Handsome vintage autograph album, 5.5 x 7.75, bound in gilt-stamped dark brown leather, circa 1920s. In addition to friends and relatives of the original collector, William Nichols Beggs, the album also contains ink signatures of many prominent personalities (some on affixed slips and/or together on the same page). Included: Will Rogers (twice, once with the inscription “Boston the house of Harvard and the heart of the autograph belt,” also signed by Dorothy Stone), Harry Houdini (twice, once as “Harry Handcuff Houdini”), Charles W. Eliot, A[my] Lawrence Lowell, George M. Cohan, Walter Huston, Richard Halliburton, Edgar Guest (with handwritten poem), Herbert Hoover, Charles G. Dawes, and Charles E. Hughes. A few items of interest have also been loosely laid in, including an ANS from Eddie Dowling, a signed calling card of Massachusetts Governor Alvan T. Fuller, a color signed postcard photo of Anton Lang, and an unsigned original U.S. ten-cent fractional currency note, circa 1874. In fine condition, with scattered light toning and soiling, repairs to a few pages along gutter, and one page detached. RRAuction COA.
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