Goldberg Coins and Collectibles

Sale 9

Manuscript, Collectible and Philatelic Auction

Autographs - The Gerald William Burg Collection

Lot	Photo	Description	Realized
Lot 145		American and Modern Artists. Lot of eight signed business and calling cards of American painters and modern artists. Amercian artists include Partridge, Albert Bierstadt, Millet, and Joseph Urban. Modern artists include Max Band, Vasa, and Leonardo Nierman. Five of the cards are inscribed. Urban, Millet and Partridge cards have light surface abrasions. Overall, the group is in very good condition. Estimated Value $325-UP. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $207
Lot 146		Architects. Lot of four signed calling cards of American and German architects and designers including Josef Pelzig, William Pereira, Charles Luckman, and Friedrich Adler. Adler adds a lengthy inscription in German that continues on verso, and there is faint residue on the card which does not affect the signature. Else, the group is in very good condition overall. Estimated Value $225-UP. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $132
Lot 147		Architects, Designers, Etc. Lot of fifteen signed business cards from a range of architects, designers, landscape engineers, stylists, and fashion designers including Antoine Cano, Paul Conrad, Cleo Baldon, Sascha Brastoff, Hedden A. Johnson, John Galbraith, Rose Farber, Ted Egri, Christophe, Adolfo, and Pierre Cardin. Several cards are inscribed. Each is in excellent condition. Estimated Value $300-UP. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $173
Lot 148		Artist Extravaganza. Lot of six business and calling cards from such painterly masters as Bernard Buffet, William Bougureau, George Wharton Edwards, George Inness, Jr. A. Granchi Taylor, and Francisco Pradilla. All are signed but the Pradilla. Most are lightly stained, otherwise the group is in good condition overall. Estimated Value $300-UP. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $173
Lot 149		Artists and Jewish Notables. Lot of ten signed business and calling cards of artists and Jewish notables including: Yaacov Agam, Youssef Benjelloun, Hermann Kaulbach, Eric Ray, Joe Karbank, Philip Ratner, and Adeline Peter-Raboff. Kaulbach card is inscribed. Each is in excellent condition. Estimated Value $250-UP. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $144
Lot 150		Artists and Sculptors. Group of eight signed visiting and business cards from artists including sculptors Eli Harvey, and T. Buchanan Read, as well as artists Elihu Vedder, James Carroll Beckwith, Albert Bierstadt, George Flagg, and Flavia. Each card is also inscribed, many with lengthy personal notes. Flagg pens the phrase, "The greatest of these is charity." A few cards are lightly toned, the recto of the Flagg card has staining towards the lower edge, and a fold at one corner, none of which affects the signature. The group is in good to very good condition overall. Estimated Value $450-UP. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $259
Lot 151		Artists Calling Cards. Group of five business and calling cards of influential artists such as Frank Dicksee, allegorical master William Bouguereau, historical and portrait painter August Kaulbach, Felix Moscheles, and Ignar Marcel Gaugengigl. Each is inscribed (three in pencil), all in French but for the Dicksee. Bouguereau is lightly stained. Overall, the group is in very good condition. Estimated Value $250-UP. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $144
Lot 152		Artists From Around the Globe. Lot of five business and calling cards from such international artists as Saul Rabino, Francisco Pradilla, Frank Rosen, Chauah Thean Teng, and Tsui-Pai Yeh. Each is signed but for the Tsui-Pai Yeh. Rabino card is lightly soiled, else the group is in very good condition overall. Estimated Value $250-UP. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $144
Lot 153		British Masters. Group of four signed calling cards from such British painters as Sir Lawrence Alma Tadema, pre-Raphaelite William Homan Hunt, and landscape artist Vicat Cole. Includes a duplicate Hunt card. The Alma Tadema card is slightly smeared, and one Hunt card has a pinhole at top center. Otherwise, the group is in good condition. Estimated Value $350-UP. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $201
