RR Auction: Fine Autographs and Artifacts

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With more than 1,000 lots, RR Auction’s May Fine Autographs and Artifacts auction features an impressive assortment of historic collectibles. This month includes a special Literature section, with rare and significant items such as an illustrated, autographed manuscript of Hermann Hesse’s "Piktor's Verwandlungen"; Anton Chekhov's “Stories and Tales,” inscribed; a handwritten quotation from Guo Moruo; and many more top authors like Joyce, Tolkien, Orwell, Sartre, Sendak and Whitman. The Music section features incredible original artwork by Frederic Chopin; a 350-page “Who’s Who in Rock & Roll,” signed by hundreds of the genre’s greatest musicians; and a fully signed Beatles autograph with additional, rare signature from Ray Charles. This catalog also includes items from US History, Space, Art, Entertainment and more. RR Auction is a globally recognized and trusted auction house specializing in historical autographs and artifacts. Join us as we make history selling history in May 2018.

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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John Young655 - John Young
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Wonderful color satin-finish 8 x 10 full-length photo of Young posing in his white space suit with an Apollo 16 mission insignia in the background, si
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Estimate : 800.00 - 1,000.00
 
 
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John Young656 - John Young
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Color satin-finish 10 x 8 full-length photo of Young jumping off the lunar surface and saluting the American flag, signed neatly in silver ink, “John
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Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
 
 
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Artists657 - Artists
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Signed book in Spanish: Damiani / Diaz Yepez / Garcia Reino / Mac Entyre / Widmann. Limited issue of 450 copies. Published by Artistas de America y Es
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,500.00
 
 
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Ludwig Bemelmans658 - Ludwig Bemelmans
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Belgian-born American author and illustrator (1898-1962) best known for his now-classic series of Madeleine children's books. Original signed in...
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Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
 
 
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Pol Bury659 - Pol Bury
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Respected Belgian sculptor (1922–2005). ALS, one page, 8.25 x 11.5, personal letterhead, August 14, 1978. Letter to a collector, in part: "I am...
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Marc Chagall661 - Marc Chagall
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TLS in French, signed “Chagall,” one page, 8.25 x 10.25, La Colline letterhead, October 19, 1974. Letter to noted ballerina Tamara Toumanova. In full
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Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
 
 
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George Cruikshank662 - George Cruikshank
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Original signed pencil sketch on an off-white 6 x 4 sheet, depicting a shoreline with two men and a harpooned seal against a backdrop of harbored ship
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Estimate : 500.00 - 700.00
 
 
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Salvador Dali663 - Salvador Dali
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FDC with a cachet honoring the 1939 New York World's Fair, signed in black felt tip, "Dali." In fine condition, with light show-throug...
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Estimate : 300.00 - 500.00
 
 
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Jean Dubuffet664 - Jean Dubuffet
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French painter and sculptor (1901–1985) known for founding the 'Art Brut' movement. Glossy 5.25 x 3.5 postcard photo of Jean Dubuffet with w...
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Estimate : 2,500.00 - 3,000.00
 
 
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Lyonel Feininger665 - Lyonel Feininger
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German-American painter and a leading exponent of Expressionism (1871–1956). ALS, one page on a 5.75 x 4.25 postcard depicting one of his paintings, J
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Estimate : 500.00 - 700.00
 
 
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Keith Haring666 - Keith Haring
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Desirable color 4 x 6 postcard of an untitled Keith Haring painting from 1984, showing a pregnant woman holding a television with a crawling baby, sig
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Estimate : 500.00 - 700.00
 
 
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Keith Haring667 - Keith Haring
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Desirable FDC with a colorful Haring-designed cachet honoring International Youth Year, signed vertically in black felt tip, "K. Haring '85...
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Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
 
 
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Keith Haring668 - Keith Haring
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Limited edition spiral-bound catalog for a Keith Haring exhibition held at the Tony Shafrazi Gallery in New York City in the fall of 1982, one of 2000
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Estimate : 15,000.00 - 20,000.00
 
 
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Keith Haring669 - Keith Haring
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Fantastic ALS signed “Keith,” one page, 5.5 x 8, with hand-drawn "Keith Haring, Inc." letterhead, no date. Letter to "Aurelie," ...
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Estimate : 5,000.00 - 6,000.00
 
