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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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757Claude DebussyRR Auction
Desirable ALS in French, one page, 4.5 x 5.25, personal letterhead, September 1, 1910. Letter to a gentleman in which Debussy indicates that he is onl
Estimate : 800.00 - 1,000.00
758Edvard GriegRR Auction
Important Norwegian composer and pianist (1843–1907) whose works, often with a strong nationalistic flavor, include such repertory staples as the inci
Estimate : 1,200.00 - 1,500.00
759Gustav MahlerRR Auction
Handwritten musical manuscript, unsigned, one page, 10.5 x 13.5, no date but circa 1907. A sketch leaf from Mahler’s adaptation of Carl Maria von Webe
Estimate : 20,000.00 - 30,000.00
760Felix Mendelssohn-BartholdyRR Auction
Fantastic ADS in French, one page, 7.5 x 10, May 26, 1845. Superlative autograph document in which Mendelssohn sells “the property of my Oeuvre 67 (Bo
Estimate : 4,000.00 - 5,000.00
762Niccolo PaganiniRR Auction
ALS in Italian, signed “N. Paganini,” one page both sides, 8.75 x 10.25, July 1, 1828. Letter to a Genoa-born ship owner and merchant Agostino Samengo
Estimate : 10,000.00 - 15,000.00
763Giacomo PucciniRR Auction
Boldly penned ALS in French, one page, 5 x 5.5, June 5, 1898. Letter to “Cher maitre,” identified at the top in pencil as the accomplished composer Ju
Estimate : 2,000.00 - 3,000.00
764Sergei RachmaninoffRR Auction
TLS, one page, 7.5 x 9.5, July 22, 1922. Letter to Berthold Neuer at the Knabe Piano Company. In part: “Even when I am in Europe you have no respite f
Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
765Maurice RavelRR Auction
Rare pearl-finish 5.5 x 7.5 photo of sculptor Leon Leyritz’s Art Deco bust of Ravel, signed and inscribed in fountain pen to a flautist in the Clevela
Estimate : 1,500.00 - 2,000.00
766Maurice RavelRR Auction
Stunning autograph musical manuscript signed “Maurice Ravel,” one page, 10.5 x 13.75, no date. Ravel pens the complete theme of his most famous work,
Estimate : 20,000.00 - 30,000.00
767Arnold SchonbergRR Auction
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
Estimate : 800.00 - 1,200.00