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A beautiful collection of 27 album pages signed by different opera singers including Ada Adini, Antonio Scotti, Camille Seygard, Clara Butt, Kennerly Rumford, Ella Russell, Emma Cranch, Erik Schmedes, Fernando Previtali, Gerald Moore, Frieda Hempel, Fritz Feinhals, Gottlob Pistor, Johan Schmeid, Josef Orelia, Leo Slezak, Louise Homer, Luigi Homer, Luigi Ravelli, Mathilde Bauermeister, Mignon Nevada, Peter Dawson, Sigrid Arnoldson, Constant Coquelin, and others. Various sizes though mostly 9.25 x 6 inches each, in very good condition or better. SOLD ONLY AS A LOT, NOT SOLD SEPARATELY.

Lot of 31 unsigned beautiful black and white photographs of opera singers, scenes, and rehearsals, by different photographers.  Most of the photographs are stamped on verso by the corresponding photographer.  Artists include Alfredo Kraus, Beverly Sills, Tito Gobbi, Astrid Varnay, Irene Dalis, Maria Laurenti, among others. Each one's size is 5 x 7 inches approximately, conditions range between very good to excellent condition. SOLD ONLY AS A LOT, NOT SOLD SEPARATELY.

Lot of 31 unsigned photo postcards of opera singers, including some famous names. Each one is approximately 4 x 5.75 inches (some are smaller), in very good condition.SOLD ONLY AS A LOT, NOT SOLD SEPARATELY.

Lot of 32 beautiful black and white unsigned photo postcards stamped on verso by photographer Fayer, Vienna, depicting different opera singers shown mostly in role.  Artists include James King, Leonie Rysanek, Elisabeth Höngen, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Leontyne Price, Mario Del Monaco, Sena Jurinac, Anna Moffo, Hilde Gueden, Waldemar Kmentt, and others (names are printed on the front or written on verso). Sizes are 3.3 x 5.3 inches (31 photo postcards) and 5 x 7 inches (1 photograph); conditions range from very good to excellent. SOLD ONLY AS A LOT, NOT SOLD SEPARATELY.

Lot of 33 signature cuts, signed album pages, signed cards, autograph music quotes signed, autograph notes signed, and typed notes signed, as well as several (unsigned) photographs (both in role and as themselves), of leading opera singers (mostly vintage era but several from the 1950s and 60's) including Adolf Muhlmann, Angeles Ottein,Anna Moffo, Beverly Sills, Eva Turner, Herbert Janssen, Karl Renner, Lucie Weidt, Maggie Teyte, Marian Telva, Marie Renard, Mario Sammarco, Richard Mayr, Rise Stevens, Roland Hayes, Rosa Ponselle, and Viorica Ursuleac, among others.  Sizes range from 1.75 x 4 inches to 8 x 10 inches, all in excellent condition. Not sold separately. 

Fantastic set of 33 original photo postcards of opera singers from performances in Vienna and Salzburg between 1920 and 1944. All of them are identified in pencil, including Karl Ettl, Franz Markhoff, Richard Mayr, Juliuis Patzak, Laurenz Hofer, Trajan Grosavescu, Mariella Piccaver, and others. Sizes are 3.3 x 5.3 inches (31) and 4.1 x 5.75 inches (2), in excellent condition. SOLD ONLY AS A LOT, NOT SOLD SEPARATELY.

Lot of 35 unsigned photographs of opera singers, stamped on verso by photographer and/or sticker by Metropolitan Opera Press Department. Artists include Nicolai Gedda, Birgit Nilsson, Carlo Bergonzi, Mirella Freni, Franco Corelli, Tito Gobbi, Set Svanholm, Leonie Rysanek, among others. Each one's size is 8 x 10 inches, in excellent condition. SOLD ONLY AS A LOT, NOT SOLD SEPARATELY.

Lot of 37 playbills announcing concerts by famous opera singers including Pavarotti, Verrett, Valletti, Tagliavini, Peerce, Caballé, Siepi, Tebaldi, Corelli, Vickers, Milnes, Di Stefano, Gedda, Sutherland, De los Angeles, Leontyne Price, Scotto, Sills, Schwarzkopf, Nilsson, London, Talvela and others  All playbills are one sheet printed on both sides, various sizes ranging from 5.5 x 8.25 to 7 x 10.5 inches, all in excellent condition.

