Jan Peerce Autographs
Jan Peerce (born Yehoshua Pinkhes Perelmuth; June 3, 1904 – December 15, 1984) was an American operatic tenor. Peerce was an accomplished performer on the operatic and Broadway concert stages, in solo recitals, and as a recording artist. He is the father of film director Larry Peerce.
Jan Peerce was born Jacob Pincus Perelmuth (though his Hebrew gravestone gives his first name as יהושע, or Joshua, not Jacob), to a Jewish family. His parents, Levi (anglicized to Louis) and Henya Perelmuth, came from the village of Horodetz, formerly in Poland, now Belarus. Their first child, a daughter, died in an epidemic. In 1903 they emigrated to America along with their second child, a boy named Mottel. A year later, on June 3, 1904, their third child, Jacob Pincus, was born in a cold water flat on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, New York. He was nicknamed "Pinky" by his neighborhood friends. When he was three years old, his older brother Mottel was killed in an accident as the boy hitched a ride on an ice wagon. Jacob attended DeWitt Clinton High School and Columbia University. At his mother's urging he took violin lessons, and gave public performances, including dance band work as Jack "Pinky" Pearl. Sometimes he also sang and it was soon discovered he was an exceptional lyric tenor.
Peerce became the brother-in-law of fellow American tenor Richard Tucker when Sara Perelmuth, Peerce’s only sister, married Tucker, who was then a part-time cantor, in 1936. Jan remained on the Lower East Side until his 1930 marriage to Alice Kalmanovitz (1907–1994), a childhood friend to whom he was married for 54 years, until his death. He died at his home in New Rochelle, New York on December 15, 1984 at the age of 80. Peerce is interred at Mount Eden Cemetery in Valhalla, Westchester County.
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Traded items with a signature of Jan Peerce
The most expensive item with a signature of Jan Peerce (Jan Peerce archive - 3 letters & envelope signed to cousin; photo; ephemera) was sold in September 2025 for $500.00 while the cheapest item (NobleSpirit NO RESERVE {3970} Amazing Opera Tenor Jan Peerce Autographed Photo) found a new owner for $1.75 in April 2017. The month with the most items sold (3) was April 2026 with an average selling price of $50.00 for an autographed item of Jan Peerce. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in September 2025 with $260.00 and the month that saw the lowest prices with $1.75 was April 2017. In average, an autographed item from Jan Peerce is worth $25.98.
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