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Click here to subscribeHURT WILLIAM: (1950-2022) American actor, Academy Award winner for Best Actor in 1985 for his role as Luis Molina in Kiss of the Spider Woman. Signed 8 x 10 photograph of the actor seated in a half-length pose in costume as Ned Racine from the American neo-noir erotic thriller film Body Heat (1981). Signed by Hurt in bold black fountain pen ink with his name alone across a lighter area of the image. EX
ACADEMY AWARD NOMINEES: A good selection of signed 8 x 10 photographs and very slightly smaller (2) by various actresses, each of them Best Supporting Actress Oscar nominees of the first half of the 1950s comprising Nancy Olson (for her performance as Betty Schaefer in Sunset Boulevard, 1950), Colette Marchand (for her performance as Marie Charlet in Moulin Rouge, 1952), Terry Moore (for her performance as Marie Buckholder in Come Back, Little Sheba, 1952), Nina Foch (for her performance as Erica Martin in Executive Suite, 1954), Jan Sterling (for her performance as Sally McKee in The High and the Mighty, 1954), Betsy Blair (for her performance as Clara Snyder in Marty, 1955; the image depicting her in costume from the film), Peggy Lee (for her performance as Rose Hopkins in Pete Kelly´s Blues, 1955), and Marisa Pavan (for her performance as Rosa Delle Rose in The Rose Tattoo, 1955). All are boldly signed by the actresses (six in fountain pen inks) the majority to lighter areas of the images, and only two are inscribed. Neatly mounted (1), G to generally VG to EX, 8
HAYES HELEN: (1900-1993) American actress, Academy Award winner for Best Actress in 1931/32 for her role as Madelon Claudet in The Sin of Madelon Claudet. A good vintage signed 8 x 10 photograph, the original Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer publicity portrait depicting Hayes in an appealing head and shoulders pose. Photograph by Apeda of New York. Signed by Hayes in fountain pen ink with her name alone to a lighter area of the image. An ink annotation in the hand of a collector to the verso indicates that the signature was obtained in person on 11th June 1947. VG
COTILLARD MARION: (1975- ) French actress, Academy Award winner for Best Actress in 2007 for her role as Edith Piaf in La Vie en Rose. Signed colour 8 x 10 photograph of the actress standing in a happy half-length pose and holding her Oscar statuette in her hands. Signed in black ink with her name alone to a lighter area at the base of the image. An ink annotation in the hand of a collector to the verso indicates that the signature was obtained in person at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2015. EX
HUNTER KIM: (1922-2002) American actress, Academy Award winner for Best Supporting Actress in 1951 for her role as Stella Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire. Signed 8 x 10 photograph of the actress in a head and shoulders pose. Signed in bold blue ink to a light area of the image. Together with a good selection of tthree vintage signed 8 x 10 photographs by other Best Supporting Actress Oscar nominees of 1951 comprising Joan Blondell (for her performance as Annie Rawlins in The Blue Veil), Mildred Dunnock (for her performance as Linda Loman in Death of a Salesman), and Thelma Ritter (for her performance as Ellen McNulty in The Mating Season). Most are signed to lighter areas of the images and two are inscribed. VG, 4
ACADEMY AWARD NOMINEES: Sara Allgood (1880-1950) Irish-born American actress, an Academy Award nominee for Best Supporting Actress in 1941 for her role as Beth Morgan in How Green Was My Valley. A scarce vintage signed colour postcard photograph of the actress in a smiling head and shoulders pose. Signed in violet fountain pen ink to a light area at the base of the image and dated 195o in her hand; Lucile Watson (1879-1962) Canadian actress, an Academy Award nominee for Best Supporting Actress in 1943 for her role as Fanny Farrelly in Watch on the Rhine. A scrace vintage signed 7 x 5 photograph of the actress seated in a three-quarter length pose by an open fire. Signed in black fountain pen ink to a lighter area of the image and dated 1941 in her hand. Also signed to the verso in black fountain pen ink and adding a list of four of her latest films in her hand, including Waterloo Bridge and Watch on the Rhine, as well as a list of several other films which are either due to be released or yet to be shot. VG, 2
BURNS GEORGE: (1896-1996) American comedian and actor, Academy Award winner for Best Supporting Actor in 1975 for his role as Al Lewis in The Sunshine Boys. Signed 8 x 10 photograph, the original vintage Fosters´ Agency publicity portrait depicting Burns in a half-length pose and holding a pipe in one hand. Signed in black ink with his name alone to a light area at the head of the image. Some light, minor wrinkling, and a few corner creases. Together with two signed 8 x 10 photographs by two of the Academy Award nominees for Best Supporting Actor in 1975, comprising Brad Dourif (for his performance as Billy Bibbit in One Flew Over the Cuckoo´s Nest) and Chris Sarandon (for his performance as Leon Shermer in Dog Day Afternoon; the image depicting him in a close-up head and shoulders pose in costume from the film). Both are signed by the actors with their names alone to lighter areas of the images. G to VG, 3
