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"Mark Twain" [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] | Photographic portrait, signed and inscribed with an autograph witticism, c.1900

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July 11, 02:07 PM GMT

Estimate

3,000 - 5,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

"Mark Twain" (Samuel Langhorne Clemens)

Signed and inscribed photographic postcard portrait

signed above the image ("Yours truly Mark Twain"), WITH AN INITIALLED AUTOGRAPH WITTICISM BELOW ("Nothing so much needs reforming as other people's habits. M. T."), 140 x 88mm, no place or date [c.1900?], creasing to upper corners

PROVENANCE

Formerly in the collection of the humorist and broadcaster Fritz Spiegl (1926-2003). See also lot 000.

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