Lynbrook, NY, USA, October 24, 2020 -- The original handwritten lyrics to the classic 1956 Elvis Presley hit song Heartbreak Hotel, a copy of Yoko Ono’s book Grapefruit signed by John Lennon and twice signed by Yoko, a rare Titanic item with a reference to the American businessman John Jacob Astor, and a scarce and highly collectible Pokémon trading card will all come up for bid in Weiss Auctions’ major online-only auction planned for November 19th-20th at 10 am Eastern both days.

The Thursday-Friday auction will have Internet bidding available through LiveAuctioneers.com and Invaluable.com. Telephone and absentee bids will also be accepted. The Thursday, November 19th session will feature sports, comics and comic art. The Friday session will contain rock ‘n’ roll memorabilia, Hollywood collectibles, advertising items and historical memorabilia.

Heartbreak Hotel was written in October 1955 by Mae Boren Axton, a high school teacher with a background in musical promotion, and Tommy Durden, a Jacksonville singer-songwriter. The lyrics were inspired by a newspaper account of a man who committed suicide by jumping to his death from a hotel window, leaving a note that said, “I walk a lonely street.” Axton presented the song to Presley and he loved it, recording the hit in January 1956 for his new label, RCA Victor. Axton and Durden’s signed lyrics, in pencil with corrections, is a rare slice of rock’n’roll history.

Grapefruit is an artist’s book written by Yoko Ono and originally published in 1964. It has become famous as an early example of conceptual art, containing a series of “event scores” that replace the physical works of art (the traditional stock-in-trade of artists) with instructions that an individual may, or may not, wish to enact. The book would be rare and valuable by itself, but the fact that this copy was signed by John Lennon and signed and inscribed by Yoko ups its value.

The Titanic artifact is a Record of Bodies and Effects of the passengers and crew, including Bodies Buried at Sea and Bodies Delivered at Morgue in Halifax (Nova Scotia). This is a list of the 306 bodies that were recovered after a seven-day operation of the cable steamer Mackay-Bennett. Of the 306 bodies, 116 were buried at sea, 190 were on board and delivered to the morgue in Halifax and 56 bodies were identified. On this list is John Jacob Astor (body No.124).

The Thursday, November 19th session, with a 10 am Eastern start time, will feature 500 lots of interesting, fresh-to-the-market material. Included will be a terrific selection of comics in both single and group lots, as well as CBCS graded examples. Key books include Archie #1 (1942, CBCS 5.0); PEP Comics #36 (1943, CBCS 7.0) and #42 (1943, CBCS 5.0); Fantastic Four #1 (1961, CBCS 7.0); Batman #23 (1944, CBCS 8.0); and Jackpot Comics #4 (1941, CBCS 5.5).

Additional key books include Walt Disney’s Donald Duck #178, four-color (1947, CBCS 7.0); Shield-Wizard #1 (1941, CBCS 8.0); and Batman #31 (1945, CBCS 8.0). Also offered will be a super rare first-issue copy of the spicy pulp book Cupid’s Capers (Vol. 1, No. 1, 1933); a 1940 Mushroom Dancers production cel from the Disney movie Fantasia (“Nutcracker Suite”); and a 1966 production cel for How the Grinch Stole Christmas signed by legendary artist Chuck Jones.

Sports will be headlined by a 2013-2014 Select Silver Prizm #178 Giannis Antetokounmpo RC rookie basketball card, graded PSA 10 Gem Mint, the highest PSA grade. A similar card sold on eBay in August for $12,000. Antetokounmpo, 25, is a superstar player for the Milwaukee Bucks. He was born in Athens, Greece to Nigerian parents. He’s affectionately called the ‘Greek Freak’.

Also sold will be a Michael Jordan 1986-87 Fleer rookie card (GAI 5.5, EX+); a Michael Jordan signed Chicago Bulls “retirement’ jersey; a serigraph of Mickey Mantle signed by artist LeRoy Neiman; a serigraph of Mark McGwire signed by Neiman and McGwire; a Joe Namath signed New York Jets jersey; and a 1999 New York Yankees jersey signed by about 19 team members.

