Potter & Potter Auctions
Live Auction

Photography & Ephemera

Sat, Nov 20, 2021 12:00PM EST
Lot 446

[AUTOGRAPHS]. Collection of entertainment, music, and polit...

Estimate: $250 - $350

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[AUTOGRAPHS]. Collection of entertainment, music, and political autographs to Vincent Lopez. Approximately 60 autographed items signed to American bandleader Vincent Lopez, including typed letters, signed photos, cards, and postcards, among them Ed Sullivan (signed card, together with a vintage photo of Lopez with Sullivan), Rudy Vallee (signed Christmas card), Lawrence Welk (2-page typed letter signed), Flora MacLeod of Macleod, Mickey Alpert, Claire Ruth (second wife of Babe Ruth), Bobby Breen (actor), Fred Fisher (songwriter), Elizabeth Morgan (signed photo), George Jessel and Helen Kane, Abraham Lincoln Marovitz (judge), Claude Pepper (congressman), John Dempsey (Governor of Connecticut), Robert F. Wagner (Mayor of New York), Harold Arthur (Governor of Vermont), James Farley (Chairman, Coca-Cola Export Corp.), Billy Rose, David Sarnoff (President of RCA), Herbert Mayes (editor of Good Housekeeping), Robert Christenberry (Postmaster), Earl Wilson, Claude Kirk (Governor of Florida), Wendell Willkie, Theodore E. Steinway, Harry Richman, William E. Jenner (U.S. Senator), Carl Knauff, Grover Whalen, Jack Lord, and others. Lot also includes one of Lopez?s passports, and several vintage publicity photos of Lopez.