Lot of 185 celebrity signatures, celebrities from entertainment, notables, sports, military and music, most on individual off-white 5.5 x 3.25 government postcards. Most are signed in ink or fountain pen and some signers have added inscriptions. Signers include: Victor Borge, Gene Autry, Dean Acheson, Monte Blue, Joe E. Brown, Bernard Baruch, Don Budge, Francis X. Bushman, Omar Bradley, Mark W. Clark, Jacqueline Cochran, Leo Carrillo, Frankie Carle, Charles Coughlin, Richard Cardinal Cushing, Bing [Crosby], Maurice Chevalier, J. H. Doolittle, Arthur Fiedler, Pancho Gonzales, George Gallup, ‘Red’ Grange, Helen Hayes, Bob Hope, W. R. Hearst, Jr., Hedda Hopper, Mahalia Jackson, Gene Krupa, Emitt Kelly, Dorothy Lamour, Art Linkletter, Guy Lombardo, Curtis LeMay, Myrna Loy, Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy, Willie Mosconi, Ed Morrow, Archie Moore, Marcel Marceau, Arthur Murray, Willie Pep, Emily Post, Norman Vincent Peale, Roy Rogers, Eleanor Roosevelt, Wilma Rudolph, Harold Russell, Eddie Rickenbacker, Gloria Swanson, Ed Sullivan, Leopold Stokowski, Hank Snow, Margaret Chase Smith, Jonas Salk, Sargent Shriver, Kate Smith, Alfred Smith, Lowell Thomas, Shirley Temple Black, Rudy Vallee, Earl Warren, Paul Dudley White, Mae West, Ethel Waters, Chuck Yeager and many others. Collection is accompanied by the original owner’s notebook, listing all the included signatures, some with brief biographies. In fine condition, with postmarks to reverse of cards, some lightly affecting portions of signature, some scattered light toning and a few creases. R&R COA.
