RR Auction: January Rare Manuscript, Document, and Autograph Auction

Pseudonym of Gaspard-Félix Tournachon (1820–1910), a French photographer, caricaturist, journalist, novelist, and balloonist. Original personal...

Original black-bordered personal calling card bearing Puccini’s name, 4.25 x 2.75, signed in black ink, “G. Puccini,” below an untranslated ANS in Ita

Original unsigned personal calling card bearing Rodin’s name and Paris address, 3.5 x 2, with Rodin adding five untranslated lines in French on the fr

Original personal calling card bearing Sherman’s name and rank, 3.5 x 2, signed on the reverse in black ink, “W. T. Sherman, General.” In fine conditi

Original personal calling card bearing Sickles’s name and rank, 4 x 2.25, signed in black ink, “Autograph of D. Sickles, Sept. 30, ’83.” A few light c

Original personal calling card bearing Stephens’s name and National Hotel address, 3.5 x 2, signed on the reverse in black ink, “Alexander H. Stephens

Original Supreme Court calling card bearing Field’s name, 3.5 x 2, signed on the reverse in black ink, “Stephen J. Field, Justice of U. S. Supreme Cou

Jurist and politician (1808–1895) who served on the Supreme Court from 1870 to 1880, an appointment he received from U. S. Grant. Original Supreme Cou

Original personal calling card bearing Taft’s name and Wyoming Avenue address, 3 x 2.25, signed in black ink, “H. H. T.,” below an ANS, in full: “Mr.

Original personal calling card bearing Wheeler’s name and Alabama address, 3.25 x 1.75, boldly signed on the reverse in black ink, “Jos. Wheeler, Majo