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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Ernest Bloch778 - Ernest Bloch
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Swiss-born American composer (1880–1959) best known for his large-scale, often Jewish-inflected chamber, orchestral, and choral works. ALS, one page,
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Nadia Boulanger779 - Nadia Boulanger
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Composer, conductor, and influential music teacher (1887–1979) who wrote many vocal and instrumental works. Untranslated ALS in French, one page both
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Pablo Casals780 - Pablo Casals
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Revered Spanish cellist and composer (1876–1973) widely regarded as the greatest player in the history of the instrument. Distinguished matte-finish 7
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Sergiu Celibidache781 - Sergiu Celibidache
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Romanian conductor, composer, and teacher (1912–1996) whose career in music spanned over five decades and included tenures as principal conductor for
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Samuel Coleridge-Taylor782 - Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
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Pioneering and highly regarded Afro-British musician (1875–1912), known as the ‘Black Mahler,’ who takes a place among the earliest black composers to
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Vincent d’Indy783 - Vincent d’Indy
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AMQS on an off-white 6.25 x 8.25 sheet, crisply signed at the conclusion, “Vincent d’Indy.” D’Indy pens four bars of music and lyrics for “Madrigal po
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Edmund Eysler784 - Edmund Eysler
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Austrian composer of operas and operettas (1874–1949). AMQS on the reverse of a color 3.5 x 5.5 postcard depicting Eysler, signed “Edm. Eysler,” Septe
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Edwin Fischer785 - Edwin Fischer
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Prodigiously gifted and widely lauded Swiss pianist (1886–1960) best known for his interpretations of the core German repertoire. AMQS on the reverse
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Friedrich von Flotow786 - Friedrich von Flotow
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German composer (1812-1883) chiefly remembered for his opera Martha, which was popular in the 19th century. ALS in French, signed “Fr. de Flotow,” thr
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Josephine Fodor-Mainville787 - Josephine Fodor-Mainville
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French actress who retired in 1828 having lost her beautiful voice to illness (1789–1870). ALS in French, signed “Mainville Fodor,” one page, 8 x 10,
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Wilhelm Furtwangler788 - Wilhelm Furtwangler
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AMQS on an off-white 4.5 x 2.75 slip, signed in black ink, “Wilhelm Furtwangler, 12.II.45.” Furtwangler pens five measures from an unidentified work.
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Niels Gade789 - Niels Gade
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Eminent Danish composer and conductor (1817–1890). AMQS on a lightly gridded off-white 8.5 x 8.5 sheet, signed below in black ink, “Copenhagen, Martz
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Emil Gilels790 - Emil Gilels
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Highly acclaimed Soviet pianist (1916–1985). Untranslated ALS in Cyrillic, one page, 8.5 x 10.75, personal letterhead, 1977. Show-through from a label
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Victor Herbert791 - Victor Herbert
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Composer, cellist, and conductor (1859–1924) known for his Broadway operettas and Tin Pan Alley tunes. AMQS on an off-white 3.25 x 2.25 card, signed b
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Paul Hindemith792 - Paul Hindemith
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Versatile and prolific German-born composer and performer (1895–1963) whose best-known works include ‘Mathis der Maler,’ ‘Nobilissima Visione,’ and ‘D
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Joseph Joachim793 - Joseph Joachim
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AMQS on an off-white 8 x 6.75 card, signed at the conclusion, “Joseph Joachim,” Hamburg, 1866. Joachim pens four bars of music, adding the title, “Anf
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Hans Knappertsbusch794 - Hans Knappertsbusch
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Unusual 3.5 x 5.25 postcard photo of Knappertsbusch in near-profile, signed in the lower border, “Hans Knappertsbusch,” with an autograph letter to th
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Erich Wolfgang Korngold795 - Erich Wolfgang Korngold
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AMQS on the reverse of a 5.25 x 3.5 postcard depicting Korngold, signed and inscribed in German in black ink. Korngold pens three bars of music and ly
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Nathan Milstein796 - Nathan Milstein
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Russian-born American virtuoso violinist (1903–1992). Vintage matte-finish 3.75 x 5.5 photo of Milstein playing his violin, signed vertically in the l
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Carl Orff797 - Carl Orff
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German composer (1895–1982) best known for his oratorio ‘Carmina Burana.’ Semi-glossy 3.5 x 5.5 postcard photo of Orff by Fayer Wien, signed in the lo
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