Goldberg Coins and Collectibles

Sale 6

Manuscript and Collectibles Auction

The Gerald Burg Collection of Autographs

Lot	Photo	Description	Realized
Lot 512		Schoenberg, Arnold (1874-1951) Austrian Composer, a modernist whose search for a personal style led him to abandon the traditional structure of tonality and adopt his concept of the 12-tone scale. Inscribed Visiting Card. 4 x 1-3/4", on cream card stock. An especially attractive card with an asymmetrical design. The composer has penned a lengthy inscription on the back of the card in German and dated the note "March 10, 1913." Estimated Value $750 - 1,200. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $403
Lot 513		Schoenberg, Arnold. Inscribed Visiting Card Signed. 4 x 2½", on cream card stock. With a three line inscription in German penned below the composer's printed name. Estimated Value $750 - 1,250. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $633
Lot 514		Withdrawn	Unsold
Lot 515		Schumann, Clara (1819-1896) German Pianist and Composer. Inscribed Visiting Card. 3-3/4 x 2¼", on cream card stock. Inscribed in German on verso. Slight crease along right edge. Estimated Value $120 - 180. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $184
Lot 516		Schuyler, Philip John (1733-1804) American Continental Army General and New York Senator. Visiting Card. An elaborate, Large format card, 6 x 4½", on cream card stock, with a detailed raised medal relief, colored blue, white, gold and green. Features a facsimile signature as a printed name. An unusual and highly decorative card. Estimated Value $150 - 225. This card was found in a box of miscellaneous post cards at a junk store. -- Gerry Burg. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $92
Lot 517		Scott, Sir Walter (1771-1832) Scottish Novelist, whose works include the popular romances, The Lady of the Lake (1810), and Ivanhoe (1819). Inscribed Visiting Card Signed. 3 x 1½", on cream card stock. With the author's name imprinted in gilt in the upper left corner, and signed: "Sir Walter Scott" below, with the author's address "96 Piccadilly" also inscribed in Scott's hand. Mounting traces on verso, and moderately worn from handling, otherwise fine. Estimated Value $500 - 750. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $230
Lot 518		Scott, Sir Walter. Inscribed Visiting Card Signed. 3 x 1½", on blank cream card stock. Signed, "Sir Walter Scott 39 Carlyle Street" by Scott on the recto. Moderate wear and mounting traces on verso. Estimated Value $450 - 650. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $230
Lot 519		Shackleton, Sir Ernest (1874-1922) British Explorer. Inscribed Visiting Card Signed. 3 x 1½", on cream card stock. Signed in full and dated "Jan 1913" on verso. Estimated Value $150 - 225. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $368
Lot 520		Shaw, George Bernard. Addressed in Shaw's hand. (1856-1950) British Playwright, awarded 1935 Nobel Prize for Literature. Autograph Card Initialled. A note card which Shaw sent through the mail like a postcard. The card is 4½ x 3½", on heavy grey card stock, postmarked "London, W.C.," and bears Shaw's printed address at top right, "10 Adelphi Terrace W.C." The author has dated his note, "November 6, 1904" in the same black ink with which he writes his missive to Henry Holiday. Shaw writes: "The date you gave me was this evening. I shall not be able to come tomorrow, worse luck! Perhaps you will be repeating the lecture sometime, somewhere. G.B.S." Moderately soiled from handling. Estimated Value $400 - 600. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $242
Lot 521		Shaw, George Bernard. Moderately worn, otherwise fine. With holograph annotations on the verso in the hand of the card's recipient. Inscribed Visiting Card Signed. 4½ x 2", on off-white card stock. A playful note penned in black ink on Shaw's personal imprinted visiting card, "I'll halve deficit with you. But I call it blackmail, nothing less. Drunken ruffians! G.B.S." Dated 12/6/07 by the mock-cantankerous dramatist. Estimated Value $400 - 600. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $242
Lot 522		Withdrawn	Unsold
Lot 523		Shearer, Norma [Irving Thalberg] (1900- 1983) American Actress, wife of motion picture producer Irving Thalberg. Inscribed Visiting Card Signed. 3 x 1½", on cream card stock. Inscribed on the verso in Norma Shearer's hand, "Just a little something we picked up on our honeymoon, that we though you might enjoy./ Irving & Norma." . Estimated Value $120 - 180. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $92
Lot 524		Sheridan, Philip Henry (1831-1888) American Army General, Commander in Chief of Union Army. Visiting Card Signed. 3½ x 2", on cream card stock. Signed, "P.H. Sheridan/ Lieut. General" in large bold letters on verso. Estimated Value $250 - 375. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $184