Lot of 40 unsigned photographs of opera singers stamped on verso by photographers Erika Davidson, Erio Piccagliani, Louis Melancon, Fayer, and Sedge LeBlang. Artists include Lily Djanel, Jose Carreras, Katia Ricciarelli, Joan Sutherland, Franco Corelli, Carlo Bergonzi, Mirella Freni, Natalie Dessay, Tito Gobbi, and others.  Size is 8 x 10 inches each one, in excellent condition. SOLD ONLY AS A LOT, NOT SOLD SEPARATELY.

Lot of 43 signed album pages, signature cuts, and signed cards of leading early to late-twentieth century opera singers (including a great many German opera singers from the 1920s to the 1950s)  including Alfred Jerger, Alfred Piccaver, Cesare Valletti, Karl Erb, Elisabeth Rethberg, Franz Volker, Jan Peerce,  Jarmila Novotna, Joan Sutherland, Leontyne Price, Richard Tucker, Robert Merrill, and Sherill Milnes, among others. There is also a 3.5 x 5.5 unsigned photograph of Erb in Carl Pfitzner's Palestrina. Sizes of the signed items range from 3.5 x 5.5 inches to 5 x 6.5 inches, most of these are signed album pages of 5 x 6.5 inches. All in excellent condition, not sold separately.   

Lot of 43 signed album pages, signed clips, signed cards, signature cuts, autograph leters signed, and autograph notes signed, as well as several (unsigned) photographs, of leading vintage opera singers in role including Augusta Doria, Berta Morena, Bruno Prevedi, Carmella Ponselle, Charles Hackett, Dinh Gilly, Frieda Hempel, Ida Heidler, Johanna Gadski, Louise Homer, Marcel Journet, Marta Eggerth, Mary Garden, Otto Goritz, Therese Tietjens, and Violeta Coelho Netto de Freitas, among others. Sizes range from 1.75 x 3.25 inches to 6 x 8.75inches, all in excellent condition. Vintage historical items! Not sold separately. 

A nice collection of 44 unsigned photo postcards of opera singers blind-stamped on the front by Magasin Metropol Photo Studio (Vienna).  Size is 3.3 x 5.25 inches each, in excellent condition. Artists include Richard Schubert, Erik Schmedes, and many others. SOLD ONLY AS A LOT, NOT SOLD SEPARATELY.

Lot of 45 unsigned photographs of opera singers including Birgit Nilsson, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Leo Nucci, Carlo Bergonzi, Barbara Bonney, Edita Gruberova, Joan Sutherland, Marian Anderson, Franco Corelli, among others. Most of them are 8 x 10 inches in size and by photographer Erika Davidson. SOLD ONLY AS A LOT, NOT SOLD SEPARATELY. 

Lot of 45 unsigned black and white photographs of different opera singers, stamped on verso (or with a sticker) by photographer Erika Davidson, New York. Artists include Franco Corelli, Carol Neblett, Hans Sotin, Mirella Freni, Anna Moffo, Marilyn Horne, Sherrill Milnes, Joan Sutherland, Richard Tucker, Edita Gruberova, and conductor Giuseppe Patané, among other artists. Most of them are 8 x 10 inches, some are 7.9 x 10 inches, all in excellent condition. SOLD ONLY AS A LOT, NOT SOLD SEPARATELY.

Lot of 46 unsigned photographs of opera singers, mostly stamped on verso by photographer Louis Melancon, Metropolitan Opera. Artists include Pilar Lorengar, Regine Crespin, Anna Moffo, Leonie Rysanek, Hermann Prey, Franco Corelli, Montserrat Caballé, Christa Ludwig, Joan Sutherland, Gino Penno, Lujba Wellitsch, Set Svanholm, and others.  Each one's size is 8 x 10 inches approximately, in excellent condition. SOLD ONLY AS A LOT, NOT SOLD SEPARATELY.

