RR Auction: Space & Aviation Auction

An amazing typed manuscript of an essay entitled “What Clement Ader Did,” which was published in the May 1912 edition of The Aero Club of America Bull

Vintage oversized matte-finish 10.75 x 14 bust portrait, by Cornwell of Dayton, Ohio, signed and inscribed in fountain pen, “For Roy G. Fitzgerald, wi

British businessman (1877–1910) who, with his partner Frederick Henry Royce, founded one of the most legendary firms in automotive history. Scarce ALS

Original glossy 4.25 x 6.25 full-length photo of Wilbur Wright standing outdoors in France. Reverse bears an M. Rol & Co. photographer’s stamp a...

Original 4.5 x 6.5 full-length press photo of Wilbur Wright standing outdoors in Le Mans, France, in 1908. Reverse bears several notations and an M. R

Original 4.5 x 6.5 press photo of Wilbur Wright, Leon Bollee, the Wright’s American business agent Hart O. Berg, and another gentleman conferring in f

Original 4.75 x 6.5 photo of Wilbur Wright engaged in discussion with three men in front of a Wright Flyer. Reverse bears a Photographe du Journal sta

Original 4.5 x 6.5 press photo of Wilbur Wright tending to a line by his Wright Flyer in Le Mans in 1908. Reverse bears an Agence Internationale photo

Original 4.5 x 6.5 press photo of Wilbur at the controls of his 1907 Wright Flyer shortly before his first European flight at Les Hunaudieres race cou

Original glossy 9.25 x 7 photo of a Wright Flyer just feet off the ground as a crowd looks on, presumably taken from a demonstration in France. Photo

Original photo of a Wright Model A in flight over the grandstands at Rheims. Photo is affixed to an 11 x 11.5 mount. In fine condition, with a bit of

Glossy 6 x 4.5 photo of Orville and Katharine Wright feeding hay to a head of oxen, signed and inscribed in fountain pen to French aviator Paul Tissan

A prop shaft oiler, four inches long, used on the 1904 and 1905 Wright Flyers. Oiler is stamped on the top, “Lunkenheimer No. O Sentinel, Made in the

A flown grease cup used on the Curtiss ‘Jenny’ and the DeHaviland DH-4 during World War I. Cup and hinged lid measures 1.5? long and has a threaded bo

Unsigned book: La Navigation Aerienne. Paris: Librairie Commerciale, 1907. Hardcover, 8.5 x 12, 71 pages. Book bears an owner’s signature on the rever

Unsigned book: L’Epopee Aerienne. Paris: H. Dunod et E. Pinat, 1910. Hardcover, 13.75 x 10, 104 pages. End of book holds five color fold-out multi-lay

Original French advertisement broadside, 9.75 x 7, featuring an image of Wilbur Wright and the Wright Flyer on one side, headed across the top, “Bon a

Original booklet entitled “L’Aeroplane des Freres Wright,” 5.5 x 8.75, 22 pages, printed in 1908, and featuring a pull-out diagram of a Wright Flyer.

Original booklet, in German, entitled “Beteiligung an Schau-und Wettfliegen Flugmaschine Wright Gesellschaft 1910,” 6.5 x 10, eight pages, with severa

Original limited edition French booklet entitled “De Montgolfier a Wilbur Wright,” 7.5 x 10.75, published in Paris and dated December 22, 1908, number

Original French booklet entitled “Les Premiers Hommes-Oiseaux [The First Men-Birds],” 6.25 x 9.5, 78 pages, printed in Paris and dated 1908. Inside be

Rare original German booklet entitled “Die Bruder Wright,” with cover translating to: “The Wright Brothers. A study of the development of the flying m

Original German booklet entitled “Flug von Heinrich Adams,” 6.25 x 9.25, 144 pages, published in Leipzig in 1909, with images and articles on the Wrig

Original French booklet entitled “L’Aerophile,” 8 x 11, dated November 15, 1910, full of articles, advertisements, and photos on aviation. Inside of t

Original German booklet entitled “Deutsche Zeitschrift fur Luftschiffahrt,” 7 x 10 pages, dated July 15, 1908. Front cover is stamped “From the privat

Original December 1909 issue of Encyclopedie de l'Aviation, 8.5 x 10.5, published in Paris and containing an alphabetical listing of 782 previou...

