RR Auction: Fine Autographs & Artifacts

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RR Auction is a globally recognized and trusted auction house specializing in rare and remarkable documents, manuscripts, autographs, and historical artifacts. Among the highlights of this month’s sale are a special autograph sheet from Abraham Lincoln and his ‘Team of Rivals’ cabinet, a handwritten letter by the heroic Oskar Schindler, a massive signed photo of Charles Dickens, and a silver medal from the 1932 Los Angeles Summer Olympics. Join us as we prepare to make history selling history in September 2016.
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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Thornton Wilder523 - Thornton Wilder
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ALS, one page both sides, 6 x 7, personal letterhead, December 24, 1927. Letter to author Naomi Mitchison, in part: “Your letter made me very proud an
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Tennessee Williams524 - Tennessee Williams
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Four personal checks, each 8.5 x 3.5, filled out in type and signed by Williams, stamp-dated between April and September, 1978. In overall fine condit
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Antonio Salieri525 - Antonio Salieri
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Venetian composer and conductor (1750–1825) who, as the Austrian imperial Kapellmeister from 1788 to 1824, was one of the most important and famous mu
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Estimate : 6,000.00 - 8,000.00
 
 
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Leonard Bernstein526 - Leonard Bernstein
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Glossy 8 x 10.25 photo of Bernstein in near profile, signed and inscribed in blue ballpoint, “Every good wish to Hugh Pickett, Leonard Bernstein, 67.”
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Maria Callas527 - Maria Callas
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Vintage glossy 7 x 9.25 photo, signed and inscribed in fountain pen, “To dear little Dawn Marie Slawter, with best wishes, Maria Meneghini Callas 1958
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Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
 
 
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Maria Callas528 - Maria Callas
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Vintage glossy 8 x 10 photo of Callas posing in her dressing room, signed in blue ink, “Cordialmente, Maria Meneghini Callas, 1954.” In good to very g
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Pablo Casals529 - Pablo Casals
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Semi-glossy 4.25 x 5.25 cardstock photo of Casals in profile playing the cello, signed in the lower border in black felt tip. In fine condition.
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Classical Music530 - Classical Music
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Desirable collection of four ink signatures on individual off-white 5 x 3 cards, including: Arturo Toscanini, Yehudi Menuhin, Vladimir Horowitz, and F
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Edward Elgar531 - Edward Elgar
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Fountain pen signature, “Ed’d Elgar,” on an off-white 4.5 x 2.75 slip clipped from the close of a letter. In fine condition. Accompanied by an unsigne
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Jascha Heifetz532 - Jascha Heifetz
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Vintage glossy 7.25 x 9.25 photo of Heifetz posing with his violin, signed in white ink, “Sincerely—Jascha Heifetz, 1941.” In fine condition, with uni
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Engelbert Humperdinck533 - Engelbert Humperdinck
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German Romantic composer (1854–1921) best known for the opera Hansel und Gretel. Four ALSs in German, signed “E. Humperdinck,” totaling eight pages on
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Franz Lehar534 - Franz Lehar
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AMQS on an off-white 1.75 x 5.25 promotional card bearing a small image of Franz Lehar, signed and inscribed below in black ink, “To Mrs. Irene Hyde,
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Franz Lehar535 - Franz Lehar
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Three ALSs in German, totaling five pages on three sheets, two dated 1915 and one undated. Lehar relates the results of discussions in Vienna concerni
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Pietro Mascagni536 - Pietro Mascagni
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Italian composer (1863–1945) whose 1890 masterpiece ‘Cavalleria rusticana’ takes a place among the most beloved staples of the operatic repertoire. Ha
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Giacomo Puccini537 - Giacomo Puccini
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Vintage 3.5 x 4.75 postcard photo of the composer in a head-and-shoulders pose, vertically signed in black ink, “Giacomo Puccini, N.Y. 910.” In fine c
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Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
 
 
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Ignaz Moscheles538 - Ignaz Moscheles
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Bohemian composer and piano virtuoso (1794–1870), whose career after his early years was based initially in London, and later at Leipzig, where he suc
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John Philip Sousa539 - John Philip Sousa
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AMQS on an off-white 3.5 x 2.25 sheet, signed at the conclusion in black ink, “John Philip Sousa, Jan 1902.” Sousa pens three bars of music, adding be
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Paul Wittgenstein and Manuel Quiroga540 - Paul Wittgenstein and Manuel Quiroga
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Fountain pen signatures of pianist Paul Wittgenstein and violinist Manuel Quiroga on an off-white 6.25 x 5.25 album page, also signed on the reverse b
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George Gershwin541 - George Gershwin
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Scarce and highly desirable cover and title page for sheet music to Porgy and Bess, measuring 17 x 11.75 open, signed below his frontispiece image in
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Estimate : 2,500.00 - 3,500.00
 
 
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Patsy Cline542 - Patsy Cline
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ALS signed “Patsy, Julie & Charlie,” three pages, 8 x 10, December 5, 1960. Written from Nashville, Tennessee, a letter to friends Marie and Pat...
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Estimate : 1,400.00 - 1,600.00
 
 
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