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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Abraham Lincoln and William H. Seward101 - Abraham Lincoln and William H. Seward
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Five short strands of Lincoln’s hair encapsulated in a plastic cube and displayed alongside a similar cube containing strands of Seward’s hair, attrac
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Rutherford B. Hayes102 - Rutherford B. Hayes
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Choice partly-printed DS as president, signed “R. B. Hayes,” one page, 7.75 x 10, August 13, 1877. President Hayes orders the secretary of state “to a
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Grover Cleveland103 - Grover Cleveland
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ALS, one page, 4.5 x 7, March 19, 1904. Letter to C. H. Kavanaugh. In full: “I enclose proof that I attempted to acknowledge a letter received from yo
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Benjamin Harrison104 - Benjamin Harrison
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Fletchers Bank check, 7.25 x 2.75, filled out and signed by Harrison, “Benj. Harrison,” payable to Self for $25, December 1, 1888. In fine condition,
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Theodore Roosevelt105 - Theodore Roosevelt
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TLS, one page, 8.5 x 1, personal letterhead, January 14, 1918. Letter to Judson Swift of the American Tract Society, in full: “What a staunch and loya
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William H. Taft106 - William H. Taft
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TLS signed “Wm. H. Taft,” one page, 6.75 x 8.75, personal letterhead, August 22, 1918. Letter to Frederick Judson, in full: “I have yours of August 19
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William H. Taft107 - William H. Taft
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White House card signed and inscribed in black ink, “For Mr. Louis Saroni, with best wishes, Wm. H. Taft, Feby 19th 1913.” Stapled to the top of a tra
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William H. Taft108 - William H. Taft
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Partly-printed DS as president, signed “Wm. H. Taft,” one page, 16 x 19.5, August 2, 1910. President Taft appoints Henry R. Snyder as “Assistant Payma
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William H. Taft109 - William H. Taft
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TLS signed “Wm. H. Taft,” one page, 7 x 9.25, personal letterhead, February 24, 1914. Letter to G. Alfred Lawrence, in part: “I have yours of February
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Calvin Coolidge110 - Calvin Coolidge
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TLS as president, one page, 7 x 8.75, White House letterhead, December 8, 1924. Letter to Walter Page, in full: “Accept my thanks for your letter tell
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Herbert Hoover111 - Herbert Hoover
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World War II-dated TLS, one page, 7.25 x 10.5, personal letterhead, May 15, 1941. Letter to Dorothy Rollins, in full: “I am glad that you liked my sta
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Herbert Hoover112 - Herbert Hoover
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Matte-finish 7.5 x 9.75 photo of Clarence Martin’s 1933 pencil sketch of Hoover, signed in fountain pen, “The kind regards of Herbert Hoover.” Reverse
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Herbert Hoover113 - Herbert Hoover
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TLS, one page, 7.25 x 10.5, personal letterhead, October 12, 1943. Letter to Miles W. Jones, in part: “On Thursday, October 28th, I am delivering what
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Harry S. Truman114 - Harry S. Truman
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Ink signature, “Harry S. Truman, 12–30–59,” on an off-white 4 x 2.25 card. In fine condition.
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Harry S. Truman115 - Harry S. Truman
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Three TLSs to former Secretary of the Treasury John W. Snyder, each one page, 7.25 x 10.5, personal letterhead, dated between 1967 and 1969. Letters t
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Harry S. Truman116 - Harry S. Truman
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TLS, one page, 7.25 x 10.5, personal letterhead, September 9, 1954. Letter to Norman Fox, in full: “Replying to yours of the fourth, I appreciate your
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Harry S. Truman117 - Harry S. Truman
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Signed book: Memoirs: Years of Trial and Hope. NY: Doubleday, 1956. Hardcover with dust jacket, 5.75 x 8.5, 594 pages. Signed and inscribed on the hal
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Dwight D. Eisenhower118 - Dwight D. Eisenhower
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TLS signed “Ike Eisenhower,” one page, 5.75 x 7.75, Columbia University letterhead, October 31, 1950. Letter to Russell Stearns, in full: “My thanks t
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Lyndon B. Johnson119 - Lyndon B. Johnson
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TLS as president, one page, 6.5 x 8.75, White House letterhead, March 23, 1968. Letter to Representative Neal Smith, in full: “I send my warmest congr
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Richard Nixon120 - Richard Nixon
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Official White House envelope bearing a special ‘R. Nixon’ postmark from Berlin on February 27, 1969, 7.25 x 3.75, signed along the bottom in black fe
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