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| Auction Details - AUCTION ALREADY HELD | |||
| Autograph Auction | |||
| 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: | 26th April 2014 | Time: | 11:00AM |
| Details: | Viewing: On the day of the auction from 9am and throughout the duration of the auction |
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| Auction Lots - Page 8 | |||
| 351 | |||
| POPULAR MUSIC: Selection of signed postcard photographs and slightly larger by various female vocalists including Connie Francis, Petula Clark, Elaine Paige, Connie Fisher, Vera Lynn, Dionne Warwick, Corinne Bailey Rae, Cyndi Lauper, Alison Moyet, Cilla Black, Mica Paris, Joan Baez, Lulu, Shirley Bassey, Susan Maughan, Cheryl Baker, Gloria Estefan, Jennifer Rush, Nana Mouskouri, Lorna Luft etc. A few duplicates. Most of the images are colour and are slightly grainy reproductions. Generally VG, 36 £100 - 120 |
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| 352 | |||
| POPULAR MUSIC: Small selection of three signed colour 8 x 10 photographs by the popular singers Bjork, Bryan Ferry and jazz pianist Christian Jacob. All are boldly signed to clear areas of the images. VG to EX, 3 £80 - 100 |
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| 353 | |||
| POPULAR MUSIC: Selection of unsigned 8 x 10 photographs (press images etc.) of various pop stars, singers, musicians, groups etc., subjects include Adam Faith, Shakira, Sting, Heather Small, Marc Almond, Pink, Nick Rhodes, Shania Twain, Roger Waters, Ronnie Wood, Will Young, Billy Ocean, Queen Latifah, Barry Manilow, Paul McCartney, Yoko Ono, Craig David, John Entwhistle, Aretha Franklin, Macy Gray, Bob Geldof, Buddy Guy, Tom Jones, Elton John, Mick Jagger, Wyclef Jean, Lenny Kravitz, Beyonce Knowles, Alicia Keys, Paula Abdul, Nicole Appleton, Atomic Kitten, Christina Aguilera, Bjork, Edith Bowman, Mary J. Blige, LL Cool J and many others. Most of the images are colour and have printed captions to the borders. Some duplication. VG to EX, 254 £100 - 120 |
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| 354 | |||
| ENTERTAINMENT: Selection of signed postcard photographs and a few slightly larger, pieces etc., many vintage, by various actors, actresses, entertainers and a few other famous individuals including Frank Lawton, Terence de Marney, Cheryl Baker, Bonnie Tyler, John Craven, Roy Walker, Larry Grayson, George Hamilton IV, Hugh Wakefield, Harry Liedtke, Nat Jackley, Lizbeth Webb, Paul Horbiger, Jack Hylton, Leo Sayer, Russ Abbot, Tommy Fields, Jasper Carrott, Tom O'Connor, Lorna Dallas, Allan jones, Bobby George etc. Together with sixty unsigned postcard photographs and slightly larger, a few pieces of printed ephemera etc., most vintage, subjects include Liberace, Julie Christie, Charles Bronson, George Raft, Bob Hope, John Lennon, Ingrid Bergman, Rita Hayworth, Lana Turner, Jane Russell, Janet Leigh, Tony Curtis, Bob Hope etc. FR to G, 109 £80 - 120 |
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| 355 | |||
| ENTERTAINMENT: Selection of vintage signed postcard photographs and slightly smaller by various actors, actresses, comedians, entertainers and musicians etc., including Gypsy Rose Lee, Arthur English, Charlie Chester, Ella Shields, Josef Locke, Lena Horne, Vic Oliver, Nellie Lutcher, Sugar Chile Robinson, Vera Lynn, Peggy Ryan, Jon Pertwee, Bill Johnson etc. Facsimile & unsigned (9). Generally VG, 43 £100 - 120 |
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| 356 | |||
| ENTERTAINMENT: Selection of vintage signed postcard photographs and slightly smaller by various actors, actresses, comedians, entertainers and musicians etc., including Terry-Thomas, Arthur Askey, Eddie Gray, Jimmy Jewel & Ben Warriss, Billy Russell, Martha Raye, Donald Peers, Joy Nichols, Gertie Gitana, Jean Sablon, Winifred Atwell, Geraldo, Tessie O'Shea, Reginald Dixon, Donald O'Connor, Florence Desmond, Bonar Colleano etc. Facsimile & unsigned (8). Generally VG, 42 £100 - 120 |
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| 357 | |||
| ENTERTAINMENT: Selection of signed 5 x 7 photographs and slightly smaller (a few programme photographs), some vintage, by various film and television actors and actresses including Harry Andrews, Elisabeth Welch, Max Wall, Rita Tushingham, Janet Suzman, Alison Steadman, Simone Silva (2), Flora Robson, Pete Postlethwaite, Nanette Newman, Wilfrid Lawson, Dennis King, David Kossoff, Mary Jerrold, Polly James, Gordon Harker, John Hannah, Suzanne Danielle, Patrick Cargill, Marie Burke, Chili Bouchier, Robert Bathurst, Ivor Novello, Richard Hearne, Joyce Blair, Susie Blake, Robert Carlyle etc. Generally VG, 59 £100 - 120 |
