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RR Auction: Fine Autographs & Artifacts - Featuring WWII - Internet bidstart 7/19

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Auction Name Fine Autographs & Artifacts - Featuring WWII - Internet bidstart 7/19 Total Sales (USD) 472,448.75
Auction Date August 07, 2019 - August 07, 2019 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 363,100.00
Sale Number #563 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 552,050.00
Total Lots 963
Sold Lots 566 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 838,150.00
% of Lots Sold 58.77% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 1,231,450.00
Unsold Lots 397 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 38.37%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
646 Beatles

Beatles Signatures

1967 USD 10,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 11,363.75
149 Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin DS

USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 11,228.75
449 Apollo 11

Apollo 11 Insurance Cover

1969 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 9,620.00
197 Ludwig II of Bavaria

Ludwig II of Bavaria Signed Photo

USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 9,582.50
660 Jimi Hendrix

Jimi Hendrix Album

1968 USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 9,581.25
204 Geronimo

Geronimo Signature

USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 7,487.50
440 Howard Hughes

Howard Hughes DS

1938 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 6,637.50
49 Dwight D. Eisenhower

Dwight D. Eisenhower's Personally-Worn Pair of General Stars

USD 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 6,250.00
441 Charles Lindbergh

Charles Lindbergh Map

1927 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 5,772.50
8 Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln DS

1863 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 5,760.00
549 Keith Haring

Keith Haring Sketch

USD 3,500.00 - 4,500.00 USD 5,545.00
208 Sitting Bull

Sitting Bull Signature

USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 5,500.00
178 Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein ANS

1929) USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 5,470.00
297 George A. Custer

George A. Custer ALS

1863 USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 5,120.00
294 Robert E. Lee

Robert E. Lee Signed Photo

USD 3,000.00 - 4,500.00 USD 5,030.00
554 Claude Monet

Claude Monet ALS

1923 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 4,306.25
651 Beatles: John Lennon

Beatles: John Lennon DS

1965 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 4,266.25
330

WWII: Harold Gallagher's P-47 'Zemke's Wolf Pack' 62nd Fighter Squadron A-2 Flight Jacket

USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 4,133.75
162 Nelson Mandela

Nelson Mandela TLS

2007 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 3,948.75
462

Ranger Program Five-Volume Collection of (949) Photographs Photographs

USD 3,500.00 - 5,500.00 USD 3,840.00
50 Dwight D. Eisenhower

Dwight D. Eisenhower's Silver Dollar Belt Buckle

USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 3,785.00
318 USS Richmond and Pearl Harbor Ship Dispatches

USS Richmond and Pearl Harbor Ship Dispatches Group Lot

1941 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 3,785.00
191 Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill Signed Photo

1921 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 3,750.00
210 Lee Harvey Oswald

