Scarce vintage inscribed violet-tinted indelible pencil signature on a 4x6-inch pale yellow autograph album page, acquired in-person by noted collector Rae Sargent at the Belasco Theater in 1935 and decorated with a newspaper image. Veteran silent and early talkie character actor Wyndham Standing-- the brother of Sir Guy Standing-- had a memorable role in Tod Browning's horror classic Dracula (1931), as the surgeon who examines Frances Dade's corpse and alerts everyone to "those two little marks on her neck!"  He was elsewhere noteworthy in Smilin' Through (1922), The Unchastened Woman (1925), the Sherlock Holmes flick A Study in Scarlet (1933), Imitation of Life (1934), The Man in the Iron Mask (1939), Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), Meet John Doe (1941), and Green Dolphin Street (1947).

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