Other star lots set to cross the auction block on Thursday include a rare Pokémon Black Star promotional Ishihara GX trading card graded PSA 8, only the fourth copy ever to come to market; a pulp cover illustration of a cowboy riding a horse in winter by Remington Schuyler; a Buster Brown Sunday art page by Richard Outcault; a Peanuts original daily comic strip art by Charles Schulz from 1952, featuring Fort Snoopy and Schroeder; a hand-colored Krazy Kat daily comic strip by George Herriman; and a 1950s/’60s Disney Three Little Pigs carousel ride figure.

The Friday, November 20th session (headlined by the Heartbreak Hotel lyrics and signed copy of Grapefruit) will also feature Bruce Springsteen and Bob Dylan signed albums, with both having certificates of authenticity; a signed Bruce Springsteen “Rosalita” tour jacket; a collection of signed checks (including ones from Marilyn Monroe, George Harrison, Orville Wright, Chester A. Arthur and Benjamin Harrison); and a copy of Playboy magazine signed by Donald Trump.

Friday will also feature a Vendo 44 Coca-Cola bottle coin-op vending machine; a vintage Paidar electric barber pole, 80 inches tall; a Charles Lindbergh signed postal cover; presidential signatures and documents; a private collection of Civil War documents and paraphernalia relating to the 14th Brooklyn Regiment, to include an important presentation sword; a collection of Theodore Roosevelt material, including signed documents, political buttons and banners; Part 1 of a vintage, 12,000-piece collection of 1930s-‘50s Western lobby cards; and other rare items.

For more information about Weiss Auctions and the big auction slated for November 19th-20th, visit www.WeissAuctions.com. Updates are posted often.

About Weiss Auctions:
Weiss Auctions is always accepting quality consignments for future auctions. To consign an item, estate or a collection, you may call them at (516) 594-0731; or, you can send an e-mail to Philip Weiss at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. For more information, visit www.WeissAuctions.com. Updates are posted often.

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ADELAIDE BOOKS is proud to offer the latest work by Bettina Rotenberg The Face I Never Saw hitting stores everywhere on September 29th, 2020.

Bettina Rotenberg's stunning rhapsody pieces together fragments of a stifled language. It assembles ambiguous memories of a lost love, twisted stories of an ancient home, a sanctuary. The task is one of reunion. As the work proceeds, it resembles a pilgrimage, or a quest for asylum, or a ritual of patient devotion. The path is hard: deceitful signs abound, as well as false redeemers and terrible asylums. Sometimes delusions can hardly be distinguished from a prophet's or a poet's visions. All the while, however, a transfigured world is coming together--and the capacity to begin perceiving it, too, as it pieces itself together, over and over, in myriad mobile configurations. Among Bettina Rotenberg's many voices--inspired, sardonic, sorrowful--there is a beautifully forthright one, greeting the future. – By Ann Smock

Bettina Rotenberg grew up in Toronto, attended Radcliffe College, studied painting for three years, and received her PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of California, Berkeley. She taught art, literature, and creative writing at colleges in the Bay Area, and between 1995 and 2015 was the founding Director of VALA (Visual Arts/Language Arts). She sent visual and performing artists into public schools in the East Bay to work with poets to teach low-income minority children poetry in conjunction with the arts. She wrote a book about her work, I Dare to Stop the Wind, which was published in 2010.

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With most American eyeing China with much-deserved suspicion, the Quality Certification world finds itself very much in the clutches of Chinese state actors. With a series of failures becoming known to the public, experts like Daryl Guberman are making sure the nation knows what is happening and why.

