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Johnny Cash portrait photo with authentic autograph, CoA

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Johnny Cash Autograph, CoA

 

Johnny Cash portrait photo with authentic autograph.

The Autograph comes with a Certificate of Authenticity.

7,7 x 9,8 inches (19,4 x 25,5 cm), good condition.

John R. “Johnny” Cash (1932–2003) was an American singer-songwriter, actor, and author who was considered one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century.

Although he is primarily remembered as a country icon, his songs and sound spanned other genres including rock and roll and rockabilly—especially early in his career—and blues, folk, and gospel. This crossover appeal won Cash the rare honor of induction in the Country Music Hall of Fame, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and the Gospel Music Hall of Fame.

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Rita Hayworth Autograph on Photo, CoA

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Rita Hayworth Autograph, CoA

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Rita Hayworth autograph on Columbia Film (Ufa/Film-Foto). Real Photo.

3,5 x 5,5 inches, good condition.

Rita Hayworth (1918–1987) was an American dancer and film actress who achieved fame during the 1940s as one of the era’s top stars.

Appearing first as Rita Cansino, she agreed to change her name to Rita Hayworth and her natural dark brown hair color to dark red to attract a greater range of roles. Her appeal led to her being featured on the cover of Life magazine five times, beginning in 1940.

Hayworth appeared in a total of 61 films over 37 years.

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Oskar Werner Autograph and early Portrait Photo. CoA

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Oskar Werner Autograph and Photo. CoA

Oskar Werner Autograph on album page 5.4 x 7.5 inches and b/w photo print with a portrait of the young Oskar Werner 7,1 x 9,4 inches. Both are in good condition. Perfect for display.

The Autograph comes with a Certificate of Authenticity.

Oskar Werner was 18 years old when he made his stage bow at the Burgtheater in Wien.
He was a lifelong pacifist, a pure, traditional mime, a gifted reciter.

“Werner’s definitive screen performance was the romantic intellectual Jules in Francois Truffaut’s Jules et Jim (1962), though it was his portrayal of the philosophical Dr. Schumann in Ship of Fools (1965) that earned the actor his only Oscar nomination. His friendship with Truffaut soured after their second collaboration, Fahrenheit 451 (1967); exhibiting profound disillusionment, Truffaut complained (not without justification) that Werner had become a “cold” performer.

Oskar Werner died at the age of 62.

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Liu Shuduo Leisure Seal with meaningful Words

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Chinese Leisure Seal by Liu Shuduo 刘叔度 with meaningful Words

 

Decorative stone-seal wit a stylized dragon a the front side an details beneath (date, signature).
Great carving of the 6 characters: 君子之量容人 junzi zhi liang rongren [the tolerance of the noble man towards Fellow) men]. The seal is from 1932.

34 x 14 x 34 mm. Good condition. (What looks like knocks at the upper rim surely was deliberately made by the seal carver. This artifice was mostly used at the bottom side to make the seal look old or just to break up the neat borders).

劉叔度, Liu Shuduo 1894 – 1942 was a know seal carver oft he late Qing. Qing- and Republic-periode.

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Antique Chinese Vase, blue white Craquelure, End of Qing Dynasty

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Qing Dynasty Vase, blue white Craquelure

Chinese porcelain vase, from the end of Qing Dynasty.

Round stand, slim corpus with lid.

Floral decoration with birds in blue color against white, sparsely crackled background.

Dark brown rim and stand with floral décor.

Cheng Hua-bottom mark but from later period, 18- 19th century.

Diameter corpus: 8,5 cm, Height: 25 cm. Good condition.

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Chinese Leisure Seal. Attractive Furong Shou Shan. 4 Characters

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Chinese Leisure Seal. Attractive Furong Shou Shan. 芙蓉寿山石

Beautiful Chinese seal made of Furong Shou Shan Stone 芙蓉寿山石, beige -red, with lotus leaves and lotus flower as handle. Engraved are 4 characters: Wen Wu shuang Quan 文武双全( Literature and the art or war are both perfect kinds of art). Side carving with the name of the seal carver.