Original French journal entitled “Les Aeroplanes de 1910,” 9 x 10.75, published by Librairie Aeronautique in Paris, with photos and descriptions of se

Original French magazine entitled “L’Assiette au Beurre,” January 1909, 9.5 x 12.5, featuring several color illustrations inside. In very good conditi

Original French publication entitled “L’Aviation Illustree,” 11 x 15, eight pages, dated March 27, 1909. Front page features a large image of a Wright

Five original issues of Le Petit Journal, all 12 x 17.5, ranging in date from 1909–1913, with the 1913 issue featuring an image of a Wright Flyer soar

Original and very colorful French advertising poster for “La Raphaelle Liqueur Bonal,” 45.5 x 62.5, done by G. Rosetti in 1908. Poster depicts a waite

Vintage Zeppelin airship tobacco card collector’s album from 1932, in German, 13.5 x 9.5, complete with over 200 small photo cards affixed on the appr

Collection of approximately 185 items relating to dirigibles, consisting primarily of commemorative covers and postcard photos, with several other for

Flown metal fragment from the Hindenburg retrieved from its crash site, matted within a limited edition display featuring an image of the ill-fated di

Original swatch of fabric from the Fokker D-VII U-10 fighter airplane. Swatch measures 2 x 2 and is affixed to a presentation certificate which incorp

Original swatch of fabric from the Curtiss NC-4 airplane. Swatch measures 1.75 x 1.75 and is affixed to a presentation certificate which incorporates

Signed book: We. Limited author’s autograph edition, numbered 859/1000. NY: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1927. Hardcover, 6.75 x 10, 308 pages. Lindbergh’s aut

Unusual matte-finish 8 x 10 photo of Earhart wearing a plaid skirt with her hands clasped in a relaxed, candid pose, attractively signed against the l

A collection of 66 letters to businessman Ellis A. Gimbel, dating from 1937–1941, thanking Gimbel for sending replicas of a medal he presented to Amel

Original wing red fabric swatch, 2 x 2, excised from Earhart's Lockheed Vega 5B. The swatch is affixed to a 15 x 20 piece of textured cover stoc...

Uncommon and desirable commemorative airmail postal cover, 9.5 x 4, carried by Hughes on his triumphant 1938 around-the-world flight. The cover, issue

Collection of three flown items carried by Hughes on his triumphant 1938 around-the-world flight. Items are: a commemorative airmail postal cover, 9.5

Hardcover manual entitled “Service and Instruction Manual Radio B-24D Airplane,” 8.5 x 11.25, 252 pages, prepared by the Flight and Service department

Hardcover instruction manual entitled “Power Plant B-24 D Airplane,” 9 x 11.25, 203 pages, printed in 1943 by Consolidated Aircraft Corporation. Manua

Softcover Pilot’s Powerplant Manual, 6.5 x 9.5, 392 pages, issued by the US Department of Commerce’s Civil Aeronautics Administration, dated October 1

Manual entitled “Instrument Flying Basic Without Radio Aids,” staple bound, 8.5 x 11, 82 pages, issued by the Commanding General of the Army Air Force

Collection of 171 covers, almost all Pan-Am first flight covers from various clipper routes around the world, most with stamped cachets commemorating

ANS, in pencil, signed “B,” one page, 4.75 x 8, red-bordered Office of Director letterhead, December 9. Note reads, in full: “Do you think you could g

Rare hardbound lecture entitled “Fifth Wings Club ‘Sight’ lecture: Space Flight Past, Present, and Future,” given by von Braun in New York City on May

A complete set of six sterling silver “Milestones of Manned Flight” medallions issued in 1969 by TWA. Each medallion measures approximately 1.5 inches

An umbilical spring used in the launch of the Explorer 1 satellite, approximately 6.75? long and 1.5? in diameter. Spring is attached to an 8.25 x 11.

