Scarce, uncommonly early 8x10-inch sepia-tone publicity portrait by James Kriegsmann, boldly signed and inscribed in blue fountain pen in the 1930s. In good condition, with pinholes in the corners and a few minor surface creases. Energetic, flamboyant jazz drummer and bandleader Gene Krupa died of leukemia at the age of 64 and his autograph is elusive in any format.

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