Auction Date:2012 Oct 17 @ 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
For six months in the early 1930s—April 1 to October 1, 1932—the Waterman fountain pen company ran a contest for boys and girls. Each entrant was to fill a 5 x 7.25 autograph album with signatures of notables of the day and send it to the company to qualify for a prize. An array of 333 prizes were given away, from the $1000 first prize to the Waterman’s pencil for runners up. Waterman’s autograph album, 5 x 7.25, belonging to a young woman named Florence Weber of Corsica, South Dakota, with 105 clipped ink and pencil signatures affixed to the inside pages. Signers include: Robert Baden-Powell, Billy Sunday, the Mayo Brothers, Charles E. Hughes, Frank Kellogg, Edith Bolling Wilson, Grace Coolidge, Gutzon Borglum, Maxfield Parrish, Walt Disney, James Montgomery Flagg, Robert Ripley, Rudyard Kipling, Lowell Thomas, Felix Count Luckner, Zane Grey, Calvin Coolidge, Charles Schwab, J. C. Penney, Rudy Vallee, Bing Crosby, Amelia Earhart, Frank Hawks, James Doolittle, Robert S. Jones, Jr., Connie Mack, Ty Cobb, Gene Tunney, Helene Madison, Branch Rickey, Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, Marie Dressler, Harold Lloyd, and Frank Buck. All the signatures have been applied to the pages with brief identifications added underneath by the collector, as specified by Waterman’s. In fine condition, with a couple of loose signatures. As with all of these Waterman books, the signatures were closely cut and pasted in and, as such, are not well-made for removal from the book. Although it is unknown if this particular album won one of the offered prizes, this is arguably one of the best examples we have offered.
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