Auction Details
RR Auction's March Fine Autographs and Artifacts sale boasts a host of truly remarkable items. Among the important autographs in the sale are a letter by Karl Marx about the French edition of Das Kapital, a letter by Nikola Tesla about the possibility of extraterrestrial life and his detection of "feeble impulses emanating from Mars," a choice fully signed Beatles Fan Club promo card, and significant handwritten letters by Mohandas Gandhi, Paul Gauguin, and Malcolm X. Top artifacts include American diplomat Ellsworth Bunker's Presidential Medal of Freedom with Distinction, a plate from Thomas Jefferson's White House china service, and a brooch gifted by Jacqueline Kennedy to her secretary. 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 March 2022.
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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224Businessmen (13) Signed ChecksRR Auction
Collection of 13 checks signed by noteworthy 19th-century businessmen, including: steamboat ferry operator and San Francisco mayor Charles James Brenh
Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
225Richard E. Byrd: Little America Postal CoverRR Auction
Mailing cover bearing a Byrd Antarctic Expedition II three-cent postage stamp, 5.5 x 4, postmarked at Little America, Antarctica, on January 31, 1934.
Estimate : 100.00 - 200.00
227Mathew Carey Autograph Letter SignedRR Auction
ALS, one page, 8 x 9.75, September 18, 1831. Handwritten letter to William Gwynn, in part: "The Bearer Mr. Booth, has undertaken to dispose of ...
Estimate : 100.00 - 200.00
228Mathew Carey Document SignedRR Auction
DS, signed Mathew Carey, twenty five copies at one third & nine months, one page, 8 x 9.75, no date. Subscription form for the publication of Ri...
Estimate : 100.00 - 200.00
229Andrew Carnegie Signed BookletRR Auction
Unusual two-page printed poem and letter, "Me and Andra" and "Interesting letter from Mr. Carnegie," published by the Dunfermlin...
Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
230Andrew Carnegie Hand-Addressed EnvelopeRR Auction
Hand-addressed mailing envelope imprinted with Carnegie's New York return address, 6 x 3.5, addressed in Carnegie's hand in ink, "C. W....
Estimate : 100.00 - 200.00
231Edmund Cartwright Document SignedRR Auction
Manuscript DS, one page, 8.25 x 11.75, January 31, 1785. Court filing document regarding his invention of the power loom, in part: "The Rev'...
Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
232Vint Cerf Signed SketchRR Auction
Original sketch by Vint Cerf of a diagram of the "National Internet, ca. 1977," which details the connection between the "PRNET,"...
Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
233Henri de Talleyrand-Périgord, comte de ChalaisRR Auction
LS in French, signed Chalais, one page both sides, 8.25 x 13.5, February 11, 1626. Untranslated letter signed just five months before his gruesome exe
Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00