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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Grover Cleveland21 - Grover Cleveland
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Uncommon 5 x 7.75 cabinet portrait of the former two-time American president, signed and inscribed in the lower border in black ink, "Grover Cl...
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Estimate : 300.00 - 500.00
 
 
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William McKinley22 - William McKinley
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TLS signed “W. McKinley,” one page, 5.25 x 8.25, personal letterhead, November 6, 1896. Letter to Albert Halstead of the Springfield Union, in full:...
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Theodore Roosevelt23 - Theodore Roosevelt
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Handsome oversized etching of Theodore Roosevelt by Jacques Reich, 17.5 x 21.5, signed in the lower border in ink as president, "Theodore Roose...
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Estimate : 1,200.00 - 1,500.00
 
 
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Woodrow Wilson24 - Woodrow Wilson
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Partly-printed DS as president, one page, 22.75 x 18.75, November 22, 1913. President Wilson recognizes the appointment of a Russian diplomat, in part
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Warren G. Harding25 - Warren G. Harding
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Group of six postcards with ANSs by Harding, each signed with his initials, "W. G. H.," all sent home from Europe to Henry R. Schaffner, g...
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Warren G. Harding26 - Warren G. Harding
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Partly-printed DS, signed “W. G. Harding,” two pages both sides, 8.5 x 14, July 21, 1910. Mortgage agreement by which the "Harding Publishing C...
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Warren G. Harding27 - Warren G. Harding
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The Marion Star business check, 8 x 3.25, filled out and signed by Harding, "W. G. Harding," payable to Whitaker Paper Co. for $14.74, Apr...
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Warren G. Harding28 - Warren G. Harding
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TLS as president, one page, 7 x 8.75, White House letterhead, December 18, 1922. Letter to Henry R. Schaffner, general business manager of The Marion
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Warren G. Harding29 - Warren G. Harding
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TLS as president, one page, 7 x 8.75, White House letterhead, January 25, 1923. Letter to Henry R. Schaffner, general business manager of The Marion S
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Warren G. Harding30 - Warren G. Harding
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TLS as president, one page, 7 x 8.75, White House letterhead, June 19, 1923. Letter to Henry R. Schaffner, general business manager of The Marion Star
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Warren G. Harding31 - Warren G. Harding
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TLS as president, one page, 7 x 8.75, White House letterhead, May 15, 1923. Letter to Henry R. Schaffner, general business manager of The Marion Star,
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Warren G. Harding32 - Warren G. Harding
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Warren G. Harding's leatherbound Marion County Bank book for 1902–1904, 48 pages, 4 x 6.5, featuring numerous entries in his own hand, as well a...
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Warren G. Harding33 - Warren G. Harding
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Partly-printed DS, signed “The Harding Pub. Co., W. G. Harding, Pres.,” one page, 8.5 x 14, January 30, 1913. Mergenthaler Linotype Company document b
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Calvin Coolidge34 - Calvin Coolidge
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ALS, one page, 8.5 x 11, personal letterhead, August 22, 1931. Letter to George Horace Lorimer, editor of The Saturday Evening Post, in full: "...
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Calvin Coolidge35 - Calvin Coolidge
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Hand-corrected typed telegram draft as president, one page, 7.75 x 10.5, White House Telegram letterhead, February 16, 1924. Typed draft of a telegram
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Calvin Coolidge36 - Calvin Coolidge
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DS as president, two pages on two adjoining sheets, 8 x 12.5, March 11, 1924. Document concerning "the Matter of the Tacna-Arica Arbitration.&q...
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Franklin D. Roosevelt37 - Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Vintage matte-finish 9.75 x 7.75 photo of President Franklin D. Roosevelt seated alongside Postmaster General James Farley and Secretary of the Treasu
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Franklin D. Roosevelt38 - Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Desirable signed book: The Comic History of Rome. Later edition. London: Bradbury, Agnew & Co., circa 1860. Hardcover with custom leather-bound ...
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Estimate : 1,500.00 - 2,000.00
 
 
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Harry S. Truman39 - Harry S. Truman
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Impressive program and press release from President Harry S. Truman’s statue dedication of Simon Bolivar in Bolivar, Missouri, on July 5, 1948. The or
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Harry and Bess Truman40 - Harry and Bess Truman
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Official US Army glossy 5 x 4 photo of Harry and Bess Truman standing with Alben W. Barkley and two others in Washington, DC, on Inauguration Day on J
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