The June 24, 2000, Gerald Burg & Dr. Kardatzke Collections, Sale 6
Lot 601 
Wiggin, Kate Douglas. Inscribed Visiting
Card Signed. 3½ x 2½", on cream card stock. Inscribed, "My
congratulations and good wishes / Sincerely yours / Kate Douglas Riggs."
Estimated Value $150-225.
Lot 602 
Wilson, Edith Bolling. Visiting Card
Signed. 3 x 2", on off-white card stock. Signed, "Edith Bolling
Galt" above the printed name, "Mrs Norman Galt."
Estimated Value
$150-225.
Lot 603 
Wilson, Edith Bolling. (1872-1961) 2nd wife
of President Woodrow Wilson. Visiting Card Signed. 3¾ x 2½",
on cream card stock. Fully signed above her printed name.
Estimated Value
$120-180.
Acquired from Paul Richards, 2/60.
Lot 604 
Wilson, Edith Bolling. Visiting Card
Signed. 3¾ x 2½", on cream card stock with a gold embossed
federal seal. Signed in full.
Estimated Value $120-180.
Lot 605 
Wilson, Edith Bolling. Visiting Card
Signed. 3¾ x 2½", on cream card stock. Signed in full above her
printed name.
Estimated Value $120-180.
Lot 606 
Wilson, Thomas Woodrow. (1856-1924) 28th
President of the United States. White House Card Signed. 4¼ x 2
3/4", on cream card stock. Signed in full by President Wilson. Mounting traces
on verso, some fading evident on border, not affecting signature.
Estimated
Value $350-450.
Lot 607 
Windsor, Duchess of (Wallis Simpson).
(1896-1986) British Royalty. Wife of King Edward VIII. Royal Card
Signed. 5½ x 3", on cream card stock with gold embossed royal seal.
Signed in full.
Estimated Value $150-225.
Lot 608 
Windsor, Duke & Duchess of (Edward VIII & Wallis
Simpson). British Royalty. Government Card Signed. 4¼ x 2
3/4", on cream card stock with a blue embossed royal seal. Signed in full in
blue ink by both the Duke and the Duchess.
Estimated Value $450-650.
Lot 609 
Windsor, Duke & Duchess of (Edward VIII & Wallis
Simpson). Inscribed Visiting Card Signed. 5¼ x 3½", on
cream card stock with red embossed seal. Signed in full by both the Duke and
the Duchess.
Estimated Value $450-650.
Lot 610 
Wister, Owen. (1860-1938) American Author of
The Virginian (1902). Inscribed Visiting Card Signed.
Approximately 3 x 1½", on cream card stock. Inscribed, "Dear M:
MacDonald : / Thank you for your Kind Christmas Greeting & may 1920 treat you
very well / Yours sincerely / Owen Wister."
Estimated Value $200-300.
Lot 611 
Wister, Owen. Visiting Card Signed.
2½ x 1¼", on cream card stock. Signed above his printed name,
which Wister has crossed out with a single line to personalize the card.
Mounting traces on verso.
Estimated Value $150-225.
Lot 612 
Wister, Owen. Inscribed Visiting Card
Signed. 3 x 1½", on cream card stock. Signed, "Owen Wister Mar.
11, 1925" above his printed name.
Estimated Value $150-225.
Lot 613 
Wister, Owen. Visiting Card Signed. 3
x 1½", on cream card stock. Signed, "Owen Wister" above his
expunged printed name.
Estimated Value $150-225.
Lot 614 
Wright, Orville. (1871-1948) American
Aviation Pioneer. First, with his brother Wilbur, to fly a heavier-than-air
machine at Kitty Hawk, N.C., December 17, 1903. Inscribed Visiting Card
Signed. 3 x 1½", on off-white card stock. Inscribed on verso, "To
Nora Babbitt Harsh with good wishes Orville Wright." Dated "Aug. 28, 1944
Dayton O" in another hand. Small area of water damage affecting a portion of
the printed name, though not affecting Wright's signature.
Estimated Value
$600-800.
Acquired from Paul Richards, 2/60.
Lot 615 
York, Alvin C. (1887-1964) American Army
Sergeant, who distinguished himself against the Germans in WWI. Business
Card Signed. 3½ x 1¾", on cream card stock. Signed, "Sgt Alvin
C. York" on verso.
Estimated Value $250-375.