ACADEMY AWARD NOMINEES: An excellent selection of signed 8 x 10 photographs and slightly smaller (2), most vintage, by various actors, each of them Best Actor Oscar nominees of the 1920s and 1930s comprising Richard Barthelmess (for his performances as Nickie Elkins in The Noose and Patent Leather Kid in The Patent Leather Kid, 1927/28), Chester Morris (for his performance as Chick Williams in Alibi, 1928/29), Lawrence Tibbett (for his performance as Yegor in The Rogue Song, 1929/30), Jackie Cooper (for his performance as Skippy Skinner in Skippy, 1930/31), Richard Dix (for his performance as Yancey Cravat in Cimarron, 1930/31), Adolphe Menjou (for his performance as Walter Burns in The Front Page, 1930/31), Alfred Lunt (for his performance as The Actor in The Guradsman, 1931/32), William Powell (for his performance as Nick Charles in The Thin Man, 1934, and again for his performance as Godfrey Park in My Man Godfrey, 1936), and Mickey Rooney (for his performance as Mickey Moran in Babes in Arms, 1939). All are boldly signed, the majority in fountain pen inks, largely to lighter areas of the images and five are inscribed. Generally about VG, 9
GARSON GREER: (1904-1996) English actress, Academy Award winner for Best Actress in 1942 for her role as Kay Miniver in Mrs. Miniver. Vintage signed and inscribed sepia 6.5 x 8 photograph of the young actress seated in a pensive head and shoulders pose with one hand gently raised to her chin and with an open book before her. Signed in dark fountain pen ink to a lighter area at the foot of the image. VG
DICAPRIO LEONARDO: (1974- ) American actor, Academy Award winner for Best Actor in 2015 for his role as Hugh Glass in The Revenant. A good signed colour 10 x 8 photograph of the young actor in an outdoors half-length pose in costume from his theatrical film debut as Tobias ´Toby´ Wolff from the American biographical coming-of-age drama film This Boy´s Life (1993). Signed by DiCaprio with a good example of his early, full and legible signature, in bold blue ink across a largely lighter area of the image. Scarce in this form. EX
MCLAGLEN VICTOR: (1886-1959) British actor, Academy Award winner for Best Actor in 1935 for his role as ‘Gypo’ Nolan in The Informer. A good vintage signed sepia 8 x 10 photograph of McLaglen standing in a three-quarter length pose, wearing military uniform, in costume as Commandant Denis Hogan from the American romantic drama silent film Hangman´s House (1928), set in Ireland and directed by John Ford. Photograph by Max Munn Autrey. Signed by McLaglen in fountain pen ink across a lighter area of the image. A few light surface and corner creases, otherwise about VG
HEAD EDITH: (1897-1981) American film costume designer, winner or a record eight Academy Awards for Costume Design between 1949 and 1973. Signed 7.5 x 8 photograph of the legendary designer in a head and shoulders pose surrounded by seven of her Oscar statuettes. Signed in black ink to a lighter area of the image. Neatly trimmed and with a small authentication sticker neatly affixed to the lower right corner. VG
ALI MAHERSHALA: (1974- ) American actor, Academy Award winner for Best Supporting Actor in 2016 for his role as Juan in Moonlight, and again in 2018 for his role as Don Shirley in Green Book. Signed colour 8 x 10 photograph of Ali in a half-length pose. Signed in bold blue ink with his name alone to the image. Together with three signed colour 8 x 10 photographs by several of the other Best Supporting Actor Oscar nominees of 2016 comprising Lucas Hedges (for his performance as Patrick Chandler in Manchester by the Sea), Dev Patel (for his performance as Saroo Brierley in Lion), and Michael Shannon (for his performance as Bobby Andes in Nocturnal Animals). All are signed by the actors with their names alone to light areas of the images and each have printed labels neatly affixed to the versos indicating where and when the signatures were obtained in person. Also including two signed 8 x 10 photographs by two other Best Supporting Actor Oscar nominees of 2018 comprising Sam Elliott (for his performance as Bobby Maine in A Star Is Born) and Richard E. Grant (for his performance as Jack Hock in Can You Ever Forgive Me?). Both are boldly signed to lighter areas of the images and neither are inscribed. G (1), generally VG to EX, 6
FITZGERALD BARRY: (1888-1961) Irish actor, Academy Award winner for Best Supporting Actor in 1944 for his role as Father Fitzgibbon in Going My Way. A good vintage signed sepia 8 x 10 photograph of Fitzgerald in a head and shoulders pose wearing a black cap and smoking a pipe. Photograph by the Vandamm Studio of New York and bearing their credit stamp to the verso. Signed by the actor in blue fountain pen ink across a largely lighter area of the background. A couple of very light, extremely minor surface and corner creases, VG
MERCKX EDDY: (1945- ) Belgian road and track cyclist racer, winner of the Tour de France in 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972 & 1974. Signed 10 x 8 photograph of Merckx in a full-length pose racing at speed on his bicycle. Signed in black ink with his name alone to a lighter area at the base of the image. A small authentication sticker is neatly affixed to the lower right corner. VG
WELLES ORSON: (1915-1985) American actor and film director, an Academy Award nominee for Best Actor in 1941 for his role as Charles Foster Kane in Citizen Kane. Welles was the recipient of an Honorary Academy Award in 1970. Signed 8 x 10 photograph of Welles in a head and shoulders pose. Signed in blue ink with his name alone in later years, and with a slightly shaky signature, to a lighter area of the background. About EX
