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| Auction Details - AUCTION ALREADY HELD | |||
| Autograph Auction (Day 1 of 2) | |||
| Auctioneer: | IAA International Autograph Auctions Ltd | Location: | RADISSON EDWARDIAN HOTEL, HEATHROW |
| Contact: | Tel: +44 (0)115 845 1010 Fax: +44 (0)115 845 1009 | ||
| Date: | 8th June 2013 | Time: | 11:00AM |
| Details: | VIEWING: On the day of the auction from 9.00 a.m. and will continue throughout the duration of the auction MIDLANDS VIEWING: Only in the week prior to the auction at our offices at Foxhall Business Centre |
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| Auction Lots - Page 9 | |||
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| GREEN HUGHIE: (1920-1997) British Entertainer & Television Presenter. The professional engagement diaries of Hughie Green, fourteen volumes, 1964-77. The 4to hardback diaries, most published by the Hunting Group, contain multiple entries on an almost daily basis, all in the hands of secretaries (mainly Pam Jagger) and with the occasional holograph entry by Green himself ('Hughie Away - Peace Will Reign', 2nd - 5th November 1970), detailing numerous appointments with a wide variety of individuals and famous names including Richard Attenborough, Donald Campbell (at Coniston, 26th October 1966, and later recording Campbell's Memorial Service on 23rd February 1967), Tonia Campbell, Billy Butlin, David Jacobs, Ursula Bloom, Anton Dolin, Yehudi Menuhin, Richard Todd, Max Bygraves, Kenneth More, Ben Lyon, Vera Lynn, Emile Littler, Lord Harewood, David Dimbleby, Fred Pontin, Les Dawson, Mary Whitehouse, Leslie Grade, Chapman Pincher, Dermot Boyle, Susannah York, Cyril Stapleton, Dezo Hoffmann, Lord Ted Willis, Jack Hulbert, Charlie Chester, Danny La Rue, Barbara Cartland, George Best, Michael Grade, Freddie Starr, Fred Pontin, Arthur Askey, Wendy Craig, Bernard Delfont, Jimmy Saville, Frankie Howerd, Harry Secombe, Lord Bath etc., also noting the auditions (at many towns and cities around the United Kingdom), rehearsals, recordings and broadcasts for Green's television and radio shows including Opportunity Knocks, Double Your Money etc., meetings at various venues including the Soviet, Danish, German and Polish Embassies, 10 Downing Street receptions (1968 & 1975, the latter in honour of Pierre Trudeau), engagements including guest appearances to open shops and supermarkets (often recording the fee that Green received), and television, radio and newspaper interviews and appearances, including the Morecambe and Wise Show (1974), many luncheons including Variety Club Awards Luncheon, Foyles Luncheon, Miss World Finalists Tribute Luncheon (1973), Lena Zavaroni's birthday party (1975) etc., various accommodation and travel arrangements for many countries including Russia, America, Israel, Canada, Australia, Cyprus, Malta, Switzerland and Japan, also including many references to flying aircraft, spending time on his boat, his model train set, also recording some personal events associated with his mother, wife, children Linda and Christopher (recording their birthdays in most diaries, and the later volumes making references to telephone calls with his son) and other individuals including June Laverick (a holograph entry 'See Miss Laverick if she is good' appears in Green's hand on 31st December 1975), Noel Botham (seemingly recording their first meeting on 13th August 1973 and with many meetings afterwards). The diaries also record many reminders to renew Green's passport, Equity membership, various credit cards etc. and also give details of his suit measurements etc. Some light age wear, G to VG, 14 £100 - 120 |
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| 402 | |||
| [GREEN HUGHIE]: (1920-1997) British Entertainer & Television Presenter. A small collection of awards and other souvenirs, each presented to or associated with Hughie Green, including two Friends of the Academy BAFTA presentations, each with engraved plaques, 'Endowed by Christina Sharples in memory of Hughie Green' (one mounted to a wooden plinth), a metal cigarette lighter in the shape of a fighter plane, mounted with an engraved plaque, 'To Hughie Green with grateful thanks and appreciation from the RAF association, 25th Anniversary, Battle of Britain, September 1965', another cigarette lighter presented to Green by the London Borough of Camden Road Safety Committee, 1969, a silver hallmarked heart shaped award presented to Green by the Variety Club of Great Britain, 1965, and a smaller gold hallmarked heart shaped award presented to Green by the Variety Club of Great Britain, 1973, three tankards each with presentation engravings to Green 1961, 1973 (on the occasion of his 53rd birthday from 'Golden Balls') and 1977 etc. G to generally VG, 13 £100 - 120 |
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| 403 | |||
| [GREEN HUGHIE]: (1920-1997) British Entertainer & Television Presenter. Hughie Green's personal This Is Your Life book, the famous red 4to volume with gilt stamped title and Green's name to the cover, the title page printed in blue with gold lettering, 'This book is presented to Hughie Green as a memento of his appearance as the subject of This Is Your Life', signed and inscribed in black ink by presenter Eamonn Andrews, 'From your faithful Mechanic, with every good wish, Eamonn'. The book contains over 30 9.5 x 7.5 (and some slightly smaller) photographs of the show, each neatly laid down alongside printed captions (the captions now detached from the pages, although almost entirely complete), the images showing Green with his mother and various other celebrities and colleagues including Margaret Lockwood, Ben Lyon, Les Dawson, Frank Carson, Freddie Starr and other performers on Opportunity Knocks, Danny La Rue etc. With the original vinyl disc recording of the show inserted at the back. About VG £200 - 300 Hughie Green was the subject of This Is Your Life on 16th February 1972 (Series 3, Programme 65). |
