RR Auction: Fine Autograph and Artifact Auction Featuring Presidents

Auction Details

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
Choose Your Layout > Switch to Grid View Switch to List View
Erik Satie556 - Erik Satie
RR Auction
Colorful French composer (1866-1925), who was one of the primary influences on the younger generation of avant-garde French composers in the early dec
No Online Bidding For This Lot
Estimate : 2,000.00 - 4,000.00
 
 
Details...Bookmark
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky557 - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
RR Auction
Rare and sought-after ALS in Cyrillic, signed “P. Tchaikovsky,” six total pages, 6 x 4, September 18 [1880]. Written from the town of Kamenka, a lette
No Online Bidding For This Lot
Estimate : 6,000.00 - 8,000.00
 
 
Details...Bookmark
William Walton558 - William Walton
RR Auction
Distinguished British composer (1902-1983) best known for such works as Façade, a theatrical collaboration with Edith Sitwell, and the oratorio...
No Online Bidding For This Lot
Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
 
 
Details...Bookmark
Ralph Vaughan Williams559 - Ralph Vaughan Williams
RR Auction
ALS signed “R. Vaughan Williams,” one page both sides, 7 x 9, February 8, [no year]. Letter to English composer Ernest John Moeran, in full: "M...
No Online Bidding For This Lot
Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
 
 
Details...Bookmark
Big Sid Catlett560 - Big Sid Catlett
RR Auction
Versatile American jazz drummer (1910-1955) who made the transition from early swing into bebop. Glossy 8 x 10 publicity photo of Big Sid smoking a ci
No Online Bidding For This Lot
Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
 
 
Details...Bookmark
Jerome Kern561 - Jerome Kern
RR Auction
Handwritten musical manuscript by Jerome Kern, titled and signed at the top, "Before I Met You, Jerome Kern," one page, 9 x 12, dated in a...
No Online Bidding For This Lot
Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
 
 
Details...Bookmark
Jazz562 - Jazz
RR Auction
Three glossy publicity photos of jazz legends, 8 x 10 and 10 x 8, individually signed by the subjects: Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Lionel Ham
No Online Bidding For This Lot
Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
 
 
Details...Bookmark
Jerome Kern563 - Jerome Kern
RR Auction
TLS signed “Jerome David,” four pages, 7.25 x 10.5, 917 North Whittier Drive letterhead, March 24, 1938. Letter to the wife of Joseph Cooper, to whom
No Online Bidding For This Lot
Estimate : 300.00 - 500.00
 
 
Details...Bookmark
Huddie ‘Lead Belly’ Ledbetter564 - Huddie ‘Lead Belly’ Ledbetter
RR Auction
Archive of five items, comprising an ALS and handwritten set list by Huddie 'Lead Belly' Ledbetter, an ALS by his wife Martha, an unsigned p...
No Online Bidding For This Lot
Estimate : 8,000.00 - 10,000.00
 
 
Details...Bookmark
Richard Rodgers565 - Richard Rodgers
RR Auction
Group of three TLSs, each signed "Dick," totaling five pages, 7.25 x 10.5, personal letterhead, dated 1944–1964. Rodgers offers outstandin...
No Online Bidding For This Lot
Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
 
 
Details...Bookmark