RR Auction: Fine Autograph & Artifact Auction

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Headquartered in Boston’s North End, RR Auction is a globally recognized and trusted source for rare documents, manuscripts, autographs, and historic artifacts. Since its inception in 1980, RR has achieved countless record-setting prices in over 425 successful sales, including Truman Capote’s hand-notated manuscript for Breakfast at Tiffany’s for over $300,000, President Kennedy’s 1963 convertible for $318,000, and a pair of Bonnie and Clyde’s guns for over $500,000. Internationally known and frequently featured in all media outlets—with appearances on NBC’s Today Show, CBS This Morning, Fox News, the New York Times Sunday Magazine, and the London Times—RR Auction prides itself on selling authentic material, thoroughly examined by in-house experts and third-party authenticators, to uphold the guarantee of authenticity. With a stunning full-color print catalog and a massive online presence, RR Auction continues to achieve record prices for clients around the world.
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
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Union Soldier567 - Union Soldier
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War-dated partial ALS, four pages, lightly-lined on two adjoining sheets, 7.75 x 9.75, Head Quarters 3d Division letterhead, March 1864. Letter to his
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Seth Williams568 - Seth Williams
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American military figure (1822–1866) who served as assistant adjutant general of the Union's Army of the Potomac during the Civil War. Three Civ...
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Elizabeth B. Custer569 - Elizabeth B. Custer
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ALS, one page both sides, 6 x 9.5, Prince George Hotel letterhead, September 7, 1907. Letter to Mutual Benefit Life Insurance, in part: “My affairs wi
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Felix von Luckner570 - Felix von Luckner
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German naval officer (1881–1966) who earned the nickname ‘Sea Devil’ for his legendary maritime exploits during World War I. Four items: a hardcover c
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Sgt. Alvin C. York571 - Sgt. Alvin C. York
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Pickett County Bank & Trust Co. check, 6.25 x 2.75, filled out and signed by York, payable to Corman Greer for $30, November 8, 1951. In fine co...
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James H. Doolittle572 - James H. Doolittle
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Color semi-glossy 7.75 x 9.75 Mutual of Omaha head-and-shoulders portrait of General James H. Doolittle in his military uniform, signed and inscribed
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Douglas MacArthur573 - Douglas MacArthur
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Issue of the New York Times from July 1, 1943, late city edition, 38 pages, 16.75 x 22.75, featuring the headline: “M’Arthur Starts Allied Offensive i
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George S. Patton574 - George S. Patton
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Ink signature, “G. S. Patton, Lt. Col. NA.,” on a tan 3 x 1.5 slip clipped from an envelope. In fine condition.
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Alfred Dreyfus575 - Alfred Dreyfus
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French military officer (1859–1935) whose central role in the Dreyfus Affair, which tore French society apart and shook their faith in the military, t
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French Marshalls576 - French Marshalls
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Four untranslated items signed by Napoleonic Marshals of France, including: Pierre Augereau (LS), Jacques MacDonald (ALS), Louis-Gabriel Suchet (DS),
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Military577 - Military
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Impressive lot of thirteen items, primarily consisting of signatures, FDCs, and signed photos, each signed by a military leader, including: Leslie Gro
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Military Figures578 - Military Figures
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Five items: an ink signature from P. G. T. Beauregard, “G. T. Beauregard, 1878,” on an off-white 4.5 x 2.5 slip; an untranslated ALS in French, signed
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Military Figures579 - Military Figures
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Six items: a glossy 8 x 10 photo of the Hiroshima mushroom cloud, signed in black felt tip, “George R. Caron, Hiroshima, 8/6/45,” and in blue felt tip
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Estimate : 800.00 - 1,000.00
 
 
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Paul Morton580 - Paul Morton
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Businessman (1857–1911) who served in Theodore Roosevelt’s cabinet as Secretary of the Navy for one year from 1904 to 1905. Partly-printed DS, one pag
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Mountbatten of Burma581 - Mountbatten of Burma
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Signed book: Combined Operations. First edition. London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1943. Softcover, 5.25 x 8.25, 144 pages. Signed and in...