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| 404 | |||
| [GREEN HUGHIE]: (1920-1997) British Entertainer & Television Presenter. A large collection of original unsigned photographs of various sizes, previously belonging to Green, both of a professional and personal nature and virtually spanning his whole life, including studio shots and some contact sheets of Green on Opportunity Knocks and Double Your Money, in a recording studio with Bob Sharples and others, earlier images show Green at the beginning of his career, also including many colour 6 x 4 photographs of Green in later life, accompanied by Christina Sharples, and other friends, as well as some celebrities and famous individuals including Diana Dors, George Best, Pam Ayres, Denis Thatcher, Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother etc., others showing Green on his boat, at the cockpit of an aircraft, with his train set, outside Buckingham Palace, at various holiday locations including Bermuda etc. Framed caricatures (2). Generally G to VG, 357 £100 - 120 |
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| 405 | |||
| GREEN HUGHIE: (1920-1997) British Entertainer & Television Presenter. Small, miscellaneous selection of T.Ls.S., signed Christmas greetings cards, a few signed photographs etc., by Hughie Green, including a T.L.S., with his initial H, one page, small 4to, Baker Street, London, 6th February 1970, to Robert Sharples ('My dear Bob'), thanking him for a birthday gift and remarking 'I do hope that you and Christine will assist me in getting rid of it. You are a kind old bugger, even though you live on the tourist infested Southend type rutted road Island of Majorca', five different individually signed Christmas greetings cards, most with his first name only, one additionally annotated 'Thank you for all you've both done in - and out - of the studio. Let's hope it goes on a long time.' and another featuring an Opportunity Knocks cartoon by Franklin to the cover, a hardback edition of Opportunity Knocked, First Edition, 1965, signed and inscribed by Green, presumably to his secretary Pam Jagger, 'To Pam, Thank you for all the many "Knocks" you've saved me. Sincerely, Hughie', and also including a miscellaneous selection of letters etc., to Green, one a T.L.S. by Christina Sharples, one page, 4to, Greville Place, London, 12th October 1987, to 'Dearest Hughie', following the death of her husband just over a month earlier, in part, 'As you know, over the past three weeks, I have faced the daunting task of writing over 100 letters, trying to make each one individual, although they were all on the same subject. I decided to leave the difficult ones to the last, and yours to be last of all.....the object of this letter is to put on paper my thoughts about the Address you gave on September 14th. No-one in the world could have done it better, and there is no-one else I would have wanted to do it - thank you. Regardless of what we have meant to each other in the past, mean to each other now, and whatever the future might be, I want you to know that I will forever be grateful....You are a very special person to me.' A few FR, generally G to VG, 22 £100 - 150 |
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| 406 | |||
| [ZAVARONI LENA]: (1963-1999) Scottish Child Singer & Entertainer. A silver 45rpm disc of Lena Zavaroni's Ma! (He's Making Eyes at Me), awarded to Hughie Green by Phonogram Ltd for sales in excess of 250,000 copies of the record, professionally mounted on burgundy above an engraved plaque and framed and glazed in the original plain silver coloured presentation frame to an overall size of 10 x 12. Together with a small selection of unsigned 8 x 10 photographs of the young Zavaroni (one showing Hughie Green presenting the singer with her silver disc for the same recording), newspaper clippings, printed 4to programme for a performance at the London Palladium etc. Generally VG, 15 £80 - 100 In 1974 Zavaroni appeared on Green's Opportunity Knocks and won the show for a record-breaking five weeks running. She followed this with the album Ma! (He's Making Eyes At Me), which reached number eight in the UK album chart. At 10 years, 146 days old, Lena is still the youngest person to have an album in the Top 10 and was also the youngest person to appear on the BBC's Top of the Pops. |
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| 407 | |||
| [GREEN HUGHIE]: (1920-1997) British Entertainer & Television Presenter. A selection of printed ephemera relating to the death and funeral of Hughie Green including Christina Sharples' personal copy of the printed 8vo Order of Service for the funeral of Hugh H. Green at Golders Green Crematorium, 9th May 1997, featuring An Appreciation of the Life of Hughie Green given by Noel Botham, and another by Nigel Griffiths MP, a selection of 12mo Sentiment Cards removed from floral tributes, with holograph notes, including one from Christina Sharples ('Hughie - I will always love you. I will always keep my promises to you. I will never forget you, Your Christina'), Bobby Crush ('To dear Hughie, who launched my career and to whom I will always be grateful. Bobby Crush') etc., various Sympathy cards and letters sent to Christina Sharples on the death of Green, from Green's best man Art Teulon, representatives of London Weekend Television, Roger Gale MP, Clementina Bentine (wife of Michael Bentine) and other friends, some with typed copies of Sharples' replies, also including a large quantity of newspaper and magazine clippings retained by Christina Sharples, all relating to Paula Yates and the posthumous revelation that Hughie Green was her father. Generally VG, Qty. £80 - 100 It was journalist Noel Botham's infamous eulogy at Green's funeral that led to weeks of media coverage regarding Green being the father of Paula Yates. |
