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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Shirley Temple908 - Shirley Temple
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Vintage matte-finish 3.5 x 5.5 postcard photo of the curly-haired child actress, nicely signed in the lower border in fountain pen. In very good to fi
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Three Stooges: Larry Fine909 - Three Stooges: Larry Fine
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Vintage fountain pen signature, "To Joe, Sincerely, Larry, 3 Stooges,” on an off-white 5 x 3 card. In fine to very fine condition, with a small...
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Tom Thumb and Commodore Nutt910 - Tom Thumb and Commodore Nutt
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Ink signatures of P. T. Barnum's famous dwarf entertainers Tom Thumb ("Compliments of Charles S. Stratton, known as General Tom Thumb, May ...
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Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
 
 
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Ben Turpin911 - Ben Turpin
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TLS, one page, 8.5 x 11, James Marion Fidler letterhead, September 16, 1937. Turpin grants consent "that in your short subject picture 'Jim...
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Orson Welles912 - Orson Welles
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Vintage fountain pen signature, "Orson Welles,” on an off-white 5 x 3 card. In very fine condition. Originally obtained in person by a New York...
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Orson Welles913 - Orson Welles
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DS, five pages, 8.5 x 13, May 8, 1947. Contract between Republic Pictures and Orson Welles, who agrees to be "employed as Producer–Director, an...
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Mae West914 - Mae West
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Glossy 8 x 10 full-length photo of West in an elaborate costume at the foot of an elegant staircase, signed in black felt tip. Mounted, matted, and fr
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Wizard of Oz: Bolger and Hamilton915 - Wizard of Oz: Bolger and Hamilton
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Glossy 10 x 8 photo of the final witch-melting scene from the classic 1939 fantasy The Wizard of Oz, signed in black felt tip, "From The Scarec...
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Wizard of Oz: Ray Bolger916 - Wizard of Oz: Ray Bolger
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Appealing pair of glossy photos of Ray Bolger as the Scarecrow from the Wizard of Oz, including: an 8 x 10 close-up photo of Bolger in costume, signed
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Wizard of Oz: Bert Lahr917 - Wizard of Oz: Bert Lahr
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American comedic actor (1895–1967) best remembered for his role as the Cowardly Lion in The Wizard of Oz. Vintage fountain pen signature, "Bert...
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