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Pele Soccer Legend Autograph on large Photo CoA

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Soccer Legend Pele Autograph on Large Photo

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Pele: one of the big soccer legends signed b/w photo.

The Autograph comes with a Certificate of Authenticity. Size: 17,4 x 23,7 cm (6,8 x 9,4 inches).

Edson Arantes do Nascimento (born 1940, known as Pelé), is a retired Brazilian professional footballer who played as a forward. He is widely regarded as the greatest player of all time.

Pelé is also credited with making the phrase “the beautiful game” synonymous with football. In 1999, he was voted World Player of the Century by the International Federation of Football History & Statistics (IFFHS). The same year, France Football asked their former Ballon d’Or winners to choose the Football Player of the Century; they selected Pelé.

In 1999, Pelé was elected Athlete of the Century by the IOC, and Time named him in their list of 100 most influential people of the 20th century. In 2013 he received the FIFA Ballon d’Or Prix d’Honneur in recognition of his career and achievements as a global icon of football.

According to the IFFHS, Pelé is the most successful league goal scorer in the world, with 541 league goals.
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Adolf von Sonnenthal Autograph, hand written Letter. COA

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Adolf von Sonnenthal Autograph, hand written Card. COA

 

Adolf von Sonnenthal: hand-written letter (card) with ten lines and signature Sonnenthal.

The Autograph comes with a Certificate of Authenticity.

Adolf von Sonnenthal (1834-1909), Austrian actor, was born of Jewish parentage in Budapest.

He made his first appearance at Temesvar in 1851, and after engagements at Hermannstadt and Graz came in the winter of 1855-1856 to Koenigsberg in Prussia. His first performance was so successful that he was engaged by Heinrich Laube for the Burgtheater in Vienna, making his first appearance as Mortimer in Schiller’s Maria Stuart.

Under Laube’s careful tuition he developed within three years into an actor of the first order, excelling both in tragedy and comedy; and in 1882, after twenty-five years of brilliant service at the Court Theatre, he was given a patent of nobility.

In 1884 he became manager-in-chief of the theatre; and in 1887-1888 acted as artistic advisor. He visited the United States in 1885, and again in 1899 and 1902, achieving great success.

His chief parts were Nathan in Lessing’s Nathan der Weise, Wallenstein, and Der Meister von Palmyra.


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Markus Prachensky Autograph

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Markus Prachensky Autograph on 8 x 6 Photo, CoA

Markus Prachensky autograph
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Markus Prachensky: b/w photo of the artist in front of one of his paintings; hand-signed with green pen.

The Autograph comes with a Certificate of Authenticity.

Markus Prachensky (1932 -2011) was an Austrian painter and graphic artist of the Informalism.

In 1956 Prachensky, along with Wolfgang Hollegha, Josef Mikl and Arnulf Rainer, founded the artist association „Galerie naechst St. Stephan“.

In 1957 this group had an important exhibition at the Wiener Secession and Prachensky beacme member of the Secession. From 1983 till his retirement in 2000 he held a post as professor at the Akademie der Bildenden Kuenste Wien. Prachensky is considered as one of the most important artist of the Austrian Avantgarde and of the Informalism in Austria.

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General Franco Autograph from 1937 on Photo. CoA

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General Franco Autograph on Photo. CoA

General Franco autograph

Spanien 1937: b/w photo of General Franco plus side letter (typed and hand signed), plus Original-envelope (opened at 3 sides). Violet stamp of Franco office.

Francisco Franco y Bahamonde (1892 –1975) was a Spanish military leader who ruled as the dictator of Spain from 1939 until his death. He came to power during the Spanish Civil War while serving as the Generalísimo of the Nationalist faction.

Franco led the Nationalists to victory in the civil war and went on to become the longest-ruling dictator in European history.

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Early John Wayne Autograph on Photo CoA

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Desirable, early John Wayne autograph: b/w photo postcard depicting John Wayne in Cowboy outfit. Hand-signed with ink.

 

The Autograph comes with a Certificate of Authenticity.

