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

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Auction Name Fine Autographs and Artifacts, Featuring Revolutionary and Civil War Total Sales (USD) 1,263,753.00
Auction Date July 09, 2025 - July 09, 2025 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 706,800.00
Sale Number #721 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 1,046,300.00
Total Lots 690
Sold Lots 512 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 1,051,200.00
% of Lots Sold 74.20% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 1,534,500.00
Unsold Lots 178 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 82.36%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 George Washington

George Washington Autograph Letter Signed on the 'Asgill Affair,' Denying Psychological Torture of a British Prisoner of War Chosen by Lottery for Retaliatory Execution, by aEUoeerecting a [gallows] before his prison windowaEU

USD 60,000.00 - 80,000.00 USD 68,750.00
265 Benedict Arnold

Benedict Arnold Revolutionary War-Dated Autograph Document Signed, Certifying an Oath of Allegiance to "defend the said United States against the said George the third"

USD 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 USD 56,039.00
21 Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln Autograph Letter Signed, Campaigning for John FrA(c)mont and Cultivating German-American Support for the Newly Formed Republican Party (1856)

USD 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 USD 50,000.00
5 [George Washington]

[George Washington] Extracts from Washington's Newburgh Headquarters Orderly Book, with the 'Newburgh Address' and Peace Proclamation: "An extra ration of liquor to be issued to every man tomorrow, to drink perpetual peace"

USD 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 46,279.00
137 John Hancock and John

John Hancock and John Adams Rare Dual-Signed Legal Maritime Document (December 19, 1771) - Dated a Year After the Boston Massacre and Before the Coming Boston Tea Party

USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 33,663.00
9 Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson Document Signed as Secretary of State, Acknowledging France's Tribute "paid to the memory of Benjamin Franklin"

USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 31,251.00
271 Nathanael Greene

Nathanael Greene Revolutionary War-Dated Autograph Letter Signed (1780): "Arnold's late treasonable conduct has thrown us all into confusion"

USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 29,948.00
111 William H. Taft

William H. Taft Autograph Letter Signed as President on the 1912 Election: "I am not cast down in this hour of defeat for we did succeed in keeping our country from the real peril of Rooseveltianism"

USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 USD 26,544.00
7 John Adams

John Adams Autograph Letter Signed on the Folly of Divine Right - aEUoeThere is nothing in human Nature and human history more ridiculous than this whole subjectaEU

USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 25,000.00
288 Napoleon

Napoleon Scarce Autograph Letter Signed, Referring to the Reign of Terror: "People no longer remember the Terror except as a nightmare that briefly suffocated them"

USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 24,956.00
163 Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein Signed Book - The Meaning of Relativity

1922 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 22,768.00
269 Charles Cornwallis

Charles Cornwallis Revolutionary War-Dated Autograph Letter Signed (1780), Outlining His Strategy for the South After the Capture of Charleston

USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 22,468.00
139 Thomas Lynch, Jr.

Thomas Lynch, Jr. Signature - One of the Rarest Declaration Signers

USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 21,889.00
648 Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroe Signed 'Passport' Photograph - "Thanks and my warmest regards, Marilyn Monroe DiMaggio"

USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 21,655.00
497 Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan Suite of (4) Signed Giclee Prints - 'Train Tracks' (Ltd. Ed. #41/295)

USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 19,899.00
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
13 Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson Revolutionary War-Dated Autograph Document Signed on "Recovering the Public Arms" for Virginia's Militia

USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 18,750.00
24 Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln Signature as President (1863)

USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 17,688.00
272 Nathanael Greene

Nathanael Greene Rare War-Dated Letter Signed as Quartermaster General

USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 16,106.00
140 Alexander Hamilton

Alexander Hamilton Signed Document on the Import of Distilled Spirits

USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 15,000.00
501 Prince

Prince Handwritten Song Lyrics for 'Face 2 Face'

USD 10,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 15,000.00
19 John Quincy Adams

John Quincy Adams Letter Signed on Charles Carroll, Robert Walpole, and Preserving the History of the American aEUoestruggle for Freedom and IndependenceaEU

USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 13,888.00
133 Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin Signature

USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 12,595.00
134 Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin Signed Free Frank (1763)

USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 12,353.00
278 George Washington

George Washington Revolutionary War-Dated Manuscript Letter, Discharging Troops Due to Lack of Provisions (1780)

USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 11,869.00
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