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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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James Buchanan42 - James Buchanan
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LS as secretary of state, one page, 8 x 13.25, January 13, 1847. Letter to Seth Sweetser, in part: “Your despatches dated 29th Sept…30th Sept—23rd Oct
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James Buchanan43 - James Buchanan
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ALS, one page both sides, 6.25 x 8, July 25, 1867. Letter to Laura Pleasonton, daughter of Buchanan’s deceased friend Stephen Pleasonton, in full: “I
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James Buchanan44 - James Buchanan
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Partial partly-printed DS as president, one page, 15 x 4.75, March 7, 1859. Concluding portion of a letters patent signed by President Buchanan and co
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James Buchanan45 - James Buchanan
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Partly-printed DS as president, one page, 8 x 10, March 21, 1857. President Buchanan directs “the Secretary of State to affix the Seal of the United S
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James Buchanan46 - James Buchanan
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Partly-printed DS, one page, 11 x 17, no date but circa 1846. Official passport issued to Mary Wiley, providing instructions to “permit safely and fre
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Abraham Lincoln47 - Abraham Lincoln
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Civil War–dated handwritten endorsement as president, “And I endorse Gov. Tod, A. Lincoln, Feb. 22, 1865,” one page, 5 x 3.75, penned beneath a manusc
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Abraham Lincoln48 - Abraham Lincoln
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ADS, signed “Lincoln,” one page, 7 x 5.5, no date. A handwritten legal brief summarizing the dismissal of a case brought by Beverly Allen against thre
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Abraham Lincoln49 - Abraham Lincoln
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Partly-printed DS as president, one page, 8 x 10.5, February 8, 1864. President Lincoln directs “the Secretary of State to affix the Seal of the Unite
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Abraham Lincoln50 - Abraham Lincoln
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Brief LS, boldly signed “A. Lincoln,” one page, 5.25 x 2.75, August 2, 1860. A short letter sent from his hometown of of Springfield, Illinois. In ful
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Abraham Lincoln51 - Abraham Lincoln
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Leatherbound ledger belonging to the half great-granduncle of the president, also named Abraham Lincoln, 88 pages, 8.5 x 15, labeled on the front cove
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