John Bevan Ford Kaitiaki Guardian figure c. 1990 lacquered wood 33.5 h × 21.75 w × 12 d in (85 × 55 × 30 cm) Provenance: Derek Simpkins Gallery of Tribal Art, Vancouver | Acquired from the previous in 1997, Private Collection | Thence by descent This work will ship from Wright in Chicago, Illinois. condition: Scattered fissures due to separation of laminated wood pieces exist throughout the form. There is some scuffing to the figure, and to the base. Small areas of lacquer loss are scattered throughout the base showing the undercoat. Small shallow impressions are scattered along the edges of the figure.
Actors and Actresses An huge vintage collection of over 450 blocks of three-cent United States postage stamps, with just about all signed in the left or right blank border in ink or fountain pen by a different actor or actress, some adding brief inscriptions, with just a handful signed on the stamps themselves or on the reverse, Blocks are all contained in a three-ring 10 x 11.5 album, with the blocks themselves individually removably stored in small hinged acetate holders, most accompanied by a small clipped photo contained in each folder, but not affixed to the stamp block, with the folders affixed six to a page in the album. In fine overall condition, with a few light brushes and spreading to a few signatures, and some mild toning to a few blocks. The signers are as follows (numbers in parentheses indicate if they have signed the stamp block more than once): Jane Adams, Julia Adams, Luther Adler, Kay Aldridge, Ben Alexander, Rex Allen (2), Keith Andes, Eve Arden, Edith Atwater, Lenore Aubert, Terry Austin, Vivian Austin, Stephanie Bachelor, Fay Bainter, Carla Balenda, Anne Bancroft, Edgar Bannister, Harry Bannister, Lex Barker, Donald Barry, Richard Barthelmess, Freddie Bartholomew, Richard Basehart, Anne Baxter, Georgia Bayes, Hugh Beaumont, Louise Beavers, Pati Behrs, Barbara Bel Geddes, Virgina Belmont, Jack Beutel, Clem Bevans, Olive Blakenly, Gloria Blondell, Monte Blue (2), John Boles, Ray Bolger, Ward Bond, Adrian Booth, Shirely Booth, Patti Brady, Bobby Breen, Walter Brennan, Steve Brodie, John Bromfield (4), Hillary Brooke, Hazel Brooks, James Brown, Johnny Mack Brown, Vanessa Brown, Wally Brown (2), Reno Browne, Carol Bruce, David Bruce, Billie Burke, Lois Butler, Spring Byington, Betty Caldwell, John Calvert, Phyllis Calvert, Paul Campbell (2), Suzi Campbell, Richard Carlson, Alan Carney, Morris Carnovsky, Marian Carr, Jean Carroll, Leo G. Carroll, Bill Carter, Helena Carter, Jorja Cartwright, Walter Catlest, Paul Cavanaugh, Ruth Chatterton, Kay Christopher, Sarah Churchill, Ina Claire (2), Bobby Clark, Pat Clark, Robert Clark, Rosemary Clooney, Andy Clyde, Steve Cochran, Anita Colby, Nancy Coleman, Jerry Colonna, Joyce Compton, Morgan Conway, Jackie Coogan, George Cooper, Melville Cooper, Leonora Corbett, Katherine Cornell, Jerome Courtland, Jerome Cowan, Marc Cramer, Broderick Crawford, Gwen Crawford, Richard Cromwell, Hume Cronyn, Larry Crosby, Paulie Croset, Xavier Cugat, Roland Culver, Vicki Cummings, Ken Curtis, Arlene Dahl, Denise Darcell, Jeff Darnell, Jane Darwell, Jimmie Davis (Louisiana governor), Jim Davis, Joan Davis, Doris Day, de George, Marjorie Dean, Gloria DeHaven, Albert Dekker, Myrna Dell, Kenny Delmar (2), Katherine deMille, Reginald Denny, Howard deSilva, Jacqueline deWit, Douglas Dick, Charles Dingle, Faith Domerque, Ann Doran, Paul Douglas, Sharon Douglas, Peggy Dow, Constance Dowling, Doris Dowling, Betsy Drake, Dora Drake (2), Ruth Draper, Ellen Drew, Paula Drew, Margaret Dumont, Katherine Dunham, Jimmy Dunn, Irene Dunne (2), Michael Dunne, June Dupree (2), Dan Duryea, Carl E., Penny Edwards, Ralph Edwards, Florence Eldridge, Stu Erwin, Glenda Farrell, Jose Ferrer, Maxine Fife, Rhonda Fleming, Joan Fontaine, Glenn Ford, Jan Ford, Wally Ford (2), Mimi Forsythe, William Frawley, Reginald Gardiner, Betty Garrett, Hoot Gibson (2), Julie Gibson, Frances Gifford (2), Billy Gilbert, Helen Gilbert, Jean Gillie, Lowell Gilmore, James Gleason, Leo Glenn, Bill Goodwin, Anita Gordon, Mary Gordon, Gloria Grahame, Farley