Austrian Ambassador's Autograph Diaries and Albums

Autograph Diaries.r (2) Provenance: can be atrributed to Pinschof the Austrian Ambassador (Melbourne) including a large autograph book as put together by Pinschoff, the Austrian Ambassador to Australia, who held a regular salon in Kew for visiting dignitaries, who signed this visitors book 1900-1916, notably artists Tom Roberts (with three little sketches), Dora Meeson and Arthur Streeton, Korensky the Polish explorer, Nelli Melba, Percy Grainger (2), French artist Leon Besnard, the Compte de Hoogerword, Clara butt and hundreds of others. T/w a small autograph album owned by Pinschoff, and signed by several visiting musicians 1901 to 1908, including Jan Paderewski who has signed and included three bars of his own musical notation, as has Hugo Heerma, and a fine signature of Prince Luitpold of Bavaria.