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AUTOGRAPHS: Miscellaneous selection of A.Ls.S., T.Ls.S., some signed pieces, a few signed photographs etc., by a wide variety of individuals including Thomas Beecham (2), Henry J. Wood, Eric Fenby, E. V. Lucas, W. W. Jacobs, Ian Hay Beith, Oliver Baldwin, Michael Sadler, Marie Stopes, George Alexander, John Strachey, Ernst Haeckel (A.L.S., referring to a visit by two of Charles Darwin's grandchildren and the Museum of Evolution, 20th June 1913), William Sterndale Bennett, Frances Power Cobbe, Frances Allitsen, Martin Conway (briefly referring to an expedition to South America) etc. FR to generally G, 33 £80 - 100
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A collection of autographs obtained by an employee of The Dorchester Hotel, Park Lane, London
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ALI MUHAMMAD: (1942- ) American Boxer, World Heavyweight Champion. Black ink signature and inscription, 'To John & Ron from Muhammad Ali', to the verso of a colour picture postcard featuring an image of the Dorchester Hotel in London. Annotated in two different hands in blue ink above and below the signature, including the date 15th December 1980. VG £200 - 300
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ENTERTAINMENT: Selection of signatures to the verso of colour postcard photographs of the Dorchester Hotel in London, a few signed photographs of various sizes etc., by various male actors and entertainers including Albert Finney, Carl Anderson, Eric Sykes, Ian Bannen, James Caan, Louis Jourdan, Michael Bentine, Charlton Heston, Robert Wagner, Michael York, James Mason etc. Most annotated in ink in the hand of a collector. G to VG, 18 £80 - 100
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FAMOUS MEN AND WOMEN: Selection of signed postcard photographs and a few slightly larger, various signatures to the verso of colour postcard photographs of the Dorchester Hotel in London, signed hardback books (5) etc., by various famous men and women, mainly popular singers, musicians and actresses, including Andy Williams, Lulu, Oscar Peterson, Tony Bennett, Shirley Bassey, Alice Faye, Jessie Matthews, Martha Raye, Olivia de Havilland, Beryl Reid, Terry Wogan, Sarah Kennedy, Ken Bruce, Bobby Charlton, Before I Forget signed by James and Clarissa Mason individually, Whicker's World Down Under signed by Alan Whicker, A Dancer's World - An Introduction signed by Margot Fonteyn, The Bonfire of the Vanities signed by Tom Wolfe etc. Many with ink annotations and dates in the hand of the collector. Generally G to about VG, 29 £80 - 100
| The London Tavern |
A collection of autographs obtained by an employee of The London Tavern at the Hilton Hotel, Park Lane, London, during the 1960s and 1970s
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ALI MUHAMMAD: (1942- ) American Boxer, World Heavyweight Champion. Bold blue ink signature ('Muhammad Ali') at the centre of a 4to sheet of white paper. Some extremely light, very minor creasing, VG £200 - 300
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MOORE BOBBY: (1941-1993) English Footballer, Captain of the England World Cup winning team, 1966. Large, bold blue ink signature ('Best wishes, Bobby Moore') on a folio page removed from the visitors book of The London Tavern at the Hilton Hotel, Park Lane, London. With an unidentified signature (?) at the head of the page. Signed to the verso by Marty Feldman (1934-1982) English Comedy Actor, with a large blue ink signature and inscription, 'To the boys of the London Tavern! Marty Feldman'. VG £100 - 150
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MOORE BOBBY: (1941-1993) English Footballer, Captain of the England World Cup winning team, 1966. Large, bold blue ink signature and sentiment, 'Best Wishes, The food's not bad!!! Bobby Moore', on a folio page removed from the visitors book of The London Tavern at the Hilton Hotel, Park Lane, London. Signed to the verso by various other famous individuals including artist Pietro Annigoni, Academy Award winning actor Sidney Poitier, and television broadcaster David Coleman. VG £100 - 150
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HITCHCOCK ALFRED: (1899-1980) British Film Director, Academy Award winner. An excellent, large signed pen and ink self caricature by Hitchcock, drawn and signed in bold blue ink by the director on a folio page removed from the visitors book of The London Tavern at the Hilton Hotel, Park Lane, London. An excellent example, and quite rare in this size. VG £400 - 500
