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RR Auction: Marvels of Modern Music

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Auction Name Marvels of Modern Music Total Sales (USD) 484,079.00
Auction Date December 18, 2025 - December 18, 2025 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 295,900.00
Sale Number #732 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 450,900.00
Total Lots 461
Sold Lots 256.0 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 528,000.00
% of Lots Sold 55.53% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 798,500.00
Unsold Lots 205 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 60.62%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
3470

Leonard Cohen Autograph Letter Signed to His Hydra Muse, Marianne Ihlen

 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 46,926.00
3008

Beatles Early Signed Photograph (c. 1962)

 1962 USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 26,294.00
3005

Beatles Signed Bank of England 5-Pound Banknote

 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 24,370.00
3307

Jerry Garcia Handwritten Lyrics to 'The Maker'

 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 20,870.00
3007

Beatles (4) Signed Photographs - A Rare Single-Signed, Uninscribed Quartet

 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 17,248.00
3002

Beatles Signed Rare Color Magazine Photograph (ca. Mid-1963)

 1963 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 16,709.00
3251

Mick Jagger Handwritten 19-Song Rolling Stones Concert Set List - Sporthalle in Cologne, Germany (June 2, 1976)

 1976 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 15,774.00
3227

Jimi Hendrix Experience Document Signed (1968) - Hendrix, Redding, and Mitchell Direct Payment of Royalties to their Management Team

 1968 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 14,513.00
3019

John Lennon Signed Royalties Contract for 'Dear Prudence'

 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 14,271.00
3004

Beatles Signed 1963 PYX Program with Classic Color Dezo Hoffman Cover

 1963 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 12,654.00
3006

Beatles Rare, Early Signed 1962 Parlophone Promo Card - The First to Feature Ringo Starr

 1962 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 11,229.00
3293

The Who Signed Polydor Mini Promotional Poster (11.5" x 16.25")

 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 10,478.00
3031

Paul McCartney Signed 'McCartney Productions' Business Check - Two Months After Announcing His Beatles Departure

 USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 7,668.00
3229

Jimi Hendrix Signature

 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 7,499.00
3221

Bob Dylan Oversized Signed Photograph (Ltd. Ed. #IV/IV) - Biograph, 1965

 1965 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 6,883.00
3407

Cream Signed Photograph

 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 6,881.00
3230

Jimi Hendrix (2) Negative Film Strips from the 1970 Isle of Wight Festival

 1970 USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 6,264.00
3035

George Harrison Autograph Letter Signed to EMI Records - Dated Four Months Before the Beatles Breakup

 USD 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 6,248.00
3351

Queen (3) Business Checks Signed by Each Band Member

 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 5,504.00
3254

Rolling Stones Signed Photograph - Dated to September 1970 During Their European Tour

 1970 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 5,243.00
3409

Edie Sedgwick Original Sketchbook with (8) Drawings - Horses, Humans, and Dogs

 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 4,996.00
3353

Queen Signed 'A Night at the Opera' Tour Program

 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 4,973.00
3395

Buddy Holly: Joe Mauldin Archive of (19) Early Letters and Postcards Dated to The Crickets' 1957-1958 Concert Tours - "Last night Buddy finished singing the last song and the kids like to have torn the theatre apart"

 1957-1958 USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 USD 4,886.00
3017

Beatles Signed Photograph Album - Dated to Blokker, Netherlands, on June 6, 1964

 1964 USD 10,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 4,760.00
3258

Rolling Stones and Andy Warhol (14) Promotional Photographs for 'Love You Live'

 USD 2,500.00 - 3,000.00 USD 4,441.00
  • <b><center>Sotheby’s<br>Year in Review</center></b> <b>Sotheby’s Year in Review:</b> A Rare Hebrew Bible with Micrographic Masorah. Sold: 1,514,000 USD <b>Sotheby’s Year in Review:</b> "The Freedman's Primer.” Sold: 241,300 USD <b>Sotheby’s Year in Review:</b> Smith, William. "The Map that Changed the World." Sold: 139,700 USD <b>Sotheby’s Year in Review:</b> Psalter, C13th. Illuminated Psalter. Sold: 330,200 GBP <b>Sotheby’s Year in Review:</b> Lincoln, Abraham. The abolition of slavery. Sold: 13,697,500 USD <b>Sotheby’s Year in Review:</b> Vergilius. Opera, Venice, Aldo Manuzio, 1501. Sold: 1,041,400 USD
    Sotheby’s
    Year in Review
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: A Rare Hebrew Bible with Micrographic Masorah. Sold: 1,514,000 USD
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: "The Freedman's Primer.” Sold: 241,300 USD
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: Smith, William. "The Map that Changed the World." Sold: 139,700 USD
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: Psalter, C13th. Illuminated Psalter. Sold: 330,200 GBP
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: Lincoln, Abraham. The abolition of slavery. Sold: 13,697,500 USD
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: Vergilius. Opera, Venice, Aldo Manuzio, 1501. Sold: 1,041,400 USD
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    January 31 and February 1, 2026
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    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: Albrecht Durer Engraving, The Peasant Couple at Market. $3,400 to $3,800.
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    2026 Winter Fine Art & Antiques
    January 31 and February 1, 2026
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    January 31 and February 1, 2026
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    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: Civil War Tintype of Calvin “Old Ballie” Walker, CSA 3rd TN Infantry, KIA, plus 3 Union Images. $800 to $1,000.
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: 1855 Georgia Pocket Map, W. G. Bonner. $800 to $1,000.
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    January 31 and February 1, 2026
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    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: George Eliot, Middlemarch, 1st Edition in 8 Volumes. $600 to $800.
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