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| 358 | |||
| ENTERTAINMENT: Selection of signed pieces, A.Ls.S., T.Ls.S., some signed 8 x 10 photographs and smaller etc., by various actors, actresses, entertainers, popular singers etc., including Peter Cushing, Alastair Sim, Helen Mirren, Pamela Stephenson, Judi Dench, Glenda Jackson, Roy Castle, Stephen Fry, Stefanie Powers, Fiona Fullerton, Gordon Jackson, Anna Neagle, George Cole, Patricia Roc, Rex Harrison, Luciano Pavarotti, Sacha Distel, Tim Rice, M-People, Georgie Fame, Howard Keel, Neil Sedaka etc. A few FR, generally G to VG, 42 £100 - 120 |
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| 359 | |||
| ENTERTAINMENT: Selection of signed postcard photographs and slightly larger, 8 x 10s etc., by various actors, actresses and entertainers including Richard Todd, Joan Plowright, Timothy West, Bob Holness, Charlene Tilton, Rodney Bewes, Eddie Bracken, Tom Courtenay, Anthony Head, Robert Stack, Janette Scott, Bernard Cribbins, Morey Amsterdam, Vanna White, Jane Powell, Elaine Stritch, Audrey Dalton, Arlene Dahl, Phyllis Calvert, Hywel Bennett, Anthony Andrews, Ray MacAnally, Dennis Morgan, Joanna Lumley & Joan Collins etc. Generally VG to EX, 46 £100 - 120 |
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| 360 | |||
| ENTERTAINMENT: Selection of signed 8 x 10 photographs by various actors and actresses, some Academy Award winners, including Ernest Borgnine, Kevin Costner, John Gielgud, Ian Carmichael, Michael Elphick, Ewan McGregor, Britt Ekland etc. VG to EX, 10 £100 - 120 |
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| 361 | |||
| ENTERTAINMENT: Selection of signed 8 x 10 photographs by various actors and actresses including Barry Bostwick, Bryan Forbes, Deborah Raffin, Paula Prentiss, Tom Selleck, Treat Williams, Kevin McNally, Toni Collette, Glenn Close, Janet McTeer, Caroline Munro, Emily Watson, Stockard Channing, Simon Williams, Annette Benning, Bradley Cooper, Catherine Deneuve etc. Some of the images are colour. Generally VG, 22 £100 - 120 |
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| 362 | |||
| ENTERTAINMENT: Selection of signed postcard photographs and slightly larger, some 8 x 10s and a few signed cards, by various actors and actresses, many associated with the Harry Potter series of films, including Martine McCutcheon, Ross Kemp, Matt Lucas, Maggie Smith, Kenneth Branagh, Timothy Spall, Shirley Henderson, John Cleese, Fiona Shaw, Miriam Margolyes, Bonnie Wright, Emma Thompson, David Bradley, Julie Walters, Richard Griffiths, Matthew Lewis, Tony Osoba etc. Generally VG to EX, 26 £100 - 120 |
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| 363 | |||
| ENTERTAINMENT: Selection of signed 8 x 10 photographs and smaller etc., by various actors, actresses, popular singers and entertainers etc., including Ian Holm, Stockard Channing, Ross Davidson, Patsy Palmer, Bill Pertwee, Bill Conti, Daniel J. Travanti, Gene Raymond, Elaine Stritch, Alan Parker, Charlton Heston, Jane Fonda, Louise Fletcher, Glenda Jackson, Erin Gray, Tony Christie, Ally Sheedy, Edie Adams etc. G to generally VG, 95 £80 - 100 |
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| 364 | |||
| ENTERTAINMENT: Selection of vintage signed postcard photographs and a few slightly larger by various actors, actresses and other entertainers, including Margot Fonteyn, Roger Livesey, Leo McKern, Alec Clunes, Peggy Ashcroft, Jean Sablon etc. Together with eight vintage unsigned postcard photographs, subjects include George Gershwin, Roger Livesey, Alec Clunes etc. (most images issued by The Old Vic Company 1951). G to generally VG, 18 £100 - 150 |
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| 365 | |||
| ENTERTAINMENT: Selection of signed postcard photographs and slightly larger, 8 x 10s etc., by various actors and actresses including Edward Woodward, John Thaw, Raymond Burr, James Mason, John Hurt, Richard Todd, Denholm Elliott, George Segal, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Dennis Waterman, Bob Hoskins, Peter O'Toole, Googie Withers, Janet Leigh, Ava Gardner, Alice Faye, Lee Remick etc. Generally VG, 23 £100 - 120 |
