RR Auction: Fine Autograph and Artifact Auction

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Featuring a diverse 1,000+ lots, RR Auction’s September Fine Autographs and Artifacts auction boasts a highlighted Royalty section that spans the centuries, offering rarely seen autographs from the likes of Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Mary I, King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, Frederick the Great, and Princess Diana. Other top lots include a remarkable oversized Abraham Lincoln signed photograph, a letter by philosopher Francis Bacon, an extremely early Winston Churchill signed photo, and a sharp signed portrait of Martin Luther King, Jr. Other noteworthy autographs include Albert Einstein, J. D. Salinger, the Beatles, Ernest Hemingway, Walt Disney, John F. Kennedy, and more! 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 September 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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Frank Borman511 - Frank Borman
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Three items: a TLS, one page, 8 x 10.5, NASA letterhead, December 4, 1962, addressed to K. H. Browne, in part: "I am enclosing a picture of mys...
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Scott Carpenter512 - Scott Carpenter
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Two items: a TLS signed "M. Scott Carpenter," one page, 8 x 10, Project Mercury letterhead, October 5, 1961, addressed to Ken Browne, in f...
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Scott Carpenter513 - Scott Carpenter
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Two semi-glossy photos: a 10 x 8 photo of Carpenter wearing his Mercury space suit and inspecting the Aurora 7 capsule, signed in blue felt tip, &qu...
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Gene Cernan514 - Gene Cernan
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Official color 8 x 10 NASA lithograph of Cernan posing in his white space suit with a lunar globe and an American flag, signed in black felt tip. In f
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Gene Cernan515 - Gene Cernan
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Official NASA Facts pamphlet for "Apollo 17: The Last Apollo," four pages, 8 x 10.5, signed on the front cover above his image in black in...
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Gene Cernan516 - Gene Cernan
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Two official color 10 x 8 NASA lithographs of the Apollo 17 mission: one shows Cernan riding a 'stripped down' rover along the lunar surface...
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Gene Cernan517 - Gene Cernan
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Official color 10 x 8 NASA lithograph of Cernan holding and saluting the American flag while on the lunar surface, signed and inscribed in black felt
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Charles Conrad518 - Charles Conrad
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Vintage matte-finish 10 x 8 photo of Conrad seated and smiling from a jet cockpit, depicting the naval test pilot around the time he was selected as o
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Charles Conrad519 - Charles Conrad
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Official color 8 x 10 NASA lithograph of Conrad posing in his white space suit, signed in black felt tip. In fine condition, with some light creasing
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Gordon Cooper520 - Gordon Cooper
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Three items: a TLS signed "Leroy S. Cooper, Jr.," one page, 8 x 10, Project Mercury letterhead, March 23, 1960, addressed to Mr. and Mrs. ...
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Charlie Duke521 - Charlie Duke
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Official color 10 x 8 NASA lithograph of Duke collecting lunar samples on the moon during the Apollo 16 mission, signed and inscribed in black felt ti
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Charlie Duke522 - Charlie Duke
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Uncommon official glossy 8 x 10.25 NASA photo of Duke posing in his white space suit with a lunar globe, signed in black felt tip. Reverse bears upsid
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Charlie Duke523 - Charlie Duke
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Color semi-glossy 10 x 8 full-length photo of Duke standing next to the lunar module and Far Ultraviolet Camera/Spectrograph, signed in silver ink, ...
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Charlie Duke524 - Charlie Duke
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Official color 9.25 x 7.25 NASA lithograph of Commander John Young driving the lunar roving vehicle during the third Apollo 16 EVA at the Descartes la
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Ron Evans525 - Ron Evans
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Official color 8 x 10 NASA lithograph of Evans posing in his white space suit, signed and inscribed in black felt tip, "To Lt. Col. & Mrs. ...
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Richard Gordon526 - Richard Gordon
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Color glossy 8 x 10 photo of Richard Gordon emerging from his Gemini 11 spacecraft, signed in black felt tip. In fine condition.
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Alexei Leonov529 - Alexei Leonov
