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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Herbert von Karajan675 - Herbert von Karajan
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ALS in German, one page both sides, 8.75 x 11.25, Grand Hotel Milano & Helvetia letterhead, August 1936. Letter to his mother, who was unhappy w...
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Estimate : 800.00 - 1,200.00
 
 
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Erich Wolfgang Korngold676 - Erich Wolfgang Korngold
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Matte-finish 3.25 x 5.25 head-and-shoulders postcard photo of Korngold, signed in the lower border in black ink, adding a brief AMQS from his opera “V
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Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
 
 
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Jenny Lind677 - Jenny Lind
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Celebrated soprano (1820–1887), known as the ‘Swedish Nightingale,’ who, under the management of P. T. Barnum, became the most renowned and highly pai
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Estimate : 2,000.00 - 3,000.00
 
 
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Alma Mahler-Werfel678 - Alma Mahler-Werfel
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Austrian composer, author, and companion of famous men (1879–1964). Four ALSs in German, signed “Alma,” totaling seven pages, 10.5 x 8.25, circa 1930.
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,500.00
 
 
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Gustav Mahler679 - Gustav Mahler
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Handsome matte-finish 3.25 x 5.5 postcard photo of Mahler as a young man, signed and inscribed circa 1900 in German in black ink, “Zur freundlichen Er
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Estimate : 6,000.00 - 8,000.00
 
 
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Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy680 - Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
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ALS in German, one page, 3.5 x 4.5, no date but circa May 1832. Untranslated letter to Mme. Moscheles, wife of the pianist Ignaz Moscheles. Mendelssoh
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Estimate : 4,000.00 - 5,000.00
 
 
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Ignaz Moscheles681 - Ignaz Moscheles
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Bohemian composer and piano virtuoso (1794–1870), whose career after his early years was based initially in London, and later at Leipzig, where he suc
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Estimate : 800.00 - 1,000.00
 
 
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Francis Poulenc682 - Francis Poulenc
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ALS in French, one page both sides, 8.25 x 10.5, Le Grand Coteau letterhead, no date. Letter to the unnamed Winnaretta Singer, Princess Edmond de Poli
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Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
 
 
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Giacomo Puccini: Giuseppe Adami683 - Giacomo Puccini: Giuseppe Adami
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Amazing archive of handwritten drafts and fragments by Giuseppe Adami for the libretto of Puccini’s last opera, Turandot, totaling about 585 pages, ci
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Estimate : 25,000.00 - 30,000.00
 
 
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Maurice Ravel684 - Maurice Ravel
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Choice AMQS on an off-white 5.75 x 3.5 card, crisply signed and inscribed in black ink, “A Madame Lucy Haupt, Maurice Ravel.” Ravel pens the opening t
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Estimate : 4,000.00 - 5,000.00
 
 
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