Outstanding lot of thirty-one vintage fountain pen signatures, most on off-white 5 x 3 pages, 1920s–1960s. Many bear personal sentiments, quotations, or the date in the signer’s hand. Included: Gutzon Borglum (1926), Wernher von Braun (two, one dated 1961), Ralph J. Bunche (two: both 1951), Luther Burbank (two: both 1923, one a TLS), Emil Coué (1924), Clarence Darrow (1930), Alfred Eisenstaedt (1937), Floyd Gibbons (1932), Richard Halliburton (1927), Jascha Heifetz (1940), J. Edgar Hoover (1954 TLS), Helen Keller (two: both pencil, one dated 1941), Alexander Kerensky (1938), Otto Klemperer, Vincent Lopez (1937), Karl Menninger (1936), Robert A. Millikan (two: 1926 and 1935), Carlos Montoya (1939), Eugene Ormandy (1937), Grantland Rice (1927), [Robert] Ripley (1932), Upton Sinclair (1935), John Philip Sousa (1923), Charles Steinmetz (October 9, 1923, just two weeks before his death on October 26), Edward Teller (1958), and Lowell Thomas (1927). A few brushes, typed collector’s notations (slightly touching writing in a few cases), binding holes at left edge, and small label remnants at edges, otherwise in fine, clean condition. R&R COA.
