RR Auction: Fine Autographs and Artifacts Featuring Art and Animation

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RR Auction's first Fine Autograph and Artifact sale of 2019 features nearly 1,000 rare and remarkable lots, with a special focus on Art and Animation. Highlights from traditional artists include sketches by Paul Cezanne and Pablo Picasso, an oversized screen print by Andy Warhol, and a letter by Claude Monet, while the animation section features extraordinary original production artwork from Disney classics like Pinocchio, Peter Pan, Lady and the Tramp, Fantasia, and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Other top items include a magnificent signed portrait of Albert Einstein, a Civil War draft order signed by President Abraham Lincoln, a presentation copy of Walt Whitman's works, and a variety of other important historical autographs from across the ages. 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 January 2019.
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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Giacomo Puccini519Giacomo Puccini
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Desirable AMQS on an off-white 7.25 x 5 integral leaf of Excelsior Palace Hotel stationery, signed and inscribed in the lower border, "Alla fra...
Estimate : 2,000.00 - 3,000.00
Giacomo Puccini520Giacomo Puccini
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ALS in Italian, signed “G. Puccini,” three pages on two adjoining sheets, 5 x 8, Savoy Hotel letterhead, May 18, 1894. Untranslated letter to Armanno
Estimate : 800.00 - 1,000.00
Giacomo Puccini521Giacomo Puccini
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Italian composer (1858–1924) who earned a central place in the operatic pantheon with such repertoire staples as ‘La boheme,’ ‘Madama Butterfly,’ and
Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,500.00
Sergei Rachmaninoff522Sergei Rachmaninoff
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Vintage glossy 7.25 x 9.5 photo of the virtuoso seated and playing the piano in a half-length profile pose by New York photographer Herman Mishkin, si
Estimate : 1,000.00 - 2,000.00
Dimitri Shostakovich523Dimitri Shostakovich
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Russian composer and pianist (1906–1975) who is regarded as one of the major composers of the 20th century. Vintage glossy 3.25 x 5.25 postcard photo
Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,500.00
Igor Stravinsky524Igor Stravinsky
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Boldly penned AMQS on an off-white 4 x 2.25 card, signed and inscribed in ink, "To Frank M. Flack, sincerely, Igor Stravinsky, Hollywood, 1944....
Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
Richard Wagner525Richard Wagner
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ALS in German, one page, 5.25 x 8.5, October 23, no year. Untranslated letter to "Herr Fritzsche," presumably his publisher, to whom he re...
Estimate : 2,000.00 - 2,500.00
Art Blakey526Art Blakey
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Influential American jazz drummer and bandleader (1919-1990) who pioneered the bebop style. Over the years he worked with Fletcher Henderson and Billy
Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
Blues Legends527Blues Legends
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Vintage UK program booklet for the American Folk Blues Festival of 1965, 48 pages, 11 x 10, signed inside in ballpoint by 10 musicians, with some addi
Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,500.00
Blues Legends528Blues Legends
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Vintage UK program booklet for the American Folk Blues Festival of 1964, seven pages, 8 x 7, signed inside in black ballpoint by five musicians: Willi
Estimate : 800.00 - 1,000.00