Lot 154		Caricaturists, Illustrators, and Animators. Group of six signed business and calling cards of charicaturists, illustrators and animators including: Charles Léandre, Adolf Adam Oberländer, David Rose, John McCutcheon, Jean Gigoux and Phil May. May signs in pencil, others all in pen. Three cards are inscribed at length. May and McCutcheon cards have remnants of an adhesive on recto. Otherwise the group is in fine condition overall. Estimated Value $325-UP. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $190
Lot 155		Cartoonists and Artists. Lot of thirteen business cards from several cartoonists, caricaturists, and other artists, including several cards from Matt Groening, and Jack Rosen (each featuring a sketch), with individual cards from Larry Garf, Bill Mack, and George B. Luttrell (featuring a sketch). Includes duplicates of Groening and Rosen. All are signed but for the Groening cards. Each is in excellent condition. Estimated Value $250-UP. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $213
Lot 156		Designers and Architects. Collection of five business and calling cards of architects, designers, and fashion moguls including Philip Johnson, Jean Klein, Paul Cret, Christian Dior and Jean Worth. Each signed but for the Dior and Worth. Dior has two pinholes, Worth is lightly soiled. Otherwise, in fine condition. Estimated Value $250-UP. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $144
Lot 157		Designors, Architects and a Photographer. Six pieces. Group of signed visiting and business cards from an eclectic array of artists including architects Frank O. Gehry and R. Buckminster Fuller, photographer Margaret Bourke-White, flag designer Joseph Vitel, decorator John LaFarge, and fashion critic Mr. Blackwell. There is a small abrasion to the edge of the LaFarge card. Otherwise, the group is in very good condition overall. Estimated Value $550-UP. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $316
Lot 158		French & Contemporary Artists. This lot of nineteen business and calling cards includes a variety of French painters, modern artists, and sculptors including such names as: Eugene Feyene, Albert Durant, Leon Comerre, Paul Baudry, Albert Wein, Latchezar Boyadjiev, Sam Bernardi, Joe Karbank, Ernest Raboff, and Elizabeth C. Falk. Fourteen of the cards are signed, several inscribed. The group in excellent condition overall. Estimated Value $250-UP. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $144
Lot 159		French Artists. Group of seven business and calling cards featuring such French artists as: Gustave Moreau, Louis Auguste Girardot, Ernest Herbert, Albert Besnard, Theobald Chartran, Antonin Carles, and Madame Virginie Demont-Breton. Each card is signed and inscribed in French. A few are lightly soiled. Otherwise, the lot is in fine condition. Estimated Value $400 - 500. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $230
Lot 160		French Artists. Lot of seven signed business and calling cards from French artists Gustave Moreau, E. Meissonier, Jules Breton, Marcel Baschel, Rosa Bonheur, Gaston Guignard, and Albert Maignon. Each is inscribed at length in French. Maignon's personal card measures a bit larger than the standard card size, and the artist has written an extensive note that continues on verso. The group is in fine condition overall. Estimated Value $350-UP. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $201
Lot 161		French Artists. Lot of seven business and calling cards of French artists Andre Devambez, Brispot, Gustave Moreau, A. Guillemet, Eugene Lami and Madame Jean Monet. Each features an inscription in French. Devambez is accompanied by its original transmittal envelope. Two with handwritten notations in pencil. Else the lot is in very good condition. Estimated Value $350-UP. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $201
Lot 162		French Artists. Group of seven signed business and calling cards from a plethora of French artists including Othon Friesz, Petar Jovanovic, Felix Barrias, genre painter Leon Lhermitte, Jan Monchablon, Puvis de Chavannes, and Desire Lucas. Each is inscribed at length but for the Jovanovic, which is simply signed. Lucas' card has a small hole punch at the upper left. Else, the group is in very good condition. Estimated Value $350-UP. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $201
