Fine Autographs and Artifacts Featuring Civil War

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With over 1,000 lots up for bidding, our May Fine Autographs and Artifacts sale is the biggest thus far in 2020. Highlights include a book boldly signed by Mao Tse-Toung, a rare handwritten letter by Sun Yat-sen, a letter by Karl Marx concerning the publication of Das Kapital in translation, a letter by Claude Monet about Queen Victoria's state funeral, and a battlefield message from the Revolutionary War's 'Swamp Fox,' Francis Marion. A special Civil War section boasts the thoroughbred racing saddle of George Custer, and autographs of Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, Stonewall Jackson, William T. Sherman, Robert E. Lee, 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 2020.
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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Project Vanguard567 - Project Vanguard
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Impressive historic archive of John Neilon, the long-time Director of NASA’s Unmanned Launch Operations, chronicling the development of Proje
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Buzz Aldrin568 - Buzz Aldrin
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Magnificent oversized color matte-finish 10.75 x 13.5 portrait of Apollo 11 LMP Buzz Aldrin in a stoic half-length pose, dressed in his white space su
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Buzz Aldrin569 - Buzz Aldrin
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Three books signed by Aldrin, all hardcovers with dust jackets, including: Return to Earth, signed and inscribed in black felt tip, "To Gordon,...
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Buzz Aldrin570 - Buzz Aldrin
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Personal check, 6 x 2.75, filled out and signed by Aldrin, "Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr.," payable to Brentwood-Chenault Condo Homeowners Ass'...
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Buzz Aldrin571 - Buzz Aldrin
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Apollo 11 recovery cover with a stamped cachet honoring the splashdown, postmarked at Kennedy Space Center on July 24, 1969, signed in black felt tip
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Apollo 15572 - Apollo 15
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Two covers: a lunar landing day cover with a cachet honoring Apollo 15, postmarked at Kennedy Space Center on July 30, 1971, signed and inscribed in b
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Apollo 17573 - Apollo 17
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Commemorative cover with a stamped cachet of the Apollo 17 insignia, postmarked on the mission launch date of December 7, 1972, signed in black ink,...
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Apollo Astronauts574 - Apollo Astronauts
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Three Project Apollo covers: a recovery cover for Apollo 7, postmarked on the USS Essex on October 22, 1968, signed in black ballpoint by Walt Cunning
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Astronauts575 - Astronauts
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Six books signed by astronauts, all hardcovers with dust jackets, including: Jim Irwin (To Rule the Night, inscribed), Jim Lovell (Apollo 13), Alan Sh
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Astronauts576 - Astronauts
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Six personal checks filled out and signed by Mercury and Apollo astronauts, including: Deke Slayton (2, "Donald K. Slayton"), Walt Cunning...
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Frank Borman577 - Frank Borman
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Three items: a vintage glossy 3.5 x 5 photo of Frank Borman signing his autograph, signed in fountain pen; an off-white 5 x 3 card signed in fountain
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Scott Carpenter578 - Scott Carpenter
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Official color 8 x 10 NASA lithograph of Scott Carpenter with a Mercury 7 pin on his lapel, neatly signed in ink. In fine condition, with very slight
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Gene Cernan579 - Gene Cernan
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Limited edition color 17 x 11 artistic print of a Douglas A-4 Skyhawk, an attack aircraft flown as part of the Strike Fighter Squadron 113 (VFA-113),
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Gene Cernan580 - Gene Cernan
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Official color 10 x 8 NASA lithograph of planet Earth as viewed from space during the Apollo 17 mission, signed and inscribed in black ink, "To...
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Michael Collins581 - Michael Collins
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Signed book: Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Journey. Third printing. NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1974. Hardcover with dust jacket, 6.25 x ...
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Gordon Cooper582 - Gordon Cooper
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Official color 8 x 10 NASA lithograph of Cooper in a suit and tie with an astronaut pin on his lapel, signed in black felt tip. In fine condition.
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Cosmonauts583 - Cosmonauts
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Collection of 13 KNIGA covers bearing cachets of Russian space achievements, signed in various inks by cosmonaut crews. Signers include: Vladimir Koma
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Charlie Duke584 - Charlie Duke
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Official color 8 x 10 NASA lithograph of the Apollo 16 splashdown in the central Pacific Ocean, signed in black felt tip by the mission lunar module p
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Ed Dwight, Jr585 - Ed Dwight, Jr
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Four glossy photos of Ed Dwight, Jr. as a young test pilot in the Air Force, 8 x 10 and 10 x 8, each signed in black felt tip, with Dwight adding &q...
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Gemini Spacecraft587 - Gemini Spacecraft
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Limited edition vintage 1:30 scale model of the Gemini command module made by Topping, Inc., circa 1962–63 under a contract from McDonnell Ai
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