China Cultural Revolution. Original Record The East is Red.




Authentic record from the Cultural Revolution period in China, one side with a chorus version, the other is played by a brass band.


Very fine condition.

Austria 1920-30s: Draft for a shop for leather goods in Vienna, Alligator. The image depicts a young black lady, holding a bag while riding an alligator.




The size is 9 x 11,5 inches. There is some creasing, especially at the right lower corner.

It is an original watercolour draft by the Viennese painter Hans Suessenbeck.

Johann Suessenbeck, academic painter and graphic designer ( 1906 – 2000 ), was a rewarded Austrian States award, M. Neuber award and Meisterschul-award.

It sure looks great when matted and framed.

Reunion 1909: " Un Hotel ". Photo of the Hotel de France with a couple of people in front of the building.





Postcard with 4 + 1 Cents stamps, sent to Graz in Austria. Reunion, St. Andre 09 - cancellations. Minor wear.

Most attractive Christmas postcard from ca. 1918. Published by M. Munk Wien as Nr. 1152.




The postcard depicts 2 pretty ladies in fur coats and their puppy.

Unused postcard in very fine condition.

Boxer Uprising: Lithographed mocking postcard: China being humiliated by Japan, Germany, England and Russia.






Used as postcard in Germany.

Minor creasing, a tear at the lower left part, lower left corner knocked.

83-year-old Paul Newman passed away Friday following a bout with cancer. We have an old film-program, signed by Paul Newman:

Paul Newman, hand-signed autograph on a German movie program for the film: “Sweet Bird of Youth”, 1962

Size: 6,5 x 9,2 inches. The Autograph comes with a Certificate of Authenticity.





Paul Leonard Newman (born 1925) is an American actor and film director. He has won numerous awards including Academy Awards, Golden Globe Awards, Screen Actors Guild Awards, a Cannes Film Festival Award, and an Emmy award.

Newman was one of the few actors who successfully made the transition from 1950s cinema to that of the 1960s and 1970s. His rebellious persona translated well to a subsequent generation. Newman starred in Exodus (1960), The Hustler (1961), Hud (1963), Harper (1966), Cool Hand Luke (1967), The Towering Inferno (1974), Slap Shot (1977) and The Verdict (1982). He teamed with fellow actor Robert Redford and director George Roy Hill for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) and The Sting (1973), or with his wife, Joanne Woodward, in the feature films The Long, Hot Summer (1958), ….. Harry & Son (1984) and Mr. and Mrs. Bridge (1990).

In addition to starring in and directing Harry & Son, Newman also directed four feature films.

25 years after The Hustler, Newman reprised his role of Fast Eddie Felson in the Martin Scorsese directed The Color of Money for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor. He passed away Sept. 26th 2008.

Tinted French risqué photo postcard depicting a pretty young lady in Art Deco swimming dress.



Paris, DEDE 599. Unused, fine condition.

Scarce autograph by baritone Lawrence Winters. Hand signed “sincerely. Laurence Winters”, green ink. Signed in November 1958 when he sang at the Sportpalast in Berlin.





Size: 6,6 x 9,5 inches ( 17 x 24 cm). Fine condition.

Lawrence Winters (1915–1965), baritone, was an African American opera singer during the 1940s, 1950s, and early 1960s. He graduated with a Bachelors degree in Music from Howard University studying with Todd Duncan.

His official concert debut was in 1947 at the Town Hall of New York. Then, in 1948, he debuted as an opera singer in the New York City Opera in Verdi's Aida as Amonasro. Winters toured as a concert artist and appeared in musicals such as the original 1946 production of Call Me Mister.

In 1951,Winters sang the role of Porgy in the most complete recording of Porgy and Bess made up to that time. He debuted in European opera reprising his role in Aida in 1952 with the Hamburg State Opera, becoming principal baritone with the company in 1961 until his death in 1965. Winters is buried at the Ohlsdorf Cemetery.

Nistch became 70 today! We offer an authentic Hermann Nitsch Autograph on 3.5 in. x 5 in. portrait photo from the 1980s, signed in the 1980s.




Herman Nitsch used to be one of the most controversial and scandalous artists from Austria.

In the 1950es he created the concept of the Orgies Mysteries Theater, a six-day event that continues to captivate him throughout his career and still is performed each year in Prinzendorf, Lower Austria.

