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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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Enola Gay: Tibbets and Sweeney457Enola 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...
Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
Enola Gay: Paul Tibbets458Enola Gay: Paul Tibbets
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Four items: a glossy 8 x 10 photo of the Hiroshima mushroom cloud, signed in blue felt tip, “Paul W. Tibbets, 11-29-89”; an FDC bearing a cachet honor
Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
Thomas Foley459Thomas Foley
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Royal Navy officer (1757-1833) known for his leadership during the French Revolutionary Wars, especially for his victory at the Battle of the Nile. Ma
Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
Frazier Patent Cartridge Box460Frazier Patent Cartridge Box
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A Frazier Patent, .45-70 cartridge box with blank brass oval plate on the cover flap and a partially legible New York maker marking on the inside fron
Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
Hagner No. 2 Cartridge Box (Converted to .45 Caliber)461Hagner No. 2 Cartridge Box (Converted to .45 Caliber)
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A Hagner Patent, .50-70 cartridge box with blank brass oval plate on the cover flap. The box was converted to hold .45-70 cartridges at some point by
Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
Winfield Scott Hancock462Winfield Scott Hancock
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LS signed “Winf'd S. Hancock,” two pages on two adjoining sheets, 5.5 x 8.5, July 14, 1882. Written from Governors Island, a letter to Virgie We...
Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
New York State Militia Cartridge Box463New York State Militia Cartridge Box
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A Frazier Patent, .45-70 cartridge box with die-struck “NYNG” (New York National Guard) oval plate on the cover flap and McKenney & Co., New Yor...
Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
Pennsylvania National Guard McKeever Pattern .30 Caliber Cartridge Box464Pennsylvania National Guard McKeever Pattern .30 Caliber Cartridge Box
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A brown leather “NGP” embossed McKeever box that has canvas loops for holding 24 cartridges (.30-40 Krag), with an embossed “Wm. H. Wilson, Maker, Phi
Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
William Sims465William Sims
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Admiral in the US Navy (1858–1936) who helped to modernize the American fleet, and commanded all US naval forces operating in Europe during World War
Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
Adam J. Slemmer466Adam J. Slemmer
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US Army officer (1828–1868) who participated in the Seminole Wars and Civil War, remembered as a hero for defending Fort Pickens from Confederate atta
Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00