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All-encompassing album ranging from virtuosos to Wimbledon champs and Nobel Prize winners

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All-encompassing album ranging from virtuosos to Wimbledon champs and Nobel Prize winners

Vintage British autograph album, 5 x 4, 84 pages with over 100 signatures, including politicians, musicians, religious leaders, and athletes. Most pages are signed on both sides, and many are cut signatures affixed to the album page. Signers include: Jean Sibelius, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Rabindranath Tagore, Wendell Willkie, Conrad Veidt, Irving Berlin, Suzanne Lenglen, Mae West, Bill Tilden, Sybil Thorndike, George Arliss, and Robert Donat. Most pages have a small photo of the celebrity affixed along with collector’s notation indicating the date the signature was acquired as well as the date of the person’s death. In very good condition, with many pages separated from the binding but in themselves fine condition.

Other signers: Don Budge, Ellsworth Vines, Harry Lauder, P. C. Wren, John Drinkwater, Cedric Hardwicke, Anna Neagle, John Curtin, Ronald Cross, Ronald Knox, Dennis Victor, Donald Soper, Sidney Dark, Cosmo Gordon Lang, William Inge, Charalambos Simopoulos, Tubby Clayton, Johan Nygaardsvold, Peter Fraser, Nellie Wallace, Albert Whelan, Henry Harwood, Jack Warner, Simone Mathieu, Fred Perry, Betty Nuthall, John Gilbert Winant, Bransby Williams, George Eyston, Charles B. Cochran, Donald Bradman, E. F. L. Wood, Alexander Korda, Duff Cooper, Archibald Sinclair, Ernest Bevin, Frederick Marquis, James Craig, Hugh Dalton, Malcolm MacDonald, A. V. Alexander, and David Margesson. RRAuction COA.

Auction Info

  • Auction Title: November Monthly
  • Dates: #395 - Ended November 14, 2012