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| 366 | |||
| ENTERTAINMENT: Selection of signed postcard photographs and slightly larger, 8 x 10s etc., by various actors and actresses including Gordon Jackson, John Thaw, Alan Bates, Alan Rickman, David McCallum, Anthony Quayle, Donald Sutherland, Donald Sinden, Michael Elphick, Stewart Granger, James Woods, James Mason, Doris Day, Morgan Brittany, Lee Remick etc. G to generally VG, 24 £100 - 120 |
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| 367 | |||
| ENTERTAINMENT: Selection of signed postcard photographs and slightly larger, 8 x 10s etc., by various actors, actresses, popular singers and a few other famous individuals, including Diana Rigg, Julie Christie, Judi Dench, Ewan McGregor, Roy Hudd, Glenda Jackson, Rachael Leigh Cook, Spike Milligan, Brenda Blethyn, Ewan McGregor, David Essex, Lena Horne, Linda Robson & Pauline Quirke, Elkie Brooks, Andy Williams, Maureen Stapleton, Jackie Collins, Steve Davis etc. Facsimile & secretarial (7). Generally VG, 29 £80 - 100 |
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| 368 | |||
| ENTERTAINMENT: Selection of signed album pages by various British television and film actors and actresses, some pop singers etc., including Jon Pertwee, Colin Baker, Anna Neagle, Johnny Briggs, Alec McCowen, Barry Took, Michael Hordern, Sarah Kennedy, Hank Marvin, Noele Gordon, Ben Warriss, Tommy Trinder, Aimi MacDonald, The Yetties etc. Most of the pages have neatly affixed newspaper and magazine photographs. G to VG, 24 £80 - 100 |
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| 369 | |||
| ENTERTAINMENT: Selection of multiple signed cards by the casts of various theatrical productions in England and America during the 1970s, signatures include Anthony Perkins, Daniel J. Travanti, Barbara Flynn, Clive Francis, Jane How, Michael Bryant, Bob Grant, Joyce Blair, Lesley Joseph, Angus Lennie, Clive Mantle and many, many others. All have neat calligraphic titles to the head and are annotated by the collector in a small neat hand in ink and pencil. Some are laid down. Generally G, 94 £80 - 100 |
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| 370 | |||
| ENTERTAINMENT: Selection of signed clipped pieces (some laid down in multiple to album pages, alongside magazine photographs etc.), signed album pages, vintage magazine photographs etc., by various film stars, actors, actresses and entertainers including Joe E. Brown, John Boles, Lilian Harvey, Gracie Fields, Ivor Novello, Phillips Holmes, Adolphe Menjou, Ralph Lynn, Ann Todd, Esther Ralston, Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Marie Dressler, Ronald Colman, Gordon Harker, Sybil Thorndike, Lupino Lane, Tom Walls etc. A little duplication. FR to G, 56 £100 - 120 |
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| 371 | |||
| ENTERTAINMENT: Selection of signed album pages, autograph albums etc., by various actors, actresses, entertainers etc., including Peter Butterworth, Evelyn Laye, Turner Layton, Robert Donat (vintage signed postcard photograph), Eddie Calvert, Max Bygraves, Neil Hamilton, George Baker, Jet Harris, Mickie Most, Gracie Fields, Stanley Holloway, Harry Lauder, Hetty King, Richard Murdoch, Jack Train, Jack Warner, Claude Dampier, Dinah Sheridan, Webster Booth, Eric Barker, Roy Castle, Bonnie Langford, Lionel Blair, Mike Yarwood etc. Some are on pieces laid down to pages and other pages are multiple signed. FR to G, 62 + 3 albums £100 - 120 |
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| 372 | |||
| ENTERTAINMENT: Selection of signed cards etc. by various film and television stars and entertainers including Denise Richards, Mira Sorvino, Josh Hartnett, Jason Scott Lee, Julia Lockwood, Brian Murphy, Gena Lee Nolin, Tara Reid, Valarie Rae Miller, Doug Bradley, Kenneth Cranham etc. All are individually matted (a few in multiples) alongside photographs to various sizes. Generally VG to EX, 13 £80 - 120 |
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| 373 | |||
| ENTERTAINMENT: Small selection of signed cards, pieces, postcard photographs etc., by various film stars, classical musicians and composers etc., including Marlene Dietrich, Laurence Olivier, Richard Attenborough, Karlheinz Stockhausen (2) etc. VG. to EX, 6. £100 - 120 |
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| 374 | |||
