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Remarkable Rarities

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- Hosted LIVE at the Royal Sonesta Boston on September 28th, 2024, RR Auction's annual Remarkable Rarities event brings amazing autographs and artifacts to auction. Bid in person, by phone, or online in this premier annual sale. The auction is headlined by several extraordinary items from America's most tragic days: an original Ford's Theatre playbill from the performance of 'Our American Cousin' which saw the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, the wanted poster subsequently issued for John Wilkes Booth, and unseen 8mm footage of President John F. Kennedy's Dallas motorcade before and after his assassination. Other rarities include exceptional letters by Mozart and Beethoven, important Albert Einstein autographs, a wonderful original drawing by Picasso, and an early signed Beatles album. RR Auction is a globally recognized and trusted auction house specializing in historical autographs and artifacts. Join us as we make history selling history in September 2024.

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Lot #5001 Thomas Paine: 1776 Philadelphia Edition

5001. Thomas Paine: 1776 Philadelphia Edition of Common Sense, Published by W. and T. Bradford

Sold For: $33,750 (w/BP)

Estimate: $20,000+

Auction #700 - September 28, 2024

Closed

Lot #5002 Benjamin Franklin Document Signed for

5002. Benjamin Franklin Document Signed for "firewood for the Pennsylvania guards"

Sold For: $22,500 (w/BP)

Estimate: $10,000+

Auction #700 - September 28, 2024

Closed

Lot #5004 John Hancock Revolutionary War-Dated

5004. John Hancock Revolutionary War-Dated Autograph Letter Signed as Governor of Massachusetts

Sold For: $10,106 (w/BP)

Estimate: $8,000+

Auction #700 - September 28, 2024

Closed

Lot #5005 John Hancock Letter Signed to Arthur St.

5005. John Hancock Letter Signed to Arthur St. Clair, Ordering Him to Take Charge at Ticonderoga

Sold For: $20,000 (w/BP)

Estimate: $20,000+

Auction #700 - September 28, 2024

Closed

Lot #5006 George Washington Revolutionary

5006. George Washington Revolutionary War-Dated Letter Signed: "From the intelligence I have just received, it would seem that the Enemy mean to evacuate"

Sold For: $26,121 (w/BP)

Estimate: $20,000+

Auction #700 - September 28, 2024

Closed

Lot #5007 George and Martha Washington Locks of

5007. George and Martha Washington Locks of Hair Presented to Mrs. Oliver Wolcott, Jr. - Remarkable Relics with Direct Family Provenance

Sold For: $53,125 (w/BP)

Estimate: $40,000+

Auction #700 - September 28, 2024

Closed

Lot #5008 John Adams Autograph Letter Signed on

5008. John Adams Autograph Letter Signed on Classical Education and American Politics: "Our People are the shrewdest and most sagacious, that I know: but yet they are so easily deceived"

Sold For: $31,250 (w/BP)

Estimate: $25,000+

Auction #700 - September 28, 2024

Closed

Lot #5010 Thomas Jefferson Letter Signed as

5010. Thomas Jefferson Letter Signed as Secretary of State, Informing New Hampshire President Josiah Bartlett of Vermont's Admission Into the Union

Sold For: $33,750 (w/BP)

Estimate: $20,000+

Auction #700 - September 28, 2024

Closed

Lot #5011 James Madison Letter Signed to George

5011. James Madison Letter Signed to George Clinton, Affirming His Election as Vice President

Sold For: $21,875 (w/BP)

Estimate: $25,000+

Auction #700 - September 28, 2024

Closed

Lot #5012 James Madison Autograph Letter Signed,

5012. James Madison Autograph Letter Signed, Explaining His and Thomas Jefferson's Decision to Decline Involvement in the 1824 Presidential Election: "The public will be sufficiently enabled to decide understandingly on the subject"

Sold For: $14,375 (w/BP)

Estimate: $10,000+

Auction #700 - September 28, 2024

Closed

Lot #5014 Four Presidents from the 1840s:

5014. Four Presidents from the 1840s: Multi-Signed Autograph Book with John Tyler, James K. Polk, Andrew Jackson, and Zachary Taylor