Size: 8,7 x 13,6 cm. Good condition (glue remnants at reverse).

Hes name is misprinted at the reverse as Jhon (!) Wayne.

Marion Mitchell Morrison (1907 – 1979), better known by his stage name John Wayne and by his nickname “Duke”, was an American film actor, director, and producer.

An Academy Award-winner for True Grit (1969), Wayne was among the top box office draws for three decades. An enduring American icon, for several generations of Americans he epitomized rugged masculinity and is famous for his demeanor, including his distinctive calm voice, walk, and height.

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Lauritz Melchior Autograph on Portrait Photo CoA

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Lauritz Melchior Autograph on large b/w Foto, signed at lower margin.

The Autograph comes with a Certificate of Authenticity.

20,5 x 25,4 cm (8 x 10 inches) , bend at the lower right corner otherwise very good condition.

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Lauritz Melchior (20 1890 – 1973) was a Danish and later American opera singer. He was the pre-eminent Wagnerian tenor of the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s and has since come to be considered the quintessence of his voice type. Late in his career, Melchior appeared in movie musicals and on radio and television. He also made numerous recordings.

Word of his talent spread and was heard of by Cosima and Siegfried Wagner at Bayreuth. There the re-opening of the Festival for 1924 was under preparation. Melchior was engaged to sing Siegmund and Parsifal. This prestigious contract opened the way to several other appearances such as a Wagner concert with Frida Leider in Berlin in 1923. Around this time several acoustic records were cut for Polydor.

On May 14, 1924 Lauritz Melchior made his debut, as Siegmund, at the Royal Opera House at Covent Garden in London. The result was a smashing success. Some weeks later Melchior made his debut on the stage of the Festspielhaus in Bayreuth in the roles of Siegmund and Parsifal. In July 1925 Adolf Hitler attended a performance of Parsifal in Bayreuth as a guest of Winifred Wagner. According to Walpole, who was sitting in Wagner’s box next to Hitler, as Melchior sang, “the tears poured down Hitler’s cheeks”.

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Brigitte Bardot and Pablo Picasso Photo with Signature Bardot

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Cute photograph of Pablo Picasso watching young Brigitte Bardot sitting on one of his objects, a goat.

Hand signed by Brigitte Bardot.
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The Autograph comes with a Certificate of Authenticity.

Size: 12,6 x 17,5 cm, very good condition.

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Gottfried Helnwein. Authentic Autograph. Hand-signed Postcard.

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Gottfried Helnwein Autograph. Hand-signed Postcard. CoA

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Gottfried Helnwein, authentic, hand-signed Art-postcard after one of his water-colors: „ My Friend”, 1978.

4 x 6 inches. Very fine condition.

The Autograph comes with a Certificate of Authenticity.

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Claudia Cardinale Autograph on Portrait Print

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Claudia Cardinale: Authentic Autograph on a German print form Star Portraits series.
Size: 5,1 x 7 inches. Very fine condition.

Claudia Cardinale Authentic Autograph

The Autograph comes with a Certificate of Authenticity.

Claudia Cardinale is an Italian actress born in Tunis, Tunisia. The most notable films she has appeared in include 8½ (1963) and Once Upon a Time in the West (1968). The majority of Cardinale’s films have been either of Italian or French origin.

Throughout the 1960s, she appeared in some of the best Italian and European films including Luchino Visconti’s Il Gattopardo (The Leopard, 1963) and Rocco e i suoi fratelli (1960), Philippe de Broca’s Cartouche (1963), Federico Fellini’s 8½ (1963), and Sergio Leone’s epic Once Upon a Time in the West (1968). Because she lacked fluency in language, her voice—in the early Italian films—was dubbed by someone else. Not until 8½ was she allowed to dub her own dialogue.

Because Cardinale was not interested in leaving Europe for extended periods of time, she never made a real attempt to break into the American market. The list of her Hollywood films includes The Pink Panther (1963), in which she was dubbed by an American actress; Circus World (1964); Blindfold (1965); and The Professionals (1966), in which she played opposite Lee Marvin and Burt Lancaster.