c. 1904 STAGE AND SILENT MOVIES ACTORS AND ACTRESSSES 14 BUTTONS OUR FIRST SEEN.
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Winning Bid:
$259.60
(Includes 18% Buyer's Premium)
Bidding Ended:
Wednesday, March 22, 2023 9:00:00 PM (20 Minute Clock Begins At Wednesday, March 22, 2023 9:00:00 PM)
Auction:
Auction #237 - Session II
Item Description
These five men and nine ladies were among the most famous entertainers in the first decade of the 20th century. These 14 buttons are the first and only examples we've seen in our 56 years. They came to us in a collection apparently assembled in Chicago which included material from 1896 into the late 1930s. Each of these is a 1.25" real photo (no dot screen) w/pale color hand tinting. Each has silver-flashed tin covering the reverse w/7/8" fixed vertical stickpin. The backs resemble those shown in the appendix of Collectible Pin-Back Buttons 1896-1986 for the St. Louis Button Co. used 1899-1907, but the text on these differs. Around the outer back edge is "St. Louis Button Co." followed by a dash and then again "St. Louis" but w/lettering upside down and backwards compared to the other text. Most backs have over 50% silver luster remaining and all the celluloid is clean and glossy in Exc. if not better condition. Historic and rare.
Buttons include -
Julia Arthur, Canadian born stage and silent movie actress. Credits include Uncle Tom's Cabin (1910).
Ethel Barrymore, part of the famous acting family of stage, screen and radio.
Mrs. Patrick Campbell, English stage actress who toured the US and appeared briefly in silent movies.
Ida Conquest, a leading lady of Broadway.
John Drew, leading matinee idol of his day and uncle to John, Ethel and Lionel Barrymore.
Wm. Gillette, actor, playwright best known for his role as Sherlock Holmes.
Virginia Harned, stage actress best known for 1895 Broadway play Trilby, based on George du Maurier's novel of the same name.
DeWolf Hopper, actor, singer, comedian and theatrical producer. Best known for performing the poem Casey At The Bat.
Henry Irving, English stage actor and manager for years at West End's Lyceum Theatre and the chief inspiration for Bram Stoker's Count Dracula.
Edna May, American actress and singer famous for her leading roles in Edwardian musical comedies.
Mary Mannering, active 1896-1911, she made her debut at Lyceum Theatre in 1896.
Alice Neilson, Broadway performer and operatic soprano w/her own opera company and star of several Victor Herbert operettas.
E. H. Southern, ([sic] correct spelling is Sothern; in costume) specialized in leading roles especially Shakespeare.
Blanche Walsh, stage star and appeared in the film Resurrection, based on a Leo Tolstoy novel.
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