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Lot #1389
Vintage Hollywood

It’s finger-pickin’ good! Banjo head signed by Garbo, Chaney, Crawford, Navarro, Velez and thirty others

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It’s finger-pickin’ good! Banjo head signed by Garbo, Chaney, Crawford, Navarro, Velez and thirty others

Off-white banjo head, approximately 11” in diameter, signed in fountain pen and pencil by thirty-five actors, actresses and celebrities. Signers are: Greta Garbo, Lon Chaney, Lupe Velez, John Gilbert, Joan Crawford, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Ramon Novarro, William Haines, George K. Arthur, Jeraldine Dvorak, Johnnie Mack Brown, Louis Pathcamp, Noah Berry, Ray Welsh, Estelle Taylor, Lewis S. Stone, Julian Eltinge, Lloyd Hughes, Rod LaRocque, L. Earle Dearth, Ricardo Cortez, Carmel Myers, ‘Red’ Folden,’ James L. McGee, Dorothy Sebastian, Vera Gordon, Sammy Cantor, Fritz Tidden, Marie Prevost, William Collier, Jr., Duke Jordan, Sparky Harold, Jack Warren, Skeets Gallagher and Edward J. Nugent. Shadowboxed and framed to an overall size of 19.5 x 19.5. Consignor notes that the banjo head was originally housed in the private collection of Bob White, curator of the Kennedy Museum in Tampa, Florida. In very good condition, with a few signatures light but legible, some scattered light toning and soiling and portion of the head pushed in, but with no visible creases. COA PSA/DNA and R&R COA.

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