RR Auction: Fine Autographs and Artifacts

Grouping of 7 FDCs and commemorative covers postmarked between 1941 and 1979, individually signed in ink or fountain pen by a former American presiden

Grouping of six FDCs and mailing envelopes signed in ink or felt tip by a former American president, including: Jimmy Carter, Calvin Coolidge, Gerald

Color satin-finish 8 x 10 photo of the first lady, signed and inscribed in black felt tip, "To Samuel Kloda, Best Wishes, Nancy Reagan.” ...

Official Rawlings American League (Brown) baseball signed in blue ballpoint on the sweet spot by Ronald Reagan. In fine condition. A rarely seen examp

Ballpoint signature, "Ronald Reagan,” on an off-white 4 x 5.25 sheet of White House stationery. In fine condition.

Invitation card for the inaugural swearing-in ceremony of President Ronald Reagan and Vice President George Bush on January 20, 1981, 7 x 3.5, signed

Color satin-finish 10 x 8 photo of President Reagan conversing with Michigan Governor William Milliken, calligraphically inscribed in the lower border

Vintage ballpoint signatures, "Ronald Reagan" and "Nancy Davis Reagan," on individual off-white 4.75 x 3 album pages. In fine co...

Color glossy 8 x 10 photo of President Reagan giving a speech with Vice President Bush in the background, signed in black felt tip, "Ronald Rea...

White House card, 4.25 x 2.75, signed neatly in ink by First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. In very fine condition. Accompanied by the original White House m

Vintage matte-finish 10 x 8 photo of Roosevelt posing with celebrities including Ray Bolger, Joe E. Brown, Janet Gaynor, Fredric March, and Eleanor Po

Grouping of four items signed in ink or fountain pen by Eleanor Roosevelt, including: three commemorative covers honoring her husband Franklin D. Roos

Three items: a pair of limited issue FDC souvenir sheets with affixed stamps honoring her late husband, postmarked on August 24, 1945, both signed bel

TLS, one page, 6 x 9.25, White House letterhead, October 31, 1941. Letter to Frank Peterson, deputy mayor of Los Angeles, in full: "I agree wit...

Superb White House card, 4.25 x 2.75, signed beautifully in bold fountain pen by Franklin D. Roosevelt. In very fine condition. Accompanied by the ori

Highly desirable engraved portrait of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, 11 x 13, signed below the image in fountain pen as president. Includes the orig

TLS as president, one page, 7 x 8.75, White House letterhead, August 29, 1938. Letter to Frederick B. Adams, Jr., in part: "I have put off sign...

Large partly-printed DS as president, one page, 22.5 x 18.5, February 26, 1936. President Roosevelt appoints William J. Farley, of Connecticut as &q...

TLS, one page, 7.25 x 8.75, State of New York Executive Chamber letterhead, April 13, 1932. Letter to William Fales, who asked FDR about how he intend

Original mailing envelope from the personal collection of Franklin D. Roosevelt, auctioned at H. R. Harmer in 1946 by his widow Eleanor Roosevelt. The

TLS as president, one page, 7 x 9, White House letterhead, June 28, 1902. Letter to Julia Dent Grant, the widow of U. S. Grant. In full: "Your ...

High-quality booklet published by Woodbury-Carlton Co. entitled "Souvenir of President Roosevelt's Visit to Gardner" on September 2, 1...

Program in Latin for the 1905 Harvard University commencement, 8 x 10.75, 20 pages, listing Theodore Roosevelt as a speaker. Also includes an admissio

Two off-white cards, 3.5 x 2.5 and 4.25 x 2.5, individually signed in fountain pen, "Wm. H. Taft" and "Helen H. Taft, Washington.&quo...

TLS signed “Wm. H. Taft,” one page, 5.75 x 7.75, Supreme Court of the United States letterhead, September 17, 1926. Written from Poi

Rare endorsed The First National bank check, 6.5 x 2.75, filled out and signed by W. B. Taylor, payable to Wm. H. Taft for $300, October 9, 1916. Endo

Partly-printed vellum DS as president, signed “Wm. H. Taft,” one page, 15.5 x 19.5, December 22, 1910. President Taft appoints Henry

World War I-dated TLS signed “Wm. H. Taft,” one page, 7 x 9.25, personal letterhead, April 21, 1918. Letter to Cornelius N. Bliss, J

Four commemorative covers with cachets honoring President Harry S. Truman, postmarked between 1972 and 1976, each signed in black felt tip, “

Two items: an ALS signed “Bess W. Truman,” one page, 6 x 9.25, no date [1956], personal letterhead, addressed to Lionel Aucoin of Sp

Crisp pair of White House cards, both 4 x 2.5, individually signed and inscribed in fountain pen as president and first lady, "Best wishes to L...

