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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Helen Keller185 - Helen Keller
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AQS in pencil on an off-white 5.75 x 5.75 sheet, in full: “When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in t
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Estimate : 800.00 - 1,200.00
 
 
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Martin Luther King, Jr186 - Martin Luther King, Jr
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TLS, one page, 8.5 x 11, Southern Christian Leadership Conference letterhead, September 1, 1964. Letter to Viola Hilpert in West Berlin. In full: “I a
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Estimate : 4,000.00 - 5,000.00
 
 
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Martin Luther King, Jr187 - Martin Luther King, Jr
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Signed book: Strength to Love. First edition. NY: Harper & Row, 1963. Hardcover with dust jacket, 6 x 8.5, 146 pages. Nicely signed on the first...
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Estimate : 2,000.00 - 3,000.00
 
 
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Martin Luther King, Jr188 - Martin Luther King, Jr
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Highly important autograph manuscript, in pencil, unsigned, one page, 8.5 x 11, Montgomery Improvement Association, Inc. letterhead, no date but circa
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Estimate : 6,000.00 - 8,000.00
 
 
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Gerrit Smith189 - Gerrit Smith
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Staunch abolitionist (1797–1874) known to have financially supported John Brown's raid at Harpers Ferry. ALS, one page, 8 x 12.25, October 29, 1...
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Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
 
 
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Burger Court190 - Burger Court
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Impressive color matte-finish 14 x 10.5 photograph of the justices, affixed to a 14.5 x 13 mount, signed on the mount in various inks by all nine, inc
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Estimate : 800.00 - 1,200.00
 
 
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John Marshall191 - John Marshall
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ALS signed “J. Marshall,” one page both sides, 6.25 x 8, November 20, 1821. Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Marshall writes on the fate of two mism
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Estimate : 3,000.00 - 4,000.00
 
 
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William F. ‘Buffalo Bill’ Cody192 - William F. ‘Buffalo Bill’ Cody
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AQS on an off-white 4.25 x 2 card, signed at the conclusion in ink, “W. F. Cody, ‘Buffalo Bill.’” Cody pens a classic Wild West motto: “True to friend
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Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
 
 
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William F. ‘Buffalo Bill’ Cody193 - William F. ‘Buffalo Bill’ Cody
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Crystal-clear 4.25 x 6.5 unsigned cabinet photo of Cody wearing a finely embroidered floral-pattern shirt and staring directly into the camera, bearin
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Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
 
 
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William F. ‘Buffalo Bill’ Cody194 - William F. ‘Buffalo Bill’ Cody
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Ink signature, “Compliments of W. F. Cody, Buffalo Bill, 1889,” on a brown 4.5 x 2.5 slip. Double-matted and framed with a large color portrait to an
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Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
 
 
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William F. ‘Buffalo Bill’ Cody195 - William F. ‘Buffalo Bill’ Cody
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ALS signed “W. C. Cody,” one page both sides, 8.5 x 11, Chicago Shan-Kive and Round-Up letterhead, September 18, 1916. Letter to his attorney Henry He
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,500.00
 
 
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Joseph Cosey: Benjamin Franklin196 - Joseph Cosey: Benjamin Franklin
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American forger (1887-1950?) who forged letters from American luminaries. Joseph Cosey forgery of a document signed by Benjamin Franklin, one page,12.
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Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
 
 
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Joseph Cosey: George Washington197 - Joseph Cosey: George Washington
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American forger (1887-1950?) who forged letters from American luminaries. Joseph Cosey forgery of an ADS by George Washington, one page, 6 x 2, Februa
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Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
 
 
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Joseph Cosey: Abraham Lincoln198 - Joseph Cosey: Abraham Lincoln
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American forger (1887-1950?) who forged letters from American luminaries. Joseph Cosey forgery of an ALS by Abraham Lincoln, one page, 8.5 x 3.5, Dece
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William Dudley Pelley and the Silver Legion199 - William Dudley Pelley and the Silver Legion
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Small archive of five letters concerning William Dudley Pelley, a fascist agitator who founded the far-right Silver Legion in the 1930s, consisting of
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,500.00
 
 
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Lee Harvey Oswald200 - Lee Harvey Oswald
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ALS signed “Your Brother, Lee,” two pages on two adjoining sheets, 5.5 x 8, April 12, [1962]. Letter to his brother Robert Oswald, written during his
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Estimate : 8,000.00 - 10,000.00
 
 
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Andrew Carnegie and James J. Hill201 - Andrew Carnegie and James J. Hill
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Outstanding assemblage of eight bold ink signatures on an off-white 6.75 x 8.5 album page, most dated May 14, 1908, including: steel industrialist And
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Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
 
 
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Howard Hughes, Sr202 - Howard Hughes, Sr
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American businessman (1869–1924) who made his fortune by developing drill bits during the Texas Oil Boom, though best known as the father of Howard Hu
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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John D. Rockefeller203 - John D. Rockefeller
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TLS signed “John D. Rockefeller, Jr.,” one page, 8.5 x 11, United War Work Campaign letterhead, October 15, 1918. Letter to New York Supreme Court Jud
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Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
 
 
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John D. Rockefeller204 - John D. Rockefeller
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DS, one page, 8 x 13, October 20, 1900. An unusual legal document headed, “In the matter of the Requisition by Hon Jos. D. Sayers, Governor of the Sta
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,500.00
 
 
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