1,3 x1,4 x 2,8 inches (33 x 35 x 70 mm), 173 gram, very fine condition.

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Montgomery Clift Autograph on 10 x 8, 1966. CoA

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Montgomery Clift Autograph on 10 x 8, 1966. CoA

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Montgomery Clift Autograph on The Defector Photo, 1966. CoA

Montgomery Clift: Authentic autograph on larger display photo, signed in 1966, the year of his death.

The Autograph comes with a Certificate of Authenticity.

10 x 8 inches, very good condition.

Edward Montgomery (Monty) Clift (1920 –1966) was an American film and stage actor. The New York Times’ obituary noted his portrayal of “moody, sensitive young men”.

Clift starred in the ground-breaking 1950 docu-drama The Big Lift.

He often played outsiders and “victim-heroes”; examples include the social climber in George Stevens’s A Place in the Sun, the anguished Catholic priest in Hitchcock’s I Confess, the doomed regular soldier Robert E. Lee Prewitt in Fred Zinnemann’s From Here to Eternity, and the Jewish GI bullied by antisemites in Edward Dmytryk’s The Young Lions.

Later, after a car crash in 1956 that scarred Clift’s face, and alcohol and prescription drug abuse, he became erratic.
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Silent Movie Actress Constance Talmadge Autograph on Ross Photo, 1931. CoA

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Constance Talmadge Autograph on Ross Photo, 1931. CoA

 

Constance Talmadge: Authentic autograph on German Ross Photo, 1931.

The Autograph comes with a Certificate of Authenticity.

3,5 x 5,5 inches, very good condition.

Constance Talmadge (1898 –1973) was a silent movie star born in Brooklyn, New York, USA, and was the sister of fellow actresses Norma Talmadge and Natalie Talmadge.

She began making films in 1914, in a Vitagraph comedy short, In Bridal Attire (1914). Her first major role was as The Mountain Girl and Marguerite de Valois in D.W. Griffith’s Intolerance (1916).

Griffith re-edited Intolerance repeatedly after its initial release, and even shot new scenes long after it was in distribution. Grace Kingsley found Talmadge in her dressing room at the Fine Arts Studio, in Los Angeles, in the midst of making up for some new shots.

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业奉棋 鼻烟壶. Desirable, beautiful Crystal Rock Snuff Bottle by Ye Fengqi

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Crystal Rock Snuff Bottle, inside Painting, Ye Fengqi.

 

Desirable, beautiful crystal rock snuff bottle by Ye Fengqi, a son of master Ye Zhongsan and brother of the also famous Ye Xiaofeng.
The snuff bottle comes with a Certificate of Authenticity. 2,5 x 1,2 x 3,4
inches.

One side of the bottle shows the poet Li Taibo with a pupil. At the reverse is a dedication to the famous master of Peking Opera, Shang Xiaoyun (1900-1976), an important actor of Dan-roles.
Signed Ye Fengqi, 1931.

Coral stopper, Silver spoon. Fine condition.

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Tito Gobbi Autograph. Hand signed Photo from 1959. CoA

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Tito Gobbi Autograph from 1959. CoA

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Tito Gobbi b/w portrait print with authentic autograph from 1959, signed in Wien.

11,8 x 15,6 cm. Minor aging at edges.

The Autograph comes with a Certificate of Authenticity.

Tito Gobbi (1913 –1984) was an Italian baritone who appeared in twenty-five films, in both singing and speaking roles. He sang the role of Baron Scarpia in the 1964 Franco Zeffirelli production of Puccini’s Tosca at Covent Garden with Maria Callas in the title role.
Gobbi and Callas had previously sung their roles in the classic 1953 EMI recording of the opera, with Giuseppe di Stefano as Mario Cavaradossi and Victor de Sabata conducting. The performance is considered to be one of Callas and Gobbi’s best works.

Gobbi was announced as 1969 King of Moomba by the Melbourne Moomba festival. He retired from the operatic stage in 1979. He was brother-in-law of the Bulgarian bass Boris Christoff.

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