RR Auction: Fine Autographs and Artifacts

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RR Auction's March Fine Autograph and Artifact sale is highlighted by a featured literature section, offering a remarkable array of autographs from literary legends—from American icons like F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Mark Twain, and Henry David Thoreau, to world-renowned authors such as Leo Tolstoy, Boris Pasternak, Victor Hugo, Vladimir Nabokov, and Maxim Gorky, it is a robust selection of exemplary material. Political leaders are also well-represented, with outstanding items including signatures of Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai, autograph letters by Vladimir Lenin, a letter signed by Sun Yat-sen, and a superb George Washington document associated with the Revolutionary War. Rounding out the catalog are items from the realms of music, Hollywood, sports, art, space, and aviation. 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 March 2019.
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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Jefferson Davis263 - Jefferson Davis
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Desirable autograph endorsement, "Approved, Jeffer. Davis, Sec'y of War," on the reverse of a letter sent to him by Chief of Ordnance ...
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Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
 
 
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Abner Doubleday264 - Abner Doubleday
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Union general (1819–1893) who commanded a division at Gettysburg and has controversially been credited with the invention of baseball. ALS, one page,
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Estimate : 1,500.00 - 2,000.00
 
 
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Nathaniel Lyon265 - Nathaniel Lyon
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Veteran of the Seminole and Mexican-American Wars (1818–1861) who was the first Union general to be killed in the American Civil War and is noted for
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,500.00
 
 
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Montgomery of Alamein266 - Montgomery of Alamein
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Souvenir typescript, one page, 8 x 11.5, signed at the conclusion in fountain pen, "Montgomery of Alamein, F.M., 1971." The "Instrume...
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Estimate : 1,200.00 - 1,500.00
 
 
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Chester Nimitz267 - Chester Nimitz
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ALS signed “C. W. Nimitz,” one page both sides, 8 x 10.5, personal letterhead, June 11, 1958. Letter to Robert R. Gros, in full: "Thank you for...
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Estimate : 800.00 - 1,000.00
 
 
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Chester Nimitz268 - Chester Nimitz
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Historic matte-finish 7 x 6 photo of Chester Nimitz signing the Japanese surrender aboard the USS Missouri on September 2, 1945, signed and inscribed
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Estimate : 1,500.00 - 2,000.00
 
 
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WWII Army Air Forces A-2 Jacket269 - WWII Army Air Forces A-2 Jacket
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Fantastic World War II–era type A-2 leather flight jacket, with the owner's name and serial number, "Fred R. Schaeffer, 35151402," wri...
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Estimate : 2,000.00 - 4,000.00
 
 
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Napoleon270 - Napoleon
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Manuscript DS, in French, signed “Np,” three pages on two adjoining sheets, 8.25 x 12.25, December 18, 1811. Official military document signed by the
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Estimate : 2,000.00 - 2,500.00
 
 
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Napoleon271 - Napoleon
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Partly-printed DS in French, signed “Napole,” one page, 14 x 19, January 11, 1813. Untranslated special license to trade outside the continental block
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 2,000.00
 
 
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Napoleon272 - Napoleon
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Partly-printed vellum DS, signed “Napole,” one page, 20.25 x 14.75, February 14, 1810. Document naming Alexandre Joseph Hypolite de Lachau as "...
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Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
 
 
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