Roughly 6 1/2 x 5 inch autograph book page.
Some minor creasing, staining and grubby
Page was signed over 100 years ago...so there is some discolouration,
Signed by Miss Tetrazzini and McCormack in 1910
THE BOOK THE SIGNATURE CAME FROM BELONGED TO A MAN NAMED IDA REDFERN.
This is how the auction house had listed the autograph book.....................................
An autograph book compiled by Ida Redfern (inscribed by him and dated 1909 to front free endpaper), early 20th century, containing numerous autographs, many from musicians and performers, to include Proms conductor Henry Wood (dated 1911), Dame Nellie Melba (dated 1911), Dame Cicely Courtneidge (dated 1914) and her husband Jack Hulbert, one page illustrated with a comic watercolour sketch by W. Barton Wilkinson titled ‘The Reception’
On receiving the book, the auction house description is nothing like the book !! it is 3/4 full with opera singer / musicians of the day 1909-1911 ....PABLO CASALS, CLEOFONTE CAMPANINI, ETTORE SANIFF, CHARLES DALMORES, GIUSEPPI ANSELMI, MARIO SAMMMARCO, HENRY J.WOOD, DANIEL S.WOOD, HANS RICHTER, C.HUBERT H, PARRY. C.W.PERKINS, LANDON RONALD, HARRY PLUNKET GREENE, LUISA TETRAZZINI, JOHN McCORMACK, EMMY DESTIN, RICACARDO MARTIN, ARMAND CRABBE, HAMILTON HARTY, JULIUS HARRISON, NELLIE MELBA, FREDERIC D'ERLANGER, ANTONIO SCOTTI AND AROUND 10 OTHERS, I AM YET TO DECIPHER
PLEASE NOTE - THE LISTING WILL BE FOR THE PERSON NAMED IN THE TITLE...NOT THE WHOLE BOOK