RR Auction: Fine Autographs and Artifacts Featuring Military

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With over 850 lots, RR Auction’s March Fine Autograph and Artifact sale offers a wide variety of material for history buffs, music lovers, sports fans, movie mavens, and more! Our highlighted military section ranges from European conflicts of the 17th century through World War II, and features everything from autographs to weapons and uniforms. Art and literature also take a leading role, with autograph letters from the likes of Monet, Matisse, Lautrec, Hemingway, Faulkner, Dickens, and Tolstoy. Marvels of classical music include a Haydn contract, Liszt letter, and Verdi note, while Gershwin, Guthrie, and Lennon round out our modern selection. 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 March 2018.
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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Harry S. Truman232 - Harry S. Truman
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Unusual DS as president, one page, 6.75 x 8.75, White House letterhead, December 21, 1950. Official typed authorization document, in full: "I h...
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Quantity : 1 | Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
 
 
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Dwight D. Eisenhower233 - Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Handwritten draft as president for a speech given during his 1956 reelection campaign, penned on the reverse of a confidential memo sent to him by Emm
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Jacqueline Kennedy234 - Jacqueline Kennedy
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ALS signed “Jackie,” seven pages, 5 x 7.75, May 7, 1950. A lengthy letter to her mother, written while in France attending the University of Grenoble
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Jacqueline Kennedy235 - Jacqueline Kennedy
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Unsigned handwritten letter, one page, 5 x 8, no date, but circa November 1962. Letter to Kennedy secretary Evelyn Lincoln, in full: "Will you ...
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Jacqueline Kennedy236 - Jacqueline Kennedy
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ALS signed “Jackie,” one page both sides, 6.5 x 8.5, personal letterhead, postmarked February 8, 1960. Letter to Barbara Scannell, Joseph P. Kennedy’s
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Jacqueline Kennedy237 - Jacqueline Kennedy
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Personal check, 8.25 x 3, filled out in type and signed by Kennedy, "Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis," payable to Sophie Koslow for $25, Decemb...
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John F. Kennedy238 - John F. Kennedy
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Rectangular piece of clear plexiglass, 7.75 x 6 x 0.25, featuring a bullet hole in the right side, with notations reading, "Front Side. 1-1-85....
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John F. Kennedy239 - John F. Kennedy
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Scarce partly-printed DS as president, one page, 19.75 x 16, October 27, 1961. President Kennedy appoints Raymond H. Dwigans of Texas as "Colle...
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John F. Kennedy240 - John F. Kennedy
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Early signed book: As We Remember Joe. Privately printed. Cambridge, Massachusetts: University Press, 1945. Hardcover with very rare original mylar ja
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Quantity : 1 | Estimate : 14,000.00 - 16,000.00
 
 
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Lyndon B. Johnson241 - Lyndon B. Johnson
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TLS, one page, 6.25 x 8.5, personal letterhead, January 28, 1969. Letter to former Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara, in full: "I have ha...
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Lyndon B. Johnson242 - Lyndon B. Johnson
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Terrific 10.75 x 14 original ink portrait sketch of Lyndon B. Johnson by artist Nanton Romney, signed and inscribed in black ink, "To Charles T...
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Richard Nixon243 - Richard Nixon
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TLS as president, signed "RN," one page, 7 x 10.25, White House letterhead, March 27, 1969. Letter to publisher James C. Copley, in part: ...
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Ronald Reagan244 - Ronald Reagan
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Rare partly-printed DS as president, one page, 22.5 x 18.5, February 3, 1985. President Reagan appoints Christopher Hicks of Texas as "Deputy A...
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Ronald Reagan245 - Ronald Reagan
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TLS as president signed “Ron,” one page, 7 x 10.5, White House letterhead, June 9, 1981. Letter to Charles J. Broska of the Shoreline Retirement Assoc
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George Bush247 - George Bush
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ALS, one page both sides, 6.25 x 4.5, personal letterhead, September 23, 1979. Letter to Ron Wade, in full: "The first President I met was Dwig...
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Bill Clinton248 - Bill Clinton
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TLS as president signed “Bill,” one page, 6.75 x 8.75, White House letterhead, October 15, 1998. Letter to Reverend Stan Easty, a close friend and spi
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Bill Clinton249 - Bill Clinton
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TLS, one page, 8.5 x 11, State of Arkansas letterhead, July 12, 1989. Clinton thanks a supporter and comments on flag burning. In part: “Thank you for
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George W. Bush250 - George W. Bush
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Boldly signed TLS as president, one page, 6.75 x 8.75, embossed White House letterhead, October 28, 2005. Letter to Barbara Kalbaugh, in full: "...
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James Buchanan253 - James Buchanan
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Free-franked mailing envelope as president, 5 x 2.75, addressed in Buchanan's hand to "William Nicholson Esquire, Erie, Pennsylvania,"...
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Quantity : 1 | Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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George Bush254 - George Bush
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TLS as president, one page, 6.75 x 8.75, White House letterhead, December 8, 1992. Letter to Richard J. Cross III, in full: "Thank you for send...
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