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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James Fenimore Cooper651 - James Fenimore Cooper
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Two Otsego County Bank checks, 5.75 x 2.25, filled out and signed by Cooper, "J. Fenimore Cooper," both payable to self: one for $20, date...
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Noel Coward652 - Noel Coward
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ALS, one page, 5.25 x 7, Ebury Street letterhead, no date. Letter to English stage and film actor Cedric Hardwicke, in full: "I did get your li...
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Rudolf Eucken653 - Rudolf Eucken
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German philosopher (1846–1926) and the recipient of the 1908 Nobel Prize for Literature. Uncommon 3.5 x 5.5 postcard photo of Professor Eucken, signed
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Fables with Fore-Edge Painting654 - Fables with Fore-Edge Painting
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Desirable book with vivid fore-edge painting: Fables: Consisting of Select Parts from Dante, Berni, Chaucer and Aristoto, Initiated in English Heroic
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Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
 
 
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Robert Frost655 - Robert Frost
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Signed book: A Masque of Mercy. Limited edition, numbered 496/751. NY: Henry Holt, 1947. Hardcover with slipcase, 7.25 x 10, 46 pages. Neatly signed o
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Oliver Wendell Holmes and William Cullen Bryant656 - Oliver Wendell Holmes and William Cullen Bryant
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Desirable pairing of ink signatures from New England's great 'Fireside Poets,' "Yours very truly, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Boston, Oc...
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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr657 - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr
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ALS signed “Oliver Wendell Holmes,” one black-bordered page, 4.5 x 7, July 10, 1888. Written from Beverly Farms, a letter to William Ordway Partridge,
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Julia Ward Howe658 - Julia Ward Howe
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ALS, two pages on two adjoining sheets, 5 x 7.5, January 17, 1876. In part: "I am much obliged for your kind and gratifying note. We are all pa...
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Elbert Hubbard659 - Elbert Hubbard
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American writer, printer, and philosopher (1856–1915), closely associated with the Arts and Crafts movement, who perished in the Lusitania disaster. T
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Elbert Hubbard660 - Elbert Hubbard
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American writer, printer, and philosopher (1856–1915), closely associated with the Arts and Crafts movement, who perished in the Lusitania disaster. T
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