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• Auction House:
  Theodore Bruce
• Sale Name:
  Bill Collins Golden Years of Hollywood Auction
• Sale Date:
  18 Oct 2020 ~ 11am (AEDT)
• Lot #:
  4245
• Lot Description:
  Leo The Lion. One (1) sepia photograph
  25cm x 21cm. Creases to the edges of the photograph. Details to reverse.
• Notes:
  Leo the Lion is the mascot for the Hollywood film studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and one of its predecessors, Goldwyn Pictures, featured in the studio's production logo, which was created by the Paramount Studios art director Lionel S. Reiss. Since 1916 and through the time the studio was formed by the merger of Samuel Goldwyn's studio with Marcus Loew's Metro Pictures and Louis B. Mayer's company in 1924 there have been seven different lions used for the MGM logo. Although MGM has referred to all of the lions used in their trademark as "Leo the Lion", only the current lion, in use since 1957 (a total of 63 years), was actually named "Leo". The cameraman in the picture is Archibald Vernon (known as A.V.) Austin. (1894-1964). Sound man remains unknown.
• Estimate:
  A$30 - 60
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Collectables

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