Sherkot – Comedian Goalkeeper – 1939 – Signed Caricature

Description

DATE 17/11/39

A GENUINE AUTOGRAPH OF ‘SHERKOT’

A LITTLE REMEMBERED BUT HIGHLY EMULATED SILENT COMEDIAN . HIS SPECIALITY WAS TO BE A GOALKEEPER ON STAGE DIVING ,SAVING , KICKING …OH YES FORGOT TO MENTION WITHOUT A BALL … WITH A BACKDROP OF A CROWD BEHIND HIM, WHO HE WOULD INCLUDE IN THE ACT . HE IS MENTIONED BY ERIC SYKES AS BEING ONE OF HIS ALL TIME COMEDY HEROES . THE BBC LIST HIM IN ONE OF THEIR PAST SHOWS AS A ‘CONTINENTAL COMIC’ . I DO NOT KNOW FROM WHICH COUNTRY HE ARRIVED FROM OR HIS DATE OF BIRTH , BUT THIS CLEAR AUTOGRAPH AND ORIGINAL CARICATURE WERE SIGNED ON NOV 17 1939 .

size is 5″ X 3″

Condition
V Good,vlcr,


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