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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Ezra Meeker237 - Ezra Meeker
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American pioneer (1830–1928) who traveled the Oregon Trail by ox-drawn wagon as a young man, migrating from Iowa to the Pacific Coast. ALS signed “Ezr
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J. Pierpont Morgan239 - J. Pierpont Morgan
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Partly-printed DS one page both sides, 13.5 x 9.5, June 30, 1886. An attractive, beautifully engraved mortgage bond for the New Jersey Junction Railro
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Benito Mussolini and Vittorio Emanuele III240 - Benito Mussolini and Vittorio Emanuele III
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Partly-printed DS in Italian, one page, 9.5 x 14.5, February 16, 1928. An untranslated single article decree boldly signed at the conclusion, “Mussoli
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Notables245 - Notables
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Interesting collection of three items, each signed by a notable figure, including: Texas politician Thomas P. Ochiltree (AQS); historian and journalis
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Arthur H. Noyes247 - Arthur H. Noyes
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Federal Judge in Nome, Alaska, appointed in 1900. He soon set up a plot to grab all the gold mining claims:, by the time his plan was discovered, he v
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Vyacheslav von Plehve258 - Vyacheslav von Plehve
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Director of Russia’s police and later Minister of the Interior (1846–1904). A notorious anti-Semite, he was killed by a bomb, the fourth attempt on hi
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Pope Benedict XVI261 - Pope Benedict XVI
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Uncommon 4 x 5.75 cardstock photo of the resigned Pope as a cardinal, signed in the lower border in black ink, “Joseph Card. Ratzinger.” In fine condi
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Queen Victoria265 - Queen Victoria
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Third-person ALS, one page, 4.5 x 7, black-bordered Balmoral letterhead, September 14. Brief letter to an unidentified recipient in the Queen’s diffic
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William Seward283 - William Seward
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LS signed “William H. Seward,” one page both sides, 7.75 x 10, Department of State letterhead, January 19, 1869. In part: “Your very interesting lette
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Alexander Stephens285 - Alexander Stephens
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Vice president of the Confederacy (1812–1883) under Jefferson Davis. Ink signature, “Alexander H. Stephens, Crawfordville, Ga.,” on a light blue 5.5 x
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