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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 continues to achieve 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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Guenter Wendt’s Gemini 12 Oversized Signed ‘Gag Gift’ Check6106Guenter Wendt’s Gemini 12 Oversized Signed ‘Gag Gift’ Check
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Enormous Lovell & Aldrin Bank of Pad 19 gag check, 26 x 12, filled out in type and signed by James Lovell and Buzz Aldrin, “James A. Lovell, Jr....
Estimate : 1,500.00 - 2,000.00
Guenter Wendt’s Gemini 9 Launch Badge6107Guenter Wendt’s Gemini 9 Launch Badge
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Gemini 9 green cardstock launch badge, 4 x 2.5, portraying the spacecraft on the front with text on the reverse, “This permit may be kept as a souven
Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
Guenter Wendt’s Gemini Collection6108Guenter Wendt’s Gemini Collection
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Five items: two official glossy NASA photos of Wendt with the Gemini spacecraft, 8 x 10 and 10 x 8, each signed on the front and back by Wendt and sta
Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
Guenter Wendt’s Gemini 11 Patch6109Guenter Wendt’s Gemini 11 Patch
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Extremely rare Gemini 11 embroidered crew patch featuring the mission insignia, measuring 3 x 4.25, originating from the collection of Guenter Wendt.
Estimate : 800.00 - 1,000.00
Guenter Wendt’s Apollo 9 Crew-Presented Patch6110Guenter Wendt’s Apollo 9 Crew-Presented Patch
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Rare Apollo 9 Texas Art Embroidery patch, measuring 4? in diameter, distinguished by the lack of red fill in the "D" of McDivitt. This exa...
Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
Guenter Wendt’s Apollo 11 MFA Medallion6111Guenter Wendt’s Apollo 11 MFA Medallion
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Apollo 11 Manned Flight Awareness medal, 1.25? diameter, featuring a depiction of Buzz Aldrin looking at the American flag on the lunar surface. The r
Estimate : 800.00 - 1,000.00
Guenter Wendt’s Apollo 11 Crew-Presented Patch6112Guenter Wendt’s Apollo 11 Crew-Presented Patch
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Scarce Apollo 11 embroidered patch manufactured by Universal Commemorative, measuring 4? in diameter, presented to padleader Guenter Wendt by the Apol
Estimate : 800.00 - 1,000.00
Guenter Wendt’s Apollo 16 Patch Presented by Duke6113Guenter Wendt’s Apollo 16 Patch Presented by Duke
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Desirable Apollo 16 embroidered AB patch, measuring 4? in diameter, presented to padleader Guenter Wendt by Lunar Module Pilot Charlie Duke prior to t
Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
Guenter Wendt’s Apollo 17 Crew-Presented Patch6114Guenter Wendt’s Apollo 17 Crew-Presented Patch
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Desirable Apollo 17 embroidered patch, measuring 4? in diameter, presented to padleader Guenter Wendt by the crew prior to launch. Also includes a col
Estimate : 500.00 - 700.00
Guenter Wendt’s Skylab 2 Crew-Presented Patch6115Guenter Wendt’s Skylab 2 Crew-Presented Patch
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Skylab 2 embroidered patch manufactured by Lion Brothers, measuring 4? in diameter, presented to padleader Guenter Wendt by the crew prior to the flig
Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
Guenter Wendt’s Skylab 3 Crew-Presented Patch6116Guenter Wendt’s Skylab 3 Crew-Presented Patch
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Skylab 3 embroidered patch, measuring 4? in diameter, presented to padleader Guenter Wendt by the crew during 1973. Also includes an official color 10
Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
Guenter Wendt’s ALT Crew-Presented Patch and Signed Photograph6117Guenter Wendt’s ALT Crew-Presented Patch and Signed Photograph
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Two items from the personal collection of Guenter Wendt: a rare Space Shuttle Enterprise Test Team embroidered patch, measuring 4 x 4, presented to We
Estimate : 500.00 - 700.00
Guenter Wendt’s STS-1 Crew-Presented Patch6118Guenter Wendt’s STS-1 Crew-Presented Patch
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Scarce STS-1 embroidered crew patch, measuring 4.5 x 4.75, presented to Wendt by the crew prior to launch. Also includes an official glossy 8 x 10 NAS
Estimate : 500.00 - 700.00
Guenter Wendt’s Complex 5 Fragment and Signed Photograph6119Guenter Wendt’s Complex 5 Fragment and Signed Photograph
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Two items: a Launch Complex 5 metal fragment cut from Gantry No. 5, affixed to an 8.5 x 11 certificate of authenticity signed by Ernest Malnassy, dire
Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
Guenter Wendt’s Launch 19 and 34 Complex Souvenirs6120Guenter Wendt’s Launch 19 and 34 Complex Souvenirs
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Two relics: a fragment of the linoleum from the floor of the White Room at Launch Complex 19 affixed to an 8.5 x 11 certificate; and a fragment of flo
Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
Guenter Wendt Signed Collection of Apollo Ephemera6121Guenter Wendt Signed Collection of Apollo Ephemera
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Group of items from the personal collection of Guenter Wendt, with signed items including: a JFK Space Center facts book; a JFK Space Center ASTP laun
Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
Guenter Wendt’s Apollo-Soyuz Mission-Used Checklist6122Guenter Wendt’s Apollo-Soyuz Mission-Used Checklist
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Wendt’s unbound Pad 39B White Room checklist manual used during the Apollo-Soyuz mission, approximately thirty double-sided sheets, 8.5 x 11, signed o
Estimate : 800.00 - 1,000.00
ALT Signed Photograph6123ALT Signed Photograph
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Official color 10 x 8 NASA lithograph of the Space Shuttle Approach and Landing Test crews, signed and inscribed in black ink, “Gunter —Thanks fo
Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
Skylab Collection of Four Items6124Skylab Collection of Four Items
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Collection of four items from the collection of Guenter Wendt, including: an ALS signed “Bill Pogue, Skylab 4,” one page, February 10, 1989, concernin
Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
Space Shuttle and Spacelab Collection of Six Items6125Space Shuttle and Spacelab Collection of Six Items
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Collection of six items, each signed and inscribed by a Shuttle astronaut to Guenter Wendt, including: Story Musgrave (SP); Steve Nagel (SP); Henry Ha
Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00