Sold For: $5,000 (w/BP)

Estimate: $3,000+

Auction #700 - September 28, 2024

Closed

Lot #5016 Mary Todd Lincoln Autograph Letter

5016. Mary Todd Lincoln Autograph Letter Signed, Couriered by the War Department

Sold For: $8,750 (w/BP)

Estimate: $6,000+

Auction #700 - September 28, 2024

Closed

Lot #5017 Abraham Lincoln Document Signed as

5017. Abraham Lincoln Document Signed as President, Ordering Pennsylvania to Furnish Additional Troops for “the present rebellion” (September 4, 1863)

Sold For: $23,750 (w/BP)

Estimate: $15,000+

Auction #700 - September 28, 2024

Closed

Lot #5018 Lincoln Assassination: Ford's Theatre

5018. Lincoln Assassination: Ford's Theatre 'Our American Cousin' Playbill (First Printing, April 14, 1865) - From the Collection of Stage Manager John B. Wright

Sold For: $106,250 (w/BP)

Estimate: $50,000+

Auction #700 - September 28, 2024

Closed

Lot #5019 Lincoln Assassination: Edward D.

5019. Lincoln Assassination: Edward D. Townsend Autograph Letter Signed on Imprisonment of Conspirators: "Place the four state prisoners, Arnold, Mudd, Spangler and O'Laughlin under such restraint...as shall make abortive any attempt at escape"

Sold For: $5,313 (w/BP)

Estimate: $4,000+

Auction #700 - September 28, 2024

Closed

Lot #5020 Lincoln Assassination: Rare Original

5020. Lincoln Assassination: Rare Original Reward Broadside Poster for John Wilkes Booth and Conspirators:

Sold For: $131,250 (w/BP)

Estimate: $80,000+

Auction #700 - September 28, 2024

Closed

Lot #5021 Edwin Booth Family Collection: 14K Gold

5021. Edwin Booth Family Collection: 14K Gold and Lapis Lazuli Bracelet

Sold For: $10,938 (w/BP)

Estimate: $8,000+

Auction #700 - September 28, 2024

Closed

Lot #5022 Edwin Booth Family Collection:

5022. Edwin Booth Family Collection: Heart-Shaped Opal and Diamond Brooch

Sold For: $21,963 (w/BP)

Estimate: $20,000+

Auction #700 - September 28, 2024

Closed

Lot #5023 Edwin Booth Family Collection: Two

5023. Edwin Booth Family Collection: Two Sterling Silver Chalices, Engraved "B"

Sold For: $2,613 (w/BP)

Estimate: $2,000+

Auction #700 - September 28, 2024

Closed

Lot #5024 American Presidents (7) Multi-Signed

5024. American Presidents (7) Multi-Signed Autograph Book Dated from 1864 to 1909, Highlighted by the Rare Dual Signatures of Abraham and Mary Lincoln

Sold For: $25,625 (w/BP)

Estimate: $10,000+

Auction #700 - September 28, 2024

Closed

Lot #5025 Andrew Johnson Document Signed as

5025. Andrew Johnson Document Signed as President, Proclaiming a "Treaty with Comanche Bands and Kiowa Tribe of Indians"

Sold For: $9,688 (w/BP)

Estimate: $1,000+

Auction #700 - September 28, 2024

Closed

Lot #5026 U. S. Grant Document Signed as

5026. U. S. Grant Document Signed as President, Invoking Military Force to Suppress Insurrection in South Carolina

Sold For: $2,375 (w/BP)

Estimate: $1,500+

Auction #700 - September 28, 2024

Closed

Lot #5027 Rutherford B. Hayes Document Signed as

5027. Rutherford B. Hayes Document Signed as President, Ordering Troops to Pennsylvania at the Start of the Great Railroad Strike of 1877

Sold For: $1,880 (w/BP)

Estimate: $800+

Auction #700 - September 28, 2024

Closed

Lot #5028 James A. Garfield Document Signed as

5028. James A. Garfield Document Signed as President, Ratifying the 1880 Treaty of Madrid

Sold For: $8,125 (w/BP)

Estimate: $8,000+

Auction #700 - September 28, 2024

Closed