Guenter Grass Autograph

Guenter Grass Autograph on Artist Postcard. CoA




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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Lilian Harvey Autograph on sexy Photo. CoA

Actress Lilian Harvey Autograph on sexy Photo. CoA




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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Chinese Proclamation poster from 1959

China: Poster from the Period pre Cultural Revolution




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.

Poster for Spread by Arthur Thiele

Arthur Thiele designed Poster for Spread.





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.

Polyna Stoska Autograph

Polyna Stoska Autograph on Real Photo from 1952




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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Booklet 10. Communist Representative assembly, special

Cultural Revolution China: Book with Faces blackend




Peoples Republic of China 1973. 中国共产党第十次全国代表大会文件汇编

Booklet with texts to the 10. Communist Representative assembly 13 pages photos, one detached, on 3 photos 2 faces are blackend. (Wang Hongwen 王洪文 2x, Yao Wenyuan  姚文元). Deng Xiaoping 's name 邓小平 has been crossed out on the list of the participants of the session. 3,7 x 5 inches (9,2 x 12,6 cm).

Minor wear of the cover, 92 pages.

Piero Visconti Autograph on great Photo. CoA

Piero Visconti Autograph: Hand-signed Photo, CoA

Piero Visconti: Color-portrait-photo ( Studio Fayer, Wien). Hand-signed in Wien in 1980.

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4 x 5,8 inches (10 x 14,5 cm), very fine condition.

Tenor Piero Visconti (b. 1948) made his depute in 1975 as Rodolfo in Puccinis "La Boheme".

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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.

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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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