Auction Details
RR Auction’s October Fine Autographs and Artifacts sale boasts a diverse 1,000+ items from all fields of collecting, with a special focus on Civil War and Literature. In addition to an incredible assortment of autograph letters from luminaries like Charles Darwin, Mohandas Gandhi, Charles Dickens, Claude Monet, and J. R. R. Tolkien, a few highlights are a sketch by Pablo Picasso, hand-drawn survey map by George Washington, signed photograph of Leo Tolstoy, and beautiful portrait of Marilyn Monroe. Top artifacts are an officer’s sword presented to Brig.-Gen. Calvin Pratt, a scarce multi-level amputation kit, bullets fired in ballistic tests used as evidence against Bonnie and Clyde, and an incredible hand-engraved Colt revolver honoring Hollywood’s ‘Monster Legacy,’ just in time for Halloween. 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 October 2018.
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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484Joseph ConradRR Auction
Magnificent TLS from Joseph Conrad to his friend and biographer, Elbridge L. Adams, accompanied by a typescript draft of the latter’s article, “Joseph
Estimate : 5,000.00 - 7,000.00
485James Fenimore CooperRR Auction
ALS signed “J. Fenimore Cooper,” one page both sides, 8 x 10, March 24, 1844. Written from Cooperstown, New York, a letter to Commodore Shubrick in Wa
Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,500.00
486Charles DickensRR Auction
Crisply penned ALS, one page, 4.5 x 7, Gad's Hill Place letterhead, July 18, 1862. Letter to Annabella Monckton Milnes, the wife of English poet...
Estimate : 10,000.00 - 12,000.00
487Charles DickensRR Auction
ALS, one page, 4.25 x 7, Tavistock House, January 16, 1854. Brief letter to Sir James Emerson Tennent, in full: “You may rely on me most implicitly.”
Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,500.00
488Charles DickensRR Auction
Off-white 5.25 x 3.25 envelope panel addressed to his publisher and signed in dark blue ink, "Charles Whiting Esquire, Beaufort House, Charles ...
Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
489Arthur Conan DoyleRR Auction
ALS signed “A. Conan Doyle,” one page both sides, 5 x 3.5, personal letterhead, no date. Letter to a gentleman concerning his spiritualist beliefs, in
Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,500.00
490George EliotRR Auction
Pseudonym of Marian Evans Lewes (1819–1880) who, as the author of Silas Marner and Middlemarch, is remembered as one of the great figures of English l
Estimate : 2,000.00 - 2,500.00
491Ralph Waldo EmersonRR Auction
Two autograph letters by Emerson, one unsigned and one signed "R. W. Emerson," totaling eight pages on four sheets, 4.5 x 7, dated 1862. T...
Estimate : 2,000.00 - 3,000.00
492William FaulknerRR Auction
Signed book: A Green Bough. Limited edition, numbered 203/360. NY: Harrison Smith and Robert Haas, 1933. Hardcover, 6.5 x 8.75, 67 pages. Signed on th
Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
493F. Scott FitzgeraldRR Auction
Uncommon ALS, one page, 7.5 x 9.5, no date but circa 1922. Letter to "Miss Marshall," the journalist Marguerite Mooers Marshall, who publi...
Estimate : 5,000.00 - 7,000.00