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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Charles Mingus692 - Charles Mingus
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Uncommon glossy 8 x 10 photo of Mingus playing his bass, signed vertically in purple felt tip. In fine condition, with a few light creases to the left
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,500.00
 
 
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Patsy Cline693 - Patsy Cline
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Vintage glossy 8 x 10 Rush Studio portrait of Cline in a dark dress with a polka-dot collar, signed and inscribed in fountain pen to her cousin Earl A
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Estimate : 15,000.00 - 20,000.00
 
 
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Patsy Cline694 - Patsy Cline
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ALS signed “Pat & all,” three pages, 6 x 9, August 30, 1962. Letter to her friend Marie Flynt, in full [grammar and spelling retained]: “Thought...
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Estimate : 1,500.00 - 2,000.00
 
 
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Beatles695 - Beatles
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Vintage glossy 3.5 x 5.5 Star Pics publicity deckle-edge photo of the Beatles wearing matching suits and posing with their instruments, signed on the
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Estimate : 10,000.00 - 15,000.00
 
 
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Beatles: John Lennon696 - Beatles: John Lennon
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Vintage ballpoint signature, "To Denn, love, John Lennon, 77," who adds a wonderful small self-portrait sketch on an off-white 6 x 4 sheet...
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Estimate : 3,000.00 - 3,500.00
 
 
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Beatles: John Lennon697 - Beatles: John Lennon
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Vintage 3.5 x 4.5 paperstock photo removed from a 1963 UK Beatles concert program, depicting John Lennon seated in a chair with his legs crossed, sign
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Estimate : 2,000.00 - 2,500.00
 
 
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Beatles: Paul McCartney698 - Beatles: Paul McCartney
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Vintage circa 1967 program for a performance of Robert Nesbitt’s ‘Wild West End’ at London’s Talk of the Town Theatre and Restaurant, 28 pages, 9 x 11
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Estimate : 1,200.00 - 1,500.00
 
 
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Beatles: Paul McCartney699 - Beatles: Paul McCartney
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Signed book: Blackbird Singing. Limited first American edition, numbered 192/250. NY: W. W. Norton and Company, 2001. Clothbound hardcover with slipca
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Estimate : 800.00 - 1,000.00
 
 
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Beatles: Paul McCartney700 - Beatles: Paul McCartney
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Circa 1963 newspaper photo of Paul McCartney seated and wearing a handsome suit, 4.75 x 5, signed in blue ballpoint. In fine condition. Consignor note
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,500.00
 
 
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Eric Clapton701 - Eric Clapton
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DS, ten pages, 8.25 x 11.75, January 24, 1975. Contract of employment between the Robert Stigwood Organization Limited and Eric Patrick Clapton, in wh
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Estimate : 2,000.00 - 2,500.00
 
 
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The Eagles702 - The Eagles
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Black-bodied Fender Squier Bullet Stratocaster electric guitar with a sunburst finish, signed on the pearloid pickguard in black felt tip by Don Henle
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Estimate : 800.00 - 1,000.00
 
 
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Grateful Dead703 - Grateful Dead
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Wonderful color t-shirt artwork pelon showing a frog perched on a skull with several red roses against a rippling sun background, with large red-and-b
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Estimate : 2,000.00 - 2,500.00
 
 
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Grateful Dead704 - Grateful Dead
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Fantastic glossy 7.75 x 9.75 G. D. Productions publicity photo of the Grateful Dead circa 1986, signed in various colored felt tip by Jerry Garcia, Mi
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Estimate : 4,000.00 - 6,000.00
 
 
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Grateful Dead705 - Grateful Dead
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In the Dark album signed on the inner gatefold in black ballpoint by Billy Kreutzman, in green ink by Mickey Hart, and in black felt tip by Jerry Garc
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Estimate : 1,200.00 - 1,500.00
 
 
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Grateful Dead706 - Grateful Dead
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Signed book: Grateful Dead Comix. Limited first edition, numbered 114/500. NY: Hyperion/Kitchen Sink Press, 1992. Hardcover with slipcase, 9 x 11.5, 1
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Estimate : 800.00 - 1,000.00
 
 
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Buddy Holly707 - Buddy Holly
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Original unsigned hardcover 1954 Westerner yearbook from Buddy Holly’s junior year at Lubbock High School in Lubbock, Texas, 8.25 x 10.75, 324 pages.
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers708 - Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers
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Vintage glossy 8 x 10.25 Gee Records publicity photo of Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers by James J. Kriegsmann of New York, signed and inscribed on th
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Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
 
 
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Rolling Stones709 - Rolling Stones
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Vintage ballpoint signatures of the Rolling Stones on a pair of 4.5 x 3 album pages, with a pink album page signed “Love, Keith Richard, xxxx” and “Mi
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Estimate : 2,500.00 - 3,000.00
 
 
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Rolling Stones: Mick Jagger710 - Rolling Stones: Mick Jagger
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Red-bodied Barcelona acoustic guitar with stickers of Mick Jagger singing and gold letters spelling out, "I Can't Get No Satisfaction,"...
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Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
 
 
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Rolling Stones711 - Rolling Stones
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Program for “The Sensational Rolling Stones” presented by Robert Stigwood Associates in 1964, ten pages, 8.75 x 11, signed inside in blue ballpoint by
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Estimate : 2,500.00 - 3,500.00
 
 
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