RR Auction: Fine Autographs and Artifacts, Featuring Revolutionary and Civil War, 721, Amherst

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
July 09, 2025 - July 09, 2025
Page Size: 690 items in 28 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
142 Edmund Randolph

Edmund Randolph Names George Washington and James Madison Among the Virginia Delegates Attending the Constitutional Convention

USD 25,000.00 - 30,000.00 Not Sold
144 Charles Thomson

Charles Thomson Revolutionary War-Dated Document Signed (1780) on Georgia's Troop Quota and a Proposed Prisoner Exchange

USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
146 Josephine Bonaparte

Josephine Bonaparte Letter Signed to General Louis-Gabriel Suchet

USD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 Not Sold
147 Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill Signed Photograph by Harris & Ewing

USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 6,196.00
148 Deng Xiaoping

Deng Xiaoping Signed Photograph

USD 12,000.00 - 15,000.00 Not Sold
149 Charles Gravier,

Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes Letter Signed, Directing the Publication of the 1783 Treaty of Versailles, Ending the Revolutionary War as Part of the Peace of Paris

USD 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 Not Sold
150 George III

George III Autograph Letter Signed to the New King of Prussia - Rare 'King to King' Correspondence

USD 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 Not Sold
151 King George III

King George III Early Printing of 'His MajestyaEUs Most Gracious Speech' - The King's First Response to the Declaration of Independence (October 31, 1776)

USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 3,670.00
152 King George III

King George III Revolutionary War-Dated Document Signed, Ordering Payment to Resupply Cornwallis's Troops in the Carolinas (1781)

USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 4,125.00
153 King George III

King George III Revolutionary War-Dated Document Signed, Ordering Payment for "Provisions for the use of our Forces at Boston in the year 1775"

USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,505.00
154 King George IV

King George IV Document Signed on Marriage of William IV

USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,505.00
155 King George V's

King George V's Children Signed Photograph

USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 2,790.00
156 Catherine de Medici

Catherine de Medici Autograph Letter Signed (23 Lines of Handwriting) - Urging the French Ambassador to Spain to Broker Marriage Proposals Between the Two Kingdoms

USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 4,375.00
157 Pope Francis

Pope Francis Signed Photograph

USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 2,505.00
158 Helen Keller

Helen Keller Autograph Quote Signed on Peace, Education, and Liberty

USD 2,500.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
159 Martin Luther King, Jr.

Martin Luther King, Jr. Signature - Obtained at the Playboy Club Resort in Ocho Rios, Jamaica (Jan-Feb 1967)

USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 6,196.00
160 Martin Luther King, Jr.

Martin Luther King, Jr. Letter Signed to a Harlem Hospital Doctor After an Assassination Attempt: "Your thoughtful considerate gestures of goodwill went a long, long way to give me the strength to face the ordeals of that trying period"

USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 18,898.00
161 Malcolm X

Malcolm X Signed Page for Alex HaleyaEUs 1963 Playboy Interview - PSA NM-MT 8

USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 2,888.00
163 Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein Signed Book - The Meaning of Relativity

London 1922 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 22,768.00
164 Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein Autograph Draft Signed on Prison Reform: "The disastrous effect of our penal system does not lie in the punishment itself, but in the subsequent destiny of the punished"

USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 Not Sold
165 Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein Autograph Letter Signed, Referring to the Theory of Relativity and Mortiz Schlick, "who has made valuable contributions to the Theory from a...philosophical standpoint"

USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 Not Sold
166 Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein Typed Letter Signed on Humanity After the Holocaust: "I cannot see how the fools of the second category can become enlightened"

USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 4,544.00
167 Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein Signature (1953)

USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 3,750.00
168 Max Planck

Max Planck War-Dated Autograph Letter Signed on Nazi Attacks on EinsteinaEUs Theory of Relativity - aEUoeThis attack on a scientific theory for popular political reasons has always had something ridiculous for meaEU

USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 9,083.00
169 Nikola Tesla

Nikola Tesla Typed Letter Signed to Telegraphy Pioneer Noah Steiner Amstutz

USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 8,250.00
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