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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Columbia STS-107417 - Columbia STS-107
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Color glossy 10 x 8 NASA photo of the Columbia crew posing in their orange flight suits with their helmets, signed in black felt tip by Rick Husband,
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Estimate : 3,000.00 - 4,000.00
 
 
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Amelia Earhart418 - Amelia Earhart
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Vintage ink signature, “Amelia Earhart,” on an off-white 2.25 x 1 card. Attractively double-matted and framed with an original press photo to an overa
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Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
 
 
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Amelia Earhart419 - Amelia Earhart
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Vintage fountain pen signature, “Amelia Earhart,” at the conclusion of an admirer’s letter, one page both sides, 5 x 8, April 10, 1936. The initial re
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Gus Grissom420 - Gus Grissom
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Color 11 x 14 print of Grissom’s Freedom 7 capsule splashing down, made by McDonnell, signed in the lower border in blue ballpoint, “Virgil I. Grissom
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,500.00
 
 
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Robert H. Goddard421 - Robert H. Goddard
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Booklet, 6.5 x 9.5, 14 pages, of an article by Goddard entitled “Liquid-Propellant Rocket Development,” published by the Smithsonian Institute on Marc
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Estimate : 3,000.00 - 4,000.00
 
 
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Gus Grissom422 - Gus Grissom
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Program from the first annual Youth Leadership Banquet, two pages, 4 x 7, sponsored by the Alamogordo Chamber of Commerce and held at the Chaparral Ju
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Estimate : 500.00 - 700.00
 
 
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Gus Grissom423 - Gus Grissom
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Vintage matte-finish 4 x 5 close-up photo of a drenched Grissom talking on a telephone after his Mercury mission, signed in blue ballpoint, “Virgil I.
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Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
 
 
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Gus Grissom424 - Gus Grissom
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Desirable flown 1961 Roosevelt dime carried on board Gus Grissom’s Mercury Liberty Bell 7 flight. Dime is housed in a silver bezel with a dime-sized s
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Estimate : 3,000.00 - 4,000.00
 
 
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Hubble Space Telescope425 - Hubble Space Telescope
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Flown limited edition Hubble Space Telescope polymide film,numbered 66/75, retrieved during a 1999 shuttle mission. Film measures .75 x 1 and is encas
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Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
 
 
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Charles Lindbergh426 - Charles Lindbergh
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Signed book: We. Limited “author’s autograph edition” of 1,000 copies (this being copy No. 682). New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1927. Hardcover, 6.5 x
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Estimate : 800.00 - 1,000.00
 
 
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Charles Lindbergh427 - Charles Lindbergh
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Signed book: The Spirit of St. Louis. Trade edition. NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1953. Hardcover with dust jacket, 5.75 x 8.5, 562 pages. Signe...
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Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
 
 
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Charles Lindbergh428 - Charles Lindbergh
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Choice vintage matte-finish 14 x 10.25 photo, boldly signed in fountain pen, “Charles A. Lindbergh.” The image shows Lindbergh with his engineer, H. K
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Estimate : 1,800.00 - 2,200.00
 
 
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Mercury 7429 - Mercury 7
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Collection of six stamps, consisting of five four-cent Project Mercury stamps, and an eight-cent double stamp honoring the United States in Space, eac
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Mercury 7430 - Mercury 7
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Vintage color magazine cover from the September 14, 1959, issue of Life, trimmed to a size of 10.25 x 9, signed vertically in various color inks by al
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,500.00
 
 
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Moonwalkers431 - Moonwalkers
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Color limited edition 31 x 25 print entitled ‘Moonwalkers’, numbered 535/1000, signed in blue felt tip by 11 of the 12 astronauts who have walked on t
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Estimate : 1,500.00 - 2,000.00
 
 
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Bill Pogue432 - Bill Pogue
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Off-white hard hat prepared for Pogue for use at the Kennedy Space Center. Fiberglass hat has “Pogue,” painted across the front, an adjustable head ba
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Stuart Roosa433 - Stuart Roosa
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Off-white hard hat prepared for Roosa for use at the Kennedy Space Center. Fiberglass hat has, “Roosa,” painted across the front, an adjustable head b
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Space Shuttle Tile434 - Space Shuttle Tile
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Available to US bidders only. Angled black shuttle tile, measuring 5 x 5 x 2, numbered V070-395018-113 7HBOLK, removed from the space shuttle Endeavou
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 2,000.00
 
 
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Alan Shepard435 - Alan Shepard
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TLS, signed “Alan, your friendly golfing mullet!,” one page, NASA letterhead, 5.25 x 7.25, no date. Letter written to Robert Goulet, shortly before hi
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Estimate : 300.00 - 500.00
 
 
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Alan Shepard436 - Alan Shepard
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Color vintage semi-glossy 13.5 x 10.75 photo of the Antares on the lunar surface, affixed to its original 19.5 x 15.5 mount, signed and inscribed on t
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Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
 
 
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STS-92437 - STS-92
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Metal fastener screw flown on shuttle Discovery mission STS-92, and removed during STS-102 processing. Phillips head screw measures 1.25? long, and wa
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Estimate : 300.00 - 500.00
 
 
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Orville Wright438 - Orville Wright
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United States of America “annual sporting license,” number 479, issued to Edward G. Knapp by the Federation Aeronautique Internationale for the year o
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,500.00
 
 
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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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Graf Ferdinand von Zeppelin440 - Graf Ferdinand von Zeppelin
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German engineer (1838–1917) who designed the famous rigid airship that bears his name. ALS in German, signed “G. F. Zeppelin,” two pages on two adjoin
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Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
 
