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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Dmitri Shostakovich655 - Dmitri Shostakovich
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Soviet composer (1906–1975) whose fifteen symphonies occupy a place of central performance in the orchestral literature of the twentieth century. Hand
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Estimate : 4,000.00 - 6,000.00
 
 
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky656 - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
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ALS in German, signed “P. Tchaikovsky,” one page on a 4.75 x 3 postcard, postmarked June 3, 1893. Letter to Danish pianist Frits Hartvigson at the Roy
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Estimate : 6,000.00 - 8,000.00
 
 
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Arturo Toscanini and Sarah Bernhardt657 - Arturo Toscanini and Sarah Bernhardt
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An off-white 7.75 x 4.75 album-page, one side bearing a bold AMQS by renowned conductor Arturo Toscanini (dated 1905), and the other side bearing a cr
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Estimate : 1,200.00 - 1,500.00
 
 
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Caroline Unger658 - Caroline Unger
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Austro-Hungarian contralto (1803–1877) who sang in the first performances of Ludwig van Beethoven's Ninth Symphony and Missa Solemnis. AMQS on ...
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Estimate : 800.00 - 1,000.00
 
 
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Giuseppe Verdi659 - Giuseppe Verdi
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ALS in Italian, signed "G. Verdi," one page, 4.25 x 6.75, May 5, 1891. Letter to Giuseppe De Amicis. Verdi writes that, as long as the ...
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Estimate : 5,000.00 - 6,000.00
 
 
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Blues Legends660 - Blues Legends
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Original program for the 1968 American Folk Blues Festival, 24 pages, 10.75 x 10, signed inside in blue ballpoint and green felt tip by John Lee Hooke
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Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
 
 
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Roy Eldridge661 - Roy Eldridge
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American jazz trumpet player nicknamed 'Little Jazz,' (1911-1989) whose sophisticated style and impact on Dizzy Gillespie elevate him as one...
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,500.00
 
 
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George Gershwin662 - George Gershwin
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Signed book: George Gershwin's Song-Book. First edition, limited issue, numbered 78/300. NY: Random House, 1932. Leatherbound hardcover with sli...
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,500.00
 
 
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George Gershwin663 - George Gershwin
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Fountain pen signature, "George Gershwin,” on an off-white 5 x 3.25 card. In fine condition, with toning to the edges easily matted out.
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Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
 
 
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Huddie ‘Lead Belly’ Ledbetter664 - Huddie ‘Lead Belly’ Ledbetter
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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...
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Estimate : 10,000.00 - 15,000.00
 
 
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