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CHAPLIN CHARLES: (1889-1977) English Film Comedian, Academy Award winner. Blue ink signature ('Yours modestly, Charles Chaplin'; in later years) on a folio page removed from the visitors book of The London Tavern at the Hilton Hotel, Park Lane, London. The page is also signed by three other individuals including Peter Sellers (1925-1980) British Comedian & Actor; and Stephen Boyd (1931-1977) British Actor. VG £150 - 200
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BOXING: Selection of folio pages removed from the visitors book of The London Tavern at the Hilton Hotel, Park Lane, London, each signed by various boxers comprising James J. Braddock (World Heavyweight Champion 1935-37; in bold pencil), Joe Louis (World Heavyweight Champion 1937-49; dated 21st October 1966), Floyd Patterson (World Heavyweight Champion 1956-59, 1960-62; dated 3rd November 1972) and Sugar Ray Robinson (World Welterweight Champion 1946-51, World Middleweight Champion 1951, 1951-52, 1955-57, 1957, 1958-60). The pages are mainly multiple signed and also include signatures of various other individuals, mainly entertainers, including Peter Lawford, Jerry Lewis, Curt Jurgens, Helen Shapiro, Petula Clark, David McCallum and Geoff Hurst etc. VG, 4 £200 - 300
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SPORT: Selection of folio pages removed from the visitors book of The London Tavern at the Hilton Hotel, Park Lane, London, each signed by various sportsmen including Juan Manuel Fangio (2), Pancho Gonzales, Roger Taylor etc. The pages are mainly multiple signed and also include signatures of various other individuals including Hughie Green, Curtis Knight, David McCallum, Marty Allen etc. VG, 3 £100 - 150
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ACADEMY AWARD WINNERS: Selection of folio pages removed from the visitors book of The London Tavern at the Hilton Hotel, Park Lane, London, each signed by various Oscar winning actors and actresses comprising Karl Malden, James Coburn, Sidney Poitier, Woody Allen (a scarce, particularly large example), Broderick Crawford, Bing Crosby, Peter Ustinov, Liza Minnelli, Cliff Robertson, George Sanders (2; one to the verso of a colour postcard of the Hilton Hotel) and Alec Guinness. The pages are mainly multiple signed and also include signatures of other actors, actresses, entertainers and some other famous individuals including Joan Collins, Albert Finney, Michael Medwin, Lulu, Phil Harris, Dale Robertson, Robert Young, Kenneth More, Dick Van Dyke, Bob Monkhouse, Roger Moore (adding a pin sketch of The Saint alongside his signature), Lloyd Bridges, Ava Gardner, Robert Taylor, Zero Mostel, Tommy Docherty etc. VG, 11 £100 - 150
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ENTERTAINMENT: Selection of folio pages removed from the visitors book of The London Tavern at the Hilton Hotel, Park Lane, London, each multiple signed by various film stars, actors, actresses, popular singers and musicians and a few other famous individuals including Stanley Baker, Richard Burton, Woody Strode, Dick Van Dyke, Jerry Lewis, Dudley Moore, Frankie Avalon, Lloyd Bridges, Eddie Constantine, Jose Feliciano, Roger Moore (adding a pin sketch of The Saint alongside his signature), Anton Diffring, Adam Faith, Michael Rennie, Alexandra Bastedo etc. VG, 10 £100 - 150
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FAMOUS MEN & WOMEN: Selection of folio pages removed from the visitors book of The London Tavern at the Hilton Hotel, Park Lane, London, each multiple signed by a variety of famous individuals including Jean Genet, Twiggy, Pietro Annigoni, Stephen Boyd (2), Bruce Cabot, Raoul Walsh, Michael Medwin, Ryan O'Neal, Charles Bronson, Jacqueline Bisset, Carol White, Leonid Kinskey (with a self caricature in his hand), Jimmy Edwards, Ann-Margret, Roger Smith, Lulu, Maurice Gibb, Chuck Connors, Ken Buchanan, Clement Freud, Christiaan Barnard, Mel Ferrer, Conrad Hilton Jr. etc. VG, 13 £100 - 150
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AUTOGRAPH COLLECTION: An excellent collection of over 80 vintage signed cards (mainly oblong 12mo) and some pieces, a few letters etc., by a wide variety of famous individuals of the 1930s and 1940s, each neatly laid down (a few cornermounted) in multiples to the pages of two oblong albums, including (in order of their appearance within the albums)
Stanley Baldwin (1867-1947, British Prime Minister 1923-24, 1924- 29 & 1935-37;
on a blind embossed 10 Downing Street card)