YOUNG GIG: (1913-1978) American actor, Academy Award winner for Best Supporting Actor in 1969 for his role as Rocky in They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? Vintage signed and inscribed 8 x 10 photograph of the actor in a smiling head and shoulders pose and holding a cigarette in one raised hand. Signed in black fountain pen ink across a lighter area of the image. A couple of very light, minor surface and corner creases, otherwise VG
CASINO ROYALE: Signed colour 10 x 8 photograph by both Woody Allen (Jimmy Bond) and Daliah Lavi (the Detainer) individually, the image depicting the actors together in costume from the ´Insignificant Little Monster´ scene of the spy parody film Casino Royale (1967). Signed by Allen in blue ink and by Lavi in black ink, both with their names alone to largely lighter areas of the image. EX
NICHOLSON JACK: (1937- ) American actor, Academy Award winner for Best Supporting Actor in 1983 for his role as Garrett Breedlove in Terms of Endearment. Signed colour 8 x 10 photograph of the actor in a head and shoulders pose in costume from his Oscar-winning performance as the retired astronaut Breedlove from the family comedy drama film Terms of Endearment. Signed by Nicholson in bold black ink with his name alone to a lighter area of the image. EX
AMECHE DON: (1908-1993) American actor, Academy Award winner for Best Supporting Actor in 1985 for his role as Arthur Selwyn in Cocoon. Signed 8 x 10 photograph of the actor in a head and shoulders pose. Signed in black ink with his name alone to a lighter area at the base of the image. Together with three signed 8 x 10 photographs by several of the other Best Supporting Actor Oscar nominees of 1985 comprising Klaus Maria Brandauer (for his performance as Baron Bror von Blixen-Finecke and Baron Hans von Blixen-Finecke in Out of Africa), Robert Loggia (for his performance as Sam Ransom in Jagged Edge; the image depicting him in a head and shoulders pose in costume from the film), and Eric Roberts (for his performance as Buck McGeehy in Runaway Train). All are boldly signed, two in fountain pen inks, to the images and none are inscribed. VG to EX, 4
HUSTON WALTER: (1884-1950) Canadian actor, Academy Award winner for Best Supporting Actor in 1948 for his role as Howard in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. Vintage signed sepia 8 x 10 photograph of Huston in a head and shoulders pose, holding a lit cigarette in one raised hand. Signed in blue fountain pen ink across a largely lighter area at the centre of the image. VG
ACADEMY AWARD NOMINEES: A good selection of signed 8 x 10 photographs by various actors, each of them Best Supporting Actor Oscar nominees from the second half of the 1980s comprising Tom Berenger (for his performance as Sergeant Bob Barnes in Platoon, 1986), Willem Dafoe (for his performance as Sergeant Elias Grodin in Platoon, 1986), Dennis Hopper (for his performance as Wilbur ´Shooter´ Flatch in Hoosiers, 1986), Albert Brooks (for his performance as Aaron Altman in Broadcast News, 1987), Vincent Gardenia (for his performance as Cosmo Castorini in Moonstruck, 1987), Danny Aiello (for his performance as Sal Frangione in Do the Right Thing, 1989), and Dan Aykroyd (for his performance as Boolie Werthan in Driving Miss Daisy, 1989). All are signed in bold blue or black inks to largely lighter areas of the images and none are inscribed. Colour (3). VG to EX, 7
GAZZO MICHAEL V.: (1923-1995) American playwright and actor, an Academy Award nominee for Best Supporting Actor in 1974 for his performance as Frank Pentangeli in The Godfather Part II. A rare signed and inscribed 8 x 10 photograph of Gazzo in a close-up head and shoulders pose smoking a cigarillo. Signed in black ink to a largely lighter area of the image. Further signed and inscribed by Gazzo with his initials to the verso, ´Chris - Thank you for your kind words, MVG´. Also annotated in ink in the hand of a collector to the upper edge of the verso, indicating that the autograph was received in November 1994. About EX
HAGEN JEAN: (1923-1977) American actress, an Academy Award nominee for Best Supporting Actress in 1952 for her role as Lina Lamont in Singin´ in the Rain. A rare vintage signed 8 x 10 photograph of the actress in an appealing head and shoulders pose. Signed in dark fountain pen ink across a lighter area of the image. Autographs of Hagen are rare as a result of her untimely death shortly after her 54th birthday. VG
ROBERTS TONY: (1939-2025) American actor, remembered for his collaboration with Woody Allen in six films, including Annie Hall (1977). Signed 8 x 10 photograph of the actor standing outdoors in a three-quarter length pose wearing a white suit and holding a drink in one hand. Signed in black ink with his name alone to a lighter area at the base of the image. Together with a second signed 8 x 10 photograph of Roberts, the image depicting the young actor in a head and shoulders pose. Signed in blue ink with his name alone to a lighter area at the base of the image. A pencil annotation in the hand of a collector to the verso indicates that the signature was obtained in person following the opening night performance of Neil Simon´s play Chapter Two at the Imperial Theatre, New York, on 4th December 1977. VG, 2
ANOUILH JEAN: (1910-1987) French dramatist. Vintage signed and inscribed 7 x 9.5 photograph of Anouilh in a head and shoulders pose. Signed in blue fountain pen ink to a largely lighter area at the base of the image and dated January 1960 in his hand. Some very light, extremely minor age wear, VGProvenance: The present photograph was signed for Carlo Giovetti (1916-1999) Italian journalist in the film and entertainment sector who worked for various newspapers including Il Giorno.