 
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Childe Hassam670 - Childe Hassam
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DS, one page, 8 x 5, no date. Permanent dividend order in relation to the Great Northern Railway Company. Signed boldly at the conclusion in ink, &q...
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Estimate : 300.00 - 500.00
 
 
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Raoul Hausmann671 - Raoul Hausmann
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Artist and writer (1886–1971) who was a key figure in the Berlin Dada movement. Vintage glossy 7.25 x 9.25 close-up photo, signed and inscribed in fou
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Estimate : 800.00 - 1,000.00
 
 
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Henri Matisse672 - Henri Matisse
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Large and bold fountain pen signature, "Henri Matisse,” on an off-white 4.25 x 2.75 card. In very fine condition.
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Estimate : 500.00 - 700.00
 
 
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Henri Matisse673 - Henri Matisse
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ALS in French, signed "H. Matisse," one page, 8.25 x 10.5, no date. In full (translated): "I am asking the TR. Mother Gille to let th...
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Estimate : 3,000.00 - 4,000.00
 
 
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Claude Monet674 - Claude Monet
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ALS in French, signed “Your old Claude,” four pages on two adjoining sheets, 5 x 8, Savoy Hotel letterhead, March 18, 1900. Letter to his wife Alice,
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Estimate : 25,000.00 - 30,000.00
 
 
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Pablo Picasso675 - Pablo Picasso
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Desirable ballpoint signature, "Picasso,” in the margin of a German autograph collector's letter to him, typed on an 8.25 x 11.75 sheet. Pi...
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Estimate : 2,000.00 - 2,500.00
 
 
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Pablo Picasso676 - Pablo Picasso
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Commemorative cover bearing two Czechoslovakian postage stamps designed by Picasso, prominently signed in red artist's pencil, "Picasso.&qu...
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,500.00
 
 
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Hiram Powers677 - Hiram Powers
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American neoclassical sculptor (1805-1873). Vintage 2.25 x 4 carte-de-visite photo of a bust sculpture of Eve, signed in the lower border in black ink
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Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
 
 
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Frederic Remington678 - Frederic Remington
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ALS signed “Frederic R.,” two pages on two adjoining sheets, 4.25 x 6.75, Players Club letterhead, no date. Letter to actor Ottis Skinner, in full: “I
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Estimate : 800.00 - 1,000.00
 
 
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Arthur Rackham679 - Arthur Rackham
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Original pen-and-ink wash artwork by Rackham entitled 'The Soot-Fairies' games with the White Kitten,' from the 1915 publication The Que...
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Estimate : 1,500.00 - 2,500.00
 
 
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Arthur Rackham680 - Arthur Rackham
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Signed book: A Midsummer-Night's Dream. First edition, limited issue, numbered 82/1000. London: William Heinemann, 1908. Hardcover in original f...
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,200.00
 
 
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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec681 - Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
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ALS in French, signed “HTL,” two pages, 4.5 x 7, circa 1896. Untranslated letter to a friend requesting that she take care of "Guitry" whe...
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Estimate : 5,000.00 - 7,000.00
 
 
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Andy Warhol682 - Andy Warhol
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German Coca-Cola can from the 1980s, 0.33 litres, measuring 4.5? tall and 2.5? in diameter, signed on the side in black felt tip by Andy Warhol. In ve
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Estimate : 3,000.00 - 4,000.00
 
 
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Edwin Austin Abbey684 - Edwin Austin Abbey
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American muralist, illustrator, and painter (1852–1911) who is best known for his drawings and paintings of Shakespearean and Victorian subjects, as w
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Pierre Alechinsky685 - Pierre Alechinsky
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Belgian artist (born 1927) whose work is related to tachisme, abstract expressionism, and lyrical abstraction. TLS, one page, 8.25 x 5.75, personal le
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Francis Bacon686 - Francis Bacon
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Important British painter (1909–1992) best known for his grotesque, sometimes violent imagery often incorporating flayed human figures. Uncommon ballp
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Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
 