 
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Buzz Aldrin441 - Buzz Aldrin
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Three hardcover books, each signed on either the title or half-title page by Aldrin. Titles are: Magnificent Desolation, Mission to Mars, and Look to
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Buzz Aldrin442 - Buzz Aldrin
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Color 7.5 x 9.5 NASA photo of Aldrin in his white space suit, signed and inscribed in black felt tip as a thirty-third degree Mason, “To Bro. Hugh R.
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Buzz Aldrin443 - Buzz Aldrin
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Color satin-finish 8 x 10 photo of Aldrin posing in his white space suit, signed in blue felt tip, “Buzz Aldrin, Apollo XI.” In very fine condition.
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Buzz Aldrin444 - Buzz Aldrin
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Color satin-finish 10 x 8 photo of Aldrin facing the American flag while on the lunar surface, signed in silver ink, “First lunar landing, Buzz Aldrin
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Buzz Aldrin445 - Buzz Aldrin
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Color limited edition 21 x 33 poster of Aldrin facing the American flag on the lunar surface, numbered 258/1969, with “We came in peace for all mankin
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Buzz Aldrin446 - Buzz Aldrin
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Color satin-finish 20 x 16 photo of Aldrin facing the American flag on the lunar surface, signed in silver ink. In fine condition.
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Apollo 9447 - Apollo 9
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Color official 11 x 14 NASA lithograph of the Apollo 9 crew posing in their space suits in front of a simulator, signed near the bottom in black ink a
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Apollo 9448 - Apollo 9
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Glossy 10 x 8 NASA photo of the Apollo 9 mission emblem, signed in black felt tip by Dave Scott, Jim McDivitt, and Rusty Schweickart. In fine conditio
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Apollo 10449 - Apollo 10
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Glossy 8 x 10 NASA photo of John Young and Tom Stafford in their full space suits shortly before launch, signed in black felt tip by both Young and St
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Apollo 14450 - Apollo 14
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Felt tip signatures of Apollo 14 crew members Alan Shepard, Ed Mitchell, and Stuart Roosa on an off-white 5 x 3 card. In fine condition.
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Apollo 17452 - Apollo 17
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Launch day cover with a cachet honoring the Apollo 17 crew’s take off, signed in black felt tip and ink by Gene Cernan, Jack Schmitt, and Ron Evans. I
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Apollo-Soyuz453 - Apollo-Soyuz
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Glossy 9.25 x 6.5 photo of the American and Russian crews meeting with President Gerald Ford, affixed to an 11.25 x 10 mount, inscribed in a calligrap
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Alan Bean454 - Alan Bean
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Color satin-finish 10 x 8 photo of Bean working on the lunar surface by the lander, signed in silver ink, “An island of refuge in an ocean of storms,
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Gene Cernan455 - Gene Cernan
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Majestic color satin-finish 40.25 x 8.25 panoramic photo of the Apollo 17 landing site, signed in gold ink, “‘We now leave as we once came, and God wi
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Estimate : 300.00 - 500.00
 
 
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Gene Cernan456 - Gene Cernan
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Color satin-finish 8 x 10 photo of Cernan posing in his white space suit, beautifully signed in blue felt tip, “Gene Cernan, Last man on the moon, Apo
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Gene Cernan457 - Gene Cernan
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Color satin-finish 8 x 10 photo of Cernan with the American flag on the lunar surface, with the Earth far off in the distance, signed in silver ink, “
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Michael Collins459 - Michael Collins
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Color satin-finish 8 x 10 photo of Collins in his white space suit, signed in blue felt tip. In fine condition.
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Estimate : 100.00 - 200.00
 
 
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Gordon Cooper460 - Gordon Cooper
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Four glossy photos, two 8 x 10 and two 10 x 8, including three vintage NASA photos, all signed later in blue felt tip. Photos are of Cooper inspecting
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Gordon Cooper461 - Gordon Cooper
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Three signed satin-finish photos, two 8 x 10 and one 10 x 8, one of Cooper in his space suit, signed in blue felt tip; a close-up of Cooper after spla
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Charlie Duke463 - Charlie Duke
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Color satin-finish 10 x 8 photo of Duke saluting the flag on the lunar surface, signed in silver ink, “Location, location, location, Charlie Duke Apol
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Enola Gay: Paul Tibbets464 - Enola Gay: Paul Tibbets
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Cardstock 10 x 8 photo of Tibbets waving from the Enola Gay cockpit window, signed in blue felt tip; and a sheet of eight mock postage stamps, 8.5 x 3
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Fred Haise465 - Fred Haise
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Four color photos: an official 8 x 10 NASA lithograph of Haise in his white space suit, signed in black felt tip, “‘Luna Scientia’ Fred Haise, Apollo
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Jim Irwin466 - Jim Irwin
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Color 10 x 8 double-weight NASA photo of Irwin saluting the American flag on the surface of the moon, signed in black felt tip beneath a pre-printed s
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Alexei Leonov467 - Alexei Leonov
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Official color satin-finish 8 x 10 ‘red-numbered’ NASA photo, signed vertically in black felt tip. In very fine condition.
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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James Lovell468 - James Lovell
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Color vintage 8 x 10 NASA photo of Lovell in a suit and tie, signed and inscribed in black ink, “To Sid, Best regards, James Lovell.” In fine conditio
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Estimate : 100.00 - 200.00
 
 
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James Lovell469 - James Lovell
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Color satin-finish 8 x 10 photo of Lovell in his white space suit, signed in blue felt tip, “Houston we have a problem, James Lovell, Apollo 13.” In v
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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