A collection of items formerly belonging to GH Elliott,
£280
Auction: 7 December 2005 at 12:00 GMT
Description
to include a mounted leather presentation wallet, with marks for London 1910, maker John Collard Vickery, applied to the front with the classical HMV motif of Nipper and the horn gramophone beneath an inscription To G.H. Elliott, With all Good Wishes, surmounted by a crescent moon and three stars, together with an engine turned card case and foliate engraved vesta case, both initialled G.H.E., with accompanying inscribed photograph, sketch and letter (6)
Footnote
Affectionately referred to as The Chocolate Coloured Coon, George H. Elliott was born in 1883 in Rochdale, Lancashire and raised in America. By the time he returned to London at the age of 12 he was a child star and had performed in New York. A pioneer of the minstrel scene Elliott performed dressed immaculately in a white frock coat and top hat.
Reputedly presented with this silver mounted wallet by HMV for the commercial success of the song Silvery Moon, Elliot continued performing into his mid-seventies and died in 1962, aged seventy-nine.
Provenance: By bequest to a private gentleman.