| ENTERTAINMENT: Selection of signed pieces, cards, album pages etc., by various actors, actresses and entertainers etc., including Lenny Henry, Bruce Forsyth, Clive James, Timothy West, Ralph Fiennes, Rodney Bewes, David Attenborough, Ken Russell, Brian Blessed, Robert Stack, Billy Bob Thornton, Robin Askwith, Kenneth Branagh, Robert Lindsay, Steven Seagal, Joan Plowright, Tom Courtenay, Bill Nighy, Jerry Lewis, Jonathan Pryce, Norman Wisdom, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Tony Curtis, Jamie Bell, Matt Lucas, David Walliams, Trevor Eve, Jack Wild, Mark Lester, James Mason, Penelope Keith, Joanna Lumley, Eva Gabor, June Havoc, Imelda Staunton, Julie Harris, Virginia Mayo, Ann Blyth, Lee Remick, Leslie Caron, Dawn French, Patrick Stewart, Robert Mitchum, Omar Sharif, Yves Montand, Gina Lollobrigida, Nigel Hawthorne, Simon Callow, Larry Hagman, Doris Day, Tom Selleck, Susannah York, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Dirk Bogarde, Woody Allen, David Frost etc. Generally VG, 106 £100 - 150 |
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| 375 | |||
| ENTERTAINMENT: Selection of signed pieces, album pages, some signed programmes and photographs of various sizes etc., some vintage, by various actors, actresses, popular singers and entertainers, including Terry-Thomas, Ken Dodd, Petula Clark, Michael Rennie, Ben Kingsley (signed cheque), Norman Widsom, Judi Dench, Phil & Don Everly, Omar Sharif, Lauren Bacall, Donny Osmond, Prunella Scales, Frankie Vaughan, Shirley Bassey, Eamonn Andrews, Rolf Harris, Jack Warner, Spike Milligan, Winifred Attwell, Vera Lynn, Emlyn Williams etc. FR to generally G to VG, 42 £100 - 120 |
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| 376 | |||
| ENTERTAINMENT: Selection of signed pieces, cards, album pages, signed handbills, a few letters and signed photographs of various sizes, autograph album (1) etc., by various actors, actresses and entertainers including Roy Castle, Vera Lynn, Max Bygraves, Shirley Eaton, Kenny Ball, Roy Hudd, Sue Holderness, Lesley Joseph, Kim Hartman, Sophie Lawrence, Jane McDonald, Billie Whitelaw, John Inman, John Laurie, Percy Edwards, Richard Briers, Jane Asher, Hugh Grant, Patricia Neal, Petula Clark, Robert Beatty etc. A few facsimiles and unsigned. G to about VG, 57 £80 - 120 |
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| 377 | |||
| ENTERTAINMENT: Selection of signed postcard photographs and a few slightly larger, some signed programmes etc., by various popular musicians, actors, actresses and entertainers, including Roy Orbison, Gene Pitney, Lulu, Bob Monkhouse, Tony Christie, Don Maclean, George Hamilton IV, Sacha Distel, Warren Mitchell, Vince Hill, Freddie Starr, Syd Little & Eddie Large, Buddy Greco, Harry Secombe, Guy Mitchell etc. Facsimile & unsigned (5). Most with some corner and surface creasing, small tears etc., generally FR, 41 £100 - 120 |
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| 378 | |||
| ENTERTAINMENT: Selection of signed handbills, a few programmes, A.Ls.S., T.Ls.S., signed magazine photographs etc., by various actors, actresses, entertainers, television presenters and personalities etc., including Valerie Singleton, Moira Stuart, John Cole, Lorraine Kelly, Eamonn Holmes, Michael Crawford, John Stapleton, Peter Sissons, Alastair Burnet, Claire Sweeney, Craig Douglas, James Fleet, Don Estelle, Gorden Kaye, Matt Lucas, Roy Hudd, Donald Sinden, Brian Murphy, Joss Ackland, Vince Hill, Jane Lapotaire, Edward Fox, Tom Conti, Robert Powell, Penelope Keith, Clive Swift, Linda Lusardi, Bonnie Langford, Gemma Craven, Rula Lenska, Prunella Scales, Warren Mitchell, Harriet Walter, Emilia Fox, Jenny Seagrove, Anne Charleston, Sharon Gless, Stephanie Beacham, Glynis Barber, Eleanor Bron, Ian Lavender etc. Some multiple signed and some of the handbills with signed white stickers neatly affixed. G to generally VG, 270 £80 - 120 |
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| 379 | |||
