Gene Cernan’s three-time flown $2 bill—carried into Earth orbit on Gemini 9A, into lunar orbit on Apollo 10, and then all the way to the surface of the Moon on Apollo 17—sits alone at the summit of this rarest category.
Before it was revealed to the world, the Segway existed only as a whispered rumor in Silicon Valley. This early “Ginger” prototype reflects the secret development phase that preceded the self-balancing transporter’s public debut in 2001.
You've scraped together $500 and written Check #1 from your brand-new bank account to pay for the design work. Sixteen days later, you'll officially found your company.
This year marks fifty years since I started RR Auction. It’s hard to believe. Back in 1976, I was a kid in Boston with a love of collecting and no real sense of where it would all lead.
In December, RR Auction conducted its first international live auction at the Beethoven-Haus Bonn, held during celebrations marking the 255th anniversary of Ludwig van Beethoven’s birth.
We recently had the privilege of showing a remarkable group of Einstein portrait lithographs at The Vilna Shul in Boston. Seeing the collection together for the first time — including a rare signed “Per aspera ad astra” inscription — was unforgettable. The auction takes place December 10.
Jim Sandborn's complete secrets of Kryptos including the long-anticipated K5 connection and the original K4 coding system sold for $962,500 at RR Auction.
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