AUTOGRAPHS
	These Autographs were collected by my Father over his lifetime! Stowe Vintage will feature Autographs of Hollywood Stars, Political Autographs, President's Autographs, Sports Autographs, Military Autographs, Entertainment Autographs, Authors Autographs, Historical Autographs, and More! Contact us at 802-253-7000 or stowevintage@pshift.com

Ty Cobb Autograph

Tyrus Raymond "Ty" Cobb (December 18, 1886 – July 17, 1961), nicknamed "The Georgia Peach," was a Hall of Fame baseball player. Most baseball historians and journalists consider Cobb to be one of the greatest players ever, and Cobb received the most votes of any player on the 1936 inaugural Hall of Fame Ballot. Cobb is widely credited with setting 90 baseball records during his career. He still holds several records as of 2007, including the highest MLB career batting average with .367 or .366 (depending on source) and most career batting titles with 12 (or 11, depending on source). He retained many other records for almost a half century or more, including most career major league hits until 1985 (4,191 or 4,189, depending on source), most career runs (2,245 or 2,246 depending on source) until 2001, most career games played (3,035) and at bats (11,429 or 11,434 depending on source) until 1974, and the modern record for most career stolen bases (892) until 1977.

Original Ty Cobb Autograph Signed on Card Stock. Top Left Corner Area has two fold marks as well as what appears to be some paper that was glued on. Regular Price - $ 5000.00 / Sale Price - $ 4500.00

Rube Goldberg Autographed Sketch

Reuben Garret L. Goldberg (July 4, 1883 - December 7, 1970) was an American cartoonist. He earned lasting fame for his Rube Goldberg machines (complex devices that perform simple tasks in indirect and convoluted ways). He was posthumously awarded the National Cartoonist Society Gold Key Award in 1980. Goldberg went to Lowell High School in San Francisco in 1900 and earned a degree in engineering from the University of California, Berkeley in 1904. After college, Goldberg was hired by the city of San Francisco as an engineer. However, his fondness for drawing cartoons prevailed, and after just a few months he quit the city job for a job with the San Francisco Chronicle as a sports cartoonist. The following year, he took a job with the San Francisco Bulletin, where he remained until he moved to New York City in 1907. He drew cartoons for several newspapers, including the New York Evening Journal and the New York Evening Mail. His work entered syndication in 1915, beginning his nationwide popularity. A prolific artist, Goldberg produced several cartoon series simultaneously; titles included Mike and Ike, Boob McNutt, Foolish Questions, Lala Palooza, and The Weekly Meeting of the Tuesday Women's Club.

Original Rube Goldberg Autographed Sketch on Paper. Signed: Hello Frank Rube Goldberg. Regular Price - $ 1499.99 / Sale Price - $ 895.99

Ring Lardner Autographed Letter

Ringgold Wilmer Lardner (March 6, 1885 – September 25, 1933) was an American sports columnist and short story writer best known for his satirical takes on the sports world, marriage, and the theatre. Lardner wrote such well-known stories as Haircut, Some Like Them Cold, The Golden Honeymoon, Alibi Ike, and A Day in the Life of Conrad Green. Lardner influenced Ernest Hemingway, who in school sometimes wrote under the pseudonym Ring Lardner, Jr. Original Ring Lardner Autographed Letter. Signed on Paper (dated 1931), with the following Letterhead: THE DESERT SANATORIUM TUCSON, ARIZONA. Regular Price - $ 750.99 / Sale Price - $ 495.99

Rafael Sabatini Autographed Letter

Rafael Sabatini (April 29, 1875 - February 13, 1950) was an Italian/British writer of novels of romance and adventure. After a brief stint in the business world, Sabatini went to work as a writer. He wrote short stories in the 1890s, and his first novel came out in 1902. It took Sabatini roughly a quarter of a century of hard work before he attained success with Scaramouche in 1921. This brilliant novel of the French Revolution became an international best-seller. It was followed by the equally successful Captain Blood in 1922. All of his earlier books were rushed into reprints, the most popular of which was The Sea Hawk from 1915. Sabatini was a prolific writer; he produced a new book approximately every year. While he perhaps didn't achieve the mammoth success of Scaramouche and Captain Blood, nonetheless Sabatini still maintained a great deal of popularity with the reading public through the decades that followed. The public knew that in picking up a Sabatini book, they could always count upon a good read, and his following was loyal and extensive. Original Rafael Sabatini Autographed Letter, on Paper. Dated 1933 with the following Letterhead: Clock Mill: Clifford: Herefordshire. The letter is addressed to Frank Tricker(my father), it starts with Dear Sir, I do not smoke cigars & therefore have none............ the rest of the letter I am unable to determine what is written. Regular Price - $ 750.99 / Sale Price - $ 495.99

