RR Auction: Fine Autographs and Artifacts Featuring The Founding Fathers

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Beginning with a selection of fantastic early American history—the Founding Fathers and Revolutionary War—RR Auction’s July Fine Autograph and Artifact sale boasts over 1,000 lots. Top items include a 1776 autograph letter by General George Washington, a document from rare Declaration signer George Taylor, a book from the personal library of Thomas Jefferson, and a manuscript by John Jay, tracking claims by New York’s Loyalists. An additional special highlight of the auction is an exceedingly rare autograph letter by Protestant Reformer Martin Luther, dated 1543. Other lots of significance are letters by Albert Einstein, Martin Luther King, Jr., Horatio Nelson, Lord Byron, and Barack Obama. 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 July 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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Grover Cleveland265 - Grover Cleveland
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Partly-printed DS as president, one page, 17 x 14, February 2, 1888. President Cleveland appoints Henry P. Markham as "Postmaster at East Hampt...
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Bill Clinton266 - Bill Clinton
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Color satin-finish 14 x 11 photo of Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton standing alongside Civil Rights activist Rosa Parks and First Lady Rosalynn Carter,
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Bill Clinton267 - Bill Clinton
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Signed book: My Life. First edition. NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004. Hardcover with dust jacket, 6.5 x 9.5, 957 pages. Signed on the title page in black fe
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Dwight D. Eisenhower268 - Dwight D. Eisenhower
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TLS as president, one page, 6.75 x 8.75, White House letterhead, October 24, 1956. Letter to Idaho Senator Herman Welker, in full: "I know that...
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Mamie Eisenhower269 - Mamie Eisenhower
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Matte-finish 8 x 10 portrait of the first lady, signed and inscribed in the lower border in fountain pen, "To Robert A. Acchione, With best wis...
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Millard Fillmore270 - Millard Fillmore
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ALS, one page, 4.75 x 7.5, June 2, 1858. Letter to Indiana congressman O. H. Smith, in part: "My wife has the misfortune to hold two bonds give...
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First Ladies271 - First Ladies
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Group of three TLSs by first ladies, dated from 1940 to 1973, including: Grace Coolidge, Mamie Doud Eisenhower, and Pat Nixon. In overall fine conditi
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Gerald Ford272 - Gerald Ford
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Souvenir typescript on an off-white 6.25 x 8.5 sheet of personal letterhead with an embossed presidential eagle, signed in blue felt tip by Ford, &q...
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Gerald Ford273 - Gerald Ford
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Color satin-finish 11 x 13.75 half-length photo of the 38th President of the United States, signed in silver ink, "J. Ford." In fine condi...
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Gerald Ford and Henry Kissinger274 - Gerald Ford and Henry Kissinger
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Original signed ink sketch by cartoonist Ludwig Wronkow showing Ford, Kissinger, and Brezhnev looking at a personified African continent on an off-whi
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