Mar 31, 2001, The B. H. Manuscript/Collectible/Philatelic Sale, Sale 9
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Autographs - The Gerald William Burg Collection

Musicians

Lot 213
Composers and Lyricists. Group of fourteen business, visiting, and correspondence cards from composers and lyricists alike, including Harry Armstrong, Jerome Hines, Arthur Vergh, Nelson Riddle, Neil Simon, Robert B. Sherman, Alan Jay Lerner, Henry Mancini, Richard Gerard, Jerry Herman, Billy Eckstein, Julia Ward Howe, and Ann Ronell. All cards are signed but for the Armstrong, most are inscribed as well. Staple holes in the Armstrong and a few cards have pencil notations that do not affect signatures. Overall, the group is in very good condition.
Estimated Value $500-UP.

Lot 214
Conductors and Performers. Group of fourteen visiting and business cards from composers, conductors, and their performers, including José Iturbi, Rafael Kubelik, Anton Seidl, Amelita Galli-Curci, pianist Sebastian Bach Mills, baritone Pasquale Amato, composer Sigmund Romberg, pianist and composer Gregor Piatigorsky, Franz Lehar, Clara Schumann, Paderewski, Igor Stravinsky, and Jean Sibelus. Nine cards are signed and inscribed, with Mills also penning a musical quote. Light soiling and some toning. Still, in very good condition overall.
Estimated Value $350-450.

Lot 215
Foreign Musicians. Group of eight business and visiting cards from international musical masters including Rudolf Friml, Rosine Laborde, composer Edward German, Irene von Chavanne, Ian Kubelik, Australian soprano Dame Nellie Melba, and German composer Hector Berlioz. All cards are signed but for the Berlioz. Includes a duplicate card of Kubelik. Light toning to a few cards, edges folded on one Kubelik card with residue in one corner. Otherwise, the group is in good condition overall.
Estimated Value $350-450.

Lot 216
Maestros, Musicians, and Money Men. Group of eighteen business, calling, and correspondence cards from a range of musicians, conductors, and impressarios including legend Lawrence Welk, Mitch Miller, Eugene Ormandy, Les Brown, Carrie Jacobs-Bond, Peter Duchin, Yehudi Menuhin, Mischa Elman, voice of Snow White Adriana Caselotti, Roy Acuff, Boz Scaggs, Paul Whiteman, Johnny Miller, Rudolf Bing, and Zubin Mehta. Each card is signed but for the Jacobs-Bond, many are also inscribed. Overall, the group is in very good condition.
Estimated Value $750-UP.

Lot 217
Memorable Musicians. Eight pieces. Lot of visiting and correspondence cards from figures in the musical field including Pierre Fournier, Robert Casadesus, Ambroise Thomas, Pietro Mascagni, Ernestine Schumann Heink, Jennie Lind (Goldschmidt), Lily Pons, and Boris Christoff. Each card is signed but for the Mascagni, all others include lengthy inscriptions -- with Fournier and Casadesus adding musical notations. Christoff and Pons cards are autographed correspondence cards signed. Light toning to a few cards, else the group is in very good condition.
Estimated Value $350-450.

Lot 218
More Musicians. Group of nine signed visiting cards from a variety of songbirds including Lily Pons and her husband Andre Kostelanetz, German composers Siegfried Wagner and Walter Damrosch, Pietro Mascagni, Arrigo Boito, Edouard Lale, and Antoine Rubinstein. Includes a duplicate of Pons. Soiling to the Rubinstein card, with light toning to a few others. Overall, the group is in good to very good condition.
Estimated Value $350-450.

Lot 219
Musical Stars. Group of eleven business and visiting cards from musical notables such as Otello Ceroni, Jan Kiepura, Alfred Hertz, Reynaldo Hahn, Amelita Gulli-Curci, Walter Damrosch, Alfred Cortot, Emma Calve, and Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco. Each of these cards are signed, many inscribed -- Cortot pens a short musical note. Also included are unsigned cards from Jussi Björling and Lauritz Melchior. Several cards are lightly toned or soiled. Most in very good condition overall.
Estimated Value $250-350.

Lot 220
Musical Talents. Group of thirteen signed visiting cards from a plethora of performing musicians including Australian soprano Dame Nellie Melba, French soprano Lily Pons, New Zealand opera singer Dame Joan Hammond, Scottish soprano Mary Garden, Norwegian soprano Kirsten Flagstad, Hungarian conductor Antal Dorati, Galician soprano Marcella Stengel-Senbrich, Adelina Patti, Renata Tebaldi, Emmy Destinn, and Charles Saint-Saêns. Several cards are inscribed at length. Light toning to a few cards, else in very good condition overall.
Estimated Value $400-500.

Lot 221
Musical Virtuosos. Lot of fourteen signed calling and business cards from a variety of conductors, composers, and musical talents including Ovide Musin, tenor Commandre Allessandro Bonci, composer Alfredo Casella, Szymon Goldberg, tenor Sims Reeves, Zlatko Balokovic, Richard Schubert, soprano Johanna Gadski Tauscher, Liza Lehmann, Swiss composer Emile Jaques Calcroze, Luigi Mancinelli, pianist Raphael Joseffy, and Sofia Scalchi Lollie. Each card has been signed by its namesake, many adding inscriptions. Casella, Dalcroze, and Mancinelli also add musical quotes. Toning and soiling to several cards, a few cards with surface losses and residue which do not affect signatures. Overall, the group is in very good condition.
Estimated Value $500-650.

Lot 222
Songbirds. Lot of ten signed business and calling cards from a variety of vocalists from sopranos to popular crooners including soprano Geraldine Farrar, tenor Jan Peerce, contralto Jessie Bartlett Davis, tenor Robert Merrill, Anne Louise Cary, and popular singers Beverly Sills, June Christy, Rudy Vallee, and Sofia Ravogh. Ravogh card has penciled notations, Cary card is lightly toned. Otherwise, the group is in fine condition overall.
Estimated Value $450-550.