cabinet-style photograph signed ("edward elgar") on the image, and inscribed on verso to his doctor charles east — Elgar, Sir Edward

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Estimate: £1,000–£1,500 hammer ≈ $1,506–$2,259
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Sale: Sotheby's — Music and Continental Books and Manuscripts, London · 7 December 2015
Dimensions: "to C.A. East, Sep 9 1898, with much love", in black ink, showing the composer in profile, 16.7 x 10.8cm, by Elliott & Fry of London, [Malvern], 9 September 1898, a little staining to the mount
Record ID: TB-2026-4429787
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Sir Edward Elgar, cabinet-style photograph signed ("edward elgar") on the image, and inscribed on verso to his doctor charles east. Sotheby's, 7 Dec 2015, lot 207. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-4429787.

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Sir Edward Elgar, cabinet-style photograph signed ("edward elgar") on the image, and inscribed on verso to his doctor charles east. Sotheby's, 7 Dec 2015, lot 207. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-4429787.

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