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Description:
Guinness, Alec (1914-2000) Signed Photograph and Shakespeare First Day Cover Signed by Six British Shakespearean Actors. Black-and-white 8 x 10 in. of Guinness from the production of The Bridge on the River Kwai, standing in front of the bridge, signed in red ink; [together with] first day cover envelope with cancelled stamp from Stratford, Connecticut celebrating the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth, signed by Anthony Quayle, Laurence Olivier, Alec Guinness, Edith Evans, Ralph Richardson, and John Gielgud. (2)
Estimate $200-300
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Anthony Quayle, Edith Evans, Laurence Olivier, Shakespeare, StratfordJohn Dorfman
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