Lot 525		Sheridan, Philip Henry. Military Calling Card Signed. 3 x 1¼", on off-white card stock. An unusual military card used to identify a Commanding General of the US Army. The card features a dotted line at the bottom for a signature, below which there is the printed legend, "Major General Commanding." General Sheridan has signed his name on the printed line, "P.H, Sheridan," identifying himself as commanding officer. Moderate soiling on recto, with mounting traces on verso. Still, an unusual and attractive specimen. Estimated Value $250 - 375. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $219
Lot 526		Sherman, William Tecumseh (1820-1891) American Union Army General. Inscribed Visiting Card Initialed. 3½ x 2", on cream card stock. Signed, "W.T. Sherman / General. / 1887." . Estimated Value $400 - 600. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $345
Lot 527		Sherman, William Tecumseh. Inscribed Visiting Card Signed. 3½ x 2", on cream card stock. Signed, "W.T. Sherman / General. / 1888." . Estimated Value $400 - 600. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $299
Lot 528		Sherman, William Tecumseh. Inscribed Visiting Card Signed. 3½ x 2", on white card stock. Signed, "W.T. Sherman / General" in dark ink on verso. Mounting traces on recto. Estimated Value $400 - 600. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $311
Lot 529		Sherman, William Tecumseh. Visiting Card Signed. 3-3/4 x 2¼", on cream card stock. Boldly signed, "W.T. Sherman/ General" on verso. Estimated Value $400 - 600. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $276
Lot 530		Sherman, William Tecumseh. Visiting Card Signed. 3¼ x 2", on cream card stock. Signed "W.T. Sherman / General / 1887" in dark ink on verso. Slight stain on top of verso, not affecting signature. Estimated Value $350 - 500. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $288
Lot 531		Sherman, William Tecumseh. Inscribed Visiting Card Initialled. 3½ x 2", on cream card stock. Inscribed by the famous General on verso, "I will enclose to Leu Gen Walker very soon/ W.T.S." Estimated Value $125 - 175. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $265
Lot 532		Sherman, William Tecumseh. Visiting Card. 3½ x 2", on cream card stock. Estimated Value $125 - 175. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $121
Lot 533		Sholokhov, Mikhail Alexandrovich (1905- 1984) Russian Author of And Quite Flows the Don (1960), awarded 1965 Nobel Prize for Literature. Business Card Signed. 3½ x 2", on laminated wood card stock. Signed in Russian on verso by the Nobel laureate. Estimated Value $250 - 350. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $207
Lot 534		Sickles, Daniel Edgar (1825-1914) American Army Major General, New York Congressman. Inscribed Visiting Card Signed. 3-3/4 x 2½", on cream card stock. Inscribed on recto "Autograph of D.Sickles / M.G. U. S. A. / (Nov. 10, 1877)." . Estimated Value $150 - 225. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $253
Lot 535		Withdrawn	Unsold
Lot 536		Excessively Rare Sitting Bull Signed Visiting Card. Probably the finest of less than a dozen examples known, most of which are impounded in institutions. (1834-1890) Sioux name, Tatanka Iyotake. Native American Statesman and Warrior. Sitting Bull was a leader in the Sioux war and led the defeat of Custer and his men at Little Big Horn. Toured with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. Visiting Card Signed. Approximately 5 x 3", on an imprinted "Randall House" hotel card. Four years after defeating Custer at Little Big Horn and successfully evading the U.S. Army, Sitting Bull finally surrendered to U.S. troops at Fort Buford, in Montana. He was sent to Standing Rock Reservation, but when his reception there raised fears that he might inspire a fresh uprising, he was sent further down the Missouri River to Fort Randall, where he and his followers were held for nearly two years as prisoners of war. Despite its misleading text, which describes "Randall House" as a pleasant frontier Hotel, this was an imposing U.S. Army garrison in which the greatly feared Indian leader was kept prisoner. Sitting Bull used this as his "Calling Card" while he was incarcerated at Fort Randall. Boldly signed, "Sitting Bull" on the verso, the card is matted, framed and set within an impressive curio cabinet display. The display measures 27 x 25", weighs 27lbs and includes a sepia-toned photo and a small hand-colored sculpted bust of the Sioux warrior. Estimated Value $8,000 - 12,000. While perusing in a rare book store in San Francisco, I saw a book by Nelson Appleton Miles, General in the Civil War. Upon thumbing through the book I found the card signed by Sitting Bull. It apparently was used as a bookmark! I, of course, purchased the book and it's bookmark!!! It is now among the cards I treasure most. -- Gerry Burg. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $7,763