Lee Harvey Oswald Envelope

1962 USD 2,500.00 - 3,000.00 USD 3,750.00
331

WWII: W. L. Walker's B-17 413th Bomb Squadron A-2 Flight Jacket

USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 3,661.25
  • Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A RUTH BADER GINSBURG BEADED JUDICIAL COLLAR. $80,000 - $120,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: ONLY KNOWN COPY OF THE ONLY BOOK BY THE REMARKABLE EVE ADAMS. $8,000 - $12,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A COMPLETE RUN OF VISIONAIRE MAGAZINE THROUGH 2010. $6,000 - $9,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: LAW REVIEW OFFPRINT SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY RUTH BADER GINSBURG. $3,000 - $5,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: META REBNER'S WORKING SCRIPT OF THE LOVED ONE. $1,500 - $2,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A KATHY GROVE PORTRAIT OF CYNDI LAUPER FOR THE FEBRUARY 1989 DETAILS COVER. $800 - $1,200
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A PLASTIC COAT BY MILLIE DAVID FEATURED IN SOHO NEWS STYLE SECTION, FROM THE COLLECTION OF ANNIE FLANDERS. $500 - $700
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A RUTH BADER GINSBURG JEWELRY BOX. $600 - $900
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A SET OF JONI MITCHELL LYRICS FOR "IF I HAD A HEART." $2,000 - $3,000
  • 19th Century Shop
    Catalogue 198 just published
    19th Century Shop. Darwin and Wallace, first printing of the first paper on natural selection
    19th Century Shop. Shakespeare’s Poems, first collected edition
    19th Century Shop. Walt Whitman portrait inscribed with a Leaves of Grass poem
    19th Century Shop. Major Elizabeth Barrett Browning manuscript notebook
    19th Century Shop. Spock's Baby Book, original MS
    19th Century Shop. Cellarius, Harmonia Macrocosmica, the great celestial atlas
  • Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [RUTH, George Herman “Babe” (1895-1948)]. Signed photograph. Circa 1930s. 191 x 248 mm. $1,500 to $2,500.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: HARRISON, Benjamin. Document signed (“Benj Harrison”) as governor of Virginia, certifying the service of Daniel Cumbo, a Black Revolutionary soldier. $6,000 to $9,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: ONE OF THE FIRST PRINTED ANNOUNCEMENTS OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: FIRST PRINTING OF LINCOLN’S IMMORTAL GETTYSBURG ADDRESS. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: HIGHLY IMPORTANT MORMON ARCHIVE. ALLEY, George. Archive of 23 Autograph Letters Signed by Mormon Convert George Alley to His Brother Joseph Alley. $10,000 to $20,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [AVIATION]. [ARMSTRONG, Neil A.] Aviation Hall of Fame Gold Medal MS64 NGC, Awarded to Neil Armstrong in 1979. $2,000 to $3,000.
    Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: NEWLY DISCOVERED FIRST PRINTING OF "WITH MALICE TOWARDS NONE... " FROM THE ONLY NEWSPAPER ACTUALLY ALLOWED TO PARTICIPATE IN LINCOLN’S SECOND INAUGURAL PROCESSION. $4,000 to $8,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: THE MOST IMPORTANT GEORGE WASHINGTON DOCUMENT IN PRIVATE HANDS; GEORGE WASHINGTON’S COMMISSION AS COMMANDER IN CHIEF, 1775, ONE OF ONLY TWO ORIGINALS. $150,000 to $250,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: A VERY RARE ACCOUNT OF BLACKBEARD’S DEATH AND ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT PIRATE ITEMS EXTANT. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: EDISON, Thomas. Patent for Edison’s Improvements on the Electric-Light, No. 219,628. [Washington, D.C.: U.S. Patent Office], 16 September 1879. $2,000 to $3,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [VIETNAM WAR]. The original pen used by Secretary of State William P. Rogers to sign the Vietnam Peace Agreement, Paris, 27 January 1973. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: SONS OF LIBERTY FOUNDER COLONEL BARRÉ ANNOTATED TITLE-PAGE, “WHICH OUGHT TO ROUSE UP BRITISH ATTENTION”. $4,000 to $6,000.
  • Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: [Langland (William)]. The vision of Pierce Plowman, nowe the seconde time imprinted..., Roberte Crowley, 1550. £8,000 to £10,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: [Shakespeare (William)]. [Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies], second folio edition, [by Tho.Cotes, for Robert Allot], [1632]. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Bible, Czech Biblia Bohemica, first complete Bible printed in the Czech vernacular, Prague, August 1488. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: Shabthai Tzvi.- Collection of four printed and illustrated broadsides detailing the appearance, rise and fall of the false messiah, Shabthai Tzvi, Augsburg, 1666-67. £40,000 to £60,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Leaf from the Beauvais Missal, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment, [Northern France (perhaps Beauvais or Amiens)], [fourteenth century (c.1310)]. £4,000 to £6,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Aubrey (John). [Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme], manuscript in English, Latin and Greek, [c. 1693]. £30,000 to £50,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: Byron (George Gordon Noel, Lord). Poems on Various Occasions, first edition, Harriet Maltby's copy, Newark, Printed by S. & J. Ridge, 1807. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Tolkien (J.R.R.) The Hobbit, first edition, second impression with dust-jacket, 1937 [but 1938]. £7,000 to £10,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Blake (William).- Thornton (Robert John). The Pastorals of Virgil, 2 vol., engraved plates by William Blake, 1821. £8,000 to £12,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: America.- Mount (William J.) & Thomas Page. The English Pilot…, [bound with] The Fourth Book, describing The West Indies Navigation from Hudson's-Bay to the River Amazones, 1721. £20,000 to £30,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Oldfield (Henry Ambrose), Rajman Singh Chitrakar & others. An album of 160 photographs and 13 original artworks, (1833-1919), [c. 1850s-1880s]. £20,000 to £30,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Audubon (John James) [and William MacGillivray]. Ornithological Biography…, 5 vol., first edition, presentation copy inscribed by Audubon, Edinburgh, 1831-49 [i.e. 1831-39]. £10,000 to £15,000.
  • Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Winston Churchill. The Second World War. Set of First-Edition Volumes. 6,000 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: A.A. Milne, Ernest H. Shepard. A Collection of The Pooh Books. Set of First-Editions. 18,600 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Salvador Dalí, Lewis Carroll. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Finely Bound and Signed Limited Edition. 15,000 USD
    Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ian Fleming. Live and Let Die. First Edition. 9,500 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter Series. Finely Bound First Printing Set of Complete Series. 5,650 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell to Arms. First Edition, First Printing. 4,200 USD
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