The June 24, 2000, Gerald Burg & Dr. Kardatzke Collections, Sale 6
Lot 101 
Canova, Antonio. (1757-1822) Italian
Sculptor and founder of Modern School. Visiting Card Signed. 3 x
1½", on cream card stock. Signed "Ant. Canova" below the printed name.
Mounting traces on recto/verso, not affecting signature.
Estimated Value
$150-225.
Acquired from Paul Richards, 12/69.
Lot 102 
Cardozo, Benjamin Nathan. (1870-1938)
American Supreme Court Justice. Supreme Court Card Signed. 4½ x
2½", on cream card stock. Signed in full on recto.
Estimated Value
$150-225.
Lot 103 
Carnegie, Andrew. (1835-1919) American Steel
Company Tycoon. Visiting Card Signed. Approximately 3 x 1½", on
cream card stock, n.d. Signed in full in black ink above his printed name,
address in lower right. Mounting traces on verso.
Estimated Value $350-500.
Lot 104 
Carter Jr., James Earl. (1924-) 39th
President of the United States. Governor's Card Signed. 3 x 1¾", on
white card stock. Boldly signed in full.
Estimated Value $120-180.
Lot 105 
Caruso, Enrico. (1873-1921) Italian Tenor.
Inscribed Visiting Card with Sketch Signed. 4 x 2¾", on manilla card
stock. New York, early 1900s. Features a self-portrait of the famous tenor on
verso with a brief inscription in Italian. Upper right edge missing, affecting
part of the verso date. Slight red stain along top edge. Still, this large
visiting card with its original self-portrait of Caruso in the role of
Rigoletto is very desirable.
Estimated Value $850-1,250.
Lot 106 
Caruso, Enrico. Inscribed Visiting Card
Signed. 4 x 2½", on cream card stock. Signed in full on verso below
an original self-portrait of the opera singer, dated "1903."
Estimated Value $800-1,200.
Lot 107 
Casals, Pablo. (1876-1973) Spanish Cellist,
composer and conductor. Inscribed Visiting Card Signed. 3¾ x
2¼", on cream card stock. Penned on recto/verso "Excuse me, I can't
see you now- I am getting dressed for the concert, if you want to come around
2:15 pm we will go together to the room [concert hall]- we will be able to talk
a little/ yours Pablo."
Estimated Value $150-225.
Lot 108 
Casals, Pablo. Inscribed Business Card
Signed. 5 x 3¼", on cream card stock. Inscribed and signed in pencil
on verso.
Estimated Value $150-225.
Lot 109 
Casals, Pablo. Inscribed Visiting Card
Signed. 3¼ x 2½", on cream card stock. Inscribed below his
printed name, "I appreciate the memento that you kindly sent me / Pablo
Casals." .
Estimated Value $150-225.
Lot 110 
Casals, Pablo. Inscribed Visiting
Card. Approximately 3¼ x 2¼", on cream card stock. Inscribed
with a brief pleasantry in French penned above his printed name. Age toning,
some traces of mounting.
Estimated Value $120-180.
Lot 111 
Chadwick, Sir James. (1891-1974) British
Physicist, discovered neutron. Winner of the 1935 Nobel Prize for Science.
Calling Card Signed. 5½ x 3½", on cream card stock. Signed
"J. Chadwick / December 1973" on recto with "Lady" expunged from
heading.
Estimated Value $120-180.
Lot 112 
Chaliapine, Feodor Ivanovitch. (1871-1938)
Russian Basso. Inscribed Visiting Card Signed. 3¼ x 1¾", on
off-white card stock. Inscribed In French on verso, "Would you be so kind as
to bring Mr. Delines behind the scene to my dressing room. / yours,
Chaliapine."
Estimated Value $200-300.
Lot 113 
Chaliapine, Feodor Ivanovitch. Inscribed
Visiting Card Signed. 3¼ x 1¾", on off-white card stock. Inscribed
in French, "Dear friend, my most beautiful and soft thoughts to your sacred
family... Cordially yours, Chaliapine."
Estimated Value $200-300.
Lot 114 
Charcot, Doctor Jean. (1867-1936) French
doctor and explorer. Inscribed Visiting Card Initialed. 4 x 2½",
on cream card stock. Penned on recto/verso, "Congratulations. The charm has
broken. The sickness probably got tired- I can't tell you more. I leave at this
moment and will be gone up until the first at 7 o'clock."
Estimated
Value $120-180.
