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Friday, May 25, 2012

Lilian Gish Autograph and Postcard. CoA

Lilian Gish: Autograph and Postcard. CoA


Lilian Gish Autograph


Lilian Gish: Hand-signed photo (after a Ross postcard) and an authentic Ross Verlag Photo-postcard (Metro Goldwyn Mayer Pictures), unsigned.

The Autograph comes with a Certificate of Authenticity.

Lillian Diana Gish (1893 –1993) was an American stage, screen and television actress whose film acting career spanned 75 years, from 1912 to 1987. She was called "The First Lady of American Cinema".

She was a prominent film star of the 1910s and 1920s, particularly associated with the films of director D.W. Griffith, including her leading role in Griffith's seminal Birth of a Nation (1915). Her sound-era film appearances were sporadic, but included memorable roles in the controversial western Duel in the Sun (1946) and the offbeat thriller Night of the Hunter (1955). She did considerable television work from the early 1950s into the 1980s, and closed her career playing, for the first time, opposite Bette Davis in the 1987 film The Whales of August.

The American Film Institute (AFI) named Gish 17th among the greatest female stars of all time. She was awarded an Honorary Academy Award in 1971, and in 1984 she received an AFI Life Achievement Award.

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Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Cultural Revolution Woodblock Graphics

Cultural Revolution Folder with Woodblock Graphics
Chinese Woodblock Graphics


Peoples Republic of China, Cultural Revolution: Scarcer, complete set of 14 sheets after woodblock-prints, commemorating the 40th anniversary of Hunan Peasant Upraise Reports.

Entitled:“ This is good, indeed“ 这是好得很 (Zhei shi haode hen).

The Set was published in Canton. The cover shows minor wear and a black spot at front, the sheetsarfe all in good condition.

15 x 10 cm. Mao Zedong Text at inner part of the sleeve.

Friday, April 06, 2012

Kerstin Meyer Autograph, Bayreuth 1964

Kerstin Meyer Autograph on Lauterwasser Photo Bayreuth 1964

Kerstin Meyer Autograph


Kerstin Meyer Autograph on a Bayreuth photo print, 1964, after a photo by Siegfried Lauterwasser. The Autograph comes with a Certificate of Authenticity.

Kerstin Margareta Meyer (born 1928) is a mezzo-soprano from Stockholm, Sweden. Meyer made her debut was at the Royal Swedish Opera in 1952 as Azucena in Verdi's Il trovatore. She has remained closely associated with that company, but also performed frequently with the Hamburg State Opera.

In 1960 she made her debut at Covent Garden as Didon in Les Troyens by Hector Berlioz, and later performed Octavian in Der Rosenkavalier by Richard Strauss and Clytemnestra in the same composer's Elektra. Her singing career has also included regular visits to other major opera houses of Europe and the U.S.A. and a number of concert tours to Australia, the Far East, and America.

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Tuesday, April 03, 2012

Professor Dr. Heinrich von Bamberger CdV

Professor Heinrich von Bamberger Carte de Visite


Heinrich von Bamberger CdV


Heinrich von Bamberger (1822 - 1888) was an Austrian pathologist from Prague.

In 1847 he earned his doctorate from the University of Prague, and from 1851 to 1854 was a clinical assistant to Johann von Oppolzer (1808-1871) in Vienna. In 1854 he became professor of therapeutic pathology at the University of Wuerzburg, returning to the University of Vienna in 1872, where he succeeded Oppolzer as professor of special pathology and therapy.

He was father to internist Eugen von Bamberger (1858-1921). Professor Heinrich von Bamberger Carte de Visite. Authentic CdV in fine condition

Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Billy Wilder Autograph

Billy Wilder Autograph on Photo with Jack Lemmon. CoA


Billy Wilder Autograph


Billy Wilder autograph on photo with Jack Lemmon. Hand-signed by Billy Wilder. 4 x 6 inches. Fine condition. The Autograph comes with a Certificate of Authenticity. Billy Wilder (1906-2002), nominated for 21 Academy Awards, winning in 1946 for Best Director and Best Screenplay "The Lost Weekend", 1951 for Best Writing "Sunset Blvd." and 1961 for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Writing "The Apartment".

Wilder holds a significant place in the history of Hollywood censorship for expanding the range of acceptable subject matter. He is responsible for two of the film noir era's most definitive films in Double Indemnity and Sunset Boulevard.

Along with Woody Allen and the Marx Brothers, he leads the list of films on the American Film Institute's list of 100 funniest American films with 5 films written and holds the honor of holding the top spot with Some Like it Hot.

Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Brigitte Bardot Autograph on 8 x 11 Photo. CoA

Brigitte Bardot Autograph on 8 x 11 Photo. CoA


Brigitte Bardot Autograph


Brigitte Bardot Autograph on large, sweet photo. It shows the very young actress with braids.

The Autograph comes with a Certificate of Authenticity.

Size: 8,2 x 11,8 inches (21 x 29,6 cm), fine condition.

Brigitte Anne-Marie Bardot is a controversial former French fashion model, actress, singer and animal rights activist. She was one of the best-known sex symbols of the 1960s. Starting in 1969, Bardot's features became the official face of Marianne (who had previously been anonymous) to represent the liberty of France.

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Friday, February 17, 2012

Josephine Baker Autograph. CoA

Josephine Baker Autograph. CoA


Josephine Baker autograph


Josephine Baker autograph on cardboard (deckle edged paper). The Autograph comes with a Certificate of Authenticity.

Size: 5,1 x 3,8 inches (13 x 9,5 cm). Fine condition.

Josephine Baker was the first African American female to star in a major motion picture, to integrate an American concert hall, and to become a world-famous entertainer. She is also noted for her contributions to the Civil Rights Movement in the United States (she was offered the unofficial leadership of the movement by Coretta Scott King in 1968 following Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination, but turned it down), for assisting the French Resistance during World War II.

She was the first American woman to receive full French military honors at her funeral, Baker locked up the streets of Paris one last time. She was interred at the Cimetière de Monaco in Monte Carlo.

Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Guenter Grass Autograph

Guenter Grass Autograph on Artist Postcard. CoA


Guenter Grass Autograph


Guenter Grass: Autograph on a postcard with graphic by Grass, hand signed.

The Autograph comes with a Certificate of Authenticity.

Guenter Wilhelm Grass (born 1927) is a Nobel Prize-winning German author, poet, playwright, sculptor and artist.

He was born in the Free City of Danzig (now Poland). In 1945, he came as a refugee to West Germany, but in his fiction he frequently returns to the Danzig of his childhood.

He is best known for his first novel, The Tin Drum, a key text in European magic realism and the first part of his Danzig Trilogy. His works frequently have a left wing political dimension and Grass has been an active supporter of the Social Democratic Party of Germany.

In 2006, Grass admitted that he had been a member of the Waffen-SS.
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Thursday, February 09, 2012

Lilian Harvey Autograph on sexy Photo. CoA

Actress Lilian Harvey Autograph on sexy Photo. CoA


Lilian Harvey Autograph


Very attractive photo of actress Lilian Harvey in ballet pose. No postcard. Size: 3,5 x 5,5 inches, fine condition. Lilian Harvey (Lilian Helen Muriel Pape) (1906 –1968), was a British-born German actress and singer.

In 1924, Lilian Harvey received her first role as the young Jewish girl "Ruth" in the film Der Fluch directed by Robert Land. Subsequently, she starred in many silent films. In 1925, she was cast in her first leading role in the film Leidenschaft.

 Because of her training as a singer, Harvey was able to pursue a successful acting career during the talkie era of the early 1930s. Her first movie with Willy Fritsch was Die keusche Susanne in 1926. Harvey and Fritsch became the "dream couple" of German movies in the early 1930's with the romantic love story Liebeswalzer. They starred in a total of 11 movies together, and Harvey was called the "sweetest girl in the world" by the press.

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Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Chinese Proclamation poster from 1959

China: Poster from the Period pre Cultural Revolution


China Poster


Authentic Chinese proclamation poster from 1959. Decorative design with riding warrior and big red flag. The poster is from the Public Security Bureau, Shanxi, Taigu County.

8 points list social statistics and crime prevention. 15,7 x 22 inches (38 x 54 cm). Folded, moderate aging.

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Poster for Spread by Arthur Thiele

Arthur Thiele designed Poster for Spread.


Arthur Thiele Poster



Cute vintage advertising for Zesy-Gold, a German company producing spread. The image depicts a little girl and by with their pets, a cat and a dachshund.

12,4 x 15,8 inches ( 31,3 x 40 cm). Cardboard, 2 small hole at top for hanging. Some wear (the white margins are darker from age, the print itself is quite clean).

Artist signed: Arthur Thiele.

Monday, January 23, 2012

Polyna Stoska Autograph

Polyna Stoska Autograph on Real Photo from 1952


Polyna Stoska Autograph


Polyna Stoska Autograph on a b/w portrait photo. The Autograph comes with a Certificate of Authenticity.

Real photo, signed in 1951. 3,4 x 5,4 inches (8,7 x 13,8 cm).

Polyna Stoska was an acclaimed singer of Kurt Weill songs.

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