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2 items of Malcolm Campbell "The Speed King" automobilia - a period signed postcard together with a framed and glazed image

An interesting collection of postcards to include local scenes such as The Chapel, Haddon Hall, a Rough Sea at Blackpool, a Storm at Blackpool, Scarborough, Ayton Castle and many others (Qty) with an empty leather postcard album.

A Postcard collection comprising approx. 90 mainly Edwardian postally used humorous postcards, approx. 50 later humorous cards, over 100 others with varied topics and approx. 30 Edwardian mainly real photo topographic and genre cards.

An old Postcard album containing approx. 100 largely Edwardian foreign cards, mostly used, from across Europe, together with approx. 170 foreign cards from the same period, including Egypt, Malta, South Africa, South America, Cape Verde Islands etc

A French postcard album; some in black and white, etc.

The Beatles, a Bamforth & Co. Comic Series postcard no. 2267, signed to the reverse by band members Paul McCartney, George Harrison and John Lennon.The vendor personally acquired the signatures from The Beatles when they visited Bangor on the 25th & 26th August 1967 for a 10 day conference on Transcendental Meditation with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. Accompanying the postcard is a photograph of the vendor with two friends and John Lennon when they gave him a lift after problems with his own car, printed on Kodak paper and dated Aug 1967, also included are three photocopied images of the vendor at the event with Paul McCartney and John Lennon in shot.

Multi signed Ronnie Biggs, Tommy Wisbey, Bruce Reynolds, Buster Edwards. 'Great Train Robbery'. Postcard International Police Association Brabant. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99

Four boxes of mixed china, postcard albums, Action figures, etc.

Titanic Interest - Small greetings card inscribed 'To my dear friend Wallace Hartley with all my thoughts. Violet, 1912', 12.5cm x 8.5cm (trimmed), together with three post-sinking postcards comprising; 'SS Titanic', 'The Most Appalling Disaster in Maritime History' and photographic example, and The Daily Mirror, Tuesday 16th April 1912, pages 1-8Purchased by the vendor at auction with note dated 29/10/2008 'The greetings card to Wallace Hartley was purchased by me in good postcard collection containing other Titanic postcards from Parkinson Auction Rooms in Bury, Lancashire, in the mid/late 80's'.

An early photographic Cornish postcard of a group gathering, 19th century Cornish photograph of figures outside an institute and various other Cornish postcards, etc

A selection of various Cornish postcards including early photographic postcard of Goldsithney, photographic postcard of Par Harbour, St Austell, St Blazey and other areas, etc

An early 20th century Regency style gilt metal frame. Enclosing a colour print - the portrait of a young woman in profile - within a beaded border with floral design, height 33cm, together with a bookslide etched with spider's cobweb motifs, signed and dated 'Sheelagh Robertson August 1928' to base, a 1930s miniature oil painting of a vase of anemones by Mona List, a small pen and ink sketch of two lurchers with their puppies, a pencil drawing of a cat signed with initials, two Louis Wain postcards and one other vintage cat postcard, a carved and painted sculpture of a cherub, a pack of playing cards in a leather case, and other decorative items in one box.

A mixed lot of items to include; a collection of various glass slides for magic lantern, all of rectangular shape and depicting various scenes including; acrobats, sea side scenes, fun character slides, and others, all within a large wooden box. Along with a late 19th lacquered postcard and stamp box with compartments inside, the exterior having mother of pearl inlaid to top with gilt and painted design to sides and top (some loss, slight damage etc), a small 20th century wooden perfume casket with two glass bottles within (one bottle broken to top so stopper does not fit properly). (3) General wear, loss, wear and some damage.

Friedensreich HundertwasserWatercolour from "La Lune en Rodage"1953-59watercolour on paper; framed11.7 x 10.5 cmsigned on the right: Hundertwasserprivate property, SwitzerlandA. C. Fürst, Hundertwasser 1928-2000. Werkverzeichnis-Catalogue Raisonné, vol. II., Cologne 2002, p. 469.The artist has cut into 240 small pieces 7 watercolours no. 155A, 157 and 159 from 1953 and no. 402, 410, 411, 413 and 415 from 1959 for the volume "La Lune en Rodage I" edition by Carl Laszlo, Basel. The pieces from the watercolours of 1953 are about postcard size, the one from the watercolours from 1959 around 50 x 30 mm. The later are partly mounted on pieces from 1953, were though mostly glued on wrapping paper primed with chalk and PV, 220 x 150 mm and surrounded with a red and blue semi-circle.The book was published in a numbered edition 150, plus 65 unnumbered specimen for the collaborators.Hundertwasser's comment on the workMy contribution to "La Lune en Rodage", Vienna, 1953 - Paris, 1959.For the album "La Lune en Rodage", edited by Carl Laszlo, Basel, I cut watercolours, numbers 155A, 157 and 159 of 1953 and 402, 410, 411, 413 and 415 of 1959, into 240 little pieces and signed them "100 " and a small number with "Hundertwasser" (150 copies in numbered editions, 65 non-numbered for artists). The pieces stemming from watercolours of 1953 are about the size of a postcard. The pieces from the watercolours of 1959 are about 5 × 3 cm. The latter are in part pasted onto the watercolour pieces of 1953, but most of them are on pieces of white-primed packing paper about 22 × 15 cm in size and with a red-and-blue watercolour semicircle around it. Since this was a bibliophile project, I only recognise the ones which are pasted into "La Lune en Rodage" and not those which have been torn out of the album and could be taken to be small-format works in their own right. 26 copies of this edition of 240 have been painted over and transformed into pictures. They are entitled Survivants de Laszlo. (from: Catalogue Kestner Gesellschaft, Hanover, 1964, p. 186)As I had feared, my tiny collages were torn out of the "La Lune en Rodage" edition, separately framed and were brought to auction as original pictures ... (from: Hundertwasser 1928-2000, Catalogue Raisonné, Vol. 2, Taschen, Cologne, 2002, pp. 469-470)

