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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John Hancock103 - John Hancock
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Partly-printed ADS, signed within the text, "John Hancock," one page, 9 x 4.25, December 16, 1771. A bill of lading filled out by Hancock,...
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Estimate : 1,200.00 - 1,500.00
 
 
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Benjamin Rush104 - Benjamin Rush
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Signer of the Declaration of Independence and surgeon general of the Continental Army (1746–1813). ADS, signed "Benj. Rush," one page, 6.2...
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Estimate : 2,200.00 - 2,500.00
 
 
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Alexander Hamilton105 - Alexander Hamilton
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LS signed “A. Hamilton,” one page, 7.25 x 9, April 29, 1790. Letter to O. H. Williams, collector for the port of Baltimore. In full: "I have re...
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Estimate : 7,000.00 - 9,000.00
 
 
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Andrew Hamilton106 - Andrew Hamilton
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Prominent lawyer in colonial Philadelphia (1676–1741) remembered for his victory on behalf of the printer and newspaper publisher John Peter Zenger in
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Estimate : 1,800.00 - 2,200.00
 
 
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Kurt Eisner107 - Kurt Eisner
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Jewish journalist, theatre critic, and radical leader (1867–1919) who was assassinated shortly after overthrowing the Wittelsbach monarchy in Bavaria.
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Estimate : 1,500.00 - 2,500.00
 
 
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Malcolm X108 - Malcolm X
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Rare ALS signed "Malcolm X," one page on a color 5.5 x 3.5 postcard depicting New York City, postmarked October 22, 1958. Letter to Gloria...
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Estimate : 5,000.00 - 7,000.00
 
 
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Nelson Mandela109 - Nelson Mandela
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DS, signed “N. Mandela,” one page, 11.5 x 16.5, March 20, 1997. Certificate issued by the Friends of Robben Island, in full: “Presented to Ivan May on
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Estimate : 500.00 - 700.00
 
 
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John Jay110 - John Jay
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ALS, three pages on two adjoining sheets, 7.25 x 8.5, December 5, 1794. Loving letter to his wife Sally, written while abroad in London after negotiat
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Estimate : 3,000.00 - 4,000.00
 
 
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Alexander Graham Bell111 - Alexander Graham Bell
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Superb matte-finish 6.25 x 9.25 portrait of Bell taken circa 1910 by renowned photography studio Harris & Ewing, affixed to a 6.5 x 9.5 mount, n...
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Estimate : 3,000.00 - 3,500.00
 
 
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Niels Bohr112 - Niels Bohr
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Danish physicist (1885–1962) who was awarded the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physics for his theory of atomic structure. Niels Bohr's academic cap worn ...
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Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
 
 
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Albert Einstein113 - Albert Einstein
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TLS in German, signed “A. Einstein,” two pages, 8.5 x 11, blindstamped Princeton letterhead, December 17, 1953. Remarkable letter to Max Fishler, in p
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Estimate : 35,000.00 - 45,000.00
 
 
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Arthur Eddington114 - Arthur Eddington
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British astrophysicist (1882–1944) famous for his work regarding the theory of relativity. Scarce ALS signed “A. S. Eddington,” one page, 4.5 x 6.75,
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Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
 
 
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Thomas Edison115 - Thomas Edison
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Handsome matte-finish 7 x 9.25 half-length portrait of Edison by Falk of New York, affixed to its original studio mount, signed on the mount in founta
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Estimate : 1,300.00 - 1,500.00
 
 
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Michael Faraday117 - Michael Faraday
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British physicist and chemist (1791–1867) best known for his development of the first dynamo and the discovery of electromagnetic induction. ALS signe
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Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
 
 
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Enrico Fermi118 - Enrico Fermi
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Physicist (1901–1954) who became the first to split the atom and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1938 for his developments in harnessing nu
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Estimate : 2,000.00 - 2,500.00
 
 
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Alexander Fleming119 - Alexander Fleming
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ALS, one page, 5.25 x 7, Connemara Hotel letterhead, February 26, 1953. In part: "I have no objection to your adding my signature to the glass ...
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Estimate : 800.00 - 1,200.00
 
 
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Werner Heisenberg120 - Werner Heisenberg
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German theoretical physicist (1901–1976) awarded the 1932 Nobel Prize in physics for the creation of quantum mechanics. Uncommon matte-finish 4.25 x 6
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Estimate : 800.00 - 1,000.00
 
 
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Fritz Haber121 - Fritz Haber
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Chemist (1868–1934) who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1918 for his invention of the Haber–Bosch process, a method used to synthesize ammoni
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Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
 
 
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Edward Jenner122 - Edward Jenner
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English physician and scientist (1749–1823) often called the ‘father of immunology,’ who successfully tested his smallpox inoculation in 1796. ALS sig
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Estimate : 2,500.00 - 3,500.00
 
 
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Antione Lavoisier and Marquis de Condorcet123 - Antione Lavoisier and Marquis de Condorcet
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LS in French, one page, 6.75 x 10.75, July 7, 1792. Letter from the "Commissioners of the National Treasury," in part (translated): "...
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,500.00
 
 
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