Queenie Smith Autographed Letter

Smith, Queenie (1902–78), singer and dancer. A native New Yorker, the petite, bouncy performer was trained for ballet and had danced at the Metropolitan Opera before making her Broadway debut in Roly‐Boly Eyes (1919). Between 1922 and 1932 she played major supporting roles or leads in eleven musicals. Her most notable role was the title part in Tip‐Toes (1925), in which she introduced “Looking for a Boy,” “That Certain Feeling,” and “These Charming People.” Was once engaged to Archie Leach, AKA Cary Grant! Original Queenie Smith Autographed Letter, signed on Paper. The Letterhead on this letter is as follows: St. James Hotel Absolutely Fireproof Walnut at thirteenth st. Philadelphia Phone Pennypacker 8400. The letter is dated October 27, 1933. Typed as follows: Dear Frank Tricker:- Responding to your note of Oct.22, enclosed find autographed card. Upon my return to New York, I expect to have a new batch of photographs finished. I will be pleased to forward one of the to you.. tho it may be a few weeks beofre you receice same. Cordially yours, Signed Queenie Smith. Regular Price - $ 195.99 / Sale Price - $ 79.99 SOLD

Octavus Roy Cohen Autographed Letter

Octavus Roy Cohen (1891-1959) was an American author, born in South Carolina where he received his secondary education at the Porter Military Academy, and college education and the Clemson University. Between 1910 and 1912 he worked in the editorial departments of the Birmingham Ledger, the Charleston News and Courier, the Bayonne Times, and the Newark Morning Star. He became popular as a result of his stories printed in the Saturday Evening Post which concerned themselves with the adventures of the Southern Negro. If his people seemed to possess the usual mythical Negro qualities of drollery and miscomprehensions, his tales at any rate were spirited. In 1913, he was admitted to the South Carolina bar and practiced law in Charleston for two years. Between 1917 and his death he published 56 books, works that included humorous and detective novels, plays, and collections of short stories. He also composed successful Broadway plays and radio, film, and television scripts. He wrote: Polished Ebony (1919) Gray Dusk (1920) Come Seven (1920) Highly Colored (1921) Midnight (1922) Original Octavus Roy Cohen Autographed Letter. The Letter is written as follows: OCTAVUS ROY COHEN 1256 WHITTAKER STREET BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA Monday February second nineteen thiry-one Frank Tricker, Esq. 5656 Beaumont Avenue Philadelphia, Pennsylvania My Dear Mr Tricker: I am enclosing the cigar band which you requested. And I hope that the attached autograph will prove okay. With best wishes. Sincerely, Signed Octavus Roy Cohen. (Attached to the letter is the cigar band mentioned in the letter). Regular Price - $ 495.99 / Sale Price - $ 259.99

Max Schmeling Autographed Photo

Maximillian Adolph Otto Siegfried Schmeling (September 28, 1905 – February 2, 2005) was a German boxer whose two fights with Joe Louis transcended boxing and became worldwide social events because of their national associations. Despite his supposed associations with nazism, it became known long after the Second World War that Schmeling had risked his own life to save the lives of two Jewish children in 1938. While Schmeling was never a supporter of the Nazi regime in Germany, he cooperated with the government's efforts to play down the increasingly negative international world view of its domestic policies during the 1930's. Original Max Schmeling Autographed Photo. Regular Price - $ 200.99 / Sale Price - $ 95.99

Llyod George Autograph
	David Lloyd George, 1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor, OM, PC (17 January 1863 – 26 March 1945) was a British statesman who guided Britain and the British Empire through the latter half of World War I and the first four years of the peace as Prime Minister, 1916-1922.

