Auction Date:2010 Jul 14 @ 22:00 (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
Vintage fountain pen signature, “Marilyn Monroe,” on the reverse of a 3.5 x 2.25 army medic’s identification card. Also signed by actress Terry Moore. In very good condition, with two lines of toning from prior framing passing through the first and last letters of Marilyn’s signature, mild overall soiling, a few creases, one passing through the end of her last name, and a trivial spot of paper loss, otherwise fine condition.
Barely a month after becoming Mrs. Joe DiMaggio, Monroe left Japan—and her honeymoon—to participate in a four-day ‘Anything Goes’ USO tour in Korea, arriving on February 16, 1954. It was during one of the ten shows that featured the actress that this Geneva Convention identification card, belonging to US Army medic Josiah Allen, Jr., which had already been signed by Moore, was placed before Monroe for signing. While in Korea for this brief tour, Monroe was photographed with a bandaged thumb on her writing hand, an injury occurring while cutting cake for a serviceman...or inflicted by Joltin’ Joe as he snatched a cup from her hand in anger after being told of his new bride’s plan.
More than 100,000 service men saw the actress perform in Korea, and Monroe often reflected that her trip to Korea was one of the best experiences of her life…and the moment when she realized she was a superstar. Interestingly, the authenticity of this piece was supported by Moore, who was shown this card this year and confirmed that the ID card was indeed signed by her. Although never a major star, Moore had competed for sex symbol status with Monroe in the 1950s, with this being the only known example of both starlets’ signatures on the same object.
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