RR Auction: August 2016 Fine Autograph and Artifact Auction

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RR Auction is a globally recognized and trusted auction house specializing in rare and remarkable documents, manuscripts, autographs, and historical artifacts. Among the highlights of this month’s sale are a document signed by Columbus sponsors Ferdinand and Isabella, an autograph letter signed by Thomas Jefferson, an original Force print of the Declaration of Independence, and a signed handwritten letter by Lord of the Rings author J. R. R. Tolkien. Artifacts offered include Ernest Hemingway’s baseball cap and a Beretta Carcano M1891 Cavalry Carbine commissioned by Prince Amadeo of Savoy. Join us as we prepare to make history selling history in August 2016.
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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Sergei Prokofiev490 - Sergei Prokofiev
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ALS in French, one page on a 3.5 x 5.5 postcard depicting Westminster Abbey, January 31, 1934. Letter written to Germaine Delaunay, written from Londo
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Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
 
 
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Maurice Ravel491 - Maurice Ravel
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LS in French, two pages on two adjoining sheets, 5.25 x 7, La Floride letterhead, July 29, 1933. Letter declining a proposal for work, citing his decl
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Estimate : 800.00 - 1,000.00
 
 
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Gioachino Rossini492 - Gioachino Rossini
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LS signed “G. Rossini,” one page, 5.75 x 8.25, January 17, 1841. Letter to the Marquis of Lasmarismas, regarding gourmet food from the House of Rothsc
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Estimate : 2,000.00 - 2,500.00
 
 
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Igor Stravinsky493 - Igor Stravinsky
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TLS, one page, 8.25 x 11, personal letterhead, March 17, 1961. Letter to Mr. L. Arnold Weissberger, in part: “Thank you for your letter of March 15, w
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,500.00
 
 
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Giuseppe Verdi494 - Giuseppe Verdi
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Untranslated ALS in Italian, signed “G. Verdi,” one page, 5.25 x 8.25, August 27, 1880. Mounted and matted beside a portrait. In very good to fine con
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Estimate : 2,000.00 - 4,000.00
 
 
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Béla Bartok495 - Béla Bartok
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DS, one page, 8.5 x 11, August 27, 1941. Bartok agrees to extend his contract and confirms it “has been transferred with all its benefits and obligati
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Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
 
 
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Bohemian Quartet497 - Bohemian Quartet
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Program for a special concert featuring the Czech Quartet held in Prague to honor the one hundredth anniversary of the death of Ludwig von Beethoven,
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Nadia Boulanger498 - Nadia Boulanger
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TLS, one onionskin page, 8.25 x 10.75, Ecoles d’Art Americaines letterhead, October 2, 1974. Letter to Mrs. Barbara Saul Jacobson. In full: “How kind
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Alfredo Casella499 - Alfredo Casella
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Italian composer of modernist tendencies (1883–1947) perhaps best known for his retrospective works, ‘Scarlattiana’ and ‘Paganiniani.’ Vintage semi–gl
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Wilhelm Furtwangler500 - Wilhelm Furtwangler
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Untranslated ALS in German, one page both sides, 8.75 x 5.5, personal letterhead, May 12, 1923. In fine condition, with writing showing through from o
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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