| ENTERTAINMENT: Selection of unsigned 8 x 10 photographs (press images, reproduction film stills etc.) of various film stars, entertainers, models and a few other famous individuals, subjects include Jennifer Aniston, Tyra Banks, Naomi Campbell, Cindy Crawford, Jamie Lee Curtis, Cameron Diaz, Bo Derek, Sarah Ferguson, Nicky & Paris Hilton, Jerry Hall, Victoria Hervey, Rhys Ifans, Hugh Jackman, Heidi Klum, Rob Lowe, Tara Palmer Tomkinson, Charlene Tilton, Denise Van Outen, Johnny Vegas, Catherine Zeta Jones, Bruce Willis, Heath Ledger, Robin Williams, Harrison Ford, Elizabeth Taylor, Dustin Hoffman, Rupert Everett, Calista Flockhart, Jordan, Angelina Jolie, Nicole Kidman, Jack Nicholson, Salma Hayek, Gwyneth Paltrow, Mira Sorvino, Meryl Streep, Sissy Spacek, Rowan Atkinson, Sarah Jessica Parker, Jennifer Beals, Clint Eastwood, Randolph Scott, Elke Sommer, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Kevin Spacey, John Gordon Sinclair, Gregory Peck, Alec Guinness, John Mills, Dirk Bogarde, Timothy Spall, Marlon Brando, Robert De Niro, Timothy Dalton, Kirk Douglas, Matt Damon and many others. Most of the images are colour and have printed captions to the borders. Some duplication. VG to EX, 330 £100 - 150 |
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| 380 | |||
| ENTERTAINMENT: Selection of unsigned 5.5 x 8.5 photographs and slightly smaller (press images etc.) of various film stars, entertainers, pop stars, singers, musicians, fashion models etc., subjects include Kate Winslet, Brad Pitt, Dita Von Teese, Rachel Weisz, Sean Connery, Naomi Campbell, George Clooney, Sharon Stone, Goldie Hawn, Elizabeth Hurley, Kate Moss, Robbie Williams, Gary Barlow, Danielle Lloyd, Sienna Miller, Tom Cruise, Cameron Diaz, Hugh Grant, Rihanna, Mick Jagger, Jennifer Lopez, Beyonce Knowles, Sean Lennon, Madonna, Joss Stone, Luther Vandross, Victoria Beckham, Celine Dion, Liam Gallagher, Sheryl Crow, Keith Richards, Geri Halliwell, Jon Bon Jovi, Charlotte Church, Cher, Bono and many others. Most of the images are colour and have printed captions to the borders. Some duplication. VG to EX, 270 £80 - 120 |
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| 381 | |||
| AUTOGRAPH ALBUM: An autograph album containing over 70 signatures by various entertainers and musicians etc., including Sandy Powell, Nat Gonella, Nat Jackley, Issy Bonn, Will Fyffe, Ted Ray, Max Wall, Jimmy Nervo & Teddy Knox, Betty Driver, Malcolm Sargent, Richard Murdoch, Arthur Askey, Pat Kirkwood, Vera Lynn, Randolph Sutton, Albert Sandler, Norman Evans, Tessie O'Shea, G. S. Melvin, Ronald Frankau, Charlie Kunz, Herman Darewski, Arthur Prince, Tommy Trinder, Elsie & Doris Waters, Teddy Brown, Joe Loss, Monte Rey, Ben Lyon & Bebe Daniels, Harry Roy, Jimmy James, Eddie Gray, boxer Tommy Farr etc. Most of the signatures are in bold pencil. Together with a small selection of unsigned vintage 8vo printed programmes for various performances at the Birmingham Hippodrome featuring acts including Arthur Lucan & Kitty McShane, Charlie Chester etc. (some duplication). G to about VG, 13 + album £80 - 100 Each of the signatures were obtained by Frank Moscrop, a conductor and trumpeter with the band of the Birmingham Hippodrome. |
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| 382 | |||
| AUTOGRAPH ALBUM: An autograph album containing over 20 signatures by various film stars and entertainers including Harpo Marx (signed alongside a rubber stamped caricature of Marx playing the harp, 1949), Chico Marx, George Robey (self caricature), Nita Croft, Larry Adler, Julie Andrews, Jimmy Edwards etc. Some small tape stains to the edges of a few of the pages, G £100 - 150 Each of the signatures were obtained by Frank Moscrop, a conductor and trumpeter with the band of the Birmingham Hippodrome. |
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| 383 | |||
| AUTOGRAPH ALBUM: An autograph album containing over 80 signatures by various stage and radio entertainers including Will Hay, Richard Goolden, Issy Bonn, Arthur Askey, Richard Tauber, Georgie Wood, Teddy Brown, Charlie Kunz, Douglas Byng, Kenneth & George Western, Tessie O'Shea, Florence Desmond, Leslie Henson, Eddie Gray, Stanley Holloway, Viktor Barna (Table Tennis World Champion) etc. Some of the signatures are in bold pencil, a few pages are multiple signed and most are neatly annotated in ink in the hand of the collector. A few small vintage signed photographs neatly laid down to pages. Some age wear, G £80 - 100 |
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| 384 | |||
| AUTOGRAPH ALBUMS: Two autograph albums containing over 100 signatures by various film and stage stars, entertainers etc., including Jimmy Durante, Roy Hudd, Thora Hird, Bob Monkhouse, Mary Martin, Sydney Tafler, Robert Douglas, Robert Preston, Anna Neagle, Michael Wilding, Robert Stack, Douglass Montgomery, Petula Clark, Adelaide Hall, Arthur Askey, Hoagy Carmichael, Orson Welles, Jeremy Spenser, Leo Genn, Ann Todd, Robert Morley, Wendy Hiller, Christopher Fry, Danny Kaye, Donald O'Connor, Linda Darnell, Celia Johnson, Ralph Richardson, Stanley Holloway, Peggy Ashcroft, Alec Guinness, Belita, Flora Robson, Michael Gough, Coral Browne, Dermot Walsh, Bette Davis & Gary Merrill, Austin Trevor, John Garfield (scarce), Fred Allen, Peter Ustinov, Joan Fontaine, Red Skelton, Jack Carson etc. Many pages are multiple signed. Some light age wear, about VG, 2 £100 - 150 |
