AUTOGRAPHS, LETTERS & MANUSCRIPTS
By International Autograph Auctions
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Jul 16, 2021
Urbanizacion El Real del Campanario. E-12, Bajo B 29688 Estepona (Malaga). SPAIN, Spain
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LOT 547:
FRANK OTTO: (1889-1980) German father of Anne Frank, the sole member of his family to survive the ...
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Sold for: €1,200
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Estimated price :
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Buyer's Premium: 25.5%
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FRANK OTTO: (1889-1980) German father of Anne Frank, the sole member of his family to survive the Holocaust. Frank published his daughter's diary in 1947. Signed United States First Day of Issue commemorative cover marking the United States Postal Service and a First Class postal rate increase. Post marked at Washington DC, 10th May 1971. Signed by Frank in blue ink with his name alone to a clear area. Together with Miep Gies (1909-2010) Dutch Secretary employed by Otto Frank who became a close, trusted friend of the family and assisted in hiding Anne Frank during World War II. Mies retrieved Anne Frank's diary after the family were arrested and safely kept it until Otto Frank returned from Auschwitz in June 1945. Blue ink signature ('Miep Gies') in the return panel of an address label affixed to a printed envelope from the Anne Frank Foundation in Amsterdam, post marked 7th April 1997. VG, 2