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| 408 | |||
| CAMPBELL DONALD: (1921-1967) British Car & Motorboat Racer, World Land and Water Speed Record Holder in the 1950s and 1960s. An unusual vintage signed and inscribed 6.5 x 5 photograph, the image depicting a Corgi die-cast model of the Bluebird against a backdrop of the Bonneville Salt Flats at Utah, signed in blue fountain pen ink to a light area at the head of the image, 'Bob from Donald'. With the original printed caption detached from the verso. Together with a printed 8vo Order of Service of Thanksgiving and Prayer for Donald Campbell, at the Royal Parish Church of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, 23rd February 1967. Some very light, minor age wear, about VG, 2 £100 - 150 |
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| 409 | |||
| SHARPLES ROBERT: (1913-1987) British Musical Conductor, Composer & Bandleader, famous for his work on films and British television programmes of the 1960s and 1970s, including Hughie Green's Opportunity Knocks. A small archive of documents and correspondence relating to the professional career of Bob Sharples including his personal Musicians' Union Membership Card allowing him to become a free member of the Central London branch, 17th November 1986 (having been originally admitted on 29th December 1954), official documents and accounts relating to Bob Sharples Ltd., various copies of correspondence and original legal documents concerning Sharples' property in Majorca, hardbound notebooks kept by Sharples with details of income for various compositions etc. for television shows featuring Tommy Cooper, Val Doonican, Jimmy Saville etc., printed certificates issued to Sharples by the Performing Rights Society Ltd., 1954 & 1959, numerous documents relating to Sharples' compositions issued by the Mechanical-Copyright Protection Society Ltd., and various copies of professional correspondence to and from Sharples regarding his music. G to VG, Qty £100 - 120 |
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| 410 | |||
| [SHARPLES ROBERT]: (1913-1987) British Musical Conductor, Composer & Bandleader, famous for his work on films and British television programmes of the 1960s and 1970s, including Hughie Green's Opportunity Knocks. An interesting collection of printed ephemera, programmes, newspaper clippings etc., relating to the career of Bob Sharples including invitations to and programmes for various shows etc. which Sharples worked on including ABC's Big Night Out and The Blackpool Show introduced by Tony Hancock, various Guild of Television Producers and Directors Televison Ball and Dinner and BAFTA programmes for 1962, 1963, 1964, 1969 & 1980, Royal Gala and Command Performance programmes and invitations 1966, 1968, admission tickets to Miss ITV 1968, various promotional items for the Don Juan night club in Mayfair, with orchestration by Sharples, 1958 onwards, Filmharmonic 77 programme, original typescript of a Music Maker feature about Sharples, the original typed manuscript of the first draft of Sharples' autobiography entitled Bob's Your Uncle (unfinished and apparently unpublished), numerous newspaper clippings relating to Sharples dating from the 1950s onwards, some pasted into two scrapbooks and the majority loose, several photograph albums containing images of Sharples at work and accompanied by colleagues including Hughie Green, Eartha Kitt etc., and other more candid personal photographs of Sharples and his wife on holiday in Maljorca etc. Generally G to VG, Qty £100 - 120 |
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| 411 | |||
| SHARPLES ROBERT: (1913-1987) British Musical Conductor, Composer & Bandleader, famous for his work on films and British television programmes of the 1960s and 1970s, including Hughie Green's Opportunity Knocks. An archive of personal correspondence, largely from Sharples to his wife Christina, mainly 1960s-1970s, including many A.Ls.S. (signed in a variety of forms, some with sketches of a bunny rabbit), signed Christmas gift tags, signed Birthday, Valentines and Christmas cards, printed telegrams (received copies) etc., many of the letters from Sharples to his wife of a romantic and intimate nature, including a series written from Majorca to his wife in London, discussing various subjects including preparations for their house on the island, bull fights, expressing his love for Christina etc., in part, 'Bull fight last Sunday - not good. Bulls too small but very, very brave. I cried for one of them! Silly? I suppose so but then that is what one goes to the bullfight for.', 'A very loud voiced man at the next table was airing his views on all and sundry last eve and one of his more blatant insanities was that he liked Diana Dors because he was sure she didn't really want to be anything more than a home-loving housewife and everybody had done the wrong thing by making her a publicity seeking filmstar!! You can imagine how I spluttered into my soup!!', 'Donald & Tonia Campbell & two other people and about a hundred kids arrived here last week out of the blue. They were aboard a so-called "cruise" but couldn't stand it another minute so they demanded that I find them a villa!!', also including some letters from Sharples to other correspondents, including an A.L.S., Bob, two pages, 8vo, Greville Place, London, 30th January 