1909. VERY RARE MARK TWAIN SIGNATURE & QUOTE IN HIS OWN INIMITABLE HAND:
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1909:( Samuel Langhorne Clemens )
A VERY FINE, EXTREMELY RARE GENUINE MARK TWAIN SIGNATUREand TWAIN QUOTEIN HIS OWN INIMITABLE DISTINCTIVE HAND.
AN EXCEPTIONALLY RARE PIECE COMBININGBOTH SIGNATURE & QUOTE IN TWAIN'S OWN HAND:
"We ought never to do wrongwhen people are looking"
Truly YoursMark Twain
Nov. 29/09
The quote from:-A Double-Barrelled Detective Story, 1902.
ON AN AUTOGRAPH BOOK PAGE TAKEN FROM THE AUTOGRAPH BOOKWITH ORIGINAL AGEING ON THE PAPER.DAT...ED FIVE MONTHS PRIOR TO HIS SAD DEMISE
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WE HAVE HANDLED MANY RARE HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS & SIGNATORIESOVER THE LAST 40 YEARS.
FROMKING RICHARD III through to QUEEN VICTORIAROBERT PEEL through to WINSTON CHURCHILLDAME NELLIE MELBA through to ELIZABETH TAYLORSIR HARRY LAUDER through to THE ROLLING STONESand BEFOREand BEYOND:--------------------------------------------------
After over 40 years of trading, we are now in retirement.Like so many fellow dealers, we kept some of our rarer gems of historical documents back, for the future.
This Mark Twain autographed item is one of them.Obtained from a very reputable and eminent source back in 1983The sources Grand Aunt, late in life decided to do the one time ubiquitous European Grand Tour, taking in the U.S.A
When in the USA she was privileged to have had an arranged meeting and tea with Mark Twain.In their meeting, lasting over three hours, she obtained Mark Twain's signature in her autograph book, and unexpectedly he also wrote in her autograph book a quote from one of his books.The above page is indeed the said page taken from her autograph book.
An extremely rare genuine historical piecewith both signature & quotein the great mans inimitable distinctive hand:
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The image of Mark Twain above does not form part of the sale.The image was taken freely from an online source, available to all:
