RR Auction: Fine Autographs and Artifacts

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With 1,000 lots up for bidding, RR's December Fine Autographs and Artifacts auction features an extraordinary wealth of scientific autographs—Albert Einstein, Enrico Fermi, Alfred Nobel, Nikola Tesla, James Watt, Henri Poincare, and Charles Darwin are among the key names. Other highlights include a rare Beatles-signed document from Hamburg, 1961; a handwritten letter by patriot philosopher Thomas Paine; a super scarce signature of Thomas Lynch, the rare Declaration signer; important Abraham Lincoln appointments; and a stunning oversized autographed portrait of Babe Ruth. 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 December 2021.
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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Princess Grace and Prince Rainier Signed Photograph353 - Princess Grace and Prince Rainier Signed Photograph
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Appealing vintage glossy 4 x 5.75 postcard photo of the royal couple, nicely signed in ink, "Grace de Monaco" and "Rainier, Prince de...
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Richard A. Proctor Autograph Letter Signed354 - Richard A. Proctor Autograph Letter Signed
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British astronomer (1837–1888) best remembered for having produced one of the earliest maps of Mars in 1867. ALS signed
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Gaspard de Prony Document Signed355 - Gaspard de Prony Document Signed
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French mathematician, engineer, and bridge-builder (1755–1839) who worked on hydraulics. Manuscript DS in French, signed
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Melvin Purvis Signed Check356 - Melvin Purvis Signed Check
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FBI agent and archetypical ‘G-Man’ (1903–1960) responsible for the
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Matthew Quay Autograph Quotation Signed357 - Matthew Quay Autograph Quotation Signed
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Pennsylvania political boss (1833–1904) once dubbed a 'kingmaker' by President Benjamin Harrison; before his political car
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Queen Isabella II Signed Photograph358 - Queen Isabella II Signed Photograph
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Queen regnant of Spain (born 1830) from 1836 to her death in 1904. Scarce 6.5 x 8.75 mounted albumen photo of Queen Isabella by Edgardo DebÃ
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Queen Mary of Teck Signed Photograph359 - Queen Mary of Teck Signed Photograph
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Vintage matte-finish 9 x 11 Bassano Ltd. portrait of the queen in an impressive full-length pose, affixed to the original studio mount, signed on the
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William Ramsay Autograph Letter Signed360 - William Ramsay Autograph Letter Signed
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Scottish chemist (1852–1916) who discovered the noble gases and won the 1904 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. ALS signed
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Ferdinand Ritter von Mannlicher Automatic Firearm Patent Lithograph361 - Ferdinand Ritter von Mannlicher Automatic Firearm Patent Lithograph
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Original patent lithographs for Ferdinand Mannlicher's "Automatic Firearm," two pages, 7 x 10.75, April 27, 1897. The diagrams feature...
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Juan Manuel de Rosas Autograph Letter Signed362 - Juan Manuel de Rosas Autograph Letter Signed
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Dictator of Argentina in the first half of the 19th century, nicknamed 'Restorer of the Laws' (1793–1877), who remains a c
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James Clark Ross Autograph Letter Signed363 - James Clark Ross Autograph Letter Signed
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British Royal Navy officer and polar explorer (1800–1862) known for his explorations of the Arctic, including two expediti
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John Ross Autograph Letter Signed364 - John Ross Autograph Letter Signed
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Scottish Royal Navy officer and polar explorer (1777–1856) who led three Arctic expeditions—th
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Jack Ruby Signed Check365 - Jack Ruby Signed Check
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Ervay Theatre business check, 8 x 3, filled out in another hand and signed by Jack Ruby, payable to United Artists Corp. for $17.50, September 9, 1953
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Richard Rush Autograph Letter Signed366 - Richard Rush Autograph Letter Signed
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Son of Declaration signer Benjamin Rush, who served as Attorney General, Acting Secretary of State, and Secretary of the Treasury (1780â
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Ernst Ruska Signed Photograph and Typed Letter Signed367 - Ernst Ruska Signed Photograph and Typed Letter Signed
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German physicist (1906-1988) who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1986 for his work in electron optics, including the design of the first electron mi
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Edward Sabine Autograph Letter Signed368 - Edward Sabine Autograph Letter Signed
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Anglo-Irish astronomer, geophysicist, ornithologist, and explorer (1788-1883) whose most notable work was research on the Earth's magnetic field...
