The June 24, 2000, Gerald Burg & Dr. Kardatzke Collections, Sale 6
Lot 76 
Blackmun, Harry A. Supreme Court Card
Signed. 4½ x 3½", on cream card stock. Signed in full and
dated "January 26, 1976" on recto.
Estimated Value $150-225.
Lot 77 
Blackmun, Harry A. Supreme Court Card
Signed. 4½ x 3½", on cream card stock. Signed in full and
dated "December 15, 1978" on recto.
Estimated Value $150-225.
Lot 78 
Blackmun, Harry A. Supreme Court Card
Signed. 4½ x 3½", on cream card stock. Signed in full and
dated "July 9, 1973" on recto.
Estimated Value $150-225.
Lot 79 
Blake, Eubie. (1883-1983) American Composer,
Pianist, Ragtime Pioneer-"I'm Just Wild About Harry" (1921)-"Memories of You"
(1930). Inscribed Business Card Initialed. 3½ x 2", on white card
stock. On verso in red ink, "Please Acknowledge When Rec'd. Thank you/
E.B."
Estimated Value $120-180.
Lot 80 
Bly, Nellie (Pseudonym of Elizabeth Seaman).
(1867-1922) American Journalist. Inscribed Visiting Card
Signed.3½ x 2¼", on off-white card stock. Penned on verso
"When I start a dog society, my present fondest dream, and you send a
liberal - or otherwise- contribution to it, I'll have a photograph taken for
your collection./ Sincerely Nellie Bly/ New York- Dec. 24, 1843." Another
brief inscription on recto.
Estimated Value $175-250.
Lot 81 
Blériot, Louis. (1872-1936) French
Aviator and Inventor. Made first flight across English Channel in July of 1909.
Inscribed Visiting Card Signed. 3½ x 2", on cream card stock.
Inscribed in French, "Sincere thanks L Blériot" above the flyer's
printed name.
Estimated Value $150-225.
Lot 82 
Bonaparte, Emperor Napoleon. (1769-1821)
French Revolutionary General and Leader, Emperor of France (1804-1815).
Visiting Card. Approximately 3½ x 2¼", on glossy off-white
card stock imprinted with the Emperor's name, which appears in unexpectedly
modest-sized letters. Hardly "Napoleonic," this fascinating visiting card is
not at all what one would expect from the Emperor of France, and is a curious
and wonderful thing to behold. Slight crease in center and upper right.
Estimated Value $350-500.
Lot 83 
Brahms, Johannes. (1833-1897) German
Composer. Inscribed Visiting Card Signed. 3½ x 2¼", on
manila card stock. Inscribed on verso, "Gratefully acknowledging the receipt
of mf 1000 from Mr. Soergel, at the request of Mr. Simrock. J. Brahms. / Vienna
/ April 8, 1893." Punch holes in upper corners. Simrock was Brahms'
publisher.
Estimated Value $350-500.
Acquired from Kenneth Rendell,
10/67.
Lot 84 
Brahms, Johannes. Visiting Card.
3½ x 2", on manilla card stock.
Estimated Value $120-180.
Lot 85 
Brandeis, Louis Dembitz. (1856-1941) American
Supreme Court Justice. Supreme Court Card Signed. 4¼ x 2¾", on
cream card stock. Signed in full on recto.
Estimated Value $150-225.
Lot 86 
Brandeis, Louis Dembitz. Supreme Court
Card Signed. 4½ x 2½", on cream card stock. Boldly signed in
dark ink on recto.
Estimated Value $150-225.
Lot 87 
Brooks, Phillips. (1835-1893) American
Bishop. Composer of "O Little Town of Bethlehem". Inscribed Calling Card
Signed. 4½ x 2¾", on manilla card stock. Inscribed "Yours most
Sincerely / Phillips Brooks / Dec. 13, 1890" on recto beneath his printed
address.
Estimated Value $120-180.
Lot 88 
Brooks, Phillips. Inscribed Visiting Card
Signed. 4½ x 2¾", on cream card stock. Penned on recto "Very
Sincerely Yours/ Phillips Brooks / July 16, 1881."
Estimated Value
$120-180.