Between 1960-66 he performed several Art actions and exhibitions resulting in various court trials and three prison sentences.

Since 1989 he has been teacher at the Academy of Visual Arts in Frankfurt.

His works can be found in such famous museums and galleries like: MoMA New York, Guggenheim New York, Metropolitan Museum New York, Yale University, Gallery of Ontario Toronto, Tate Gallery London, Musée Centre George Pompidou Paris, Stedelijk Van Abbe Museum Eindhoven, Castello di Rivoli Turin, Sammlung Nordrhein- Westfalen Düsseldorf, Museum Ludwig Köln, Lenbachhaus Munich, Nationalgalerie Munich, Graphische Sammlung Munich, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Kunsthalle Hamburg, Museum Neue Galerie Saarbrücken, Schloss Moorsbroich Leverkusen, Museo Capodimonte Napels, Kunstmuseum Bern, Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Museum Moderner Kunst-Stiftung Ludwig Vienna, Wolfgang Gurlitt Museum Linz, Rupertinum Salzburg, Ferdinandeum Innsbruck, Sammlung Essl Klosterneuburg, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Galleria D’Arte Moderna Bologna, Walker Art Center Minneapolis.

Boxer Uprising: Lithographed mocking postcard: China as old lady barricaded behind Peking city gate. In front of the gate are the western allies, trying to get in.





Inscription: „Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt, ahnt, was wir leiden." ( Who knows yearning only knows about our suffering ).

Sent as postcard from Weissenkirchen to Wolfsburg in Carynthia. Fine condition.

Olympic Games: Beijing 2008. Hard to find coin set “Fuwa”, Games Mascots – Bring Dreams and Wishes to You. The coins are gold coated copper, 40 millimeters diameter, all in original protection boxes.





The set is in the original box and comes with an English- and Chinese Certificate.

80 000 sets have been issued, as they were mostly presents for selected people not many sets are found at the market.

Size of box: 11,5 x 5,6 x 1,4 inches. 612 gram.

As scarce set it makes a great gift for collectors of Olympic coins.

The explynation reads: “ Each of the five Fuwas, the mascots of the 2008 Beijing Olympiad, symbolizes a nice blessing and will bring dreams and wishes to you.

…Each medallion of a diameter of 40 millimetres ( gold – plated copper ) carries respectively “Beibei”, Jingjing”, “Huanhuan”, “Yingying”, “Nini” – Prosperity, Happiness, Passion, Health and Good Luck….. …advanced technique, this set carries an anti-counterfeit label……serial numbered.”

Sammy Davis Junior: Authentic Autograph. Signed Color Photo: Peace + Love Sammy Davis Jr.

Size: 8 x 10 inches. Minor creasing at upper right corner otherwise very fine condition.




The Autograph comes with a Certificate of Authenticity.

Samuel George “Sammy” Davis, Jr. (1925 –1990) was an American entertainer. He was a dancer, singer, multi-instrumentalist (vibraphone, trumpet, and drums), impressionist, comedian, convert to Judaism, and Emmy and Golden Globe-winning actor. He was a member of the 1960s Rat Pack, which was led by his old friend Frank Sinatra, and included fellow performers Dean Martin, Joey Bishop and Peter Lawford.

By age seven he had made his film debut in the Vitaphone short Rufus Jones for President (1933) opposite Ethel Waters. After army service during WWII, he was signed by Decca records in 1951 after a triumphant engagement at Ciro's nightclub in Hollywood.

By the mid-50s Davis' career was in full swing. In 1955 he made his feature film debut as Fletcher Henderson in The Benny Goodman Story. In Otto Preminger's 1959 lavish film version of Porgy and Bess, he used his lithe, wiry body, snake-like grace and insinuating, seductive drawl to create an almost definitive portrayal of the drug dealer, Sportin' Life. By the 1960s, as an off-again-on-again member of the swinging Rat Pack, he costarred with such cohorts as Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Peter Lawford in a series of offhand larks such as Ocean's Eleven (1960), Sergeants Three (1962), Robin and the Seven Hoods (1964) and Salt and Pepper (1968) while also giving more serious dramatic performances in Anna Lucasta (1958) and A Man Called Adam (1966).

Calling himself a multi-minority figure (black, Jewish and handicapped), Davis overcame numerous hardships throughout his career.