Two signed books: Memoirs by Harry S. Truman, Year of Decisions and Years of Trial and Hope. First editions. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1955 and 1956

TLS, one page, 8.5 x 11, Grand Lodge of Missouri, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons letterhead, April 2, 1941. Letter to the Illmo, Missouri, lodge sec

City Bank of Kansas City check, 6.25 x 2.75, filled out and signed by Harry S. Truman, payable to Ray Bengert for $5, June 29, 1925. In fine condition

Uncommon vintage matte-finish 6 x 3.5 postcard photo of the Kansas City skyline, bearing a first day cancellation and centennial stamp, postmarked Jun

FDC with a cachet honoring the 80th anniversary of the Pony Express Mail Service, postmarked April 3, 1940, signed in fountain pen, "Harry S. T...

Rare limited edition ‘Victory in Europe’ cover with a printed cachet, numbered 51/60, with cachet no. “V-E-D-1,’ p

Three off-white 3.5 x 2.5 cards bearing affixed foreign postage stamps honoring President Truman, each signed across the center in fountain pen, &qu...

TLS, one page, 7.25 x 10.5, personal letterhead, March 1, 1963. Letter to Phil Kerby, editor of Frontier! The Voice of the New West. In part: "...

Scarce free-franked mailing envelope, 8.75 x 4, addressed in type to “Mr. Lionel Aucoin, 49 Chestnut Street, Spencer, Massachusetts,

World War II-dated TLS as president, one page, 7 x 8.75, White House letterhead, May 7, 1945. Letter to Lucy M. Taggart, in full: "Your thought...

Distinguished matte-finish 10 x 13 portrait of Truman, signed and inscribed in the lower border in fountain pen, "Kindest regards to Mr. & ...

Color glossy 7.75 x 10.25 photo of Trump in a suit and tie, signed in black felt tip. In fine condition, with a Beckett label affixed to the lower cor

Program for the 20th Anniversary of Celebrity Sports Night at the Human Resources Center in Albertson, New York, on May 29, 1986, 24 pages, 8 x 10.75,

Collection of more than 50 Christmas cards and programs associated with White House figures and events. Cards include: Secret Service Chief James Jo

TLS as president, one page, 7 x 8.75, embossed presidential letterhead, June 27, 1919. Written from Paris, a letter to Major Douglas Johnson, in full:

Ink signature, "Woodrow Wilson," on an off-white 3 x .75 slip, and a bold ink signature, "Edith Bolling Wilson," on an off-white...

Ink signature, "Samuel Chase,” on an off-white 2.25 x .5 slip, dated 1764, affixed to a larger 7.75 x 7.5 sheet annotated with biographic...

ALS signed “Jno. Hancock,” one page, 7.5 x 8.25, no date but circa 1765. Letter to Reverend Jonas Clarke in Lexington, in full: "My

ADS signed "Wm. Paca," one page, 7.25 x 2, May 8, 1788. Paca pens a receipt or order to one "Mr. Randall," evidently for the bla...

Partly-printed DS, one page, 7.5 x 3.25, February 1, 1790. Receipt issued from the comptroller's office at Hartford, in part: "Received of ...

ALS signed “H. Clay,” one page, 7.75 x 5.75, January 10, 1836. Letter to publisher Mathew Carey, marked "Confidential," in par...

LS as Secretary of the Treasury, signed “A. Hamilton,” three pages on two adjoining sheets, 8 x 9.75, September 23, 1790. Important

Partly-printed DS, signed “P. Henry,” one page, 12.5 x 16.5, June 1, 1782. As governor of Virginia, Henry grants "John White, assign

ALS signed “P. Henry,” one page, 8 x 4.5, September 11, 1796. In part: "Write me whether Billy Hodges is at Liberty to distill my Gr

John F. Kennedy, Jr.'s personally-used antique French mahogany child’s high chair/chamber pot from the second half of the 19th century, us...

Extremely rare ALS signed “Tho. Prence,” one page, 7 x 5.75, no date. Difficult to decipher letter beginning, "Brother, I cannot but

Signed book: The Story of My Life. Later printing. NY: Grosset & Dunlap, 1905. Hardcover, 5.5 x 8.25, 441 pages. Signed on the first free end pa...

Rare vintage matte-finish 5.25 x 7.25 studio portrait of Henry Ford, signed neatly in fountain pen. In very fine condition. A splendid uninscribed por

Fascinating softcover 1937 Harley-Davidson Factory Service School technician's training binder, 9 x 11.5, 18 total pages, signed in ink on a doc...

DS, signed “Howard R. Hughes, president,” three pages, 8.5 x 13, April 28, 1928. Hughes's Caddo Company loans actor Louis Wolheim to

Extremely rare vintage 1972 Triadex Muse Analog Sequencer Synthesizer manufactured in limited quantities by Triadex Incorporated in Newton, Massachuse

Handwritten manuscript in English and French by Edmond Becquerel (plus five lines in the hand of his son, Henri Becquerel), four pages on two adjoinin

Booklet entitled "Analyse succincte des travaux scientifiques de M. Edmond Becquerel," published in Paris in 1850 by Firmin Didot, 8.25 x ...

ALS in French, signed “P. Curie,” one page, postmarked December 18, 1903. Letter to mathematician Paul Emile Appell, in full (transl

Vintage matte-finish 7 x 10 studio portrait of Thomas Edison by Walter Scott Shinn of New York, signed in the lower border in fountain pen with his ...