BAXTER ANNE: (1923-1985) American actress, Academy Award winner for Best Supporting Actress in 1946 for her role as Sophie Nelson MacDonald in The Razor’s Edge. Vintage signed 8 x 10 photograph, an appealing head and shoulders study of the actress gently resting her chin on one hand. Signed in blue fountain pen ink with her name alone to a largely lighter area of the image. Together with two signed 8 x 10 photographs by two of the other Best Supporting Actress Oscar nominees of 1946 comprising Lillian Gish (for her performance as Laura Belle McCanles in Duel in the Sun) and Flora Robson (for her performance as Angelique Buiton in Saratoga Trunk). Both are signed in blue fountain pen inks to light areas of the images and neither are inscribed. A few creases to one corner of Gish´s photograph, G to VG, 3
FILM COMPOSERS: Small selection of siged 8 x 10 photographs by various composers of film scores, most of them Academy Award winners or nominees, comprising Klaus Badelt, Leslie Bricusse, Patrick Doyle, Lalo Schifrin, and Howard Shore. All are boldly signed to lighter areas of the images and only one is inscribed. Colour (4). VG to EX, 5
ACADEMY AWARD NOMINEES: An excellent selection of signed 8 x 10 photographs and slightly smaller (1) by various actors, each of them Best Actor Oscar nominees of the 1990s comprising Warren Beatty (for his performance as Benjamin ´Bugsy´ Siegel in Bugsy, 1991), Stephen Rea (for his performance as Fergus in The Crying Game, 1992), Nigel Hawthorne (for his performance as King George III in The Madness of King George, 1994; the image showing him in costume as the British monarch), John Travolta (for his performance as Vincent Vega in Pulp Fiction, 1994), Matt Damon (for his performance as Will Hunting in Good Will Hunting, 1997), Peter Fonda (for his performance as Ulysses ´Ulee´ Jackson in Ulee´s Gold, 1997), and Richard Farnsworth (for his performance as Alvin Straight in The Straight Story, 1999). All are boldly signed (Beatty in fountain pen ink) in blue or black inks to largely lighter areas of the images and none are inscribed. Colour (4). VG to EX, 7
KELLY GENE: (1912-1996) American actor, dancer & singer, an Academy Award nominee for Best Actor in 1945 for his role as Joseph Brady in Anchors Aweigh, and later the recipient of an Honorary Academy Award in 1951. Signed 8 x 10 photograph of Kelly in a head and shoulders pose. Signed in bold black ink with his name alone to a lighter area of the background. VG
ACADEMY AWARD NOMINEES: A good selection of signed 8 x 10 photographs by various actresses, each of them Best Actress Oscar nominees in the second half of the 1970s, comprising Liv Ullmann (for her performance as Kristina Nilsson in The Emigrants, 1972, and again for her performance as Jenny Isaksson in Face to Face, 1976), Marie-Christine Barrault (for her performance as Marthe in Cousin Cousine, 1976), Talia Shire (for her performance as Adrian Pennino in Rocky, 1976), Marsha Mason (for her performance as Maggie Paul in Cinderella Liberty, 1973, also for her performance as Paula McFadden in The Goodbye Girl, 1977, and again for her performance as Jennie MacLaine in Chapter Two, 1979), Jill Clayburgh (for her performance as Erica Benton in An Unmarried Woman, 1978, and also for her performance as Marilyn Holmberg in Starting Over, 1979), and Bette Midler (for her performance as Mary Rose Foster in The Rose, 1979). All are boldly signed, one in fountain pen ink, largely across lighter areas of the images, and none are inscribed. Colour (2). VG to EX, 6
DOOLITTLE JAMES H.: (1896-1993) American General and aviation pioneer, remembered for his daring raid on Japan during World War II. Signed 8 x 10 photograph of Doolittle standing in a full-length pose, surrounded by various other American servicemen, pinning medals that were previously awarded to American naval officers by Japan to the tail fin of a bomb destined for Japan. Signed by Doolittle in black ink with his name alone to a largely lighter area at the base of the image. An unusual image to find signed. VG
ACADEMY AWARD NOMINEES: An excellent selection of signed 8 x 10 photographs, some vintage, by various actresses, each of them Best Supporting Actress Oscar nominees of the 1940s comprising Judith Anderson (for her performance as Mrs. Danvers in Rebecca, 1940), Ruth Hussey (for her performance as Elizabeth 'Liz' Imbrie in The Philadelphia Story, 1940), Marjorie Rambeau (for her performance as Mamie Adams in Primrose Path, 1940), Gladys Cooper (for her performance as Mrs. Vale in Now, Voyager, 1942, and again for her performance as Sister Marie-Thérèse Vauzou in The Song of Bernadette, 1943), Agnes Moorehead (for her performance as Fanny Minafer in The Magnificent Ambersons, 1942, and again for her performance as Aggie MacDonald in Johnny Belinda, 1948), Paulette Goddard (for her performance as Joan O'Doul in So Proudly We Hail!, 1943), and Jean Simmons (for her performance as Ophelia in Hamlet, 1948). All are boldly signed by the actresses (three in fountain pen inks) to largely lighter areas of the images and only two are inscribed. G to VG, 7
