PUPPET

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[ Walter Wilkinson, puppeteer. ] Autograph Letter Signed to unnamed female recipient, making an arrangement for his 'Peep Show' to come to her club.

Author: 
Walter Wilkinson (1888-1970), English puppeteer, writer and artist
Publication details: 
Robswood, Felbridge, near East Grinstead, Sussex. Undated.
£65.00

1p., 8vo. In fair condition, on aged and lightly-creased paper, with slight loss at top left-hand corner. He gives a date he has arranged for 'The Peep Show definitely to come to your club', and states that he will 'arrange a suitable programme for a one hour performance', adding that 'if the audience would like more at the time I am sure the puppets would carry on'. He notes that the performance will be given to 'an educated audience', and states that he will 'arrange accordingly'.

[Tony Sarg, 'America's Puppet Master'.] Original ink portrait of a lady, with signed inscription to the subject.

Author: 
Tony Sarg [Anthony Frederick Sarg] (1880-1942), German-American puppeteer and illustrator, called 'America's Puppet Master'
Publication details: 
Without date or place.
£80.00

On 14 x 9 cm piece of cream card, with 'Postkarte' printed on the other side. In very good condition, lightly aged and worn. The portrait, in black ink, is of the head and shoulders, in profile, of a middle-aged Edwardian woman, with hat and fur shawl or collar. Beneath the illustration is the inscription, tastefully lettered: 'THIS WAS ORIGINALLY MEANT FOR YOU! YOU WILL HAVE TO SIT FOR ME FOR A FEW MINUTES THEN I PROMISE TO MAKE A MORE SATISFACTORY PICTURE. | Yours most sincerely | Tony Sarg.'

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