RR Auction: Fine Autograph & Artifact Auction

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Headquartered in Boston’s North End, RR Auction is a globally recognized and trusted source for rare documents, manuscripts, autographs, and historic artifacts. Since its inception in 1980, RR has achieved countless record-setting prices in over 425 successful sales, including Truman Capote’s hand-notated manuscript for Breakfast at Tiffany’s for over $300,000, President Kennedy’s 1963 convertible for $318,000, and a pair of Bonnie and Clyde’s guns for over $500,000. Internationally known and frequently featured in all media outlets—with appearances on NBC’s Today Show, CBS This Morning, Fox News, the New York Times Sunday Magazine, and the London Times—RR Auction prides itself on selling authentic material, thoroughly examined by in-house experts and third-party authenticators, to uphold the guarantee of authenticity. With a stunning full-color print catalog and a massive online presence, RR Auction continues to achieve record prices for clients around the world.
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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Composers782 - Composers
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Three items: a first edition copy of Richard Rogers: A Biography, softcover, signed on the half-title page in black ink, “All the best, Richard”; an u
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Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
 
 
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Composers783 - Composers
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Two AMQSs on individual off-white cards, measuring approximately 4 x 3. One from Nadia Boulanger, who pens two bars from an unidentified work, signed
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Vincent D’Indy784 - Vincent D’Indy
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AMQS on a white 6.5 x 4 album page, prominently signed and inscribed at the bottom in French. D’Indy boldly pens five bars from his second symphony. M
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Victor Herbert785 - Victor Herbert
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Three items: an AMQS on an off-white 5 x 3 card, with five bars of music and lyrics from his operetta ‘Eileen,’ dated January 1917 and reading, “‘Tis
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Victor Herbert786 - Victor Herbert
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Vintage glossy 8 x 10 photo of Herbert by the White photography studio of New York, signed and inscribed in the upper border in fountain pen, “Miss Hi
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Ruggero Leoncavallo787 - Ruggero Leoncavallo
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Crisp AMQS, one page, 8 x 5.25, signed below, “R. Leoncavallo, Wien, 28 Mai 1897.” Leoncavallo pens two bars of music and lyrics from the first act of
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Pietro Mascagni788 - Pietro Mascagni
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Matte-finish 3.5 x 5.25 postcard portrait of the Italian composer, signed in fountain pen, “P. Mascagni, Lucca, 1.10.927.” Blindstamped in the lower l
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Pietro Mascagni789 - Pietro Mascagni
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Exceptional vintage matte-finish 5.5 x 3.5 postcard photo of Mascagni by the Francesco Reale photography studio of Rome, signed and inscribed in Itali
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Jules Massenet790 - Jules Massenet
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Untranslated ANS in French on the front of Massenet’s personal calling card imprinted with his name and change of address, 3.75 x 2.25, signed along t
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Dimitri Mitropoulos791 - Dimitri Mitropoulos
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Well-respected Greek-born conductor and composer (1896–1960) known as one of the young Leonard Bernstein’s most important mentors. A 3.5 x 5.5 postcar
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Musicians792 - Musicians
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Vintage signatures of four musicians on both sides of a 4.75 x 6.75 album page. Signers are: Edmund Eysler, adding a four-bar AMQS from his operetta ‘
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Musicians793 - Musicians
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Ink signatures of eight musicians on three various size album pages. First page bears an AMQS from Jacques Thibault, who pens eight bars from ‘Presto,
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Arthur Rubenstein794 - Arthur Rubenstein
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Pencil sketch of an orchestral performance drawn by an artist inside the back cover of a program for a performance by the Philadelphia Orchestra, four
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Andres Segovia795 - Andres Segovia
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Spanish classical guitarist (1893-1987) regarded as one of the greatest players in the history of the instrument. Glossy 8 x 6 photo of Segovia by the
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Igor Stravinsky796 - Igor Stravinsky
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AMQS on a gold trimmed 5.25 x 3.25 off-white deckle-edge card. Stravinsky pens a single bar of music, and signs and inscribes, “To H. Keith Thompson,
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Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
 
 
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Arthur Sullivan797 - Arthur Sullivan
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Ink signature, “yours very truly, Arthur Sullivan, March 1879,” on an off-white 4.5 x 2.25 clipped card. In fine condition.
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Siegfried Wagner798 - Siegfried Wagner
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German composer and conductor (1869–1930) who was the son of Richard Wagner; he served as the opera composer and artistic director of the Bayreuth Fes
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Louis Armstrong800 - Louis Armstrong
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Very early vintage matte-finish 7.75 x 9.5 portrait of Armstrong resting his trumpet on his knee, signed and inscribed in fountain pen, “My best wishe
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Irving Berlin801 - Irving Berlin
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Vintage matte-finish 2.25 x 3.25 candid photo of Berlin among a group of American soldiers, signed in fountain pen, “Irving Berlin,” the composer addi
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John Coltrane802 - John Coltrane
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Saxophonist, band leader, and composer (1926–1967) whose brilliant improvisatory skills and experimental spirit made him one of the most influential a
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,500.00
 
 
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