Very rare official unsigned glossy 10 x 8 US Air Force photo of the very first Atlas rocket on the launch pad on April 24, 1957. Reverse bears the pri

Collection of over 150 official military, space companies, and NASA photos of missiles and rockets spanning from 1950 up to the 1990s, various finishe

An unfired Isayev S2.720A bi-propellant regenerative thrust chamber developed for use in the second stage of the Soviet S-75M Surface to Air Missile (

PA-0207 Vernier rocket engine from the second stage of UR-200 space rocket proposed as the launcher for the anti-satellite spacecraft. Engine measures

This design was a derivative of the Sokol-K suit, with this model having a transverse zipper at the waist to allow for easier on and off capabilities,

Dark green two-piece suit consisting of a cosmonaut jacket with white zippers and a pair of elastic waist pants constructed from identical fabric. Jac

Original cosmonaut long duration flight suit. One-piece, full-length suit, sometimes referred to as a ‘penguin suit,’ is complete with the foot stirru

Highly decorated cosmonaut who participated in three missions. Volkov’s worn and flown cosmonaut long duration flight suit from his Soyuz TM-13 missio

Complete flown manual carried on board the Soyuz T-5 mission by Commander Anatoly Berezovoy. The manual, in Russian, measures 7.5 x 10, is 186 pages l

Flown Star Orientation device carried on board the Salyut 6 space station. Model AO-1 device measures 7 x 17.5 x 6.5, retains its mount, and is number

Volkov’s notebook describing the Mir Space Station’s “termo static” system at length, 6.5 x 8, used by him during training in 1990–91. Notebook contai

Collection of ten made-for-space food packages, including two packs of bread (dinner bread and Borodino), crackers, toffee, ‘Russian’ cookies, caramel

Three aluminum commemorative coins, all approximately 1.25? in diameter, issued between 2005 and 2007, each honoring a different unmanned Sputnik miss

Color Russian seminar card, 6 x 8, signed in ink and felt tip by seven cosmonauts. Signers are: Vladimir Shatalov, Georgy Beregovoy, Anatoly Filipchen

Russian Air Force general (1918–1979) who distinguished himself in World War II, earning several high-level commendations, and later served as the fir

A collection of approximately 350 Soviet commemorative space pins and buttons, various shapes and sizes, commemorating different cosmonauts, missions,

Color satin-finish 9.5 x 7.5 photo of the LOK/N1 spacecraft, signed in the lower right in silver ink by Leonov. Framed to an overall size of 12 x 10.

Color satin-finish 8 x 10 portrait of Tereshkova in her spacesuit, signed in black felt tip, adding “First woman in space,” and “Vostok-6 16.06-19.06

Color 5.75 x 4 postcard photo of Gagarin and Titov looking at a newspaper, signed and inscribed in blue ink, in Russian, “To Elikanida Alekseevna Fila

Color satin-finish 8 x 10 photo of Tereshkova saluting an officer before her flight as Leonov looks on, signed in blue felt tip by both, with Leonov a

Very nice satin-finish 14 x 11 photo of an X-15 aircraft on the tarmac, signed vertically in black felt tip by Neil Armstrong, Robert Rushworth, Forre

NASA research pilot (1926–1993) selected as an astronaut for the United States Air Force X-20 Dyna-Soar program in April 1960. After the Dyna-Soar pro

Color limited edition 24 x 18 print entitled ‘Fastest Man Alive,’ numbered 533/1000, signed in pencil. Also signed in pencil by the artist, Mike Macha

Color limited edition 24 x 19 print entitled ‘Launch of the A-2,’ numbered 476/670, signed in pencil. Also signed in pencil by the artist, Mike Machat

