JFK's Irish tweed hat from Éamon de Valera heads to auction irishcentral.com/news/jfks-iris… via @IrishCentral @RRAuction
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“The good are uniting together, from all classes and all estates.”
Marie Antoinette reflects on political turmoil in an August 1789 handwritten letter to the Duchesse de Polignac, during the opening weeks of the French Revolution.
Offered @RRAuction. Closes 11/11.
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Marie Antoinette reflects on political turmoil in an August 1789 handwritten letter to the Duchesse de Polignac, during the opening weeks of the French Revolution.
Offered @RRAuction. Closes 11/11.
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On Election Day, a look back at the Chicago Daily Tribune’s infamous Nov. 3, 1948, front page declaring “Dewey Defeats Truman.”
Offered @RRAuction. Bidding closes Nov. 11.
#ElectionDay #HarryTruman #DeweyDefeatsTruman #History
Offered @RRAuction. Bidding closes Nov. 11.
#ElectionDay #HarryTruman #DeweyDefeatsTruman #History
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A 48-star American flag from LST-176, a landing ship that participated in the D-Day invasion of Normandy, heads to auction at RR Auction.
Accompanied by Coast Guardsman Carl Marx’s wartime journal, including his firsthand account of June 6, 1944.
@RRAuction | Closes Nov. 19
#DDay #WWII #Normandy
Accompanied by Coast Guardsman Carl Marx’s wartime journal, including his firsthand account of June 6, 1944.
@RRAuction | Closes Nov. 19
#DDay #WWII #Normandy
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In a rare 1968 handwritten letter, Stephen Hawking shares news of his infant son and a new job at Fred Hoyle’s Cambridge institute—after having challenged Hoyle’s theory of gravity.
@RRAuction | Closes Nov. 11
#StephenHawking #HistoryOfScience
@RRAuction | Closes Nov. 11
#StephenHawking #HistoryOfScience
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“I'm not so sure it was a good idea.”
Jacqueline Kennedy’s inscription to JFK’s cousin Ann Gargan appears alongside the president’s message on a photograph taken during the 1961 inaugural parade.
Signed by both John and Jacqueline Kennedy. @RRAuction , Nov. 11.
#JFK ntialHistory
Jacqueline Kennedy’s inscription to JFK’s cousin Ann Gargan appears alongside the president’s message on a photograph taken during the 1961 inaugural parade.
Signed by both John and Jacqueline Kennedy. @RRAuction , Nov. 11.
#JFK ntialHistory
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Gene Cernan’s Apollo 17 cuff checklist contains his handwritten instructions for repairing the lunar rover’s damaged fender.
#Apollo17 #RRAuction
Gene Cernan’s Apollo 17 cuff checklist contains his handwritten instructions for repairing the lunar rover’s damaged fender.
#Apollo17 #RRAuction
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Closing Tonight! at RR Auction: Space Exploration
Flown $1 and $2 bills from Gemini 3, Apollo 9, Apollo 15, Apollo 16, and later space missions, including examples signed by Gus Grissom, John Young, and fellow astronauts.
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Flown $1 and $2 bills from Gemini 3, Apollo 9, Apollo 15, Apollo 16, and later space missions, including examples signed by Gus Grissom, John Young, and fellow astronauts.
Explore the auction: rrauction.com/search/?str=cu…
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From Astronaut Bill Thornton’s complete flown Apollo Robbins set comes the rarest mission issue of them all: a historic flown sterling silver Apollo 17 Robbins medallion, one of just 80 carried on the final Apollo lunar mission.
Offered in RR Auction’s Space Exploration & Avia0/ 22.
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#ApolloProgram #NASA #SpaceHistory
Offered in RR Auction’s Space Exploration & Avia0/ 22.
rrauction.com/from-the-willi…
#ApolloProgram #NASA #SpaceHistory
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Apollo 14 Flown Lunar Bible: A complete 1,245-page King James Bible on microfilm, carried to the lunar surface aboard Apollo 14 on February 5, 1971.
Space Exploration auction @RRAuction closes 10/22
#Apollo14 #SpaceHistory #RRAuction
Space Exploration auction @RRAuction closes 10/22
#Apollo14 #SpaceHistory #RRAuction
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Sold! Check out Einstein Equation-Filled Letter Sold for $71,811 finebooksmagazine.com/fine-books-new… via @finebooks
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A piece of the Moon. Actually, two.
Two pieces of lunar meteorite, fashioned into polished spheres measuring 1.5 and 2 inches.
Both were made from Moon rock ejected into space by an ancient impact.
Space Exploration at @RRAuction closes Oct. 22.
#MoonRock #Meteorites
Two pieces of lunar meteorite, fashioned into polished spheres measuring 1.5 and 2 inches.
Both were made from Moon rock ejected into space by an ancient impact.
Space Exploration at @RRAuction closes Oct. 22.
#MoonRock #Meteorites
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A solid-gold Omega worn by a man who walked on the moon.
Apollo 12 astronaut Alan Bean's 18K gold Speedmaster Professional, issued as No. 26 in Omega's original astronaut tribute series commemorating the Apollo 11 moon landing.
Now at @RRAuction.
#OmegaSpeedmaster #Apollo12 #RRAuction
Apollo 12 astronaut Alan Bean's 18K gold Speedmaster Professional, issued as No. 26 in Omega's original astronaut tribute series commemorating the Apollo 11 moon landing.
Now at @RRAuction.
#OmegaSpeedmaster #Apollo12 #RRAuction
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Anton Chekhov had a celebrity problem in 1899.
Leo Tolstoy was stopping by. Actors from The Seagull kept visiting. Chekhov was so overwhelmed he joked he was “besieged by celebrities.”
The Russian literary giant put it all in a handwritten letter.
Now at @RRAuction. 10/14
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Leo Tolstoy was stopping by. Actors from The Seagull kept visiting. Chekhov was so overwhelmed he joked he was “besieged by celebrities.”
The Russian literary giant put it all in a handwritten letter.
Now at @RRAuction. 10/14
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Babe Ruth. Lou Gehrig. Amelia Earhart. Thomas Edison. George Gershwin. Fred Astaire. Mae West.
Apparently, someone spent the first half of the 20th century collecting autographs and never learned when to stop.
More than 200 signatures packed into one remarkable scrapbook! Now 10/14
#Autographs #BabeRuth #AmeliaEarhart #RRAuction
Apparently, someone spent the first half of the 20th century collecting autographs and never learned when to stop.
More than 200 signatures packed into one remarkable scrapbook! Now 10/14
#Autographs #BabeRuth #AmeliaEarhart #RRAuction
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80 confirmed aerial victories. Dead at 25. Still known around the world more than a century later.
A rare signed portrait of famed German World War I flying ace Manfred von Richthofen — the Red Baron.
Now at @RRAuction. Closes 10/14
#RedBaron #WWI #AviationHistory #RRAuction
A rare signed portrait of famed German World War I flying ace Manfred von Richthofen — the Red Baron.
Now at @RRAuction. Closes 10/14
#RedBaron #WWI #AviationHistory #RRAuction
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Flown to the Moon aboard Apollo 12.
Alan Bean used this Beta cloth stowage bag inside the Lunar Module Intrepid to hold checklists, food and other items during the lunar landing, surface stay and ascent.
From Bean’s personal collection.
Closes Oct. 22 at @RRAuction .
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Alan Bean used this Beta cloth stowage bag inside the Lunar Module Intrepid to hold checklists, food and other items during the lunar landing, surface stay and ascent.
From Bean’s personal collection.
Closes Oct. 22 at @RRAuction .
paceHistory
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