Winston S. Churchill (1874-1965, British Prime Minister 1940-45, 1951-55. Nobel Prize winner for Literature, 1953; 'W S Churchill', some very slight smudging to a few letters)
J. Ramsay MacDonald (1866-1937, British Prime Minister 1924, 1929-35)
David Lloyd George (1863-1945, British Prime Minister 1916-22)
Ian Hamilton (1853-1947, British General)
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945, American President 1933-45)
Roger Keyes (1872-1945, British Admiral of the Fleet)
Krishna Raja Wadiyar IV (1884-1940, Maharaja of Mysore 1894-1940)
Austen Chamberlain (1863-1937, British Politician, Nobel Peace Prize winner 1925)
Neville Chamberlain (1869-1940, British Prime Minister 1937-40)
Anthony Eden (1897-1977, British Prime Minister 1955-57)
John Simon (1873-1954, British Politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer 1937-40)
David Beatty (1871-1936, British Admiral of World War I)
Samuel Hoare (1880-1959, British Politician)
Frederick William Elwell (1870-1958, English Painter)
Laura Knight (1877-1970, English Impressionist Artist)
John Lavery (1856-1941, Irish Painter)
William Reid Dick (1879-1961, Scottish Sculptor)
Compton Mackenzie (1883-1972, Scottish Writer)
J. B. Priestley (1894-1984, English Author & Playwright)
Hugh Walpole (1884-1941, English Novelist)
Beverley Nichols (1898-1983, English Author)
A. J. Cronin (1896-1981, Scottish Novelist)
E. Sylvia Pankhurst (1882-1960, English Suffragette)
George Lansbury (1859-1940, British Politician)
Robert Baden-Powell (1857-1941, British Lieutenant General, founder of the Scout movement; 'Baden Powell of Gilwell')
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936, English Author, Nobel Prize winner for Literature, 1907)
Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967, English Poet)
Laurence Binyon (1869-1943, English Poet)
Walter de la Mare (1873-1956, English Poet)
Malcolm Campbell (1885-1948, British Land & Water Speed Record Holder)
Oliver Lodge (1851-1940, British Physicist involved in the development of wireless telegraphy)
Arthur Whitten Brown (1886-1948, British Navigator who, along with the English pilot John Alcock, completed the first successful nonstop transatlantic flight, June 1919)
Alan Cobham (1894-1973, English Pioneer Aviator)
Amy Johnson (1903-1941, English Pioneer Aviatrix; 'Amy Mollison')
Henry O. D. Seagrave (1896-1930, British Land & Water Speed Record holder)
Hugh Trenchard (1873-1956, British Marshal of the RAF)
Augustus John (1878-1961, Welsh Painter)
R. Anderson Jardine (1878-1950, English Vicar who performed the marriage ceremony for the Duke of Windsor and Wallis Simpson; dated 'Chateau de Cande, Monts, 3rd June 1937' in his hand, being the place and date of the wedding)
John Logie Baird (1888-1946, Scottish Engineer and Inventor of the world's first working television system)
Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969, American General of World War II, later American President 1953-61)
B. L. Montgomery (1887-1976, British Field Marshal of World War II)
Archibald Wavell (1883-1950, British Field Marshal of World War II)
Edmund Ironside (1880-1959, British Field Marshal)
Harold Alexander (1891-1969, British Field Marshal of World War II)
Viscount Alanbrooke (1883-1963, British Field Marshal of World War II)
Charles Portal (1893-1971, British Marshal of the RAF)
Andrew Cunningham (1883-1963, British Admiral of the Fleet of World War II)
Jan Smuts (1870-1950, South African Prime Minister 1919-24, 1939-48. Smuts served as a British Field Marshal during World War II)
Leon Blum (1872-1950, French Prime Minister 1936-37, 1938)
Duff Cooper (1890-1954, British Politician)
John Anderson (1882-1958, British Politician)
Herbert Morrison (1888-1965, British Politician)
Archibald Sinclair (1890-1970, British Politician)
R. Stafford Cripps (1889-1952, British Politician)
Eamon de Valera (1882-1975, Taoiseach of Ireland 1937-48, 1951-54, 1957-59. President of Ireland 1959-73)
Edvard Benes (1884-1948, Czechoslovakian President 1935-38, 1939-48)
Julian Huxley (1887-1975, British Biologist)
Charles Vyner Brooke (1874-1963, Rajah of Sarawak 1917-46)
Arthur Tedder (1890-1967, British Air Force Commander of World War II, Marshal of the RAF)
John Slessor (1897-1979, British Marshal of the RAF)
H. G. Wells (1866-1946, English Writer of Science Fiction novels)
Henri Matisse (1869-1954, French Artist)
and many other famous individuals of the period. Most are good fountain pen ink examples. Some light age wear, generally VG, 2 albums £2000 - 3000
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