Thursday, June 29, 2017
Thursday, February 09, 2017
Anique Styria Postcard Admont
Greetings from Admont Styria Postcard
Greetings from Admont Styria in Austria. B/w postcard with Restaurant Siebenbrunner. Used as postcard in 1906. Good condition.
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Monday, January 30, 2017
Martha Moedl Autograph from 1951 Signed Photo CoA
Martha Moedl Autograph on Bayreuth Photo 1951 CoA
Martha Mödl portrait photo (as Kundry), published as postcard bei Festspielleitung Bayreuth in 1951. Autograph at front side and additional dedication with signature at reverse.
The Autograph comes with a Certificate of Authenticity.
Photo by Wieland Wagner. Martha Mödl (1912 – 2001) was a German soprano, and later a mezzo-soprano. She specialized in large dramatic roles such as Isolde, Brünnhilde, and particularly Kundry, and is considered, along with Astrid Varnay and Birgit Nilsson, one of the three major postwar Wagner sopranos. She was among the preeminent Wagner sopranos—and most compelling singing actresses—of the twentieth century.She was celebrated for her highly individualized interpretations, exceptional acting ability, intense stage presence, and "rich, sexy voice."
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Monday, June 20, 2016
Helga Dernesch Autograph on Tinted Photo CoA
Helga Dernesch Autograph on Tinted Photo CoA
Helga Dernesch tinted portrait-photo (Photo-studio Dietrich, Wien) with dedication and signature.
The Autograph comes with a Certificate of Authenticity. Size: 86 x 139 mm, very good condition.
Helga Dernesch (1939 in Vienna) is an Austrian soprano and mezzo soprano. Her career has taken her through four successive phases: from mezzo-soprano to lyric soprano to dramatic soprano and after about 1980 back to mezzo again. "Her voice had great richness and power, and her strikingly handsome stage appearance and intense acting made her a compelling performer.
She made her Metropolitan Opera debut in 1985 as Marfa in Khovanshchina and subsequently sang Prince Orlofsky in Die Fledermaus (1986), Herodias in Salome, Fricka in Das Rheingold and Die Walküre, Waltraute in Götterdämmerung, and the Nurse Die Frau ohne Schatten. More Classical
Music Autographs: HERE
Tuesday, May 10, 2016
Chinese Cultural Revolution Poster Print
Chinese Cultural Revolution Print 1960s
China, Cultural Revolution: Small print from magazine with a poster depicting a worker and a soldier both with Mao Red Books. Masses behind and chairman Mao head resembling the sun all over the scenery. Political slogan at lower line.
Graphic by Xu Yugen (徐裕根) 3 x 18,5 cm. Minor wear.
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Monday, May 09, 2016
Lower Austria Perchtoldsdorf Postcard Lot including Forerunner 1895
Perchtoldsdorf Postcard Lot including Forerunner 1895
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Perchtoldsdorf Postcard Lot including Forerunner 1895 Lower Austria, Perchtoldsdorf near Vienna: Attractive Lot with 9 old postcards, including a fore-runner from 1895 and scarcer cards like Walzengasse bor two with Füllenberg-motif (Meierei-restaurant).
All are clean and in good condition.
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Wednesday, April 20, 2016
Oskar Kokoschka Autograph
Oskar Kokoschka Autograph on Photo CoA
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Oskar Kokoschka 1966: Autograph and dedication on real-photodepicting Kokoschka lightening a cigarette.
At the reverse is a small sticker: O. Kokoschka Villeneuve Vaud/Suisse.
The Autograph comes with a Certificate of Authenticity. 14,7 x 10,4 cm, good condition.
Oskar Kokoschka (1886 – 21980) was an Austrian artist, poet and playwright best known for his intense expressionistic portraits and landscapes. Kokoschka had a passionate, often stormy affair with Alma Mahler. It began in 1912, shortly after the death of her four-year-old daughter Maria Mahler and her affair with Walter Gropius. After several years together, Alma rejected him, explaining that she was afraid of being too overcome with passion. Later then, deemed a degenerate by the Nazis, Kokoschka fled Austria in 1934 for Prague.
Kokoschka became a British citizen in 1946 and only in 1978 would regain Austrian citizenship. He traveled briefly to the United States in 1947 before settling in Switzerland, where he lived the rest of his life. He died in Montreux on 22 February 1980.
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Friday, April 01, 2016
Dalai Lama Autograph CoA. Hand signed Photo
Dalai Lama Autograph. CoA
Dalai Lama portrait photo, depicting the head of the Tibetans in his red robe. Hand signed by the Dalai lama with Tibetan characters.
