RR Auction: Fine Autographs and Artifacts

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With over 750 outstanding lots, RR Auction’s October Fine Autograph and Artifact Auction opens with a remarkable featured section—‘Innovators of Man and Machine,’ boasting three centuries' worth of the world’s greatest minds: Bernoulli, Watt, Pasteur, Westinghouse, Edison, Einstein, Boeing, and Ferrari are among the autographs offered. The rest of the catalog provides a well-balanced assortment of items from presidents, Declaration of Independence signers, activists, businessmen, world leaders, royalty, military figures, artists, authors, musicians, entertainers, and athletes. A small sampling of top items in the sale: an Albert Einstein handwritten manuscript related to his work on a unified field theory; a 50-letter archive of letters from photographer Alfred Stieglitz to New Yorker critic Lewis Mumford; a Freud letter on the Oedipus complex; a musical quote from Verdi’s ‘La traviata’; a fully signed Beatles promo card; and a game-used baseball from the 1917 Tim Murnane Day benefit game played at Fenway Park. 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 October 2017.
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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Civil War326 - Civil War
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Collection of three signatures of Civil War generals on individual cards, including: an ink signature of George B. McClellan; a pencil signature of Wi
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Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
 
 
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Civil War327 - Civil War
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Colorful printed broadside headed "Soldiers Memorial," published at Portsmouth, Virginia, on March 25, 1864, to commemorate Company I of t...
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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John A. Dahlgren328 - John A. Dahlgren
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Naval leader (1809-1870) who headed the Union Navy's ordnance department during the Civil War and developed a number of guns and cannons. Civil ...
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Jefferson Davis329 - Jefferson Davis
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Pencil signature, "18 Upper Gloster Place, Dorset Sqr, Jefferson Davis,” on an off-white 3 x 1.5 slip. In very good condition, with light stain...
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Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
 
 
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John C. Fremont330 - John C. Fremont
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Prominent American explorer, military officer, and politician (1813–1890). Partly-printed DS, signed “Fremont & Morton, by J. C. Fremont, duly a...
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Mitsuo Fuchida331 - Mitsuo Fuchida
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One of Japan's most skilled fliers, Fuchida (1902–1976) commanded the air attack against Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, and was the last to l...
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Peyton C. March332 - Peyton C. March
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American soldier (1864–1955) who served as Army chief of staff during World War I, a position in which he reorganized the structure of the US Army. Vi
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Halbert E. Paine333 - Halbert E. Paine
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Union general who lost his leg at the Battle of Port Hudson, and was later elected to Congress (1826–1905). Partly-printed DS, signed “H. E. Paine,” o
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George E. Pickett334 - George E. Pickett
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Handwritten endorsement penned on the reverse of a letter sent to him by 2nd Lieutenant Thomas Gamble Pitcher, one page, 7.75 x 9.75, May 10, 1848. Pi
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,500.00
 
 
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Ernie Pyle335 - Ernie Pyle
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Union Trust Company of the District of Columbia check, 6.25 x 2.75, filled out and signed by Pyle, "Ernest T. Pyle," payable to Rosamond G...
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Hugh L. Scott336 - Hugh L. Scott
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Career soldier (1853–1934) who served as superintendent of West Point from 1906 to 1910 and as Army chief of staff from 1914 to 1917; in this position
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Airships337 - Airships
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Group of six airship display items, including: a British World War I poster for the Daily Chronicle designed by Frank Brangwyn headed, "The Zep...
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Aviation338 - Aviation
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Group of eight aviation-related medals, including: a bronze medal honoring the 1948 dedication of New York International Airport, manufactured by Robb
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Italo Balbo339 - Italo Balbo
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A silver medal honoring the tenth anniversary of Italo Balbo's 1933 transatlantic flight to the Chicago World's Fair. Silver (marked .800), ...
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Oswald Boelcke340 - Oswald Boelcke
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A bronze medal honoring German flying ace Captain Oswald Boelcke, who was shot down and killed on October 28, 1916. Bronze, 89 mm, 208 gm. The front f
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Amelia Earhart341 - Amelia Earhart
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Signed book: The Fun of It: Random Records of My Own Flying and of Women in Aviation. First edition. NY: Brewer, Warren & Putnam, 1932. Hardcove...
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Estimate : 700.00 - 900.00
 
 
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Graf Zeppelin342 - Graf Zeppelin
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Copper badge from the 1929 world tour of the Graf Zeppelin, measuring 1.75? in diameter, featuring a white enamel border with the names of the cities
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Charles Lindbergh343 - Charles Lindbergh
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Signed book: Profile of America. First edition, first printing. NY: Studio Publications, 1954. Hardcover with dust jacket, 7.25 x 10.25, 415 pages. Si
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Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
 
 
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Eddie Rickenbacker344 - Eddie Rickenbacker
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TLS, one page, 7.25 x 10.5, Eastern Air Lines letterhead, April 26, 1944. Letter to John W. Snyder of the First National Bank in St. Louis, who would
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Gus Grissom345 - Gus Grissom
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National Bank of Fort Sam Houston check, 6.25 x 2.75, filled out and signed by Grissom, "Virgil I. Grissom," payable to the Desert Sands M...
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Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
 
 
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