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Lot 256
Sale 994 - African Americana
Feb 23, 2022
11:00AM ET
Live / Cincinnati
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$100 -
200
Price Realized
$63
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Lot Description
GILLESPIE, John Birks (“Dizzy”) (1917-1993). Photograph by Eddie Birch signed and inscribed (“Dizzy Gillespie”), to Ambassador Edward Joseph Perkins.
Silver gelatin photograph, ca 1990 or earlier, SIGNED AND INSCRIBED LOWER MARGIN: “To Ed, The best always to you…! Dizzy Gillespie ’90.” Matted and framed (unexamined out of frame). Provenance: Edward Joseph Perkins (1928-2020), American diplomat, first black U.S. Ambassador to South Africa, 1986- 1989 (inscription, 1990).
Property from the Estate of Ambassador Edward J. Perkins, Washington, D.C.