Lot of 48 beautiful black-and-white photographs of different opera singers including Grace Moore, Montserrat Caballé, Shirley Verrett, Franco Corelli, Joan Sutherland, Renata Scotto, Luciano Pavarotti, Nicola Rossi-Lemeni, Maria Callas, Beniamino Gigli, Jan Peerce, Magda Olivero, Nan Merriman, and others, most of them in role, and some of them are signed by the photographer on verso.  Most of them are 6 x 9 inches and 8 x 10 inches in size, except Grace Moore's which is 11 x 8.8 inches, in excellent condition.

Lot of 49 unsigned vintage photo postcards of opera singers mostly from the early XX century, including Geraldine Farrar, Johannes Sembach, Jacques Urlus, Paul Knipfer, Franz Naval, Sigrid Hoffmann, Gustaf Bergman, Hans Schenck, Putnam Griswold, Anton van Rooy, Rudolf Laubenthal, Martha Geister, Dusolina Giannini, Ernst Kraus, Carl Seydel, Friedrich Plaschke, Wilhelm Rode, among others.  Each one's size is 3.5 x 5.5 inches approximately, conditions range from good to excellent. SOLD ONLY AS A LOT, NOT SOLD SEPARATELY.

A fine lot of 49 unsigned vintage photo postcards from opera houses in Austria and Germany of individual shots of famed opera singers shown mostly in role, such as Berta Morena, Emmy Destinn, Gunnar Graarud, Nanny Larsen-Todsen, Gertrude Kappel, Paul Bender, Hilde Sinnek, Jacques Urlus, Tino Pattiera, Alfred Piccaver, Ernestine Schumann-Heink, Erik Schmedes, Sophie Seidlmair, and others. Sizes are 3.5 x 5.5 inches approximately, conditions range from very good to excellent. SOLD ONLY AS A LOT, NOT SOLD SEPARATELY.

A fantastic lot of 49 unsigned vintage photo postcards of different opera celebrities shown mostly in an operatic role or as themselves; artists include Miguel Fleta, Baptist Hoffmann, Hans Hotter, Theodor Lattermann, Paul Knupfer, Anton van Rooy, Rudolf Laubenthal, Julius Lieban, Wilhelm Rode, Walter Soomer, Clarence Whitehill, Margarete Ober, Hermann Winkelmann, Margarete Matzenauer, Wanda Achsel, Francesco D'Andrade, Hedwig Franzillo, Antonio Bagnariol, Tito Schipa, Fedor Chaliapin, Nazzareno De Angelis, Pau Civil, among others. Each photo postcard is 3.5 x 5.5 inches approximately, conditions range from very good to excellent. SOLD ONLY AS A LOT, NOT SOLD SEPARATELY.

Fine lot of 5 unsigned black and white original vintage photographs from different opera productions at Kassel, Germany (season 1937) and Wiesbaden, Germany (season 1938).  All the photographs are mounted on cardboard for a total size of 11.5 x 9.4 inches, all blind-stamped on verso by the photographer, in very good condition. SOLD ONLY AS  A LOT, NOT SOLD SEPARATELY.

A beautiful collection of 50 unsigned vintage photo postcards from the period 1910-1940 depicting famous opera singers shown mostly in an operatic role or as themselves; artists include Marietta Piccaver, Emmy Destinn, Karl Aagaard, Tancredi Pasero, Astrid Varnay, Elise Bauer, Berta Morena, Maude Fay, Alfred von Bary, Fritz Feinhals, Heinrich Hensel, Walther Kirchhoff, Ernst Kraus, Anton van Rooy, and others. Each one's size is 3.5 x 5.5 inches approximately, all in very good condition. SOLD ONLY AS A LOT, NOT SOLD SEPARATELY.

Lot of 50 unsigned photo postcards of opera singers from 1910's to 1940's,  including some famous names, mostly in role. Each one is approximately 3.5 x 5.5 inches, in excellent condition. SOLD ONLY AS A LOT, NOT SOLD SEPARATELY. 

Lot of 50 unsigned photo postcards of opera singers from 1910's to 1940's,  including some famous names, mostly in role. Each one is approximately 3.5 x 5.5 inches, in excellent condition.SOLD ONLY AS A LOT, NOT SOLD SEPARATELY.

Lot of 50 unsigned vintage photo postcards of opera singers,  including some famous names such as Rosa Raisa and Enrico Caruso. Most are sized 3.5 x 5.5 inches, in excellent condition. SOLD ONLY AS A LOT, NOT SOLD SEPARATELY. 