1973, to Hughie Green ('My dear Hughie'), stating 'I am writing this note to let you know that after the end of this series I shall not be available for Opportunity Knocks. I think that, after the ten year association that you and I have had, it would be churlish if I informed Thames Television without letting you know first. In many ways it has been a happy and rewarding association, but your remarks to me this evening have convinced me that indeed, as far as you are concerned, I have outlived my usefulness. I have not, nor have I ever been, cut out to be a stooge - musical or otherwise. Stooges are plentiful - and I am sure there will be no difficulty in finding one to cater to your tasks.', further including some correspondence to Bob and Christina Sharples from various individuals including the roller skater Gloria Nord, one A.N., unsigned, by Hughie Green to the verso of a comical picture postcard, to Bob Sharples, 'Really Bob, Christina should give you a hand.....with the cooking.' (1973), an album of colour picture postcards from various tourist destinations and foreign cities, a box of Sharples' personal printed Smythson notepaper (unused) etc. Qty £100 - 150 |
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| 412 | |||
| [SHARPLES ROBERT]: (1913-1987) British Musical Conductor, Composer & Bandleader, famous for his work on films and British television programmes of the 1960s and 1970s, including Hughie Green's Opportunity Knocks. A small selection of Bob Sharples' personal effects including ten of his batons (mainly wooden), his tailored navy and black Kilgour, French & Stanbury dinner suit comprising jacket and trousers, bearing his name and the date 1970 to the label, with accompanying black cape, worn by Sharples for his professional appearances as an orchestra leader, a silver hallmarked cigarette box engraved to the lid 'To Robert, with affection and deepest admiration for a great performance, Olivia, 7th December 1971', a silver hallmarked goblet engraved with Sharples' signature, a green and gold coloured ashtray bearing Sharples' facsimile signature, a quantity of unused printed stationery, Sharples' maroon leather briefcase bearing his gilt stamped initials etc. Generally G to VG, 22 £100 - 120 |
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| 413 | |||
| SHARPLES ROBERT: (1913-1987) British Musical Conductor, Composer & Bandleader, famous for his work on films and British television programmes of the 1960s and 1970s, including Hughie Green's Opportunity Knocks. A selection of original MS for various compositions by Bob Sharples, including the manuscript of Stand Up and Be Counted, famously performed by the Bob Sharples Orchestra on one of Green's Opportunity Knocks shows in 1977, the score for Stormy, and other works entitled Bayou, Soul, Blue Screw, London City, Happy World, Adam & Eve etc., the many pages of folio and 4to manuscript paper completed in ink and pencil by Sharples, some signed, and all contained in individual Boosey & Hawkes folio library bags. G to generally VG, 10 £100 - 150 |
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| 414 | |||
| SHARPLES ROBERT: (1913-1987) British Musical Conductor, Composer & Bandleader, famous for his work on films and British television programmes of the 1960s and 1970s, including Hughie Green's Opportunity Knocks. A selection of original MS for various compositions by Bob Sharples, all for British television series and documentaries that he provided music for including Six Days of Justice, Napoleon and Love, Harriet's Back in Town, Man Alive, If Britain Had Fallen, The Explorers, the TV Times Awards Show (1980) etc., the many pages of folio and 4to manuscript paper completed in ink and pencil by Sharples, some signed, and all contained in individual Boosey & Hawkes folio library bags. G to generally VG, 10 £100 - 150 |
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| 415 | |||
| SHARPLES ROBERT: (1913-1987) British Musical Conductor, Composer & Bandleader, famous for his work on films and British television programmes of the 1960s and 1970s, including Hughie Green's Opportunity Knocks. A selection of original MS for various compositions by Bob Sharples, including works entitled Lonely, Bob's Blues, Morgan's Organ, Blue Knickers, Leo Sayer Medley etc., the many pages of folio and 4to manuscript paper completed in ink and pencil by Sharples, some signed, and all contained in individual Boosey & Hawkes folio library bags. Also including several boxed master recordings etc. (13) from Olympic Sound Studios, G to generally VG, 24 £100 - 150 |
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| 416 | |||
| SHARPLES ROBERT: (1913-1987) British Musical Conductor, Composer & Bandleader, famous for his work on films and British television programmes of the 1960s and 1970s, including Hughie Green's Opportunity Knocks. A selection of original MS for various compositions by Bob Sharples, including Nativity Chorale (written by Sharples for Duke Eliington to perform in Coventry Cathedral, 1966), Girl Talk, Salute to Concorde (performed on Opportunity Knocks in 1973), Ridin' High etc., the many pages of folio and 4to manuscript paper completed in ink and pencil by Sharples, some signed, and all contained in individual Boosey & Hawkes folio library bags. G to VG, 10 £100 - 150 |
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| 417 | |||
