RR Auction: Fine Autographs and Artifacts

Auction Details

Featuring nearly 1,100 lots, RR Auction's April Fine Autographs and Artifacts sale boasts a wealth of important historical material. Highlights are a four-page handwritten letter by Ludwig van Beethoven about a proposed composition, a significant pair of letters by the Wright Brothers about patents and contracts, a super rare book autographed by Stephen Hawking, a pristine Abbey Road Studios promo card signed by the Beatles in 1963, and a great signed photo of Bruce Lee as Kato. 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 April 2022.
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
Choose Your Layout > Switch to Grid View Switch to List View
Bill Clinton Signed Book Page53 - Bill Clinton Signed Book Page
RR Auction
Title page from Bill Clinton's 2011 book Back to Work, 5.25 x 8.25, signed in black felt tip. In very fine condition.
No Online Bidding For This Lot
Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
Details...Bookmark
Bill Clinton Signed Book54 - Bill Clinton Signed Book
RR Auction
Signed book: My Life. First edition. NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004. Hardcover with dust jacket, 6.5 x 9.5, 957 pages. Signed on the title page in blue fel
No Online Bidding For This Lot
Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
Details...Bookmark
Bill Clinton Signed Photograph55 - Bill Clinton Signed Photograph
RR Auction
Color matte-finish 14 x 11 photo of Clinton giving a thumbs-up in front of the American flag, signed in black felt tip, "With best wishes, Bill...
No Online Bidding For This Lot
Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
Details...Bookmark
Bill Clinton Signed FDC56 - Bill Clinton Signed FDC
RR Auction
Limited edition FDC with a cachet honoring the Arkansas Sesquicentennial, numbered 86/150, postmarked at Little Rock, Arkansas, on January 3, 1986, si
No Online Bidding For This Lot
Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
Details...Bookmark
Bill Clinton Signed Book57 - Bill Clinton Signed Book
RR Auction
Signed book: The President Is Missing. Later printing. London: Century, 2018. Hardcover with dust jacket, 6.25 x 9.5, 513 pages. Signed on a bookplate
No Online Bidding For This Lot
Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
Details...Bookmark
Bill Clinton and James Patterson (2) Signed Books58 - Bill Clinton and James Patterson (2) Signed Books
RR Auction
Two books written by Bill Clinton and James Patterson-a first edition of The President's Daughter, published by Little, Brown and Company of New...
No Online Bidding For This Lot
Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
Details...Bookmark
Calvin Coolidge Signed Book59 - Calvin Coolidge Signed Book
RR Auction
Signed book: The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge. Second trade edition. NY: Cosmopolitan Book Corporation, 1929. Hardcover with dust jacket, 6 x 9, 2
No Online Bidding For This Lot
Estimate : 300.00 - 500.00
 
 
Details...Bookmark
Calvin Coolidge Signed Check60 - Calvin Coolidge Signed Check
RR Auction
Personal 'lawyer' check, 8.25 x 3.25, filled out and signed by Calvin Coolidge, payable to Sarver and Ames for $5, October 18, 1910. In fine...
No Online Bidding For This Lot
Estimate : 300.00 - 500.00
 
 
Details...Bookmark
Calvin Coolidge Signed White House Engraving as President61 - Calvin Coolidge Signed White House Engraving as President
RR Auction
Attractive engraving of the south portico of the White House, 6.5 x 5, signed in ink by Calvin Coolidge as president. In fine condition, with some lig
No Online Bidding For This Lot
Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
Details...Bookmark
Calvin Coolidge Document Signed as President62 - Calvin Coolidge Document Signed as President
RR Auction
Partly-printed DS as president, one page, 23 x 19, December 17, 1927. President Coolidge appoints LaVerne Baldwin of New York as "a Foreign Ser...
No Online Bidding For This Lot
Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
Details...Bookmark
Calvin Coolidge Typed Letter Signed63 - Calvin Coolidge Typed Letter Signed
RR Auction
TLS, one page, 8.5 x 11, personal letterhead, April 20, 1929. Letter to John G. Sargent, his former United States Attorney General, in full: "Y...
No Online Bidding For This Lot
Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
Details...Bookmark
Calvin Coolidge 1925 Calendar64 - Calvin Coolidge 1925 Calendar
RR Auction
Oversized 15.5 x 28 salesman's sample of a calendar for January 1925, featuring a classic Underwood & Underwood portrait of President Calvin...
No Online Bidding For This Lot
Estimate : 100.00 - 200.00
 
