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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NASA Group 8406 - NASA Group 8
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Uncommon pair of postal covers, both 7.5 x 3.75, both postmarked at the Kennedy Space Center on April 12, 1981, the launch date of the STS-1 mission,
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Estimate : 500.00 - 700.00
 
 
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NASA Group 8407 - NASA Group 8
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Official color 8 x 10 NASA lithograph of the 35 astronaut candidates selected as part of NASA group eight in 1978, signed in ink or felt tip by all pi
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,500.00
 
 
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NASA Group 9408 - NASA Group 9
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Desirable postal cover, 7.5 x 3.75, postmarked at the Kennedy Space Center on April 12, 1981, the launch date of the STS-1 mission, signed in ink and
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Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
 
 
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NASA Group 9409 - NASA Group 9
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Official color 10 x 8 NASA lithograph of the 21 astronaut candidates selected as part of NASA group nine in 1980, signed in ink or felt tip by 20 of t
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Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
 
 
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Ellison Onizuka410 - Ellison Onizuka
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Official color 8 x 10 NASA lithograph of Onizuka in his blue flight suit, signed and inscribed in black felt tip, "Best Wishes Pauline—El Onizu...
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Shorty Powers411 - Shorty Powers
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Public affairs officer (1922–1979) for NASA from 1959 to 1963 during Project Mercury, known as the 'voice of the astronauts,' the 'voice...
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Stuart A. Roosa412 - Stuart A. Roosa
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Postal cover from the US Naval Communication station in Exmouth, Western Australia, signed in black ink, "Stu A. Roosa." In fine condition...
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Wally Schirra and Walt Cunningham413 - Wally Schirra and Walt Cunningham
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Color satin-finish 10 x 8 photo of the two Apollo 7 crew members posing outdoors with an imposing Saturn IB rocket looming in the background, signed i
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Harrison Schmitt414 - Harrison Schmitt
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Official 10 x 8 NASA lithograph of Schmitt beside the huge split boulder at the Taurus-Littrow landing site, signed and inscribed in black felt tip,...
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Harrison Schmitt415 - Harrison Schmitt
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TLS signed “Harrison H. Schmitt,” one page, 8 x 10.5, NASA letterhead, no date. Letter to Mr. and Mrs. Ken Browne, in part: "Thank you very muc...
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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