The Autograph comes with a Certificate of Authenticity.
Size: 12,6 x 18,4 cm (5 x 7 1/3 inches), very good condition. The Dalai Lama is a monk of the Gelug or "Yellow Hat" school of Tibetan Buddhism, the newest of the schools of Tibetan Buddhism founded by Je Tsongkhapa. The 14th and current Dalai Lama is Tenzin Gyatso.
The Dalai Lama is considered to be the successor in a line of tulkus who are believed to be incarnations of Avalokiteśvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion, called Chenrezig in Tibetan. The name is a combination of the Mongolic word dalai meaning "ocean" (being the translation of the Tibetan name, 'Gyatso') and the Tibetan word བླ་མ་ (bla-ma) meaning "guru, teacher, mentor". The Tibetan word "lama" corresponds to the better known Sanskrit word "guru".
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Monday, March 14, 2016
Funny Postcard against Russia and China Boxer Rebellion
Mocking Postcard against Russia German Shippost 1901
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Old lithographed postcard form the Boxer Rebellion Period. Caricature depicting Russia stumbling of the (Chinese) dragon, while the other super-powers are buy cutting their share from the dragon.
Sent as postcard by the Imperial German Marine. Kaiserlich Deutsche Marine Schiffspost No. 67 – cancellation. This steamer was called Sylvia. Altona arrival-strike, good condition, scarce.
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Tuesday, March 01, 2016
Raphael Kirchner Postcard Girl in Art Nouveau Summer Dress
Raphael Kirchner Postcard Girl in Art Nouveau Dress 1901
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Decorative Art Nouveau postcard depicting a pretty young lady wearing a summer dress with decorative patterns. Artist signed: Raphael Kirchner
Published by Theo Stroefer's Kunstverlag, Nuremberg, Series 99 Nr. III Unused as postcard in Germany in 1901, good condition.
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Friday, February 26, 2016
Russian Tsar Nicholas II Romanov Postcard from 1902
Russian Tsar Nicholas II Vintage Postcard from 1902 Romanov
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Nicholas II (Russian: Николай II, Николай Александрович Романов, tr. Nikolai II, Nikolai Alexandrovich Romanov ) (1868 – 1918) was the last Emperor of Russia, Grand Duke of Finland, and titular King of Poland. His official short title was by the Grace of God, Nicholas II, Emperor and Autocrat of All the Russias.
Like other Russian Emperors he is commonly known by the monarchical title Tsar (though Russia formally ended the Tsardom in 1721). He is known as Saint Nicholas the Passion-Bearer by the Russian Orthodox Church and has been referred to as Saint Nicholas the Martyr. Nicholas II abdicated following the February Revolution of 1917 during which he and his family were imprisoned first in the Alexander Palace at Tsarskoye Selo, then later in the Governor's Mansion in Tobolsk, and finally at the Ipatiev House in Yekaterinburg.
In the spring of 1918, Nicholas was handed over to the local Ural Soviet by commissar Vasily Yakovlev who was given a written receipt. Nicholas II, his wife, Alexandra Feodorovna, his son, Alexei Nikolaevich, his four daughters, Olga Nikolaevna, Tatiana Nikolaevna, Maria Nikolaevna and Anastasia Nikolaevna, the family's medical doctor, Evgeny Botkin, the Emperor's footman, Alexei Trupp, the Empress' maidservant, Anna Demidova, and the family's cook, Ivan Kharitonov, were executed in the same room by the Bolsheviks on the night of 16/17 July 1918.
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Monday, February 01, 2016
Ruggiero Raimondi Autograph CoA
Ruggiero Raimondi Autograph CoA
Ruggiero Raimondi b/w portrait photo with authentic signature in lower part of the photograph.
The Autograph comes with a Certificate of Authenticity.
8 x 14 cm, good condition.
Ruggero Raimondi (born 1941) is an Italian bass-baritone opera singer who has also appeared in motion pictures. Some of his most important roles have been King Philip in Verdi's Don Carlos; Fiesco; the title roles in Boris Godunov (including the Andrzej Żuławski film) and Attila; Silva; Escamillo in Bizet's Carmen (including the Francesco Rosi film, 1984, with Plácido Domingo and Julia Migenes); the title role in Don Giovanni (including the Joseph Losey film, 1979); Count Almaviva in The Marriage of Figaro; and Don Alfonso in Così fan tutte; the title role in Don Quichotte by Massenet; and Scarpia in a recording of Tosca produced by Ardermann and later filmed live from Rome, with Plácido Domingo and Catherine Malfitano, conducted by Zubin Mehta.
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