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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U. S. Grant103 - U. S. Grant
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Civil War-dated ALS signed “U. S. Grant, Lt. Gen.,” one page, 7.25 x 4, docketed November 20, 1864. Letter to a "Provost Marshal" in Balti...
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,500.00
 
 
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U. S. Grant104 - U. S. Grant
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LS, one page, 8.25 x 11, Mexican Southern Railroad Company letterhead, April 5, 1883. Letter to J. N. Burritt, in full: "Your favor of March 31...
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Estimate : 800.00 - 1,200.00
 
 
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U. S. Grant105 - U. S. Grant
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Partly-printed DS as president, one page, 22 x 17, August 8, 1877. Four-language ship’s papers issued to Charles Grant, "master or commander of...
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Estimate : 500.00 - 700.00
 
 
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Rutherford B. Hayes106 - Rutherford B. Hayes
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Partly-printed DS as president, signed “R. B. Hayes,” one page, 21 x 16, February 9, 1880. President Hayes appoints Speed S. Fry of Danville, Kentucky
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Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
 
 
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James A. Garfield107 - James A. Garfield
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ALS signed “J. A. Garfield,” one page, 5 x 7.75, Fortieth Congress, US House of Representatives letterhead, March 12, 1869. Letter to Secretary of the
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Estimate : 1,500.00 - 2,000.00
 
 
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James A. Garfield108 - James A. Garfield
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Signed book: A Copious and Critical Latin-English Lexicon by E. A. Andrews. NY: Harper & Brothers, 1858. Leatherbound hardcover, 7.25 x 10.25, 1...
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,500.00
 
 
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Chester A. Arthur109 - Chester A. Arthur
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Partly-printed DS as president, one page, 15 x 19, January 30, 1884. President Arthur appoints Robert H. Hall as "Major of the Twenty-second Re...
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,500.00
 
 
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William McKinley110 - William McKinley
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Signed book: Speeches and Addresses of William McKinley. Later printing. NY: D. Appleton and Company, 1894. Hardcover, 6.5 x 9.25, 664 pages. Boldly s
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Estimate : 3,000.00 - 4,000.00
 
 
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William McKinley111 - William McKinley
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Partly-printed DS as president, one page, 21 x 16, August 30, 1899. President McKinley appoints Conant S. Buttrick as "First Lieutenant in the ...
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Theodore Roosevelt113 - Theodore Roosevelt
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TLS, one page, 8.5 x 11, December 28, 1898. Letter to historian William Laird Clowes, in full: “I understand your third volume is very nearly out. Par
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Estimate : 6,500.00 - 7,500.00
 
 
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Theodore Roosevelt114 - Theodore Roosevelt
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TLS as president, two pages, 8 x 10.5, White House letterhead, October 13, 1906. Letter to Judson C. Clements, acting chairman of the Interstate Comme
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Estimate : 800.00 - 1,000.00
 
 
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William H. Taft115 - William H. Taft
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Signed book: Present Day Problems. First edition. NY: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1908. Hardcover, 5.25 x 7.75, 355 pages. Neatly signed on the first ...
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,500.00
 
 
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William H. Taft116 - William H. Taft
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TLS signed “Wm. H. Taft,” three pages, 8 x 10.5, personal letterhead, August 6, 1915. Letter to newspaper correspondent Gus J. Karger, in part: &quo...
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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William H. Taft117 - William H. Taft
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TLS signed “Wm. H. Taft,” one page, 7 x 9.25, personal letterhead, May 3, 1915. Letter to his former private secretary, Charles D. Hilles, in full: ...
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Estimate : 300.00 - 500.00
 
 
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Woodrow Wilson118 - Woodrow Wilson
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Signed book: The New Freedom. Later printing. NY and Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1914. Hardcover, 5.5 x 7.5, 294 pages. Boldly signe...
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,500.00
 
 
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Franklin D. Roosevelt119 - Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Incredible original "D–Day Prayer" lithographic broadside presented to members of the White House staff by President Franklin D. Roosevelt...
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Estimate : 4,000.00 - 6,000.00
 
 
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Franklin D. Roosevelt120 - Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Twice-signed DS, one page, 8.5 x 3.75, February 1, 1927. Promissory note signed by Roosevelt as president of the Georgia Warm Springs Foundation for r
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,500.00
 
 
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Franklin D. Roosevelt121 - Franklin D. Roosevelt
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TLS, one page, 8.5 x 11, Harvard Class of 1904, Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Reunion letterhead, May 23, 1929. Letter for his Harvard classmates, in part:
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Estimate : 800.00 - 1,000.00
 
 
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Harry S. Truman122 - Harry S. Truman
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Four items signed by Truman: an ALS signed “Harry,” one page, 8.5 x 11, Grand Lodge of Missouri letterhead, November 27, 1940. Letter to John W. Snyde
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Estimate : 3,000.00 - 3,500.00
 
 
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Harry S. Truman123 - Harry S. Truman
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TLS as president, one page, 8 x 10.5, White House letterhead, July 16, 1948. Memorandum for the director of the Bureau of the Budget, James E. Webb. I
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Estimate : 1,600.00 - 1,800.00
 
 
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