Lot 616 
York, Alvin C. Business Card Signed.
3½ x 1¾", on cream card stock. Signed, "Sgt Alvin C. York"
on verso.
Estimated Value $250-375.
Lot 617 
York, Alvin C. Business Card Signed.
3½ x 1¾", on cream card stock. Signed, "Sgt Alvin C. York"
on verso. Mounting traces on recto.
Estimated Value $250-375.
Lot 618 
York, Alvin C. Business Card Signed.
3½ x 1¾", on cream card stock. Signed, "Sgt Alvin C. York"
on verso. Significant mounting traces on recto.
Estimated Value $250-375.
Lot 619 
Young, Brigham. (1801-1877) American Mormon
Leader. Visiting Card Signed. 4 x 2½", on blank cream card stock.
Brigham Young has signed his name in the center of this blank in very large
letters, "Brigham Young." Soiled from much handling.
Estimated Value
$300-450.
Lot 620 
Zeppelin, Count (Graf) Ferdinand von.
(1838-1917) German Airship Designer. Visiting Card Signed. A large
oblong card, 4¾ x 2½", on cream card stock, with decorative rounded
edges. Signed and dated, " Feb. 9, 1916" beneath the printed greeting.
With an attractive blue imprinted seal pasted onto the verso which identifys
the card as being the property of, "Dr. Graf v. Zeppelin Friedrichshafen
a.B."
Estimated Value $300-450.
Lot 621 
Zola, Emile. (1840-1902) French Novelist,
who pushed literature towards naturalism with such masterful studies as
Nana (1880) and La Bête Humaine (1890). In 1898 he espoused
the cause of Dreyfus in his open letter J'accuse, and was sentenced to
imprisonment (1898), but escaped to England, and was given a hero's welcome on
his return after Dreyfus had been cleared. Inscribed Visiting Card
Signed. 3½ x 2", on cream card stock. Written to Alfred
Dreyfus, the Jewish army officer framed for a crime he didn't commit and
vanquished to Devil's Island. His ire aroused, Zola wrote his celebrated
"J'accuse", which eventually led to Dreyfus' re-trial and exoneration.
Inscribed above and below his printed name: "My dear Dreyfous [sic], if you
want me to sign your duplicate, it needs to be sent to me right away, because I
will be in Paris only around the 15th Emile Zola."
With this
extraordinary card, Zola makes arrangements to meet with Dreyfus in order to
sign some document or manuscript binding the two together. Mounting traces on
verso. Curiously, Zola misspells Dreyfus' name at the beginning of his
inscription. This may suggest that the card was written early on in their
relationship.
Estimated Value $1,000-1,500.
Acquired from Renato
Saggiori, 6/60.
Lot 622 
Zola, Emile. Inscribed Visiting Card
Signed. 4 x 2½", on off-white card stock. Inscribed with an
interesting message that shows us how Zola used visiting cards to communicate
urgent, personal messages to his close friends and associates. Zola writes his
note, which is in French, above and below his printed name: "Dear
colleagues, would you have the extreme kindness to keep this letter and give it
to Mr. Rodays as soon as he arrives? I know that he is at the "Figaro" Thursday
or Friday and I'm afraid that he won't get my letter. Thank you a thousand
times, and all my regards to you. Emile Zola." Boldly signed, decorative,
with intriguing content.
Estimated Value $300-450.
Lot 623 
Zola, Emile. Inscribed Visiting Card
Signed. 4 x 2½, on cream card stock. Inscribed in French, "Dear
Jourdain, I'll take you with me tonight, Miss Jourdain and yourself before the
scene at the ground floor no.2/ Affectionately/ Emile Zola."
Estimated
Value $300-450.
Lot 624 
Zola, Emile. Inscribed Visiting Card.
4 x 2½", on cream card stock. Inscribed in French, "Thank you, and
all my best wishes in return." Mounting traces on verso.
Estimated
Value $200-300.
Lot 625 
Zola, Emile. Inscribed Visiting Card.
4 x 2", on cream card stock. With a brief sentiment inscribed above the
author's printed name, "With my sincere thanks." Two minor mounting
traces at upper left and right edges.
Estimated Value $200-300.