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RR Auction: Fine Autographs and Artifacts

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Auction Name Fine Autographs and Artifacts Total Sales (USD) 1,121,371.00
Auction Date February 12, 2025 - February 12, 2025 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 639,200.00
Sale Number #711 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 955,700.00
Total Lots 757
Sold Lots 648 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 821,300.00
% of Lots Sold 85.60% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 1,220,700.00
Unsold Lots 109 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 91.86%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
58 President Theodore Roosevelt

President Theodore Roosevelt Ratifies a Treaty for the Construction of the Panama Canal (1904)

1904 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 49,711.00
8 Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson Historic Letter Signed as Secretary of State, Announcing Ratification of the Bill of Rights to Governor Josiah Bartlett of New Hampshire

1792 USD 40,000.00 - 50,000.00 USD 43,751.00
10 Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson Autograph Letter Signed on Scientific Progress in Europe: "The mass of their people, within which term I include from the king to the beggar, is returning to Gothic darkness"

1816 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 41,250.00
3 George Washington

George Washington Document Signed as President, Commissioning One of Sixteen Original US Marshals

1789 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 25,000.00
38 President Abraham Lincoln

President Abraham Lincoln Appoints a Surveyor General "for the District of Illinois and Missouri," Four Days Before the First Battle of Bull Run

1861 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 22,154.00
608 Walt Disney

Walt Disney Signed Disneyland Ticket Booklet Cover

1955 USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 21,996.00
86 Jimmy Carter

Jimmy Carter Correspondence Archive of (70) Signed Letters with Broad-Ranging Subject Matter on Religion, Israel and Palestine, Trump, Putin, Baseball, His Health, Billy Carter, and Much More

2003 USD 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 USD 21,360.00
775 Actors and

Actors and Actresses (6) Autograph Albums with (200+) Signatures

USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 16,879.00
332 Deng Xiaoping

Deng Xiaoping Signed Magazine - Time's Man of the Year

1979 USD 12,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 16,500.00
718 Jimi Hendrix

Jimi Hendrix Filled Out and Signed 1967 'Birth Certificate' Application, a Requisite for Musicians' Union Membership

no date [circa September 1967] USD 12,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 16,444.00
346 Charles Darwin

Charles Darwin Autograph Letter Signed on The Descent of Man: "My book has been almost too much for me"

1871 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 15,501.00
37 Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln Autograph Note Signed as President

1863 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 14,473.00
348 Albert Einstein

Philosopher-Scientist (Ltd. Ed. #180/750)

1949 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 13,750.00
85 Lyndon B. Johnson

Lyndon B. Johnson Rare Signed Check to the Abraham Lincoln Book Shop

1972 USD 10,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 12,501.00
4 George Washington

George Washington Hand-Addressed and Signed Free Frank

1787 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 12,079.00
271 Harry S. Truman

Harry S. Truman Presidential Telegram to Dwight D. Eisenhower on the 1952 Election: "Congratulations on your overwhelming victory"

1952 USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 11,344.00
49 President James A. Garfield

President James A. Garfield Suspends Chinese Emigration and Restricts the Trade of Opium

1881 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 10,208.00
765 Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroe Signed Candid Photograph at Gladstone Hotel in New York City, 1955

1955 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 10,208.00
15 James Madison

James Madison Letter Signed as Secretary of State on the Fruitless Monroe-Pinkney Treaty of 1806

1807 USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 9,375.00
67 Dwight D. Eisenhower

Dwight D. Eisenhower Signed Photograph to Captain Kay Summersby, His Intimate WWII Assistant

USD 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 9,068.00
350 Transatlantic Telegraph

Transatlantic Telegraph Cable Relic by Tiffany's

1858 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 8,659.00
84 Lyndon B. Johnson

Lyndon B. Johnson Signed White House Card

USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 8,249.00
355 Sitting Bull

Sitting Bull Signature

USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 8,249.00
892 Babe Ruth

Babe Ruth Signed Olympic Airmail Cover

1932 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 8,043.00
89 Ronald and Nancy Reagan

Ronald and Nancy Reagan (2) Signed White House Cards

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 7,871.00