 
Details...Bookmark
Dwight D. Eisenhower Signed Book65 - Dwight D. Eisenhower Signed Book
RR Auction
Signed book: Waging Peace: The White House Years, A Personal Account 1956-1961. First edition. NY: Doubleday & Company, 1965. Hardcover with dus...
No Online Bidding For This Lot
Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
Details...Bookmark
Dwight D. Eisenhower Signed 1953 Inaugural Address Pamphlet66 - Dwight D. Eisenhower Signed 1953 Inaugural Address Pamphlet
RR Auction
Official pamphlet containing the Inaugural Address made by President Dwight D. Eisenhower on January 20, 1953, distributed by the Republican National
No Online Bidding For This Lot
Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
Details...Bookmark
Dwight D. Eisenhower Signature67 - Dwight D. Eisenhower Signature
RR Auction
Fountain pen signature, "Dwight D. Eisenhower," on an unused 4.25 x 5.75 bookplate with imagery of Eisenhower's home and farm in Getty...
No Online Bidding For This Lot
Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
Details...Bookmark
Millard Fillmore Document Signed68 - Millard Fillmore Document Signed
RR Auction
Partly-printed DS, one page, 13.75 x 13.5, December 8, 1848. Bond of the Hudson & Berkshire Rail-Road Co. for $1000, boldly signed at the conclu...
No Online Bidding For This Lot
Estimate : 500.00 - 600.00
 
 
Details...Bookmark
Millard Fillmore Signature69 - Millard Fillmore Signature
RR Auction
Crisp ink signature, "With the respects of Millard Fillmore, Boston, Sept. 30, 1859," on an off-white 4.5 x 2.75 sheet. In fine condition.
No Online Bidding For This Lot
Estimate : 300.00 - 500.00
 
 
Details...Bookmark
Gerald Ford (3) Signed Items70 - Gerald Ford (3) Signed Items
RR Auction
Three items: the title page from a published volume of The Warren Report, 6.75 x 9.75, signed in blue ink, "Gerald R. Ford, 6/9/94"; a 10....
No Online Bidding For This Lot
Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
Details...Bookmark
Gerald Ford Signed Book71 - Gerald Ford Signed Book
RR Auction
Signed book: The War Powers Resolution: A Constitutional Crisis. Presentation copy in a limited issue of 250. Oroville, California: Butte College Pres
No Online Bidding For This Lot
Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
Details...Bookmark
Gerald Ford Signed First Day Cover72 - Gerald Ford Signed First Day Cover
RR Auction
Fantastic FDC with a cachet honoring Abraham Lincoln, signed in blue felt tip, "I'm a Ford, not a Lincoln, Gerald Ford." In fine condi...
No Online Bidding For This Lot
Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
Details...Bookmark
Gerald Ford (2) Signed Items73 - Gerald Ford (2) Signed Items
RR Auction
Two items: an official 6 x 8 engraved portrait published by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, signed in blue felt tip, "Gerald R. Ford"...
No Online Bidding For This Lot
Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
Details...Bookmark
Gerald Ford (2) Signed Items74 - Gerald Ford (2) Signed Items
RR Auction
Two items: a commemorative cover with a cachet honoring the Everett McKinley Dirksen Congressional Leadership Research Center, postmarked on August 19
No Online Bidding For This Lot
Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
Details...Bookmark
James A. Garfield Autograph Note Signed75 - James A. Garfield Autograph Note Signed
RR Auction
Crisply penned ANS signed "J. A. Garfield," one page, 4 x 1.75, no date. A short handwritten note to an unidentified recipient, in full: &...
No Online Bidding For This Lot
Estimate : 300.00 - 500.00
 
