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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Texas: Sam Houston144 - Texas: Sam Houston
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Choice ALS, four pages on two adjoining sheets, 7.75 x 9.75, Huntsville, Texas, October 8, 1853. Letter to Secretary of the Senate Asbury Dickins. In
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Estimate : 2,000.00 - 3,000.00
 
 
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Harry A. Blackmun146 - Harry A. Blackmun
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Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1970 until 1994, best known as the author of the Court's opinion in Roe v. Wade...
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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John Marshall147 - John Marshall
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ADS, signed “J. Marshall,” one page, 7.25 x 5.5, May 22, 1790. A financial document. In full: “Recd from Mr. Isaac Hite fifty shillings the moity of a
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Estimate : 1,500.00 - 2,500.00
 
 
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Kit Carson148 - Kit Carson
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American scout and soldier (1809–1868) who takes a place among the most colorful personalities in the Old West. Ink signature, “C. Carson,” on an off-
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Estimate : 2,500.00 - 3,000.00
 
 
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William F. ‘Buffalo Bill’ Cody149 - William F. ‘Buffalo Bill’ Cody
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Exceptional 9.5 x 7.5 photo of Cody and his daughter Irma in a horse-drawn carriage, affixed to the original 14.75 x 12.25 photographer’s mount, signe
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Estimate : 1,500.00 - 2,000.00
 
 
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William F. ‘Buffalo Bill’ Cody150 - William F. ‘Buffalo Bill’ Cody
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Handsome unsigned oversized 8.25 x 13.25 gelatin silver portrait of Cody wearing a cowboy hat by Charlie Fitch, presented in its original frame to an
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William F. ‘Buffalo Bill’ Cody151 - William F. ‘Buffalo Bill’ Cody
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Vivid color 11 x 9 chromolithographic print depicting Buffalo Bill dismounted from his horse, both dressed in fabulous vibrant Western garb. Produced
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Josie Earp152 - Josie Earp
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Captivating matte-finish 4 x 10.5 gelatin silver photo of Wyatt Earp’s wife Josie, showing her dressed in a sheer robe. Blindstamped at the bottom wit
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Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
 
 
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Wyatt Earp153 - Wyatt Earp
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Collection of eight bone gambling chips from the Dexter Saloon in various colors and denominations, measuring approximately 1.5? in diameter, includin
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Estimate : 1,500.00 - 2,000.00
 
 
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Gamblers and Gunslingers154 - Gamblers and Gunslingers
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Two original tintypes, both approximately 2.5 x 3.5, one showing a group of four men playing cards and drinking around a small table; the other showin
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Geronimo155 - Geronimo
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Unsigned 5.25 x 6.5 cabinet photo of Geronimo by William Irwin, showing the legednary warrior in a fringed leather shirt while holding a revolver. Per
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Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
 
 
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Chief John Grass: Frank Bennett Fiske156 - Chief John Grass: Frank Bennett Fiske
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Chief of the Blackfoot Sioux (1836–1918) who fought at the Battle of the Little Bighorn. Exquisite matte-finish 7.75 x 11.25 portrait of Chief John Gr
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John Wesley Hardin157 - John Wesley Hardin
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John Wesley Hardin’s rawhide stagecoach trunk, 14 x 8.5 x 8.5, constructed of wood with brown rawhide tacked to the exterior and a soft cloth lining t
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Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
 
 
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John Wesley Hardin158 - John Wesley Hardin
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Section of wood from the house of John Wesley Hardin, 4 x 2.5 x .5, taken from a board that had been a part of the ‘honeymoon’ cottage that he and his
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Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
 
 
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Jesse James159 - Jesse James
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Fantastic color 18 x 28 poster advertising a traveling show based on the exploits of the legendary American outlaw, entitled, “The Sensational Western
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Kemp Sisters160 - Kemp Sisters
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Double-sided 10.5 x 28 poster advertising the Kemp Sisters’ ‘Frontier Exhibition,’ billing it as “A Superb Western Spectacle” with “More Realism Than
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Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
 
 
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Two Guns White Calf161 - Two Guns White Calf
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Blackfoot chief (1872–1934) best known for the durable though still-controversial claim that he served as one of the models for sculptor James Earle F
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Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
 
 
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Francisco ‘Pancho’ Villa162 - Francisco ‘Pancho’ Villa
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TLS in Spanish, signed “Francisco Villa,” two pages, 8.5 x 11, Ejercito del Norte letterhead, October 3, 1915. Letter to General Felipe Riveros. In pa
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Estimate : 4,000.00 - 5,000.00
 
 
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John Wilkes Booth163 - John Wilkes Booth
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Desirable printed broadside playbill, 5.75 x 12.75, advertising Booth’s last performance in The Coriscan Brothers at the Boston Museum on February 14,
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Estimate : 1,500.00 - 2,000.00
 
 
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Lee Harvey Oswald164 - Lee Harvey Oswald
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Hand-addressed May Day pictorial airmail envelope, 6.25 x 4.5, addressed by Oswald to his brother, “U.S.A., Fort Worth, Texas, 7313 Davenport St., Rob
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Estimate : 2,000.00 - 2,500.00
 
 
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