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The last man on the Moon left more than footprints. Gene Cernan’s Apollo 17 Lunar Module Data Card Book — used on the lunar surface, filled with his handwritten notes, and signed on every page — just sold for $73,219 at RR Auction. 🔗shorturl.at/YxZg2 #Apollo17
The pathetic final years of Al Capone, letter up for bid. mol.im/a/15208245 via Daily Mail RR Auction #AlCapone #MobBoss #TrueCrime #GangsterEra #ChicagoHistory #RRAuction
Imagine corralling every icon from Live Aid '85 — Dylan, Clapton, Zeppelin, the Stones, Madonna, Petty — and getting them all to sign the same program. One woman did. The ultimate artifact from the day rock tried to save the world — now up for auction RR Auction
The “Big Three,” signed in ink. FDR, Churchill, and Stalin all autographed these WWII ‘short snorter’ banknotes during the Tehran Conference — a once-in-history souvenir from the summit that shaped D-Day. RR Auction 🔗shorturl.at/chgGL #WWII #HistoryCollectors
The Scarecrow had a brain—and a Tony. Ray Bolger’s 1949 Tony Award for Where’s Charley? — the same year the medallion design debuted — is now up for bid RR Auction . 🔗shorturl.at/6CTOo #BroadwayHistory #TonyAwards #RayBolger #WheresCharley #RRAuction #HollywoodHistory
“Here is your friend Al Capone.” A handwritten 1941 letter from the Chicago mob boss to his family doctor — politely requesting “2 boxes of them red pills for bowels movement.” Mob history meets TMI. Now up for bid RR Auction. 🔗shorturl.at/66d3k #AlCapone
James A. Garfield didn’t have much time in office—but he still managed to sign off on a treaty shaping America’s stance on Chinese immigration and opium trade. Now up for bid RR Auction 🔗shorturl.at/7zxXD #PresidentialHistory #JamesGarfield #RRAuction
"The President was going to give you this for Christmas. Please accept it now from me.” One month after Dallas, Jacqueline Kennedy sent Chief Justice Earl Warren a signed Inaugural Addresses. History, grief & grace—bound in one book RR Auction. 🔗shorturl.at/zyeWu #JFK
Diana, Princess of Wales, was photographed outside the Harbour Club in Chelsea #OnThisDay in 1995. She was wearing her now iconic dark blue cotton/polyester Virgin Atlantic sweatshirt that she chose to rewear to try and limit her media coverage. Sold by RR Auction #fashionhistory
Executed for espionage in 1917, Mata Hari still knew how to command a room—and a pen. This 1916 handwritten letter from the infamous dancer-spy, written from the Grand Hotel in Paris up for bid RR Auction. 🔗shorturl.at/PjjkO #RRAuction #History #WWI #Espionage
Frederic Chopin, doing what every artist eventually must: signing away the rights to his greatest hits. In 1843, he sold the copyrights to his Polonaise in A-flat major and Ballade No. 4 for £49.19.0 — roughly $8,000 today. Up for bid RR Auction Now that’s a heartbreak in F
George Washington, writing like a founding tactician—and a man who knew when not to gamble. In 1777, he gave Lord Stirling permission to strike Staten Island… with one catch: “Not if there’s the smallest risque.” Smart general. Smarter strategist. Up for bid RR Auction
Check out Martin Luther, Chopin, Lincoln, and JFK Autograph Items to Auction - closes 11/12 finebooksmagazine.com/fine-books-new… via Fine Books Magazine RR Auction