 
Details...Bookmark
Florence Kling Harding Typed Letter Signed76 - Florence Kling Harding Typed Letter Signed
RR Auction
TLS, two black-bordered pages on two adjoining sheets, 5 x 7.25, September 23, 1924. Letter to political activist and author Harriet Taylor Upton, in
No Online Bidding For This Lot
Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
Details...Bookmark
Florence Harding Signed Photograph77 - Florence Harding Signed Photograph
RR Auction
Vintage matte-finish 6.75 x 10.75 portrait of the former first lady by the Edmonston Studios of Washington, D.C., signed below in bold fountain pen,...
No Online Bidding For This Lot
Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
Details...Bookmark
Warren G. Harding Signed Check78 - Warren G. Harding Signed Check
RR Auction
Marion County Bank check, 6 x 2.75, filled out and signed by Harding, "W. G. Harding," payable to W. H. Schaffer Ex'r for $2635, Febru...
No Online Bidding For This Lot
Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
Details...Bookmark
Warren G. Harding Signature as President Elect79 - Warren G. Harding Signature as President Elect
RR Auction
Ink signature and inscription as president elect, "The greetings of a newspaper publisher to an author, with good wishes, Sincerely, Warren G. ...
No Online Bidding For This Lot
Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
Details...Bookmark
Warren G. Harding Typed Letter Signed as President80 - Warren G. Harding Typed Letter Signed as President
RR Auction
TLS as president, one page, 7 x 9, White House letterhead, June 16, 1921. Letter to E. W. Libbey, in full: "I am very glad indeed to have the p...
No Online Bidding For This Lot
Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
Details...Bookmark
Benjamin Harrison Signed Check81 - Benjamin Harrison Signed Check
RR Auction
Fletcher's Bank check, 7.25 x 2.75, filled out and signed by Benjamin Harrison, "Benj. Harrison," payable to O. S. & M. T. Rumeels...
No Online Bidding For This Lot
Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
Details...Bookmark
Benjamin Harrison Document Signed as President82 - Benjamin Harrison Document Signed as President
RR Auction
Partly-printed DS as president, signed "Benj. Harrison," one page, 17 x 13, May 16, 1889. President Harrison appoints James H. Clugage as ...
No Online Bidding For This Lot
Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
Details...Bookmark
William Henry Harrison: 1840 The Extra Log Cabin Newspaper83 - William Henry Harrison: 1840 The Extra Log Cabin Newspaper
RR Auction
Rare original and complete issue of The Extra Log Cabin newspaper from September 12, 1840, eight pages, 15.5 x 21, published by Horace Greeley &...
No Online Bidding For This Lot
Estimate : 800.00 - 1,200.00
 
 
Details...Bookmark
Herbert Hoover Signed Book84 - Herbert Hoover Signed Book
RR Auction
Signed book: The Memoirs of Herbert Hoover: 1920-1933, The Cabinet & the Presidency. First printing. NY: Macmillan, 1952. Hardcover with dust ja...
No Online Bidding For This Lot
Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
Details...Bookmark
Herbert Hoover Signed Photograph85 - Herbert Hoover Signed Photograph
RR Auction
Matte-finish 4.75 x 6.5 photo of Clarence Martin's 1933 pencil sketch of Hoover, signed in fountain pen, "The good wishes of Herbert Hoover...
No Online Bidding For This Lot
Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
Details...Bookmark
Herbert Hoover Signed Photograph86 - Herbert Hoover Signed Photograph
RR Auction
Matte-finish 4.75 x 7.75 photo of the elderly Hoover seated at his desk, signed in the lower border in ink, "Herbert Hoover." Matted and f...
No Online Bidding For This Lot
Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
Details...Bookmark
Thomas Jefferson Hand-Addressed Envelope Panel87 - Thomas Jefferson Hand-Addressed Envelope Panel
RR Auction
Undated partial envelope panel, 4 x 6, addressed in the hand of Thomas Jefferson to "Doct. James McHe , Baltimo ," and stamped "FRE &...
No Online Bidding For This Lot
Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
 
 
Details...Bookmark
Lyndon B. Johnson Peace Corps Bill Signing Pen88 - Lyndon B. Johnson Peace Corps Bill Signing Pen
RR Auction
Felt tip pen used by President Lyndon B. Johnson to sign ‘An Act to amend the Peace Corps Act (75 Stat. 612), as amended, a
No Online Bidding For This Lot
Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
 
 
Details...Bookmark
Lyndon B. Johnson Signed Photograph89 - Lyndon B. Johnson Signed Photograph
RR Auction
Vintage glossy 14 x 11 photo of President Johnson meeting with his advisors inside the White House, caligraphically inscribed in the lower border, &...
No Online Bidding For This Lot
Estimate : 300.00 - 500.00
 