Lot 537		Withdrawn	Unsold
Lot 538		Sousa, John Philip (1854-1932) American Composer and Bandmaster, orchestrated the popular march "The Stars and Stripes Forever" (1896). Inscribed Visiting Card With Autograph Musical Quotation Signed. 3 x 1½", on cream card stock. Signed in full and dated, "97" on verso. Traces of archival tape on recto, otherwise fine. Estimated Value $400 - 600. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $242
Lot 539		Sousa, John Philip. Inscribed Visiting Card With Autograph Musical Quotation Signed. 3 x 1½", on cream card stock. Signed in full and dated "97" on verso. Estimated Value $400 - 750. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $1,093
Lot 540		Withdrawn	Unsold
Lot 541		Speer, Albert (1905-1981) German Architect, Nazi Minister of Armaments & War production, close friend of Hitler. Inscribed Visiting Card Signed. 3½ x 2", on white linen card stock. Inscribed, "With good wishes/ Speer" in blue ink above and below his printed name. Estimated Value $150 - 225. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $92
Lot 542		Speer, Albert. Visiting Card Signed. 3½ x 2", on off-white linen card stock. Signed in full and dated "M. IX 74" on recto. Estimated Value $120 - 180. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $69
Lot 543		Stanley, Sir Henry M (1841-1904) British Explorer and Journalist. Annotated Calling Card. 4 x 2", on white card stock. Stanley's card as an employee of the "New York Herald." With a curious inscription on the verso which appears to be a note about weights and measures: "10 pieces in a [ ? ]. 5 - ½ a [same word]." Moderate staining to periphery of recto. Estimated Value $300 - 450. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $196
Lot 544		Stanley, Sir Henry M. Visiting Card Signed. 4 x 2½", on grey card stock with gold edges. Signed in full. Mounting traces on verso. Estimated Value $300 - 450. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $219
Lot 545		[Stein, Gertrude]. Accompanied by original transmittal envelope addressed in Toklas' delicate hand. (1874-1946) American Writer. Inscribed Visiting Card Signed by Alice B.Toklas. 2 3/4 x 2", on cream card stock, with both Gertude Stein's and Alice B. Toklas' names printed on the front. Inscribed in Toklas' hand with a simple greeting in French, penned above their printed names, which have been delicately crossed out with a single line. Estimated Value $120 - 180. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $460
Lot 546		Steinbeck, John (1902-1968) American Novelist, author of the American classic, The Grapes of Wrath (1939), for which he won a Pulitzer Prize. Awarded a Nobel Prize for Literature in1962. Visiting Card Signed. 3½ x 2", on cream card stock. Signed in full in deep blue ink below his printed name. Estimated Value $400 - 600. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $552
Lot 547		Steinbeck, John. Very faint mounting traces on verso. Visiting Card Signed. 3½ x 2", on cream card stock. Signed in full in blue ink below the author's printed name. Estimated Value $400 - 600. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $604
Lot 548		Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894) Scottish Writer, author of Treasure Island (1883), et al. Inscribed Visiting Card. 3 x 1½", on cream card stock. Inscribed, "Prof Stuart Esq / Union club" above his printed name. This was evidently one of Robert Louis Stevenson's club cards, and the name "Athenaeum Club, London" is given as a printed address at bottom left below the author's name. Estimated Value $175 - 225. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $322
Lot 549		Stevenson, Robert Louis. Bears a faint horizontal band of discoloration across center, but is still attractive. Inscribed Visiting Card. 3 x 1½", on cream card stock. Penned, "Prof Liversridge Esq / Union Club" above his printed name. Estimated Value $175 - 225. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $127
Lot 550		Stevenson, Robert Louis. Inscribed Visiting Card. 3 x 1½", on off white card stock with black mourning border. Inscribed in pencil, "Mrs. Fairchild," above Stevenson's printed name, and then "a person very open to a visit" below. The card gives the "Savile Club, London" as Stevenson's address in London, and "Sherryvore, Bournemouth" as his address outside the city. Inscription somewhat light, but still legible. Estimated Value $120 - 180. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $150