| SHARPLES ROBERT: (1913-1987) British Musical Conductor, Composer & Bandleader, famous for his work on films and British television programmes of the 1960s and 1970s, including Hughie Green's Opportunity Knocks. A selection of original MS for various compositions by Bob Sharples, all for British television series and documentaries that he provided music for including The Search for Alexander, Special Branch, Man at The Top, Rivals of Sherlock Holmes, Brussels Sprouts, ISunday Night People, Minder etc., the many pages of folio and 4to manuscript paper completed in ink and pencil by Sharples, some signed, and all contained in individual Boosey & Hawkes folio library bags. Also including several boxed master recordings etc. (7) relating to Minder, G to generally VG, 18 £100 - 150 |
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| 418 | |||
| SHARPLES ROBERT: (1913-1987) British Musical Conductor, Composer & Bandleader, famous for his work on films and British television programmes of the 1960s and 1970s, including Hughie Green's Opportunity Knocks. A selection of original MS for various compositions by Bob Sharples, all used for various Opportunity Knocks shows, including the Winners Fanfare and other pieces entitled Gunplayers, Gavea, Callysthenics, Duelling, Decrepit Hughie etc., the many pages of folio and 4to manuscript paper completed in ink and pencil by Sharples, some signed, and all contained in individual Boosey & Hawkes folio library bags. FR to generally G to VG, 12 £100 - 150 |
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| 419 | |||
| [SHARPLES ROBERT]: (1913-1987) British Musical Conductor, Composer & Bandleader, famous for his work on films and British television programmes of the 1960s and 1970s, including Hughie Green's Opportunity Knocks. A selection of printed ephemera relating to the death and funeral of Bob Sharples including various Sentiment cards from floral tributes, one from Hughie Green ('To "Uncle Bob" with love and appreciation for all you did. Hughie Green') and others with messages on behalf of Lena Zavaroni, Bonnie Langford, Ronnie Hazlehurst, Bobby Crush, Pam Jagger, Thames Television and other colleagues and friends, an 8vo printed Order of Service for Sharples' funeral at Golders Green Crematorium, 14th September 1987, featuring An appreciation of the life of Bob Sharples given by Hughie Green, various Sympathy cards and A.Ls.S. and T.Ls.S. of condolence sent to Christina Sharples on the death of her husband, some referring to working on Opportunity Knocks, and a few mentioning Hughie Green, including Pam Jagger, in part, 'It was with great sorrow that I heard the sad news of dear Bob from Hughie yesterday. I have such happy memories of long conversations with him about music in general and Duke Ellington in particular...It was a joy to see the enthusiasm with which Bob approached his work to enhance the chances of the contestants on "Opp Knocks" and his contribution to their success, and to the peace of mind of Hughie, is without question...', several typescripts of the eulogy given by Hughie Green at the funeral etc. G to VG, 138 £80 - 100 |
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| 420 | |||
SHARPLES CHRISTINA: (1933-2013) Wife of Robert Sharples and, later, companion of Hughie Green. A small archive of printed ephemera etc., belonging to Christina Sharples, including various souvenir programmes for shows that she attended including Ice Circus of 1952, Cinderella on Ice, Chu Chin Chow on Ice, Maggie May, Phantom of the Opera, several souvenir brochures for performances by Frank Sinatra at the Gaumont Theatre, Hammersmith 1962 and at the Royal Festival Hall, 1970 & 1978, a framed reproduction of a signed photograph of Sinatra inscribed to Christina Sharples, other signed photographs etc., by various celebrities including Ivor Novello, Frankie Vaughan, Georges Guetray, Gloria Nord (several signed photographs and A.Ls.S. etc.), a folio hardback edition of the Christie's auction catalogue for Dresses from the Collection of Diana, Princess of Wales, 25th June 1997, some photographs of Sharples as a younger woman and her British Actors' Equity Association probationary membership card for 1960-61, issued and signed in the name of Tina Stewart, a copy of her birth certificate issued on 3rd July 1954 and a Statutory Declaration dated 8th July 1954 stating that she does not know the identity of her biological parents and was adopted at three weeks, etc. Generally G to VG, Qty £100 - 120CLASSICAL MUSIC & OPERA |
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| 421 | |||
| STRAUSS RICHARD: (1864-1949) German Composer. A fine A.M.Q.S., Dr Richard Strauss, on a good gilt edged oblong 12mo card, n.p., n.d. In bold black fountain pen ink Strauss has neatly penned a four bar musical quotation from an unidentified work. Signed with his name alone immediately above the quotation. EX £200 - 300 |
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| 422 | |||
| MASCAGNI PIETRO: (1863-1945) Italian Composer. Vintage signed postcard photograph of the composer in a profile half length pose. Signed in bold black fountain pen ink to a light area at the base of the image and dated Prague, 26th March 1902 in his hand to a clear area at the head of the image. A heavy circular stain to the verso only very lightly affects the image and is barely noticeable, VG £100 - 120 |
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| 423 | |||
| MASCAGNI PIETRO: (1863-1945) Italian Composer. A fine A.M.Q.S., P Mascagni, one page, oblong 8vo, Rome, 30th December 1912. In dark fountain pen ink the composer has attractively penned four bars of music, with words, which he identifies as being from his opera L'amico Fritz (1891). Signed and inscribed by Mascagni beneath the quotation. About EX £200 - 300 |
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| 424 | |||
| GRIEG EDVARD: (1843-1907) Norwegian Composer. Bold, dark fountain pen ink signature ('Edvard Grieg') and several additional words in his hand, on a stiff oblong 12mo card. VG £100 - 120 |
