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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Alexandre Dumas, pere488 - Alexandre Dumas, pere
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Distinguished French novelist (1802–1870) of such historical classics as The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers, and The Man in the Iron Mask
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Estimate : 2,000.00 - 2,500.00
 
 
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Marguerite Duras489 - Marguerite Duras
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French novelist, playwright, scriptwriter, essayist, and experimental filmmaker (1914–1996). ALS in French, one page, 5.75 x 8.25, March 1, 1978. Let
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Estimate : 1,500.00 - 2,000.00
 
 
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F. Scott Fitzgerald490 - F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Remarkable pairing of an ALS and an unsigned handwritten poem: ALS signed “Ever your devoted friend, Scott,” three pages, 6 x 9.25, Hotel Rennert lett
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Estimate : 20,000.00 - 25,000.00
 
 
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Knut Hamsun491 - Knut Hamsun
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Norwegian novelist, dramatist, and poet (1859–1952) who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1920. Matte-finish 4.25 x 5.25 photo of Hamsun writing a
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Estimate : 2,000.00 - 2,500.00
 
 
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Maxim Gorky492 - Maxim Gorky
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Tremendous TLS signed “M. Gorky,” one onionskin page, 8 x 13, October 28, 1921. In full: "I presume that you all acknowledge as an undeniable f...
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Estimate : 6,000.00 - 8,000.00
 
 
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Ernest Hemingway493 - Ernest Hemingway
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Exceptional group of four letters from Hemingway to his close friend Guy Hickok, comprising one ALS, two partial autograph letters, and a one-page TLS
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Estimate : 20,000.00 - 25,000.00
 
 
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Gerhart Hauptmann494 - Gerhart Hauptmann
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German dramatist (1862–1946) who won the 1912 Nobel Prize in Literature. Vintage matte-finish 6.25 x 8.25 portrait by Li Osborne, affixed to its orig
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Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
 
 
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Nathaniel Hawthorne495 - Nathaniel Hawthorne
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ALS signed “Nath'l Hawthorne,” three pages on two adjoining sheets, 3.5 x 5, January 9, 1857. Letter written to R. J. Spiers from the US Consula...
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Estimate : 3,000.00 - 3,500.00
 
 
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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr496 - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr
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Attractive handwritten final stanza from the 1858 poem The Chambered Nautilus, penned on an off-white 7 x 4.25 sheet by Holmes, who signs at the concl
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Estimate : 500.00 - 700.00
 
 
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Anna Brownell Jameson497 - Anna Brownell Jameson
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The first Anglo-Irish art historian (1794–1860) who wrote on a range of subjects including early feminism, art history (particularly sacred art), trav
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,500.00
 
 
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