RR Auction: Fine Autographs and Artifacts featuring Science and Technology

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Boasting nearly 1,000 lots in a variety of genres, RR Auction's June Fine Autographs and Artifacts sale is highlighted by a Science and Technology section that includes a Lunar Module rotational hand controller, letters by Charles Darwin and Albert Einstein, rare early computer hardware, and more. Other top lots include Apollo 14 moonwalker Edgar Mitchell's lunar surface-worn backpack strap, a letter by Joseph Stalin with a hammer-and-sickle sketch, a Beatles-signed promo slick for A Hard Day's Night, hand-drawn plans from Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin studio, and signed letters by luminaries like Davy Crockett, Paul Gauguin, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sigmund Freud, Richard Wagner, and Claude Monet. 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 June 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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Leon Trotsky121 - Leon Trotsky
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TLS in French, signed “Votre, L. Trotsky,” one page both sides, 8.5 x 11.5, October 31, 1929. Letter to his lawyer Gerard Rosenthal about the Trotskis
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Estimate : 4,000.00 - 6,000.00
 
 
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Wu Xueqian122 - Wu Xueqian
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Chinese politician (1921–2008) who served as the foreign minister and vice premier of the People's Republic of China. Glossy 9.25 x 7 German pr...
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Estimate : 2,500.00 - 3,000.00
 
 
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Xu Shichang123 - Xu Shichang
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President of the Republic of China in Beijing from 1918–1922, who was the only permanent president of the Beiyang government to be a civilian (1855–19
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Estimate : 1,500.00 - 2,000.00
 
 
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Zhao Ziyang124 - Zhao Ziyang
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High-ranking politician in the People's Republic of China (1919–2005) instrumental in implementing free-market reforms. Scarce glossy 9.5 x 7 Ge...
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Estimate : 5,000.00 - 6,000.00
 
 
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King Francis I125 - King Francis I
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King of France (born 1494) who reigned from 1515 until his death in 1547. Known as the 'Father and Restorer of Letters,' the cultured and we...
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Estimate : 1,500.00 - 2,000.00
 
 
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Queen Elizabeth II126 - Queen Elizabeth II
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Marvelous matte-finish 9.25 x 11.75 portrait of Queen Elizabeth II wearing her glimmering crown jewels by Royal Court photographer Dorothy Wilding, af
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Estimate : 1,500.00 - 2,000.00
 
 
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Queen Christina127 - Queen Christina
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ALS in French, unsigned, one page both sides, 7.25 x 11.5, no date but circa 1688. Queen Christina's draft for a letter to King Louis XIV. In pa...
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Estimate : 2,500.00 - 3,000.00
 
 
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Queen Elizabeth II128 - Queen Elizabeth II
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Unusual oversized glossy 20 x 10.75 photo of Queen Elizabeth II at the official launch of the British oil tanker S.S. 'British Admiral,' aff...
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Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
 
 
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Queen Elizabeth II129 - Queen Elizabeth II
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Handsome matte-finish 7.5 x 7.75 photo of the British royal family taken from their 1959 Christmas and New Year's card, signed in the lower bord...
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Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
 
 
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Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip130 - Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip
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Uncommon Royal Christmas and New Year's card from 1958, with a gilt-embossed crown on the front, measuring 18.25 x 7.75 open, featuring a color ...
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Estimate : 500.00 - 700.00
 
 
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