Auction Details
RR Auction’s May Fine Autographs & Artifacts sale features more than 850 rare and remarkable lots, with highlights to include an extremely rare signature of Declaration signer Thomas Lynch, Jr., a post-Beatles check signed by Lennon and McCartney, a Winston Churchill publishing archive, autographs of rare Cuban revolutionaries, and a scarce document from King Henry VIII. RR Auction is a globally recognized and trusted auction house specializing in historical autographs and artifacts. Join us as we make history selling history in May 2017.
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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297Charles SumnerRR Auction
Excellent ALS, three pages on two adjoining sheets, 7 x 8.75, May 5, 1844. Letter to Theodore Sedgwick, in part: "I have delayed too long my re...
Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
298Margaret ThatcherRR Auction
Signed book: Statecraft. Collector's edition. Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, 2002. Leatherbound hardcover, 6.25 x 9.5, 486 pages. Signed on the colo...
Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
299Andrei VyshinskyRR Auction
Soviet politician, jurist, and diplomat (1883–1954) known as a state prosecutor in Joseph Stalin's Moscow trials and in the Nuremberg trials. DS...
Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
300Chaim WeizmannRR Auction
TLS in Hebrew, one page, 8 x 10, Daniel Sieff Research Institute letterhead, January 13, 1938. Letter to Dr. J. Hirshberg, in full (translated): &qu...
Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
301Duke of WellingtonRR Auction
ALS signed “Wellington,” one page, 4.5 x 7, December 15, 1832. Letter to W. Knocker, thanking him for a collar of brawn and regretting that he does no
Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
302Simon WiesenthalRR Auction
TLS, one page, 8.25 x 11.75, Dokumentationszentrum letterhead, May 8, 1983. Letter to someone interested in his work, in part: "I wish to thank...
Estimate : 500.00 - 700.00
303Oliver Wolcott, JrRR Auction
ALS signed “Oliv. Wolcott,” one page, 7.25 x 9, February 26, 1801. Letter to noted early American painter Gilbert Stuart. In part: "On applying...
Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
304Charles CornwallisRR Auction
English general (1738–1805) who fought against Washington during the American Revolution and was finally defeated at Yorktown. ALS signed “Cornwallis,
Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,500.00
305Thomas GageRR Auction
British general (1719–1787) who was commander in chief of the North American forces from 1763 to 1775. LS signed “Tho. Gage,” one page, 7.25 x 8.75, J
Estimate : 800.00 - 1,000.00
306Samuel GrayRR Auction
Rare manuscript DS, signed “Saml Gray,” one page, 7.25 x 3, July 30, 1765. Receipt issued to Thomas Fayerweather for £20 worth of cordage and y...
Estimate : 1,000.00 - 2,000.00