A quantity of souvenir pictorial postcard albums to include Cairo, Bruges and Southsea, together with an album of early 20th century mixed postcards to include holiday examples, franked with written verse to front and back from Monserrat, Rio de Janeiro and Santos, Location: RWB

A postcard album to include locomotive examples and Arundel scenes, together with an album to include ships, Franco-British Exhibition 1908, naval onboard scenes on HMS Hindustan and Channel Fleet and mixed early 20th century greeting cards, Location: RWB

Pair: Private H. Walker, King’s Own Scottish Borderers, who was killed in action at Longueval on 14 July 1916 British War and Victory Medals (22161 Pte. H. Walker. K.O. Sco. Bord.); Memorial Plaque (Harry Walker); Memorial Scroll, ‘Pte. Harry Walker, K.O. Scottish Borderers’, nearly extremely fine (4) £100-£140 --- Harry Walker was born in Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, and attested there for the King’s Own Scottish Borderers. He served with the 6th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front and was killed in action during the fighting at Longueval on 14 July 1916. He is buried in Quarry Cemetery, Montauban, France. Sold with Buckingham Palace enclosure and a postcard photograph of the recipient.

A German Second World War General Admiral Alfred Saalwachter Promotion Document. A very fine condition promotion document, the outer folder with the large gilt Reich eagle with down swept wings, constructed on the same style as the Knights Cross documents by the leather artisan Frieda Thirsch. The interior award document is held into the folder by a thin strip of Morocco leather promoting Admiral Alfred Saalwachter on 1 January 1940 to General Admiral. Signed at Adolf Hitler’s Headquarters on 13 December 1939, pen signed by Adolf Hitler with a small signature in pen of Admiral Raeder to the lower right hand side of the document, good overall condition and a highly interesting Third Reich document £1,600-£2,000 --- Alfred Saalwachter was a German U-Boat Commander during the Great War, and serving continuously throughout the inter-war period, was in overall command of the invasion of Norway during the Second World War, for which he awarded the Knights Cross of the Iron Cross in May 1940. He was also in charge of German surface operations in the North Atlantic and the English Channel, before resigning from active service in November 1942. He was imprisoned by the Soviets on 21 June 1945 and was convicted by the Soviet Military Tribunal of War Crimes and executed by a firing squad in Moscow in December 1945. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Saalwachter was formally exonerated by a Russian Court. Sold with a Hoffmann postcard of General Admiral Saalwachter wearing his Knights Cross and Admiral’s visor cap.

WW2 RCAF 39 Recce Wing Photographs & Ephemera Europe 1944/45. A selection of original snap shot photographs etc compiled by LAC Harry William King.Comprising Snap shot photographs covering Harry's service in the UK 1943 and then through Europe images included RAF Typhoon Fighters, German aircraft, Holland, Paris etc. ... Postcard photograph of his section Operations Intelligence German May 1945 ... Lugage Labels for the 39 Recce Wing RCAF Occupation money etc. Overall GC. INVOICE PAYABLE ON PRESENTATION BY BANK TRANSFER ONLY

* Hassall (Joan, 1906-1988). A collection of six wood engravings, circa 1940s, includes Burnham Beeches, Ae fond kiss, Master of the Coppice, Buds, and 'Christmas greetings', wood engravings on paper, five signed or initialled, all titled in pencil, the largest image size 6.5 x 5 cm (2 1/2 x 2 ins), displayed within two multi-aperture mounts, framed and glazed (the largest 40.5 x 20 cm), together with Niekerk (Sarah Van, 1934-2018). Signora Fernando, wood engraving on laid paper, signed, titled and numbered '86/100', with a separate handwritten letter from the artist and postcard image of the same work, image size 20.4 x 14.8 cm (8 x 5 3/4 ins), sheet size 28.5 x 22 cm (11 1/4 x 8 3/4 ins), plus two further wood engravings by Hilary Paynter, 'Stress' and 'Boscastle'. QTY: (9)NOTE:Provenance: Patricia Jaffé (née Milne-Henderson, 1935-2018), art historian.'Master of the Coppice' and 'Buds' come from Hassall's illustrations for Fifty-One Poems by Mary Webb (Jonathan Cape, 1946).

19th/20th century postcard album, topographical, greetings and other cards, mainly French scenes

TWO POSTCARD ALBUMS WITH SHIPPING INTERST POSTCARDS

A VICTORIAN ORNATE POSTCARD ALBUM WITH POSTCARDS

A late 20thC black and white postcard album, containing postcards relating to UK towns, to include Blackpool, HMS coloured postcards, etc.

