Emil Zatopek Autograph from 1952

Emil Zatopek Autograph from 1952. CoA




Emil Zatopek Autograph: Magazine snippet with portrait of the Olympia legend, pasted on card, signed by Zatopek in 1952 in Wien. The Autograph comes with a Certificate of Authenticity.

Emil Zatopek ( 1922 - 2000 ) was a Czech long-distance runner best known for winning three gold medals at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki. He won gold in the 5000 metres and 10,000 metres runs, but his final medal came when he decided at the last minute to compete in the first marathon of his life. He was nicknamed the "Czech Locomotive" for his multiple golds. Zátopek was the first athlete to break the 29-minute barrier in the 10 km run (in 1954).

Three years earlier, in 1951, he had broken the hour for running 20 km. He is widely considered to be one of the greatest runners of the 20th century and was also known for his brutally tough training methods.

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Chinese vintage Photo with Pottery

Chinese vintage Photo with Pottery



Authentic, old, Chinese Photo depicting a potter, carrying a board with his new creations. Japanese explanations on an additional sheet.

The photo is from app. 1920. 3,9 x 5,8 inches (10 x 14,5 cm), fine condition.

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Chinese Poster for Cigarettes, vintage, lithographed



China, 1920s: Colorful adevertising in poster style for "Rooster Cigarettes", British Cigarette Co., Ltd, Shanghai.

Good design with 2 fighting cocks, a cigarette package and Chinese characters.

Lithographed, size: 5,2 x 8,5 inches ( 132 x 215 mm), fine condition.

Very scarce, early Porcelain Mao Button

Very scarce, early Porcelain Mao Button



Very early and scarce Mao Button with portrait of Chairman Mao against Chinese flag. Porcelain badge. It seems that the flag was painted by hand. The portrait was imprinted and the surface a kind of broke up during the process of burning.

Diameter: 0,8 inches (13 mm), Original-needle.

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Renata Tebaldi Autograph: Signed Photo from 1960

Renata Tebaldi Autograph: Signed Photo, 1960




Beautiful b/w portrait photo of Renata Tebaldi, signed with violet ink, 1960. 4 x 6 inches photograph. Fine condition.

The Autograph comes with a Certificate of Authenticity.

Renata Tebaldi ( February 1, 1922 - December 19, 2004) was an Italian lyric soprano, popular in the post-war period. Her major breakthrough came in 1946, when she auditioned in Milan for Arturo Toscanini. Toscanini was favorably impressed, calling her "voce d'angelo" (angel voice).

Tebaldi made her La Scala debut that year at the concert which marked the reopening of the theatre after World War II. She sang the "Prayer" ("Dal tuo stellato soglio") from Rossini's biblical opera, Mose in Egitto, as well as the soprano part in Verdi's Te Deum. Toscanini encouraged her to sing the role of Aida and invited her to rehearse the role in his studio.

She was of the opinion that the role of Aida was reserved for a dramatic soprano, but Toscanini convinced her and she made her role debut at La Scala in 1950 alongside Mario del Monaco and Fedora Barbieri in a performance conducted by Antonino Votto. This was the greatest success in her still young career and was to launch her international career.

In 1953 her voice was used to dub Sophia Loren's singing in the film version of Aida.

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Old Chinese Water Dispenser with Spoon, Boxwood.

Old Chinese Water Dispenser with Spoon, Boxwood.




Qing Dynasty/beginning of last century: Decorative, Chinese water dispenser (for painters and calligraphers).

Boxwood, and matching old spoon with dragon head. The object is from app. 1900.

Shape of a pear (longevity) with leaved and twig. 3,5 x 2,9 x 2 inches (90 x 70 x 43 mm, 133 gram). Fine condition.

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Chinese Leasure Seal, Lion, 4 Characters




Decorative old Chinese seal with a Foo-lion as handle. The lion bites his own tail where a red “stone” is resting.

Engraved as seal are 4 characters: bu lu bu mie 不橹不灭 (you can’t clean up without sweeping) Side engraving with details in Li-shu – Style. 1,6 x 0, 6 x 3,4 inches (40 x 15 x 85 mm), fine condition.

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Cultural Revolution: Mao's Little Red Book with Lin Biao Calligraphy.

PR China, Cultural Revolution: Mao’s little red book „Zui gao zhibiao“ (The Highest Goals) with Lin Biao calligraphy under Mao’s frontispiece portrait image.

Published in 1969, 477 pages, fine condition.

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Cultural Revolution: Complete Set White-Haired Girl.




PR China, Cultural Revolution Complete postcard set for the Peking-Opera The White-Haired Girl. 12 original color postcards in original sleeve.

First print 1969 Wai wen chuban she (Beijing). Fine condition.

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Tianjin vintage Postcard German Post in China 1912

Tianjin vintage Postcard: Tientsin, Victoria Road and Russo-Asiatic Bank.



Sent as postcard via Sibiria to Betzdorf in Rheinland.
The stamp at front has been replaced otherwise fine condition.

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Friedrich Gulda Autograph: Early Signature, 1960s

Friedrich Gulda autograph: Authentic signature on real photo, signed in the early 1960s. 5,8 x 4 inches, fine condition. The Autograph comes with a Certificate of Authenticity.
 


Friedrich Gulda (16 May 1930 - 27 January 2000) was an Austrian pianist who performed in both the classical and jazz fields. Together with Joerg Demus and Paul Badura-Skoda, Gulda formed what became known as the "Viennese troika".

 In 1982, Gulda teamed up with jazz pianist Chick Corea and wrote a Prelude and Fugue with a theme suggesting swing. ( Keith Emerson performed it on Emerson, Lake & Palmer's The Return of the Manticore ).

In addition, Gulda composed "Variations on The Doors' 'Light My Fire'". Gulda is widely regarded as one of the most outstanding piano players of the 20th century.

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Heinrich Harrer Autograph. Signed Promo Card.

Authentic autograph by Heinrich Harrer on a print, published by the Austrian Raiffeisen bank.

8,2 x 5,9 inches, very fine condition.

The autograph come with a Certificate of Authenticity. Heinrich Harrer, noted Austrian explorer and mountaineer, escaped over the Himalaya from a prisoner-of-war camp in British India with Peter Aufschnaiter and then lived and worked as a fifth-ranked nobleman in the forbidden city of Lhasa.

As confident and informal tutor to the young Tibetan leader, the Dalai Lama, Harrer was afforded access to ceremonies and customs that had been rarely witnessed by Westerners.

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