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Attractive pair of colorful 4.25 x 2.75 USSR postage stamps honoring the 15th anniversary of the world's first space walk, displayed on their re...
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James Lovell530 - James Lovell
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Uncommon color semi-glossy 10 x 8 photo of James Lovell surrounded by various images relative to the Apollo 13 mission, signed in thin black felt tip
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James Lovell531 - James Lovell
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Official color 8 x 10 NASA lithograph of the Apollo 8 launch from Kennedy Space Center, signed in black felt tip by James Lovell. In fine condition.
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Edgar Mitchell533 - Edgar Mitchell
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Color semi-glossy 10 x 8 full-length photo of LMP Mitchell standing next to the American flag on the lunar surface, signed in black felt tip, "...
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Edgar Mitchell534 - Edgar Mitchell
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Official color 10 x 8 NASA lithograph of Mitchell in his white space suit, with a large Apollo 14 insignia in the background, signed in blue felt tip,
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Edgar Mitchell535 - Edgar Mitchell
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Official color glossy 8 x 10 red-numbered NASA photo of Mitchell in a suit and tie, signed in blue felt tip, "Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14." ...
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Sally Ride536 - Sally Ride
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Official glossy 8 x 10.25 NASA photo of Ride posing in her flight suit in front of a Space Shuttle model, signed and inscribed in thin black felt tip,
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Sally Ride and Valentina Tereskhova537 - Sally Ride and Valentina Tereskhova
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Two photos: an official color 8 x 10 NASA lithograph of Sally Ride wearing a polo shirt with an STS-7 patch, signed in black felt tip; and a semi-glos
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Harrison Schmitt538 - Harrison Schmitt
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Official glossy 8 x 10 NASA photo of Schmitt posing in his white space suit, neatly signed in black felt tip, "Harrison H. Schmitt, Apollo 17.&...
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Alan Shepard539 - Alan Shepard
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Official color 10 x 8 NASA lithograph of Shepard in his white space suit in front of the Apollo 14 mission insignia, signed and inscribed in black fel
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Shuttle-Mir Flown Flag540 - Shuttle-Mir Flown Flag
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Flown flag bearing the Shuttle-Mir Program insignia, 5.5 x 3.75, carried aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery during the STS-91 mission from June 2–12,
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Tom Stafford541 - Tom Stafford
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Two books: a first edition of We Have Capture, hardcover with dust jacket, published by Smithsonian Institution Press in 2002, signed on the first fre
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Tom Stafford542 - Tom Stafford
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Official color 8 x 10 lightweight NASA lithograph of Stafford posing in his white space suit and resting his hands on a lunar globe, signed and inscri
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Jack Swigert543 - Jack Swigert
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Uncommon official color 8 x 10 NASA lithograph of the Apollo 13 CMP posing with a model of an Apollo moon lander, signed and inscribed in black felt t
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Valentina Tereshkova544 - Valentina Tereshkova
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Color semi-glossy 8 x 10 double-weight photo of Tereshkova in her space suit, signed in blue felt tip by the cosmonaut, who adds "Vostok–6.&quo...
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Al Worden545 - Al Worden
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ALS, one page, 7.25 x 10.5, personal letterhead, April 30, 1974. Letter to Ken and Joyce Browne, in part: "Thank you for the lovely note and fo...
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Al Worden546 - Al Worden
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Official color vintage glossy 8 x 10 red-numbered NASA photo of Worden in a suit and tie, signed and inscribed in black ink, "To Joyce & Ke...
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Al Worden547 - Al Worden
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Color semi-glossy 8 x 10 photo of Worden posing in his white space suit against a background showing a Saturn rocket and lightning storm, signed in si
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John Young548 - John Young
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Official color 8 x 10 NASA lithograph of Young posing with a group of spacecraft models, signed and inscribed in black felt tip, "To Bill Van L...
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Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
 
