RR Auction: Fine Autographs and Artifacts Featuring World War II, 719, Amherst

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
June 11, 2025 - June 11, 2025
Page Size: 840 items in 34 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
751 Georges Bizet

Georges Bizet Autograph Letter Signed to a Noted French Librettist

no date USD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
752 Johannes Brahms

Johannes Brahms Signed Photograph

USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 Not Sold
753 Franz Joseph Haydn

Franz Joseph Haydn Document Signed - Publishing Contract for His Final Oratorio, 'The Seasons'

1801 USD 35,000.00 - 40,000.00 Not Sold
754 Pietro Metastasio

Pietro Metastasio Spectacular 1769 Autograph Letter Signed: "Parnassus, is so garnished with thoughts, images of harmony and poetic warmth, that it enraptures"

1769 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 Not Sold
755 Ignaz Moscheles

Ignaz Moscheles Autograph Musical Quotation Signed for 'Op. 64 - Piano Concerto No.4 in E major'

1861 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 2,168.00
756 Sergei Rachmaninoff

Sergei Rachmaninoff Signed Photograph with Autograph Musical Quotation

1908 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Not Sold
757 Richard Wagner

Richard Wagner Handwritten Draft for "Three fragments from 'GAPtterdA$mmerung,' third evening of the stage festival: The Ring of the Nibelung"

USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 Not Sold
758 Samuel Barber

Samuel Barber Typed Letter Signed

1973 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 368.00
759 Leonard Bernstein

Leonard Bernstein (2) Signed Vatican Concert Programs - June 23, 1973

1973 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 250.00
760 Leonard Bernstein

Leonard Bernstein Signed Book - The Joy of Music

NY 1959 USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 605.00
761 Francois-Adrien Boieldieu

Francois-Adrien Boieldieu Autograph Letter Signed

no date USD 200.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
762 Pierre Boulez

Pierre Boulez Signed Photograph

USD 200.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
763 Enrico Caruso

Enrico Caruso Signed Self-Portrait Sketch

1910 USD 500.00 - 700.00 Not Sold
764 Pablo Casals

Pablo Casals Autograph Musical Quotation Signed

1945 USD 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
765 Eugen d'Albert

Eugen d'Albert Signed Photograph

USD 200.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
766 Wilhelm Furtwangler

Wilhelm Furtwangler Signed Envelope

USD 200.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
767 Charles Ives

Charles Ives Document Signed for His Composition 'Sixty-Seventh Psalm'

1939 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 541.00
768 Herbert von Karajan

Herbert von Karajan Signed Photograph

USD 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
769 Fritz Kreisler

Fritz Kreisler Signed Photograph and Autograph Letter Signed

1952 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 250.00
770 Darius Milhaud

Darius Milhaud Autograph Letter Signed

[no year] USD 200.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
771 Igor Stravinsky

Igor Stravinsky Signed Photograph with Autograph Musical Quotation

1962 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 1,078.00
772 Pauline Viardot

Pauline Viardot Autograph Letter Signed

1876 USD 200.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
773 Eugene Ysaye

Eugene Ysaye Autograph Letter Signed

no date USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 250.00
774 John Belushi

John Belushi Signature - "Sat Nite Live, New York City"

1975 USD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,550.00
775 John Belushi and Gilda

John Belushi and Gilda Radner Signed Album - NBC's Saturday Night Live

USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 5,633.00
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