Photographs Signed
by UYEDA, Toyoki (1919-61) and FONG, Tottie (1920-80)
- Used
- Signed
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Galena, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
This popular Canadian-born Japanese wrestled under the names "The Great Yamato," "Tor Yamato" and "Toi Yamato," often half of a tag team with "Mister Moto"; at age 43 he was shot and killed at his home in Tennessee; Fong was billed as "Hamako" the servant girl brought by Yamato from Japan, but was actually his wife. Pair of Photographs Signed, each 3½" X 3½", n.p., n.y. [likely late 1950s]. Very good. Original (and certainly the only print) of these deckle-edged glossy black-and-white snapshots taken by an admirer. The first shows Yamato almost full-length at left in wrestling trunks shaking hands with a teenage boy backstage at an unidentified venue (probably Chicago's Auditorium Theatre); at lower right he boldly pens "Sincerely / Yamato" in green ink. The second shows the same teenager at left and Hamako in geisha girl getup at right, the two of them holding up what is presumably Yamato's enormous kimono. Across the bottom, she pens "The Great Yamato's / maid / Hamako" in green ink over a somewhat dark area. This scarce signed pair are accompanied by four unsigned snapshots taken at the same photo shoot -- two showing Hamako posing for the camera and two showing her and the teenager holding up the kimono in various ways. A most unusual grouping and very scarce wrestling signatures.
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Details
- Seller
- Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 45877
- Title
- Photographs Signed
- Author
- UYEDA, Toyoki (1919-61) and FONG, Tottie (1920-80)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Bookseller catalogs
- Autographs; Athletes;
- Product_type
- Autographs
Terms of Sale
Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts accepts most major credit cards and PayPal. Checks are welcome. Institutions will be accommodated as their procedures require. Every effort has been made to describe each book and any defects accurately. If an item proves unsatisfactory for any reason, it may be returned within seven days. We would appreciate a courtesy call if an item is being returned. Member ABAA, ILAB, MWABA, The Manuscript Society.
About the Seller
Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
Biblio member since 2005
Galena, Illinois
About Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts has been serving book lovers, collectors and institutions since 1991. Our inventory of quality out-of-print books spans 50 subjects, while the extensive autograph holdings have a decidedly historical bent, reflecting personages from every field of human endeavor.
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