Postcard collection of UK Country Houses. Approx. 375 early to mid-20th century. Many lesser seen buildings both interior and exterior views. 

STAR WARS: A NEW HOPE (1977) - Anthony Daniels Collection: Five C-3PO Greetings Cards and Postcard - Five assorted greeting cards and a postcard featuring C-3PO, all manufactured in 1977 by Drawing Board Greetings Cards, Inc. The lot includes a "Star Wars" card featuring the Hildebrandt poster artwork; a "Greetings, Earthling!" card; and three cards displaying different stills of C-3PO from A New Hope with humorous taglines. The postcard shows artwork by Carol Wynne of C-3PO and R2-D2. All the cards remain blank inside, as does the postcard, and the three larger cards come with their original envelopes. Dimensions (larger cards): 7.75" x 5.5" (19.75 cm x 13.75 cm)This lot comes from the personal collection of actor Anthony Daniels. Daniels plays loyal protocol droid C-3PO in the Star Wars saga. He first appeared in the role in 1977 and is the only actor to appear in all Star Wars feature films to date.See PDF below for a comprehensive study of this and other lots in the Anthony Daniels collection. Estimate: $100 - 200Bidding for this lot will end on Wednesday, March 13th. The auction will begin at 9:00AM PDT and lots are sold sequentially via live auctioneer; tune in to the live streaming broadcast on auction day to follow the pace. Note other lots in the auction may close on Tuesday, March 12th or Thursday, March 14th.

BEDTIME STORIES (2008) - Adam Sandler's Chairback with Hotel Accessories and Parking Pass - Adam Sandler's chairback with hotel accessories and a parking pass from the production of Adam Shankman's Bedtime Stories. Skeeter Bronson's (Sandler) small family business, the Sunny Vista Motel, was torn down and replaced with the Sunny Vista Nottingham luxury hotel.This set consists of a black canvas chairback emblazoned with the production logo in white on one side and "Adam Sandler" in ornate script on the reverse; eight cardboard Sunny Vista Nottingham Hotel matchboxes; two plastic Nottingham Hotel key cards; two paper Nottingham Hotel gift backs; a color-printed postcard featuring a photo of the Sunny Vista Motel; a Sunny Vista Motel matchbook; and a production parking pass labeled "Bedtime Stories." The set exhibits scratching and staining, most visibly to the chairback, from production and age. Dimensions: (largest) 21.5" x 10.25" x 0.75" (54.75 cm x 26 cm x 1.75 cm)This lot is offered at a $100 starting bid with no reserve.Bidding for this lot will end on Thursday, March 14th. The auction will begin at 9:00AM PDT and lots are sold sequentially via live auctioneer; tune in to the live streaming broadcast on auction day to follow the pace. Note other lots in the auction may close on Tuesday, March 12th or Wednesday, March 13th.

STAR WARS: VARIOUS PRODUCTIONS - Anthony Daniels Collection: Collection of Photos, Prints and Postcards Autographed by Anthony Daniels - A collection of photos and prints autographed by Anthony Daniels from across the Star Wars franchise. This lot has 15 separate images each autographed in ink by Daniels, including a large The Phantom Menace postcard and a photograph from his role as Legolas in Ralph Bakshi's 1978 animated The Lord of the Rings adaptation. Dimensions (largest): 14" x 11" (35.5 cm x 28 cm )This lot comes from the personal collection of actor Anthony Daniels. Daniels plays loyal protocol droid C-3PO in the Star Wars saga. He first appeared in the role in 1977 and is the only actor to appear in all Star Wars feature films to date.See PDF below for a comprehensive study of this and other lots in the Anthony Daniels collection. Estimate: $500 - 1,000Bidding for this lot will end on Wednesday, March 13th. The auction will begin at 9:00AM PDT and lots are sold sequentially via live auctioneer; tune in to the live streaming broadcast on auction day to follow the pace. Note other lots in the auction may close on Tuesday, March 12th or Thursday, March 14th.

JAWS RIDE AT UNIVERSAL STUDIOS FLORIDA - Set of Ride Documents - A set of ride documents from the Jaws ride at the Universal Studios Florida in Orlando, Florida. The attraction, which ran from 1990 until 2012, featured animatronic recreations of the famous shark (nicknamed "Bruce") from Steven Spielberg's 1975 thriller film Jaws, which consisted of seven shark interactions. This lot consists of one color print Jaws Universal Studios Florida postcard; one color aerial view photo of the attraction; one printed copy of the 1990 ride map; one printed copy of the 1993 ride map; and a 17-page Jaws Operator script with ride scene breakdowns. Dimensions: 8.5" x 11" x 0.25" (21.75 cm x 28 cm x 0.75 cm)This lot is offered at a $100 starting bid with no reserve.Bidding for this lot will end on Thursday, March 14th. The auction will begin at 9:00AM PDT and lots are sold sequentially via live auctioneer; tune in to the live streaming broadcast on auction day to follow the pace. Note other lots in the auction may close on Tuesday, March 12th or Wednesday, March 13th.

