RR Auction

Before AC/DC became one of the world's biggest rock bands, Bon Scott was documenting life on the road in letters home.

Written during the band's 1978 tours, this remarkable archive captures Scott's candid reflections on touring, travel, friendships, and the realities of life behind the music.

Part of RR Auction's Marvels of Modern Music sale, closing June 18.

https://www.rrauction.com/auctions/lot-detail/351450107447310-acdc-bon-scott-autograph-archive-of-7-letters-and-cards-with-commentary-on-touring-drinking-and-aerosmith/?cat=0

We are just hours away from the close of RR Auction’s Fine Autographs & Artifacts Featuring WWII sale.

Among the highlights:
• An autograph letter written by 12-year-old Oskar Schindler to his cousin in America—years before he became known for saving more than 1,000 Jews during the Holocaust.
• Winston Churchill’s 1950 letter to Charles de Gaulle, reflecting on their wartime alliance and warning of “the greatest peril I have ever known.”
• A Raoul Wallenberg-signed Schutz-Pass issued in Nazi-occupied Budapest in 1944.
Bidding closes tonight!
https://www.rrauction.com/auctions/details/743-fine-autographs-and-artifacts-featuring-wwii/?page=1&itemQty=24&view=gallery&sort=hp&cat=299

Before they became legends, they signed a logbook.

This RAF Dambusters log contains an entry from the famous 1943 raid and signatures from Guy Gibson, Leonard Cheshire, David Maltby, and other 617 Squadron pilots.

The logbook offers a firsthand connection to Operation Chastise and one of the most celebrated missions of World War II.

Part of RR Auction's Monthly Sale featuring WWII. Closing 6/10

Jimi Hendrix's handwritten working lyrics for Room Full of Mirrors.

Believed to date from 1970 and written on Londonderry Hotel stationery, the two-page manuscript captures Hendrix working on a song he revisited for years but never released during his lifetime.

Part of RR Auction's Marvels of Modern Music auction, closing June 18.
https://www.rrauction.com/auctions/lot-detail/351024207447100-jimi-hendrix-handwritten-working-lyrics-for-room-full-of-mirrors/?cat=0

A remarkable private letter from Winston Churchill to Charles de Gaulle, dated August 22, 1950.

"All that we were able to achieve is now plunged in the greatest peril I have ever known."

Now open for bidding at RR Auction.

https://www.rrauction.com/auctions/lot-detail/351465407430009-winston-churchill-typed-letter-signed-to-charles-de-gaulle-on-their-wartime-alliance-and-the-greatest-peril-i-have-ever-known/?cat=0

Churchill. Eisenhower. Bradley. Patton.

These were among the fewer than 20 senior Allied leaders who received Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery's top-secret battle directives.

Preserved from the papers of Major-General Miles Graham, this remarkable archive traces the Allied campaign from D-Day to Germany's surrender in 1945.

Now open for bidding:

https://www.rrauction.com/auctions/lot-detail/351480307430062

Grateful Dead history wasn't just made onstage.

Longtime insider Barbara Whitestone spent decades preserving the backstage—assembling an extraordinary archive filled with psychedelic posters, signed photographs, backstage passes, tour laminates, rare Grateful Dead Records ephemera, production materials, and hundreds of artifacts documenting the band's world from the inside.

Spanning the late 1960s through the mid-1990s, the collection offers a remarkable look at the people, culture, and community surrounding one of music's most influential bands.

Part of RR Auction's Marvels of Modern Music sale, closing June 18.

Happy 100th Birthday, Norma Jeane!
Captured during the summer of 1945, these photographs preserve the moment before the world came to know her as Marilyn Monroe.
View the photographs:
https://www.rrauction.com/auctions/lot-detail/350256707430400

Sold: Sitting Bull’s rare 1885 contract to appear in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show sold for $168,213.

The agreement formalized Sitting Bull’s appearance in the show for a four-month season and granted him the exclusive right to sell his own photographs and autographs while on tour.

For complete results, visit RR Auction:
https://www.rrauction.com/auctions/details/742-the-western-americana-auction-of-jochen-zeitz/?fbclid=IwY2xjawR9j-hleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFWVkpIT2V5bktTQWdVcnRsc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHuHv8HMzLb5BXBl-b1MWXEKdSaJUNJIE1KaU9sR18VyGmVcjZSZkddLJx4oT_aem_YrJLskwSLyOpvQcMNGlavw

Final hours at RR Auction: The Western Americana Collection of Jochen Zeitz closes tonight.

Featuring Sitting Bull’s contract to appear in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show alongside artifacts and autographs tied to Daniel Boone, Kit Carson, Wyatt Earp, George A. Custer, Wild Bill Hickok, and other iconic figures of the American frontier, the sale brings together an extraordinary group of Western Americana rarities.

https://www.rrauction.com/auctions/details/742-the-western-americana-auction-of-jochen-zeitz/?page=1&itemQty=24&view=gallery&sort=hp&cat=0