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| 425 | |||
| MUCK KARL: (1859-1940) German Conductor. A good A.M.Q.S., Dr. Karl Muck, on a gilt edged oblong 12mo card, Berlin, 20th September 1906. In bold, dark fountain pen ink Muck has penned a two bar quotation from an unidentified work. Signed and dated beneath the quotation. About EX £100 - 120 |
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| 426 | |||
| CLASSICAL MUSIC: A good, small selection of individually signed gilt edged oblong 12mo cards, and a few pieces, by various classical musicians and composers, comprising Eugen d'Albert, Siegfried Wagner, Arthur Nikisch, Alfred Grunfeld (A.M.Q.S. from Georg Schumann's Serenade, Op.34, Wien, 19th April 1906), Artur Schnabel, Ferruccio Busoni (signed in bold pencil) and Siegfried Ochs (A.M.Q.S., Berlin, 19th March 1906). VG to about EX, 7 £100 - 150 |
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| 427 | |||
| BRUCH MAX: (1838-1920) German Composer and Conductor. A.M.Q.S., Max Bruch, one page, oblong 8vo, Breslau, 16th October 1889. The composer has penned three bars of music, with words, which he identifies as being from his male-voice Cantata Frithjof (1864). Signed and dated beneath the quotation. Accompanied by the original envelope hand addressed by Bruch. The ink is a little uniformly light, although perfectly legible. About VG £200 - 300 |
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| 428 | |||
| HUBERMAN BRONISLAW: (1882-1947) Polish Violinist. Fine, dark fountain pen ink signature ('Bronislaw Huberman') and date, Prague, 17th January 1906, in his hand on a good gilt edged oblong 12mo card. Together with Emanuel Wirth (1842-1923) German Violinist. Bold, dark fountain pen ink signature ('Emanuel Wirth') on a good gilt edged oblong 12mo card. About EX, 2 £80 - 100 |
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| 429 | |||
| HOLST GUSTAV: (1874-1934) English Composer. A printed 4to vocal score for Seven Choruses from the Alcestis of Euripides (1920), published by Augener Ltd., London, signed ('Gustav Holst') in bold dark fountain pen ink with his name alone to a clear area of the cover. Some very light staining and minor foxing, otherwise about VG £150 - 200 |
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| 430 | |||
| BRITTEN BENJAMIN: (1913-1976) English Composer. A large 4to printed score for Cantata Academica Carmen Basiliense (1960) by Benjamin Britten, composed and dedicated to the University of Basle for the celebration of its 500th Anniversary, published by Boosey & Hawkes, London, with text in English and German, signed by Britten in bold blue fountain pen ink to the title page and also signed by the vocalists Peter Pears, Owen Brannigan, Helen Watts (in bold pencil) and Jennifer Vyvyan, each with their names alone to the title page. Ownership signature to inside front cover. Some light overall age wear and the spine broken, G £100 - 150 |
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| PADEREWSKI I. J.: (1860-1941) Polish Pianist & Composer, Prime Minister of Poland, 1919. A.L.S., I J Paderewski, one page, small 4to, Morges, Switzerland, 24th May 1937, to a lady, in French. Paderewski apologises to his correspondent for the delay in replying to her, explaining that his doctors had strictly forbidden him any intellectual work. He continues 'To my great regret, I cannot obtain for you any information on Poland, which I visited for the last time twelve years ago. All I can say is that nowhere is peace more obviously wished for than in my country.' and in concluding sends a 'modest contribution....towards the fine and noble charity you have founded...' With blank integral leaf. One very slight, minor paperclip rust stain to the upper edge, not affecting the text or signature, otherwise VG £100 - 150 |
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| 432 | |||
| STOKOWSKI LEOPOLD: (1882-1977) British Orchestral Conductor. Bold black fountain pen ink signature on a white card. Together with Kirsten Flagstad (1895-1962) Norwegian Opera Singer. Bold blue fountain pen ink signature on a white card. EX, 2 £80 - 100 |
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| CONDUCTORS: Felix Weingartner (1863-1942) Austrian Conductor & Pianist. A.L.S., F Weingartner, one page, 8vo, Vienna, 30th May 1910, to an Editor, in German. Weingartner states, in full, 'I hereby request you most courteously to publish the enclosed statement' (no longer present). With blank integral leaf. Leopold Stokowski (1882-1977) British Conductor. T.L.S., Leopold Stokowski, one page, 4to, New York, 22nd March 1947, to Alfred Kalmus of the Anglo-Soviet Music Press. Stokowski announces 'On June 16 I would like to conduct Shostakovich 9th Symphony with the Orchestre du Conservatoire in the Theatre Champs Elysees in Paris' and asks his correspondent if they can rent him the score and parts and what the price for one performance would be, further adding that they would require them in good time before the rehearsal on 11th June. G to VG, 2 £100 - 150 |
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| FURTWANGLER WILHELM: (1886-1954) German Conductor and Composer. T.L.S, Wilhelm Furtwangler, one page, 4to, Clarens, 11th August 1948, to Dr, A Roth of Boosey & Hawkes, in German. Furtwangler announces 'I have now performed the Petroushka Suite at the Salzburg concert in accordance with the music material you provided me with (the suite in the usual composition), and continues Aside from the fact that the pianist, while good otherwise, proved not to be completely suited to this special task, the performance was good. However the acoustics in the present Salzburg Festival Hall are very unfavourable for concerts, particularly for the strings, I greatly enjoyed the performance…' He further adds 'I intend to repeat it in the course of the winter in Vienna, and in Buenos Aires, where I will be in April. I have left the material in Salzburg for now and have asked the people there to contact you regarding the hire fee.' And concludes 'However, I should like to perform Strauss's oboe concerto in Vienna. Will you be coming to Lucerne during August?' A letter of good musical content. VG £200 - 300 |