RUSSIAN COSMONAUTS: A good collection of vintage signed postcard photographs by each of the first eleven Russian cosmonauts to venture into space comprising Yuri Gagarin (1934-1968) Soviet cosmonaut, the first human to journey into outer space, Vostok 1, 1961, signed and inscribed postcard photograph of Gagarin in a half-length pose wearing his uniform and holding a white dove in his hands, signed in blue fountain pen ink to the lower white border and dated 16th October 1964 in his hand; Gherman Titov (1935-2000) Soviet cosmonaut, the second human to orbit the earth, Vostok 2, 1961, signed and inscribed postcard photograph of Titov in a head and shoulders pose wearing his uniform and medals, signed in blue fountain pen ink to the lower white border and dated 12th January 1965 in his hand; Andriyan Nikolayev (1929-2004) Soviet cosmonaut who flew on Vostok 3, 1962, signed and inscribed postcard photograph of Nikolayev in a head and shoulders pose wearing his uniform and with a printed caption to the base, signed in blue fountain pen ink to a light area of the background and dated 19th September 1963 in his hand; Pavel Popovich (1930-2009) Soviet cosmonaut who flew on Vostok 4, 1962, signed and inscribed colour postcard photograph of Popovich in a smiling head and shoulders pose wearing his uniform and cap, signed in blue fountain pen ink to a light area of the background and dated 17th September 1963 in his hand; Valery Bykovsky (1934-2019) Soviet cosmonaut who flew on Vostok 5, 1963, signed postcard photograph of Bykovsky in a head and shoulders pose wearing his uniform and medals, signed in dark fountain pen ink with his name alone to a clear area of the background; Valentina Tereshkova (1937- ) Soviet cosmonaut, the first woman ever to fly in space, travelling on Vostok 6, 1963, signed postcard photograph of Tereshkova in a semi-profile head and shoulders pose, signed in blue fountain pen ink to the lower white border and dated 5th September 1963 in her hand; Vladimir Komarov (1927-1967) Soviet cosmonaut who commanded Voskhod 1, 1964 and later became the first human to die in a space flight, rare signed postcard photograph of Komarov in a head and shoulders pose wearing his uniform, signed in fountain pen ink to a darker area at the base of the image and dated 31st October 1964 in his hand; Konstantin Feoktistov (1926-2009) Soviet cosmonaut who flew on Voskhod 1, 1964, signed postcard photograph of Feoktistov in a head and shoulders pose, signed in fountain pen ink to the image and dated 28th October 1964 to the lower white border; Boris Yegorov (1937-1994) Soviet cosmonaut who flew on Voskhod 1, 1964, signed postcard photograph of Yegorov in a head and shoulders pose, signed in fountain pen ink to a darker area of the image and dated 31st October 1964 in his hand; Pavel Belyayev (1925-1970) Soviet cosmonaut who flew on Voskhod 2, 1965, signed postcard photograph of Belyayev in a head and shoulders pose wearing his uniform and medals, signed in dark blue fountain pen ink to the lower white border and dated 27th March 1965; and Alexei Leonov (1934-2019) Soviet cosmonaut, the first person to conduct a spacewalk, Voskhod 2, 1965, signed postcard photograph of Leonov in a head and shoulders pose wearing his uniform and medals, signed in black ink to a light area of the background (very slightly trimmed to the right white border, only very slightly affecting the signature). Accompanied by the original passport of Nina Ivanovna Ukolitskaya to whom the photographs were presented and who was employed within Sergei Korolev's design bureau. A few very slight, minor corner creases, G to generally VG, 12

WORLD WAR II: Selection of signed postcard photographs and smaller (2), a few letters etc., by various individuals associated with World War II, comprising Hasso von Manteuffel, Gunther Blumentritt, Otto Ernst Remer, Karl Bodenschatz, Karl Donitz (signed Royal Air Force Museum commemorative cover), Johannes Steinhoff (2), Alan Brooke (vintage signed cover, 1944) and Simon Wiesenthal (T.L.S.). Also including a few pieces of unsigned printed ephemera relating to World War II including 8vo safe conduct passes (one with facsimile signatures of Dwight Eisenhower) and another leaflet with the captions Eisenhower against Himmler!......Himmler against Germany! G to generally VG, 13

HENRI ADRIAN: (1932-2000) English poet and painter, one of the trio of 'Liverpool Poets'. Signed 8 x 12 privately printed limited edition print by Henri, entitled Rapefield, printed on yellow card and depicting a field of rape flowers with a dark blue sky painted-in by hand at the head. Numbered 79 of 150 in pencil at the base and signed, titled and dated (1989) by Henri in the left margin. Further signed and inscribed to the verso by Henri to Tom Maschler, 'For Tom, very best for 1990, and glad to be a Cape author again! Adrian'. Some surface and corner creasing. Together with an A.L.S., Adrian, to the verso of a picture postcard issued by Jonathan Cape Ltd. and with an illustration announcing a facsimile of the first edition of Beeton's Book of Household Management, n.p., n.d., to Tom Maschler, in full, 'Couldn't wait any longer - hope you like final selection of poems - they're all ones I've read a lot etc. in the last 3 years. Let me know what you think'. G to VG, 2Tom Maschler (1933-2020) British publisher who, from 1960, was head of the publishing company Jonathan Cape for more than three decades. Maschler was also instrumental in establishing the Booker Prize in 1969.

