Swann Galleries Autographs Auction
Featuring the Jimmy Van Heusen Collection
of Musical Autographs
NOVEMBER 7
Preview: November 2 & 3, 10-6;
November 6, 10-6; November 7, 10-12
104 East 25th St, New York, NY 10010
Specialist: Marco Tomaschett • mtomaschett@swanngalleries.com
• tel 212 254 4710
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Autograph Musical Quotation dated and Signed, nine bars from the first movement of Serenade for String Orchestra in C, London, 1888. Estimate $10,000 to $15,000.
Albert Einstein, group portrait at his Princeton home in 1952, signed. Estimate $3,000 to $4,000.
Sigmund Freud, Halberstadt photograph signed and inscribed to American psychoanalyst H.W. Frink, 1922. Estimate $10,000 to $15,000.
Jimmy Van Heusen, Autograph Musical Manuscript Signed twice, a working draft for Love and Marriage, circa 1955. Estimate $4,000 to $6,000.
George Washington, Autograph Letter Signed, as Commander-in-Chief, to spymaster Benjamin Tallmadge, November 1780. Estimate $25,000 to $35,000.
Marlene Dietrich’s short snorter, with more than 1000 signatures, including General Patton and Ernest Hemingway, 1940s. Estimate $3,500 to $5,000.
Robert Schumann, Autograph Musical Quotation dated and Signed, four bars from Genoveva, 1850. Estimate $8,000 to $12,000.
Frederick Douglass, Autograph Letter Signed, to abolitionist Elizabeth Bu¡ um Chace, on his appointment as U.S. Minister to Haiti, September 1889. Estimate $3,000 to $4,000.
Noah Webster, Autograph Manuscript Signed “A Federalist,” on opposition to the Constitution, circa 1800. Estimate $15,000 to $25,000.
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