[ Charles Cole, cartoonist. ] Signed photograph, accompanied by Typed Note Signed to 'Mr. Wakefield'.

ONE: TNS. 1p., landscape 12mo. In good condition, lightly aged with nick to corner. Letterhead features two small cartoons: a caricature of himself and a lion. Covering letter sending 'herewith my autograph for your collection'. TWO: Signed black and white portrait photograph of Cole. 8 x 5.5 cm. In good condition. Signed at bottom right: 'Sincerely | Charles Cole | 1945'. Cole has rather disappeared under the radar. In 1947 he was interviewed about his twenty-five-year career on the BBC's 'In Town Tonight', and in the nineteen-fifties he appeared on the bill at the Fortune Theatre in London, at the annual Magic Circle children's show in the West End, his act being reported as follows: 'Charles Cole, the eminent Stage Cartoonist, then appeared, and his lightning cartoons of well known Children's Cartoon Film characters were fascinating to watch. Then he called for christian names of boys and girls, and rapidly turned them into faces by using the letters as features of the face. Next he sketched from life a boy on the stage, and finally presented a Cartoon Portrait of the Queen.'