Ultra-rare, exceptionally desirable vintage 7.75 x 10-inch sepia-tone portrait, boldly signed and inscribed in rich, black fountain pen in the mid-1920s to silent- and early talkie-era camera man Lou Roberts, who is said to have courted Olga Baclanova, star of 1932's Freaks, which was directed by Chaney's best pal, Tod Browning: "To L.E. Roberts, / Man to man / and friends / Lon Chaney." In very fine condition and magnificent for display.  One-of-a-kind horror icon Lon Chaney, Sr. was dubbed the Man of a Thousand Faces for his ability to transform himself, via make-up and body contortion, into every manner of deformed, exotic or unseemly personage.  Before his tragic death of cancer at the age of 47, he was unforgettable in Treasure Island (1920), The Penalty (1920), Outside the Law (1920), Oliver Twist (1922), While Paris Sleeps (1923), The Shock (1923), The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923), He Who Gets Slapped (1924), The Monster (1925), The Phantom of the Opera (1925), the silent and talkie versions of The Unholy Three (1926, 1930), The Blackbird (1926), The Road to Mandalay (1926), Tell It to the Marines (1926), Mr. Wu (1927), The Unknown (1927), Mockery (1927), London After Midnight (1927), Laugh, Clown, Laugh (1928), While the City Sleeps (1928), West of Zanzibar (1928), and Where East Is East (1928).

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