Word: autographer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...title, Baron Tweedsmuir, "sounds like some new kind of suiting," but most of them were in a mood to greet indulgently the smallish, sharp-nosed, pucker-lipped Scot. Due to land at Quebec on Oct. 24 from the Empress of Britain, Lord & Lady Tweedsmuir were the prey of seafaring autograph hunters this week. Bandied merrily were the Scottish jokes which the brilliant historian, novelist and Governor-General is so adept at working in at a captain's dinner...
...love sets, frisked through a match with one Arthur S. Fowler of Pleasantville, N. Y., 6-3, 6-2, 6-1. William Tatem Tilden II, present as a spectator, announced that Perry's strokes were bad, predicted that Donald Budge would play him in the final, snubbed an autograph hunter who asked him to write his full name: "I'm like Garbo. I just sign my last...
...before a bronze bust of Alexander Hamilton was unveiled atop the Palisades on the rock upon which he rested his head after being fatally wounded by Aaron Burr, a Manhattan autograph dealer announced he had acquired from the descendants of Burr's second, William P. Van Ness, the correspondence which led up to the duel. Included was Burr's opening letter wherein he told Hamilton: "I send for your perusal a letter signed Ch. D. Cooper. . . . Mr. Van Ness . . . will point out to you that clause of the letter to which I particularly request your attention." Hamilton...
With some pride, the New York Public Library last week announced that it had just received as a gift an arrant forgery to add to its notable collection of autographs. The document, purporting to be a brief letter in the handwriting of Benjamin Franklin, was gladly accepted by the library, for, according to Manhattan Autograph Expert Thomas F. Madigan, it was a fine specimen of the handiwork of Robert Spring, one of the most notorious autograph forgers in U. S. history. While hundreds of unwitting collectors have cabinets filled with Robert Spring autographs, wiseacres are willing to pay large sums...
...Robert Spring was the most expert of autograph forgers, the most blatant was a French contemporary named Vrain Lucas. Within eight years he produced and sold no less than 27,000 autograph manuscripts including a polite little note from Judas Iscariot to Mary Magdalene. His greatest mistake: composing a letter from Cleopatra to Julius Caesar in modern French...