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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Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay387 - Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay
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Semi-glossy 4.5 x 3.5 photo of Tenzing Norgay with his wife, Edmund Hillary, and another gentleman, affixed to a slightly larger cardstock mount, sign
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Edward Augustus Holyoke388 - Edward Augustus Holyoke
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American educator and physician (1728-1829) who contributed pioneering work in the advancement of smallpox vaccinations. ADS, signed "E. A. Hol...
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Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
 
 
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J. Edgar Hoover389 - J. Edgar Hoover
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Group of four TLSs, all on FBI letterhead, dated from 1950–1968, all to Frances H. Mylott. The letters thank her for kind wishes and offer instruction
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Internet Pioneers390 - Internet Pioneers
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Group of four business cards, each 3.5 x 2, signed in ink of felt tip by the respective Internet pioneer, including: Vint Cerf, one of 'the fath...
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Isabella Clara Eugenia391 - Isabella Clara Eugenia
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Sovereign of the Spanish Netherlands in the Low Countries and the north of modern France (1566–1633), together with her husband Albert VII, Archduke o
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Ingvar Kamprad392 - Ingvar Kamprad
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Swedish business magnate (1926–2018) who founded the innovative retail furniture company IKEA. Uncommon 8.5 x 11 laserprint photo of Kamprad posing in
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Robert F. Kennedy393 - Robert F. Kennedy
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Vintage glossy 8 x 10 head-and-shoulders photo of Kennedy in a handsome suit and tie, boldly signed and inscribed in black felt tip, "For Mary ...
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King Edward VIII394 - King Edward VIII
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Souvenir typescript of King Edward VIII's "Instrument of Abdication," signed "Edward, Duke of Windsor," one page, 8.5 x 11, ...
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Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
 
 
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King George VI395 - King George VI
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Two unsigned items related to the funeral of King George VI, whose struggles were immortalized in the Oscar-winning film The King's Speech: a bl...
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King Wilhelm II396 - King Wilhelm II
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Manuscript DS in German, three pages on two adjoining sheets, 8.5 x 14.25, July 16, 1891. Official document concerning Franz Proske of the 2nd Posen I
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