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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Wilhelm Furtwangler776 - Wilhelm Furtwangler
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Very early autograph musical manuscripts in pencil, totaling over sixty pages, ranging in size from 10.5 x 14 to 12 x 16, one page dated 1900. Remarka
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Estimate : 3,000.00 - 4,000.00
 
 
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Edvard Grieg777 - Edvard Grieg
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Desirable AMQS on an off-white 8.25 x 5.25 sheet, crisply signed in bold ink, “Edvard Grieg, Warschau,” and dated April 14. Grieg pens three bars of m
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Estimate : 1,500.00 - 2,000.00
 
 
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Rodolphe Kreutzer778 - Rodolphe Kreutzer
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French violinist, teacher, conductor, and composer of forty operas (1766–1831). Manuscript DS in French, signed “Kreutzer,” one page both sides, 7 x 9
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Estimate : 800.00 - 1,200.00
 
 
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Alma Mahler-Werfel779 - Alma Mahler-Werfel
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Austrian composer, author, and companion of famous men (1879–1964). ALS in German, one page, 8.25 x 11, November 19, 1945. Letter to an unnamed recipi
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Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
 
 
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Saverio Mercadante780 - Saverio Mercadante
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Italian composer (1795–1870) best known as a predecessor to Giuseppe Verdi and for operas such as Il Giuramento and Orazi e Curiazi. Untranslated ALS
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Estimate : 800.00 - 1,200.00
 
 
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Niccolo Paganini781 - Niccolo Paganini
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ALS in Italian, one page, 6.75 x 8.75, September 17, 1832. Letter to his publisher Antonio Pacini in Paris. In part (translated): "I can’t tell...
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Estimate : 3,000.00 - 4,000.00
 
 
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Francis Poulenc782 - Francis Poulenc
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Renowned French composer (1899–1963) best known for his colorful, energetic keyboard works, art songs, and choral music. Uncommon matte-finish 3.25 x
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Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
 
 
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Sergei Rachmaninoff783 - Sergei Rachmaninoff
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ALS in German, one page, 5.5 x 4.25, December 9, 1910. Untranslated letter to Hermann Kutzschbach, conductor of the Dresdener Hofkapelle, regretting t
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Estimate : 1,500.00 - 2,000.00
 
 
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Maurice Ravel784 - Maurice Ravel
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ALS in French, one page, 4.75 x 5, personal letterhead, no date. Letter to French politician and theater critic Georges Pioch, asking where and when t
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,500.00
 
 
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Gioacchino Rossini785 - Gioacchino Rossini
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Important Italian composer (1792–1868) who became one of the seminal figures in the history of opera with such repertoire staples as The Barber of Sev
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Estimate : 1,500.00 - 2,000.00
 
 
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