RR Auction: Fine Autographs and Artifacts

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With an opening section chronicling the history of science and technology, this month’s RR Auction Fine Autograph and Artifact sale boasts over 800 extraordinary lots. Among the highlights offered are an Einstein autograph letter, lunar surface–flown items, a historic letter signed by King Henry VIII, and a vast selection of animation artwork. RR Auction is a globally recognized and trusted auction house specializing in rare and remarkable documents, manuscripts, autographs, and historical artifacts. Join us as we make history selling history in December 2016.
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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Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter156 - Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter
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Set of twelve copies of Everything to Gain, each hardcover with dust jacket, signed on the first free end page in ink or felt tip by Jimmy and Rosalyn
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Ronald Reagan157 - Ronald Reagan
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Menu program for the testimonial dinner of Senator Jack Schrade at the Town and Convention Center in San Diego, California, on September 17, 1971, mea
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Ronald Reagan158 - Ronald Reagan
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United Airlines ‘Ocean to Ocean Service’ menu, 7.5 x 11, signed on the front cover in black ballpoint by Reagan. In fine condition. Collector’s ink no
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Bill Clinton159 - Bill Clinton
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Large color semi-glossy 18.5 x 23 photo of Clinton taking the Oath of Office at the US Capitol on January 20, 1993, signed and inscribed on the presen
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Hillary Clinton160 - Hillary Clinton
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Signed book: Living History. NY: Simon & Schuster, 2003. Hardcover with dust jacket, 6.5 x 9.5, 562 pages. Signed on the title page in black fel...
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Hillary Clinton161 - Hillary Clinton
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Signed book: Hard Choices. First edition. NY: Simon & Schuster, 2014. Hardcover with dust jacket, 6.5 x 9.5, 635 pages. Signed on the first free...
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Hillary Clinton162 - Hillary Clinton
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TLS signed “Hillary Rodham Clinton,” one page, 6.25 x 8.5, personal letterhead, January 5, 1996. Letter to Dr. Urie Bronfenbrenner, in part: “It Takes
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Hillary Clinton163 - Hillary Clinton
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Official US Senate business card, 3.5 x 2, quickly signed in blue felt tip by Hillary Clinton. In fine condition.
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Hillary Clinton165 - Hillary Clinton
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Signed book: It Takes a Village. Tenth anniversary edition, first printing. NY: Simon & Schuster, 2006. Hardcover with dust jacket, 6.75 x 9.5, ...
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Barack Obama166 - Barack Obama
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Color satin-finish 8 x 10 photo of Obama as senator, signed and inscribed in black felt tip, “To Ray—Best wishes! Barack Obama.” In fine condition.
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Estimate : 800.00 - 1,000.00
 
 
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Barack Obama167 - Barack Obama
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Signed book: The Audacity of Hope. First edition. NY: Crown Publishers, 2006. Hardcover with dust jacket, 6.5 x 9.5, 375 pages. Signed on the title pa
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Carters, Bushes, and Ford169 - Carters, Bushes, and Ford
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Grouping of 15 books, all hardcovers with dust jackets, each signed by one or more members of a presidential family, including: a first edition of Eve
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Presidents and First Ladies170 - Presidents and First Ladies
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Collection of five items, primarily consisting of checks, including: a bank check made payable to Jimmy Carter, endorsed on the reverse, “J. E. Carter
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Benjamin Franklin171 - Benjamin Franklin
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Partly-printed DS, signed “B. Franklin Presid.,” one page, 14.75 x 9, May 12, 1786. As president of the Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania, Fra
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Estimate : 10,000.00 - 15,000.00
 
 
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Edward Rutledge172 - Edward Rutledge
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American politician from South Carolina who was the youngest signer of the Declaration of Independence (1749–1800). Two ink signatures, “E. Rutledge,”
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Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
 