NAISH J. CARROLL: (1896-1973) American character actor, an Academy Award nominee for Best Supporting Actor in 1943 for his performance as Giuseppe in Sahara, and again in 1945 for his performance as Charley Martin in A Medal for Benny. Vintage signed 8 x 10 photograph of Naish seated in a three-quarter length pose, and holding a lit cigarette in one hand. The publicity portrait dates from 1950, a year in which the actor appeared in five films. Signed by Naish in blue ink to a lighter area of the background. A few very light, minor surface and corner creases, largely to the white borders. VG
ACADEMY AWARD NOMINEES: A good selection of signed 8 x 10 photographs by various actors, each of them Best Actor Oscar nominees of the 1970s comprising Ryan O´Neal (for his performance as Oliver Barrett IV in Love Story), Chaim Topol (for his performance as Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof, 1971; the image depicting him in costume from the film), Paul Winfield (for his performance as Nathan Lee Morgan in Sounder, 1972), Albert Finney (for his performance as Hercule Poirot in Murder on the Orient Express, 1974), James Whitmore (for his performance as Harry S. Truman in Give ´em Hell, Harry!, 1975), Giancarlo Giannini (for his performance as Pasqualino Frafuso in Seven Beauties, 1976), and Woody Allen (for his performance as Alvy Singer in Annie Hall, 1977). All are boldly signed, three in fountain pen inks, to lighter areas of the images and none are inscribed. VG to EX, 7
JONES JENNIFER: (1919-2009) American actress, Academy Award winner for Best Actress in 1943 for her role as Bernadette Soubirous in The Song of Bernadette. Signed 8 x 10 photograph of the young actress in a smiling head and shoulders pose. Signed in bold black fountain pen ink with her name alone across a lighter area of the image. A few very light, extremely minor surface creases, VG
BARRYMORE LIONEL: (1878-1954) American actor, Academy Award winner for Best Actor in 1930/31 for his role as Stephen Ashe in A Free Soul & BEERY WALLACE: (1885-1949) American actor, Academy Award winner for Best Actor in 1931/32 for his role as Andy ‘Champ’ Purcell in The Champ. An unusual vintage signed and inscribed 8 x 10 photograph by both Barrymore and Beery individually, the image depicting the two Oscar winning actors in half-length poses together, Barrymore in costume as Uncle Henry Jones and Beery in costume as the famous bandit Pancho Lopez, in a scene from the American Western film The Bad Man (1941). Signed and inscribed by Barrymore in fountain pen ink to a largely lighter area of the image and signed (´W Beery´) by Beery with his name alone in fountain pen ink to the upper white border. Some light surface and corner creasing and with a few minor traces of former mounting to the verso, G
GUINNESS ALEC: (1914-2000) English actor, Academy Award winner for Best Actor in 1957 for his role as Lieutenant Colonel Nicholson in The Bridge on the River Kwai. A good signed 8 x 10 photograph, the original vintage Columbia Pictures publicity portrait depicting Guinness in a half-length pose in costume from his Oscar-winning performance as prisoner-of-war Nicholson from the epic war film The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957). Signed by Guinness in black fountain pen ink with his name alone, largely across a lighter area of the image. VG
DREYFUSS RICHARD: (1947- ) American actor, Academy Award winner for Best Actor in 1977 for his role as Elliot Garfield in The Goodbye Girl. A good signed 8 x 10 photograph of the young actor in a close-up head and shoulders pose in costume as the brash David ´Duddy´ Kravitz from the Canadian comedy drama film The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1974). Signed by Dreyfuss in black fountain pen ink with his name alone to a lighter area of the image. VG
ACADEMY AWARD NOMINEES: An excellent selection of signed 8 x 10 photographs and very slightly smaller (1), a few vintage, by various actresses, each of them Best Supporting Actress Oscar nominees of the latter half of the 1950s comprising Patty McCormack (for her performance as Rhoda Penmark in The Bad Seed, 1956; the image depicting her in costume from the film), Elsa Lanchester (for her performance as Miss. Plimsoll in Witness for the Prosecution, 1957), Hope Lange (for her performance as Selena Cross in Peyton Place, 1957), Diane Varsi (for her performance as Allison MacKenzie in Peyton Place, 1957), Peggy Cass (for her performance as Agnes Gooch in Auntie Mame, 1958), Martha Hyer (for her performance as Gwen French in Some Came Running, 1958), Cara Williams (for her performance as Billy´s Mother in The Defiant Ones, 1958), Hermione Baddeley (for her performance as Elspeth in Room at the Top, 1959), Susan Kohner (for her performance as Sarah Jane Johnson in Imitation of Life, 1959), and Juanita Moore (for her performance as Annie Johnson in Imitation of Life, 1959; also adding the title of the film in her hand beneath her signature). All are boldly signed by the actresses (four in fountain pen inks) to largely lighter areas of the images and only two are inscribed. Colour (1). VG to EX, 10
