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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Space Shuttle EMU Suit Upper Arm Assembly516 - Space Shuttle EMU Suit Upper Arm Assembly
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Partial Space Shuttle Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU) suit upper arm assembly, with a heavily worn ILC-Dover tag sewn outside the cuff, reading: ...
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Estimate : 300.00 - 500.00
 
 
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Space Shuttle EMU Suit Waist TMG517 - Space Shuttle EMU Suit Waist TMG
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Space Shuttle Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU) suit waist thermal micrometeoroid garment (TMG), with an ILC-Dover tag sewn inside: "Item: Wai...
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Space Shuttle Escape Crew Team Member Coverall Suit518 - Space Shuttle Escape Crew Team Member Coverall Suit
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Light brown coverall suit for a member of the Space Shuttle Crew Escape Team, size 50, featuring an American flag patch on the left shoulder, and a ...
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Space Shuttle Group of (3) Very Lightweight Headsets519 - Space Shuttle Group of (3) Very Lightweight Headsets
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Group of three variants of the Very Lightweight Headset (VLHS) unit designed for use on the Space Shuttle and International Space Station, two featuri
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Space Shuttle Handheld Microphone520 - Space Shuttle Handheld Microphone
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Handheld microphone designed for use on board the Space Shuttle, featuring a short 2.5? microphone boom attached to a blue anodized box with "X...
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Space Shuttle Multipurpose CIPAA Sack521 - Space Shuttle Multipurpose CIPAA Sack
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White multipurpose Cure In Place Ablator Applicator (CIPAA) sack, measuring approximately 23? long and 18? in diameter, with a tag sewn at one end: ...
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STS-7522 - STS-7
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Official color 10 x 8 NASA lithograph of the STS-7 crew in their blue flight suits, signed in felt tip by Sally Ride, Bob Crippen, Norm Thagard, John
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Test Pilots523 - Test Pilots
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Collection of 19 items signed by notable experimental test pilots, including: Forrest S. Petersen (SP), Slick Goodlin (two SPs and TLS), Robert Rushwo
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Thermal Micrometeoroid Garment Shell Sample524 - Thermal Micrometeoroid Garment Shell Sample
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Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU) space suit fabric shell sample, 6? x 4?, featuring eleven layers of material as used in the EMU soft suit: the whit
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X-15 Movie Collection525 - X-15 Movie Collection
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Collection of items associated with the 1961 dramatic aviation film X-15, starring David McLean, Charles Bronson, Mary Tyler Moore, Kenneth Tobey, and
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Yang Liwei526 - Yang Liwei
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First man sent into space by the Chinese space program (born 1965). Two items: a commemorative cover honoring the successful Shenzhou 5 mission, signe
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John Young527 - John Young
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Uncommon NASA recovery cover, 6.5 x 3.75, with a color cachet honoring the United States Navy Recovery Force of the Apollo 16 mission, postmarked on t
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Estimate : 500.00 - 700.00
 
 
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Jean-Michel Basquiat528 - Jean-Michel Basquiat
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Important African-American artist (1960–1988) who first achieved notoriety as part of the informal graffiti group SAMO before becoming internationally
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 2,000.00
 
 
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Gutzon Borglum529 - Gutzon Borglum
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American artist and sculptor (1867–1941) remembered for his creation of Mount Rushmore. Fountain pen signature and inscription, "To George Phil...
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Brassaï530 - Brassaï
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ALS in French, two pages, 8.5 x 11, June 4, 1973. Interesting letter about exhibitions in America, in part (translated): "We arrived so late to...
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Estimate : 300.00 - 500.00
 
 
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Alexander Calder531 - Alexander Calder
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Two items: an ALS, signed "Sandy Calder," one page, 8.5 x 11, December 26, 1954, addressed to "Dorothy," in full: "Balance ...
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Estimate : 1,500.00 - 2,000.00
 
 
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Salvador Dali532 - Salvador Dali
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Signed book: Dali: A Study of his Life and Work. First American edition. Greenwich, Connecticut: New York Graphic Society, 1958. Hardcover with dust j
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Estimate : 1,800.00 - 3,000.00
 
 
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Eugene Delacroix533 - Eugene Delacroix
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French artist (1798–1863) who takes a place in the first rank of painters in the Romantic tradition and whose mastery of color and technique inspired
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Estimate : 800.00 - 1,000.00
 
 
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Paul Gauguin534 - Paul Gauguin
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Important French post-Impressionist painter (1848–1903) recognized for his experimental use of color and synthetist style. In 1891, he traveled to Tah
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Estimate : 30,000.00 - 40,000.00
 
 
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Gustave Eiffel535 - Gustave Eiffel
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Extraordinary vintage sepia matte-finish 10 x 5.25 photo of the Eiffel Tower during construction in late 1887, depicting the tower's four massiv...
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Estimate : 5,000.00 - 7,000.00
 
 
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