RR Auction

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

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

“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 #JackieKennedy #PresidentialHistory

SOLD FOR $510,000 Gene Cernan’s Apollo 17 cuff checklist contains his handwritten instructions for repairing the lunar rover’s damaged fender. #Apollo17 #RRAuction

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. Explore the auction: rrauction.com/search/?str=cu… #SpaceHistory #RRauction

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 & Aviation auction, closing 10/ 22. rrauction.com/from-the-willi… #ApolloProgram #NASA #SpaceHistory

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

Sold! Check out Einstein Equation-Filled Letter Sold for $71,811 finebooksmagazine.com/fine-b… via @finebooks

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

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

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 #Chekhov #LiteraryHistory

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 at @RRAuction. Closing 10/14 #Autographs #BabeRuth #AmeliaEarhart #RRAuction

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

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 . #Apollo12 #AlanBean #SpaceHistory

Before John Dillinger was Public Enemy No. 1, he was an A student. In prison. This 1924 Indiana Reformatory school assessment gave Dillinger A’s in arithmetic and language — and includes a penmanship sample signed “John Herbert Dillinger.” Part of @RRAuction’s Notorious Figures and Lawmen section, closing Oct. 14. #JohnDillinger #TrueCrime

Gene Cernan’s lunar surface-used Apollo 17 cuff checklist leads @RRAuction’s Space & Aviation sale. Worn during Apollo’s longest moonwalk, it bears Cernan’s handwritten fix for the Lunar Rover’s broken fender. Closes Oct. 22: rrauction.com/auctions/lot-d…