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Carl Sagan Typed Letter Signed369 - Carl Sagan Typed Letter Signed
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TLS, one page, 8.5 x 11, personal letterhead, August 26, 1987. Letter to Leo Malz, in full: "Having heard no response to my letter of December ...
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Russell Sage (2) Autograph Letters Signed370 - Russell Sage (2) Autograph Letters Signed
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Two-term U.S. Representative (1816–1906) who later became a multimillionaire financier, credited with originating the syst
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Abdus Salam Autograph Manuscript Signed371 - Abdus Salam Autograph Manuscript Signed
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Pakistani theoretical physicist (1926-1996) who received the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics for his contribution to the electroweak unification theory. H
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Jonas Salk Signed Photograph372 - Jonas Salk Signed Photograph
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Glossy 10 x 8 photo of Jonas Salk in his lab, signed in black felt tip. In fine condition.
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Jonas Salk and Albert Sabin Signed First Day Covers373 - Jonas Salk and Albert Sabin Signed First Day Covers
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Two Canadian FDCs honoring trauma surgeon Norman Bethune, individually signed in black felt tip by Jonas Salk and Albert B. Sabin. In very fine condit
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Paul Samuelson Signed Photograph374 - Paul Samuelson Signed Photograph
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Economist (1915–2009) considered one of the founders of neo-Keynesian school who won the 1970 Nobel Prize in Economics. Vi
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Margaret Sanger Signed Photograph375 - Margaret Sanger Signed Photograph
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American sex educator, nurse, birth control activist, and the founder of the American Birth Control League (1879-1966). Vintage matte-finish 7.75 x 9
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Charles Sprague Sargent (2) Autograph Letters Signed376 - Charles Sprague Sargent (2) Autograph Letters Signed
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Botanist (1841–1927) who served as the first director of Harvard University's Arnold Arboretum. Two ALSs signed "C. S. Sar
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Antonin Scalia Signed Book377 - Antonin Scalia Signed Book
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Signed book: Reading Law: The Interpretation of Legal Texts. First edition, first printing. St. Paul, MN: Thomson/West, 2012. Hardcover with dust jack
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Antonin Scalia Signed Book378 - Antonin Scalia Signed Book
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Signed book: Making Your Case: The Art of Persuading Judges. Later printing. St. Paul, MN: Thomson/West, 2008. Hardcover with dust jacket, 5.5 x 8.5,
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William Scoresby Autograph Letter Signed379 - William Scoresby Autograph Letter Signed
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British arctic explorer and scientist (1789-1857) who produced a pioneering survey of the eastern coast of Greenland and produced a number of importan
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Glenn Seaborg Signed Photograph380 - Glenn Seaborg Signed Photograph
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Nobel Prize-winning chemist (1912–1999) who was instrumental in the discovery of several elements, and developed the extra
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Emilio Segre Signed Photograph381 - Emilio Segre Signed Photograph
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Italian-American physicist (1905–1989) who discovered the antiproton, worked as a group leader for the Manhattan Project,
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Hans Selye Signed Photograph382 - Hans Selye Signed Photograph
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Pioneering Hungarian-Canadian endocrinologist (1907–1982) who conducted important scientific work on the hypothetical non-
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Horatio Seymour Autograph Letter Signed383 - Horatio Seymour Autograph Letter Signed
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Governor of New York who lost the presidential election of 1868 to U. S. Grant (1810–1886). ALS, one page, 5 x 8, August 2
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Ernest Shackleton Signature384 - Ernest Shackleton Signature
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Bold vintage ink signature, "E. H. Shackleton,” on an off-white 4.25 x 7 album page with nice mounted postcard photo of Lt.