 
Details...Bookmark
Lyndon B. Johnson Signed Book90 - Lyndon B. Johnson Signed Book
RR Auction
Signed book: The Vantage Point: Perspectives of the Presidency, 1963-1969. First edition. NY: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1971. Hardcover, 6.25 x 9.5,
No Online Bidding For This Lot
Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
Details...Bookmark
John F. Kennedy: Texas Welcome Dinner Booklet and Program91 - John F. Kennedy: Texas Welcome Dinner Booklet and Program
RR Auction
Two scarce 'Texas Welcome' items: an original one-page broadside program for the 'Texas Welcome Dinner' which was to be held at the ...
No Online Bidding For This Lot
Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,200.00
 
 
Details...Bookmark
Kennedy 1961 Inaugural Invitation Packet92 - Kennedy 1961 Inaugural Invitation Packet
RR Auction
Uncommon invitation packet to the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy and Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson on January 20, 1961, measures 6.5 x 1
No Online Bidding For This Lot
Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
Details...Bookmark
John F. Kennedy: Frederick L. Conklin93 - John F. Kennedy: Frederick L. Conklin
RR Auction
Vintage matte-finish 7.25 x 9 photo of Conklin presenting a young John F. Kennedy his medal for heroism after rescuing crew members of PT-109, and aff
No Online Bidding For This Lot
Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
 
 
Details...Bookmark
Abraham Lincoln 1921 Calendar94 - Abraham Lincoln 1921 Calendar
RR Auction
Vibrant and colorful oversized 17 x 35 calendar for January 1921 entitled 'Lincoln at Gettysburg,' featuring a fantastic illustration of Pre...
No Online Bidding For This Lot
Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
Details...Bookmark
Abraham Lincoln 1926 Calendar95 - Abraham Lincoln 1926 Calendar
RR Auction
Appealing color 12 x 21.25 salesman's sample (series R 17, R 2628) of a calendar for January 1926 entitled ‘Abraham Lincoln
No Online Bidding For This Lot
Estimate : 100.00 - 200.00
 
 
Details...Bookmark
Richard Nixon Revenue Sharing Bill Signing Pen96 - Richard Nixon Revenue Sharing Bill Signing Pen
RR Auction
Pen used by President Richard Nixon to sign ‘An Act to provide fiscal assistance to State and local governments, to authori
No Online Bidding For This Lot
Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
 
 
Details...Bookmark
Richard Nixon Highway Construction Bill Signing Pen97 - Richard Nixon Highway Construction Bill Signing Pen
RR Auction
Pen used by President Richard Nixon to sign ‘An Act to authorize appropriations for the construction of certain highways in
No Online Bidding For This Lot
Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
 
 
Details...Bookmark
Richard Nixon Rural Electrification Act Bill Signing Pen98 - Richard Nixon Rural Electrification Act Bill Signing Pen
RR Auction
Pen used by President Richard Nixon to sign ‘An Act to amend the Rural Electrification Act of 1936, as amended, to establis
No Online Bidding For This Lot
Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
 
 
Details...Bookmark
Richard Nixon Photograph99 - Richard Nixon Photograph
RR Auction
Unsigned glossy 6.5 x 8.5 photo of President Richard Nixon with Air Force General and Mrs. Thomas A. Aldrich, displayed in an irregularly trimmed mat.
No Online Bidding For This Lot
Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
Details...Bookmark
Richard Nixon Signed Book100 - Richard Nixon Signed Book
RR Auction
Signed book: The Real War. First edition. NY: Warner Books, 1980. Hardcover with slipcase, 6.5 x 9.5, 341 pages. Signed on the colophon in blue ink by
No Online Bidding For This Lot
Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
Details...Bookmark
Richard Nixon Signed Book101 - Richard Nixon Signed Book
RR Auction
Signed book: RN: The Memoirs of Richard Nixon. First edition, first printing. NY: Grosset & Dunlap, 1978. Hardcover with dust jacket, 7 x 9.5, 1...
No Online Bidding For This Lot
Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
Details...Bookmark
Richard Nixon Signed Book102 - Richard Nixon Signed Book
RR Auction
Signed book: In the Arena. First edition, limited issue, numbered 279/500. NY: Simon & Schuster, 1990. Leather-bound hardcover with slipcase, 6....
No Online Bidding For This Lot
Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
Details...Bookmark