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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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285 - George Foster PeabodyRR Auction
American banker and philanthropist (1852–1938) remembered for endowing the George Foster Peabody Awards (commonly called the Peabody Awards), which ho
No Online Bidding For This LotEstimate : 200.00 - 400.00
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287 - Princess Diana TributeRR Auction
Signed book: Earl Spencer's Tribute to Diana Princess of Wales. England: Althorp, 1997. Silk-bound hardcover, 8 x 10.75, 25 pages. Signed and in...
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288 - Joseph PulitzerRR Auction
Office of the Post–Dispatch business check, 8 x 3.25, filled out in another hand and signed by Pulitzer as president, payable to State Savings Associa
No Online Bidding For This LotEstimate : 200.00 - 400.00
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289 - George PullmanRR Auction
American inventor and industrialist (1831-1897) best known for developing the first successful railroad sleeping car. DS, signed “Geo. M. Pullman,” on
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291 - Syngman RheeRR Auction
Cover of Independence Magazine from July 1953, 5.5 x 8, signed at the bottom in fountain pen by Syngman Rhee. A typed inscription above the signature
No Online Bidding For This LotEstimate : 200.00 - 400.00
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292 - George Graham RiceRR Auction
Convicted stock swindler known as the 'Jackal of Wall Street' (1870–1943). Choice partly-printed DS, signed “G. G. Rice,” one page, 11.5 x 8...
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293 - William RockefellerRR Auction
Prominent American businessman (1841–1922) who co-founded Standard Oil along with his older brother John D. Rockefeller, and also had interests in min
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294 - Jack RubyRR Auction
Ervay Theatre business check, 8 x 3, filled out in another hand and signed by Ruby, payable to Film Forwarding Co. for $7.21, September 24, 1953. In f
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