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Harlow Shapley Autograph Letters Signed (3)385 - Harlow Shapley Autograph Letters Signed (3)
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American scientist and head of the Harvard College Observatory (1885–1972) who used RR Lyrae stars to estimate the size of
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Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer Autograph Letter Signed386 - Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer Autograph Letter Signed
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English physiologist (1850–1935) regarded as a founder of endocrinology, who discovered and demonstrated the existence of
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William Shockley Signed Photograph387 - William Shockley Signed Photograph
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Glossy 5 x 7 head-and-shoulders photo of Shockley in front of a blackboard, signed in black felt tip, "W=Shockley," with a sketch of a tra...
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Carl Wilhelm Siemens (3) Autograph Letters Signed388 - Carl Wilhelm Siemens (3) Autograph Letters Signed
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German-British electrical engineer and businessman (1823–1883) known for his invention of telegraph apparatus and improvem
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O. J. Simpson and Johnnie Cochran Signed Photograph389 - O. J. Simpson and Johnnie Cochran Signed Photograph
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Color satin-finish 10 x 8 photo of Robert Shapiro, Johnnie Cochran, and O. J. Simpson during the former football star’s se
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Sir John Sinclair Letter Signed390 - Sir John Sinclair Letter Signed
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British politician, writer, and pioneering data collector and researcher (1754–1835) who introduced the word 'statistics'
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Benjamin Spock Typed Letter Signed391 - Benjamin Spock Typed Letter Signed
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Baby doctor and best selling author (1903-1998) whose book Baby and Child Care, published in 1946, is one of the biggest best-sellers of all time. TLS
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Benjamin Spock Signed Photograph392 - Benjamin Spock Signed Photograph
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Semi-glossy 7 x 5 head-and-shoulders photo of the renowned pediatrician in his white coat, signed in black felt tip. In fine condition.
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Charles Spurgeon Signature393 - Charles Spurgeon Signature
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English Particular Baptist preacher and author (1834–1892) who helped popularize the phrase 'What would Jesus do?,' known
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Robert Stephenson Autograph Letter Signed394 - Robert Stephenson Autograph Letter Signed
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British engineer (1803–1859) who assisted his father, the engineer George Stephenson, with a number of railway-related ent
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Robert Stroud Typed Letter Signed395 - Robert Stroud Typed Letter Signed
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TLS, two pages, 8.5 x 11, February 24, 1932. Written while imprisoned at Leavenworth Penitentiary, a letter to Fred E. Daw regarding the shipment of s
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William Sulzer Endorsement and Chester Platt Typed Letter Signed396 - William Sulzer Endorsement and Chester Platt Typed Letter Signed
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TLS signed “Chester C. Platt,” one page, 8 x 10.5, State of New York Executive Chamber letterhea
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Charles Sumner and Senators Document Signed397 - Charles Sumner and Senators Document Signed
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Significant manuscript DS, one page, 8 x 12.5, 1869. Order form document for the "Speech of the Honorable C. Sumner of Mass., subject Constitut...
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Charles Sumner Autograph Endorsement Signed398 - Charles Sumner Autograph Endorsement Signed
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Civil War–dated autograph endorsement signed "Charles Sumner," on the reverse of a letter written to him by John M. S. ...
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Supreme Court (7) Signed Items399 - Supreme Court (7) Signed Items
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Seven items signed by justices of the Supreme Court, comprising paperstock photos, philatelic souvenirs, and signatures, including: Anthony Kennedy (S
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Willie Sutton Signed Newspaper Photo400 - Willie Sutton Signed Newspaper Photo
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Master bank robber (1901–1980) nicknamed 'The Actor' for his success in eluding capture through the use of disguises and o
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Edward L. Tatum Signed Photograph401 - Edward L. Tatum Signed Photograph
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American geneticist (1909–1975) who shared the 1958 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for showing that genes control i
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Edward Teller Signed Photograph402 - Edward Teller Signed Photograph
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Hungarian-born nuclear physicist (1908–2003) who worked with Fermi on the Manhattan Project and later assumed a leading ro
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