STREEP MERYL: (1949- ) American actress, Academy Award winner for Best Actress in 1982 for her role as Zofia ‘Sophie’ Zawistowski in Sophie’s Choice and again in 2011 for her role as Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady. Signed colour 8 x 10 photograph of Streep in a close-up head and shoulders pose. Signed in bold blue ink with her name alone to a lighter area of the image. About EX
ROGERS GINGER: (1911-1995) American dancer and actress, Academy Award winner for Best Actress in 1940 for her role as Katherine 'Kitty' Foyle in Kitty Foyle: The Natural History of a Woman. Signed 8 x 10 photograph of Rogers seated in a half-length pose in costume from her Oscar-winning performance as the boutique saleswoman Kitty Foyle from the drama film Kitty Foyle. Signed by Rogers in black ink to a lighter area at the base of the image. VG
A mixed lot of transport interest to include a ship in a bottle table lighter in the form of an ocean liner, three brass harness bells, two stamped Victoria 23, chromed metal bicycle lamp bracket, and other vintage bicycle parts and oil cans, The Brighton and Hove Motor Club pewter napkin ring and other items Location:If there is no condition report shown, please request
An oak circular occasional table, inset chess board, on tripod splayed support, 19 1/2" dia x 23" highCondition & Info:The size of the squares are 1 1/4" square.The lighter coloured squares are ash and the darker ones are walnut, with the rest of the table being oak.There are no visible issues to the table.
The unique Brunei D.S.M. pair awarded to Petty Officer Mechanician P. J. D. Kirwin, Royal Navy, Stoker Petty Officer of the leading lighter at the opposed Royal Marines Commando raid against heavily armed Indonesian supported rebels at Limbang, Brunei, on 12 December 1962, who, ‘when his craft came under heavy fire, left the safety of his engine room, grasped his automatic weapon, and engaged the rebels himself at very close range’ - one of just four D.S.M.s awarded to the Royal Navy in the period from the Korean War in 1953 until the Falklands War in 1982 Distinguished Service Medal, E.II.R., 2nd issue (P/KX.869578 P. J. D. Kirwin. P.O.M. (E) R.N.); Naval General Service 1915-62, 1 clasp, Brunei (KX.869578 P. J. D. Kirwin. P.O.M. (E). R.N.) this with officially re-impressed naming, extremely fine (2) £10,000-£14,000 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, May 2022. D.S.M. London Gazette 31 May 1963: ‘For gallant and distinguished services in operations in Brunei during the period 8th to 23rd December 1962.’ Up to 1962, the island of Borneo was divided into the vast southern area under Indonesian rule and three British dependencies, Sarawak, North Borneo and, sandwiched between them, the tiny but very wealthy protectorate of Brunei. With the sun gradually setting on British interests in this part of the Far East, a proposal to include these three northern Borneo states into the new Federation of Malaysia was opposed by Indonesia which then proceeded to back the dissident TNKU in mounting an insurrection in Brunei with the aim of maintaining a North Borneo Union. To further this, in December 1962 the rebels occupied several towns, including Brunei town and at Limbang across the border in Sarawak, they held a number of hostages, including the British Government’s Agent - the ‘Resident’, ‘Dick’ Morris - his wife and a nursing sister. There were indications that the hostages were to be executed on 12 December. At this time 42 Commando, who were awaiting Christmas in Singapore, were put on short notice, and two days later ‘L’ Company, under Captain Jeremy Moore (later to command British Land Forces during the Falklands War), flew to Brunei Town where the Gurkhas had restored order. In fact, most of the trouble had been quickly stamped out, except at Limbang, only accessible by river. Tasked with rescuing the Limbang hostages, Moore’s urgency was further sharpened when it was learned that the TKNU had murdered some hostages at Bangar. At the waterfront in Brunei he met the Senior Naval Officer, Lieutenant-Commander J. J. Black (who by coincidence would also rise to senior command during the Falklands War as Captain of the aircraft carrier