Photographs, Autographs and Ephemera

AUTOGRAPH. A postcard signed and inscribed with a message by Arthur Ransom ‘No Photographs Allowed, But plenty of good wishes, you seem to be exactly the right reader for these books…’, within a printed border, circa 1950, framed and glazed, overall 23cm x 33.5cm.

AUTOGRAPHS. A collection of approximately 95 postcards of actors, actresses and performers, the majority signed in ink, including Selma Braatz, Fred Whittaker, Millie Payne, Gustave Fasola, Florrie Gallimore, Marie Studholme, Florrie Forde, and Lil Hawthorne.

AUTOGRAPHS. A collection of approximately 93 postcards of actors, actresses and performers, the majority signed in ink, including G.H. Elliott, Maud Rochez, Marguerite Broadfoote, Thos E. Finglass, Maidie Scott, Fred Kitchen, ‘Datas’ and Frances Letty.

AUTOGRAPHS. A collection of approximately 95 postcards of actors, actresses and performers, the majority signed in ink, including George Formby, Wee Georgie Woods, Fred Spencer, Maude Terry, Susie Belmore, Millie Hylton, Dolly Ellsowrthy, G.H. Elliott, Harry Randall, and Arthur Aiston.

AUTOGRAPH. A photographic postcard signed by Rudyard Kipling, of the author curling in Switzerland, 9cm x 14cm, postally used but with stamp removed.

ALBUM. A leather-bound family album containing numerous inscriptions, amateur drawings and watercolours, leaves 13.5cm x 16cm, including signatures of wounded soldiers in the First World War collected at the Red Cross Hospital, Northgate St, Bury St Edmunds.

AUTOGRAPHS. A leather-bound ‘The George Edwardes Birthday Book’ compiled by Cecilia ‘Cissie’ Loftus (1876-1943) containing approximately 429 signatures from her peers, most signed on their birthday, leaves 22cm x 17cm, including Letty Lind on a portrait plate, Charles Richman, Robert Loraine, Dennis Eadie, Ruth St Denis, Constance Collier, Doris Lytton, William Somerset Maugham, Seymour Hicks, Hilda Trevelyan, Henry Irving, Gertie Millar, Robert Baden Powell, Ellen Terry Carew, Richard Eugene Burton, Gerald du Maurier, C. Hayden Coffin on a portrait plate, Ellaline Terriss, May Robson, Phil May, Cyril Maude, J.M. Barrie, Nellie Melba, Dion Boucicault, Richard Mansfield, Arnold Bennett, May Irwin, Marie Tempest, Charles Frohman, William Gillette, Alison Skipworth, Henry Irving, Claude Grahame-White, Maud Allan, Chas Pears, Charles H. Hawtrey, Arthur Roberts, Justin Huntley McCarthey, Marion Terry, Sarah Bernhardt, Marie Loftus, Theodore Roosevelt, Herbert Beerbohm Tree, Letty Lind, and Marie Tempest on a portrait plate.

AUTOGRAPHS. An album compiled by Cecilia ‘Cissie’ Loftus (1876-1943) containing approximately 86 autographs with associated messages from her peers, leaves 17.5cm x 15cm, the signatures (some back to back) include Arthur Rackham accompanied by a sketch of an anthropomorphic tree watched by a crowd of birds dated 1927, Oliver Herford accompanied by a portrait of a lady, William Gillette, Fanny Brice, May Irwin, Tyrone Power, Frances Starr, Margaret Anglin (Hull), Charles Coburn, Donald Meek, Alfred Smith, Frank Lloyd, Warner Baxter, Joan Bennett, Diana Wynyard, Arthur Byron, Robert Loraine, Ernest Thesiger accompanied by an ink profile portrait, Mary Pickford, Basil Rathbone, Katharine Hepburn, Barry Jones, W. Augustus Barratt accompanied by a musical score, Miriam Hopkins, Edmund Golding, Sidney Toler with Charlie Chan reference, Ronald Coleman, Ginger Rogers, Elsa Maxwell, Greer Garson, Rosalind Russell, John ‘Jack’ Barrymore, Brian Aherne, Joan Fontaine, C. Aubrey Smith, and Walt Disney (stitching broken, binding worn).

PHOTOGRAPHS. An album relating to Cecilia ‘Cissie’ Loftus (1876-1943) containing 62 black and white photographs and press photographs of Cecilia Loftus charting her career as a film star, actress, vaudevillian, impersonator and music hall performer, leaves 30.5cm x 40cm, photographs 20cm x 25.5cm and larger, a few signed or dedicated to her son, Peter.

THEATRE PROGRAMMES. A bound collection of six Drury Lane pantomime theatre programmes, dated 1888-1893, 21cm x 14cm, together with two bound volumes of American theatre programmes, circa 1927-1932, and a further bound volume of American theatre programmes circa 1930-1932, all with original wrappers bound-in. Provenance: Peter Loftus, son of Cecilia Loftus (his name to some upper covers).

CIRCUS. A scarce program titled ‘La Cirque vu par Paul Colin’, dated 1932, 32cm x 24cm, with 10 full-page lithographic plates by Paul Colin and numerous advertisements, with red velvet covers (slightly worn).

PROPAGANDA. Two First World War period printed articulated models of Germans, one 22cm, the other 19cm, both on wooden bases, together with an articulated postcard of related interest.

GAME. A folding engraved game with contemporary hand-colouring ‘The Naturalist, A New Game, Moral and Instructive’, printed in six sections and backed onto linen, published 1813 by John Wallis, 48cm x 38cm, folding within original slipcase with paper label offering the alternative title ‘Wallis’s New Game of the Naturalist’.

LOTTERY. A lottery advertisement printed in red and black for a draw on 14th February 1810, 22cm x 14cm, loosely mounted on another near period piece of paper.

PHOTOGRAPHS. A collection of nine Frith series photographs of towns in North Devon, circa 1900, 15.5cm x 20.5cm, most featuring cars, charabancs or horse and carriages.

PHOTOGRAPHS. A collection of 13 glossy toned silver print photographs by W.E. Wynter, Seaford, circa 1900, 15cm x 20.5cm or 10cm x 15cm, all of East Sussex.

LITHOGRAPHS. A collection of 23 lithographed plates by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec from the publication ‘Au Cirque’, published in 1952, each 31cm x 24cm, together with 12 plates from ‘La Affiches de Toulouse Lautrec’.

PHOTOGRAPHS. A folder containing approximately 51 photographs relating to the 1932 and 1936 Olympics, collected by Group Captain Don Finlay, including photographs of Ralph Metcalfe and Eddie Tolan in the Olympic Village, Jesse Owens, Cornelius ‘Corny’ Johnson, four of the 1936 110m hurdles final, and other team and group photographs, together with a collection of other similar loose photographs. Note: Don Finlay was a distinguished British fighter pilot and an accomplished three-time Olympian who won a bronze medal in 1932 and a silver medal in 1936 in the 110m hurdles.

BOXING PROGRAMMES. A collection of 42 boxing programmes, 1950s and 1960s, including a Souvenir Programme for An International Tournament at the Royal Albert Hall on 11th December 1951 with all three Kray Brothers, Ronnie, Reggie and Charlie, on the same bill, other programmes featuring Henry Cooper, Sonny Liston, Terry Downes, Billy Walker, Howard Winstone, Terry Spinks, and Brian London, a few accompanied by ticket stubs, together with an album of boxing ephemera including ticket stubs, posters and magazines.