When he died of throat cancer in 1990,Davis was remembered as a performer who helped break down the barriers of race and prejudice over the years and was a long-time supporter of the civil rights movement and humanitarian causes as well as a Renaissance man of show business.

Desirable John Lennon autograph: Early, hand signed Postcard “The Beatles” Photo: Terb Agency 902/283.

Signed: John Lennon. The signature is very clear, it looks better that on scan. ( Due to the red background the contrast is not so strong).




Size: 4 x 6 inches. Very fine condition.

The Autograph comes with a Certificate of Authenticity and an additional appraisal.

John Winston Ono Lennon, MBE (born John Winston Lennon 1940 - 1980) was an English rock musician, singer, songwriter, artist, and peace activist who gained worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles. As a member of the group, Lennon was one of the lead vocalists and co-wrote the majority of the band's songs with bassist Paul McCartney.

In his solo career, Lennon wrote and recorded songs such as "Give Peace a Chance" and "Imagine". Lennon revealed his rebellious nature and wit on television, in films such as A Hard Day's Night, in books such as In His Own Write, and in press conferences and interviews. He was controversial through his work as a peace activist, artist, and author. Lennon was murdered in New York City on 8 December 1980. In 2002, respondents to a BBC poll on the 100 Greatest Britons voted Lennon into eighth place. In 2004, Rolling Stone magazine ranked Lennon number 38 on its list of "The Immortals: The Fifty Greatest Artists of All Time" and ranked The Beatles at number one.

Emil Jannings authentic signature: Typed letter on Emil Janning letter pad, hand-signed by Janning. Janning writes: „ Liebe Frau von Hartung!

Soeben erst erreicht mich die Nachricht von dem Hinscheiden des Herrn von Dressel. Ich weiß, daß Die Worte Sie nicht zu trösten vermögen, aber es ist mir ein Herzensbedürfnis Ihnen in aufrichtiger Anteilnahme die Hand zu drücken. Ich spreche Ihnen, auch im Namen meiner Frau Ruth, mein herzliches Beileid aus.

Ihr ergebener E. Jannings

( Jannings condoles Pia von Hartung after her partner von Dressere passed away. )

The letter is addressed to Pia von Hartung.




The Autograph comes with a Certificate of Authenticity.

Size: 7 x 8,5 inches. Fine condition. Horizontal centrefold.

Emil Jannings (1884 -1950) was a German actor and the first winner of the Academy Award for Best Actor. He won the 1928 Oscar for two films, The Way of All Flesh and The Last Command. He also starred in F. W. Murnau's The Last Laugh, a film notable in silent cinema for its lack of title cards, and in the 1922 film version of Shakespeare's Othello.

Besides The Last Laugh, Jannings worked with Murnau on two other films, playing the title character in Herr Tartüff and Mephistopheles in Faust.

During the Third Reich, he starred in several films which were intended to promote Nazism, particularly the Führerprinzip: Der Herrscher ("The Ruler" 1937), The Youth of Frederick the Great (1935), and The Dismissal of Bismarck (1942). Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels named him "Artist of the State" in 1941. His involvement with the Nazis ended any chance he may have had for a comeback in the United States.

Jannings was one of the highest paid actors of his time.

Jannings died in 1950 in Strobl, Austria, of cancer at the age of 65. This letter was written at his place of death.

Scarce Wiener Werkstaette Postcard: Wien: Die Michaelerkirche. ( St. Michael's Church )





W.W: Wien Nr. 140 ( Imprint in yellow at the back side ). Lithograph.

Sent to Mrs. Helene Hesshaimer, Kronstadt.

Extremely decorative Art Nouveau postcard, published by Wiener Werkstätte.





“Stoffmuster” design by W. Jonas. ( Design for textiles ). New Year’s Greetings in Hebrew and German. Mint, perfect condition.

Wiener Werkstätte (en: Viennese Workshops), was founded in 1903. Two of the founders were the artists Josef Hoffmann and Koloman Moser.

Important members of this workshop were the painter Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, Emilie Floge, Max Lenz, Wilhelm Lizst, Emil Orlik, Dagobert Peche, Eduard Wimmer Wisgrill, Leopold Bauer, Oskar Kokoschka, Vally Wieselthier, Otto Prutscher, Emanuel Margold, Hans Ofner, C.O. Czeschka, Michael Powolny, Carl Moll and Maria Likarz.