Lot 551		Stilwell, Joseph W. Features printed Chinese characters on verso. (1883-1949) American Army General. Inscribed Visiting Card Initialed. 4¼ x 2", on manilla linen card stock. Inscribed and initialed in black ink above his printed name, "With best wishes to Dr. C. Greenway - J.W.S." Estimated Value $150 - 225. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $86
Lot 552		Strauss, Johann (the Elder) (1804-1849) Austrian Composer, author of the Radetzky March (1848). Inscribed Visiting Card. 4 x 2", on cream card stock. Being the musician's card as "Musikdirector," with a five line inscription in German that begins below Strauss's printed name and continues onto the verso. Estimated Value $450 - 675. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $265
Lot 553		Strauss, Johann (the Elder). Visiting Card Signed. Large card, 4 x 2½", on cream card stock. Boldly signed on verso in dark ink. Mounting traces on recto, with two small areas of paper loss affecting the word "Strauss" in the musicians printed name. Estimated Value $250 - 375. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $265
Lot 554		Strauss, Johann (the Elder). Inscribed Visiting Card. 3½ x 2¼", on cream card stock, with a brief message penned in German below the printed name. Estimated Value $200 - 300. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $569
Lot 555		Withdrawn	Unsold
Lot 556		Strauss, Richard (1864-1949) German Composer. Inscribed Visiting Card Initialed. 3½ x 2", on cream card stock, with a delicately penned three-line inscription in German on verso dated "February 5,1905" in the composer's hand. Estimated Value $400 - 600. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $460
Lot 557		Stravinsky Finds A Lost Composition! (1882-1971) Russian Composer, famous for his music for the Diaghilev ballets The Firebird (1910), Petrushka (1911), and The Rite of Spring (1913), and impressive later works. Inscribed Visiting Card Signed. 3-3/4 x 2¼", on cream card stock, dated "May 17, 1943." Stravinsky poses a fascinating question in the lengthy inscription on this card, which concerns the composer's "Funeral Song," which has never been published and which Stravinsky had considered lost. He is surprised to learn that someone has actually heard his composition performed, and makes haste to learn how this has come about. Stravinsky writes "Dear Mr. Stevens Please tell me, When did you hear my Chant Funèbre. This piece was never published and I considered it as lost somewhere in Russia during the 1st World War and the communist revolution. I shall appreciate your answer. Sincerely yours I Stravinsky May 17/1943" Chant Funèbre Op 5, which Stravinsky wrote in 1908, is known by musicologists to be unpublished, with the manuscript lost. As late as 1943, Stravinsky was still trying to find the music for his lost composition. A fascinating reference to an unpublished, apparently lost Stravinsky work. Staple mark at lower left, not affecting text. Estimated Value $500 - 750. The Mr. Stevens mentioned on the card is believed to be a former member of the faculty at USC. -- Gerry Burg. Acquired from Paul Richards, 3/79. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $604
Lot 558		Sullivan, Sir Arthur (1842-1900) British Composer, collaborated with W.S. Gilbert on such light operas as HMS Pinafore" (1878) and "The Pirates of Penzance" (1879). Inscribed Visiting Card Initialed. 3 x 1½", on cream card stock. Inscribed by Sullivan, "Many thanks for your letter & kind congratulations. A.S" above his printed name. Estimated Value $400 - 600. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $546
Lot 559		Sully-Prudhomme (Pseudonym of Rene Francois Armand) (1839-1907) French Poet. Awarded first Nobel Prize for Literature in 1901. Inscribed Visiting Card Signed. 3-3/4 x 2¼", on cream card stock. Inscribed in French on recto/verso, "Unwell and overworked, I achieved only recently the reading of the remarkable poetry volume that Misses Alphonse Daudet had the gracious thought to send me. I pray you to accept my sincere compliments and thanks and to forgive me for the lateness. Sully-Prudhomme." Tiny crease on upper left. Estimated Value $300 - 500. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $184
Lot 560		Sumner, Charles (1811-1874) American Statesman and Abolitionist. Inscribed Visiting Card Signed. 3 x 1½", on cream card stock. Inscribed above the printed name, "To introduce Mr. Welling of Washington, an accomplished scholar, to Mr. Sparks." Estimated Value $125 - 175. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $81
Lot 561		Taft, Mrs. William Howard. Wife of 27th President. Visiting Card Signed. 3 x 2", on cream card stock. Signed, "Helen H. Taft" on verso. Estimated Value $120 - 180. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $115

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