RR Auction: Fine Autograph & Artifact Auction featuring Founding Fathers

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Headlined by a robust Revolutionary War section in celebration of Independence Day, RR Auction’s July 2017 Fine Autographs & Artifacts sale boasts over 800 lots of collectibles from an array of genres. Opening with a pair of remarkable Revolutionary War amputation kits used by Dr. John Warren, the first section traces the history of the founding of America from William Penn to George Washington. Key items from other categories include a set of Donald Trump’s personally-owned and -used golf clubs, a rare portrait of Thomas Edison with an inscription about the “electric vehicle,” a chair from Rick’s Cafe in Casablanca, and an incredible autograph letter by Ernest Hemingway. 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 July 2017.
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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Charles Dudley Warner550 - Charles Dudley Warner
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Autograph manuscript written in the hand of Warner, unsigned, two pages, each 5.75 x 8.25, no date but circa 1873. Two extracts from the novel The Gil
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Tennessee Williams551 - Tennessee Williams
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Vintage program for a rendition of 'The Two-Character Play,' 5.5 x 8.5, two pages, signed on the front in blue ballpoint by Williams. In fin...
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Tennessee Williams552 - Tennessee Williams
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Playbill for Clothes for a Summer Hotel at the Cort Theatre in March 1980, 66 pages, 5.5 x 9, signed on the front cover in blue felt tip by Tennessee
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Writers553 - Writers
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Collection of three items signed by authors from around the world, including Anatola France (ALS), James M. Cain (TLS), and Max Pemberton (TLS). Anat
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Writers554 - Writers
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Selection of nine items signed by or related to a notable writer, including: a partly printed DS, filled out and signed by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Writers and Illustrators555 - Writers and Illustrators
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Collection of three items signed by writers or illustrators, including Eugene Field (ALS), William Cullen Bryant (AQS), and George Cruikshank (ALS).
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Writers and Musicians556 - Writers and Musicians
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Vintage ink signatures of writers and musicians on both sides of three off-white 5 x 7 album pages (one on an affixed slip). Signers include: writers
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Alban Berg557 - Alban Berg
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Austrian composer (1885–1935) who produced compositions that combined Mahlerian Romanticism with a personal adaptation of Schoenberg's twelve-to...
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,500.00
 
 
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Claude Debussy558 - Claude Debussy
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ALS in French, two pages, 5 x 6.75, April 29, 1895. Letter replying to a poor review of his String Quartet and referencing the work of Richard Wagner.
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Estimate : 2,500.00 - 3,500.00
 
 
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Edward Elgar559 - Edward Elgar
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Leading English composer (1857–1934) and a significant figure among late Romantic European musicians. ALS, four pages on two adjoining sheets, 4.5 x 7
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Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
 
 
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Edvard Grieg560 - Edvard Grieg
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Important Norwegian composer and pianist (1843-1907) whose works, often with a strong nationalistic flavor, include such repertory staples as the inci
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Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
 
 
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Gioachino Rossini561 - Gioachino Rossini
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Scarce AMQS on an off-white 6.25 x 5 sheet, signed, "G. Rossini, Bologna, 27 Aprile 1843." Rossini pens eight bars of music for solo piano...
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Estimate : 2,500.00 - 3,500.00
 
 
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Giacomo Puccini562 - Giacomo Puccini
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ALS in Italian, one page, 6 x 7.25, personal letterhead, January 4, 1914. Puccini thanks his correspondent for a Mitigliano wine “that honors the Ital
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Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
 
 
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Clara Schumann563 - Clara Schumann
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Composer and one of the most distinguished pianists of the Romantic era (1819–1896); she and her husband, composer Robert Schumann, were early champio
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Estimate : 2,000.00 - 3,000.00
 
 
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Igor Stravinsky564 - Igor Stravinsky
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TLS in French, one page, 6 x 8.25, 1260 North Wetherly Drive letterhead, September 18, 1943. Letter to Walter deBourg, in part (translated): “Your fri
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Hector Villa-Lobos565 - Hector Villa-Lobos
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Brazilian composer and conductor (1887-1959) whose many compositions include twelve symphonies, as well as operas, large-scale symphonic poems, concer
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Billie Holiday566 - Billie Holiday
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DS, signed “Miss Billie Holiday,” one page, 8.25 x 11, September 28, 1950. Tom Kelley Studios consent document for the Schmidt Lithography Company. In
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,500.00
 
 
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Ray Charles567 - Ray Charles
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Amazing vintage program entitled 'The Genius of Ray Charles,' 9 x 13.25, twenty-one pages, published by Program Publishing Company, and sign...
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Estimate : 5,000.00 - 10,000.00
 
 
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Dinah Washington568 - Dinah Washington
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Uncommon glossy 8 x 10 half-length photo of Washington wearing a tiara and fur shawl, signed and inscribed in black felt tip, "Peter, Fondest w...
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Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
 
 
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Beatles569 - Beatles
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Scarce vintage circa 1962 German Star-Club promo card for the Beatles, 5.75 x 4.25, depicting the band as they prepare to board an airplane, signed on
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Estimate : 6,500.00 - 7,500.00
 
 
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