Historic and Military Autographs, & Militaria

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Our Fall, 2012 Auction is a two-part auction: Day One will offer important military documents and militaria; Day Two has a fine selection of historic letters, documents and manuscripts in other fields of collecting.
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GERALD BARRY1532 - GERALD BARRY
Alexander Historical Auctions
(1864-1941) American artist best known for his landscape, portrait and harbor views. Original vintage signed pen and ink and watercolor drawing on a w
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Estimate : 150.00 - 200.00
Sold to floor for (260.00) = 260.00
 
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THOMAS HART BENTON1533 - THOMAS HART BENTON
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(1889-1975) American painter known for his realistic portraits of people and life in the Midwest, including "Cotton Pickers" and "Hom...
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Start Price : 50.00 | Estimate : 100.00 - 150.00
 
 
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MARC CHAGALL1534 - MARC CHAGALL
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(1887 - 1985) French artist whose naive style incorporating subjects of Russian and Jewish life made him one of the foremost artists of this century.
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Start Price : 150.00 | Estimate : 300.00 - 400.00
 
 
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CHRISTO1535 - CHRISTO
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(b.1935) Artist who created monumental environmental art installations which included the wrapping of the Reichstag in Berlin and the Pont-Neuf bridge
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Estimate : 300.00 - 400.00
Sold to floor for (160.00) = 160.00
 
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GREGORY CORSO1536 - GREGORY CORSO
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(1930 - 2001) Beat poet who quickly fit into the San Francisco Beat scene in 1956 and was soon elevated to celebrity status. Considered one of the maj
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Start Price : 350.00 | Estimate : 700.00 - 900.00
 
 
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DAVID DOUGLAS DUNCAN1537 - DAVID DOUGLAS DUNCAN
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((b. 1916) American photojournalist and among the most influential photographers of the 20th century. He is best known for his dramatic combat photogr
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Start Price : 50.00 | Estimate : 100.00 - 150.00
 
 
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(ARTHUR "WEEGEE"FELLIG)1538 - (ARTHUR "WEEGEE"FELLIG)
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(1899 - 1968) Photographer and photojournalist, known for his stark black and white street photography. Weegee worked in the Lower East Side of New Yo
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Estimate : 500.00 - 700.00
Sold to floor for (480.00) = 480.00
 
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CHARLES KELLER1539 - CHARLES KELLER
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(1914-2006) American painter and printmaker, Social Realist & W.P.A. artist, sympathetic to labor and racial equality, well represented in museu...
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Estimate : 150.00 - 200.00
Sold to floor for (90.00) = 90.00
 
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DAVID STONE MARTIN1540 - DAVID STONE MARTIN
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(1913-1992) Influential American artist best known for his illustrations for jazz albums. Fine grouping of three signed lithographs circa. 1960. Two a
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Estimate : 200.00 - 300.00
Sold to floor for (100.00) = 100.00
 
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STEVE MCCURRY1541 - STEVE MCCURRY
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(b. 1950) American photographer perhaps best remembered for his haunting image "Afghan Girl" which appeared on the cover of National Geogr...
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Estimate : 150.00 - 200.00
Sold to floor for (240.00) = 240.00
 
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JEAN-LOUIS-ERNEST MEISSONIER1542 - JEAN-LOUIS-ERNEST MEISSONIER
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(1815-1891) French painter and sculptor in the Classicist tradition, renowned for his sculptures of Napoleon. A.L.S. 2pp. 8vo., Paris, Apr. 1878, in F
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Start Price : 150.00 | Estimate : 300.00 - 400.00
 
 
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HENRY MOORE1543 - HENRY MOORE
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(1898 - 1986) British sculptor of abstract works in bronze and stone, often on a monumental scale. Fine signed color image of his one of his sculpture
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Estimate : 75.00 - 100.00
Sold to floor for (50.00) = 50.00
 
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ANNA M. "GRANDMA" MOSES1544 - ANNA M. "GRANDMA" MOSES
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(1860 - 1961) American artist remembered for her simple, homey painting of rural New England life. Fine double signature on a 3 1/2" x 2 1/2&qu...
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Estimate : 150.00 - 200.00
Sold to floor for (180.00) = 180.00
 
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WILLIAM HENRY NUTTER1545 - WILLIAM HENRY NUTTER
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(1821-1872) English painter known for his landscapes. A fine original painting measuring 3 1/2" x 5" and titled "Tintern Abbey",...
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Start Price : 200.00 | Estimate : 400.00 - 500.00
 
 
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THEODORE PINE1546 - THEODORE PINE
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(1828-19050 American known for his portraiture and still lifes. A charming original watercolor of a Greek ruin, executed on an 8vo. sheet. Pine signs
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Estimate : 300.00 - 400.00
Sold to floor for (360.00) = 360.00
 
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EDITH BALLINGER PRICE1547 - EDITH BALLINGER PRICE
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(1897-1997) American author and illustrator of children's books who also started the Brownie division of the American Girl Scouts program. A cha...
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Start Price : 150.00 | Estimate : 300.00 - 400.00
 