Granger, Coleen Gray, Nan Gray (2), Angela Green, Richard Greene, Nona Griffith, Nancy Guild, Edmund Gwenn, Anne Gwynne (2), Sara Haden, Monte Hale, Cedric Hardwicke, Dorothy Hart, Mary Hatcher, June Haver, June Havoc, Sterling Hayden, Peter Lind Hayes, Jean Heather, Wanda Hendrix (2), Gloria Henry, Rose Hobart, Louanne Hogan, Fay Holden, Gloria Holden, Leza Holland, Martha Holliday, Celeste Holm, Miriam Hopkins, Lena Horne, Louisa Horton, Kathleen Howard, Carol Hughes, Mary Beth Hughes, Marsha Hunt, Ruth Hussey, Martha Hyer, Burl Ives, Dean Jagger, Conrad Janis, Gloria Jean (2), Allen Jenkins, Bill Johnson, Rita Johnson, Johnnie Johnston, Roberta Jonay, Jane Kean, Cecil Kellaway, Gene Kelly, Paul Kelly, Darin Kennedy, Douglas Kennedy, Dorothy Kent (2), Marjorie Kent, Doris Kenyon, Deborah Kerr, Joe Palooka" Kirkwood, Peter Knowles, Peggy Knudsen, Bert Lahr, Florence Lake, Gil Lamb, Burt Lancaster, Priscilla Lane, Rosemary Lane, Glenn Langen, Angela Lansbury, Rosemary LaPlanche, Jack LaRue, Frank Latimore, Barbara Lawrence, Andrea Leeds, Lila Leeds, Janet Leigh, Bruce Lester (2), Sam Levine, Harry Lewis, Trygve Lie, Margaret Lindsay, Art Linkletter, Jimmy Lloyd, Gene Lockhart, June Lockhart, Margaret Lockwood, Ella Logan, Audrey Long, Richard Long, Sally Long, Jean Louis (2), Ida Lupino, Betty Lynn, Arthur Lyon (2), Kyle MacDonnell, Moyna Macgill, Gordon MacRae, Guy Madison, Marjorie Main, Karl Malden, Adele Mara, Nancy Marlow, Faye Marlowe, Hugh Marlowe, Jo Ann Marlowe, Marion Marshall, Richard Martin, Tony Martin, Osa Massen, Flora Massey (2), Raymond Massey, Margery Maude, Lois Maxwell, Marilyn Maxwell, Helen McClure, Jean McClury, George McReady, Martha Mears, Marilyn Meker, Una Merkel, Ethel Merman, Doris Merrick, Kristine Miller, John Mills, Milada Mladova, Sharyn Moffat (2), Terry Moore (signed photo), Terry Moore, Chester Morris, Tom Morton, Jean Muir, Marilyn Nash, Noreen Nash, Gene Nelson, David Niven, Marian Nixon, Jeanette Nolan, Lloyd Nolan, Edward Norris, Michael North, Edmond O'Brien, Donald O'Connor, Una O'Connor (2), Kathleen O'Malley, Paul O'Neill, Jack Paar, Fay Page, Gale Page, Nana Palmer, Helen Parrish, Elizabeth Patterson, Virginia Patton, Katina Paxinou, Katrina Paxinou, Al Pearce, Jack Pearl, Barbara Pepper, Pat Phelan, Mary Philips, Mark Platt, Eleanor Powell, Jane Powell, Richard Powers, William Prince, Roger Pryor, Anthony Quinn, Frances Rafferty, Vera Ralston, Donald Randolph, Jane Randolph, Michael Redgrave, Walter Reed, George Reeves, Kane Richmond, John Ridgeway, Elaine Riley, Marjorie Riordan, Elisabeth Risdon, Tex Ritter, Gale Robbins, Adelle Roberts, Gene Roberts, Flora Robson, Will Rogers Jr, Ruth Roman, Harold Russell, Jean Ruth, Al Ryder, Sabu, Johnny Sands, Natalie Schafer (4), Martha Scott, Bill Shannon, Anabel Shaw, Janet Shaw, Robert Shayne, John Sheppard, Cornelia Otis Skinner, Martha Sleeper, Alexis Smith, Kent Smith, Ned Sparks, Adele Roger St. Johns, Robert Stack, Hanley Stafford, Julie Starr, Charles Starrett, Anna Sten, Jan Sterling, Craig Stevens, Dorothy Stevens (2), Jean Stevens, Mark Stevens, Rise Stevens, Anita Stewart, Freddie Stewart (2), Martha Stewart, Michael Stich, Dorothy Stone, Paula Stone, Gloria Stuart, Bob Sully, John Sutton, Jessica Tandy, Don Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor (2), Kent Taylor (2), Ursula Theiss, Marta Toren (2), Audrey Totter, Michael Towne, Colleen Townshend, Henry Travers, Arthur Treacher, Anne Triola, Forrest Tucker, Sophie Tucker, Lana Turner, Paul Valentine, Valle, Tod Van Brunt, Philip Van Zandt (2), Benay Venuta, Elena Verdugo, Glenn Vernon, June Vincent, Stella Walker, Jimmy Wallington, Richard Walsh, Sam Wanamaker, Penelope Ward, Gloria Warren, Bryant Washburn, Ethel Waters, Lucille Watson, John Wayne, Richard Webb, Areleen Whelan, Alice White, Patricia White, Margaret Whiting, Michael Wilding, Bill Williams, Kay Williams, Robert B. Williams, Don Wilson (2), Maria Wilson, Natalie Wood, Donald Woods (2), Margo Woods, Billy Worth, Cobina Wright Jr, Margaret Wycherly, Ed Wynn, Keenan Wynn, Alan Young, Loretta Young, Blanche Yurka. RRAuction COA."