RR Auction: Fine Autographs & Artifacts

Choice AMQS on an off-white 4 x 4.5 clipped slip. Puccini pens two bars of music from ‘La Fanciulla del West,’ writing the title above the quote, and

LS in French, signed “Paganini,” one page, 5.25 x 8, April 1, 1833. Letter to notable French author Prosper Merimee. In full (translated): "I a...

Unsigned handbill for a performance by Paganini at King’s Theatre in London on August 5, 1831, one page, 5 x 8.75, headed: “Signor Paganini’s Concert!

TLS, one page, 8.5 x 11, personal letterhead, November 24, 1922. Letter to Berthold Neuer, in full: “I am writing to tell you that your ‘Business’ in

Sought-after 4 x 6.5 cardstock photo of Rachmaninoff seated at his piano, signed in the lower border in fountain pen. In very good condition, with hea

AMQS on an off-white 5.5 x 3.75 card, signed in fountain pen, “Sergei Rachmaninoff, 1937.” Below his signature, Rachmaninoff pens a single chord. A mi

Important Italian composer (1792–1868) who became one of the seminal figures in the history of opera with such repertoire staples as The Barber of Sev

ALS in Cyrillic, signed “Tchaikovsky,” one page, 4.5 x 7, November 9, [1892]. Letter to Katerina Ivanovna Laroche. In full (translated): "I hav...

Soviet composer (1906–1975) whose fifteen symphonies occupy a place of central performance in the orchestral literature of the twentieth century. Untr

Hand-addressed mailing envelope, 4.5 x 3.5, addressed by Verdi to a fellow composer, “Monseiur Victorin de Joncieres, Rue Castiglione, N. 10, Paris.”