ZUKOFSKY LOUIS: (1904-1978) American poet. Small, scarce selection of three A.Ls.S., Louis, each one page, 4to (2; both on folding air mail stationery) and to one side of a plain postcard, New York, 1967-70, all to Tom Maschler. Zukofsky writes on largely social matters, announcing an upcoming performance by his son, Paul, who will be playing Beethoven at Wigmore Hall and hoping that Maschler will meet him, and also sending thanks for some reviews, remarking 'I take it the unfavorable ones don't depress you. They rather amuse me: it seems some people can't avoid publicity. That goes for reviewer and reviewed - tho the respective intentions should in time be obvious' (9th January 1967). Some irregular tears to the edges of the air mail stationery, G to VG, 3Tom Maschler (1933-2020) British publisher who, from 1960, was head of the publishing company Jonathan Cape for more than three decades. Maschler was also instrumental in establishing the Booker Prize in 1969.

CANTONA ERIC: (1966- ) French Footballer. Signed and inscribed colour 4.5 x 6 postcard photograph, the image showing a young Cantona in a head and shoulders pose wearing his Montpellier strip. Signed in black ink to the image, further adding an inscription in French to the lower white border. Neatly trimmed to the base and with same light surface crease and same very minimal traces of former mounting to the verso. About VG.

[MONACO]: KELLY GRACE: (1929-1982) American actress, Academy Award winner. Later Princess of Monaco. Signed 4 x 6 postcard photograph, the image depicting the Princess seated outdoors alongside her husband, Prince Rainier III, and their three young children, Prince Albert, Princess Caroline and Princess Stephanie. Signed ('Grace de Monaco') by the Princess in black ink with her name alone to a light area at the base of the image. One minor surface crease, otherwise VG

GERMAN CINEMA: Selection of vintage signed postcard photographs by various German (and some Austrian etc.) film actors and actresses including Carla Rust, Lucie Englisch, Olga Tschechowa, Fritz Kampers, Johannes Heesters, Willy Fritsch, Gretl Theimer, Gusti Wolf, Jane Tilden, Anneliese Uhlig, Harry Halm etc. Many of the sepia images are published by Ross. G to generally VG, 14

KLEIBER CARLOS: (1930-2004) German-born Austrian Conductor. Widely considered one of the greatest conductors of the 20th century. Vintage signed postcard photograph by Kleiber, the Hugo Jehle image from Stuttgart showing Kleiber conducting on scene, during a rehearsal. Signed in bold blue ink `Carlos Kleiber´ to the lower white border of the image, also dated in his hand, 1974. VG

EINSTEIN ALBERT: (1879-1955) German-born theoretical physicist, Nobel Prize winner for Physics, 1921. A good A.L.S., Einstein, to one side of a plain postcard, n.p. (Zurich), n.d. (19th August 1910), to Dr. Ludwig Hopf, in German. Einstein writes both a scientific and social letter to his assistant, collaborator and fellow lover of music, making reference to a dispute with another physicist over the rigid bodies in the theory of relativity. Einstein informs Hopf that his wife and their newborn son are ‘still not doing as expected’ so they have ceased their musical evenings until further notice, remarking ‘This also makes me homebound. If you come to see me, I am always happy’ and further writing ‘With Ignatowsky it is indeed as you suspected. He draws conclusions that contradict mine and wants my signature on them. But I have already sent him home and am currently busy with a remark about the rigid body that is destined for the annals, in which I am trying to clarify the situation through a very elementary consideration. If you come, I’ll show you this rather amusing thing’. Hand addressed by Einstein to the verso. A letter of good content and association. One heavy crease to the lower part of the letter, not affecting the text or signature, G Ludwig Hopf (1884-1939) German-Jewish theoretical physicist. Early in his career, in 1909, Hopf was hired by Einstein as his assistant at the University of Zurich and the two scientists became collaborators and co-authors. Their friendship was helped by the fact that both were music lovers and often played duets, Hopf being a talented pianist and Einstein a violinist. Vladimir Ignatowski (1875-1942) Russian physicist who wrote some papers on special relativity and in 1910 was the first to try to derive the Lorentz transformation by group theory only using the relativity principle and without the postulate of the constancy of the speed of light. Einstein’s first wife, the Serbian physicist and mathematician Mileva Maric (1875-1948), had given birth to their second son, Eduard ‘Tete’ Einstein, on 28th July 1910. At the age of 21 Eduard was diagnosed with schizophrenia and after his father’s emigration to the United States the two never saw each other again.

RONALDO CRISTIANO: (1985- ) Portuguese Footballer, five-time European Cup and Ballon d´Or winner. Signed colour 4 x 6 postcard photograph by Ronaldo, the image showing him in a head and shoulders pose wearing his Real Madrid F.C. strip. Signed in bold black ink to the image, also adding the number `7´ above his signature. A couple of very light surface and corner creases to the base, otherwise VG.

