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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Camille Saint-Saens786 - Camille Saint-Saens
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ALS in French, signed “C. Saint-Saens,” seven pages two sets of adjoining sheets, 6 x 7.5, personal letterhead, July 8, 1905. Lengthy letter to the di
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Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
 
 
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Robert Schumann787 - Robert Schumann
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Highly important German composer and pianist (1810–1856) whose distinctively lyrical musical language, especially evident in his keyboard works and ar
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Estimate : 2,000.00 - 3,000.00
 
 
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Arnold Schonberg788 - Arnold Schonberg
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Austrian-born composer (1874–1951) whose development of the twelve-tone system proved to be one of the most far-reaching innovations in the history of
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Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
 
 
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John Philip Sousa789 - John Philip Sousa
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Desirable 3.75 x 5.25 trimmed cabinet photo of Sousa in his bandleader’s uniform, signed vertically in black ink, “John Philip Sousa, ’97,” with the a
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Gaspare Spontini790 - Gaspare Spontini
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Untranslated ALS in French, signed “Spontini,” one page, 7.75 x 8.25, January 29, 1818. Letter to an unidentified count. Ink notations in another hand
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Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
 
 
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Igor Stravinsky791 - Igor Stravinsky
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ALS in German, signed “I. Stravinsky,” one page, 8.25 x 5.25, January 3, 1938. Untranslated letter to actress Dagmar Godowsky thanking her for a pleas
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Estimate : 800.00 - 1,000.00
 
 
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Henri Vieuxtemps792 - Henri Vieuxtemps
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Belgian composer and violinist (1820–1881) considered an essential part of the Franco-Belgian violin school during the mid-19th century. ALS in French
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Richard Wagner794 - Richard Wagner
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Desirable AMQS on an off-white 6.75 x 7.75 sheet, signed at the conclusion in crisp ink in German (translated), “See you soon. Exhausted and sleepless
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Estimate : 8,000.00 - 10,000.00
 
 
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Winifred Wagner795 - Winifred Wagner
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Daughter-in-law of Richard Wagner who was a friend of Hitler and ran the Bayreuth Festival after her husband's death in 1930 until the end of Wo...
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Bruno Walter796 - Bruno Walter
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Collection of seven letters in German, including two ALSs and five TLSs, totaling eleven pages, dated from 1929 to 1933. All are to musicologist Hugo
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Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
 
 
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