 
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FREDERIC REMINGTON1548 - FREDERIC REMINGTON
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(1861 - 1909) American painter, illustrator and artist remembered for his works based on western themes, most notably his sculpture Broncho Buster and
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Estimate : 400.00 - 500.00
Sold to floor for (200.00) = 200.00
 
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CHARLES RODRIGUES1549 - CHARLES RODRIGUES
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(d. 2004) American cartoon artist, he created "Casey the Cop" in the 1970s and produced many pieces for National Lampoon. An original pen ...
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Start Price : 100.00 | Estimate : 200.00 - 300.00
 
 
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CARL RUNGIUS1550 - CARL RUNGIUS
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(1869-1959) American wildlife painter known for his depictions of Western big game animals within their natural environment. A rather curious S.P. 7...
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Estimate : 150.00 - 200.00
Sold to floor for (220.00) = 220.00
 
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CHARLES M. SCHULZ1551 - CHARLES M. SCHULZ
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(1922 - 2000) American cartoonist and creator of Snoopy, Charlie Brown, and the rest of the Peanuts gang. 1981 Christmas commemorative cover upon whic
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Estimate : 300.00 - 400.00
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OSCAR BERGER1552 - OSCAR BERGER
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(1901 - 1997) American cartoonist and caricaturist, forced to flee Germany when his works angered Adolf Hitler. His book Aesop's Foibles, (John ...
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Estimate : 60.00 - 80.00
Sold to floor for (40.00) = 40.00
 
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MAURICE SENDAK1553 - MAURICE SENDAK
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(b. 1928) American author and illustrator of classic children's books, including Where the Wild Things Are and Into The Night Kitchen. A great p...
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Estimate : 200.00 - 300.00
Sold to floor for (220.00) = 220.00
 
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ALFRED STIEGLITZ1554 - ALFRED STIEGLITZ
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(1864 - 1946) American photographer who was instrumental over his fifty-year career in making photography an acceptable art form alongside painting an
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Estimate : 200.00 - 300.00
Sold to floor for (280.00) = 280.00
 
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HENRY OSSAWA TANNER1555 - HENRY OSSAWA TANNER
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(1859-1937) Black-American artist and the first to garner international acclaim; known for his moving paintings "The Banjo Lesson" (1893) ...
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Estimate : 200.00 - 300.00
Sold to floor for (100.00) = 100.00
 
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CHARLES WARDE TRAVER1556 - CHARLES WARDE TRAVER
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(1870-1945) American artist known for his romantic portraits of stylish women which graced the covers of numerous publications of his time. Nice signe
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Start Price : 75.00 | Estimate : 150.00 - 200.00
 
 
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ANDY WARHOL1557 - ANDY WARHOL
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(1928 - 1987) American artist and the founder of pop art who gained instant notoriety with his depictions of the Campbell soup can and Brillo boxes. G
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Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
Sold to floor for (500.00) = 500.00
 
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ANDY WARHOL1558 - ANDY WARHOL
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Excellent S.P. 3 1/2" x 5 1/2" b/w, a print of a chest, up image on a negative, signed in block letters at bottom. Fine. Althought Warhol ...
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Estimate : 300.00 - 400.00
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JAMES MCNEIL WHISTLER1559 - JAMES MCNEIL WHISTLER
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(1834 - 1903) American artist, a portrait painter with a pugnacious attitude best remembered for the portrait of his mother seated in a rocker. A supe
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Start Price : 350.00 | Estimate : 700.00 - 900.00
 
 
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SCULPTORS1560 - SCULPTORS
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A lot of 11 signatures by nineteenth century sculptors, executed on small cards, includes: EDWARD CLARK POTTER, VINNIE DEAN HOXIE, ALBERT WEINERT, FRE
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Estimate : 100.00 - 150.00
Sold to floor for (140.00) = 140.00
 
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ARTISTS1561 - ARTISTS
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A group of 21 signatures of prominent artists, each accomplished on a small card. Includes: KATE GREENAWAY (with original sketch of a woman's fa...
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Start Price : 150.00 | Estimate : 300.00 - 400.00
 
 
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ARTISTS1562 - ARTISTS
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A group of 22 signatures of acclaimed artists, penned on small cards and including: DANIEL CHESTER FRENCH, AUGUSTUS ST. GAUDENS, KARL BAILLY, WILLIAM
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Start Price : 100.00 | Estimate : 200.00 - 300.00
 
 
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ARTISTS1563 - ARTISTS
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A pair of A.Ls.S. of painters, the first SIR WILLIAM BEECHEY (1753-1839), English portrait painter of the royal family. A.L.S. 1p. 4to., "Georg...
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Start Price : 75.00 | Estimate : 150.00 - 200.00
 
 
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ARTISTS1564 - ARTISTS
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Two pieces, the first GEORGE CRUIKSHANK, sentiment and very bold signature on an 8vo. sheet dated 1876, near fine condition; along with JAMES CARTER B
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Estimate : 75.00 - 100.00
Sold to f*****a for (37.50 + 8.44BP) = 45.94
 
