Lot 827
3 Vintage Original Oversized Portraits - Douglas Fairbanks Sr. and Marion Davies, One Signed. Collection of 3 vintage original oversized double-weight portraits. First, Douglas Fairbanks Sr., legendary silent film star seen here in a handsome portrait measuring 13½" x 10½". Photo is printed in warm sepia and blind embossed on front left corner as well as stamped on verso with the name of the photographer, Melbourne Spurr, Hollywood and is in excellent condition. The second, a youthful image of Marion Davies 13½" x 10½" inscribed and signed in blue fountain pen, with photographer James Manatt blind embossed in lower right corner. The other, a beautiful portrait of Marion Davies in the early 1950's at the height of her children's charity work for which she was enormously generous. Measuring 14" x 11" and photographed by the great John Engstead, blind embossed in lower right corner. Again both in excellent conditon.
Estimated Value $400 - 600.
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