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| HEIFETZ JASCHA: (1901-1987) Russian-born American Violinist. Vintage signed and inscribed 8 x 10 photograph of the violinist in a semi-profile smiling head and shoulders pose. Signed in bold green fountain pen ink across a light area of the image and dated March 1947 in his hand. Some light, minor surface and corner creasing, about VG £150 - 200 |
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| PIANISTS: Artur Rubinstein (1887-1982) Polish-American Pianist. Vintage signed and inscribed 8 x 10 photograph of Rubinstein in a pensive head and shoulders pose. Signed in blue fountain pen ink to a light area of the background and dated 26th April 1957 in his hand; Myra Hess (1890-1965) British Pianist. Vintage signed sepia 8 x 10 photograph of Hess seated in a half length profile pose at her piano. Signed in bold, dark fountain pen ink to the lower border, 'To a great music lover, with all my best wishes, Myra Hess'. Some very slight, minor corner creasing, VG, 2 £100 - 120 |
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| DU PRE JACQUELINE: (1945-1987) English Cellist. A good, rare vintage signed and inscribed 8 x 10 photograph, a close-up head and shoulders study of the cellist. Signed in blue ink across a light area of the image. Together with Daniel Barenboim (1942- ) Israeli Argentine-born Pianist & Conductor, husband of du Pre 1967-87. Vintage signed 8 x 10 photograph of Barenboim in a head and shoulders pose. Signed in Hebrew with his name alone to a darker area of the image. Signed photographs of du Pre are rare as a result of her premature death at the age of 42. VG, 2 £200 - 300 |
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| GERSHWIN GEORGE: (1898-1937) American Composer and Pianist. Bold fountain pen ink signature ('George Gershwin') on a piece, evidently neatly clipped from a cheque. A light bank cancellation only slightly affects a few letters of the signature. Neatly laid down to a First Day Cover commemorating Gershwin and featuring a colour silk image of the composer. The cover is post marked Beverly Hills, California, 28th February 1973, and is also signed by Ira Gershwin (1896-1983, American Lyricist) in black ink with his name alone to a clear area. VG £200 - 300 |
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| CLASSICAL MUSIC: Jules Massenet (1842-1912) French Composer. A.N.S., with his initials J. M., on his personal printed 12mo visiting card, Rue Malesherbes, n.d., in French, sending friendly greetings to the recipient; Bruno Walter (1876-1962) German-born Conductor & Pianist. Vintage signed postcard photograph of Walter standing in a three quarter length pose, with another gentleman seated at a desk before him. Signed by Walter with his name alone in dark fountain pen ink to the image. Some extensive silvering; David Oistrakh (1908-1974) Russian Violinist. Vintage signed 7 x 9.5 page removed from a Royal Festival Hall programme of 1962, featuring an image of Oistrakh seated in a relaxed half length pose alongside his son Igor. Signed, in Cyrillic, in bold blue ink with his name alone to the lower white border. Generally VG, 3 £100 - 150 |
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| CLASSICAL MUSIC: Small selection of signed cards, album pages etc., by various composers and classical musicians etc., comprising I. J. Paderewski (good, bold fountain pen ink signature, Glasgow, October 1893, accompanied by two unsigned programmes), Benjamin Britten (matted beneath a colour image), Pablo de Sarasate (brief A.M.Q.S., 27th November 1893) and Aaron Copland (signed hardback edition of Aaaron Copland by Arthur Berger). Also including a small selection of signed pieces and book photographs by other famous individuals comprising Ernest Augustus I of Hanover, Simon Wiesenthal and Thor Heyerdahl. G to generally VG, 9 £100 - 120 |
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| 441 | |||
| CLASSICAL MUSIC: Selection of signed cards, postcard photographs and slightly larger, some vintage, by various classical musicians and opera singers etc, including Elisabeth Welch, Michael Flanders, Paul Tortelier, Annie Fischer, Sandy Wilson, Stefan Askenase, George Thalben-Ball, Henry Kripps, Christian Ferras, Arve Tellefsen, Colin Davis, Alfred Brendel, Jessye Norman, Eileen Joyce, Joan Hammond, John Barbirolli, Richard Tauber, Paul Robeson, Nellie Melba, Beniamino Gigli, etc. Generally VG, 33 £100 - 150 |
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| CARUSO ENRICO: (1873-1921) Italian Tenor. An excellent vintage signed postcard photograph, the circular inset image depicting the tenor in a profile head and shoulders pose in costume as Chevalier des Grieux from Giacomo Puccini's opera Manon Lescaut, signed by Caruso to the large white border to the right of the image, with an excellent, bold pen and ink self caricature in his hand, showing him in a profile head and shoulders study. Signed ('Enrico Caruso') and dated Prague, May 1904 in his hand. Signed photographs of Caruso incorporating his famous caricature are rare. One very slight corner crease and some extremely minor, light age wear, otherwise VG £200 - 300 |
