RR Auction: Rare Manuscript, Document, and Autograph Auction

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Headquartered in Boston’s North End, RR Auction is a globally recognized and trusted source for rare documents, manuscripts, autographs, and historic artifacts. Since its inception in 1980, RR has achieved countless record-setting prices in over 425 successful sales, including Truman Capote’s hand-notated manuscript for Breakfast at Tiffany’s for over $300,000, President Kennedy’s 1963 convertible for $318,000, and a pair of Bonnie and Clyde’s guns for over $500,000. Internationally known and frequently featured in all media outlets—with appearances on NBC’s Today Show, CBS This Morning, Fox News, the New York Times Sunday Magazine, and the London Times—RR Auction prides itself on selling authentic material, thoroughly examined by in-house experts and third-party authenticators, to uphold the guarantee of authenticity. With a stunning full-color print catalog and a massive online presence, RR Auction’s nearly four decades of business continue to grow, achieving record prices for clients around the world.
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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Gone With the Wind: Vivien Leigh807 - Gone With the Wind: Vivien Leigh
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Color vintage 9 x 11.75 magazine photo from the March 23, 1940, issue of Picturegoer and Film Weekly, signed and inscribed in fountain pen, “Angela, w
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,500.00
 
 
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Katharine Hepburn814 - Katharine Hepburn
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Gorgeous color-tinted vintage matte-finish 8 x 10 Clarence Sinclair Bull photo, with well-done hand-tinted accents to Hepburn’s lips and eyes, signed
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Boris Karloff821 - Boris Karloff
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Intimidating vintage glossy 8 x 10 Universal publicity photo of Karloff as Mord the Executioner in Tower of London, signed in fountain pen. Some scatt
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Rudolph Valentino837 - Rudolph Valentino
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Dashing vintage glossy 8 x 10 portrait of Valentino with an open shirt, signed and inscribed in fountain pen, “To Mrs. Elinore Sayre, with best wishes
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Rocky Marciano941 - Rocky Marciano
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Bank check, 5.75 x 2.5, filled out in another hand and signed by Marciano, “Rocco Marchegiano,” payable to Russell Thompson for $140.00, October 26, 1
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Baseball: 500 Home Run Club965 - Baseball: 500 Home Run Club
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Color 27 x 29.5 poster featuring the elite 500 Home Run Club, signed in blue felt tip by all 11 players pictured. Signers are: Hank Aaron, Willie Mays
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Orville Wright439 - Orville Wright
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Four spar fittings from the 1905 Wright flyer, used to maintain structural support or to offer attachment points for wire reinforcement or for strut s
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Estimate : 1,200.00 - 1,400.00
 
 
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John Quincy Adams13 - John Quincy Adams
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Partly-printed DS, signed “J. Q. Adams,” one page, 7.75 x 9.5, November 16, 1819. Adams, as secretary of state, certifies “the annexed is a true copy
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Declaration of Independence: Caesar Rodney175 - Declaration of Independence: Caesar Rodney
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Signer of the Declaration of Independence from Delaware (1728–1784), military officer, Continental Congressman, and President of Delaware. Uncommon au
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Alfred Dreyfus185 - Alfred Dreyfus
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French military officer (1859–1935) whose central role in the Dreyfus Affair, which tore French society apart and shook their faith in the military, t
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King George IV222 - King George IV
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ALS signed “George R,” five pages on two sets of adjoining sheets, 7 x 9, no date but circa 1797. Letter to Lord Keith. In part: “I am extremely oblig
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King Henry II223 - King Henry II
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King of France from March 31, 1547, until his death in 1559. Uncommon manuscript vellum DS, in French, signed “Henry,” one page, 22.75 x 19, April 155
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Estimate : 800.00 - 1,200.00
 
 
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Louise of Savoy229 - Louise of Savoy
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Princess of France (1476–1531) and mother of King Francis I, she served twice as the regent of France in the early 16th century. Rare manuscript LS, w
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Estimate : 800.00 - 1,200.00
 
 
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Cosimo I de Medici236 - Cosimo I de Medici
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Duke of Florence from 1537 until his death in 1574, reigning as the first Grand Duke of Tuscany beginning in 1569. Manuscript DS in Italian, signed “I
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Apollo 11: Armstrong and Aldrin395 - Apollo 11: Armstrong and Aldrin
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Two items: a plate block of four ‘first man on the moon’ 10-cent postage stamps, 5 x 3, signed in black ink in the white right border by Neil Armstron
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Jack Gaughan517 - Jack Gaughan
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Original color cover artwork by Gaughan for the 1964 Pyramid Books paperback edition of Three Worlds to Conquer by Poul Anderson, acrylic on masonite,
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Estimate : 800.00 - 1,200.00
 
 
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Ernest Hemingway519 - Ernest Hemingway
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Personal check, 8.5 x 3.25, filled out in another hand and signed by Hemingway, “Ernest M. Hemingway,” payable to Roberto Herrera for $150, September
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Walt Disney597 - Walt Disney
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Enormous unsigned original 37 x 41 gelatin silver print of Walt Disney, Deems Taylor, and Leopold Stokowski discussing ideas for the 1940 film Fantasi
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Beatles: Paul and Linda McCartney656 - Beatles: Paul and Linda McCartney
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Program from the 1979 Wings UK tour, 9.5 x 13.5, signed inside in black ballpoint on a page bearing a color photo of the band in tuxedos, “Paul McCart
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Cary Grant806 - Cary Grant
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Vintage matte-finish 8 x 10 photo, signed and inscribed in fountain pen, “To George Blake, Cordially, Cary Grant.” In fine condition, with a stray “T”
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,200.00
 
 
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