RR Auction: Fine Autographs and Artifacts February 2020

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RR Auction's February 2020 Fine Autographs and Artifacts sale presents nearly 900 lots in a diverse array of collectible fields, from presidents to classical musicians to scientific pioneers. Top lots include Bob Dylan's handwritten lyrics for 'Tangled Up In Blue'; a Queen Mary signed document ordering a fine robe; extraordinary autographs from Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Franz Joseph Haydn, Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, and Johannes Brahms; and other figures of historical renown like George Washington, Charlie Parker, Joseph Stalin, Marie Curie, Albert Einstein, and Winston Churchill. 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 February 2020.
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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William Boyd764William Boyd
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Terrific original sketch of fictional cowboy hero Hopalong Cassidy, accomplished by artist Pat Arnold in artist pencil and pastel on a beige 9 x 12 sh
Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
Mel Brooks765Mel Brooks
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Appealing color 14 x 22 cardstock poster for the Tony Award-winning musical The Producers, depicting actors Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick under th
Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
James Cagney766James Cagney
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Glossy 8 x 10 photo of Cagney in costume as a soldier, signed in blue felt tip, "Jim Cagney." In fine condition.
Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
Art Carney767Art Carney
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Glossy 10 x 8 photo of Carney as Ed Norton in The Honeymooners, signed in blue felt tip, "Best wishes, Art Carney." In fine condition.
Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
Lon Chaney, Jr768Lon Chaney, Jr
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Vintage ink signature, "Lon Chaney,” on a light green 5 x 4 album page with a small image of the famed character actor affixed to lower left co...
Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
Charlie Chaplin769Charlie Chaplin
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Bold vintage fountain pen signature, "Best wishes, Charlie Chaplin, 1930,” on an off-white 5.5 x 3.5 card. In fine condition. Encapsulated in a...
Estimate : 300.00 - 500.00
Christian-Jaque770Christian-Jaque
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Scarce vintage glossy 5 x 7.25 photo of the award-winning director by Harcourt of Paris, signed and inscribed in blue fountain pen, "To the Ken...
Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
Gary Cooper771Gary Cooper
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Personal check, 8 x 3, filled out in type and signed by Cooper, payable to Collector of Internal Revenue for $17,300.86, February 18, 1942. Triple-mat
Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
Buster Crabbe772Buster Crabbe
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Vintage pearl-finish 8 x 10 photo of Crabbe as Flash Gordon, signed and inscribed in fountain pen, "To 'Pinocchio,' With many good wish...
Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
Linda Darnell773Linda Darnell
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Two items signed by Darnell: a vintage matte-finish 5 x 7 photo of Darnell sitting beside great illustrator Norman Rockwell, signed and inscribed in f
Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
Gabriel Dell774Gabriel Dell
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Wonderful original sketch of Gabriel Dell in profile, accomplished by artist Pat Arnold in artist pencil and pastel on a beige 9 x 12 sheet, signed an
Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
Robert DeNiro775Robert DeNiro
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Homework for "World Geography" filled out in ballpoint and red pencil by the young Robert DeNiro, one page, 8.5 x 11, signed at the top, &...
Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
Dennis the Menace: North and Russell776Dennis the Menace: North and Russell
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Glossy 7.25 x 9.25 photo of Dennis Mitchell presenting Margaret Wade with a half-eaten box of chocolates, signed in black felt tip, "All the be...
Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
Marlene Dietrich777Marlene Dietrich
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Satin-finish 11 x 14 close-up photo of Dietrich posing for a Paramount Pictures publicity shoot for the 1935 film The Devil Is a Woman, signed and ins
Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
Marlene Dietrich778Marlene Dietrich
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Vintage matte-finish 4.25 x 6.25 publicity photo of Marlene Dietrich wearing an ornate feathered hat, signed in bold fountain pen. Double-matted and f
Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
Divine779Divine
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Cardstock 8 x 10 promo photo, signed and inscribed in black felt tip, "To Studio Six, Love, Divine, 87/xxx.” In very good to fine condition, wi...
Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
Kirk Douglas and Johnny Cash780Kirk Douglas and Johnny Cash
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Glossy 7.75 x 9.75 Paramount promo photo for the 1971 Western film A Gunfight, signed in blue felt tip by Kirk Douglas and Johnny Cash. In very good t
Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
Kirk Douglas and Peter Ustinov781Kirk Douglas and Peter Ustinov
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Glossy 10 x 8 photo of Douglas and Ustinov together on the set of Spartacus, signed in blue felt tip, "Kirk Douglas" and "Best wishes...
Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
Dracula: Carla Laemmle782Dracula: Carla Laemmle
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Glossy 10 x 8 photo of her scene in Dracula, signed in silver ink with her line from the classic horror film, "'Among the rugged peaks,'...
Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
Easy Rider783Easy Rider
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Color semi-glossy 20 x 16 photo of Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, and Jack Nicholson cruising together in the 1969 road movie Easy Rider, signed in blue
Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
John Gielgud784John Gielgud
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Vintage matte-finish 4.5 x 6.25 photo by Angus McBean, signed in blue ballpoint, "John Gielgud, with all good wishes, 1959." In fine condi...
Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
Farley Granger785Farley Granger
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Two items, including a document signed by Granger and his personal autograph album: DS signed "Farley Earle Granger," two pages plus ten ...
Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
Cary Grant786Cary Grant
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Vintage program for the Eight Annual Screen Writers' Awards Dinner held at the Beverly Hilton on March 8, 1956, 8.5 x 11, signed on the front co...
Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
Margaret Hamilton787Margaret Hamilton
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Vintage glossy 8 x 10 photo of Hamilton, signed and inscribed in fountain pen, "With my very best wishes to Margaret Mary…and thanks to her mot...
Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
Katharine Hepburn788Katharine Hepburn
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Two ALSs: one signed "Katharine Hepburn" on both sides of a 5.5 x 4.5 stationery card, January 30, 1940, in part: "What a charming su...
Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
Katharine Hepburn789Katharine Hepburn
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Color satin-finish 8 x 10 close-up photo of Katharine Hepburn as Miss Eula Goodnight in the 1975 Western film Rooster Cogburn, signed and inscribed in
Estimate : 300.00 - 500.00
Katharine Hepburn790Katharine Hepburn
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Vintage ballpoint signature, "Katharine Hepburn,” on a light green 5.25 x 3 slip. In fine condition.
Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
Holmes Herbert791Holmes Herbert
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Vintage matte-finish 7.25 x 9.5 photo of Herbert in near-profile by Nickolas Murray of New York, signed and inscribed in fountain pen, "To Ken ...
Estimate : 500.00 - 700.00
John Houseman792John Houseman
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Glossy 8 x 10 photo of Houseman as Wabash in the 1975 political thriller Three Days of the Condor, signed vertically in blue felt tip. In fine conditi
Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
Thomas H. Ince793Thomas H. Ince
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TLS signed “Thos. H. Ince,” one page, 7.5 x 10.5, The Studios of Thomas H. Ince letterhead, September 16, 1920. Letter to H. Austin Adams, in part: ...
Estimate : 300.00 - 500.00
Gene Kelly794Gene Kelly
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Handsome glossy 8 x 10 photo of Kelly in a wide-lapeled pinstriped suit, signed in felt tip. In fine condition, with a light vertical bend which passe
Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
Grace Kelly795Grace Kelly
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Lovely semi-glossy 3.5 x 5.5 German postcard photo of Grace Kelly as one of Paramount's leading stars, signed in the lower border in black felt ...
Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
Patricia Laffan796Patricia Laffan
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Two glossy 10 x 8 photos of Laffan in her cult-classic role as Nyah from the 1954 science-fiction film Devil Girl from Mars, each signed and inscribed
Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
Michael Landon797Michael Landon
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Vintage glossy 8 x 10 close-up photo of Landon holding a pistol as 'Little Joe' Cartwright from Bonanza, signed and inscribed in black ballp...
Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
Christopher Lee798Christopher Lee
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Excellent glossy 5 x 7 close-up photo of Christopher Lee with his hands clasped, signed in the lower border black felt tip. Pencil notation to reverse
Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier799Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier
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Playbill for in repertory productions of Caesar and Cleopatra and Antony and Cleopatra at the Ziegfeld Theatre beginning the week of April 7, 1952, th
Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
Janet Leigh and Shirley MacLaine800Janet Leigh and Shirley MacLaine
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Glossy 10 x 8 photo of Janet Leigh and Shirley MacLaine visiting on the set of the 1962 political thriller The Manchurian Candidate, signed in felt ti
Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
Sergio Leone801Sergio Leone
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Semi-glossy 4 x 5.75 photo of the Italian director wearing his trademark large glasses, signed and inscribed in blue ballpoint, "To Karl, Sergi...
Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
The Man From UNCLE802The Man From UNCLE
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Glossy 8 x 10 photo of the spies wielding their high-tech guns, signed in blue felt tip by Robert Vaughn and David McCallum. In very good to fine cond
Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
Thomas Mitchell803Thomas Mitchell
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Vintage glossy 3.5 x 5.75 candid deckle-edge photo of Thomas Mitchell standing on a sidewalk and smoking a cigarette, signed in fountain pen. In fine
Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
Paul Newman804Paul Newman
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Vintage glossy 8 x 10 photo of the handsome leading man, signed and inscribed in blue ballpoint, "To Willard, best wishes, Paul Newman.” In ver...
Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
Leonard Nimoy805Leonard Nimoy
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Glossy 8 x 10 Paramount promo photo for Star Trek II, signed in blue felt tip, "Best wishes, Leonard Nimoy." In fine condition, with a lig...
Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
Rudolf Nureyev806Rudolf Nureyev
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Glossy 8 x 10 photo of Nureyev in costume as Rudolph Valentino in the 1977 film The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, signed in blue felt tip. In fine
Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
Laurence Olivier807Laurence Olivier
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Two items: a handsome glossy 8 x 10 photo of Olivier in his prime, signed later in black felt tip, "L. Olivier"; and a vintage ballpoint s...
Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
River Phoenix808River Phoenix
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American Express credit card receipt in the amount of $67.42, one page, 4.75 x 3.25, signed at the conclusion in black ballpoint by River Phoenix. In
Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
Lee Powell809Lee Powell
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Scarce vintage pencil signature, "Hi Yo Silver! Lee Lone Ranger Powell,” on an off-white 5.25 x 2.25 irregularly trimmed sheet. In very good to...
Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
Basil Rathbone810Basil Rathbone
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ALS, one page both sides, 5.75 x 8.75, June 21, 1947. Letter to Mr. Leavitt, in full: "Your letter has been forwarded on to me here where I am ...
Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
Christopher Reeve811Christopher Reeve
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Blue DC Comics canvas bag with the Superman logo, 10.75 x 11.25, signed in blue ink by Christopher Reeve. In fine condition, with slight bleeding to t
Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
Christopher Reeve812Christopher Reeve
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Satin-finish 8 x 10 close-up photo of Reeve staring directly into the camera, signed and inscribed in the wide lower margin in red felt tip, "T...
Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
Alan Rickman813Alan Rickman
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Semi-glossy 8 x 10 close-up photo of the award-winning actor, signed vertically in black felt tip, "With best wishes, Alan Rickman." In fi...
Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00