Original Llyod George Autograph Signed on Card Stock. Embossed on Card Stock is a House of Commons Seal. Regular Price - $ 500.99 / Sale Price - $ 250.99 SOLD

Knute Rockne Autograph

Knute (pronounced "kah-noot") ("noot" is the anglicized nickname) Kenneth Rockne (March 4, 1888 – March 31, 1931) was an American football player and is regarded by many as the greatest coach in college football history. His biography at the College Football Hall of Fame calls him, "American football's most-renowned coach." As head coach of the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana from 1918 to 1930, he set the greatest all-time winning percentage of 88.1%, since eclipsed but still the best percentage in Division I-A. During 13 years as head coach, he oversaw 105 victories, 12 losses, 5 ties, and 6 national championships, including 5 undefeated seasons without a tie. His players included George 'Gipper' Gipp and the "Four Horsemen" (Harry Stuhldreher, Don Miller, Jim Crowley, and Elmer Layden), and Frank Leahy. Rockne introduced the "shift", with the backfield lining up in a T formation and then quickly shifting into a box formation to the left or right just as the ball was snapped. It remained a staple in the Notre Dame playbook until it was discarded by Frank Leahy in 1942 in favor of the T.

Original Knute Rockne Autograph on a pale green card Stock, dated 1931. Signed: Sincerely Knute Rockne Regular Price - $ 2000.99 / Sales Price - $ 1499.99

Red Grange Autographed Photo

Harold Edward (Red) Grange (June 13, 1903 – January 28, 1991) was a professional and college American football player. He was a charter member of both the College and Pro Football Hall of Fame. He signed with the NFL's Chicago Bears the day after his last college game; player/manager George Halas agreed to a contract for a 19-game barnstorming tour which earned Grange a salary and share of gate receipts that amounted to $100,000, during an era when typical league salaries were less than $100/game. That 67-day tour is credited with legitimizing professional football in the United States. In the 1920s, college football was far more popular than professional football. Fans preferred cheering on a college alma mater than professional paid athletes. Grange is credited with changing that view and bringing professional football into the mainstream. On December 6, 1925, more than 65,000 showed up at the Polo Grounds to watch Grange, helping save the New York Giants' franchise. Grange scored a touchdown on a 35-yard interception return in the Bears' 19-7 victory. Offensively, he ran for 53 yards on 11 carries, caught a 23-yard pass and completed 2-of-3 passes for 32 yards. Grange became involved in a dispute with the Bears and left to form his own league, the American Football League, to challenge the NFL. The league only lasted one season, after which Grange's team, the New York Yankees, was assimilated into the NFL. Grange suffered a serious knee injury against the Bears, which robbed him of some speed and his cutting ability. After sitting out 1928, Grange returned to the Bears, where he was a solid runner and excellent defensive back through the 1934 season. The two highlights of Grange's later NFL years came in consecutive championship games. In the unofficial 1932 championship, Grange caught the game winning touchdown pass from Bronko Nagurski. In the 1933 championship, Grange made a touchdown saving tackle that saved the game and the title for the Bears. Grange retired from professional football in 1934, earning a living in a variety of jobs including motivational speaker and sports announcer. Grange married his wife Margaret, nicknamed Muggs, in 1941 and they were together until his death in 1991. She was a flight attendant, and they met on a plane. The couple had no children. His autobiography, first published in 1953, is The Red Grange Story (1993 paperback edition: ISBN 0-252-06329-5). The book was written "as told to" Ira Morton, a syndicated newspaper columnist from Chicago. In the 1950s, he visited Abington Senior High School (in Abington, Penn., a suburb of Philadelphia). Shortly thereafter, the school adopted his nickname for the mascot in his honor, the Galloping Ghost. Red Grange Autographed Photo, Approx. Size 7 1/2 x 9 1/4, Black & White Photo. Written on Photo: Sincerely to Joe Shutter from Red Grange. Regular Price - $ 799.99 / Sale Price - $ 699.99