Lot 115 
Charpentier, Gustave. (1860-1956) French
Composer. Inscribed Visiting Card Signed. 3½ x 2½", on
cream card stock with black mourning border. "Big thanks, my dear Mister
Daubent for sending those films. [Uralaze] will be busy with [?], Mr. J. Gaul
Boucart the ancient minister, and your servant. Wishing you well, G.
Charpentier."
Estimated Value $150-225.
Lot 116 
Chiang Kai-Shek, Madam. 2nd Wife of Chinese
President. Visiting Card Signed Twice. 3½ x 2", on white card
stock. Signed in full in English below her printed name and signed in Chinese
along the right edge.
Estimated Value $150-225.
Lot 117 
Churchill, Sir Winston. (1874-1965)
British-Prime Minister, knighted. Winner of the 1953 Nobel Prize for
Literature. Visiting Card Signed. 3 x 1½", on cream card stock.
The great British statesman's card as a member of the "Turf Club," signed
"Winston S. Churchill" in dark ink on verso. Slight crease to upper right
corner, not affecting signature.
Estimated Value $1,500-2,250.
Lot 118 
Citroên, André Gustave.
(1878-1935) French Automobile Engineer, manufacturer and munitions maker
for WWI. Inscribed Visiting Card Signed. 3 x 2", on cream card stock.
Inscribed on recto. "All my thanks for your amiable telegram that gave me
great pleasure/ A Citroên."
Estimated Value $150-225.
Lot 119
Claudel, Paul. (1868-1955) French Poet and
Playwright. Inscribed Visiting Card Signed. 3½ x 2½", on
cream card stock. "With all his best compliments to M. Glen Walton Brodgett/
Claudel."
Estimated Value $175-225.
Lot 120 
Clem, John Lincoln. (1851-1937) American
Army Brigadier General in the Civil War at the age of twelve. Known widely as
the "Drummer Boy of Chickamauga." Inscribed Visiting Card Signed. 3 x
1½", on cream card stock. Penned "John L. Clem" above his printed
name and inscribed on verso, "The last civil war veteran on the active list
for over three years before his retirement."
Estimated Value $250-375.
Lot 121 
Clemens, Samuel L. (1835-1910) Better known
by his pseudonym, Mark Twain. One of the greatest American novelists, whose
masterpieces Tom Sawyer (1876) and Huckleberry Finn (1884) drew
heavily on his own boyhood experiences and are firmly established among the
world's classics. Inscribed Visiting Card Signed. 3¼ x 1½",
on cream card stock with black mourning border. In October of 1899, the Twains
were wintering in Vienna, still mourning the death of their beloved daughter
Susy Clemens, who had died in 1896. The Clemens' apartments constituted a
veritable court where the world's notables gathered. In all likelihood this
card comes from Europe, from the difficult period in Twain's life when he was
still grieving his daughter and living abroad. Still, the author writes with
characteristic geniality and humor: "When I made it appear to my wife, my
dear Mr. Murray, that you manifested an interest (which I enlarged) in my
portrait, she was mightily pleased & hopes you will not regard it as an
intrusion- if she begs you to let her offer you this one. Sincerely yours, SL
Clemens Oct. 20/ 99."
Estimated Value $850-1,250.
Lot 122 
Clemens, Samuel L. Inscribed Visiting
Card Signed Twice. 3¼ x 1¾", on off-white card stock. Inscribed on
verso, "Yours Truly Samuel L. Clemens / (Mark Twain)." Twain's address
is given as "472 Delaware Street." This visiting card is extraordinary in being
signed twice by the author, once as "Samuel Clemens," and again as
"Mark Twain."
Estimated Value $850-1,250.
Lot 123 
Clemens, Samuel L. Inscribed Visiting
Card Signed. 3 x 1½", on cream card stock. With a curious
inscription penned above and below his printed name: "Dr Sirs- Is the
carriage progressing? Yours Truly SL Clemens." Twain's printed address,
"Hartford, Connecticut," dates the card from the late 1800s. Some minor foxing
along the bottom edge, not affecting signature.
Estimated Value $500-750.
Lot 124 
Clemens, Samuel L. Inscribed Visiting
Card Signed. 3 x 1¾", on off-white card stock. Inscribed "Yours truly
Samuel L. Clemens / Mark Twain" on verso. Inscription is quite faded,
though still legible.
Estimated Value $350-500.
Lot 125 
Clemens, Samuel L. Inscribed Visiting
Card. 3¼ x 2", on cream card stock. Inscribed "Room 162 Langdon
Hotel" below his printed signature. Some minor foxing and age toning.
Estimated Value $250-375.