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| 385 | |||
| AUTOGRAPH ALBUM: An autograph album containing 25 signatures by various actors, actresses, entertainers, television personalities and presenters etc., including Laurence Olivier, Angela Lansbury, Nick Ross, Hugh Scully, Kenny Everett, Simon Groom, Peter Duncan, Cliff Richard etc. A few duplicates. Each of the signatures were obtained at the Le Mont St Michel restaurant in London. Generally VG £80 - 100 |
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| 386 | |||
| AUTOGRAPH ALBUM: An autograph album containing over 150 signatures by various film and stage stars, some classical musicians, opera singers and ballet dancers, including Vivien Leigh, Margaret Lockwood, Larry Parks & Betty Garrett, Tyrone Power, Linda Christian, Ronald Howard, Patricia Roc, Malcolm Sargent, Walter Susskind, Margaret Rutherford (who experienced some pen trouble), Claire Bloom, Glynis Johns, Mai Zetterling, Tito Gobbi, Dirk Bogarde, Richard Todd, Nova Pilbeam, Leonide Massine, Tony Martin, Dennis Price, Ian Hunter, Michael Redgrave, Marius Goring, Luigi Infantino, Terence Rattigan, John Gielgud, Beatrice Lillie, Alice Faye, Phil Harris, Rochester, Jack Benny, Georg Solti, Nicolai Malko, Roland Culver, Rex Harrison, Herbert Lom, William Hartnell, George Cole, Jackie Cooper, Anton Dolin, Alicia Markova, Michael Rennie, Robert Newton, Joyce Grenfell, Gordon Jackson, Esmond Knight, David Tomlinson, Robert Beatty, Bernard Miles, Miles Malleson, Susan Shaw, Elisabeth Schumann, Valerie Hobson, Michael Medwin, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. etc. Some pages are multiple signed and a few signatures are in pencil. Some light age wear, about VG £100 - 150 |
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| 387 | |||
| AUTOGRAPH ALBUM: An autograph album containing eight signatures by various film stars and a few other famous individuals including Elizabeth Taylor, Lou Costello, James Stewart (slightly smudged), Tyrone Power, Dorothy Lamour, J. Arthur Rank, Lee Savold etc. Most are bold fountain pen ink examples to individual pages. Together with a small selection of signed cards, letterheads etc. (some with the printed heading of the Cunard White Star R. M. S. Queen Elizabeth) by various film stars and entertainers including Danny Kaye, Van Johnson, Virginia Mayo, Bing Crosby etc. VG, 6 + album £200 - 300 Each of the signatures were obtained by Jack Moscrop, a drummer who regularly performed in the First Class band of the R.M.S. Queen Elizabeth. |
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| 388 | |||
SIGNED BOOKS: Selection of signed hardback and paperback (2) editions by various actors, actresses and entertainers including Limelight and After - The Education of an Actress by Claire Bloom, Tour de Farce - A Tale of Touring Theatres and Strolling Players by Brian Rix, Some of These Days by Sophie Tucker, A Moment Towards the End of the Play... by Timothy West, Year of the King by Antony Sher, An Actor and His Time by John Gielgud etc., others include Alec Guinness, Sybil Thorndike, Ian McKellen, Peggy Ashcroft, Ruth Draper etc. Most of the autographs are on album pages, pieces, a few programmes and photographs etc., neatly mounted to inside pages. Some of the books are accompanied by the dustjackets. Some age wear, G to about VG, 19 £80 - 100CLASSICAL MUSIC, OPERA & BALLET |
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| 389 | |||
| PADEREWSKI I. J.: (1860-1941) Polish Pianist & Composer, Prime Minister of Poland, 1919. A.L.S., I J Paderewski, two pages, 8vo, n.p., 23rd May 1890, to a lady, in French. Paderewski informs his correspondent that he has just been passed her kind invitation by Mrs. F. Dallas Yorke although continues 'I could not be more touched by the extreme honour you do me, but, most unhappily, I am afraid that I shall be unable to accept. It proves utterly impossible, as I have taken an engagement in Paris for the 30th and 31st of May, and must therefore leave here after my concert on the 29th itself. I am most upset by this, and offer you my every excuse.' A couple of extremely light, minor stains, otherwise VG £100 - 150 |
