Great lot of approximately 100 vintage ink signatures, most on off-white 5 x 3 pages, 1930s–1960. Many bear personal sentiments, quotations, statistics, and/or the date in the signer’s hand. All are affixed with small adhesive tabs to several large album pages, from which they can be carefully removed. Included: Ken Rosewall, Tony Trabert, Rex Hartwig, Richard Bergemann (world table tennis champ), Tony Trabert (two), Lew Hoad, Mal Anderson, Ashley Cooper, Frank Sedgman (two), Kenneth McGregor (three), Lorne Main, Tom Brown, Harry Likas, Jr., William Talbert (1953 TLS signed “Bill”), Art Larsen, Herb Flam, Jack Kramer, George Worthington, Whitney Reed, Jiro Kumamoru, Goro Fujikura, Fumiteru Nakano, Richard Gonzales (two), Eric Sturgess, Ted Schroeder (two), Frank Parker (four), Felicismo Ampon, Jaroslav Drobny, Vladimir Cernik, Pancho Segura (four: one a 1945 ALS), Adrian Quist (five), Jack Kramer (two), Francisco Segure, Jack Harris, Bobby Riggs, Dinny Pails, Mary A. Prentiss, Barbara Krase, Gertrude Moran, Shirley Fry, Victor Seixnas, Jr. Seymour Greenberg, Edward Maylan, Jack M. Tuero, Capt. C. R. Hippenstiel, Edward C. Alloo (two: one an unsigned listing of stats), Don Budge, F. L. Kovacs, Lee Stoefen, Gene Mako, Walter Senior (three), Berkeley Bell, Fred Perry (five: one an unsigned listing of stats), Gottfried Cramm (two), Sylvia Henrotin (two), Heiner Henkel, Ellsworth Vines, George Lott, Jr., Bruce Barnes, Pierre H. Pellizza (two), Bernard Destreman, Helen Hull Jacobs, Jack P. Tidball, Worth Oswald, Sam Milstein, Joseph R. Hunt, Roland Bloomstrand, John Murio, Esther H. Bartosh (two), Davis Freed (two), Dolf E. Muehleisen, and John Murio. Also included: a printed ticket from a 1942 All-Star Professional Tennis match, signed by Perry, Budge, Kovacs, and Riggs; and a loose vintage glossy 10 x 8 photo, signed and inscribed in fountain pen, “To Arthur L. Howard—with best wishes, Bill Talbert, 10-13-53.” Typed collector’s notations (slightly touching writing in a few cases), binding holes at left edge, a few scattered brushes, and adhesive tabs as noted above, otherwise in fine, clean condition. R&R COA.
