RR Auction: Remarkable Rarities

Choice AQS in French on an off-white 4.75 x 4.75 sheet, signed at the conclusion, “Saml. F. B. Morse.” Morse pens a French proverb, in full (untransla

Inventor (1818–1903) of the eponymous machine gun which has been estimated to have killed over 250,000 men since 1862. Ink signature, “R. J. Gatling,

ALS, one page, 4.5 x 7.5, no date but circa 1840s. Letter to Mssrs. Tucker, in part: “Please get a slip printed immediately in some peculiar color and

Edison Botanic Research Corporation business check, 8.5 x 3, filled out in another hand and signed by Edison, payable to Parke Davis & Co. for $...

Bold ink signature, “Henry Ford,” on an off-white 2.25 x 3.25 portion of an FDC bearing the Norwegian coat of arms and reading “The United States Hono

The Winters National Bank & Trust Co. bank check, 8.25 x 2.75, filled out in another hand and signed by Wright, payable to Carrie Grumbach for $...

TLS signed “W. R. Hearst,” two pages, 7.75 x 10.5, San Francisco Examiner letterhead, July 31, 1923. Letter to Herman Bernstein, editor of the Jewish

Ink signature, “Yours sincerely, C. Darwin,” on an off-white 3.25 x 1.25 slip clipped from the close of a letter. Nicely double-matted and framed with

ALS in Italian, signed “A. Einstein,” one page on a 3.5 x 5.5 postcard, July 12, 1925. Letter to Italian electrical engineer Giovanni Giorgi. In full

TLS signed “Freud,” one page, 5.5 x 7.5, personal letterhead, March 25, 1927. Letter to a female colleague, in part: “As I said before, it will be imp