{"product_id":"vesta-tilley-lgbt-historic-actress-old-hand-signed-photo-autograph","title":"Vesta Tilley LGBT Historic Actress Old Hand Signed Photo Autograph","description":"\u003cp\u003ePFAS179 This is a rare opportunity to secure this original antique 5.5\" x 3.5\" hand signed photo for Vesta Tilley who has personally autographed the souvenir where her signature rests perfectly accompanying her portrait - has mild corner impressions from former album storage and light surface otherwise seems great condition and unused too (vg+ grading - undedicated). Please see all my other Edwardian actress antique autographs from this same former owner at my store.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMatilda Alice Powles, Lady de Frece (13 May 1864  16 September 1952) was an English music hall performer. She adopted the stage name Vesta Tilley and became one of the best-known male impersonators of her era. Her career lasted from 1869 until 1920. Starting in provincial theatres with her father as manager, she performed her first season in London in 1874.By the 1890s, Tilley was England's highest earning woman. She was also a star in the vaudeville circuit in the United States, touring a total of six times. She married Walter de Frece, a theatre impresario who became her new manager and songwriter. At a Royal Command Performance in 1912, she scandalised Queen Mary because she was wearing trousers. During the First World War she was known as \"Englands greatest recruiting sergeant\" since she sang patriotic songs dressed in khaki fatigues like a soldier and promoted enlistment drives.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Postcard Finder","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56223086379334,"sku":"182728","price":79.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0965\/3216\/9030\/files\/vesta-tilley-lgbt-historic-actress-old-hand-signed-photo-autograph-182728-p.jpg?v=1774006687","url":"https:\/\/postcardfinder.co.uk\/products\/vesta-tilley-lgbt-historic-actress-old-hand-signed-photo-autograph","provider":"Postcard Finder","version":"1.0","type":"link"}