Lot 678
Collection of Autograph Cards. Condition ranges from Very Good to Fine. We urge that a careful review of this lot be made prior to bidding. The Dora Kahn Fletcher Autograph Card Collection. Consisting of Sixty Autographs, the vast majority signed on handsome Autograph Cards, with five signatures on loose album leaves and scraps. Most of the cards are 3½ x 2", on off-white card stock. Among the luminaries included are Jefferson Davis, whose has signed in full on his personal autograph card; an Executive Mansion card signed in full by President Grover Cleveland; an autograph card signed in full by President Rutherford B. Hayes ; a card signed by boxer Joe Louis - "Champion of World"; autograph cards signed by Confederate General J.E. Johnston, Union Army General William T. Sherman, John S. Worden, General Philip H. Sheridan, Oliver Wendall Holmes, Bill Nye, and many, more. Included among the five signatures on separate leaves is an album leave signed in bold purple ink by the popular actress Mary Pickford.
Estimated Value $500 - 1,000.
Begun in 1898 by Dora Kahn Fletcher, a California native, when she was twenty years old, the collection was handed down to Dora's daughter Sarah Lifpitz, who added to the collection until she passed it down to her son "Bud" Norman Lifpitz, who owned the Mayfair Riding & Sports Shop, purveyors of Western wear in early Beverly Hills. The collection includes cards from Presidents, Generals, Governors, Statesmen, Writers, and Actors, and represents a unique slice of a century of California history.
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