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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J. Pierpont Morgan and Charles L. Tiffany267 - J. Pierpont Morgan and Charles L. Tiffany
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Signed book: Proceedings at the Complimentary Dinner given to Hon. Simeon B. Chittenden, by his Friends, on the Occasion of his Retirement from Busine
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Estimate : 2,000.00 - 3,000.00
 
 
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Gimbels268 - Gimbels
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Lengthy partly-printed DS, signed “Jacob Gimbel,” “Isaac Gimbel,” “Charles Gimbel,” “Daniel Gimbel,” “Ellis A. Gimbel,” “Louis S. Gimbel,” and “Nathan
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Estimate : 6,000.00 - 8,000.00
 
 
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John D. Rockefeller269 - John D. Rockefeller
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Signed book: Forest Hill, September 26, 1905. Limited edition, numbered 175/425. Cleveland: The Vinson and Korner Co., 1905. Hardcover, 7.5 x 10. Nice
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,500.00
 
 
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John D. Rockefeller270 - John D. Rockefeller
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LS, one page, 4.75 x 6.5, Pocantico Hills letterhead, March 29, 1915. Letter to Miss Grimmell, in full: “We deeply appreciate your beautiful tribute t
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Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
 
 
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Henry Wells and William Fargo271 - Henry Wells and William Fargo
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Partly-printed DS, signed “Henry Wells” and “Wm. G. Fargo,” one page, 11.75 x 7.75, February 2, 1865. Certificate for one share of capital stock in th
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Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
 
 
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Isambard Kingdom Brunel273 - Isambard Kingdom Brunel
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English mechanical and civil engineer (1806–1859) considered one of the most important figures of the Industrial Revolution, making wide-ranging contr
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Maximilian Bircher-Benner274 - Maximilian Bircher-Benner
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Swiss physician and pioneer nutritionist (1867–1939). Uncommon 3.25 x 5.25 postcard photo of Bircher-Benner by Fayer of Vienna, signed and inscribed i
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Charles Darwin275 - Charles Darwin
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Hand-addressed mailing envelope, 4.75 x 2.75, addressed by Darwin to “R. Suchsland, 25 Belle Vue St., Swansea, S. Wales.” Postmarked at London, March
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,500.00
 
 
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Thomas Edison276 - Thomas Edison
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Edison Botanical Research Corporation business check, 8.25 x 3, filled out in another hand and signed by Edison with his prominent ‘umbrella’ signatur
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Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
 
 
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Thomas Edison277 - Thomas Edison
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Pencil ‘umbrella’ signature, “Thomas A. Edison,” on an off-white 4.5 x 7 clipped sheet bearing an affixed image of the young inventor. A circular area
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Thomas Edison278 - Thomas Edison
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DS, signed “Thos. A. Edison,” three pages on two sheets, 8.5 x 11, April 27, 1927. Minutes of board meeting of the Edison Storage Battery Company. In
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Thomas Edison279 - Thomas Edison
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Wonderful vintage matte-finish 3.75 x 5.5 portrait of Edison seated in front of a library, affixed to its original 6.5 x 9 Pach Brothers of New York m
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Estimate : 800.00 - 1,200.00
 
 
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Paul Ehrlich280 - Paul Ehrlich
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German scientist and pioneer of chemotherapy (1854–1915) who was co-awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine with Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov in 1908. TLS in Ge
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Estimate : 800.00 - 1,000.00
 
 
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Albert Einstein281 - Albert Einstein
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TLS signed “A. Einstein,” one page, 8.5 x 11, blindstamped personal Princeton letterhead, April 23, 1951. Letter to Mr. Joseph Halle Schaffner. In ful
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Estimate : 2,000.00 - 3,000.00
 
 
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Albert Einstein282 - Albert Einstein
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Ink signature, “A. Einstein,” on an off-white 1.75 x .75 slip clipped from the close of a letter. Matted and framed with a portrait of Einstein to an
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Estimate : 1,500.00 - 2,000.00
 
 
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Albrecht von Haller283 - Albrecht von Haller
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Swiss anatomist, physiologist, and naturalist (1708–1777) considered as ‘the father of modern physiology.’ ALS in German, signed “Haller,” one page bo
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Estimate : 6,000.00 - 8,000.00
 
 
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Robert Koch284 - Robert Koch
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German medical scientist (1843–1910) regarded as the father of bacteriology. He isolated the tuberculosis bacillus and the anthrax virus, and received
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Estimate : 800.00 - 1,200.00
 
 
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Antoine Lavoisier285 - Antoine Lavoisier
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Extremely influential French chemist (1743–1794) noted for his discovery of the role oxygen plays in combustion. ADS in French, signed “Lavoisier,” on
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Estimate : 1,500.00 - 2,000.00
 
 
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Auguste Lumiere286 - Auguste Lumiere
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Inventor of photographic equipment (1862–1954) who, with his brother Louis, patented the cinematograph and produced the first-ever motion picture in 1
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Guglielmo Marconi287 - Guglielmo Marconi
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Handsome vintage 3.5 x 5.5 postcard portrait of the famed Italian physicist, signed along the bottom in ink, “G. Marconi.” Mounted, matted, and framed
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Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
 
 
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