Collection including Sir Stanley Matthews; Roger Federer; Kris Kristofferson; Brigitte Bardot; Telly Savalas; plus iron men - Grant Kenny, Dwayne Thuys, Myles Blackwell & Trevor Hendy. (9 items)

BALLET: Wonderful collection in 6 albums, with photographs (113), postcards (260), press & magazine pictures & programmes, with over 100 autographs, noted Dame Margot Fonteyn (17), Sir Robert Helpmann (19), Margaret Dale (5), Pamela May (6), John Hart (7), Mary Honer (12), Moyra Fraser, Julia Farron (4), Joy Newton, Beryl Grey (3), David Palthengi, Michael Somes (5), June Brae (3), Frederick Ashton (4), Alan Carter (4), Claude Newmann, Deryk Mendl, Helena Wolska, Molly Lake, John Field, Alexis Rassine, Bunty Kelley, Peggy van Praagh, Celia Franca, Ninette de Valois, Harold Turner; some other entertainers including Al Bowlly, Billy Cotton (2), Vivien Leigh, Chips Rafferty, Frankie Vaughan, Eric Portman, Fabian of the Yard & Arthur Askey. Also includes the book "The Vic-Wells Ballet" by Anthony [London, 1938] with 39 signatures throughout. [A fabulous collection, the vendor's mother was wardrobe mistress for several well-known ballet companies in the 1930s & 1940s, and her father was a costume designer/maker]. Viewing highly recommended.

KING VICTOR EMMANUELE II (1820-78, became first King of a united Italy in 1861), nice signature "Vittorio Emanuele" on a lower section cut from an 1869 document.

A UNIQUE MEMENTO OF THE 1928 FIRST FLIGHT ACROSS THE PACIFIC by KINGSFORD SMITH, ULM, LYON & WARNER: Two U.S. Gold coins ($2½ Indian Head 1927 & $5 Indian Head 1909) affixed to a document signed by Charles Kingsford Smith and his parents, William and Catherine Mary Kingsford Smith. The typed message reads: "I certify that these two American Gold Coins.....were two of the last gold coins that we possessed in America; that they were carried by us in the "Southern Cross" across the Pacific on the first Trans-Pacific Flight....and that they were given by me and my parents as a thanks offering without any conditions as to their use to the Parish Church of St.Aidan, Longueville, on our return to Sydney after having been lost at "Coffee Royal" in Western Australia for eleven days." The "Coffee Royal" incident [See AAMC.131] transfixed the nation, while Kingsford Smith and his crew were lost, and while the tragic loss of two of their attempted rescuers - Keith Anderson and Robert Hitchcock - was the subject of daily newspaper and radio coverage. AN EXCEPTIONAL PIECE OF AUSTRALIAN AVIATION HISTORY.

MUSIC: Yehudi Menuhin (concert violinist) signature on 1997 letter on "From Lord Menuhin, OM KBE" letterhead, regarding the inauguaration of the Hephzibah Menuhin Piano Chair; Joska Szigeti (Violinist) signature dated 1908 on real photo post card; Fou Ts'ong (Chinese concert pianist), signature on front cover of programme for 1960 Haydn-Mozart Society concert at Royal Festival Hall, London. (3 items)

COLONEL ROBERT TORRENS (1780-1864 British economist, soldier & politician, one of the founders of South Australia), signature on page.