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RR Auction: Fine Autographs and Artifacts

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Auction Name Fine Autographs and Artifacts Total Sales (USD) 958,787.00
Auction Date December 10, 2025 - November 10, 2025 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 532,700.00
Sale Number #731 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 787,900.00
Total Lots 766
Sold Lots 438.0 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 1,405,250.00
% of Lots Sold 57.18% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 1,971,000.00
Unsold Lots 328 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 48.64%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
701

Mickey and Minnie Mouse production drawings (8) from Plane Crazy - Disney's First Finished Mickey Mouse Short

USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 32,240.00
508 Samuel L. Clemens

Samuel L. Clemens Autograph Letter Signed with Sketch, Criticizing Mrs. Thomas Bailey Aldrich: "This vacant hellion, this clothes-rack, this twaddling, blethering, driveling blatherskite!"

USD 2,500.00 - 3,000.00 USD 32,050.00
218 Isaac Newton

Isaac Newton Signature

USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 28,200.00
60 Donald Trump

Donald Trump Signed Uncut $2 Dollar Bills - PSA GEM MINT 10

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 27,188.00
776 Eyvind Earle

Eyvind Earle panoramic concept painting of Maleficent and Prince Phillip from Sleeping Beauty

USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 25,629.00
769 Mary Blair

Mary Blair panoramic concept painting of Cinderella and Prince Charming from Cinderella

USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 20,423.00
705

Mickey Mouse production drawing from Steamboat Willie

USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 18,568.00
951 Alexander Hamilton

Alexander Hamilton Handwritten Manuscript on Taxes

USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 17,504.00
3 James Madison

James Madison Letter Signed as Secretary of State, Appointing an Agent in Havana: "You will subserve the views of the President in attending to every violation of the laws prohibiting the Slave Trade"

USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 15,000.00
767 Mary Blair

Mary Blair panoramic concept painting of Ichabod Crane and the Headless Horseman from The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad

USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 15,000.00
223 Nikola Tesla

Nikola Tesla Signature - "Better late than never!"

USD 10,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 13,753.00
509 F. Scott Fitzgerald

F. Scott Fitzgerald Autograph Letter Signed: "I hope that girl isn't putting him through any special hells"

USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 12,079.00
768 Mary Blair

Mary Blair concept painting of Cinderella as a scullion from Cinderella

USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 11,778.00
546 Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroe Signed Photograph by Frank Powolny

USD 10,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 11,344.00
12 Richard Nixon

Richard Nixon Typed Letter Signed to Spiro T. Agnew, Sending the Disgraced VP His Cabinet Chair: "The chair you occupied across from mine at the Cabinet table is, to me, a symbol of the strength and wisdom you brought to that task"

USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 10,799.00
499 Louis Vuitton

Louis Vuitton Rare Autograph Document Signed, Sending "a second-hand trunk" to a Russian Count

USD 12,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 10,048.00
710

Dwarfs rough production drawings (43) from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs - Celebrating Snow White's Revival After the Prince's Kiss

USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 9,999.00
549 Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroe Oversized Signed Photograph by Frank Powolny

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 9,983.00
6 Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln Civil War-Dated Document Signed as President, Commissioning an Assistant Quartermaster

USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 9,625.00
87 Sun Yat-sen

Sun Yat-sen Signature (November 20, 1911) - Dated to His Fateful Return to China After 10 Years in Exile

1911 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 9,625.00
495 Wernher von Braun

Wernher von Braun Signed Photograph to the Leader of Nazi Germany's V-2 Rocket Program

USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 9,181.00
265 Titanic -4

Titanic (4) White Star Line Pre-Launch Promotional Items (1910-1911)

1910-1911 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 9,074.00
708

Peg Leg Pete production drawings (2) and character model drawing from Steamboat Willie

USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 9,074.00
213 Gilbert U-238

Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Laboratory - 'The Most Dangerous Toy in History'

USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 8,860.00
282 American History

