Basketball player who in the early 1930s helped Converse develop the distinctive high-top athletic footwear that bears his name and which, with more than half a billion pairs sold, remains the highest-selling basketball shoe in history. Scarce fountain pen signature, “Chuck Taylor, Salt Lake City, c/o Converse Rubber Co., 564 W. Monroe Rd., Chicago, Ill.,” on an off-white 5 x 3 album page, dated August 26, 1948. A few brushes to inscription, typed collector’s notation at bottom edge (just touching one letter of inscription), binding holes at left edge, and a few small label remnants at edges, otherwise in fine, clean condition. R&R COA.