Joseph C. Lincoln Autograph

Joseph Crosby Lincoln, (born February 13, 1870 in Brewster, Massachusetts died March 10, 1944 in Winter Park, Florida) was an American author of novels, poems, and short stories, many set in a fictionalized Cape Cod. Lincoln's work frequently appeared in popular magazines like the Saturday Evening Post and The Delineator. Although Lincoln was aware of his contemporary naturalist writers like Frank Norris and Theodore Dreiser who used American literature to plumb the depths of human nature, he rejected this literary exercise. Lincoln claimed that he was satisfied "spinning yarns" that made readers feel good about themselves and their neighbors. Although Lincoln was born on Cape Cod, his mother moved the family to Chelsea, Massachusetts, a manufacturing city outside of Boston, after the death of Lincoln's father. Lincoln's literary career celebrating "old Cape Cod" can partly be seen as an attempt to return to an Eden from which he had been driven by family tragedy. Lincoln's literary portrayal of Cape Cod can also be understood as a premodern haven occupied by individuals of old Yankee stock which was offered to readers as an antidote to an America that was undergoing rapid modernization, urbanization, immigration, and industrialization. Lincoln was a Republican and a Universalist. Upon becoming successful, Lincoln spent his winters in northern New Jersey, near the center of the publishing world in Manhattan, but summered in Chatham, Massachusetts. In Chatham, Lincoln lived in a shingle-style house named "Crosstrees" that was located on a bluff overlooking the Atlantic Ocean.

Original Joseph C. Lincoln Autograph on Paper. Regular Price - $ 199.99 / Sale Price - $ 95.99

Helen Keller Autograph

Helen Adams Keller (June 27, 1880 – June 1, 1968) was a deafblind American author, activist and lecturer. Keller went on to become a world famous speaker and author. She is remembered as an advocate for people with disabilities, as well as numerous causes. She was a suffragist, a pacifist, and a birth control supporter. In 1915 she founded Helen Keller International, a non-profit organization for preventing blindness. In 1920 she helped to found the ACLU. Keller and Anne Sullivan traveled all over the world to over 39 countries, and made several trips to Japan, becoming a favorite of the Japanese people. Helen Keller met every US President from Grover Cleveland to Lyndon B. Johnson and was friends with many famous figures including Alexander Graham Bell, Charlie Chaplin and Mark Twain. Helen Keller was a member of the Socialist Party and actively campaigned and wrote in support of the working classes from 1909 to 1921. She supported Socialist Party candidate Eugene V. Debs in each of his campaigns for the presidency. Her political views were reinforced by visiting workers. In her words, "I have visited sweatshops, factories, crowded slums. If I could not see it, I could smell it."

Orginal Helen Keller Autograph Signed in pencil on Card Stock. Helen has written: Cordiallly yours, Helen Keller Dated 1931. Regular Price - $ 1999.99 / Sale Price - $ 1499.99

George Ade Autograph

George Ade (February 9, 1866 - May 16, 1944) was an American writer, newspaper columnist, and playwright. Ade's literary reputation rests upon his achievements as a great humorist of American character during an important era in American history: the first large wave of migration from the countryside to burgeoning cities like Chicago, where, in fact, Ade produced his best fiction. He was a practicing realist during the Age of (William Dean) Howells and a local colorist of Chicago and the Midwest. His work constitutes a vast comedy of Midwestern manners, and therefore, by logical extension, a comedy of American manners at a significant juncture in the development of indigenous American culture. Original George Ade Autographed Letter. George Ade's Signature is on The Belleview Biltmore Stationary ( Located in Belleair, Florida). Regular Price - $ 259.99 / Sale Price - $ 175.99

Edgar Rice Burroughs Autographed Letter

Edgar Rice Burroughs (September 1, 1875 – March 19, 1950) was an American author, best known for his creation of the jungle hero Tarzan, although he also produced works in many genres. At the time of the attack on Pearl Harbor he was a resident of Hawaii and, despite being in his late sixties, he asked for permission to be a war correspondent. This permission was granted and so he became the oldest war correspondent for the U.S. during World War II. After the war ended, Burroughs moved back to Encino, California, where, after many health problems, he died of a heart attack on March 19, 1950, having written almost seventy novels. The town of Tarzana, California was named after Tarzan. In 1919 Burroughs purchased a large ranch north of Los Angeles, California which he named "Tarzana". The citizens of the community that sprang up around the ranch voted to adopt that name when their town was incorporated in 1928. Burroughs also wrote popular science fiction/fantasy stories involving Earthly adventurers transported to various planets (notably Barsoom, Burroughs' fictional name for Mars), lost islands, and into the interior of the hollow earth in his Pellucidar stories, as well as westerns and historical romances. Along with All-Story, many of his stories were published in the Argosy Magazine.

