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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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255 - Chiang Kai-shekRR Auction
Matte-finish 3.75 x 5.75 head-and-shoulders photo of Chiang Kai-shek, signed in fountain pen in Chinese. Reverse bears a Hu Chung Hsien photography st
No Online Bidding For This LotEstimate : 400.00 - 600.00
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257 - Jacques CousteauRR Auction
Glossy 5 x 7 close-up photo of the esteemed explorer and researcher, signed and inscribed in black felt tip, "To Jurgen Schwartz! J. Y. Coustea...
No Online Bidding For This LotEstimate : 200.00 - 400.00
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258 - Ngalandou DioufRR Auction
First African elected official from the advent of colonialism in the territory of French West Africa (1875–1941). Vintage glossy 4.75 x 6.5 profile po
No Online Bidding For This LotEstimate : 200.00 - 400.00
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259 - Benjamin DisraeliRR Auction
Scarce 1880 transferable ticket to the Royal Horticultural Society, 3.25 x 2, issued as No. 548, signed in the lower right in black ink as prime minis
No Online Bidding For This LotEstimate : 200.00 - 400.00
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260 - Charles DowRR Auction
American journalist (1851-1902) who co-founded Dow Jones & Company, created the Wall Street Journal, and conceived the influential Dow Jones Ind...
No Online Bidding For This LotEstimate : 200.00 - 400.00
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261 - Henry A. DuPontRR Auction
American soldier and statesman (1838–1926), grandson of the founder of the DuPont gunpowder and chemical fortune, who won the Medal of Honor for his s
No Online Bidding For This LotEstimate : 200.00 - 400.00
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262 - Albert GallatinRR Auction
Politician and financial genius (1761-1849) responsible for the formation of what is now known as the Ways and Means Committee. LS as secretary of the
No Online Bidding For This LotEstimate : 200.00 - 400.00
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263 - J. Paul GettyRR Auction
Personal trust check, 8.5 x 3.25, filled out in type and signed by Getty, "Jean Paul Getty," payable to Thorncrest School for Boys for $10...
No Online Bidding For This LotEstimate : 200.00 - 400.00
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264 - J. Paul GettyRR Auction
Early partly-printed DS, one page, 11 x 8.25, June 9, 1921. Stock certificate for 100 shares of the Oklahoma Oil Corporation issued to R. M. Monroe, s
No Online Bidding For This LotEstimate : 200.00 - 400.00
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