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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Bruno Richard Hauptmann151 - Bruno Richard Hauptmann
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Desirable unissued green official admission pass for the Hauptmann trial on January 12, 1935, 4.5 x 3.5, marked as "No. 130," plus twelve ...
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Estimate : 300.00 - 500.00
 
 
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J. Edgar Hoover152 - J. Edgar Hoover
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The Washington Loan and Trust Company check, 6.75 x 2.75, filled out and signed by Hoover, "John Edgar Hoover," payable to Potomac Electri...
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Kennedy Assassination: Clint Hill153 - Kennedy Assassination: Clint Hill
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Four glossy 10 x 8 photos of President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy during the tragic motorcade drive through Dallas and Dealey P
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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King Louis XIV: Madame de Maintenon154 - King Louis XIV: Madame de Maintenon
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Mistress and second wife of Louis XIV (1635–1719). ALS in French, signed “Maintenon,” one page both sides, 6.5 x 9, August 6, 1712. Letter to Madame
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Estimate : 2,500.00 - 3,000.00
 
 
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King William IV155 - King William IV
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King of Great Britain and Ireland (1765–1837) from 1830 to 1837, he earned the sobriquet 'Sailor King' for his youthful service in the Royal...
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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King William IV156 - King William IV
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Partly-printed vellum DS, signed “William R.,” one page, 15.75 x 12, June 14, 1834. King William appoints James Henry Leckie as a "Captain of a...
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Tobias Lear157 - Tobias Lear
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American statesman (1762–1816) who served as Washington's personal secretary and later assumed posts in the Jefferson and Madison administration...
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Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
 
 
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Akio Morita158 - Akio Morita
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TLS, one page, 7.25 x 10.5, personal Sony letterhead, June 27, 1969. Letter to Mr. and Mrs. William A. M. Burden, in full: "It is hard to put i...
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Mother Teresa159 - Mother Teresa
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Glossy 8 x 10 photo of Mother Teresa with her hands clasped in prayer, signed in blue ink, "God bless you, M. Teresa mc." In very fine con...
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Estimate : 800.00 - 1,000.00
 
 
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Mother Teresa160 - Mother Teresa
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TLS signed “God bless you, M Teresa mc,” one page, 5.75 x 8.25, Missionaries of Charity letterhead, July 10, 1984. Letter to Betty De Silva, in full:
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Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
 
 
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