RR Auction: Fine Autograph and Artifact Auction Featuring Civil War

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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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Alexander von Humboldt141 - Alexander von Humboldt
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German naturalist and explorer (1769–1859) who wrote Kosmos, a massive five-volume study which attempted to unify the various branches of man's ...
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George Gamow142 - George Gamow
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Influential Russian-born theoretical physicist and cosmologist (1904–1968) who was a leading advocate of the 'Big Bang' theory. Extremely ra...
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Carl Linnaeus143 - Carl Linnaeus
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Exceptional LS in Swedish, nine pages on five sheets, 8 x 12.75, August 19, 1743. Untranslated letter written on behalf of the "Consistorium Ac...
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Samuel F. B. Morse144 - Samuel F. B. Morse
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American artist and inventor (1791–1872) whose development of the telegraph revolutionized worldwide communication. ALS signed “Sam'l F. B. Mors...
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Jan Evangelista Purkyne145 - Jan Evangelista Purkyne
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Czech anatomist and physiologist (1787–1869) who was one of the most well-known scientists of his time. Rare manuscript DS, in Czech, signed “Purkyne,
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Dmitri Mendeleev146 - Dmitri Mendeleev
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Russian chemist and inventor (1834–1907) who formulated the Periodic Law and created a predictive version of the periodic table of elements. Remarkabl
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William Ramsay147 - William Ramsay
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Scottish chemist (1852-1916) who discovered the noble gases and won the 1904 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. ALS, one page both sides, 4.5 x 7, Beechcroft,
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Tadeusz Reichstein148 - Tadeusz Reichstein
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Polish-Swiss chemist (1897–1996) awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1950 for his work on hormones of the adrenal cortex which culmin
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Nikolai Vavilov149 - Nikolai Vavilov
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Soviet agronomist, botanist and geneticist best known for having identified the centers of origin of cultivated plants (1887–1943). Rare ALS in Russia
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Sigmund Freud150 - Sigmund Freud
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Fabulous thank-you card sent following his 80th birthday, 6 x 4.75, May 1936, signed in fountain pen, "Freud." The printed text, in German...
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Peter Kropotkin151 - Peter Kropotkin
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Russian geographer, zoologist, and political theorist (1842–1921) best known for his advocacy of anarchist communism. Collection of eighteen ALSs and
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Mother Teresa153 - Mother Teresa
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Glossy 8 x 10 photo of Mother Teresa and another nun holding a chicken, signed in black felt tip, "God bless you, M. Teresa mc." In fine ...
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Mother Teresa154 - Mother Teresa
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Signed book: Something Beautiful for God. Later printing. London: Collins/Fount Paperbacks, 1980. Softcover, 4.25 x 7, 156 pages. Signed on a prefator
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Pope Benedict XVI155 - Pope Benedict XVI
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Pope Benedict XVI's personally-worn white zucchetto skullcap (worn as pope emeritus), measuring 7? in diameter, featuring a light suede white li...
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David Ben-Gurion156 - David Ben-Gurion
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TLS in Hebrew, one page, 6.25 x 8, State of Israel letterhead, February 22, 1956. Letter to Itzhak Tabenkin, a member of the Knesset, Kibbutz Ein-Haro
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Edmund Burke157 - Edmund Burke
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Statesman, author, orator, political theorist, and philosopher (1729–1797) who, after relocating to England, served for many years in the House of Com
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Fidel and Raul Castro158 - Fidel and Raul Castro
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DS in Spanish, signed "Fidel Castro" and "R. Castro Ruz," one page, 8.25 x 12.75, September 13, 1975. An untranslated order conc...
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Madame Chiang Kai-shek and V. K. Wellington Koo159 - Madame Chiang Kai-shek and V. K. Wellington Koo
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Uncommon glossy 6 x 9.75 photo of Madame Chiang Kai-shek and Chinese statesman Wellington Koo, signed in ink by both, "Mayling Soong Chiang&quo...
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Winston Churchill160 - Winston Churchill
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Classic matte-finish 3.25 x 4.5 portrait of a serious Churchill in a polka-dot bow tie, affixed to a 4.5 x 6.5 mount, crisply signed on the mount in f
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Winston Churchill161 - Winston Churchill
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DS, signed “Winston S. Churchill,” one page, 8 x 10, October 1959. A consent to the sale of property, "Title No. LN. 168889, Property—Nos. 7 &a...
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