May 22, 2014 - Sale 2351

Sale 2351 - Lot 188

Price Realized: $ 288
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 100 - $ 200
(MUSICIANS.) Group of 22 items Signed, or Signed and Inscribed, by 19th- and 20th-century opera singers, musicians, and others, including mostly brief letters. Few mounted to loose album leaf with two or three to a page, few with staining recto from mounting. sold as is. Vp, vd

Additional Details

Eleanor Robson Belmont. TLS, on Met Opera Guild stationery. 8 March 1937 Lucrezia Bori. TNS. 28 September 1942 Pablo Casals. Photograph Signed, offset reproduction of a portrait of him seated at desk. Signed in the blank lower margin. 6 1/2x5 1/4 inches. Nd William Damrosch. Autograph Inscription Signed. 7 November 1935 Olin Downes (2). TLS; ALS. 16 September 1941; 3 March 1942 Florence Easton. ALS. Nd John Erskine. TLS. 15 January 1942 Helen Jepson. LS. 14 December 1939 Edward Johnson. ALS, on Met stationery. 10 December 1937 Christina Nilsson. Clipped Signature. 26 January 1874 Adelina Patti. Signature, on a small card. 21 November 1886 Marietta Piccolomini. Signature, on a small card. 12 October[?] 1859 Olga Samaroff (2). Two TLsS. 24 October 1940; 21 January 1942 Ernest Schelling (2). Two TLsS. 16; 25 November 1938 Ernestine Schumann-Heink. Signature, on verso of letter to her. 29 July 1935 Deems Taylor. ANS, on correspondence card. Nd Theodore Thomas. Clipped signature. Nd Lawrence Tibbett (2). TLS; Signature, on a small card. 1 December; 1939.