Vintage matte-finish 3.5 x 5.25 bust portrait of Shaw with a bushy beard, bearing an ANS on the reverse in fountain pen, in full: “Dear Edward Wellen, Yes: in a breastplate as a Spanish admiral, a bit less civilian and more than a bit older I might pass for Sebastiano Venier, nicht wahr? G. Bernard Shaw, Ayot Saint Lawrence, 8 November, 1949.” Affixed over one word is a piece of corrective tape, on which Shaw wrote, “Spanish.” In fine condition, with some brushing to ink. Pre-certified PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.
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