Apr 21, 2011 - Sale 2244

Sale 2244 - Lot 27

Price Realized: $ 3,600
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 2,000
INCLUDES CHARLES ADDAMS SKETCH (ALBUM.) Guest book for the studio of Gotham Recording, containing approximately 300 Signatures or Autograph Inscriptions Signed, by distinguished visitors, including singers, actors, politicians, writers, musicians, artists, and others. Written approximately 3 to a page, some with date or comments, few on slips of paper mounted to page. 4to, 3-ring binder; 3 reinforced holes punched in margin, even toning overall. New York, [1950s-60s]
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Charles Addams. "Chas. Addams." With a small ink sketch of Pugsley and pet Billie Holiday. "Best always" Frank Sinatra. "All the best to / Gotham Recording. / Happy Grooves!" Dwight D. Eisenhower John Steinbeck Benny Goodman (2). "Best wishes to / Gotham Recording"; Signature and date, "10/25/54" Leopold Stokowski Eleanor Roosevelt Louis Armstrong (2). "Satchmo"; "Satchmo / Best Wishes" Kate Smith. "Thank you very much / 1956" Basil Rathbone. "Love you!! / 1959" Buster Keaton James Cagney. "Jim Cagney" Orson Welles Hubert H. Humphrey. "Oct 19, 1952 / U.S. Sen. Minn." Paul Newman Eddie Cantor. "Thanks!" Ethel Merman Gerald R. Ford. On a small slip of paper, laid in Jackie Gleason. "To / Gotham / Recording / My Very Best / Wishes" Pearl Bailey. "Love" Ogden Nash James A. Michener Lionel Hampton. "Good Luck-- / To Gotham" Guy Lombardo Les Paul Red Buttons. "Ho Ho / You I like!" others.
Gotham Recording was established in 1950 in New York by Stephen Temmer, who produced recordings by world-renowned personalities and made the first recordings of the Metropolitan Opera for broadcast.