Lot 163		French Artists. Lot of six signed business and calling cards of French artists including Emile Renard, Felix Barrias, Benjamin Constant, Leon Lhermitte, Lobrichon, and Chalas. Most are inscribed at length. Barrias and Renard sign in purple ink. Edges are lightly folded and there are light stains on the Lobrichon card, a few cards have handwritten notations in pencil. Otherwise, the group is in very good condition. Estimated Value $300-UP. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $173
Lot 164		French Artists. Group of six signed business and calling cards from a range of French artists and craftsmen including Paul Leon, Puvis de Chavannes, Jean Beraud, Francis Tattergrain, Paul Maurou, and Fernand Cormone. Each is signed and all are inscribed, most at length. Several have handwritten pencil notations, and light soiling. Overall, the group is in good to very good condition. Estimated Value $300-UP. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $173
Lot 165		French Artists. Lot of five signed calling and business cards from French painters Jean Baptiste Carpeaux, Charles Carpeaux, Eugene Bellange, Madame Jean Baptiste Carpeaux, and Andre Castaigne. Each is inscribed in French. Charles Carpeaux signs in pencil, Madame Carpeaux in purple ink. Two of the cards are lightly stained, the Castaigne is folded and ink has smeared a bit. In good condition overall. Estimated Value $250-UP. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $144
Lot 166		French Masters. Group of sixteen signed visiting and correspondence cards from a variety of French artists including Frederic Lauth, Leon Bonnat, portraitist Jacques Emile Blanche, Fernand Cormon, Jean-Paul Laurens, Jean-Francois Raffaêlli, Didier-Pouget, Benjamin Constant, Anne Judic, G. Iwill, Edouard Sain, G. Dubufe, A. Dechenaud, and P. Franc Lamy. Many cards also feature inscriptions. Lauth and Dechenaud correspondence cards are accompanied by original transmittal envelopes. Lot includes duplicates of Raffaêlli and Bonnat. Most cards toned, a few with light stains or folds. Overall, the group is in very good condition. Estimated Value $800-UP. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $460
Lot 167		French Masters. Lot of sixteen inscribed business and visiting cards signed by a variety of French artists including P. Franc Lamy, J.B. Duffaud, Jean Jacques Henner, Benjamin Constant, Albert Bartholome, Emile Friant, Abel Faivre, Leon Bonnat, Henri Chapu, Francis Tattegrain, Georges Clairin, Jules LeFebvre, Odilon Redon and Leon Dambeza. Includes duplicates of Henner. Most cards are lightly toned, with minor stains or folds. Still, the group is in good condition overall. Estimated Value $800-UP. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $460
Lot 168		German Painters & Architects. Group of five signed visiting cards from such German artists and architects as Louis Maurer, Carl von Piloty, portraitist Hans Thoma, architect Paul Wallot, and historical painter Eduard Grützner. Each card is inscribed but for the Maurer, which is simply signed and dated. Cards are lightly toned, the Thoma with a bit of foxing. Still, the group is in good to very good condition overall. Estimated Value $550-UP. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $316
Lot 169		Illustrators. Lot of nine signed business and visiting cards from illustrators, charicaturists, and cartoonists including Alberto Vargas, Harrison Fisher, Daniel Carter Beard, Theo Davis, Charles Dana Gibson, Al Capp, Palmer Cox, and George McManus. Several cards are inscribed: McManus draws a character next to his caption: "Well -- where the hell is the drink!", Palmer Cox adds "Brownieland" with his autograph, and Capp uses a pink crayon to pen his name. Most cards are toned, several with stains or residue remnants. Still, the group is in good condition overall. Estimated Value $450-UP. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $391
Lot 170		Illustrators and Engravers. Lot of seven signed business cards from illustrators and engravers including: Leopold Flameng, Rene Baschet, Harry Lieberman (the male Grandma Moses), Edwin Abbey, Bob Johnson, and George McManus. Each card is signed, five are inscribed, several in French. The group is in excellent condition. Estimated Value $350-UP. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $201
