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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[James A. Garfield]61 - [James A. Garfield]
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Manuscript telegram dictated from the Executive Mansion by President Garfield's 17-year-old son, Harry A. Garfield, one page, 5.5 x 8.25, Wester...
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Warren G. Harding62 - Warren G. Harding
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Collection of ephemera associated with Warren G. Harding, including: a large circa 1920 original 28 x 41 "For President, Warren G. Harding"...
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Benjamin Harrison63 - Benjamin Harrison
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Fletcher & Sharpe's Bank check, 7.25 x 3, filled out and signed by Harrison, "Benj. Harrison," payable to Mrs. Harrison for $15, D...
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Herbert Hoover64 - Herbert Hoover
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Attractive and uncommon 'Assistant Sergeant at Arms' badge from the 1932 Republican National Convention held at Chicago Stadium from June 14...
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Lyndon B. Johnson65 - Lyndon B. Johnson
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Vintage glossy 6.5 x 4.5 photo of Senator Johnson posing with former Texas Governor Ernest McFarland, matted to an overall size of 9.25 x 8.25, signed
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Lyndon B. Johnson66 - Lyndon B. Johnson
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Superb TLS, one page, 6.25 x 8.5, personal letterhead, January 28, 1969. Letter to former NASA administrator James Webb, in full: "Of all the g...
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Jacqueline Kennedy67 - Jacqueline Kennedy
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Personalized bookplate for First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, designed and crafted during her time in the White House. The bookplate measures 2.75 x 3.75
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John F. Kennedy68 - John F. Kennedy
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Scarce original program for the 'Texas Welcome Dinner' which was to be held at the Municipal Auditorium in Austin, Texas, on November 22, 19...
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John F. Kennedy Texas Welcome Dinner Ticket69 - John F. Kennedy Texas Welcome Dinner Ticket
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Unused original "Press Section, Balcony Only" ticket, number 1375, 2.5 x 6, to the 'Texas Welcome Dinner' presented in honor of Pr...
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John F. Kennedy: James Swindal70 - John F. Kennedy: James Swindal
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Air Force Colonel (1917–2006) who commanded Air Force One for John F. Kennedy and flew the body of the slain president to Washington from Dallas in 19
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Abraham Lincoln71 - Abraham Lincoln
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Union Presidential Ticket for the November 8, 1864, election in Morrow County, Ohio, 2.5 x 7.5, featuring the text, “For President, Abraham Lincoln, o
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William McKinley72 - William McKinley
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Partly-printed DS as president, one page, 23 x 17.75, July 17, 1897. President William McKinley appoints William K. Anderson of Michigan as "Co...
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William McKinley73 - William McKinley
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TLS signed “W. McKinley,” one page, 5.5 x 9, personal letterhead, November 17, 1896. Letter to Albert Halstead of the Springfield Union, in part: &q...
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William McKinley74 - William McKinley
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TLS signed “W. McKinley,” one page, 5.25 x 8.25, personal letterhead, June 29, 1896. Letter to Albert Halstead of the Springfield Union, in full: &q...
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Richard Nixon75 - Richard Nixon
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Signed book: RN: The Memoirs of Richard Nixon. Collector's edition. Norwalk, Connecticut: Easton Press, 1988. Leather-bound hardcover, 6.5 x 9.5...
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Ronald Reagan76 - Ronald Reagan
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Glossy 5 x 7 photo of Ronald Reagan standing next to California Senator William Coombs, signed and inscribed in black ink, "To Arnold Zavala, w...
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Ronald Reagan77 - Ronald Reagan
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Color satin-finish 8 x 10 photo of Reagan riding his horse 'El Alamein' at Rancho del Cielo, signed and inscribed in thin black felt tip, &q...
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Franklin D. Roosevelt78 - Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Unusual oversized vintage matte-finish 12.75 x 9.75 composite photo of President Roosevelt with advisors Louis Howe, Stephen Early, and Marvin H. McIn
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Franklin D. Roosevelt79 - Franklin D. Roosevelt
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TLS, one page, 7 x 10.5, personal Fidelity and Deposit Company of Maryland letterhead, December 8, 1927. Letter to Henry T. Hackett, in full: "...
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William H. Taft80 - William H. Taft
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Scarce partly-printed invitation for the erection of the National American Indian Memorial at Fort Wadsworth in New York Harbor on February 22, 1913,
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