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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John Updike528 - John Updike
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Glossy 8 x 10.25 photo of the three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist posing against a pair of columns, signed in black ink by John Updike, who add
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Tennessee Williams529 - Tennessee Williams
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Personal check, 8.5 x 3.5, filled out in type and signed by Williams, "Tennessee Williams," payable to Robert Carroll for $242.74, June 1,...
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Tom Wolfe530 - Tom Wolfe
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Signed book: The Right Stuff. First edition. NY: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1979. Hardcover with dust jacket, 5.75 x 8.5, 436 pages. Signed and inscribed
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Estimate : 300.00 - 500.00
 
 
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Anton Bruckner531 - Anton Bruckner
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Important Austrian composer (1824-1896) whose symphonies are considered emblematic of the final stage of Austro-German Romanticism. Autograph musical
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Estimate : 8,000.00 - 10,000.00
 
 
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Maria Callas532 - Maria Callas
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Attractive glossy 4.25 x 5.75 postcard photo of Callas as Imogene in the 1959 production of Il Pirata, signed in black felt tip, "Maria Callas,...
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Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
 
 
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Erich Wolfgang Korngold533 - Erich Wolfgang Korngold
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Austro-Hungarian composer (1897-1957) who, after producing much well-received 'serious' music, enjoyed great success as a film composer and ...
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Franz Liszt534 - Franz Liszt
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Scarce 2.5 x 4 carte-de-visite photo of Liszt by Fritz Luckhardt of Vienna, boldly signed in ink, "F. Liszt." In fine condition, with a li...
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Estimate : 3,000.00 - 5,000.00
 
 
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Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy535 - Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
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Third-person ALS, signed within the text, “Mr. Mendelssohn,” one page, 4.25 x 7, April 28, 1847. Letter to Mrs. Erskine, possibly the wife of the Scot
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Estimate : 2,000.00 - 3,000.00
 
 
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Giacomo Puccini536 - Giacomo Puccini
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Signed book: Il Tabarro, Suor Angelica, Gianni Schicchi. Paris: G. Ricordi & Co., 1919. Hardcover, 8.25 x 10.75, 234 pages. Signed and inscribed...
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Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
 
 
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Giacomo Puccini537 - Giacomo Puccini
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Italian composer (1858–1924) who earned a central place in the operatic pantheon with such repertoire staples as ‘La boheme,’ ‘Madama Butterfly,’ and
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Estimate : 500.00 - 700.00
 
 
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Sergei Rachmaninoff538 - Sergei Rachmaninoff
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Superb early vintage matte-finish 3.5 x 5.25 Russian postcard photo of Rachmaninoff in a seated pose, crisply signed in ink in Cyrillic, "S. Ra...
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Estimate : 2,000.00 - 2,500.00
 
 
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Arnold Schonberg539 - Arnold Schonberg
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Austrian-born composer (1874–1951) whose development of the 'twelve-tone' system proved to be one of the most far-reaching innovations in th...
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Estimate : 2,500.00 - 3,000.00
 
 
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Robert Schumann540 - Robert Schumann
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Highly important German composer and pianist (1810–1856) whose distinctively lyrical musical language, especially evident in his keyboard works and ar
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Estimate : 4,500.00 - 5,500.00
 
 
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Dimitri Shostakovich541 - Dimitri Shostakovich
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Russian composer and pianist (1906–1975) who is regarded as one of the major composers of the 20th century. Vintage glossy 3.25 x 5.25 postcard photo
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Estimate : 800.00 - 1,000.00
 
 
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Johann Strauss II542 - Johann Strauss II
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Eminent Viennese composer (1825–1899) known as the 'Waltz King,' who is remembered for such classics as 'The Beautiful Blue Danube' ...
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Estimate : 2,000.00 - 2,500.00
 
 
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Igor Stravinsky543 - Igor Stravinsky
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AMQS in pencil on an off-white 4.5 x 3.5 card, signed below, "Igor Stravinsky, Paris, 1936." Stravinsky writes a line from his second ball...
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Estimate : 3,000.00 - 5,000.00
 
 
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Giuseppe Verdi544 - Giuseppe Verdi
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ANS in Italian, signed “G. Verdi,” penned on a 3.5 x 2 calling card belonging to Verdi, December 1, 1900. An untranslated note to Ernesto Conigliaro.
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 2,000.00
 
 
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Richard Wagner545 - Richard Wagner
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Exquisite 4.5 x 6.5 cabinet photo of Wagner by Fritz Luckhardt, signed and inscribed on the reverse to Carl Brandt, a close collaborator of Wagner at
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Estimate : 6,000.00 - 8,000.00
 
 
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Richard Wagner546 - Richard Wagner
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ALS in German, signed “Rich. Wagner,” one page, 5.25 x 8.5, May 10, 1873. Letter concerning the shipment of a brochure relating to the building of the
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Estimate : 3,000.00 - 4,000.00
 
 
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John Coltrane547 - John Coltrane
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Someday My Prince Will Come album signed neatly on the back cover in black ballpoint by John Coltrane. In very good to fine condition, with light scuf
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Estimate : 1,500.00 - 2,000.00
 
 
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