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WILL CRAWFORD1565 - WILL CRAWFORD
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A grouping of four letters, one illustrated (1869 - 1944) American ink artist for newspapers and magazines, he also illustrated a number of books, of
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Start Price : 100.00 | Estimate : 200.00 - 300.00
 
 
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J. N. "DING" DARLING1566 - J. N. "DING" DARLING
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(1876-1962) Pulitzer Prize-winning American cartoonist, also an important figure in the conservation movement which resulted in two national parks tha
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Estimate : 100.00 - 150.00
Sold to floor for (50.00) = 50.00
 
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BOB KANE1567 - BOB KANE
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(1916 - 1998) American artist and cartoonist who created the masked crime-fighting character "Batman", later adopted to various TV and mov...
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Estimate : 200.00 - 300.00
Sold to floor for (320.00) = 320.00
 
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THOMAS NAST1568 - THOMAS NAST
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(1840 - 1902) American political cartoonist whose works in Harper's Weekly lambasted the Tweed Ring, and made the elephant and donkey recognized...
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Estimate : 300.00 - 400.00
Sold to floor for (280.00) = 280.00
 
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MARY SARG1569 - MARY SARG
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(1911-1986) American artist known for her illustrations for numerous popular women's magazines. A lot of three very early illustrations 5 1/4&qu...
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Start Price : 100.00 | Estimate : 200.00 - 300.00
 
 
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ALBERTO VARGAS1570 - ALBERTO VARGAS
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"Honoring her memory by finishing some 200 pictures I conceived of 40 years ago..." Fine content A.L. (unsigned), 2pp. 4to., Switzerland,...
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Estimate : 200.00 - 300.00
Sold to floor for (70.00) = 70.00
 
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CARTOONISTS1571 - CARTOONISTS
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Two first day covers signed by cartoonists, including WALTER LANTZ, JIM DAVIS, BOB KANE, BILL HANNA, JOE BARBERA, JERRY SIEGEL and HANK KETCHUM signin
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Estimate : 300.00 - 400.00
Sold to floor for (180.00) = 180.00
 
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FRANZ LISZT1572 - FRANZ LISZT
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(1811 - 1886) Hungarian composer and piano virtuoso, inventor of the symphonic poem and composer of dozens of works including symphonies, piano compos
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Estimate : 750.00 - 1,000.00
Sold to floor for (750.00) = 750.00
 
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JOHN COLTRANE1573 - JOHN COLTRANE
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(1926 - 1967) Innovative American jazz saxophone player, his first recording was with Dizzy Gillespie, with later extensive work with Johnny Hodges, M
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,500.00
Sold to floor for (600.00) = 600.00
 
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SIDNEY BECHET1574 - SIDNEY BECHET
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(1897 - 1959) American musician, an early jazz innovator who started as a clarinestist with Clarence Williams, and later turned to the soprano saxopho
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Estimate : 300.00 - 400.00
Sold to floor for (260.00) = 260.00
 
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RUDOLF BING1575 - RUDOLF BING
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(1902 - 1997) Austrian-born opera impresario who managed the Metropolitan Opera from 1950 to 1972. T.L.S. 1p. 4to. on Metropolitan Opera letterhead, N
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Estimate : 60.00 - 80.00
Sold to floor for (30.00) = 30.00
 
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ENRICO CARUSO1576 - ENRICO CARUSO
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(1873 - 1921) Italian tenor, very possibly the greatest of all time. His repertoire included over 40 operas such as I Pagliacci and La Boheme. Postcar
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Start Price : 200.00 | Estimate : 400.00 - 500.00
 
 
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AARON COPLAND1577 - AARON COPLAND
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(1900 - 1990) American composer and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for his works, including "Billy the Kid" and "Appalachian Spring&quo...
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Estimate : 150.00 - 200.00
Sold to floor for (90.00) = 90.00
 
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GEORGE GERSHWIN1578 - GEORGE GERSHWIN
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(1898 - 1937) American composer and songwriter in collaboration with his brother Ira, his works include "Porgy and Bess", "Rhapsody i...
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Estimate : 400.00 - 500.00
Sold to floor for (200.00) = 200.00
 
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MARIA JERITZA1579 - MARIA JERITZA
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(1887-1982) Czech opera singer who achieved international fame as a prima donna soprano, especially in Tosca. S.P. 7" x 12" sepia by Setze...
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Estimate : 50.00 - 60.00
Sold to floor for (25.00) = 25.00
 
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JULES MASSENET1580 - JULES MASSENET
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(1842 - 1912) French composer of operas, concertos and ballets whose works include Manon, Sapho, and Don Quichotte. A.D.S. 1p. 12mo., [n.p., n.d.], in
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Start Price : 37.50 | Estimate : 75.00 - 100.00
 
 
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JEROME KERN1581 - JEROME KERN
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(1889 - 1945) American composer best known for his scores for musical comedies (Showboat), and songs such as "Old Man River" and "Smo...
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Start Price : 150.00 | Estimate : 300.00 - 400.00
 
 
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