The Wiener Werkstätte created works of craftsmanship in a very distinctive style, the Wiener Werkstätte Style. The workshop mainly dealt with creating jewelry, fabrics for clothing, ceramics and pottery, and furniture, all characterized by simple shapes, minimal decoration and geometric patterning.

Due to poor finances, the Wiener Werkstätte closed in 1932.

Emil Jannings Autograph - The Last Command Director. Hand signed postcard.





The postcard depicts the Grand Hotel in St. Wolfgang. The signature war written with a pencil.

The autograph comes with a Certificate of Authenticity. German actor Emil Jannings ran away from home at age 16 to become a sailor, and ended up working as an assistant cook on a ocean liner. He returned home disillusioned, but soon took up the theater; at 18 he made his professional stage debut, going on to tour with several companies in numerous provincial towns.

In 1906 he was invited to join Max Reinhardt's theater in Berlin, then considered to be the finest stage troupe in the world. Over the following decade, he established himself as a significant stage actor.

Jannings debuted onscreen in 1914, but the first five years of his film career were routine. In 1919 he began appearing in a string of Germanic-slanted historical dramas, portraying imposing historical figures such as Louis XV, Henry VIII, and Peter the Great; next he starred in a series of literary adaptations. By the mid-'20s he had an international reputation, and many considered him the world's greatest screen actor.

In 1927 Paramount signed him and he moved to Hollywood, appearing in a number of films designed to showcase his gift for tragedy. Jannings won the very first Best Actor Academy Award for his first two American films, The Last Command (1928) and The Way of All Flesh (1927). Because of his thick German accent, the advent of sound ended his American career. He returned to Germany in 1929.

When the Nazis came to power in 1933, he was enlisted to participate in the state's propaganda machine; an enthusiastic supporter of the Nazis, he spent the next decade-plus making films that supported Nazi ideology. Propaganda Minister Goebbels awarded him in 1938 with a medal and an appointment to head Tobis, the company that produced his films, and he was honored as Artist of the State in 1941.

Very attractive postcard from old Korea: 3 small views are surrounded by embossed, lithographed design.





Art Nouveau designed back.

Unused, fine condition.

Scarce old photograph from China entitled "Rebels Enlisting at Chefoo".






Size: 5,6 x 4 is the size of the actual photo, 6,5 x 5 inches is the size of the photo + margins.

Fine condition.

Most decorative, authentic drawing from ca. 1910. It depicts a female and a male angel, kissing while they fly.






The artist was Austrian. The drawing is signed at the very right margin but not very clear.

Size of the whole sheet ( drawing + margins ): 15 x 7,2 inches.

Size if the actual drawing: 11 x 3,5 inches.

Slight overall aging, bend at upper part ( can be covered if matted ) some foxing at margins, some satins at margins, some corrections in the drawing ( e.g. left foot ) made by the artist.

It looks great when matted and framed and would make a perfect gift for many occasions.

Desirable Anthony Perkins Autograph: Authentic, hand signed signature on early photo postcard ( real photo Kolibri ).



The Autograph comes with a Certificate of Authenticity.

3,5 x 5,5 inches. The lower left corner has a slight crease otherwise fine condition.

Anthony Perkins (1932 – 1992) was an Academy Award-nominated, Golden Globe-winning American stage and screen actor, perhaps best known for his role as Norman Bates in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho and its three sequels.

Following the success of Psycho, Perkins had a successful career in Europe. He created a portrayal of Joseph K. in Orson Welles' The Trial (1962), a cinematic adaptation of the novel by Franz Kafka. Upon returning to America, he took the role of a disturbed young murderer in Pretty Poison (1968). He also played Chaplain Tappman in Catch-22 (1970).

Perkins also co-wrote, with composer/lyricist Stephen Sondheim, the screenplay for the (1973) film The Last of Sheila, for which the writers received a 1974 Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for Best Motion Picture Screenplay. He returned to the role of Norman Bates for the sequels, Psycho II, Psycho III (which he directed) and Psycho IV: The Beginning.

Portrait photo ( real Photo – style ) of the tragic historic figure, Archduke Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria, Hungary and Bohemia (1858 - 1889). Rudolf was the son and heir of Emperor Franz Josef I of Austria and Empress Elisabeth of Austria.





His death, apparently through suicide, along with that of his mistress, Baroness Mary Vetsera, at his Mayerling hunting lodge in 1889 made international headlines, fueled international conspiracy rumours and ultimately may have sealed the long-term fate of the Habsburg monarchy.