EASTWOOD CLINT: (1930- ) American actor and film director, Academy Award winner. Signed sepia 6 x 4 postcard photograph of Eastwood standing outdoors in a half-length pose in costume as the bounty hunter ('The Man with No Name') from one of the Dollars Trilogy series of Spaghetti Western films directed by Sergio Leone betewen 1964 and 1966. Signed by Eastwood in bold blue ink with his name alone to a light area of the image. About EX

ALI MUHAMMAD: (1942-2016) American boxer, World Heavyweight champion. A good vintage blue ink signature (‘Muhammad Ali’) to the verso of a colour picture postcard (7 x 3.5) promoting the Macdonald Hotel in Giffnock, Glasgow. VG

SANTOS-DUMONT ALBERTO: (1873-1932) Brazilian pioneer aviator. Vintage signed postcard photograph of Santos-Dumont standing in a helf-length pose. Signed ('Santos-Dumont') in bold black fountain pen ink to the lower border. A couple of light horizontal scuffs run across the centre of the image, although are only visible when the photograph is held at a certain angle. About VG

SPORT: Selection of signed postcard photographs and slightly larger, 8 x 10s (4) by a wide variety of sportsmen and women including Bobby Charlton, Geoff Hurst, Martin Peters, Althea Gibson, Pauline Betz, Billie Jean King, Virginia Wade, Boris Becker, Henry Cooper (2) etc. G to generally VG, 12

[CASABLANCA]: SAKALL S.Z.: (1883-1955) Hungarian-American stage and film Actor, best remembered for his role as Carl the haed-waiter in the iconic film Casablanca (1942). A vintage signed postcard photograph, the original Ross image showing Sakall in a smiling head and shoulders pose. Signed in bold black fountain pen ink, in his German version name `Szoke Szakall´ also adding Berlin at the base and dated in his hand. VG

ROMMEL ERWIN: (1891-1944) German Field Marshal of World War II. An excellent signed postcard photograph `Rommel´, the image depicting the Desert Fox in in a head and shoulders formal pose, in uniform. Signed in bold black ink across the image. VG

ONO YOKO: (1933- ) Japanese singer, songwriter, artist and peace activist, the second wife of John Lennon from 1969-80. Signed and inscribed colour 6 x 4 postcard photograph, the image being a reproduction of the famous and incredibly poignant Annie Leibovitz photograph of Yoko Ono lying supine, wearing dark denim jeans and a long-sleeved black top, as John Lennon, completely naked, curls himself in a fetal position around his wife and tenderly kisses her cheek. Signed by Ono in black ink to a light area of the image, 'To Alain, with love, Yoko' and dated at New York City, 1991, in her hand. One very light. extremely minor surface crease to the image, VGThe present image was captured by American portrait photographer Annie Leibovitz with a Polaroid camera in Lennon and Ono's apartment in The Dakota on 8th December 1980 just five hours before the former Beatle was tragically murdered.

AIRSHIPS: Small selection of three signed photographs comprsing a postcard photograph depicting a Zeppelin airship in flames on 17th October 1913, signed to the verso by four members of the crew of the Hindenburg airship who survived the disaster that occurred at Lakehurst, New Jersey, on 6th May 1937 comprising Eugen Bentele (1909-2003; chief mechanic), Theodor Ritter (1913-2009; trainee engine mechanic), Fred Grozinger (1916-2002; cook) & Walter Muller (1908-2003; Flight officer) and also signed by John Lust, a crew member of the USS Akron, who fatefully avoided the flight of the airship that resulted in disaster on 3rd April 1933; a signed 5 x 7 photograph by Tom Applegate, a civilian ground crew member at the time of the Hindenburg disaster, the image depicting the airship in flames, signed in black ink to the lower white border; and a signed 10 x 8 photograph by Margherita Thielke, an eyewitness to the Hindenburg disaster, the image depicting the airship crashing to the ground in flames, signed in black ink to the image by Thielke, further adding a few words and the date of the disaster in her hand beneath her signature. VG, 3

ZORIN VALERIAN: (1902-1986) Soviet diplomat who served as his country's permanent representative at the United Nations Security Council 1952-53 & 1956-65, during the latter period becoming involved in a famous confrontation with Adlai Stevenson on 25th October 1962 during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Dark fountain pen ink signature ('V Zorin') in Cyrillic on a plain United Nations postcard, bearing their small blue printed emblem to the upper left corner and postally cancelled at the United Nations, New York, on 18th July 1952. Some very light, extremely minimal age wear, VG

BARDOT BRIGITTE: (1934- ) French actress and sex symbol. A good, early vintage signed postcard photograph of the young actress in a half-length pose looking back over her shoulder and with the sea in the background. Signed in blue fountain pen ink with her name alone to a clear area at the head of the image. About EX

BECKETT SAMUEL: (1906-1989) Irish novelist and playwright, Nobel Prize winner for Literature, 1969. A.L.S., Sam, to the verso of a vintage picture postcard of a memorial cross at Jouarre, Ussy, 6th February 1958, to Deryck [Mendel]. Beckett thanks his friend for their letter and remarks that he was pleased to hear about the Biennale, continuing 'What about the sack mime instead? Less cumbersome, and good opportunity to get it working, Is this a silly idea? Probably. Think it over'. Beckett also informs his friend that he will be in Paris next week ('Hope you will come for a taste of carrot one day') and further writes 'Sorry about Dublin. Hope your dancers were not too desolated. Well out of that Jesuits' close stool' before concluding with a reference to his lover and future wife, Suzanne Dechevaux-Dumesnil, a pianist, 'Suzanne is off gallivanting in Vienna. Opening this evening'. VGDeryck Mendel (1920-2013) British ballet dancer, choreographer, actor and director, a friend of Beckett. The playwright wrote the short play Act Without Words I in 1956 for Mendel and the dancer first performed the mime at the Royal Court Theatre in London on 3rd April 1957.In the present letter Beckett offers Mendel the chance to stage his second short mime play Act Without Words II which featured two men in sacks, one of whom (amongst other activities) nibbles on a carrot which he then promptly spits out in disgust.

