RR Auction: Fine Autographs & Artifacts

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Headquartered in Boston’s North End, RR Auction is a globally recognized and trusted source for rare documents, manuscripts, autographs, and historic artifacts. Since its inception in 1980, RR has achieved countless record-setting prices in over 425 successful sales, including Truman Capote’s hand-notated manuscript for Breakfast at Tiffany’s for over $300,000, President Kennedy’s 1963 convertible for $318,000, and a pair of Bonnie and Clyde’s guns for over $500,000. Internationally known and frequently featured in all media outlets—with appearances on NBC’s Today Show, CBS This Morning, Fox News, the New York Times Sunday Magazine, and the London Times—RR Auction prides itself on selling authentic material, thoroughly examined by in-house experts and third-party authenticators, to uphold the guarantee of authenticity. With a stunning full-color print catalog and a massive online presence, RR Auction continues to achieve record prices for clients around the world.
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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U. S. Grant32 - U. S. Grant
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Choice ink signature, “U. S. Grant, General,” on an off-white 3 x 1.5 card. Beautifully double-cloth-matted and framed with a portrait of Grant and a
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Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
 
 
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U. S. Grant33 - U. S. Grant
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Partly-printed DS as president, one page, 18 x 14, March 21, 1870. President Grant appoints Wickham S. Havens as “Collector of Customs for the Distric
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Estimate : 800.00 - 1,000.00
 
 
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U. S. Grant34 - U. S. Grant
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Two 2.25 x 5 carte-de-visite photos of Grant, one featuring a bust portrait and the other showing him seated outdoors in an ornately carved chair. Sca
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Rutherford B. Hayes35 - Rutherford B. Hayes
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Partly-printed vellum DS as president, signed “R. B. Hayes,” one page, 15.5 x 19, March 7, 1879. President Hayes appoints Robert C. Walker as “Paymast
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Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
 
 
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Rutherford B. Hayes36 - Rutherford B. Hayes
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Boldly penned AQS on an off-white 5 x 7.75 lightly lined sheet, signed at the conclusion, “Rutherford B. Hayes.” Hayes quotes from Hamlet, Act III, Sc
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Estimate : 2,000.00 - 3,000.00
 
 
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James A. Garfield37 - James A. Garfield
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Civil War–dated ALS signed “J. A. Garfield,” one page both sides, 8 x 10, December 22, 1862. Letter to a colonel, in part: “Allow me, though late to o
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Estimate : 800.00 - 1,000.00
 
 
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James A. Garfield38 - James A. Garfield
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Partial free frank, measuring 5.5 x 7.75 unfolded, with center panel measuring 5.5 x 3, addressed in another hand to “H. T. Gaylor, Esq., Whitehall, N
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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James A. Garfield39 - James A. Garfield
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LS signed “J. A. Garfield,” one page, 8 x 10, July 19, 1880. Letter to John A. Bingham, the US minister to Japan. In full: “I have just received your
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Estimate : 1,200.00 - 1,500.00
 
 
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Grover Cleveland40 - Grover Cleveland
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ALS in pencil as president, one page, 9 x 5.5, October 27, 1887. Handwritten draft for a telegram to Hon. W. Barclay McMerrick of Haverford College. I
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Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
 
 
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Grover Cleveland41 - Grover Cleveland
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ALS, one page, 5.25 x 6.5, personal Westland letterhead, January 28, 1898. Letter to the Arbitration Committee in Philadelphia. In full: “I must be pe
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Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
 
 
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