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VICHY ENCHERES

36 - Orange folder ‘Phonos and Miscellaneous’ containing forty-fi…
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Estimate €300 - €400
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Orange folder ‘Phonos and Miscellaneous’ containing forty-five documents and one framed item: gramophone, phonograph, graphophone, mechanical violin, light bulbs, chamber music ensembles, music academies, street organs…: advertisements, old photographs (including some large-format Keystone prints), postcards, photo cards, a contract (Pathé 1914), copyright stamps for records, a letter on letterhead ‘Nina Rossi, her sister’s voice, 1939), Contract signed by Tibor Harsaniy with Pathé Cinéma (1946), copy of a patent for ‘improvements to phonographic recordings’ by Louis Lauvernier, 2 letters regarding the same to *La Technique Moderne* (1948), 2 cartoon drawings, 3 en-4 engravings (Beethoven, Léon Carvalho, Mme Melba), a large-format Columbia advertising photograph by Georges Thill featuring Melba, and six photographs of figures from the worlds of theatre and fashion: Albert Lambert (2, Comédie Française), Jane Grès, Gérard Philipe (a fine photograph by Agnès Varda (stamped)), Lumilla Pittoëff in *Jeanne d’Arc* (Roger-Viollet), 5 miscellaneous items (2 Parisian postcards, 2 negatives and 1 landscape photograph), totalling 45 vintage documents, some of which are rare. Included is an Edison advertising poster, ‘The Phonograph’, colour lithograph, USA, c. 1920, 69 x 48. Appraiser: François ROULMANN
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About the sale WIND INSTRUMENTS AND PLUCKED STRING INSTRUMENTS
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Auction time 11/07/2026 at 1:45 PM
Ref. : 4479 - 36
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