According to official reports, their deaths were a result of Franz Josef's demand that the couple end the relationship: the Crown Prince, as part of a suicide pact, shot his mistress in the head, then himself. Rudolf was officially declared to have been in a state of "mental unbalance" in order to enable burial in the Imperial Crypt (Kapuzinergruft) of the Capuchin Church in Vienna. Mary's body was smuggled out of Mayerling in the middle of the night, and secretly buried in the cemetery of Holy Cross Abbey in Heiligenkreuz, and the Emperor had Mayerling converted into a penitential convent of Carmelite nuns. Today prayers are still said daily by the nuns for the repose of Rudolf's soul.

Bob Geldof hand signed b/w photograph ( Photo credit: Karen Korn ).





Size: 8 x 10 inches, very fine condition.

The Autograph comes with a Certificate of Authenticity.

Robert Freerick Xenon Geldof, KBE, known as Bob Geldof (born 1951), is an Irish singer, songwriter, actor and political activist. In 1975 Geldof became the lead singer of the band The Boomtown Rats, a rock group closely linked with the punk movement. In the year of 1978, The Boomtown Rats had their first No. 1 single in the UK with "Rat Trap", which was the first New Wave chart-topper in that country. In 1979, the group shot to international fame with their second UK No. 1, "I Don't Like Mondays".This was equally successful, as well as controversial; Geldof wrote it in the aftermath of Brenda Ann Spencer's attempted massacre at an elementary school across the street from her house in San Diego, California, at the beginning of 1979. On the 31 March 2005, Geldof and Ure announced the Live 8 project, to raise awareness of issues that burden Africa, such as government debt, trade barriers, and AIDS issues. Geldof organised six concerts with U2, Elton John, Pink Floyd, The Who, Madonna, Paul McCartney, Duran, Brian Wilson, Crosby Stills & Nash, Bon Jovi, Linkin Park, Dave Matthews, Stevie Wonder, Neil Young, Bryan Adams, Deep Purple and many more. Pink Floyd's performance in London was its first since 1981 to include original bassist, Roger Waters.

Charlon Heston, autographed Photo

Charlton Heston with machine gun. Clear autograph.




b/w photo, Size: 3.5 x 5.5 inches, very fine condition.

Heston's star burned at its brightest when DeMille cast him as the stern Moses in the lavish The Ten Commandments (1956). From there, Heston went on to headline numerous spectaculars which provided him the opportunity to play every one from John the Baptist to Michelangelo to El Cid to General "Chinese" Gordon. In 1959, Heston won an Academy Award for the title role in William Wyler's Ben Hur. By the mid-1960s, the reign of the epic film passed and Heston began appearing in westerns (Will Penny) and epic war dramas (Midway). He also did sci-fi films, the most famous of which were the campy satire Planet of the Apes (1968), its sequel Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970) and the cult favorite Soylent Green (1973). The '70s brought Heston into a new kind of epic, the disaster film, and he appeared in three, notably Airport 1975.

Heston served six terms as the president of the Screen Actors Guild and also chaired the American Film Institute. Active in such charities as The Will Rogers Institute, he was awarded the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award at the 1977 Oscar ceremony. Known as a conservative Republican and proud member of the National Rifle Association, Heston worked closely with his long-time colleague and friend President Ronald Reagan as the leader of the president's task force on arts and the humanities.

Among his most enthusiastic critics is Michael Moore.

Ginger Rogers Autograph on b/w photo, signed with a black pen -

3,5 x 5,5 inches





The Autograph comes with a Certificate of Authenticity.

Ginger Rogers (1911 - 1995) was an Academy Award-winning American film and stage actress, dancer and singer. In a film career spanning fifty years she made a total of 73 films, and is now principally celebrated for her role as Fred Astaire's romantic interest and dancing partner in a series of ten Hollywood musical films that revolutionized the genre.

Ginger Rogers was most famous for her partnership with Fred Astaire. Together, from 1933 to 1939 they made nine musical films at RKO and in so doing, revolutionized the Hollywood musical, introducing dance routines of unprecedented elegance and virtuosity, set to songs specially composed for them by the greatest popular song composers of the day. To this day, "Fred and Ginger" remains an almost automatic reference for any successful dance partnership.