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King Gillette and Josephine Baker

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Autographs Start Price:NA Estimated At:400.00 - 600.00 USD
King Gillette and Josephine Baker

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Auction Date:2014 Jan 15 @ 18:00 (UTC-5 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
Ink signatures, “King Gillette, Vienna, May 18th/27,” adding a sketch of a Gillette logo above his signature, and “Josephine Baker, Feb 4/28, ‘Wien,’” on an off-white 4.75 x 7 sheet. Sheet is also signed by Ernst Krenek, who adds a five-bar AMQS from ‘Johnny Strikes Up the Band,’ his jazz opera influenced by Josephine Baker’s Revue negre; folk singer Adam Muller; and conductor Hans Knappertsbusch. Scattered light toning and some ink flecks to beginning of musical quote, otherwise fine condition.