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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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336 - Hugh L. ScottRR Auction
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
No Online Bidding For This LotEstimate : 200.00 - 400.00
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337 - AirshipsRR Auction
Group of six airship display items, including: a British World War I poster for the Daily Chronicle designed by Frank Brangwyn headed, "The Zep...
No Online Bidding For This LotEstimate : 200.00 - 400.00
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338 - AviationRR Auction
Group of eight aviation-related medals, including: a bronze medal honoring the 1948 dedication of New York International Airport, manufactured by Robb
No Online Bidding For This LotEstimate : 200.00 - 400.00
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339 - Italo BalboRR Auction
A silver medal honoring the tenth anniversary of Italo Balbo's 1933 transatlantic flight to the Chicago World's Fair. Silver (marked .800), ...
No Online Bidding For This LotEstimate : 200.00 - 400.00
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340 - Oswald BoelckeRR Auction
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
No Online Bidding For This LotEstimate : 200.00 - 400.00
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341 - Amelia EarhartRR Auction
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...
No Online Bidding For This LotEstimate : 700.00 - 900.00
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342 - Graf ZeppelinRR Auction
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
No Online Bidding For This LotEstimate : 200.00 - 400.00
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343 - Charles LindberghRR Auction
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
No Online Bidding For This LotEstimate : 600.00 - 800.00
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344 - Eddie RickenbackerRR Auction
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
No Online Bidding For This LotEstimate : 200.00 - 400.00
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345 - Gus GrissomRR Auction
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...
No Online Bidding For This LotEstimate : 400.00 - 600.00
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