Remarkable Rarities

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- Hosted LIVE at the Royal Sonesta Boston on September 20th, 2025, RR Auction's annual Remarkable Rarities event brings a hundred significant autographs and artifacts to auction. Bid in person, by phone, or online in this premier annual sale. Highlighting this singular occasion are an Apple-1 Computer, handwritten manuscripts by Albert Einstein and Isaac Newton, and a 16th-century edition of Copernicus' On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres. Other top lots include an archive of significant Sun Yat-sen material from his revolutionary efforts in China, an early Oscar award for cinematography, an 18K solid gold Omega Speedmaster Pro 'Tribute to Astronauts' watch, an autograph letter signed by Edgar Allan Poe, and superlative autographs from the realms of art, music, and literature. RR Auction is a globally recognized and trusted auction house specializing in historical autographs and artifacts. Join us live as we make history selling history in September 2025.

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Lot #7001 Thomas Jefferson Letter Signed

7001. Thomas Jefferson Letter Signed Communicating Acts for the First United States Census and Rules for Granting Citizenship to Immigrants

Sold For: $37,500 (w/BP)

Estimate: $50,000+

Auction #726 - September 20, 2025

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Lot #7002 Thomas Jefferson Brass Parallel Calipers

7002. Thomas Jefferson Brass Parallel Calipers (ca. 1800) from His Personal Collection

Sold For: $9,375 (w/BP)

Estimate: $5,000+

Auction #726 - September 20, 2025

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Lot #7005 Abraham Lincoln Filled Out and Signed

7005. Abraham Lincoln Filled Out and Signed Check (1859) - Lost and Found on the Streets of Washington, D.C., and the Subject of Washington Post Headlines in 1944

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

Estimate: $20,000+

Auction #726 - September 20, 2025

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Lot #7006 Abraham Lincoln Civil War-Dated

7006. Abraham Lincoln Civil War-Dated Autograph Endorsement Signed as President, Calling for the Reappointment of Alexander J. Dallas III

Sold For: $13,750 (w/BP)

Estimate: $12,000+

Auction #726 - September 20, 2025

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Lot #7007 Abolition: 'Engrossed Bill' Draft of the

7007. Abolition: 'Engrossed Bill' Draft of the Territorial Slavery Act of 1862, Prohibiting Slavery in All U.S. Territories

Sold For: $12,500 (w/BP)

Estimate: $4,000+

Auction #726 - September 20, 2025

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Lot #7010 William T. Sherman Autograph Letter

7010. William T. Sherman Autograph Letter Signed on His 'March to the Sea' and Women's Service in the Union Army: "Our race cannot bear children and be subject to the alarms & vicissitudes of war"

Sold For: $10,625 (w/BP)

Estimate: $8,000+

Auction #726 - September 20, 2025

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Lot #7011 Theodore Roosevelt (2) Typed Manuscripts

7011. Theodore Roosevelt (2) Typed Manuscripts Signed as President on the Red Cross Response to the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake, with Clara Barton ALS: "The country has gone wild over this disaster and relief"

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

Estimate: $25,000+

Auction #726 - September 20, 2025

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Lot #7014 Dwight D. Eisenhower World War II-Dated

7014. Dwight D. Eisenhower World War II-Dated Typed Letter Signed on the "defeat of the Nazi hordes in battle" and victory in Europe: "A continent has been liberated"

Sold For: $25,469 (w/BP)

Estimate: $25,000+

Auction #726 - September 20, 2025

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Lot #7016 Winston Churchill and Dwight D.

7016. Winston Churchill and Dwight D. Eisenhower Signed Photograph - Allied Leaders Stress Postwar Unity at the Virginia State House (March 8, 1946)

Sold For: $13,750 (w/BP)

Estimate: $10,000+

Auction #726 - September 20, 2025

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Lot #7018 Winston Churchill World War II-Dated

7018. Winston Churchill World War II-Dated Signed Photograph, Shown with Cigar and Naval Anti-Aircraft Gun

Sold For: $13,125 (w/BP)

Estimate: $6,000+

Auction #726 - September 20, 2025

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Lot #7019 Battle of Britain: Secret Dispatch

7019. Battle of Britain: Secret Dispatch Signed by Air Chief Marshal Hugh Dowding (1941), with Hand-Colored Maps and Mimeograph Draft

Sold For: $23,721 (w/BP)

