Uncommon vintage black ballpoint pen signature on a 4 x 5.4-inch light blue autograph album page, acquired in-person in the early 1980s. In good condition, with an annotation by the original collector along the bottom edge and a faint horizontal wrinkle touching two letters of his surname. Eminent leading man Richard Burton died of a cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 58, after years of using secretaries to answer fan mail, and authentic examples of his autograph are quite difficult to come by.

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