 
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Max Desfor687 - Max Desfor
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Group of four laserprint photos signed in ballpoint by Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Max Desfor, 8.5 x 11 and 11 x 8.5, with images including: J
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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John Draper688 - John Draper
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Scientist and pioneer daguerreotypist (1811–1882) who took the first detailed photograph of the moon in 1840. Group of four North River Bank checks, e
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Raoul Dufy689 - Raoul Dufy
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ALS in French, two pages, 5.25 x 7, April 23, 1919. Letter to poet and art critic Andre Salmon. In full (translated): "Upon my return to Paris ...
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Max Ernst690 - Max Ernst
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German artist (1891–1976) who was one of the principal figures of the Surrealist and Dada movements. Card for an exhibition of Ernst's works ent...
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David Hockney691 - David Hockney
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Color 5.75 x 4 postcard of a David Hockey painting from circa 1970–71, entitled 'Mr. and Mrs. Clark and Percy,' signed in blue felt tip by H...
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Karl Lagerfeld and Pierre Cardin692 - Karl Lagerfeld and Pierre Cardin
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Two signed photos of noted fashion designers: a glossy 8.25 x 11.75 photo of Karl Lagerfeld, signed in black felt tip in German, "Kindest regar...
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Annie Leibovitz693 - Annie Leibovitz
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Signed book: A Photographer's Life: 1990-2005. NY: Random House, 2006. Hardcover with dust jacket, 10.5 x 13.75, 472 pages. Signed and inscribed...
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Roy Lichtenstein694 - Roy Lichtenstein
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Color 7.25 x 10.5 print of one of Lichtenstein's abstract artworks removed from an exhibition catalog, signed in the lower right in black ink, &...
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Norman Rockwell695 - Norman Rockwell
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Signed book: Poor Richard's Almanacks: 1733–1758. Limited edition, numbered 789/1500. Philadelphia: Limited Editions Club, 1964. Hardcover with ...
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Norman Rockwell696 - Norman Rockwell
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Wonderful color 18.5 x 24.5 print of Rockwell's 'Shuffleton's Barber Shop,' which was originally painted for the cover of the Saturd...
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Felicien Rops697 - Felicien Rops
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Belgian artist (1833–1898) known primarily as a printmaker in etching and aquatint, famed for his work that tends to mingle sex and death. Untranslate
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Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
 
 
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Raphael Soyer698 - Raphael Soyer
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Appealing dual-sided 8.25 x 11 book photo signed both on the front and reverse in blue ballpoint by Raphael Soyer. The vertical front image, issued as
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Andy Warhol699 - Andy Warhol
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Signed book: America. First edition, first printing. NY: Harper & Row, 1985. Softcover, 8.5 x 11, 204 pages. Signed vertically on the front cove...
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Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
 
 
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Carl Barks700 - Carl Barks
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Original felt tip sketch of Donald Duck with mistletoe in his beak accomplished by Barks on an off-white 4 x 6 sheet, signed and inscribed below, &q...
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Dick Calkins701 - Dick Calkins
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American cartoonist (1894–1962) remembered as the first artist to artist to draw the Buck Rogers comic strip. Fantastic original ink sketch of Buck Ro
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Walt Disney702 - Walt Disney
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Signed book: The Gremlins. First edition. NY: Random House, 1943. Hardcover, 9 x 11.25. Beautifully signed and inscribed on the half-title page in fou
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Estimate : 4,000.00 - 5,000.00
 
 
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Walt Disney703 - Walt Disney
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Amusing matte-finish 10 x 8 photo of Disney reading Alice's Adventures in Wonderland to two chimpanzees sitting on his desk, with one chimp in a...
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Estimate : 2,000.00 - 2,500.00
 
 
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Disney Promotional Artwork704 - Disney Promotional Artwork
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Original hand-painted promotional artwork, 19 x 20, featuring a family watching the Disney classic Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs on a projection scr
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Estimate : 800.00 - 1,000.00
 
 
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Dumbo limited edition cel from Disney World705 - Dumbo limited edition cel from Disney World
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(Walt Disney Studios, 2008) Original limited edition hand-painted cel featuring Dumbo flying through the air beside a train, entitled 'Dumbo,...
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Estimate : 300.00 - 500.00
 
 
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Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera706 - Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera
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Original hand-painted production cel featuring Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble from a 1992 Hanna-Barbera cartoon entitled 'I Yabba–Dabba Do,&#...
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