RR Auction: Fine Autograph and Artifact Auction Featuring Presidents

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In honor of Washington's Birthday, RR Auction's February Fine Autograph and Artifact sale opens with a remarkable assortment of nearly 200 presidential autographs, highlighted by an excessively rare William Henry Harrison document as president, an autograph letter by LBJ to the Speaker of the House, and a significant selection of free franks. Other top lots include an extraordinary signed portrait of James Joyce, Pierre-Auguste Renoir's personal ledger, an Einstein letter on a childhood game, and Warren Buffett's personal set of golf clubs. The Beatles, Apollo 11 astronauts, Charles Schulz, Marilyn Monroe, and Babe Ruth round out our pop culture offerings. 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 February 2019.
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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Thomas, Mina, and Charles Edison203 - Thomas, Mina, and Charles Edison
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Edison Botanic Research Corporation business check, 8.25 x 3, filled out in another hand and signed by Edison, "Thos. A. Edison," payable ...
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Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
 
 
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Albert Einstein204 - Albert Einstein
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ALS with sketch in German, signed “A. Einstein,” one page, 8.25 x 9.25, March 22, 1947. A letter to Ruth Edith Damann, in which Einstein recalls a chi
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Estimate : 15,000.00 - 20,000.00
 
 
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Albert Einstein205 - Albert Einstein
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TLS in German, signed “A. Einstein,” one page, 8.5 x 11, blindstamped Princeton letterhead, February 25, 1942. Letter to Austrian novelist Hermann Bro
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Estimate : 6,000.00 - 8,000.00
 
 
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Sigmund Freud207 - Sigmund Freud
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Extraordinary matte-finish 9 x 11.75 photo of the pioneering psychoanalyst, signed in fountain pen, "Sigm. Freud, 1922." In very good cond...
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Estimate : 15,000.00 - 25,000.00
 
 
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David Hume208 - David Hume
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Tremendously influential philosopher (1711–1776) considered one of the most important figures in the history of Western philosophy. ALS, one page, 7.2
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Estimate : 6,000.00 - 8,000.00
 
 
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Francis de Sales209 - Francis de Sales
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Bishop of Geneva (1567–1622) who is honored as a saint in the Catholic Church, remembered as one of the greatest evangelists and most powerful confess
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Estimate : 2,000.00 - 4,000.00
 
 
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Fidel Castro210 - Fidel Castro
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ALS in Spanish, signed “F. Castro R.,” one page, 5.5 x 3.25, March 14, 1946. Letter to classmate Porfirio Delange by the 19-year-old Castro, notifying
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Estimate : 1,500.00 - 2,000.00
 
 
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Fidel Castro211 - Fidel Castro
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DS in Spanish, one page, 8 x 11.75, December 23, 1959. Final page of "Law No. 663," concerning the disposition of the Revolutionary Govern...
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Estimate : 500.00 - 700.00
 
 
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Hugo Chavez212 - Hugo Chavez
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Venezuelan politician (born 1954) who was President of Venezuela from 1999 until his death in 2013. Chávez was also leader of the Fifth Republi...
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Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
 
 
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Chiang Kai-Shek213 - Chiang Kai-Shek
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Matte-finish 3.75 x 5.75 head-and-shoulders photo of Chiang Kai-shek, signed in ink in Chinese. Reverse bears a credit stamp. In fine condition, with
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Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
 
 
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King Charles II214 - King Charles II
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British monarch (1630–1685) who ushered in the Restoration of 1660 and ruled until his death. LS signed “Charles R,” one page, 5.75 x 6, May 24, 1663.
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,500.00
 
 
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King Charles I215 - King Charles I
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King of England, Scotland, and Ireland (born 1600) from 1625 until his execution in the wake of the English Civil War in 1649. Manuscript DS, signed “
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Estimate : 8,000.00 - 10,000.00
 
 
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King Francis I216 - King Francis I
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King of France (born 1494) who reigned from 1515 until his death in 1547. Known as the 'Father and Restorer of Letters,' the cultured and we...
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Estimate : 1,500.00 - 2,500.00
 
 
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King Henry III217 - King Henry III
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King of France (born 1551), the son of Henry II and Catherine de Medici, who reigned from 1574 until his assassination in 1589. Manuscript vellum DS,
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Estimate : 800.00 - 1,000.00
 
 
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King James II218 - King James II
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The last Catholic monarch (1633–1701) to reign over the Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland, crowned in 1685. LS signed “your loving friend, Ja
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,500.00
 
 
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King Louis XVI219 - King Louis XVI
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Ink signature, "Louis,” on an off-white 3.75 x 2 sheet trimmed from the close of a document. Matted with a color engraving to an overall size o...
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Estimate : 500.00 - 700.00
 
 
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Queen Elizabeth II220 - Queen Elizabeth II
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Uncommon color 2 x 3 Christmas gift tag with a nativity scene on the front, signed on the reverse in black ballpoint, "Happy Christmas, from El...
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Estimate : 500.00 - 700.00
 
 
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Queen Elizabeth II221 - Queen Elizabeth II
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Marvelous matte-finish 9.25 x 11.75 portrait of Queen Elizabeth II wearing her glimmering crown jewels by Royal Court photographer Dorothy Wilding, af
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,500.00
 
 
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Howard Carter222 - Howard Carter
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British archaeologist and Egyptologist (1874-1939) whose discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun in Egypt's 'Valley of the Kings' proved to...
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Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
 
 
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Charles Guiteau223 - Charles Guiteau
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American lawyer (1841-1882) who, frustrated in his attempt to secure an ambassadorship, assassinated President James Garfield in 1881. Scarce 4.26 x 6
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Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
 
 
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