Mar 30, 2023 - Sale 2631

Sale 2631 - Lot 215

Price Realized: $ 5,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
(ENTERTAINMENT--VAUDEVILLE.) Signed portrait of George W. Walker, of Williams & Walker fame. Photograph, 6 x 4 inches, credited to White of New York in negative, on mount of London photographer R. Archer; minor wear, two small tape stains on verso; signed and inscribed on the image "Very truly yours, Geo. W. Walker." London, circa 1900-1911
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George W. Walker (1873-1911), in partnership with Bert Williams, was one of the great comic stars of his era. He was a co-creator of In Dahomey, the first all-Black Broadway musical. We have traced no other Walker autographs at auction.