RICHTER GERHARD: (1932- ) German artist. Signed colour 6 x 4 postcard, the image being a reproduction of Richter's oil painting Seascape (Cloudy) (1969) held in the collection of the Staatsgalerie in Stuttgart. Signed ('Richter') by the artist in blue fountain pen ink to the base of the image. VG

MUSSOLINI BENITO: (1883-1945) Italian Fascist Dictator of World War II. A very interesting and unusual A.L.S., signed with his initial `B´, one page, to an Italian postcard, Gualteri, 6th June 1902, to his friend Sante Bedeschi, in Forli, in Italian. Mussolini, in his usual youth small writing, explains to his friend Bedeschi his plan of leaving Italy because of the poor salaries which do not permit him to live properly and that he will establish himself in Switzerland where he has got a job, stating in part `Carissimo Bedeschi, Forse non e la cartolina che tu desideravi, ma quando tu avrai la presente io saró con tutta probabilità non piu nella terra di Dante, ma nella terra di G.[uglielmo] Tell. Devi sapere che qui - dato il piu che pieno salario - non posso vivere. Aggiungi che stante i barbiri regolamenti che ci sgovernano non ho diritto ai mensili delle vacanze - Onde - piuttosto che riedere a pitoccare dalla famiglia - decisi di andare in Svizzera dove un amico mi ha trovato un posto qual magazziniere di una ditta in ferrareccie´ (Translation: "My very dear Bedeschi, Perhaps it's not the postcard you wanted, but when you will receive it I will most likely no longer be in the land of Dante, but in the land of G.[William] Tell. You must know that here - given the full salary - I cannot live. Add that given the barbaric regulations that rule us out, I am not entitled to monthly holiday payments - So - rather than go back to be maintained by my family - I decided to go to Switzerland where a friend found me a job as a warehouseman in a hardware stores company") Mussolini further states `Ho una leggera scorta di denaro, frutto di snodati risparmi...La citta dove vado e Ginevra. Il mio posto e sicuro, ma tu sai che a finanze e meglio partir bene agguerriti. Pagarti cio che ti devo mi torna oggi di sacrificio. Dei resto scrivimi subito e se non mi puoi risparmiare l´olocausto m´inchinero. Scrivimi subito ho detto perché la tua non mi potrebbe trovar piu a Gualtieri´ (Translation: "I have a small reserve of money, the result of extensive savings...The city where I'm going is Geneva. My place is safe, but you know that when it comes to finances it's better to start out well prepared. Paying you what I owe you is a sacrifice to me today. Besides, write to me immediately and if you can't spare me the holocaust, I will bow. Write to me immediately I said, because your letter could no longer find me in Gualtieri") Mussolini also adds to the heading a kind of post-scriptum he couldn´t find space at the conclusion of his letter, saying `La vigilia della partenza ti scriveró una lettera e ti diró le vicende qui passate. percepiró a Ginevra dalle 85 alle 90 lire mensili´ (Translation: "On the eve of the departure I will write you a letter and tell you what happened. I will receive in Geneva from 85 to 90 lire per month") Addressed to the verso in Mussolini´s hand, also bearing few postmarks. Including full letter transcription. Small overall age wear with a stain to the right bottom border. About G As well as Mussolini, Sante Bedeschi was a school teacher, working at the Collegio Dalle Vacche in Forli at the time of the present letter. Mussolini wrote the present letter the day before his departure to Switzerland. In love with a young married woman, repudiated for adultery, and in debt to close friends, Mussolini had decided to go into exile to earn a more comfortable living and repay his debts. This time, he did not go as far as Geneva, but stopped in the canton of Vaud then Berne where, arrested following a speech supporting the strikes, he was taken back to the Italian border. ​

HEANEY SEAMUS: (1939-2013) Irish poet and playwright, Nobel Prize winner for Literature, 1995. A.L.S., Seamus H., to the verso of a colour picture postcard featuring a colour illustration of the painting The Visit of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert to Hawthornden (1844) by Sir William Allan to the recto, n.p. (Dublin, Ireland), 2nd March 2007, to Tom Maschler. Heaney writes, in full, 'It's not Taormina, but still...[apparently in reference to the image of Hawthornden] About a hundred years ago you sent me the name of the hotel/villa in Asolo, and reminded me that I had mentioned Basho's The Narrow Road to the Deep North - I guess it should still be available in Penguin. Enjoy the springtime'. Accompanied by the original envelope hand addressed by Heaney. VGTom Maschler (1933-2020) British publisher who, from 1960, was head of the publishing company Jonathan Cape for more than three decades. Maschler was also instrumental in establishing the Booker Prize in 1969.

