Gus Van Autographs
Van and Schenck were popular American entertainers in the 1910s and 1920s: Gus Van (born August Von Glahn, August 12, 1886 – March 12, 1968), baritone, and Joe Schenck (pronounced "skenk"; born Joseph Thuma Schenck, (June 2, 1891– June 28, 1930), tenor. They were vaudeville stars and made appearances in the Ziegfeld Follies of 1918, 1919, 1920 and 1921. They made numerous phonograph records for the Emerson, Victor, and Columbia record companies.
With Schenck on piano, the duo sang and performed comedy routines. Van was especially adept at dialect humor, and could imitate any number of regional and continental accents. One of the team's typical novelty hits was Pastafazoola, in praise of Italian food and sung in the appropriate style. Van's hearty baritone and Schenck's high tenor harmonized well, and the team became known as "the pennant-winning battery of songland." They performed on radio shows and appeared in early talking motion pictures, including several musical shorts—in both Vitaphone and MGM Movietone—and one feature, the MGM film They Learned About Women (1930).
During World War I, they recorded humorous songs such as "I Don't Want to Get Well" which told the tale of a wounded soldier who did not want to recover, as he was comfortable in hospital and in love with a nurse.
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The most expensive item with a signature of Gus Van (108 Portraits ~ SIGNED by GUS VAN SANT ~ First Edition ~ 1st Printing ~ 1992) was sold in October 2025 for $800.00 while the cheapest item (GUS VAN SANT PRIVATE IDAHO DRUGSTORE COWBOY VINTAGE IN-PERSON SIGNED CARD) found a new owner for $0.95 in March 2019. The month with the most items sold (22) was January 2026 with an average selling price of $232.99 for an autographed item of Gus Van. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in March 2025 with $243.49 and the month that saw the lowest prices with $0.95 was March 2019. In average, an autographed item from Gus Van is worth $158.99.
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