RR Auction: Fine Autographs and Artifacts featuring Science and Technology

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Science and Technology dominates the 900+ items in RR Auction's December Fine Autographs and Artifacts sale, highlighted by a fully functional Enigma I cipher machine used by the German military, letters by Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking, an Apple floppy disk signed by Steve Jobs, an historic Apollo and other space program artifacts. Other autograph highlights include a John Dillinger letter from jail, a ledger signed by Davy Crockett, multiple George Washington and Abraham Lincoln items, and other outstanding pieces of the past. 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 December 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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Linus Pauling371 - Linus Pauling
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Two items: a TLS, one page, 8.5 x 11, personal letterhead, June 25, 1958, in full: "I thank you for your fine letter. I enclose an autographed ...
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Linus Pauling372 - Linus Pauling
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Partly-printed DS, one page, 16.75 x 11.75, April 26, 1952. Membership certificate for the American Philosophical Society issued to noted diplomat and
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Physicists373 - Physicists
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Group lot of eight photos of world-renowned physicists, various finishes, ranging in size from 5 x 7 to 11 x 8.5, each signed in ink or felt tip by th
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Michael Pupin374 - Michael Pupin
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Serbian American physicist and physical chemist (1858–1935) who is best known for his numerous patents, including a means of greatly extending the ran
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Carl Sagan375 - Carl Sagan
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Signed book: Pale Blue Dot. First edition. NY: Random House, 1994. Hardcover with dust jacket, 7.5 x 9.5, 429 pages. Signed on the half-title page in
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William Shockley376 - William Shockley
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American physicist (1910–1989) who won the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics for his development of the transistor. Glossy 5 x 7 photo of Shockley posing wi
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Microdyne Spectrum Display Unit for Telemetry Receiver377 - Microdyne Spectrum Display Unit for Telemetry Receiver
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Microdyne 1161-S(A) Spectrum Display Unit for a telemetry receiver, measuring 7? x 2? x 16.5?, marked on the side as "Ser. No. 518." The f...
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Thunder Scientific Humidity Sensor378 - Thunder Scientific Humidity Sensor
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Humidity sensor manufactured by the Thunder Scientific Corp. of Albuquerque, marked as "Model 2300H1T21, Serial 2633." The main black box ...
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Clyde W. Tombaugh379 - Clyde W. Tombaugh
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Official color 10 x 8 NASA lithograph of an artist's conception of the planet Pluto, signed in black felt tip, "Discoverer of the 9th plane...
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W-P Instruments Window Discriminator380 - W-P Instruments Window Discriminator
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Window discriminator panel useful for nuclear and photon counting, manufactured by W-P Instruments of New Haven, Connecticut, measuring 19? x 3.5? x 7
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Aviation381 - Aviation
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Highly impressive archive of 20 items signed by some of history’s foremost aviation pioneers from America and Europe, consisting of letters, airmail c
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Aviation382 - Aviation
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Pair of two flown fabric presentations created by the Smithsonian Institution National Air and Space Museum with fabric removed during restoration of
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Irv Burrows383 - Irv Burrows
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Group of four color glossy 10 x 8 photos of a McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle, each signed in thin black felt tip by pilot Irv Burrows, who adds “F15 1st
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Paul Codos384 - Paul Codos
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French aviation pioneer (1896–1960) who set speed and endurance records for distance flights in the 1920s and 1930s. In December 1928, he set the worl
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Howard Hughes385 - Howard Hughes
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Fantastic vintage matte-finish 14 x 11 photo of Howard Hughes, Hap Arnold, and Oscar Westover together, signed in fountain pen by all three: "H...
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Albert Kimmerling386 - Albert Kimmerling
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French aviation pioneer (1882–1912) who made the first airplane flight in Africa on December 28, 1909, and was also involved in the first airplane cra
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Léon Letort387 - Léon Letort
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Pioneer French aviator (1889–1913) who set the world record for the greatest distance traveled non-stop, flying 950 kilometres (590 mi) in eight hours
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Charles Lindbergh388 - Charles Lindbergh
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Amazing vintage matte-finish 10 x 8 Underwood photo of Lindbergh posing with the Spirit of St. Louis, signed in fountain pen, "Charles A. Lindb...
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Charles Lindbergh389 - Charles Lindbergh
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Handsome vintage matte-finish 7 x 9.5 portrait of Lindbergh looking off camera, matted to an overall size of 10.25 x 12.5, signed and inscribed on the
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Charles Lindbergh390 - Charles Lindbergh
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Signed book: The Spirit of St. Louis. Limited presentation edition, number 766. NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1953. Hardcover with acetate jacket...
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Estimate : 800.00 - 1,000.00
 
 
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