Uncommon vintage signature in black ballpoint pen on a 3x5-inch tan card, probably dating to the 1970s.  In good condition for its age, with some faint soiling to the left edge, well away from the writing, and suitable for matting.  English stage and screen star Robert Coote excelled at playing aristocrats and military men in films like The Thirteenth Chair (1937), Mr. Moto's Last Warning (1939), Nurse Edith Cavell (1939), The House of Fear (1939), Gunga Din (1939), The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947), The Three Musketeers (1948), Othello (1952), The Merry Widow (1952), The Prisoner of Zenda (1952), Scaramouche (1952), The League of Gentlemen (1960), The Rogues (1964),The Cool Ones (1967), and horror's Theatre of Blood (1973).

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