New York, NY - USA | October 22, 2020 -- Quality Accreditation bodies are operating under head shaking conditions with shocking ties and associations. ANAB is a good example, tied in with a near unbelievable recent laboratory certification scheme. Industry expert Daryl Guberman is bringing the truth to the public in two new videos. The videos, titled, “ANAB Oversees itself in Laboratory Certification Scheme Via ASCLD, A2LA & ILAC” and “Crime Lab Failure Points To National & International Crisis Under ANSI-ANAB, ASCLD, A2LA, ILAC”, are packed with information that is next to impossible to deny. Guberman, who is the founder of Guberman-PMC, brings remarkable experience in the area of quality certification concerns to the table that few people share. He is also a committed American patriot who understands the dangers posed by things like Chinese, Iranian, Pakistani, and other hostile national influence (or control) in the quality field and beyond.

“This laboratory certification scheme is really reprehensible in all of the worst ways,” commented the always driven and passionate Guberman. “ANSI, ANAB, and the rest of these related organizations are a huge danger both to our country and to the companies that they are accrediting poorly. Check out my two latest videos to really see behind the veil.” Guberman went on to say quality certification is about consistency and Ms. Pamela Sales VP of Forensics at ANSI-ANAB under deposition in Austin Texas stated  “there is no commonly agreed-upon set of standards that forensics labs around the country have to follow. Instead, there are informal guidelines that labs can choose to follow or not”. Basically, saying Laboratories both National and International are in crisis, but they are still issuing certifications.  An example of International Failure was in Wuhan China where head of the IAF(International Accreditation Forum) & also CNAS ( China National Accreditation Services Xiao Jianhua Certified the Laboratory which failed.

Most companies operate under the illusion that the large Quality Certification organizations are American run and consider things like security and the United State’s interest when operating. The truth is, and Guberman’s YouTube channel is perhaps the best place on the subject, these organizations are being controlled by Chinese nationals, with ties to the Chinese state. Alternatives, like Guberman-PMC do exist, but knowledge of them needs to be spread far and wide.

Guberman has over three decades of experience in the world of quality. Through advice given in his work with Guberman-PMC he has helped companies save millions, while also being able to be confident in the quality of their products, and services. His is especially considered an authority in the aerospace, medical implants and materials, and printing fields. He is always happy to answer any questions or discuss any potential projects by phone or email.

For more information be sure to visit http://dguberman.com

Check out the two new YouTube videos at:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JX-AWBjzcP4

and

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXthPfa-S1U&feature=youtu.be

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Frederick, Maryland (release-news) October 23, 2020 - Orases, a Washington D.C. custom software development company, was recently designated as one of International Business Times' Spotlight service providers for Best Custom Software Development Companies In Washington, DC 2020. The IBTimes selected Orases within their list of best SMB B2B service providers for their extraordinary service to companies and customers in their community.

The global business news leader, International Business Times, launched Spotlight to assist businesses with the navigation of choosing vendors and making informed decisions in regards to choosing the best providers for their needs. The Spotlight rankings utilize a combination of data-signals and expert opinions from their editors to showcase leaders across a variety of industries and metropolitan areas throughout the world. International Business Times aims to use Spotlight to eliminate the hassle of locating reputable vendors, in order for companies to focus on the growth of their business.

Dating back to 2000, Orases has developed advanced web applications, mobile applications and enterprise applications for businesses in the Washington D.C metro area. The Washington D.C. custom software development company specializes in designing and developing innovative and conversion driven custom software for companies, nonprofits and entrepreneurs. During their 20 years of operation, Orases has designed and developed custom software solutions for big-name companies and brands such as NFL, MLB, Xerox, Next Day Dumpster, NV Roofing, LongFence and many more.

International Business Times is a world-renowned digital news organization, which delivers news and insights to over 30 million users around the world. IBTimes generates content to engage a new generation of readers, with in-depth analysis which serves their businesses and speaks to their interests. For more information about IBTimes, visit their website at https://www.ibtimes.com/.

The International Business Times Best Custom Software Companies In Washington DC 2020 is one of the many custom software development awards Orases has received over the years. For more information about custom software development, contact Orases at 202-600-9620 or visit their website at https://orases.com/. Their Washington DC office is located at 700 12th St. NW, Suite 700, Washington, DC 21704.

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