Oppenheimer report, $53,594, RR Auction

Results of Recent Auctions From Near and Far

All prices include the buyer’s premium

by Ken Hall

A rare and historic report detailing the development of the atomic bomb, signed by J. Robert Oppenheimer and 23 other minds behind the Manhattan Project, sold for $53,594 in an online auction held Feb. 23-March 13 by RR Auction, based in Boston. Also, a Lee Harvey Oswald signed letter to his brother mailed from the USSR rang up $24,370; a John Wesley Hardin signed letter from jail hit $18,089; and an Alice in Wonderland concept painting by Mary Blair reached $17,926.

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