RR Auction: Fine Autographs & Artifacts

American clockmaker (1785–1859). Ink signature, “Seth Thomas,” on the reverse of a 4.5 x 3 Rockhill & Wilson advertising card. A vertical bend t...

English mathematician and astronomer (1801–1892) who established Greenwich as the location of the prime meridian. ALS signed “G. B. Airy,” one page bo

Influential French physicist (1775–1836) who pioneered the discovery and understanding of electromagnetism; a unit of electric current was named in hi

Color postcard depicting the Potomac Park in Washington, D.C., 5.5 x 3.5, signed in fountain pen, “Alexander Graham Bell.” Collector’s notation on the

TLS in Danish, one page, 5.75 x 8.25, Carlsberg letterhead, September 25, 1962. Letter to Kay Holkenfeldt declining to write a tribute of the Danish a

Noted Scottish surgeon and physiologist (1774–1842) who described such disorders as Bell’s palsy and who wrote prolifically on human anatomy and neuro

LS signed “Ch. Darwin,” five pages on three sheets, 5 x 8, personal letterhead, April 4, 1866. Letter to Rudolf Suchsland, the son of German publisher

ALS signed with his prominent ‘umbrella’ signature, “Thomas A. Edison,” one page, 5 x 8, October 26, 1881. Letter to Edward W. Bok, in full: “I take p

Partly-printed DS, signed “Thos. A. Edison,” one page, 8 x 3.5, February 19, 1917. Promissory note in which Edison promises to pay “to the order of Ni

Partly-printed DS, signed “Thos. A. Edison,” one page, 15 x 8, August 19, 1899. Stock certificate issued to Edison for one hundred shares of capital s