Original Edgar Rice Burroughs Autographed Letter. Typed on Edgar Rice Burroughs Tarzana Ranch Reseda Califoria (Letterhead) : Dated February 10, 1931 Mr. Frank Tricker 5656 Beaumont Avenue West Philadelphia, Pa. My dear Mr. Tricker: It afford me a great deal of pleasure to append my autograph hereto for your collection. With Kindest regards, I am Very sincerely yours, (signed) Edgar Rice Burroughs P.S. I am sorry that the brand of cigars I smoke have no bands. Regular Price - $ 3599.99 / Sale Price - $ 2759.99

Johnny Weissmuller Autograph

Johnny Weissmuller (June 2, 1904 – January 20, 1984) was an American swimmer and actor who was one of the world's best swimmers in the 1920s, winning five Olympic gold medals and one bronze medal. He won fifty-two US National Championships and set sixty-seven world records. After his swimming career, he became the sixth actor to portray Tarzan in films, a role he played in twelve motion pictures. Other actors also played Tarzan, but Weissmuller was the best-known. His character's distinctive, ululating Tarzan yell is still often used in films.

Original Johnny Weissmuller Autograph, signed on Card Stock. Signature is in Green ink. Regular Price - $ 795.00 / Sale Price - $ 495.00

Ricardo J. Alfaro Autographed

Ricardo Joaquín Alfaro Jované (August 20, 1882, Panama—February 23, 1971, Panama City) served as president of Panama from January 16, 1931 to September 20, 1932. He belonged to the Liberal Party. Dr. Alfaro began a career in the diplomatic service in 1905 as under-secretary for foreign affairs. He was first assigned to the U.S. in 1912 as legal counselor of the Panamanian legation for the Panama-Costa Rica border dispute. Dr. Alfaro was also involved in settling numerous disputes arising from the construction of the Panama Canal. From 1915 to 1918, he was judge of a joint commission between Panama and the United States for settling claims relating to expropriations for the construction of the Canal. Later, in 1934 to 1936 and again, in 1953, Dr. Alfaro was involved in critical negotiations relating to Panama-U.S. relations concerning the Canal. From 1922 to 1930, and from 1933 to 1936, Dr. Alfaro was Panamanian envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to the U.S.. In 1946, he was appointed Panama's minister of foreign relations; however, he resigned in 1947 to protest a proposed agreement with the U.S. relating to the Panama Canal. In 1928, Dr. Alfaro was elected vice-president of Panama. In 1931, after a revolution in Panama, Dr. Alfaro was invited to become his country's president, a position he accepted and held from January 16, 1931 through September 20, 1932. In 1940, he was defeated in the presidential election; however continued to serve his country by helping to draft a new constitution for Panama in 1944. A significant portion of Dr. Alfaro's service to his country related to his work in the United Nations. In 1945, he headed the U.N. Relief and Recovery Administration mission to ten Latin American republics. He was also Panama's delegate to the U.N. conference on international organization in San Francisco and chairman of the special committee that drafted the Spanish text of the United Nations Charter of 1945. In 1949, Dr. Alfaro was chairman of the legal committee of the third session of the U.N. General Assembly that drew up the text of the Convention on Genocide. In addition to his governmental and diplomatic experience, Dr. Alfaro's professional acumen derives from a background in law. He was formerly a professor of civil and international law in Panama universities. He was also a member of the subcommittee that drafted treaties and arbitrated for the Inter-American Conference on Conciliation and Arbitration held in the U.S. in 1929. From 1959 to 1964, Dr. Alfaro was a judge in the International Court of Justice, serving his last three years as vice-president. In 1964, Dr. Alfaro retired from his official duties. Dr. Alfaro was the author of many articles and books on Panama, and was the recipient of numerous awards and citations for a career dedicated to improving conditions both in his country and globally. Original Ricardo J. Alfaro Autographed Card with the Embossed Seal of the Republic of Panama(seal is top middle on card). Also included is a cut out of a stamped Presidential Seal(purple ink). Regular Price - $ 600.00 / Sale Price - $ 350.00