Lot 171		International Artists. Group of thirteen visiting and business cards signed by artists such as Iosif Kobzon, Israeli artist Ruth Dayan, Emile Wauters, Dvilio Cambellotti, sculptor Luigi Brizzolara, modern painter Leonardo Nierman, Joseph Saint-Germier, Ferdinand Hodler, Georges Roussel, Eugene Guillaume, Henry Roujon, and others. Several cards are inscribed at length. Light toning to a few cards, but the group is in very good condition overall. Estimated Value $400-UP. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $230
Lot 172		International Artists. Group of seven business and calling cards of a range of international artists including: French artist Gustave Ravanne, the knighted Frank Dicksee, Marilyn Sundermann known for her portraits of Golda Meir, pre-Raphaelite Philip Burne-Jones, Francisco Pradilla, Albert Edelfelt, and Batik painter Yong Chen Wah. Four of the cards are signed, three inscribed. Most are lightly toned, but overall, the group is in fine condition. Estimated Value $300-UP. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $173
Lot 173		International Artists. Lot of six business and calling cards of international artists, including: Hägar the Horrible creator Dik Browne, British etcher Mortimer Menpes, French artist Madame J. B. Carpeaux, Marilyn Sundermann known for her portraits of Golda Meir, court painter Louise Seidler, and Batik painter Yong Cheng Wah. Each is signed but for the Seidler, three inscribed. Two cards are lightly toned, but overall, the group is fine. Estimated Value $250-UP. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $144
Lot 174		International Artists and Notables in the Art World. Lot of twelve business and calling cards including a variety of artists and notable figures in the art world including: French artists F. Quignon, illustrator Albert Wenzell, Belgian artist Emile Wauters, sculptor John Quincy Adams Ward, American landscape artist Carleton Wiggins, French sculptor Duchesse d'Uzes, Mrs. Charles Stephens, Koji Yoskioka, Harold Williams and Georgina Lee. Each signed, several inscribed. Also accompanied by a calling card of Auguste Rodin. The group is in very good condition overall. Estimated Value $500-UP. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $288
Lot 175		Latino Artists. Lot of five signed business and calling cards from Latino artists including Juan O'Gorman, Armando Villagran, Rodolfo Allou, and Jesús Leuus. Each card is dated but for the Leuus. One O'Gorman card is only slightly smeared, but otherwise the group is in excellent condition. Estimated Value $250-UP. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $144
Lot 176		Sculptors. Lot of six signed and inscribed calling and business cards of the following sculptors: glass specialists, Herman Perlman, Alfred Boucher, the Italian Baron Marochetti, Carolus Duran, and Frenchman Leopold Bernstamm. Each is signed and inscribed in ink. Light handwritten pencil notations on two of the cards, a small abrasion and residue of an adhesive on the Marochetti. Else, the group is in very good condition overall. Estimated Value $300-UP. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $173
Lot 177		Sculptors. Lot of six signed business and calling cards of the following sculptors: Duchesse d'Uzes, Max Klinger, Giulio Monteverde, F. Schaper, Silvano Vismara, and Horatio Greenough. All but the Greenough are inscribed at length. Light toning to the Schaper and Greenough. Otherwise, in very good condition overall. Estimated Value $300-UP. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $173
Lot 178		Sculptors. Lot of six business and calling cards from sculptors Duchesse D'Uzes, Antonin Mercie, Herman Perlman and Josef Pelzig. Each is signed but for one of the d'Uzes, four cards are inscribed at length. Pelzig signs in red ink. The group is in excellent condition overall. Estimated Value $300-UP. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $173
Lot 179		Sculptors and American Artists. Lot of six signed business and calling cards of sculptors and American artists, including: Harold Pastorius, Jr., Madame J. Carpeaux, Ernest Raboff, De Grazia, Hugo Ballin and Maury Nemoy. Ballin and Raboff have included small ink sketches on their cards. Each is signed, three inscribed. The group is in excellent condition. Estimated Value $300-UP. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $173
