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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Pope Gregory XVI207 - Pope Gregory XVI
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Born Bartolomeo Alberto Cappellari (1765-1846), he served as pope from 1831 to 1846. Strongly conservative and traditionalist, he opposed democratic a
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Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
 
 
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Pope Leo XIII208 - Pope Leo XIII
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Born Count Vincenzo Gioacchino Raffaele Luigi Pecci (1810–1903), he served as pope from 1878 to 1903. LS in Italian, signed “G. Card. Pecci Vesc. di P
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Pope Paul VI209 - Pope Paul VI
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Born Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini in Italy in 1897, Paul VI reigned as pope from 1963 until his death in 1978. TLS signed “G.B. Mont
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Pope Pius XI210 - Pope Pius XI
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Pope born Ambrogio Damiano Achille Ratti, who ascended the papal throne in 1922 and issued encyclicals condemning communism, fascism, and racism (1857
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Pope Pius XII211 - Pope Pius XII
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Born Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli (1876–1958), he served as pope from 1939 until his death. TLS in Italian, signed “E. Card. Pacelli,” one
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Brigham Young212 - Brigham Young
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Rare partly-printed note of Mormon currency in the amount of fifty cents, 3.75 x 2, filled out in another hand to N. K. Whitney, signed in ink by Brig
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Otto von Bismarck213 - Otto von Bismarck
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Prussian statesman and First Chancellor of the German Empire (1815–1898). Serious vintage matte-finish 6.5 x 9 half-length portrait of von Bismarck in
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Estimate : 800.00 - 1,200.00
 
 
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Simon Bolivar214 - Simon Bolivar
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LS in Spanish, signed “Bolivar,” one page both sides, 8 x 9.75, September 28, 1829. Letter to brigade commander Colonel Jose Felix Blanco. In part (tr
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Simon Bolivar215 - Simon Bolivar
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Partly-printed DS in Spanish, one page, 7.5 x 12, August 22, 1819. As president of Venezuela, Bolivar promotes Leon Galindo to captain in the infantry
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Joseph Bonaparte216 - Joseph Bonaparte
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Older brother of Napoleon (1868–1844) who served as King of Spain from 1808 to 1813, and King of Naples from 1806 to 1808. ALS in French, signed “Jose
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Leonid Brezhnev217 - Leonid Brezhnev
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Uncommon Russian greeting card featuring an image of Lenin with a translucent overlay of the Soviet flag bearing the text “Glorious Octob
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Fidel Castro218 - Fidel Castro
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Manuscript DS in Spanish, written in the hand of fellow Moncada prisoner Agustin Cartaya, one lined page, both sides, dated December 6, 1953, written
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Estimate : 8,000.00 - 10,000.00
 
 
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Fidel Castro219 - Fidel Castro
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DS in Spanish, one page, 8.25 x 11.75, no date but circa 2000. Certificate issued to Raquel Garcia Fleita commemorating the 42nd anniversary of the Cu
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Fidel and Raul Castro220 - Fidel and Raul Castro
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Signed book: Fidel Castro by Jules Dubois. First edition. Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1959. Hardcover with dust jacket, 6 x 8.75, 391 pag
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Winston Churchill221 - Winston Churchill
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TLS, one page, 8 x 10, Chartwell Manor letterhead, February 1, 1929. Letter to Colonel Fitzhugh Lee Minnegerode, foreign correspondent of the New York
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Estimate : 1,500.00 - 2,000.00
 
 
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Winston Churchill222 - Winston Churchill
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TLS signed “Winston S. Churchill,” one page, 7.5 x 9.5, personal letterhead, July 25, 1956. Letter to former Cabinet Secretary and close friend Norman
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Winston Churchill223 - Winston Churchill
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Signed book: The World Crisis. First abridged edition. NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1931. Hardcover, 7 x 9.5, 866 pages. Signed on the first fre...
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Winston Churchill224 - Winston Churchill
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Collection of seven TLSs, six signed “Winston S. Churchill,” and one signed “W. S. Churchill,” all one page, various sizes, dated from 1948 to 1961. A
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Mikhail Gorbachev225 - Mikhail Gorbachev
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Color glossy 10.75 x 7 photo shot by Annie Liebovitz for a Louis Vuitton ad in 2007, showing the ever-stylish Soviet leader seated in a limousine besi
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Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
 
 
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Che Guevara226 - Che Guevara
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DS in Spanish, signed “Che,” one page, 8.5 x 10.75, February 26, 1959. In full (translated): "Circulation Pass (Permanent). Order of Commandant...
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Estimate : 2,000.00 - 2,500.00
 
 
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