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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Warren Buffett101 - Warren Buffett
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Warren Buffett's personally-owned and -used set of golf clubs, comprising his customized golf bag and fourteen clubs, given to the one-time fian...
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Estimate : 5,000.00 - 10,000.00
 
 
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Andre Citroen102 - Andre Citroen
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ALS in French, one page, 5.25 x 8, Montreaux Palace Hotel letterhead, September 30, 1925. In full (translated): "All my thanks, dear Mr. Bernst...
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,500.00
 
 
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Sigmund Freud103 - Sigmund Freud
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ALS in German, signed “Freud,” penned on the reverse of a 4 x 2 business card belonging to the recipient, his assistant, Dr. Paul Federn, January 2, 1
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Estimate : 5,000.00 - 7,000.00
 
 
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Sigmund Freud104 - Sigmund Freud
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ALS signed “Freud,” one page both sides, 9 x 11.25, personal letterhead, November 5, 1935. Letter to Austrian writer Stefan Zweig, about the Nobel Pri
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Estimate : 25,000.00 - 35,000.00
 
 
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel105 - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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Influential German philosopher (1770–1831) who espoused a dialectical method by which an idea (thesis) was challenged by its opposite (antithesis) and
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Estimate : 3,000.00 - 5,000.00
 
 
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Peter Kropotkin106 - Peter Kropotkin
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Russian geographer, zoologist, and political theorist (1842–1921) best known for his advocacy of anarchist communism. ALS signed “P. Kropotkin,” three
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Estimate : 2,500.00 - 3,000.00
 
 
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Thomas Robert Malthus107 - Thomas Robert Malthus
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English scholar influential in the fields of political economy and demography (1766–1834). ALS signed “T. Robt. Malthus,” one page both sides, 7.25 x
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Estimate : 12,000.00 - 15,000.00
 
 
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Henri de Saint-Simon108 - Henri de Saint-Simon
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French early socialist theorist (1760–1825) whose thought influenced the development of the philosophy of science, discipline of sociology, positivism
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Estimate : 2,500.00 - 3,000.00
 
 
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Pope Benedict XVI109 - Pope Benedict XVI
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Rare German-language ordination card for Joseph Ratzinger, 2.75 x 4.25, showing an image of the young priest above with dates of his ordination below,
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Estimate : 800.00 - 1,000.00
 
 
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Pope John XXIII110 - Pope John XXIII
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Desirable glossy 6 x 8 full-length photo of Pope John XXIII blessing a row of men at a Roman hospital, affixed to the original 9.25 x 12.5 presentatio
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Estimate : 1,500.00 - 2,000.00
 
 
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Pope Pius XII111 - Pope Pius XII
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Born Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli (1876-1958), he served as pope from 1939 until his death. TLS in Italian, signed “E. Card. Pacelli,” one
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Estimate : 300.00 - 500.00
 
 
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Edmund Burke112 - Edmund Burke
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Statesman, author, orator, political theorist, and philosopher (1729–1797) who, after relocating from Ireland to England, served for many years in the
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Estimate : 3,500.00 - 4,500.00
 
 
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Fidel Castro113 - Fidel Castro
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Notable pair of ALSs in Spanish, both signed "F.," no date, both 6 x 6.5, both addressed to Generals Arnaldo Ochoa and Polo Cintra Frí...
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,200.00
 
 
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Hua Guofeng114 - Hua Guofeng
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Premier of the People's Republic of China (1921–2008) who served from 1976-1980; he was eventually outmaneuvered by Deng Xiaoping, who forced Hu...
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Estimate : 5,000.00 - 6,000.00
 
 
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Li Peng115 - Li Peng
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Political leader (born 1928) who served as premier of the People's Republic of China from 1987 through 1998, best known for declaring martial la...
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Estimate : 5,000.00 - 6,000.00
 
 
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Tomas Masaryk116 - Tomas Masaryk
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Founder and first President of Czechoslovakia (1850–1937). ALS signed “T. G. Masaryk,” one page both sides, 6.75 x 8.25, December 27, 1931. Letter to
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Estimate : 800.00 - 1,000.00
 
 
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John Montagu, Earl of Sandwich117 - John Montagu, Earl of Sandwich
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British politician (1718–1792) who held a number of important positions, but remains best known as the namesake of the sandwich. ALS signed “Sandwich,
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Estimate : 800.00 - 1,000.00
 
 
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Joseph Stalin118 - Joseph Stalin
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Exceedingly rare ALS in Cyrililc, one page, 5.25 x 7.75, February 5, 1939. Letter to his thirteen-year-old daughter Svetlana, facetiously couched as a
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Estimate : 50,000.00 - 60,000.00
 
 
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Eva Peron119 - Eva Peron
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Attractive matte-finish 8.25 x 10.75 photo of a painting of Peron with a large flower on her lapel, affixed to a 12.5 x 16.5 mount, calligraphically i
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Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
 
 
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Josef Stalin: Svetlana Alliluyeva120 - Josef Stalin: Svetlana Alliluyeva
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Color 4.5 x 6.5 magazine photo of Svetlana Alliluyeva posing with her son Iosif in the mid-1950s, matted to a slightly larger size, signed on the mat
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Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
 
 
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