RILEY BRIDGET: (1931- ) English artist, known for her op art paintings. Signed colour 4 x 6 postcard, the image being a reproduction of Riley's oil painting Sidi Bou-Said (1985) which is housed in the Kunstmuseum in Stuttgart. Signed by Riley in bold black ink with her name alone to the side of the image. EX

COWARD NOEL: (1899-1973) English actor, playwright and composer, Academy Award winner. A good vintage signed postcard photograph of the young Coward seated in a three-quarter length pose and holding a lit cigarette in one hand. Photograph by Dorothy Wilding and issued as Number 354 in the Picturegoer series. Signed by Coward in blue fountain pen ink to a clear area of the background and dated 1930 in his hand. VG

ACTRESSES: A good small selection of three signed photographs by three iconic actresses, containing Lauren Bacall (1924-2014) American actress, Academy Award winner. Signed 9.5 x 6.5 photograph, the image showing Bacall seated in a three quarter length pose alongside Humphrey Bogart in a scene of The Big Sleep (1946); Marlene Dietrich (1901-1992) German-American Actress and Singer. Unusual signed postcard photograph by Dietrich, the image depicting her in a scene of Garden of Allah (1936) alongside Charles Boyer, and Gina Lollobrigida (1927-2023) Italian Actress & Sex Symbol. Signed 4 x 6 photograph showing the Italian actress in a head and shoulders close-up pose. All are boldly signed to clear areas of the images. VG, 3

GORKY MAXIM: (1868-1936) Alexei Maximovich Peshkov, Russian Writer and political socialist Activist & CHALIAPIN FEODOR (1873-1938) Russian Opera Singer. An excellent vintage signed postcard photograph by Gorky and Chaliapin, the image showing both artists in a half length pose, Gorky seated alongside Chaliapin standing close. Individually signed by Gorky and Chaliapin, in bold black fountain pen ink, to clear areas of the image. Poststamped and addressed to the verso, to Argentina, with annotations in Cyrillic. Very small overall age wear, otherwise VG Gorky wrote Chaliapin's autobiography in 1916. He would write to Chaliapin in 1909 `I myself will write your life as you dictate it… I hasten, my friend, to tell you the following, You're undertaking a serious business, an important and widely significant matter, that is, something interesting not only to us Russians but to the whole world of culture and especially of art! Do you understand this?... A symbolic life, which attests indisputably to the great strength and power of our land… Watch out, Feodor, don't toss your soul into the hands of word peddlers!… I am terribly afraid you won't understand the national, the Russian significance of your autobiography! Listen, my dear, shut your eyes and think a minute..´.

PIAF EDITH: (1915-1963) French singer. A good vintage signed postcard photograph of Piaf, the front image showing the French artist in a double head and shoulders pose, as if it was a playing Queen of hearts poker card. Signed in bold blue ink `Edith Piaf´, beneath a printed text saying "The Queen! Edith Piaf appears nightly at Versailles". Overall minor staining, otherwise G

KOMAROV VLADIMIR: (1927-1967) Soviet cosmonaut, commander of Voskhod 1 (1964) and pilot of Soyuz 1 (1967). A rare vintage signed colour 4 x 6 postcard photograph of Komarov in a head and shoulders pose wearing his uniform and various medals. Signed in black ink with his name alone to a light area of the image. The signature is a touch light in places, although legible. Signed photographs of Komarov are rare as a result of his tragic death at the age of 40 during the Soyuz 1 mission, thereby becoming the first human to die in a space flight. VG

FUENTES CARLOS: (1928-2012) Mexian novelist. Small correspondence collection of two T.Ls.S. and two A.Ls.S., Carlos Fuentes (and one with his first name only), each one page, 4to, various places (Paris, London etc.), 1968-92, all to Tom Maschler. The earliest letter is dated shortly after Jonathan Cape Ltd. had published A Change of Skin in 1968 to mixed reviews, and Fuentes eloquently responds by writing 'I have now seen the Observer and Sunday Times Reviews. What can I say? My mental health forces me to bannish (sic) the English critics from my head. I have come to believe that if, for one instant, I wrote a single line that would please them, I would be prostituting myself. I really wonder why a novel that has had such good critical notices in Italy, the USA and Latin America fails so miserably in Britain.....Once I have bannished (sic) Britannia Literaria from my head, what really hurts me is that your great courage and sympathy and conviction in publishing this book have met with this reception. I cannot tell you how sad this makes me feel. But all this is not important. What is important is your friendship, your warmth and intelligence' (1st November 1968). Although Cape did not publish any further works by Fuentes, his friendship with Maschler did endure, as reflected in the later letters, 'I am going to be in Mexico until mid-February and was remembering our old project to see a bit of the country together. If your travels between now and February bring you near Mexico, do please hop over' (7th September 1969), 'My mother, a rather imperious (and capricious) 84 year old dowager, has decided that this is the last summer she will be able to travel in Europe. We are taking her tomorrow for two weeks (or more) in Spain & Italy, which makes it impossible to go to you in France' (5th August 1992), 'Sorry about the numerous changes and delays - it has not been a peaceful summer - Oaxaca and its Gods are angry for forsaking them' (19th August 1992). Together with a few carbon typed copies of letters from Maschler and his secretary to Fuentes and also including a postcard with two amusing pen and ink caricatures, one of Harold Wilson. Some light age wear, generally VG, 5Tom Maschler (1933-2020) British publisher who, from 1960, was head of the publishing company Jonathan Cape for more than three decades. Maschler was also instrumental in establishing the Booker Prize in 1969.