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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Henry Clay126 - Henry Clay
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Boldly penned ALS signed “H. Clay,” one page, 8 x 4.25, October 16, 1823. Letter to “the President, Director and Company of the Bank of Kentucky.” In
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Alexander Hamilton127 - Alexander Hamilton
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Full free frank, measuring 8.75 x 7.75 unfolded with a 5.25 x 3 center panel, addressed in another hand to “Melancton Smith, Esq, New York,” and frank
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Patrick Henry128 - Patrick Henry
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Partly-printed DS, signed “P. Henry,” one page, 13.75 x 18, December 2, 1785. As governor of Virginia, Henry grants Alexander Skinner a “certain Tract
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Robert Todd Lincoln129 - Robert Todd Lincoln
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The Riggs National Bank check, 7.75 x 3, filled out and signed by Lincoln, “Robert T. Lincoln,” payable to W. K. Rewe for $486.64, January 3, 1921. In
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Massachusetts Finance130 - Massachusetts Finance
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Revolutionary War–dated partly-printed DS, signed “H. Gardner,” one page, 10.5 x 5, January 1, 1780. State of Massachusetts Bay financial document ord
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Massachusetts: Native American131 - Massachusetts: Native American
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Original manuscript, signed by by eight members of the Hassanamisco tribe with their marks, and also signed, “John Chandler” as justice of the peace a
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Benning Wentworth132 - Benning Wentworth
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Colonial governor of New Hampshire from 1741 to 1766. Manuscript DS, signed “B. Wentworth,” one page, 6.5 x 8.25, April 23, 1754. A marriage document
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Clara Barton133 - Clara Barton
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ALS signed “Clara,” four pages on two adjoining sheets, 5 x 8, September 12, 1865. Letter to her nephew Sam. In part: “I don’t know what counsel you h
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Clarence Darrow134 - Clarence Darrow
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Rare 8.25 x 11 book photo of Darrow taken by Nicholas Muray of New York, signed and inscribed in fountain pen, “Clarence Darrow, To Lucille and G. Sta
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Helen Keller135 - Helen Keller
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TLS signed in colored pencil, one page, 7.25 x 10.5, personal letterhead, July 10, 1956. Letter to Bob and Nancy, in part: “Here Polly and I are at ho
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Martin Luther King, Jr136 - Martin Luther King, Jr
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Signed book: Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community? First edition. NY: Harper & Row, 1967. Hardcover with dust jacket, 6 x 8.5, 209 pages...
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Martin Luther King, Jr137 - Martin Luther King, Jr
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TLS signed “Martin L. King, Jr.,” one page, 8.25 x 8.5, Southern Christian Leadership Conference letterhead, November 19, 1962. Letter to Dr. Med O. G
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Carrie A. Nation138 - Carrie A. Nation
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Temperance agitator (1846–1911) known for smashing saloons with a hatchet. ALS in pencil, signed “Carrie Nation,” one page, 7.5 x 5, March 7, 1901. Le
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Florence Nightingale139 - Florence Nightingale
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Ink signature, “F. Nightingale, Dec. 1/64,” on an off-white 3.25 x 1.5 slip affixed to a same-sized card. In fine condition, with trivial soiling and
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Margaret Sanger140 - Margaret Sanger
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American sex educator, nurse, and birth control activist (1879–1966) who founded the American Birth Control League in 1921. TLS, one page, 8.5 x 11, N
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William F. ‘Buffalo Bill’ Cody141 - William F. ‘Buffalo Bill’ Cody
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Amazing second-generation 16mm film of the Buffalo Bill Wild West Show. Single roll of silent black-and-white film is stored on one 10.5? diameter ree
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William F. ‘Buffalo Bill’ Cody142 - William F. ‘Buffalo Bill’ Cody
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Rare bank check, 7.25 x 3.25, filled out and signed by Cody, “W. F. Cody,” payable to self for $200, January 13, 1889. In fine condition, with a centr
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William F. ‘Buffalo Bill’ Cody143 - William F. ‘Buffalo Bill’ Cody
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Exceptionally crisp matte-finish 3.75 x 5.5 formal portrait of Cody, signed in fountain pen, “W. F. Cody, ‘Buffalo Bill.’” Nicely double-matted and fr
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Donner Party: James F. Reed144 - Donner Party: James F. Reed
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Businessman and soldier (1800–1874) best remembered as an organizing member of the ill-fated 1846 Donner Party emigration to California. Manuscript DS
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Oregon Territory145 - Oregon Territory
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Partly-printed DS, one page, 9.25 x 8, no date but circa 1831. An unissued certificate for “Oregon Settlement Stock” for shares in “The American Socie
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