Apr 21, 2011 - Sale 2244

Sale 2244 - Lot 39

Price Realized: $ 570
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
DE FOREST, LEE. Three items, each to collector Irving E. Meshel: Photograph Signed and Inscribed * Autograph Letter Signed * Typed Letter Signed. The photograph, approximately 6 3/4x7 1/2 inches. The letters, each 1 page, 4to, "Lee de Forest Laboratories" stationery; folds. Np, Sept[ember 19]35; Los Angeles, 12 Sept[ember 19]34; 4 September [19]35
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Photograph Signed and Inscribed, "Cordial Regards To / Mr. & Mrs. Meshel," 1/2-length portrait, showing him wearing coat and hat and holding a vacuum tube. Inscribed in the image ALS, thanking for birthday wishes and adding that he is glad to be working in California and that "I feel as young & am in as good, or better health, than I was ten years ago in New York City" TLS, thanking for best wishes and promising to send a signed photograph.