A beautiful collection of 50 unsigned vintage photo postcards of different celebrated opera singers of the end of the XIX century and early XX century, shown mostly in an operatic role. Artists include Erik Schmedes, Nanny Larsen-Todsen, Paul Bender, Alfred Bauberger, Carl Burrian, Paul Knupfer, Baptists Hoffmann, Franz Naval, Ernestine Schumann-Heink, among others. Each photo postcard is 3.5 x 5.5 inches approximately, all in very good to excellent condition. SOLD ONLY AS A LOT, NOT SOLD SEPARATELY.

A fine collection of 50 vintage unsigned photo postcards of famed opera singers of the first half of the XX century, shown in most of the cases in a role.  Artists include Emmy Destinn, Jaro Prohaska, Lola Artot de Padilla, Nanny Larsen-Todsen, Paul Krupfer, Julius Lieban, Hedwig Franzillo, Berta Morena, Paul Bender, Rosina Storchio, Theodor Bertram, Franz Naval, Karl Burrian, Meta Seinemeyer (2), Wilhelm Rode, and many others. Most of the photo postcards are 3.5 x 5.4 inches in size, few ones slightly larger, all of them in very good to excellent condition. SOLD ONLY AS A LOT, NOT SOLD SEPARATELY.

Lot of 50 unsigned vintage photo postcards of opera singers mostly from the early XX century, including Paul Bender, Holger Christensen, Bernhard Bötel, Hans Fidesser, Leon Rains, Heinrich Hensel, Charles Dalmores, Baptist Hoffmann, Walter Kirchhoff, Karl Jörn, Maria Nezadal, Maude Fay, among others.  Each one's size is 3.5 x 5.5 inches, conditions range from good to excellent. SOLD ONLY AS A LOT, NOT SOLD SEPARATELY.

Lot of 50 unsigned vintage photo postcards of opera singers mostly from the early XX century, including Wilhelm Grüning, Robert Philipp, Heinrich Knotte, Rudolf Laubenthal, Marianne Alfermann, Rudolf Berger, Antonio Scotti, Hermann Bachmann, Berta Morena, Edouard de Reszke, Julius Roether, Maud Fay, Marie Dietrich, Hedwig Fichtmüller, Ernst Kraus, Emmy Destinn, Paul Bender,  among others.  Each one's size is 3.5 x 5.5 inches approximately, conditions range from good to excellent. SOLD ONLY AS A LOT, NOT SOLD SEPARATELY.

Lot of 52 unsigned photo postcards of opera singers including big names such as Berta Morena, Geraldine Farrar, Lina Cavalieri, Hermann Jadlowker, Enrico Caruso, Albert Niemann, Caro Tagliabue, Antonio Scotti, among others.  Each one's size is approximately 3.5 x 5.5 inches, in good to excellent condition. SOLD ONLY AS A LOT, NOT SOLD SEPARATELY.

Lot of 53 unsigned black and white vintage photographs of opera singers and opera scenes mostly from opera theaters from Europe; most photographs are stamped on verso by different photographers.  Artists include Helen Traubel, Maria Caniglia, Luciene Moratore, Maggie Teyte, Dorothy Kirsten, Alexander Kipnis, Lauritz Melchior, Lotte Lehmann, Ezio Pinza, Raoul Jobin, Fredercik Jagel, Rosa Ponselle, Hipolito Lazaro, Rita Gorr, Hilde Gueden, and others.  Sizes are 8 x 10 and larger (some), all in very good condition or better. SOLD ONLY AS A LOT, NOT SOLD SEPARATELY.

Lot of 54 unsigned vintage photo postcards of opera singers from the late XIX century and early XX, including L. Ponzio, Otto Wolf, Theodor Jran, Erich Zimmermann, Delia Reinhardt, Heinrich Knote, Birgit Engell, Elise von Catopol, Julius Roether, Hermann Jadlowker, Lola Artot de Padilla, Walter Kirchhoff, Leo Slezak, Josephine Reinl, Maria Labia, Johann Sembach, Hertha Stolzenberg, Erna Denera, Marcella Sembrich, Sigrid Arnoldson, and others.  Each one's size is 3.5 x 5.5 inches, conditions range from good to excellent. SOLD ONLY AS A LOT, NOT SOLD SEPARATELY.