 
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Francis Hopkinson173 - Francis Hopkinson
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Revolutionary War-dated ALS signed “Fr. Hopkinson,” three pages on two adjoining sheets, measures 12.5 x 8 open, March 29, 1776. Letter to his sister,
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Charles Calvert174 - Charles Calvert
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The third baron of Baltimore (1637–1715) who inherited the colony in 1675 upon the death of his father, Cecil Calvert; he served as the governor of Ma
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,500.00
 
 
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Alexander Hamilton175 - Alexander Hamilton
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Uncommon ALS signed “A. Hamilton,” one page, 6.25 x 8, May 4, 1798. Request letter written to Richard Varick, in full: “A friend of mine has a sudden
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Estimate : 5,000.00 - 6,000.00
 
 
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Alexander Hamilton176 - Alexander Hamilton
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Extremely desirable crisp ink signature, “Free, A. Hamilton,” on an off-white 2.5 x 1.5 slip clipped from a free frank. In fine condition, with a ligh
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,500.00
 
 
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Robert Todd Lincoln177 - Robert Todd Lincoln
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Attractive 2.5 x 4 carte-de-visite head-and-shoulders portrait of Lincoln, signed in ink, “Robert T. Lincoln.” Reverse bears a “Collection of American
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Francis W. Pickens178 - Francis W. Pickens
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Governor of South Carolina when that state became the first to secede from the USA (1805–1869). Early Civil War-dated ALS signed “F. W. Pickens,” one
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Edmund Randolph179 - Edmund Randolph
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American politician (1753–1813) who served as both attorney general and secretary of state in George Washington’s cabinet. Third-person ALS signed “E.
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Daniel Webster180 - Daniel Webster
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Amusing ALS signed “Danl Webster,” four pages on two adjoining sheets, 4.25 x 6.75, no date. A letter to his cook, Monica McCarty, headed “Chowder,” i
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Susan B. Anthony181 - Susan B. Anthony
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National-American Woman Suffrage Association check, 6.25 x 2.5, filled out in another hand and signed by Anthony, payable to United Typewriter &...
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Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
 
 
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Helen Keller182 - Helen Keller
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TLS, two pages on two adjoining sheets, 7.75 x 9.5, July 1, 1923. Letter to Betsy, in part: “Your telegram on my birthday made me very happy. I am ama
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Helen Keller183 - Helen Keller
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AQS in pencil on an off-white 5.5. x 3.5 card, in full: “Every brave deed wrought for freedom is a star pointing to victory, Helen Keller.” In very fi
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Helen Keller184 - Helen Keller
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TLS, one page, 7.75 x 9.5, December 3 [1922]. Letter to Mora H. Henderson, in full: “You were indeed most kind to send me the book, ‘Answers to Questi
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Helen Keller185 - Helen Keller
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ALS in pencil, one page both sides, 5.25 x 3.5, Denver’s The Brown Palace Hotel letterhead, February 14, 1914. Letter to Miss Hortop, in full: “It was
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Martin Luther King, Jr186 - Martin Luther King, Jr
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Vintage ballpoint signature, “Best Wishes, Martin Luther King, Jr.,” on the reverse of a color 5.5 x 3.5 American Airlines postcard. A notation in the
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Estimate : 2,500.00 - 3,500.00
 
 
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Nelson Mandela187 - Nelson Mandela
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Signed book: Long Walk to Freedom. Collector’s Edition. Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, 2000. Leatherbound hardcover, 6.25 x 9.5, 558 pages. Signed on the
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Estimate : 1,300.00 - 1,500.00
 
 
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Nelson Mandela188 - Nelson Mandela
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Appealing glossy 8 x 10.5 photo of Mandela sparring with Jerry Moloi, a professional featherweight, at Moloi's boxing gym in Orlando, Soweto, si...
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Estimate : 800.00 - 1,000.00
 
 
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Hugo Black189 - Hugo Black
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ALS signed “H. B.,” one page, 4 x 5.5, Supreme Court of the United States Memorandum letterhead, October 14, 1947. Letter to Justice Frank Murphy abou
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,500.00
 
