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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Oskar Schindler122 - Oskar Schindler
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German industrialist (1908–1974) credited with saving almost 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust by employing them in his enamelware and ammunitions facto
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Estimate : 25,000.00 - 35,000.00
 
 
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Anna Howard Shaw123 - Anna Howard Shaw
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Leader of the women's suffrage movement in the United States (1847–1919) who was also a physician and one of the first ordained female Methodist...
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Estimate : 800.00 - 1,000.00
 
 
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Raoul Wallenberg124 - Raoul Wallenberg
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Scarce DS in German and Hungarian, quickly signed with an ink scribble "R" (as he commonly did on documents of this type), one page, 8.25 ...
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Estimate : 6,000.00 - 8,000.00
 
 
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John Jay125 - John Jay
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Manuscript DS, one page, 20 x 14, March 20, 1797. As governor of New York, Jay appoints 24 judges to "keep our peace in the County of Delaware....
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Estimate : 1,500.00 - 2,000.00
 
 
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Charles Darwin126 - Charles Darwin
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ALS, one page, 5 x 8, personal letterhead, February 3, 1876. Letter sending his autograph, in full: "I assure you that I have not received one ...
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Estimate : 8,000.00 - 10,000.00
 
 
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Thomas Edison127 - Thomas Edison
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Tremendous partly printed DS, signed “Thomas Alva Edison,” six total pages, 7.75 x 12.75, October 28, 1882. A patent application for the “Improvements
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Estimate : 12,000.00 - 15,000.00
 
 
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Thomas Edison128 - Thomas Edison
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Enormous matte-finish 13.5 x 16.75 photographic reproduction of a painting of Edison, affixed to a 14.75 x 18.5 mount, signed and inscribed on the mou
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Estimate : 1,500.00 - 2,000.00
 
 
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Albert Einstein129 - Albert Einstein
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Significant handwritten calculations in pencil by Albert Einstein, one page, 8 x 10, for his 1941 paper 'On the Five-Dimensional Representation ...
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Estimate : 40,000.00 - 50,000.00
 
 
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Albert Einstein130 - Albert Einstein
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Superb glossy 9.5 x 7.75 photo of the Einsteins watching the Rose Parade in the office of John Willis Baer on January 1, 1931, affixed to a 9.75 x 9.2
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Estimate : 6,000.00 - 8,000.00
 
 
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Albert Einstein131 - Albert Einstein
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TLS in German, signed "A. Einstein," one page, 8.5 x 11, October 8, 1952. A letter recommending the work of Dr. Paul Rosenstein, in full (...
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Estimate : 4,000.00 - 6,000.00
 
 
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Albert Einstein132 - Albert Einstein
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TLS in German, signed “A. Einstein,” one page, 8.25 x 10.25, blind-stamped personal letterhead, June 23, 1939. Letter to Edward Barsky of the Medial A
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Estimate : 3,000.00 - 5,000.00
 
 
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Albert Einstein133 - Albert Einstein
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TLS in German, signed “A. Einstein,” one page, 8.5 x 11, blindstamped Princeton letterhead, October 29, 1940. Letter to Miss Betty Neumann, in full (t
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Estimate : 2,000.00 - 4,000.00
 
 
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Richard Feynman134 - Richard Feynman
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American theoretical physicist (1918-1988) whose work in quantum electrodynamics earned him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965; he is often credited f
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Estimate : 8,000.00 - 10,000.00
 
 
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Sigmund Freud135 - Sigmund Freud
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TLS in German, signed "Freud," one page, 5.75 x 8.75, personal letterhead, September 13, 1924. Letter to a doctor, in part (translated): &...
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Estimate : 5,000.00 - 6,000.00
 
 
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Sigmund Freud136 - Sigmund Freud
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Fabulous thank-you card sent following his 80th birthday, 6 x 4.75, May 1936, signed in fountain pen, "Freud." The printed text, in German...
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Estimate : 2,000.00 - 4,000.00
 
 
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Sigmund Freud137 - Sigmund Freud
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ALS in German, signed “Freud,” penned on the reverse of a 4 x 2 business card belonging to the recipient, his assistant, Dr. Paul Federn, January 2, 1
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Estimate : 5,000.00 - 7,000.00
 
 
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Pope Francis138 - Pope Francis
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Official color glossy 8 x 5.5 photo of the future Pope Francis kneeling before and embracing Pope John Paul II, taken by a Vatican photographer, signe
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,500.00
 
 
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Pope Pius XII139 - Pope Pius XII
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Pope Pius XII's personally-owned and -worn white zucchetto skullcap, measuring 6.5? in diameter, with a suede white lining and white moire silk ...
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Estimate : 3,000.00 - 5,000.00
 
 
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Camp David Accords140 - Camp David Accords
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FDC with a cachet honoring the 50th Anniversary of Lions International Search for Peace, signed in various ink types by Jimmy Carter, Menachem Begin,
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Estimate : 1,500.00 - 2,000.00
 
 
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Fidel Castro141 - Fidel Castro
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DS in Spanish, two pages, 9 x 13.75, July 18, 1959. Ministerial decree, No. 460, which declares (translated): "The Cuban Sugar Establishment In...
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Estimate : 300.00 - 500.00
 
 
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