H.M.S. Invincible) who had requisitioned two Z-Lighter landing craft for the raid, the Nakhoda Manis and the Sindaun, and provided these with five man crews from the minesweepers Fiskerton and Chawton under his command. Lieutenant Willis, being Black’s First Lieutenant, was appointed as the Senior Naval Officer charged with ensuring that the task force arrived off Limbang but once the assault landing was under way, the lighters would then come under the tactical direction of the senior Royal Marine on board. None of the Royal Navy men under Willis had any experience in handling Z-Craft or landing craft operations but they were now being committed to the daunting prospect of an opposed landing. At 10pm on 11 December, the understrength ‘L’ Company of 87 men, faces blackened, all wearing green berets with glinting cap badges for identification, filed on to the waiting Z-Craft. On board the lead lighter, Nakhoda Manis - commanded by Willis - was Captain Moore, his reconnaissance group, part of Company HQ, and 5 Troop. Also aboard as guide was Captain Muton, the Brunei Director of Marine who would later receive the M.B.E. for his efforts and four more Royal Navy crew including Petty Officer Mechanician Kirwin. The assault went in at first light: ‘When they were 300yds from the Limbang police station, and as the leading craft came abreast of the huts south of the town,‘it erupted like a disturbed ants' nest as the rebels stood to’. At 200yds the Commando Intelligence Sergeant called through the loud-hailer in Malay: ‘The rebellion is over . . . you should lay down your arms.' They replied with automatic weapons - an LMG, three or four SMGs - and some dozen rifles, supported by over 100 shotguns. The instantaneous counter-fire from both craft gave the commandos, thanks to their Vickers machine-guns, the initiative, enabling the leading craft to beach half a minute later only 30yds from the police station. Two marines of the leading No.5 Troop were killed before the craft gained the bank and their OC, Lt ‘Paddy’ Davis, was wounded as he jumped ashore. Sgt Bickford led two Sections of the Troop against the police station, which was quickly cleared, but the naval coxswain of the leading craft had been wounded and as the craft drifted off the bank, Lt D.O. Willis, RN, drove it hard back ashore; but this shallow draught lighter broached to 150yds upstream between the hospital and the home of the British Resident. Capt Moore sent the reserve section ashore, with HQ personnel led by TSM McDonald, and they cleared the hospital. As they came through to the back of this building, the Troop sergeant and two marines were killed, ‘for the jungle comes literally right down to the back door of the hospital’. The grounding of the craft up-river had been a fortunate accident, for Capt Moore found some of the hostages in the hospital. A rebel had fired at them but missed, and no one was hurt. While the ground between the hospital and the police station was being cleared, as was the Resident’s house, the Company Commander was told of more hostages. Therefore, he organised the clearing of the rest of the town to the south, and by the afternoon had released another eight hostages but at nightfall there were still rebels inside the Company’s perimeter, two of whom were killed close to the marines’ positions. Next day the town was secured. Five marines had been killed and six wounded (including a sailor), but the action here, coupled with those of the Gurkhas and Queen's Own Highlanders elsewhere in Brunei, had broken the rebellion. At Limbang alone 15 rebels had been killed and 50 captured from a force of 350, - twice the expected size. They had been taken by surprise, as the commandos now discovered. The Vickers guns in the second craft had been masked, the Company Commander also learnt, by the leading craft, until QMS Cyril Quoins asked the officer commanding this lighter if he could pull out of line to give them a clearer shot. ‘Sergeant Major’, the officer replied, ‘Nelson would have loved you’, and promptly swung his craft into a more exposed position.’ (The Royal Marines by James D. Ladd refers.) It is also worth quoting Captain Jeremy Moore’s observations, made much later: ‘It is perhaps interesting to note that, though my assessment of where the enemy headquarters might be was right, I was quite wrong about the hostages. Furthermore, it was chance that the second beaching happened where it did, that resulted in us taking the hospital from the direction we did. It could be that this saved us heavier casualties, though I assess the most important factor in the success of the operation was first class leadership by junior NCOs. Their section battle craft was a joy to watch and the credit for this belongs to the troop and Section commanders.’ Moore received a Bar to the Military C...