Edison Botanic Research Corporation business check, 8.25 x 3, filled out in another hand and signed by Edison, "Thos. A. Edison," payable ...

Exceptionally rare handwritten working mathematical manuscript in French by Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet, four pages on two adjoining sheets, 7 x 9,

Extraordinary TLS signed “A. Einstein,” one page, 8.5 x 11, blindstamped personal Princeton letterhead, September 17, 1953. Succinct

TLS in German, signed “A. Einstein,” one page, 8.5 x 11, March 1, 1935. Letter to Jesse M. Mendheim, in full (translated): "Thank yo

Autograph poem in German, signed "A. Einstein," one page, 5.75 x 5.5, January 2, 1935. Einstein pens eight lines of original doggerel vers...

Excellent vintage glossy 6.5 x 8.5 photo of Albert Einstein wearing a doctoral gown during a commencement speech, signed in the lower border in black

Highly displayable original color ‘pop art’ painting of Albert Einstein by acclaimed artist Allison Lefcort entitled ‘Geniu

Extremely rare original drawings of steam engine parts by Robert Fulton, accomplished in ink and graphite on both sides of two off-white sheets, 9.75

ALS signed “Rob't Fulton,” one page, 4.75 x 6.5, no date. Letter addressed on the integral leaf by Fulton to "Mr. Leavenworth,&...

Three autograph letters by George Gamow, two signed "G. Gamow" and one with signature clipped out and absent, each one page, dated from 19...

TLS signed “R. H. Goddard,” one page, 8.25 x 11, Clark College letterhead, March 7, 1921. Letter to William L. Straus, Jr., in full:

Handwritten syllabus for a course of lectures by Lardner, eleven pages, 7.25 x 9, signed in the third-person within the heading: "Outline of a ...

Choice vintage matte-finish 3.5 x 5.25 postcard photo of Marconi, signed in fountain pen, "G. Marconi." In fine condition.

ALS signed “Sam'l F. B. Morse,” one page, 7.75 x 9.75, June 21, 1854. Letter to Samuel Colgate, requesting proxy votes from him, app

ALS signed “Sam: F: B: Morse,” one page, 5 x 7.75, December 24, 1841. Letter to chemist James J. Mapes, in part: "My cousin Samuel B

Stock certificate for shares in the explosives manufacturing firm founded by Alfred Nobel, Nitroglycerin Aktiebolaget, three pages on two adjoining sh

ALS in French, signed “L. Pasteur,” one page, 4.5 x 3.5, November 2, 1888. Letter to veterinarian Achille Maucuer, in part (translat

ALS in French, signed “L. Pasteur,” one page, 5 x 5, July 25, 1886. Written from Paris, a letter to Narboux, in full (translated): "

Extremely rare first edition book by Alan Turing: Programmers' Handbook for Manchester Electronic Computer Mark II, with errata sheets dated Mar...

Extremely rare Liveright Publishing Corporation business check, 8.5 x 3, filled out in another hand as payable to Sigmund Freud for $787.50, February

TLS in German, signed “Prof. Dr. Freud,” one page, 8.75 x 8.5, personal letterhead, June 4, 1938. A glowing letter of recommendation

TLS signed “JMK,” one page, 5.5 x 3.5, personal letterhead, January 20, 1943. Letter to noted art critic Clive Bell, in full: "If Mi

Manuscript DS in French, signed “Armand Card. de Richelieu,” two pages on two adjoining sheets, 8.5 x 13.75, May 28, 1627. Before a

TLS as prime minister, signed “Yours sincerely, Winston S. Churchill,” one page, 7.5 x 9.5, 10 Downing Street, Whitehall letterhead,

DS, signed by the prime minister, "Winston S. Churchill," and the king, "App'd GRI," one page, 6.75 x 8.5, 10 Downing Street...

Interesting lot highlighted by two autograph documents in French by Honore Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau, including: An autograph acknowledgment

Manuscript DS, signed “Charles R,” one page, 9.75 x 14.5, May 26, 1677. Document issued to Lord Chancellor Heneage Finch, directing

Edward, Duke of Windsor's personally-owned and -worn jacket, dress shirt, and tie artfully arranged and displayed in a quilted fabric-backed sha...

Rare unsigned book bound for King Louis XV: Les Statuts de l'Ordre du St. Esprit estably par Henri IIIme du nom Roy de France et de Pologne au m...

Manuscript DS in Spanish, signed “Yo El Rey,” three pages on two adjoining sheets, 8.25 x 12, January 6, 1589. Untranslated. Signed

Gorgeous color satin-finish 8 x 9.75 photo of Princess Diana wearing a black velvet dress and posing against an artistic backdrop, an image originally

Vintage matte-finish 8 x 11 photo of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip posing with their young children, Prince Charles and Princess Anne, and thei

Exceedingly rare AMQS on an off-white 9.25 x 3, titled "Ah You Roguey" and signed below, "By Liliuokalani of Hawaii." Queen Lili...

Signed book: Windsor: A Description of the Castle, Park, Town and Neighbourhood. First edition, limited issue, one of 100 Large Paper copies (this bei