Lot 180		Sculptors and Carvers. Lot of six signed and inscribed business and calling cards of notable sculptors including: Jules Champlain, Anthony de Francisci, E. Delaplanche, Albert Bartholome, Philippe Noyer, and Gianni Toso. Toso card is dated, all others include lengthy inscriptions, several in French. Two with handwritten pencil notations, most in excellent condition. Estimated Value $300-UP. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $173
Lot 181		Sculptors, Designers, and Artists. Lot of eleven business and calling cards from a variety of talented artists including: Brispot, Dubois Pillet, Georgina Rothenberg, Harburger, Leffler, Emile de Boyrie Moya, Bompard, Frith, Calvin Klein, Mrs. George Cruikschank, and Hollingsworth. Eight of the cards are signed, several inscribed. Leffler also paints a miniature painting on the recto of his card. In very good condition overall. Estimated Value $400-UP. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $230
Lot 182		The Art World. Lot of twenty-two business, visiting, and calling cards from a variety of artists, designers, photographers, and notable figures in the art world including: George McManus, Harry Lauter, Nathan Kredenser, Lou Jacobs, Jr. Keith Fay (with original pen sketch verso), Susan Schary, Richard F. Brown, and Stephen Garrett. Each is signed but for one card from Boris Artzybasheff, several inscribed. In excellent condition overall. Estimated Value $250-UP. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $144
Lot 183		Explorers. Lot of ten visiting and business cards of explorers including Theodore Bank II, Umberto Cagni, James Calvert, Madame Jean Charcot, Paul Gussfeldt, Pieter Lenie, John Richardson, and Walter Wellman. Each card has been signed by its namesake but for the Cagni, and Gussfeldt. Light toning to a few cards, else in very good condition overall. Estimated Value $250-UP. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $144
Lot 184		International Aviators. Lot of eight signed business cards from such aviators as Marc Ambrogi of the French Air Corp, World War II pilot Jacob Besner, Norwegian test pilot Bernt Balchen, Italian aviator Calabria, "Enola Gay" pilot Thomas Ferebee, British pioneer Dame Felicity Hill, Air Force General Walter Hinton, and C.S. Jones. Each is signed, many inscribed. Jones and Hinton cards are lightly toned. In good to very good condition overall. Estimated Value $175 - 225. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $104
Lot 185		Large Collection of Aviators. Group of thirty-nine business and calling cards of a variety of aviators including such names as Jacob Besner, George Caron, Thomas Ferebee, Dwight Whitney Morrow (in Spanish with original envelope), W. Leonard Bonney, Victor Sayaret, and Eddie Rickenbacker. All but four of the cards are signed. Some have handwritten pencil notations, a few have light toning. Overall, the group is in very good condition. Estimated Value $400-UP. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $230
Lot 186		More Aviators. Group of six signed business cards of famous aviators Richard Rutan, Jeanna Yeager, Louis Paulhan, and Thomas Ferebee. Each card is signed. Lot includes duplicates of Rutan and Ferebee. In very good condition overall. Estimated Value $400 - 500. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $230
Lot 187		19th Century Poets. Group of six visiting cards from 19th century poets Oliver Wendell Holmes, William Cullen Bryant, James Whitcomb Riley, Washington Irving, and Henry Longfellow. Cards by Holms and Bryant are signed by the poets. Cards are lightly toned, the Irving card with a fold at one corner. Still, the group is in good condition overall. Estimated Value $250 - 350. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $184
Lot 188		American Literary Figures. Group of three signed business and calling cards from American authors Jack London, H.L. Mencken, and Joaquin Miller. Each card is lightly toned, the Mencken card with rust from a paper clip and slight buckling along top edge. Otherwise the group is in good condition overall. London's card clearly dates to his early career as a reporter, as the card lists the following newspapers at the lower left: New York Journal, New York American, Chicago American, San Francisco Examiner, and the Los Angeles Examiner. Estimated Value $150 - 300. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $207
