RR Auction: Fine Autographs and Artifacts featuring Pop Culture

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RR Auction's April Fine Autograph and Artifact sale features an impressive selection of pop culture material, including a fully signed Led Zeppelin debut album, a Hofner 'Beatle' bass autographed by Paul McCartney, John F. Kennedy's rocking chair from the Carlyle Hotel, a "gold coin" interest note signed by legendary gangster Al Capone, an Apple award signed by Steve Jobs, a Charles Schulz comic strip, and the white suit of KFC founder Colonel Sanders. Other top items include a letter by Queen Elizabeth I, a Henry David Thoreau handwritten manuscript page, an important letter by Thomas Jefferson about the Bonaparte family, a rare check by Charles Darwin, and a handful of vintage Topps baseball card sets. 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 April 2019.
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 L. Dodgson322 - Charles L. Dodgson
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ALS signed “C. L. Dodgson,” one page, 8 x 5, October 31, 1888. Written from Christ Church, Oxford, a letter to renowned publisher Alexander MacMillan,
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Quantity : 1 | Estimate : 1,500.00 - 2,000.00
 
 
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Charles L. Dodgson323 - Charles L. Dodgson
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Beloved British author of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, better known by his pen name, Lewis Carroll (1832–1898). ALS signed “C. L. Dodgson,” one p
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George Eliot324 - George Eliot
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Pseudonym of Marian Evans Lewes (1819–1880) who, as the author of Silas Marner and Middlemarch, is remembered as one of the great figures of English l
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Quantity : 1 | Estimate : 800.00 - 1,200.00
 
 
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe325 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Broadsheet of his poem 'Am Acht und zwanzigsten August, 1826 [On the eight and twentieth of August, 1826],' one page, 5.5 x 8.25, boldly sig...
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Robert Frost326 - Robert Frost
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ALS, one page both sides, 6 x 8, January 21, 1938. Letter to "Mr. Smith," in part: "It's good to hear from you again. Yes, there ...
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Victor Hugo327 - Victor Hugo
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ALS in French, signed “V. H.,” one page, 4 x 5.5, black-bordered mourning stationery, September 12, [1868]. Letter written from Brussels, in full (tra
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James Joyce328 - James Joyce
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ALS, one page, 5.25 x 7, 28 Campden Grove letterhead, June 17, 1931. Letter to British painter, publisher, and poet Desmond Harmsworth, in full: &qu...
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Margaret Mitchell329 - Margaret Mitchell
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ALS signed “Margaret,” one page, 4 x 5.25, December 4, 1936. Letter to author and journalist Henry Herschel Brickell of the New York Post, in full: ...
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Victor Hugo330 - Victor Hugo
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ALS in French, signed “Victor H,” one page, 4 x 5, no date. In full (translated): "Do you like the [?]….madam and charming friend? Do you allow...
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Vladimir Nabokov331 - Vladimir Nabokov
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First National Bank of Ithaca check, 6.25 x 2.75, filled out in another hand and signed by Nabokov, "Vladimir Nabokov," payable to Ward...
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Marcel Proust332 - Marcel Proust
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French writer (1871–1922) known for the monumental sixteen-volume In Search of Lost Time, regarded as one of the greatest achievements in world litera
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George Sand333 - George Sand
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ALS in French, one page, 5.25 x 4.25, July 1863. In full (translated): "In the morning, he wakes up artist. He is a man before the hour. If we ...
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Friedrich Schiller334 - Friedrich Schiller
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German poet, philosopher, and playwright (1759–1805) who had a productive relationship with Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Significant unsigned handwritt
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Dr. Seuss335 - Dr. Seuss
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Original Dr. Seuss sketch of a large snowball careening down a mountainside toward a snow-covered cabin and its visibly distressed occupant, accomplis
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John Steinbeck336 - John Steinbeck
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TLS, one page, 8.5 x 11, personal letterhead, November 12, 1962. Letter to Mr. and Mrs. Ken Browne, sending thanks for congratulations on his receipt
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Robert Louis Stevenson337 - Robert Louis Stevenson
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Exemplary 4.25 x 6.5 cabinet photo of Robert Louis Stevenson in a three-quarter-length pose by W. J. Hawker of Bournemouth, neatly signed on the mount
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Henry David Thoreau338 - Henry David Thoreau
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Sought-after handwritten manuscript contained within the first volume of the 1906 'manuscript edition' of Thoreau's works, one page both...
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J. R. R. Tolkien339 - J. R. R. Tolkien
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TLS, one page, 7 x 9, personal letterhead, May 24, 1968. Letter to Mary Fairburn, an artist who sent him paintings of several scenes from Lord of the
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Quantity : 1 | Estimate : 1,000.00 - 2,000.00
 
 
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Leo Tolstoy340 - Leo Tolstoy
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Handsome etching of the revered Russian author in a front-facing pose, 6 x 7.25, boldly signed in the lower border in black ink, "Leo Tolstoy, ...
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Edward Albee341 - Edward Albee
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Vintage glossy 10 x 8 close-up photo of the playwright, signed and inscribed in black felt tip, "For Mr. & Mrs. Ken Browne, with every good...
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Quantity : 1 | Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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