Vintage 5x7-inch matte-finish portrait around age 12, warmly signed and inscribed in blue fountain pen in the 1930s. In good condition, with some light creasing to the upper right-hand area, confined to the background. English-born Freddie Bartholomew was one of the most popular child actors in film history, marvelous in classic films like David Copperfield (1935), Anna Karenina (1935), Little Lord Fauntleroy (1936), Captains Courageous (1937), and Swiss Family Robinson (1940). He died of emphysema and heart failure at the age of 67.

• Tweet