Lot of 55 unsigned vintage photo postcards of opera singers from the late XIX century and early XX, including Fedor Chaliapin, Fritz Brodersen, Carlo Galeffi, Enrico Caruso, Lina De Benedetto, Richard Tauber, Lotte Lehmann, Adelina Patti, Edyth Walker, and others.  Each one's size is 3.5 x 5.5 inches, conditions range from good to excellent. SOLD ONLY AS A LOT, NOT SOLD SEPARATELY.

A beautiful collection of 58 unsigned photographs and (mostly photo postcards of opera singers including Anton Dermota, Anita Cerquetti, Giacomo Lauri-Volpi, composer Giacomo Puccini, Birgit Nilsson, Gina Cigna, Nellie Melba, Richard Tauber, Maria Ivogun, Maria Jeritza, plus a few actors. Each one's size is 3.5 x 5.5 inches on average, in very good condition or better. SOLD ONLY AS A LOT, NOT SOLD SEPARATELY.

Lot of 62 vintage unsigned photographs from different opera houses including Bayreuth, Vienna, Munich, and others depicting mostly opera singers including Edouard Kriff, Jan Kiepura, Viorica Cortez, Maria Cebotari, Beniamino Gigli; and few photos from scene productions, most are in black and white and some few colorized, some are stamped on verso by photographers.  Various sizes ranging from 3.3 x 5.4 to 3.9 x 5.7 inches, in very good condition or better.

Collection of 62 unsigned photographs of opera singers, most of them vintage. Artists include Helen Traubel, Mary Garden, Frieda Hempel, Nino Martini, Beniamino Gigli, Rosa Ponselle, Lucrezia Bori, Marion Talle, Amelita Galli-Curci, Geraldine Farrar, Julia Claussen, Antonio Paoli, Bernice de Pasquale, Carmela Ponselle, Pasquale Amato, Rosa Raisa, Alexander Kipnis, Cesare Siepi, Grace Moore, Victor Maurel, Georges Thill, Laurence Tibbetts, and others. Size for each one is 8 x 10 inches on average, in very good condition or better. SOLD ONLY AS A LOT, NOT SOLD SEPARATELY.

Beautiful lot of 63 photographs of different opera singers from the 1930s until the 1960s, including Joseph Schmidt, Michael Bohnen, Barbara Kemp, Gertrude Kappel, Walther Kirchhoff, Irene Dalis, Franco Corelli, Renata Tebaldi, Pier Miranda Ferraro, and others.  Sizes range from 3.4 x 5.4 inches to 4 x 5.75 inches, all in very good condition.

A beautiful collection of 65 unsigned photo postcards of different opera singers blind-stamped on the front by the famous Austrian photographer Franz X. Setzer (1836-1939).  Each one is 3.2 x 5.25 inches approximately, in excellent condition. Artists include SOLD ONLY AS A LOT, NOT SOLD SEPARATELY.

A very nice set of 66 unsigned photographs of opera singers, including Mercedes Capsir, Geraldine Farrar, Aureliano Pertile, Lily Pons, Marjorie Lawrence, Giacomo Lauri-Volpi, Amelita Galli-Curci, Elisabeth Rethberg, Giorgio Tozzi, Rosa Ponselle, Herva Nelli, Lauritz Melchior, Kirsten Flagstad, Felia Litvin, Rosa Raisa, Lucrezia Bori, Ezio Flagello, Luisa Tetrazzini, Tiana Leibnitz, Ernestine Schumann-Heink, among others. Size for each one is 8 x 10 on average, in very good condition or better. SOLD ONLY AS A LOT, NOT SOLD SEPARATELY.

Fantastic lot of 66 black-and-white unsigned vintage photographs of opera singers including Frieda Hempel, Mafalda Favero, Renata Tebaldi, Richard Tauber, Joan Sutherland, Victoria de los Angeles, Leontyne Price, Anita Cerquetti, Rosa Ponselle, Franco Corelli, Anna Moffo, among others. Size is 5 x 7 inches approximately each, few of them ink-stamped on verso by the photographer, in overall very good condition.