Lot 189		Literary American Women. Group of sixteen signed visiting and business cards from a range of American authors including Mrs. Irving Berlin, Amanda Douglas, Agnes Repplier, Elsa Maxwell, Mrs. John C. Fremont, Kate Douglas Wiggin, Anita Loos, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Betty Smith, Margaret Sangster, Ella Whealer Wilcox, Mary Wilkins, and Ida Tarbell. Many cards are also inscribed. Includes several duplicates. Toning and light staining to several cards, with residue on a few cards. Otherwise, the group is in good condition overall. Estimated Value $350 - 500. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $201
Lot 190		Miscellaneous American Authors. Group of fifteen visiting and business cards from an assortment of American authors including Theodore H. White, playwright Augustus Thomas, William Winter, B.P. Shillaber, Vachel Lindsay, Bess Streeter Aldrich, George Ade, Bronson Howard, Josh Billings, Newton Booth Tarkington, Charles Dudley Warren, and others. Each of the aforementioned cards has been signed, and many cards are inscribed. Accompanied by an unsigned E.R. Beadle card. Several cards are toned, with light stains. Still, the group is in very good condition overall. Estimated Value $250 - 350. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $144
Lot 191		Modern American Authors. Group of twenty-six visiting and correspondence cards from such modern literary authors as Ray Bradbury, Theodor Seuss Geisel (Dr. Seuss), Erskine Caldwell, Leon Uris, Irving Wallace, Mickey Spillane, Irving Stone, Leo Rosten, Edward Albee, Stephen Birmingham, Stringfellow Barr, James Cain, Bennett Cerf, Norman Cousins, Max J. Dimont, Alex Haley, Alexander Woolcott, and others. Includes several duplicates. All of the aforementioned cards have been signed. Accompanied by an unsigned Thomas Lanier Williams card. Toning to a few cards, with light folds on select cards. Otherwise the group is in very good to fine condition. Estimated Value $600 - 850. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $345
Lot 192		Novelists, Writers, and Journalists. Group of nine signed business and correspondence cards from a variety of novelists, writers, and columnists including John Chamberlain, Ralph Ginzburg, Richard Harding Davis, Harriet Parsons, Poultney Bigelow, Parke Godwin, Lucius Beebe, Eliot Janeway, and Heywood Hale Broun. Many cards include inscriptions such as the short note written by Harriet Parsons regarding her mother Louella. Two cards are lightly soiled with residue at edges which do not affect signatures. Else, the group is in good condition. Estimated Value $350 - 450. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $201
Lot 193		Editors, Publishers and News Businessmen. Large group of eighteen business and correspondence cards from important news businessmen such as Malcolm Forbes of Forbes Magazine, controversial Larry Flynt, Helen Gurley Brown, William F. Buckley, Otis Chandler of the L.A. Times, David Auchincloss of Newsweek, Edward William Bok of Ladies Home Journal, Peter S. Kalikow of the New York Post, Katharine Graham of the Washington Post, Bennett Cerf, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Benjamin Bradlee, and others. All cards are signed but for the Bennett A. Cerf card. Overall the group is in very good to fine condition. Estimated Value $350 - 450. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $201
Lot 194		Actors & Actresses. Group of fourteen calling and correspondence cards from such Hollywood notables as Mel Blanc, Joseph Cotten, Geraldine Farrar, Gertrude Berg, Clint Eastwood, Bob Hope, Gloria Swanson, Donald O'Connor, Gregory Peck, Walter Huston and Irene Dunne. Each card is signed, several are inscribed. Includes duplicate Peck and Berg cards. Two Berg cards have surface abrasions verso from an adhesive. Otherwise, the cards are in very good condition overall. Estimated Value $300 - 400. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $173

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