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RR Auction: Fine Autographs and Artifacts - bidstart 1/19

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Auction Name	Fine Autographs and Artifacts - bidstart 1/19	Total Sales (USD)	803,684.00
Auction Date	February 14, 2024 - February 14, 2024	Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)	487,800.00
Sale Number	#687	High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)	744,300.00
Total Lots	533
Sold Lots	422	Low Estimate of All Lots (USD)	634,500.00
% of Lots Sold	79.17%	High Estimate of All Lots (USD)	958,300.00
Unsold Lots	111	Total Sales as a % of High Est.	83.87%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1	American Presidents	American Presidents Signature Collection (35) - complete from George Washington to John F. Kennedy	1811	USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00	USD 43,161.00
432	Prince:	Prince: The Black Album - Extremely Rare Sealed Example	1987	USD 20,000.00 - 25,000.00	USD 32,103.00
4	Thomas Jefferson	Thomas Jefferson Autograph Letter Signed with Free Frank on Monticello Lottery	1826	USD 27,500.00 - 40,000.00	USD 30,819.00
14	Abraham Lincoln	Abraham Lincoln Autograph Endorsement Signed as President Promoting a Wounded Captain	1864	USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00	USD 19,899.00
397	H. P. Lovecraft Original	H. P. Lovecraft Original Handwritten Poem - 'Expectancy' - Sonnet 28 from Fungi from Yuggoth	no date	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	USD 19,899.00
2	John Adams	John Adams Autograph Letter Signed to the Secretary of the Navy, Recommending a Naval Surgeon Who Served "Under President Washington"	1812	USD 12,000.00 - 15,000.00	USD 15,000.00
131	Benjamin Franklin	Benjamin Franklin Document Signed as President of Pennsylvania, Assigning a Justice to "the county court of Common Pleas"	1786	USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00	USD 15,000.00
18	Abraham Lincoln	Abraham Lincoln Rare Oversized Albumen Photograph at His Springfield Home (Summer 1860)	1861	USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	USD 13,589.00
424	Beatles	Beatles Signatures (1964) - obtained on the set of A Hard Day's Night	1964	USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00	USD 13,589.00
582	Babe Ruth	Babe Ruth Document Signed (1920) - the baseball great sues a film company during his first year with the NY Yankees	1920	USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00	USD 13,315.00
147	Apple iPhone	Apple iPhone (First Generation, Sealed 8GB)		USD 10,000.00 - 20,000.00	USD 12,501.00
395	Arthur Conan Doyle	Arthur Conan Doyle Handwritten Notebook on Spiritualism - 30+ Pages on Seances, Mediums, Dickens and Automatic Writing		USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00	USD 12,378.00
139	Queen Elizabeth II	Queen Elizabeth II Hand-Drawn and -Colored Christmas Card for Her Governess, Marion Crawford	the 1930s	USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	USD 12,183.00
15	President Abraham Lincoln	President Abraham Lincoln Signed Document, Dating to His Issuance of General War Order No. 1 and the Advancement of All Land and Sea Forces	1862	USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00	USD 11,230.00
20	U. S. Grant Writes	U. S. Grant Writes Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton, Sending a Petersburg Casualty Report Two Months Before Lee's Surrender	1865	USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	USD 10,664.00
23	President James A. Garfield	President James A. Garfield Appoints a Maine Postmaster - Exceedingly Rare Presidential Document	1881	USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00	USD 10,588.00
3	John Adams	John Adams Broadside for Presidential Proclamation of a Day of Fasting, Free Franked by Timothy Pickering	1799	USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00	USD 10,068.00
16	Abraham Lincoln	Abraham Lincoln Massive Hesler-Ayres Portrait Printed From an Original Negative	1860	USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00	USD 9,981.00
158	Lee Harvey Oswald	Lee Harvey Oswald Typed Letter Signed on Life in the Soviet Union and His New Wife	1961	USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00	USD 9,375.00
5	Thomas Jefferson	Thomas Jefferson Autograph Letter Signed as President, Paying His White House Butler	1801	USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00	USD 8,750.00
419	Hunter S. Thompson	Hunter S. Thompson Signed Chair from His Favorite Bar, The Woody Creek Tavern		USD 800.00 - 1,000.00	USD 8,750.00
149	Albert Einstein	Albert Einstein Typed Letter Signed	1948	USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	USD 8,125.00
403	Emile Zola and Alfred Bruneau	Emile Zola and Alfred Bruneau Autograph Manuscripts Signed - "Messidor"	1897	USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	USD 8,060.00
35	John and Robert Kennedy	John and Robert Kennedy Document Signed, Appointing a United States Attorney	1961	USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00	USD 7,500.00
155	William 'Buffalo Bill' Cody	William 'Buffalo Bill' Cody 1873 Walking Cane and Handwritten Note, Presented to His Cousin, George R. Guss		USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00	USD 7,500.00

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
Ketterer Rare Books
Auction May 27th

Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
K. Marx, Das Kapital,1867. Dedication copy. Est: € 120,000

Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
Latin and French Book of Hours, around 1380. Est: € 25,000

Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
Theodor de Bry, Indiae Orientalis, 1598-1625. Est: € 80,000

Ketterer Rare Books
Auction May 27th

Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
Breviary, Latin manuscript, around 1450-75. Est: € 10,000

Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
G. B. Piranesi, Vedute di Roma, 1748-69. Est: € 60,000

Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
K. Schmidt-Rottluff, Arbeiter, 1921. Orig. watercolour on postcard. Est: € 18,000

Ketterer Rare Books
Auction May 27th

Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
Breviarium Romanum, Latin manuscript, 1474. Est: € 20,000

Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
C. J. Trew, Plantae selectae, 1750-73. Est: € 28,000

Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
M. Beckmann, Apokalypse, 1943. Est: € 50,000

Ketterer Rare Books
Auction May 27th

Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
Ulrich von Richenthal, Das Concilium, 1536. Est: € 9,000

Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
I. Kant, Critik der reinen Vernunft, 1781. Est: €12,000

Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
Arbeiter-Illustrierte Zeitung (AIZ) / Die Volks-Illustrierte (VI), 1932-38. Est: €8,000

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