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Amelia Earhart582 - Amelia Earhart
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Choice airmail cover with a stamped cachet honoring the first flight of the hourly airplane passenger service between Newark, Washington, and Philadel
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Amelia Earhart583 - Amelia Earhart
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Program for a dinner honoring the great aviators Jim Mollison and his wife Amy Johnson, given by the Canadian Club of New York at the Waldorf Astoria
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Amelia Earhart584 - Amelia Earhart
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Partly-printed DS, signed twice in pencil, “Amelia Earhart,” one page both sides, 8 x 7, March 25, 1937. United States Department of Agriculture bagga
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Amelia Earhart585 - Amelia Earhart
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Lovely vintage matte-finish 10 x 13.25 photo of Earhart in a stylish dress pinned with aviator wings, posing next to a motion picture camera, signed o
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Charles Lindbergh586 - Charles Lindbergh
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Block of nine dark blue ten-cent postage stamps honoring Lindbergh’s nonstop solo transatlantic flight from New York to Paris on May 20-21, 1927, meas
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SR-71 Blackbird587 - SR-71 Blackbird
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Appealing color 16 x 20 print for the SR-71 Blackbird Symposium held at the Pima Air and Space Museum in Tucson, Arizona on February 21–22, 2009, sign
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Orville Wright588 - Orville Wright
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TLS, one page, 7.25 x 10.25, personal letterhead, October 12, 1934. Letter to Donald M. Boyer, in full: “Please extend to the Trustees and Faculty of
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Wright Brothers: Lorin Wright589 - Wright Brothers: Lorin Wright
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The Winters National Bank check, 7.5 x 3, filled out and signed by Lorin Wright, “Orville Wright, L,” payable to Katharine Wright for $250, January 26
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Liberty Bell 7590 - Liberty Bell 7
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Flown original component from Gus Grissom’s Liberty Bell 7 spacecraft, recovered from the Atlantic Ocean on July 20, 1999. The piece measures approxim
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Liberty Bell 7591 - Liberty Bell 7
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Flown original piece of film from Gus Grissom’s Liberty Bell 7 spacecraft, issued in commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the flight. The piece me
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Wally Schirra592 - Wally Schirra
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ALS signed “Walter M. Schirra, Jr.,” one page, 8 x 10, Project Mercury letterhead, no date. Letter to Frank, in full: “I have been going over some of
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Gemini 3593 - Gemini 3
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Rare pairing of two items from Gus Grissom’s personal collection: a flown Gemini 3 sterling silver Fliteline medallion, approximately 1? in diameter,
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Gemini 4594 - Gemini 4
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Rare glossy 8 x 10 photo of the Gemini IV launch, neatly mounted and lacquered on a 11 x 13 wooden frame, signed and inscribed on top of the lacquer i
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Apollo 11595 - Apollo 11
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Original remnant of gold-colored Mylar insulation flown to the moon on the Apollo 11 command module Columbia. Insulation is affixed to a printed 8 x 2
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Apollo 11596 - Apollo 11
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Highly desirable color vintage semi-glossy 4.75 x 3.5 candid photo of an aerial view of the USS Hornet, the recovery ship of the Apollo 11 crew, signe
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Neil Armstrong597 - Neil Armstrong
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Official color 8 x 10 NASA lithograph of Armstrong posing in his white space suit against a lunar backdrop, signed and inscribed in blue felt tip, “To
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Neil Armstrong598 - Neil Armstrong
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Sought-after uninscribed official color 8 x 10 NASA lithograph of Armstrong in his white space suit against a lunar background, signed in black felt t
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Apollo 12599 - Apollo 12
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Apollo 12 ‘Type 1’ insurance cover bearing a mission emblem cachet with navy wings underneath, postmarked Kennedy Space Center, Florida, November 14,
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Apollo 12600 - Apollo 12
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Two items: an appealing commemorative cover with an affixed color cachet honoring the Apollo 12 splashdown, entitled “Triumphant Return to Earth,” pos
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Alan Bean601 - Alan Bean
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Remarkable color limited edition 33 x 22.5 offset lithograph on stretched, textured canvas of an Alan Bean painting entitled ‘Lone Star,’ numbered 164
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Alan Bean602 - Alan Bean
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Color limited edition 23 x 31 print of an Alan Bean painting entitled ‘The Hammer and the Feather,’ numbered “AP 52/60,” signed in the lower border in
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Apollo 16603 - Apollo 16
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Flown fabric state flag of Kansas, 5.75 x 4, affixed to a 19.5 x 15.5 mount bearing an affixed caption stating, “This flag carried to the moon aboard
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Apollo 13604 - Apollo 13
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Flown embroidered President’s Council on Physical Fitness & Sports patch carried on the Apollo 13 mission, measuring 3? in diameter, lightly sig...
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Apollo 13605 - Apollo 13
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Flown swatch of fabric from the backing material of the astronauts’ couches inside the Apollo 13 Command Module, approximately 1 x .75. Encased in a l
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STS-135606 - STS-135
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Flown American flag carried aboard the Space Shuttle Atlantis, 5.75 x 4, affixed to a presentation sheet signed by NASA administrator Charles F. Bolde
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Yuri Gagarin607 - Yuri Gagarin
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Desirable matte-finish 3.75 x 4.75 head-and-shoulders photo of Gagarin in uniform, signed vertically in blue ballpoint. In fine condition, with trimme
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Scott Carpenter608 - Scott Carpenter
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Official Rawlings Major League (Selig) baseball signed in silver ink on the sweet spot, “Scott Carpenter, original Mercury astronaut.” In fine conditi
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John Glenn609 - John Glenn
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Glossy 10.75 x 8 photo of Glenn climbing inside his Friendship 7 capsule, signed in black felt tip. In fine condition, with a couple trivial creases t
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Walt Cunningham610 - Walt Cunningham
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TLS, one page, 8.5 x 11, personal letterhead, no date. In part: “The idea of taking a few commemorative medallions aboard Apollo 7 was to provide a la
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Buzz Aldrin611 - Buzz Aldrin
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Exceptional color satin-finish 10 x 8 photo of Aldrin standing beside the American flag on the moon’s surface, signed in silver ink, “First Lunar Land
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Buzz Aldrin612 - Buzz Aldrin
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Color satin-finish 8 x 10 photo of Aldrin standing on the surface of the moon, looking at the camera, signed in blue felt tip, “First Lunar Landing, B
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Buzz Aldrin613 - Buzz Aldrin
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Four items: two Research & Engineering Consultants business checks, both 6 x 2.75, filled out and signed by Aldrin, dated March and April of 198...
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Apollo 12614 - Apollo 12
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Uncommon FDC with a viewing window for a sealed Apollo 12 commemorative metal, signed in brown felt tip, “Dick Gordon,” in blue ballpoint, “Charles Co
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Apollo 12615 - Apollo 12
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A 9 x 9 swatch of Beta cloth with a printed 3? diameter Apollo XII mission insignia in the center, signed in blue ballpoint by Alan Bean and Richard G
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Apollo Program616 - Apollo Program
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Set of four books signed by various Apollo astronauts, including: a first edition of Carrying the Fire, softcover, signed on the title page in black i
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