 
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Cesar Baldaccini549 - Cesar Baldaccini
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French sculptor (1921–1998) who was at the forefront of the Nouveau Réalisme movement. Desirable color 4 x 6 postcard of his 'Venus de Milo...
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Estimate : 800.00 - 1,000.00
 
 
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Frederic-Auguste Bartholdi550 - Frederic-Auguste Bartholdi
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Eminent French sculptor (1834–1904) best known for designing the Statue of Liberty. Fantastic 3.25 x 4 mounted albumen image of the creation of the St
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Estimate : 1,500.00 - 2,000.00
 
 
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Salvador Dali551 - Salvador Dali
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Scarce ALS in French, signed “Salvador et Gala,” one page on a 5.5 x 3.5 photo postcard depicting Cadaques, Spain, postmarked June 5, 1936. Untranslat
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Estimate : 1,500.00 - 2,500.00
 
 
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Salvador Dali552 - Salvador Dali
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Fantastic oversized original twice-signed ballpoint sketch of Don Quixote accomplished by Dali on an off-white 12 x 16.25 sheet from "El Arte E...
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Estimate : 4,000.00 - 5,000.00
 
 
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Lyonel Feininger553 - Lyonel Feininger
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German-American painter and a leading exponent of Expressionism (1871–1956). ALS in German and English, four pages on two adjoining sheets, 5.25 x 6.7
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Estimate : 2,500.00 - 3,000.00
 
 
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James Montgomery Flagg and William S. Hart554 - James Montgomery Flagg and William S. Hart
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American artist and illustrator (1877-1960) best known for his iconic image of Uncle Sam saying 'I Want You' on a World War I recruiting pos...
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Jacob Epstein555 - Jacob Epstein
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Signed book: Epstein 1956. Limited edition, numbered 177/200. London: Lion and Unicorn Press, 1956. Hardcover, 11 x 15, 82 pages. Signed inside on a f
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French and American Painters556 - French and American Painters
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Impressive autograph album belonging to Emma Fagnani, wife of Italian-American portrait painter Giuseppe Fagnani, featuring 40 autographs of 19th-cent
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Estimate : 4,000.00 - 6,000.00
 
 
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Golden Gate Bridge557 - Golden Gate Bridge
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Two vintage souvenirs of the Golden Gate Bridge, including: a heavy 4 x 2.75 x 2.75 section of original braided suspension cable, consisting of seven
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Edouard Manet558 - Edouard Manet
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Important 19th century French painter (1832–1883) whose works were a seminal influence on the impressionists of the succeeding generation. ALS in Fren
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Estimate : 3,000.00 - 4,000.00
 
 
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Victor Hasselblad559 - Victor Hasselblad
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Swedish inventor and photographer (1906–1978) who is best known for inventing the Hasselblad 6x6 cm medium format camera; his surname has since become
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Pablo Picasso560 - Pablo Picasso
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ALS in pencil in Spanish, signed “Picasso,” one page on the reverse of a 12.5 x 9.25 menu, no date. Picasso writes to thank his friend for sending him
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Estimate : 15,000.00 - 20,000.00
 
 
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Henri Matisse561 - Henri Matisse
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ALS in French, signed “H. Matisse,” one page, 8.25 x 10.5, May 4, 1941. Letter to the French writer Henry de Montherlant, hoping to see him in Nice. I
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Estimate : 1,500.00 - 2,000.00
 
 
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Frederic Remington562 - Frederic Remington
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War-dated ALS, one page, 7 x 9, October 19, 1898. Letter to author and editor E. S. Martin of Harper & Brothers, in full: "I hope you will ...
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Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
 
 
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Norman Rockwell563 - Norman Rockwell
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Signed book: The Norman Rockwell Album. First edition. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1961. Hardcover, 11 x 14, 191 pages. Signed and inscribed on the ha
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Estimate : 1,500.00 - 2,000.00
 
 
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