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. Truman65 - Harry S. Truman
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TLS, one page, 7 x 8.75, White House letterhead, May 12, 1945. Letter to Martin A. Lewis, in full, “Your kind message regarding my Proclamation is ind
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Estimate : 2,000.00 - 2,500.00
 
 
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World War II: Geoffrey Keyes66 - World War II: Geoffrey Keyes
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Large hand-colored and annotated map of western Germany, 22 x 29, dated June 4, 1945, from the collection of General Geoffrey Keyes. The map is entitl
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Estimate : 5,000.00 - 6,000.00
 
 
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Enola Gay67 - Enola Gay
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Semi-glossy 10 x 8 cardstock photo of three members of the Hiroshima mission, each signing in blue felt tip, “Theodore J. Van Kirk, Navigator,” “Paul
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Enola Gay: Morris Jeppson68 - Enola Gay: Morris Jeppson
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Stirring semi-glossy 8.5 x 11 paperstock photo of Hiroshima in the wake of the 'Little Boy' atomic bomb explosion, signed in blue ink, "...
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Estimate : 500.00 - 700.00
 
 
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Enola Gay: Dutch Van Kirk69 - Enola Gay: Dutch Van Kirk
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ALS, signed "Theodore J. Van Kirk, Navigator—Enola Gay, 6 Aug 1945," two notebook pages, 8 x 10.5, no date. Letter written in a question-a...
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Estimate : 500.00 - 700.00
 
 
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Enola Gay: Dutch Van Kirk70 - Enola Gay: Dutch Van Kirk
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TLS signed “Theodore J. 'Dutch' Van Kirk,” one page, 8.5 x 11, personal letterhead, no date. In part: "I was selected as the navigator ...
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Enola Gay71 - Enola Gay
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Copy of the blueprints for ‘Little Boy,’ the atomic bomb dropped over Hiroshima, 24 x 18. Van Kirk adds handwritten notations explaining the main diff
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Estimate : 800.00 - 1,000.00
 
 
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Enola Gay: Tibbets and Sweeney72 - Enola Gay: Tibbets and Sweeney
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Glossy 8 x 10 photo of Enola Gay pilot Paul Tibbets and Bockscar pilot Charles Sweeney shaking hands just before Sweeney's flight to Nagasaki, s...
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Nagasaki/Osaka Original 1945 Photo Album73 - Nagasaki/Osaka Original 1945 Photo Album
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Historically significant collection of photographs compiled in Japan by an American MP in the aftermath of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in W
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Estimate : 1,500.00 - 2,000.00
 
 
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Nagasaki Original Photograph of Casualties by Yosuke Yamahata74 - Nagasaki Original Photograph of Casualties by Yosuke Yamahata
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Original vintage glossy 4 x 5.5 photograph of burned casualties lying in the rubble at Nagasaki, taken by Yosuke Yamahata, a Japanese military photogr
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,200.00
 
 
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