American History Artifacts (23) with Keys, Nails, and Flag Fragment

USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 8,659.00
  • Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 26. Company School. An album of 85 Indian mica paintings, Madras, c. 1852. £700-1,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 28. Ross & Hooker. Notes on the Botany of the Antarctic Voyage, 1st edition, 1843. £4,000-6,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 44. Gould (John). The Birds of Great Britain, 5 volumes, 1st edition, 1862-73. £30,000-40,000
    Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 72. Edwards (George). A Natural History of Uncommon Birds… [and] Gleanings of Natural History, 7 volumes, 1st edition, 1743-64. £7,000-10,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 87. Walcott (Charles D. et al.). Geologic Atlas of the United States, 227-volume set, U.S. Geological Survey, 1894-1945. £500-800
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 236. A New Dictionary of the Terms Ancient and Modern of the Canting Crew…, By B. E. Gent., 1st edition, [1699]. £3,000-4,000
    Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 245. Frost Fair Broadside. Upon the Frost in the Year 1739-40, Printed on the Ice upon the Thames at Queen-Hithe, 1739/40. £1,500-2,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 270. Micheli (Antonino di). La Nuova Chitarra di Regole…, 1st edition, Palermo, 1680. £10,000-15,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 280. Elgar (Edward). Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, [1910], signed presentation copy. £500-800
    Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 282 - Griffes (Charles). Autograph Manuscript Score for Overture to Hänsel und Gretel, c. 1910. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 304. Churchill (Winston). A terracotta maquette of Churchill by Oscar Nemon, c. 1955. £1,500-2,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 364 - Russian Imperial Archaeological Commission. Mecheti Samarkanda..., Fascicule I Gour-Emir, St. Petersburg, 1905. £2,000-3,000
  • Sotheby’s
    Fine Manuscript and Printed Americana
    27 January 2026
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: An extraordinary pair of books from George Washington’s field library, marking the conjunction of Robert Rogers, George Washington, and Henry Knox. $1,200,000 to $1,800,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: An extraordinary letter marking the conjunction of George Washington, the Marquis de Lafayette, and Benjamin Franklin. $1,000,000 to $1,500,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: Virginia House of Delegates. The genesis of the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights. $350,000 to $500,000.
    Sotheby’s
    Fine Manuscript and Printed Americana
    27 January 2026
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: (Gettysburg). “Genl. Doubleday has taken charge of the battle”: Autograph witness to the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg, illustrated by fourteen maps and plans. $200,000 to $300,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: President Lincoln thanks a schoolboy on behalf of "all the children of the nation for his efforts to ensure "that this war shall be successful, and the Union be maintained and perpetuated." $200,000 to $300,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: [World War II]. An archive of maps and files documenting the allied campaign in Europe, from the early stages of planning for D-Day and Operation Overlord, to Germany’s surrender. $200,000 to $300,000.
  • Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Plato. [Apanta ta tou Platonos. Omnia Platonis opera], 2 parts in 2 vol., editio princeps of Plato's works in the original Greek, Venice, House of Aldus, 1513. £8,000-12,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Book of Hours, Use of Rome, In Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum, [Southern Netherlands (probably Bruges), c.1460]. £6,000-8,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Correspondence and documents by or addressed to the first four Viscounts Molesworth and members of their families, letters and manuscripts, 1690-1783. £10,000-15,000
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Shakespeare (William). The Dramatic Works, 9 vol., John and Josiah Boydell, 1802. £5,000-7,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Joyce (James). Ulysses, first edition, one of 750 copies on handmade paper, Paris, Shakespeare and Company, 1922 £8,000-12,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Powell (Anthony). [A Dance to the Music of Time], 12 vol., first editions, each with a signed presentation inscription from the author to Osbert Lancaster, 1951-75. £6,000-8,000
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Chaucer (Geoffrey). Troilus and Criseyde, one of 225 copies on handmade paper, wood-engravings by Eric Gill, Waltham St.Lawrence, 1927. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Borges (Jorge Luis). Luna de Enfrente, first edition, one of 300 copies, presentation copy signed by the author to Leopoldo Marechal, Buenos Aires, Editorial Proa, 1925. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Nolli (Giovanni Battista). Nuova Pianta di Roma, Rome, 1748. £6,000-8,000
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Roberts (David). The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, & Nubia, 3 vol., first edition, 1842-49. £15,000-20,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Blacker (William). Catechism of Fly Making, Angling and Dyeing, Published by the author, 1843. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Herschel (Sir John F. W.) Collection of 69 offprints, extracts and separate publications by Herschel, bound for his son, William James Herschel, 3 vol., [1813-50]. £15,000-20,000