Every day Sophie Dupre presents two items from her large stock of signed photographs, autograph letters, autographs for sale, royal memoralbilia and antiquarian manuscripts.
The photographs are presented with the catalogue descriptions.
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March 01
ON THIS DAY
On this day in 1932 the 20 month old son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh was kidnapped from their home in East Amwell, New Jersey in what became known as the "Lindbergh kidnapping". Also on this day in 1886 the artist Oskar Kokoschka was born.
LINDBERGH (Anne, 1906-2001, pioneering American Aviator, author, and wife of CHARLES, 1902-1974, American Aviator, First to fly solo non-stop across the Atlantic in 1927)
Fine and attractive photograph by The Misses Selby, New York, signed, inscribed and dated ‘For Elsie Whateley from Anne Lindbergh’, showing her seated, three quarter length, almost full face, with her son Charles Augustus on her knee, she is looking down to show him something with its cover turned back, he is in a little shirt and shorts, holding a ball, his attention caught by something to the left, Mrs Lindbergh is in a print dress with short flounced sleeves, 6¼” x 6¼” circle in margins 7¾” x 7¼”, June 1935
KOKOSCHKA (Oskar, 1886-1980, Austrian-born British Artist, Poet & Playwright)
Fine Autograph Letter Signed with Initials to Gaby GOLDSCHEIDER in London, daughter of his old friend and collaborator Ludwig GOLDSCHEIDER (1896-1973, Austrian-born Art Historian & Poet),in German with transcription and translation, saying he knows “that your dear father is no longer alive. I wrote you a letter a little while ago. I am very sorry that, again, one of my few true friends is gone ... By good fortune you always got on well with him and he needed that very much because he too had no one else in a world that was ever more foreign to him ... I would dearly like to see you once more”, he continues “Your wood engravings are not supposed to go through the post” but have to be hand-carried, “I have to take these to the ‘Customs Office’, God knows where it is situated in Lausanne ... signing for everything takes such a time, doesn’t it?”, 5½” x 8¼”, and with the original autograph envelope, the letter 2 sides 8vo, Villeneuve, Vaud, Switzerland, 24th April 1974
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