Fine Autograph and Artifact Auction: Featuring Pop Culture

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RR Auction's December Fine Autograph and Artifact sale boasts more than 900 lots, highlighted by a multitude of important historical letters and a robust selection of material from popular culture. Highlights of the sale include a signed Abraham Lincoln carte-de-visite, checks from George Washington and Donald Trump, a Charles Dickens autograph quote from A Christmas Carol, rare artifacts recovered from the USS Arizona after Pearl Harbor, unique mixed-media artwork by Bob Dylan, a Christmas card from Al Capone, and rare oversized 'outtake' prints from the Beatles' famous Abbey Road shoot. 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 December 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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Kurt Vonnegut543 - Kurt Vonnegut
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Souvenir typescript, one page, 8.5 x 11, signed at the conclusion in blue felt tip by Vonnegut. The opening to his novel Slapstick, beginning: "...
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Kurt Vonnegut544 - Kurt Vonnegut
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Appealing glossy 8 x 10 photo of Vonnegut holding a cigarette, signed in black felt tip, "Kurt Vonnegut, May 27, '97." In fine conditi...
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Eudora Welty545 - Eudora Welty
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Group of eight unnumbered 6.75 x 8.75 colophon pages for a limited first edition of Acrobats in a Park, published by Lord John Press in 1980, with eac
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Bela Bartok546 - Bela Bartok
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Scarce original pair of Columbia Recording Corporation 12? inch test pressings, one marked "Pt 1, Mikrokosmos, Bartok" and the other "...
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Estimate : 300.00 - 500.00
 
 
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Hector Berlioz547 - Hector Berlioz
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Voice and piano sheet music booklet for "La Captive: Reverie," published by S. Richault of Paris in 1849, four pages (inner sheet missing)...
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,500.00
 
 
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Alexander Borodin548 - Alexander Borodin
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Important Russian composer (1833–1887) dedicated to producing a specifically Russian kind of art music. ALS in French, signed “A. Borodin,” four pages
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Estimate : 4,000.00 - 6,000.00
 
 
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Johannes Brahms549 - Johannes Brahms
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Famed German composer (1833–1897) whose works in the Classical spirit, written in the midst of the Romantic era, take a place among the most enduring
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Estimate : 3,000.00 - 5,000.00
 
 
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Enrico Caruso550 - Enrico Caruso
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Spectacular original ink sketch of a self-portrait caricature on a white 4.25 x 7 sheet of Hotel Cecil stationery, signed below, "Enrico Caruso...
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Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
 
 
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Claude Debussy551 - Claude Debussy
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Desirable matte-finish 4.25 x 6.75 half-length portrait of Claude Debussy by adored Swedish photographer Otto Wegener, affixed to the original 8 x 10.
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Estimate : 5,000.00 - 7,000.00
 
 
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Gaetano Donizetti552 - Gaetano Donizetti
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ALS in Italian, signed “G. Donizetti,” three pages on two adjoining sheets, 6.75 x 8.75, August 28, 1842. Letter to his publisher in Milan, Giovanni R
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Estimate : 1,200.00 - 1,500.00
 
 
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