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| WITTICH MARIE: (1868-1931) German Soprano, created the leading female roles in the world premieres of several operas, most notably the title role in Salome (1905) by Richard Strauss. A good, scarce vintage signed cabinet photograph of Wittich standing in a three quarter length pose in costume as Brunnhilde from Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen. Photograph by Martin Herzfeld of Dresden and Leipzig. Signed by Wittich in bold, dark fountain pen ink with her name alone to a clear area at the base of the image. Together with Karel Burian (1870-1924) Czechoslovakian Tenor, created the role of Herodes in Salome (1905). A.Q.S., Carl Burrian, on a good oblong 12mo card, Dresden, 15th June 1909. The tenor has penned two lines of text, in German, which he identifies as being from a work by Richard Wagner. Some extremely light, minor age wear, VG, 2 £100 - 150 |
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| ELEKTRA: A good, small selection of individually signed cards and vintage postcard photographs (3) by various opera singers who created roles at the premiere of Richard Strauss's Elektra (1909) at the Dresden State Opera on 25th January 1909, comprising Annie Krull (Elektra; Brief A.Q.S. from Elektra on a card, Dresden, 15th June 1909), Margarethe Siems (Chrysothemis) and Johannes Sembach (Aegisth; three different vintage signed postcard photographs, two showing him in costume from Lohengrin and Tiefland). VG to EX, 5 £100 - 150 |
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| AUTOGRAPH ALBUM: A small 4to leather bound autograph album, the covers and spine with attractive gilt stamped designs, being Margaret Burke Sheridan's personal album, containing around 20 signatures by various opera singers and classical musicians including Nellie Melba (a good example, dated 8th June 1926 in her hand, additionally annotated 'The date of my farewell performance at Covent Garden Theatre - with my love.', with a light stain to the left edge, just affecting the text), Benvenuto Franci, Beniamino Gigli, Gaetano Bavagnoli (A.M.Q.S.), Irish dramatist Sean O'Casey etc. Also including some loosely inserted A.Ls.S., newspaper clippings and other printed ephemera relating to Sheridan, and a printed 4to Souvenir Programme for the Farewell of Melba, 1926. Spine and boards neatly broken at the edges, otherwise about VG £100 - 150 Margaret Burke Sheridan (1889-1958) Irish Opera Singer who performed at La Scala and Covent Garden. |
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| CALLAS MARIA: (1923-1977) American-born Greek Soprano. An excellent blue ink signature ('Cordially, Maria Meneghini Callas') on a page removed from an autograph album, dated London 1953 in her hand. About EX £100 - 150 |
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| CALLAS MARIA: (1923-1977) American-born Greek Soprano. Partial A.N.S., Maria, on a 12mo visiting card bearing her black printed facsimile signature at the centre, n.p., n.d., to an unidentified correspondent, in part, '…I hope you enjoyed the concert. The critics didn't as it seems….' Mounted and with a few minor faults, about G £100 - 150 |
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| CALLAS MARIA: (1923-1977) American-born Greek Soprano. Final page of an A.L.S., Maria Meneghini Callas, one page, 8vo, n.p., n.d. (the date 29th November 1963 added in light pencil in an unidentified hand to one corner), to an unidentified correspondent, in part, 'I shall be at the Scala at that time with preparations for the "Medea"….Scala again with Trovatore & then Lucia - in Jan - Feb - the last ten days - with Medea at Venice - & the II ten days of Feb with Lucia….again at the Scala with Alceste & Don Carlos….' Mounted and with some light creasing, G £150 - 200 |
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| [CALLAS MARIA]: (1923-1977) American-born Greek Soprano. An original folio nylon satin programme for a Gala Performance in the presence of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip in celebration of the Centenary of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 10th June 1958, featuring performances by Maria Callas (I Puritani), Joan Sutherland, Margot Fonteyn, Nadia Nerina, Rafael Kubelik etc., the programme printed in pink and black with decorative blue borders and with the Royal Arms, by Rex Whistler, at the head. VG £200 - 300 |
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| AUTOGRAPH ALBUM: A good autograph album containing over 150 signatures by various opera singers, classical musicians, a few sportsmen etc., including Kathleen Ferrier, John Barbirolli, John Pritchard, Edith Coates, Geraint Evans, Gianni Raimondi, Victoria de los Angeles, Ramon Vinay, Rafael Kubelik, Gre Brouwenstijn, Constance Shacklock, Margherita Carosio, Giulio Neri, Giulietta Simionato, Joan Hammond, Joan Sutherland, Richard Lewis, Forbes Robinson, Tito Gobbi, Ferruccio Tagliavini, Zinka Milanov, cricketer A. P. F. Chapman, tennis players Louise Brough and Margaret du Pont etc. Most pages are multiple signed and the signatures were largely obtained in Manchester and London during the 1950s. VG £100 - 150 |
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| Autograph Auction (Day 1 of 2) | |||
| Auctioneer: | IAA International Autograph Auctions Ltd | Location: | RADISSON EDWARDIAN HOTEL, HEATHROW |
| Contact: | Tel: +44 (0)115 845 1010 Fax: +44 (0)115 845 1009 | ||
| Date: | 8th June 2013 | Time: | 11:00AM |
| Details: | VIEWING: On the day of the auction from 9.00 a.m. and will continue throughout the duration of the auction MIDLANDS VIEWING: Only in the week prior to the auction at our offices at Foxhall Business Centre |
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