Lot of 67 vintage unsigned photo postcards of opera singers from the early 1900s including Adelina Patti, Fritzi Scheff, Geraldine Farrar, Theodor Bertram, Mary Garden, Louise Homer, Sigrid Arnoldson, Werner Engel, Ilonka Szoyer, Josef, Schwarz, among others.  Each one's size is 3.4 x 5.3 inches, from good condition to excellent condition. SOLD ONLY AS A LOT, NOT SOLD SEPARATELY.

Lot of over 70 signatures of celebrated opera singers mostly from the 1940s to the 1970s including signature cuts, signed cards, clips, and signed album pages. Many of these have signatures on both front and verso, many signatures are identified in pencil on the items. Artists here include Anna Moffo, Cesare Valletti, Emmy Loose, Erich Kunz, Giovanni Martinelli, Giulietta Simionato, and Jon Vickers.  There are also two unidentified items. Each of these items is approximately 3.5 x 4.75 inches, all in good condition or better, available at a bargain price. NOT SOLD INDIVIDUALLY, ONLY AS A LOT.  

Lot of 73 unsigned vintage photo postcards of opera singers from 1910's, 1920's and 1930's, mostly in role, including many famous names. Each one is approximately 3.5 x 5.5 inches, in very good condition. SOLD ONLY AS A LOT, NOT SOLD SEPARATELY.

Fine lot of 75 unsigned photographs and photo postcards of opera singers including Feodor Chaliapin, Giuseppe de Luca, Luisa Tetrazzini, Ema Eames, Frieda Hempel, Mirella Freni, Emma Calvé, Benvenuto Franci, Walter Soomer, Jussi Bjorling, Jose Carreras, Tito Gobbi, Alice Verden, Geraint Evans, Lily Pons, Christa Ludwig, composer Ruggero Leoncavallo, and other singers. Each one's size is 3.5 x 5.5 inches approximately in average, in very good condition or better. SOLD ONLY AS A LOT, NOT SOLD SEPARATELY.

Lot of 76 unsigned vintage photo postcards of opera singers from 1910's, 1920's and 1930's, mostly in role, including many famous names. Each one is approximately 3.5 x 5.5 inches, in very good condition.SOLD ONLY AS A LOT, NOT SOLD SEPARATELY.

Lot of 8 programs for performances at Havana, Cuba, during the 1940s and 1950s, signed by different singers such as Arnaldo Tapia, Carolina Segrera, Charles Lailla, Daniel Duno, Rudolf Schaar, Jerome Hines, Madeleine Ozeray, Pia Tassinari, Ferruccio Tagliavini, and Rose Bampton. Each one's size is 5.6 x 8.6 inches approximately, 4 are 1-sheet programs and the other 4 are 4-pages programs, in different conditions. SOLD ONLY AS A LOT, NOT SOLD SEPARATELY.

Lot of 80 unsigned vintage photo postcards of opera singers from the early XX century including Rudolf Laubenthal, Joseph Schwarz, Richard Mayr and Marie Renard; of productions by the Berlin Opera and the Bayreuth Festival.  Each one's size is 3.5 x 5.5 inches (except one in a larger size), in very good condition or better. SOLD ONLY AS A LOT, NOT SOLD SEPARATELY.

Lot of over 80 signatures of celebrated opera singers mostly from the 1950s to the 1980s including signature cuts, signed cards, clips, and signed album pages. Many of these have signatures on both front and verso. Artists here include Anton Dermota, Birgit Nilsson, Fiorenza Cossotto, Gottlob Frick, Hilde Gueden, Jarmila Novotna, Lisa Della Casa, Nicolai Gedda, Nicolai Ghiaurov, and Reri Grist. There are several unidentified signatures. Each of these items is approximately 3.5 x 4.75 inches, all in good condition or better, available at a bargain price. NOT SOLD INDIVIDUALLY, ONLY AS A LOT.

Lot of 82 unsigned photo postcards from the XX century (mostly second half) depicting opera singers shown as themselves, in performance and some few pictures of the stage productions.  Some photographs are stamped on verso.  Sizes range from 3.5 x 5.5 inches to 4.8 x 7 inches, in very good condition or better. SOLD ONLY AS A LOT, NOT SOLD SEPARATELY.