Scarce signed book: Always Another Dawn. Later printing. Cleveland: World Publishing Company, 1960. Hardcover with dust jacket, 6 x 8.5, 421 pages. Si

Hardcover book entitled X-15: A Compendium, Vol. I, 7.5 x 9.25, published by NASA, containing reprints of four NASA manuals concerning the X-15, all o

Original color 28 x 22 half-sheet movie poster for the 1961 film X-15, starring David McLean, Charles Bronson, and James Gregory. In fine condition, w

Original X-15 wind tunnel nose model, used in testing during the 1950s to test aerodynamic flow over the nose of the X-15. Brass model measures 5.5? l

Vintage 8 x 10 printed paperstock photo bearing individual portraits of the Mercury astronauts in suits and ties, with the headline stating “Mercury A

Vintage matte-finish 10 x 8 photo of the Mercury astronauts posing with a model of their space craft, signed in the lower border in blue and black ink

Mailing envelope, 5.5 x 3.5, with an October 2, 1963, Washington, DC postmark, and a typed address, signed on the front in pencil, “Gus Grissom,” and

Mercury-era hand controller presented to fellow Mercury astronaut Gus Grissom. Right-handed controller measures 5 x 7.25 and has been mounted on to a

Flown fire starter kit carried on board Gordon Cooper’s Faith 7 mission. Contents are still sealed in their original 3 x 4.5 plastic pouch with an 11?

Flown cabin temperature gauge carried on board Scott Carpenter’s MA-7 flight. Gauge measures 2? in diameter, with a 2.25? long rod on the back, and is

A limited edition presentation containing a 1.5? long segment of film from Liberty Bell 7’s pilot observation camera, recovered from the Atlantic Ocea

Detailed limited edition Discovery Channel pewter model of the Liberty Bell 7 capsule, numbered 2070/2500, measuring approximately 4? tall. In fine co

Flown metal ring component from Gus Grissom’s Liberty Bell 7 spacecraft, recovered from the Atlantic Ocean on July 20, 1999. Ring measures approximate

Flown fitting from Gus Grissom’s Liberty Bell 7, recovered from the Atlantic Ocean on July 20, 1999. Slightly corroded fitting measures approximately

A flown piece of insulating tape from Gus Grissom’s Liberty Bell 7, recovered from the Atlantic Ocean on July 20, 1999. Section measures 1.75 x 1 and

Flown lapel pin carried by Carpenter on his Faith 7 mission. Pin is of a small Mercury capsule and measures approximately .75? long. Accompanied by a

Flown small silver piece of battery fragment from Carpenter’s Mercury mission. Fragment is encased in a 1.5 x 1.5 block of Lucite with a small piece o

Unbound flight plan for Cooper’s MA-9 mission, 8.5 x 10.5, labeled “Revision A,” inside and dated April 15, 1963. Signed on the front cover in black i

Original color chart, 36 x 10.25, titled in the lower left, “Mercury Orbit Chart MOC-6. 1st Edition—February 1963, Published by the USAF,” picturing a

Mercury star chart from the personal collection of flight director Gene Kranz. Laminated double-sided chart measures 4 x 10.75 with many stars and con

Brilliant original mixed media artwork by Calle depicting the launch of John Glenn’s Friendship 7 capsule, 18 x 13, signed in the lower border in penc

Commercial illustrator (1927–1992) best known for innovative design in the development of the modern movie poster. He designed posters for such classi

Color limited edition 35 x 25 print, numbered 414/1500, featuring an artist’s rendition of a launch, with portraits of each astronaut interspersed thr

Very rare 1961 Convair employee badge, 2? in diameter, issued to A. N. Gordon. In fine condition, with expected light wear. Early flight items that ar

Certificate presented to Cooper by the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, one page, 10.25 x 15, April 30, 1962. The Chamber of Commerce’s “Grea