Estimate: $40,000+

Auction #726 - September 20, 2025

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Lot #7020 Hugh Dowding World War II-Dated

7020. Hugh Dowding World War II-Dated Autograph Letter Signed to Lord Beaverbrook, on Preparing His "Dispatch on the 'Battle of Britain'"

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

Estimate: $10,000+

Auction #726 - September 20, 2025

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Lot #7021 Erwin Rommel World War II-Dated Typed

7021. Erwin Rommel World War II-Dated Typed Letter Signed, Enclosing a Report on His Near-Fatal Wound and Alluding to Patton's Liberation of Paris

Sold For: $28,734 (w/BP)

Estimate: $40,000+

Auction #726 - September 20, 2025

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Lot #7022 Raoul Wallenberg 'Schutzbrief' Document

7022. Raoul Wallenberg 'Schutzbrief' Document Signed, Saving a Hungarian Jew During World War II, with Jewish Badge Exemption Document and Residency Permit

Sold For: $11,250 (w/BP)

Estimate: $10,000+

Auction #726 - September 20, 2025

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Lot #7023 Wernher von Braun Autograph Letter

7023. Wernher von Braun Autograph Letter Signed to Walter Dornberger, Emphasizing the Goals of Operation Paperclip: "To make available to the West our experience gathered over long, painstaking years"

Sold For: $18,125 (w/BP)

Estimate: $4,000+

Auction #726 - September 20, 2025

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Lot #7024 Historic 1953 Bernkasteler Doctor

7024. Historic 1953 Bernkasteler Doctor Riesling Bottle of Wine - The Vintage Poured at the Adenauer–Khrushchev Meeting That Freed 10,000 German POWs

Sold For: $25,000 (w/BP)

Estimate: $20,000+

Auction #726 - September 20, 2025

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Lot #7027 Marie Antoinette Document Signed,

7027. Marie Antoinette Document Signed, Ordering Payment for Extravagant Royal Household Expenditures Amidst the French Revolution

Sold For: $26,250 (w/BP)

Estimate: $15,000+

Auction #726 - September 20, 2025

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Lot #7028 Marie Antoinette and Sisters Signed

7028. Marie Antoinette and Sisters Signed Hand-Painted Devotional Miniature Book

Sold For: $27,500 (w/BP)

Estimate: $25,000+

Auction #726 - September 20, 2025

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Lot #7032 John Hancock Revolutionary War-Dated

7032. John Hancock Revolutionary War-Dated Document Signed (1776) - Continental Congress Resolution Appealing to the King of Spain "to join with the United States in a war against Great Britain"

Sold For: $52,500 (w/BP)

Estimate: $25,000+

Auction #726 - September 20, 2025

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Lot #7035 Napoleon Archive of (29) Letters Signed

7035. Napoleon Archive of (29) Letters Signed to His Adopted Son, Prince Eugène de Beauharnais, Detailing Military Strategy in the War of the Fifth Coalition: "The army is maneuvering in all directions against the enemy"

Sold For: $87,500 (w/BP)

Estimate: $40,000+

Auction #726 - September 20, 2025

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Lot #7040 Grigori Rasputin Autograph Letter Signed

7040. Grigori Rasputin Autograph Letter Signed - "I am living through a period of universal condemnation"

Sold For: $13,750 (w/BP)

Estimate: $10,000+

Auction #726 - September 20, 2025

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Lot #7041 Sun Yat-sen Autograph Letter Signed,

7041. Sun Yat-sen Autograph Letter Signed, Signed Photograph, and Signed Book - Sun Sends His Manifesto of the Chinese Republic, Putting Forth His Nationalist Ideology: "China for the Chinese"

Sold For: $250,000 (w/BP)

Estimate: $200,000+

Auction #726 - September 20, 2025

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Lot #7045 Sigmund Freud Autograph Letter Signed on

7045. Sigmund Freud Autograph Letter Signed on His 80th Birthday

Sold For: $6,250 (w/BP)

Estimate: $5,000+

Auction #726 - September 20, 2025

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Lot #7047 Martin Luther King, Jr. Typed Letter

7047. Martin Luther King, Jr. Typed Letter Signed on Desegregation and the Civil Rights Movement: "You are telling the world that the right of Negroes cannot be trampled in any community without impairing the rights of every other American"

Sold For: $12,813 (w/BP)

Estimate: $6,000+

Auction #726 - September 20, 2025

Closed