The outstanding Second War submariner’s D.S.M. and Bar group of seven awarded to Leading Seaman D. Duckers, Royal Navy, who completed at least 35 war patrols as H.S.D. operator and senior ASDIC rating in H.M. submarines United and Tapir Distinguished Service Medal, G.VI.R., with Second Award Bar (JX.213687 D. Duckers, A.B.) impressed naming; 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Africa Star, 1 clasp North Africa 1942-43; Burma Star; Italy Star; War Medal 1939-45, mounted court-style for display, good very fine or better (7) £4,000-£5,000 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- D.S.M. London Gazette 12 October 1943: ‘For courage, resolution and skill successful patrols in H.M. Submarines.’ The original recommendation for an immediate award states: ‘For skill and outstanding devotion to duty as senior Asdic rating of the submarine during 17 consecutive patrols in the Mediterranean. Throughout this time he has conducted himself with unfailing good spirits under at times the most arduous conditions. When United was once forced to remain submerged for over 36 hours and was hunted continuously throughout the night for 13 hours, this rating remained closed up at the Asdic set for 13 hours without relief and by his coolness, vigilance and efficient operating, played a major part in the successful evasion of the enemy. He has frequently materially assisted in the success of attacks by providing an accurate estimation of the enemy’s speed by their revolutions and has invariably displayed the utmost coolness during enemy counter attacks.’ D.S.M. Second Award Bar London Gazette 19 June 1945: ‘For courage, endurance and outstanding skill in successful patrols whilst serving in H.M. Submarines.’ The original recommendation for an Immediate Bar to the D.S.M. states: ‘Leading Seaman (H.S.D.) Donald Duckers, H.M. S/M. Tapir. For outstanding skill as H.S.D. operator in an attack on a German U-boat, in first detecting the U-boat and subsequently providing most accurate information of its movements which helped materially in its destruction. For consistent efficiency of a very high order in running his department, and for consistent cheerfulness and courage during 36 patrols in war.’ The covering remarks of the Rear Admiral commanding 3rd Submarine Flotilla state: ‘Fully concur with remarks of Commanding Officer. An experienced rating whose technical skill undoubtedly greatly assisted the Commanding Officer to bring the attack to a successful conclusion. The reasons given for the shortness of the list of recommendations are entirely concurred in; the chief credit for this very fine attack must go to Lieutenant J. C. Y. Roxburgh, D.S.O., D.S.C., Royal Navy, and his Asdic operator.’ Donald Duckers was born in Manchester on 5 July 1913, and educated at Bury Grammar School prior to finding employment as a salesman for a paper firm in Liverpool. On entering the Royal Navy as an Ordinary Seaman in August 1940, he volunteered for submarines and, having passed his training course, joined the Tigris in March 1941. In her he participated in operations in Arctic waters, including a successful patrol which accounted for five enemy transports and another severely damaged, the latter laden with supplies for the Murmansk front. His C.O., Commander H. F. Bone, D.S.O., D.S.C., was presented with a young reindeer by a grateful Russian Admiral, gift and crew safely returning home to their depot ship. In February 1942, Duckers removed to the P. 44 (a.k.a. United) as one of her H.S.D. operators, the commencement of a memorable tour of operations in the Mediterranean with the famous ‘Fighting Tenth’ Flotilla, his first D.S.M. reflecting service in 17 war patrols, the whole under the command of John Roxburgh, D.S.O., D.S.C. During that period United accounted for the Italian submarine Remo in the Gulf of Taranto on 15 July 1943, four merchantmen and three schooners, in addition to damaging others. She was also credited with the probable destruction of the Italian destroyer Bombardiere west of Sicily on 17 January 1943. Extensive coverage of United’s exploits can be found in John Wingate’s The Fighting Tenth, the author having been her First Lieutenant during Ducker’s time aboard. A hair-raising run-in with some E-boats, in which Duckers’ skills as the Asdic operator were in much demand is just one of many extraordinary encounters related by Wingate, encounters that more often than not resulted in punishing depth charge attacks, on one occasion for a duration of 13 hours. But there were lighter moments, such as the occasion Roxburgh received a signal informing him of the safe arrival of a daughter, news that prompted the running up of the ‘stork flag’ to accompany United’s ‘Jolly Roger’ – a plain white sheet with a black stork carrying a baby in its beak. Duckers, who received his D.S.M. at a Buckinghamshire Palace investiture in November 1943, accompanied Roxburgh to his next command, the recently launched Tapir in October 1944. And it was more or less between them that they plotted the destruction of the U-486 off Bergen on 12 April 1945, thereby winning the accolade of being among the handful of naval personnel to have successfully participated in a ‘sub-on-sub’ encounter; a full account of the action appears in Geoff Jones’s Submarines versus U-boats. The U-486 had sunk the troopship S.S. Leopoldville off Cherbourg on 30 December 1944. Crammed with 2235 American troops from 66th Infantry Division, 763 soldiers were killed, making it the heaviest loss an American Infantry Division suffered from a U-boat attack during the war. Awarded a Bar to his D.S.M., Duckers departed Tapir in September 1945 and was demobbed in January 1946. Sold with an impressive array of original documentation and photographs, including the recipient’s Asdic Operator’s Log covering the period September 1942 to August 1943 in United, and likewise for Tapir in the period March to August 1945; his Certificate of Service and Submarine Detector History Sheet, the last date stamped at Portsmouth on 27 January 1941; Admiralty letter informing him of his award of the Bar to his D.S.M., dated 26 June 1945; a dozen or so wartime photographs, including excellent crew and ‘Jolly Roger’ images, assorted newspaper cuttings, and correspondence with John Roxburgh, his old skipper.
A first quarter of the 19th century German carved wooden dancing couple, possibly Oberammergau, the woman with elaborate tiara and peineta, hair piled high, a white empire line gown, gold waistband, long gloves, the man with lots of dark curly hair, sideburns, grey tailcoat and lighter grey trousers —4in. (10cm.) high - possibly representing Maria Christina of the Two Sicilies and Ferdinand VII of Spain, his third wife from 1829 to 1833.
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