Bidspirit auction | VISITING CARDS: (x16)

VISITING CARDS: (x16) - VISITING CARDS: An interesting selection of personal printed oblong 12mo Visiting Cards belonging to a variety of famous men and women, all unsigned although each with autograph notes (ranging from a few words to multiple lines of text), including Prince Konrad of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfurst (Austrian aristocrat and statesman who briefly served as Prime Minister of Austria, 1906), Maria Olszewska (German opera singer), Baron Moncheur (diplomat attached to the King of the Belgians), William Cook (of William Cook House in Cambridge, Massachusetts), Edmond James de Rothschild (French member of the Rothschild banking family), Paul Doumer (President of France 1931-32; assassinated), Mrs. Nathaniel Thayer & Miss. Thayer, Gustave Toudouze (French novelist, playwright & journalist), Hermann Sudermann (German dramatist & novelist), Francis Thomé (French pianist & composer), Franz Naval (Austrian opera singer), Moriz Rosenthal (Polish pianist & composer), Mikhail Speransky (Russian statesman & reformist) etc. Some light age wear, generally G to VG, 16