 
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Supreme Court190 - Supreme Court
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Impressive set of three engravings: an original 12.75 x 16.75 engraved portrait of Chief Justice E. B White, signed in the lower border in pencil by W
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Benjamin Cardozo191 - Benjamin Cardozo
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Vintage matte-finish 9 x 12.25 seated portrait of Justice Cardozo by Harris & Ewing, signed and inscribed in the lower border in fountain pen, “...
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Bushrod Washington192 - Bushrod Washington
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US Supreme Court associate justice (1762–1829) and the nephew of George Washington. Autograph check, 7.75 x 2.5, filled out entirely in Washington’s h
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Jay Gould193 - Jay Gould
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Financier (1836–1892) known for his stock market manipulation of railroad securities; he also tried to corner the gold market, leading to the ‘Black F
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Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
 
 
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William Randolph Hearst194 - William Randolph Hearst
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Seven pages of poetry handwritten by Hearst, the first in pencil on five sheets and the other in ink on two sheets. The pencil poem, apparently an ode
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Joseph Pulitzer195 - Joseph Pulitzer
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Collection of three DSs by Pulitzer and his sons, 15.25 x 8, dated 1885–1915, all being stock certificates for The Press Publishing Company, retaining
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Estimate : 1,500.00 - 2,000.00
 
 
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Robert Solow196 - Robert Solow
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Economist (born 1924) known for his work on the theory of economic growth who was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1987. Handw
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Sigmund Freud197 - Sigmund Freud
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Signed book: Neue Folge der Vorlesungen zur Einführung in die Psychoanalyse [New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis]. Vienna: Internation...
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Estimate : 6,000.00 - 8,000.00
 
 
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Jan Tinbergen198 - Jan Tinbergen
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Dutch economist (1903–1994) known for the development and application of dynamic models for the analysis of economic processes, who was awarded the No
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Estimate : 300.00 - 500.00
 
 
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Pope John Paul II199 - Pope John Paul II
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DS in Polish, signed “Karol card. Wojtyla,” one page, 8 x 11.5, January 29, 1977. An official decree, in part (translated): "Taking into the ac...
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Estimate : 800.00 - 1,200.00
 
 
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Pope John Paul II200 - Pope John Paul II
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TLS in Polish, signed “Karol card. Wojtyla,” one page, 6 x 4, personal letterhead, August 11, 1969. In full (translated): "Thank you very much ...
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Winston Churchill201 - Winston Churchill
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Coveted ink signature, “W. S. Churchill,” on an off-white 2.5 x 2 slip affixed to a light pink 4.75 x 3.75 album page bearing a clipped image and coll
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,500.00
 
 
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Benjamin Disraeli202 - Benjamin Disraeli
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Grouping of fourteen ALSs signed “B. Disraeli” and “D,” fifty-nine pages in total, most approximately 4.5 x 7.25, dated between August 1868 and June 1
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Emperor Meiji203 - Emperor Meiji
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DS in Japanese, one page, 22.75 x 17.75, circa 1890–1912. Untranslated document in which the emperor of Japan confers the Order of the Golden Kite upo
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Estimate : 5,000.00 - 6,000.00
 
 
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Mohandas Gandhi204 - Mohandas Gandhi
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Unique certificate of appreciation presented to “Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi,” unsigned, one page, 12.5 x 9.25, October 15, 1901. Certificate bestowed
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,500.00
 
 
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Mohandas Gandhi205 - Mohandas Gandhi
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Immensely desirable vintage glossy 10.25 x 8 photo of Mohandas Gandhi walking alongside Madan Mohan Malaviya after the second session of India’s Round
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Syngman Rhee206 - Syngman Rhee
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TLS, one page, 7.25 x 10.25, Kyung Mu Dai letterhead, September 8, 1955. Letter to C. D. Batchelder of the Daly News, in part: “I have received your d
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Ferdinand and Isabella207 - Ferdinand and Isabella
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LS in Spanish, signed by Ferdinand, “Yo el Rey,” and Isabella, “Yo la Reyna,” one page, 8.25 x 8.5, July 26, 1494. Letter sent to Juan Arias de Villar
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