LOS ANGELES, CA.- Nate D. Sanders Auctions sold over 1,100 pieces from Three Stooge Moe Howard's personal collection for $1,218,180. The five-day auction concluded Friday night.

Top sales included:

Three Stooges Signed Contract with Columbia
A 1944 Columbia contract with the Three Stooges sold for $53,926. Bidding began at $400 and it received an astonishing 35 bids. The contract called for a five-week lay-off from producing short films. The document was signed by Jerry Howard, Moe Howard and Larry Fine.

Other Three Stooges signed Columbia Picture contracts sold for $44,566 and $30,458. One of the most unique items offered was a 1946 Columbia Pictures agreement signed after Curly suffered a stroke and was unable to perform. The contract sold for $27,670. The contract allowed Shemp Howard to step in for Curly as one of the Three Stooges. Shemp was Moe and Curly’s brother. Shemp eventually took over Curly’s role on the Three Stooges as Curly was unable to recover from his stroke and passed away in 1952.

Movie Posters
Howard’s personally owned movie poster for the beloved Three Stooges film “Uncivil Warriors” sold for $37,500. Other posters in the auction include original advertisement sheets for the Three Stooges 1939 tour in England, which sold for as much as $4,109.

Passports
Moe Howard's 1955 passport sold for $25,154, while his 1960 passport sold for $20,788. Howard’s United States passport was issued on May 11, 1939. It sold for $20,788. He used the passport when the Three Stooges toured the United Kingdom in May and June of 1939. The passport is signed six times using both his legal name Moses Hurovitz and Moe Howard. The passport lists his address as 450 N. Highland Avenue, which is near the Wilshire Country Club. Howard’s emergency contact is listed as “Mrs. Moe Howard.”

Three Little Pigskins Draft
Howard’s handwritten draft for the 1934 short film ''Three Little Pigskins'' sold for $9,750. It was the fourth Three Stooges film released by Columbia Pictures. Howard wrote the two-page draft on two separate sheets of Columbia Pictures Corporation letterhead, providing the genesis of the comedy parodying the Four Horsemen of Notre Dame by the Stooges as the ''The Three Horsemen.'' The film co-starred Lucille Ball early in her career.