Lot 89 
Brooks, Phillips. Calling Card Signed.
4½ x 3½", on cream card stock. Signed in full and dated
"Boston/ March 3, 1885." .
Estimated Value $120-180.
Lot 90 
Browning, Robert. (1812-1889) British Poet,
husband of the poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Inscribed Visiting Card.
Approximately 3 x 1½", on cream card stock. Inscribed in pencil above
his printed name. The verso has an inscription in another hand pertaining to
Browning's note, which is difficult to read.
Estimated Value $150-225.
Lot 91 
Browning, Robert & Elizabeth Barrett.
(1812-1889) British Poets. Visiting Card. 3½ x 2", on cream
card stock. Card printed "Mr. & Mrs. Robert Browning / Casa Guidi." .
Estimated Value $120-180.
Lot 92 
Bruch, Max. (1838-1920) German Composer.
Inscribed Visiting Card Signed. 4 x 2¾", on cream card stock.
Inscribed in German, "To Mister Falchi, Director of the St. Cecilia
conservatory in Rome./ Allow me, dear Sir, and colleague, to introduce to you
with these lines, my charming young friend Mme Antonietta Chialachia from
Bologna, who just obtained well deserved praise in Berlin. She played the
Adaggio of the Second Violin Concerto very well. I hope that you are doing
well./ Dr. Max Bruch/ Berlin 12/30/07."
Estimated Value $150-225.
Acquired at Altman's, 6/79.
Lot 93 
Bruch, Max. Inscribed Visiting Card
Signed. 3½ x 2", on cream card stock. Inscribed in German.
"Maestro S. Gamberti / Rome. / Allow me, dear illustrious colleagues,
to introduce to you with these lines my charming young friend Miss Antonietta
Chialachia from Bologna, who was successfully received in Berlin. She played
the "Adaggio" very well from my Second Violin Concerto. What you do for her you
will be doing for me! / All for you / Max Bruch."
.
Estimated Value
$150-225.
Lot 94 
Bruch, Max. Inscribed Visiting Card.
3½ x 2", on cream card stock. With an inscription in German above and
below the composer's printed name. Mounting traces on verso.
Estimated
Value $120-180.
Lot 95 
Bunsen, Professor Robert Wilhelm. (1811-1899)
German Chemist and Inventor. Discovered the elements Cesium and Rubidium.
Inscribed Visiting Card. 3¼ x 2", on cream card stock. Inscribed
in German in purple ink below his printed name.
Estimated Value $200-300.
Lot 96 
Burr, Theodosia. (1783-1813) American
Adventuress, lost at sea. Daughter of Aaron Burr. Visiting Card.
3½ x 2½", on cream card stock with an elaborately embossed floral
field. A delicately wrought card imprinted, "Mrs. J. Alston." Ornamented
with a light red border. Theodosia Burr was the wife of the wealthy Governor
Joseph Alston, and the card is imprinted "Mrs. J. Alston." .
Estimated
Value $120-180.
Lot 97 
Burton, Harold Hitz. (1888-1964) American
Supreme Court Justice. Inscribed Supreme Court Card Signed. 4¼ x
3¼", on cream card stock. Burton quotes from the opening of the U. S.
Constitution: "We the People of the United States, in order to form a more
perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the
common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the Blessings of
Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this
Constitution for the United States of America."/ Harold H. Burton."
Mounting traces on verso.
Estimated Value $250-350.
Lot 98 
Bush, George Herbert Walker. (1924-) 41st
President of the United States. Inscribed United Nations Card Signed as
Ambassador. Approximately 4 x 2¼", on white card stock and featuring
a gold embossed liberty eagle stamp. Inscribed "Jim Schreiber / Regards,
George Bush" in black ink.
Estimated Value $175-225.
Lot 99 
Bush, George Herbert Walker. Visiting Card
Signed. 3½ x 2", on white card stock. Signed in full in blue above
his printed name.
Estimated Value $175-225.
Lot 100 
Callas, Maria. (1923-1977) American Prima
Donna-Soprano. Visiting Card Initialed. 3¼ x 1¾", on white card
stock. Initialed beneath her printed name.
Estimated Value $150-225.