On the left is Gardel's gold monogram from his wallet above. 
His monograms adorned all of his personal objects.  Owned by: Casa del Teatro Argentina.

Gardel's favourite cigar/cigarrette box made in France in the 1920's in the art-deco style. This peace of furniture used to occupy the top of the dining room table in his house at 735 Jean Jaurés.

Gold lighter custom made for Gardel by a Parisian jeweler. His name is engraved across the lighter. The bottom of the lighter is badly burned as the result of the tremendous fire in which Gardel perished as the result of the Medellin tragedy on June 24, 1935.

Assorted combs, brushes, a hook for undoing his shoe laces without the need for bending down and a shoe horn. All of these items are monogrammed. These personal belongings were also rescued from the Medellin airplane crash. Owned by: Casa del Teatro.

Left: Diamond encrusted ring Gardel gave to his mother. 
It can be seen in the "Casa de Teatro" museum in Buenos Aires.
Right: One of Gardel's Steamer trunks (baúl). Up to a dozen trunks 
could be used for his overseas trips.

Gardel's Karl Zeiss binoculars which he religiously brought with him to each horse racing event. He spent a lot of money on horse racing, even owning a number of horses. In his last few years, he would complain about how much money he has blown on this sport and tried to curb his spending.

Gardel's photo from the Movie "Tango Bar" dedicated to his friend Francisco Maschio, care taker of his racing horses. The photo is signed: New York, March 22, 1934.
In this photo, Gardel appears with his favourite binoculars. 

Three cheques used by Gardel in New York in 1934. You will notice that only the signature is his. Due to his poor domination of English, he had someone else complete the rest of the cheque. The top cheque is for a passage to Europe on the steamer Bremen and the second one is for his rent at "Beaux Arts Apartments" in New York.

Gardel's Agenda from June 1929. It is owned by a well-known Gardel collector, Angel Olivieri. 
Here are the excerpts from the notes for the next day:
10:30AM - Recordings at Odeon. By luck today we finish the series. 
14:00 "Pica-terra" stew with the skinny Allipi and the Frenchman Laurent in the "Tropezon".
Dinner with Isabel at "Chantecler". 
See Maschio and find out if there is anything (a horse) worth betting on.
Tomorrow morning Legui (Leguisamo) will be waiting for me at Palermo (race track). 
Tell Aviador (his chauffer) to drive me in the Graham (his Graham-Paige car).
Some experts say that the above agenda is a falsification.

Sombrero de Gardel. Colección: Susana Rinaldi
Museo de la Academia Nacional de Tango, Buenos Aires

Someone from Spain had this Gardel signed photo on sale on eBay for the ridiculous sum of $CDN6200.
It is a 1930's photo by Gardel's Uruguayan photographer De Silva. Unlike the artists of today, 
Gardel was his own promoter and would carry a bunch of these photos with him for his fans. 
(The caption says: Dedicada a mis dos grandes amigos, Oscar y Eduardo).

See also:  Gardel's gold cigarette case, owned by Horacio Galli, Buenos Aires

Un llamado a los colecciónistas de Gardel
¿Si fuesen tan amables de contactarnos si poseen canciones no públicadas del Zorzal? 
Nuestro objétivo es únicamente de confirmar su exístencia sin el compromiso de compartir la música.

• Collecting Gardel:

  • Los Coleccionistas, (The collectors) Club de Tango magazine, Dec. 1994 (in Spanish)

  • Gardel Collectors: 

    • Best known:  

      • Bruno Cespi, owns the most impressive collecion of Gardel photos. His photos have graced the pages of books, magazines and newspapers over many years. He is suspected to own various unpublished Gardel songs. Cespi also owns the complete, original Gardel 78rpm record collection. Some of his Gardel objects were recently stolen from his home.

      • Angel Olivieri, owns many Gardel items such as original music sheets, photos, unpublished songs, Gardel's engraved Longines 24k gold watch, etc.

      • Boris Puga, who wrote the initial and fundamental discography on Gardel and lent his 78RPM Gardel collection for the production of "Todo Gardel" collection.

      • Rubén Gonzalo, who loaned his complete Gardel 78RPM disc collection to EMI Odeón Argentina for the reproduction of their “Vida y obra de Carlos Gardel” 33RPM collection (1970-84).

      • Gilbert Mamery (1927-2003) - Renowned Gardel Collector from Puerto Rico.

      • Hamlet Peluso, who obtained most of his collection from Gardel's lawyer, Armando Defino. He also co-wrote the book "Gardel y la prensa mundial".

      • Héctor Lorenzo. Lucci (president of Los Coleccionistas de Tango). Lucci produced on Long Play C.B.S. Columbia Record Nº 20-619 "Carlos Gardel, sus primeras grabaciones. Año 1913" in 1985, 50th anniversary of Gardel's death.

      • Roberto Di Chiara, collects Gardel films.

    • Other collectors:

      • Horacio Galli, owns Gardel's gold cigarette case. He has it for sale on this site. Click on the link to check it out.

      • Juan José Fenoglio, Jorge Favetto, Horacio Loriente, Rolando Chaves.

      • José "Pepe" Blotta y una de sus mayores pasiones: Carlos Gardel. El Civismo, Lujan.

      • La Tienda de Jacobo, Buenos Aires shop where you can find the best known Gardel collectors
        (la tienda donde se reúnen los mejores coleccionistas gardelianos de Buenos Aires)

  • My Gardel Collection: music, artists' signatures, movie programs and books:

    • Razzano, Barbieri signatures and First Day Covers Issues (1985 and 1995)

    • Gardel - Buenos Aires Movie Programs from 1936-1949

    • Carlos Gardel Poster

    • Here is a Carlos Gardel - 78RPM, 52 Record Collection I purchased on eBay in August 2002. These are 78RPM records from the late 1930's, all of them produced after the life of Gardel.

    • Gardel Inedito. Two CDs of never before released music. Released in 1999 and 2001 and remastered by EMI/Odeon Abbey Road Studios in Great Britain by internationally known Audio Restoration Engineer Andrew Walter.