RR Auction: Fine Autographs & Artifacts Featuring Royalty

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RR Auction’s January Fine Autographs and Artifacts sale is sure to impress, boasting over 850 items in a wide variety of genres. We open with a special ‘Royalty’ section, which spans over five hundred years of majestic material—from Spain’s Catholic monarchs Ferdinand and Isabella of the 1490s to Britain’s tragic Princess Diana of the 1990s. Our presidential section is similarly robust, highlighted by a Revolutionary War-dated letter by George Washington, a Congressional resolution to honor Ben Franklin signed by Thomas Jefferson, and a page from Theodore Roosevelt’s manuscript for The Winning of the West. Other great autographs in this sale include the scientist Dmitri Mendeleev, the economist Adam Smith, the abolitionist John Brown, the surrealist Rene Magritte, and many 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 January 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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Pope Pius XI305 - Pope Pius XI
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Pope, born Ambrogio Damiano Achille Ratti (1857–1939), who reigned from 1922 until his death and issued encyclicals condemning communism, fascism, and
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Fidel Castro306 - Fidel Castro
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Wooden Trinidad Fundadores cigar box, measuring 8.25 x 4.5 x 3, signed on the top cover in blue felt tip by Fidel Castro. The box contains 24 cigars,
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Estimate : 20,000.00 - 25,000.00
 
 
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Winston Churchill307 - Winston Churchill
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Incredible ‘La Aroma de Cuba’ cigar personally gifted by Prime Minister Winston Churchill to Welsh Liberal Party politician Roderic Bowen during a lun
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Estimate : 4,000.00 - 6,000.00
 
 
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Winston Churchill308 - Winston Churchill
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ALS signed “Winston S. Churchill,” one page, 5 x 5.75, no date but circa February–March 1920. Letter, likely to British Prime Minister David Lloyd Geo
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Estimate : 2,500.00 - 3,500.00
 
 
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Winston Churchill309 - Winston Churchill
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TLS signed “Yours sincerely, W. Churchill,” one page, 8 x 10, Chartwell, Westerham, Kent letterhead, April 18, 1933. Letter to C. C. Wood, chief copy
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Estimate : 2,500.00 - 3,000.00
 
 
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Winston Churchill310 - Winston Churchill
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Menu for the twenty-sixth annual Balaclava Dinner, Dance and Reunion of Members of the 4th 'Queen’s Own' Hussars Regimental Association, fou...
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Estimate : 800.00 - 1,200.00
 
 
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Benjamin Disraeli311 - Benjamin Disraeli
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ALS signed “D,” four pages on two adjoining black-bordered sheets, 4.5 x 7, September 26, 1852. Letter to Parliamentary Secretary of the Treasury Geor
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Estimate : 500.00 - 700.00
 
 
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Benjamin Disraeli312 - Benjamin Disraeli
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ALS signed “B. Disraeli,” 4.5 x 6.75, Hughenden Manor letterhead, September 5, 1889. Letter to James W. Hudson, in full: "I delayed replying to...
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Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
 
 
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Abba Eban313 - Abba Eban
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Interesting archive of approximately 20 pages of bilingual handwritten speech notes by Israeli diplomat Abba Eban that date to his New York trips in t
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Estimate : 1,500.00 - 2,000.00
 
 
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Honore Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau314 - Honore Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau
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Controversial leader of the early stages of the French Revolution (1749-1791). Rare ALS in French, signed “Mirabeau fils,” one page, 7.25 x 8.75, July
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Estimate : 2,500.00 - 3,500.00
 
 
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Vladimir Putin315 - Vladimir Putin
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Scarce ballpoint signature of Vladimir Putin on an off-white 5 x 3 lined sheet, signed as president circa 2004-2005. In fine condition. Consignor note
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Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
 
 
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Syngman Rhee316 - Syngman Rhee
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Handsome vintage matte-finish 8 x 11.5 head-and-shoulders portrait of the first president of South Korea, signed and inscribed in fountain pen, &quo...
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Estimate : 800.00 - 1,200.00
 
 
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Titanic317 - Titanic
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Packet of typescript "Reports of obstruction to Navigation sent to Captain Smith," compiled by the White Star Line's law firm Hill Dic...
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Estimate : 1,500.00 - 2,000.00
 
 
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Titanic: August Johnson318 - Titanic: August Johnson
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Collection of four letters related to an insurance claim by the widow of Titanic disaster victim August Johnson, consisting of a letter from her lawye
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,500.00
 
 
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Titanic: Frederick Ware319 - Titanic: Frederick Ware
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ALS signed by Frederick Ware's widow, “Cecilia Vincent,” three pages on two adjoining sheets, 5 x 6.5, personal letterhead, January 4, 1916. Let...
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Estimate : 800.00 - 1,000.00
 
 
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Howard Carter320 - 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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Henry M. Stanley321 - Henry M. Stanley
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Publisher's advertisement for Heroes of the Dark Continent and How Stanley Found Emin Pasha by J. W. Buel, published by the Historical Publishin...
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Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
 
 
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[Daniel Boone]322 - [Daniel Boone]
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Manuscript document, one page, 7.5 x 12.5, dated October 31, 1788. An important document quantifying the tremendous surge of settlement into the trans
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Estimate : 800.00 - 1,200.00
 
 
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Geronimo323 - Geronimo
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Highly sought-after pencil signature, “Geronimo,” on an off-white 3.5 x 1.75 slip affixed within a leatherbound scrapbook containing about thirty affi
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Estimate : 8,000.00 - 10,000.00
 
 
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Francis Gary Powers324 - Francis Gary Powers
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TLS signed “Oliver Powers,” one page, 8.5 x 11, May 19, 1960. Letter to Nikita Khruschev from the father of downed pilot Francis Gary Powers, urging l
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Estimate : 3,000.00 - 4,000.00
 
 
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