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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Douglas Aircraft Company Earth and Solar System Prints385 - Douglas Aircraft Company Earth and Solar System Prints
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Group of five color 20 x 16 educational prints detailing Earth's atmosphere and the solar system, published by the Douglas Aircraft Company in S...
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Estimate : 200.00 - 300.00
 
 
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Charlie Duke386 - Charlie Duke
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Highly displayable color satin-finish 40.25 x 8.5 panoramic photo of John Young adjusting the high-gain antenna on the lunar rover at Station 10 prime
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Charlie Duke387 - Charlie Duke
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Official color 8 x 10 NASA lithograph of LMP Duke wearing his white space suit and posing with a lunar globe, signed in black felt tip, "Charli...
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Joe Engle388 - Joe Engle
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Two photos signed by test pilot turned NASA astronaut Joe Engle: a glossy 8 x 10 full-length photo of Engle wearing his silver flight suit and posing
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Maxime Faget389 - Maxime Faget
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Designer of the Mercury capsule (1921–2004) who also contributed to the Gemini and Apollo spacecraft. Vintage glossy 8 x 10 black-numbered NASA photo,
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Owen Garriott390 - Owen Garriott
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Three items: a felt tip signature, "Owen K. Garriott," on an off-white 5 x 3 card; a glossy 4 x 5 photo of Garriott with folded arms and s...
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Robert Gilruth391 - Robert Gilruth
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American aerospace engineer and an aviation/space pioneer (1913–2000) who was the first director of NASA's Manned Spacecraft Center, which was l...
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John Glenn392 - John Glenn
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TLS signed “John H. Glenn, Jr.,” one page, 8 x 10, Project Mercury letterhead, May 18, 1961. Letter to Mr. and Mrs. Ken Browne in Arizona, referencing
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John Glenn393 - John Glenn
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Glossy 6.5 x 4.5 photo of John Glenn and his wife, Annie, riding in a convertible during the parade celebrating Glenn's successful Friendship 7 ...
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John Glenn394 - John Glenn
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Fantastic semi-glossy 8.5 x 12 silver gelatin photo of Marine Corps Major John Glenn smiling next to his Vought F-8 Crusader after his record-breaking
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Fred Haise395 - Fred Haise
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Official color 8 x 10 NASA lithograph of Haise in his white space suit against a starry backdrop, signed and inscribed in black ballpoint, "To ...
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Jim Irwin396 - Jim Irwin
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Official color 10 x 8 NASA lithograph of Irwin saluting the American flag at the Apollo 15 landing site, signed and inscribed in black felt tip, &qu...
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Jim Irwin397 - Jim Irwin
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Two items: an official color 10 x 8 NASA lithograph of LMP Jim Irwin saluting the American flag on the lunar surface, signed and inscribed in black fe
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Jim Irwin and Al Worden398 - Jim Irwin and Al Worden
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Official color 10 x 8 NASA lithograph of LMP Jim Irwin saluting the American flag on the lunar surface, signed and inscribed in black ink, "Gar...
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JPL Mars Viking Orbiter/Lander Hardware Collection399 - JPL Mars Viking Orbiter/Lander Hardware Collection
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Four pieces of hardware associated with the JPL Mars Viking Orbiter/Lander, including: a Viking Orbiter sungate transfer assembly marked "V075&...
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Gene Kranz401 - Gene Kranz
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Glossy 10 x 8 photo of Mission Control in Houston during Apollo 11, boldly signed in the lower border in black felt tip, "'Capcom—we are go...
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Valeri Kubasov402 - Valeri Kubasov
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Soviet facsimile editions of the three books carried on the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (with facsimile signatures of the crewmen on the covers), releas
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Alexei Leonov403 - Alexei Leonov
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Excellent original 1980 painting by Voskhod 2 spacewalker Alexei Leonov entitled 'Salyut I," accomplished in oil on a 8 x 9.25 sheet of col...
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Estimate : 800.00 - 1,000.00
 
 
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Robert McCall404 - Robert McCall
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Group lot of seven items sign in black ink or felt tip by space artist Robert T. McCall, including: a color glossy 4 x 5.75 photo of McCall in 1985 wi
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NASA Group 10405 - NASA Group 10
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Official color 10 x 8 NASA lithograph of the 17 astronaut candidates selected as part of NASA group 10 in 1984, signed in ink or felt tip by all pictu
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Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
 
 
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