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Lot 405
TRUMAN, Harry S. Photograph, SIGNED AND INSCRIBED. 1960.
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$300 - 400
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$189
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Lot Description
TRUMAN, Harry S. (1884-1972). Photograph inscribed and signed ("Harry Truman"). N.p., 10 December 1960.


14 x 11 in. black and white photograph dry-mounted to a card mount.  Inscribed on the mount beneath the photograph: "To Ed Liphardt, kindest regards from Harry Truman." Framed. With pencil annotation beneath photograph in an unidentified hand: "Metro News - Liphardt."

The signature accomplished beneath a photograph of Truman playing the piano.  Truman once quipped: “My choice early in life was either to be a piano-player in a whorehouse or a politician. And to tell the truth there's hardly any difference.”

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