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| 390 | |||
| MASSENET JULES: (1842-1912) French Composer. A.L.S., Massenet, two pages, 8vo, Paris, 10th March 1900, to a lady, in French. The composer states that he has been deeply honoured by his correspondent's attention and sends her a signed photograph (no longer present) with his grateful and respectful regards. To a third page of the letter Massenet has added a musical quotation in his hand, comprising two bars, with words, which he identifies as being from his oratorio La Terre Promise, further adding Jeudi soir, St. Eustache in his hand, evidently a reference to the first performance of La Terre Promise which took place at L'eglise Saint-Eustache in Paris on 15th March 1900. One slight, neat split to the edge of the central fold of the first page, otherwise VG £100 - 150 |
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| 391 | |||
| STRAUSS RICHARD: (1864-1949) German Composer. Dark fountain pen ink signature on a 12mo pale blue card. About EX £100 - 120 |
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| 392 | |||
| KORNGOLD ERICH WOLFGANG: (1897-1957) Austro-Hungarian American Composer, noted for his film scores. Academy Award winner. A.M.Q.S., Erich Wolfgang Korngold, on an oblong 12mo card, (place and date? illegible). In bold pencil Korngold has hastily penned a brief quotation which he identifies as being from his opera Violanta (1914-15). Signed in bold pencil beneath the quotation. About EX £100 - 120 |
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| 393 | |||
| VAUGHAN WILLIAMS RALPH: (1872-1958) English Composer. Bold blue ink signature ('R Vaughan Williams') on a page removed from an autograph album. Dated 9th September 1952 in his hand. Accompanied by an autograph note, unsigned, by Ursula Vaughan Williams (1911-2007, English Poet and Author, wife of Ralph Vaughan Williams), one page, 8vo, Dorking, 29th April 1952, stating that her husband 'only gives autographs for personal reasons'. VG, 2 £80 - 100 |
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| 394 | |||
| CLASSICAL MUSIC: A good page removed from an autograph album individually signed by the composer Benjamin Britten and the singers Peter Pears and Kathleen Ferrier. Each have signed with their names alone in bold inks. Rare. One very slight smudge to the first letter of Ferrier's signature. About EX £100 - 150 |
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| 395 | |||
| BRITTEN BENJAMIN: (1913-1976) English Composer. Signed Christmas greetings card, the 8vo folding card featuring a colour image to the front of Madonna and Child by Roger Van Der Weyden, signed ('to you all, Ben') by Britten in black ink beneath a printed greeting and also signed by Peter Pears (1910-1986) English Tenor, with his first name alone in black ink. Together with a colour picture postcard featuring a reproduction of a drawing of the Nativity by Antonio Allegri da Correggio, signed to the verso in bold black ink by Imogen Holst (1907-1984) British Composer & Conductor, daughter of Gustav Holst, with her first name only, also adding a brief Christmas greeting in her hand. Some slight scuffing to Britten's card, otherwise VG to EX, 2 £100 - 150 |
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| 396 | |||
| KHATCHATURIAN ARAM: (1903-1978) Russian Composer. Bold black ink signature ('Aram Khatchaturian') on an oblong 12mo stiff white card. Together with Arthur Rubinstein (1887-1982) Polish-American Pianist. Blue ink signature and date, London, 2nd December 1956, in his hand, on an oblong 12mo stiff white card. EX, 2 £80 - 120 |
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| MENOTTI GIAN CARLO: (1911-2007) Italian-American Composer & Librettist. Small group of two A.Ls.S. and one T.L.S., one signed Gian Carlo and the others with his initials G. C., six pages (total), 4to, Mount Kisco, New York, 22nd March 1966 and n.d. (1964/66), all to [Wendy Hanson] (addressed by various nicknames including 'Dearest Pussycat'). Menotti writes a series of social letters to his friend, although also making references to his work, in part, 'So sorry that your romance came to such a sad end. (Or is it on again? One never knows with you.) Why don't you give up trying to tame Italians - who are always too short for you anyway - and find yourself that nice, tall Irish boy with leather-patched elbows I've been wishing on you for so long?....Maestro Schippers finally decided to perform my "Apocalypse" which turned out to be a smasheroo. (With the audience anyway; no critic comes to my defense these days.) I've also weathered a pretty good revival of "The Consul" and finished my cycle of songs for Schwarzkopf - though I still don't know when she'll perform them' (22nd March 1966), 'Christmas in Capricorn was unusually mild this year - Niki in Greece, you in England, Manfred in Germany....I really felt a little abandoned! Fortunately in the evening we had some lovely chamber music and the Christmas tree seemed then to glow a little brighter! The rehearsals of the Savage have been gruesome! None of the singers seem to remember their roles - and there is little time for rehearsal - ....In keeping with the Met tradition there will be a "surprise" during the evening - the surprise being Leontyne Price who will sing Vissi d'arte at the "cocktail party" immediately after the twelve-tone trio! It should be fun!' (26th December n.y., [1963]), 'How very nice of you to remember me on the opening night of the Savage. It all went off with a bang (with a glamorous party afterwards at John Browning's) - but I wasn't the only person who missed you - the whole cast kept asking me reproachfully (as if it were my fault!!) "But where is Wendy?"....Niki is having a grand affair with the young actress in "Zorba the Greek" who plays the part of the little prostitute! She accuses him of having made her pregnant...Good for him!! finally.' (n.d., January/February 1964). Together with Leopold Stokowski (1882-1977) British Conductor. T.L.S., Leopold, one page, oblong 8vo, Hampshire, 20th April 1973, to Wendy Hanson, in part, 'Remembering your brilliant intelligence, I am sure you understand that chamber orchestras do not need conductors. In any case, some conductors spoil groups of musicians of any number'. Generally VG, 4 £100 - 150 The Last Savage, an opera in three acts by Menotti received its world premiere at the Opera-Comique in Paris on 21st October 1963 and was first performed at the Metropolitan Opera in New York for its American premiere on 23rd January 1964. Conductor Thomas Schippers led the Met cast, including George London, Roberta Peters, Teresa Stratas and Nicolai Gedda, and although the quality of the singing was praised by critics, New York's response to the opera was negative. |
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| KARAJAN HERBERT VON: (1908-1989) Austrian Conductor. Signed 6 x 4 postcard photograph, a dramatic image of the conductor in a half length pose holding a baton in one hand. Signed in bold blue ink with his name alone to the image. Together with Karl Bohm (1894-1981) Austrian Conductor. Signed postcard photograph of Bohm seated in a half length pose. Signed in dark ink to the lower white border. Very slightly irregularly trimmed and with a couple of corner creases. G to VG, 2 £100 - 150 |
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| CLASSICAL MUSIC: Selection of signed pieces, cards, signed postcard photographs, a few programmes etc., by various composers, classical musicians and instrumentalists including Arnold Bax, William Alwyn, H. Walford Davies, Alan Rawsthorne, Arthur Somervell (A.L.S. to organist Percy Hull on a correspondence card), Andrzej Panufnik, Myra Hess, Vanessa Mae, James Galway, Julian Lloyd Webber, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Carlo Curley etc. Facsimile & unsigned (2). Generally VG, 17 £100 - 150 |
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| CLASSICAL MUSIC: Selection of signed pieces, cards, A.Ls.S., T.Ls.S. etc., by various composers, classical musicians, singers etc., including Shura Cherkassky, Mstislav Rostropovich, Charles Groves, Frederic Lamond, Arthur Bliss, Trudy Bliss (5), Leon Goossens (10), Phyllis Sellick, Vladimir de Pachmann, Lili Kraus, Bernard Haitink, Margot Fonteyn etc. Many of the letters are written to W. Eric Whiston. Also including some unsigned printed ephemera and programmes etc. G to VG, 41 £100 - 150 |
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| 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: | 26th April 2014 | Time: | 11:00AM |
| Details: | Viewing: On the day of the auction from 9am and throughout the duration of the auction |
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