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CELEBRITY POSTCARDS -- A collection of 292 signed portrait postcards, most of figures in the entertainment world, [1900's], average size 136 x 88mm. Loosely mounted in contemporary 'Post Card Album', blue cloth with covers decorated 'à la Japonaise'.
The cards, which mostly date between 1903 and 1908, include an autograph self-caricature by Enrico Caruso and photographs of Sir John French, Lord Kitchener, Asquith, Sir Hubert Parry, Dame Nellie Melba, Henry Irving, Harry Lauder (caricature), George and Weedon Grossmith, Paderewski with his added musical notation, Henry Wood, Marie Lloyd, Mrs Patrick Campbell and Lillie Langtry as Cleopatra.
The cards, which mostly date between 1903 and 1908, include an autograph self-caricature by Enrico Caruso and photographs of Sir John French, Lord Kitchener, Asquith, Sir Hubert Parry, Dame Nellie Melba, Henry Irving, Harry Lauder (caricature), George and Weedon Grossmith, Paderewski with his added musical notation, Henry Wood, Marie Lloyd, Mrs Patrick Campbell and Lillie Langtry as Cleopatra.