential Crew official
cap, never used |
$25 |
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U.S. Coast Guard protective detail patch
for President Bush Senior in Kennebunkport when he went out on his speed
boat |
$35 |
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Fighter Pilot security patchto the
President for George W. Bush for the Texas Air National Guard in which Bush
served. |
$35 |
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Large hand-crafted and one-of-a-kind
wooden piece showing President George W. Bush and President Saddam Hussein
on either side of two nuclear bombs for the U.S. and Iraq with EXXON oil
emblem on the front and the U.S. and Iraq flags on either end. |
$100 |
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Michael Dukakis versus George Bush Sr.
boxing puppets from the 1988 campaign |
$24 |
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George Bush Sr. Inauguration plate |
$15 |
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Presidential
Bowl celebrating the Bicentenary of the Presidency 1789-1989 of the United
States by the United States Historical Society by the Picard Pottery of
Richmond, Va. and only 5000 issued. Shows portraits of all Presidents
from George Washington to George H. W. Bush on outside and large
Presidential Seal in center of bowl on inside. |
2 x 95 = $190 |
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Bush-Quayle
expanding fan from the 1989 Inaugural Ball held in Manilla in the
Philippines. |
$30 |
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Canadian-produced for Canadian Prime Minister elections in which the
candidate tried to link Prime Minister Harper to President George W. Bush as
a negative to Harper. 1 3/4" x 2 3/4" celluloid |
$30 |
