Lot 139

[Curiosa] Group of 6 Items Related to Magic, Circuses, Minstrels, and Sideshows

Lot 139

Status:

Open

Estimate: $500 - $800

Estimate$500 - $800

Status

Open

[Curiosa] Group of 6 Items Related to Magic, Circuses, Minstrels, and Sideshows

1. Printed Broadside for Christy's Minstrel Show
Philadelphia: U.S. Job Print, 1860. Tall printed broadside, for the "First Night of the Brief Season of Geo. Christy's Minstrels. Under the Immediate Personal Supervision of George Christy! ... Mammoth Company! ..." Creasing from old folds, largely separated along central horizontal fold, smaller separations along other folds; toned; faint dampstaining along edges; open tear in lower bottom left. 23 5/8 x 9 1/2 in. (600 x 241 mm).

2. Harper's Weekly. A Journal of Civilization
New York, Saturday, February 21, 1863. Vol. VII, No. 321. Folio. pp. (113)-128. Disbound; Scattered toning and spotting.

With an engraved portrait of Mr. and Mrs. Charles S. Stratton (General Tom Thumb) and his wife on the front page, after the photograph by Mathew Brady, and with an article about them on the second page. General Tom Thumb (1838-83) was an American showman with dwarfism and the first major attraction promoted by P.T. Barnum.

3. Carte de visite of Millie-Crissie, the Two-Headed Girl
St. Louis, Missouri: J.H. Fitzgibbon, (ca. 1870). Carte de visite on captioned mount, 4 x 2 1/2 in. (102 x 63 mm). Spotting and soiling along mount edges.

Millie and Christine were born in Whiteville, North Carolina on July 11, 1851, to Jacob and Monemia McKoy, who were enslaved to Jabez McKay. Various enslavers and managers exhibited the twins nationally and internationally, and in 1870, the sisters traveled and performed throughout the Midwest.

4. Tall Printed Broadside for the 5th Annual Tour of B.A. Bamber's Great Dime Show
No place, ca. 1877. Tall printed broadside for B.A. Bamber's Great Dime Show, 28 x 7 in. (711 x 178 mm). With a wood engraved portrait of Bamber at top and of Hermes at center. Old fold at center; 2 3/4 in. closed tear in upper left edge.

Tall printed broadside for the 5th Annual Tour of B.A. Bamber's Great Dime Show, featuring exhibitions on "Grand Stereoptical Dissolving Views", including "scenes in Many Lands From Greenland's Icy Mount, to India's Coral Strand", as well "The Planetarium," "Natural Scenery," "The Ill-Fated Ship," "The Highland Lover's Courtship for Marriage", etc.

5. Printed Broadside for a Magic Show
Minneapolis, Minnesota: Sutherland Opera House, July 1911. Printed broadside, 13 x 5 3/4 in. (330 x 146 mm). Mounted to card, and in mat.

Advertising the magic show for "The Peerless Magician" Warrington Jones, and F. Littlefield Cobb.

6. Printed Handbill for a Harry Kellar Magic Show
Madison, Wisconsin: Fuller Opera House, January 24, (1902). Printed handbill program, 8 5/8 x 4 1/4 in. (219 x 108 mm). Toned.

Printed program for famed globe-trotting American magician Harry Kellar's (1849-1922) January 24, 1902 magic show at the Fuller Opera House in Madison, Wisconsin.

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[Mormonism] A Unique Contemporary Manuscript Account of Joseph Smith's Final Words to His Followers, the Day Before his Violent Death, on the Interior of a Postal Cover

Lot 220

[Mormonism] A Unique Contemporary Manuscript Account of Joseph Smith's Final Words to His Followers, the Day Before his Violent Death, on the Interior of a Postal Cover

Estimate$8,000 - $12,000

[World War II] One of the Few Surviving Letters From Hemingway to His Third Wife, Martha Gellhorn, Written While a Front-Line War Correspondent in France

Estimate$7,000 - $10,000

Current Bid$4,500

Status

Open

[Baseball] "The Two Big Guns of the N.Y. Yanks": A Striking Type 1 Press Photograph of Lou Gehrig's Hands

Lot 89

[Baseball] "The Two Big Guns of the N.Y. Yanks": A Striking Type 1 Press Photograph of Lou Gehrig's Hands

Estimate$8,000 - $12,000

Current Bid$4,000

Status

Open

[Baseball] [Mantle, Mickey] Mickey Mantle's First Cover : The Earliest Front-Page Newspaper Image of Mickey Mantle, "Something Good from Joplin"

Lot 94

[Baseball] [Mantle, Mickey] Mickey Mantle's First Cover: The Earliest Front-Page Newspaper Image of Mickey Mantle, "Something Good from Joplin"

Estimate$8,000 - $12,000

Current Bid$4,000

Status

Open

[Mormonism] S ubstantial and Nearly Consecutive Run of an Anti-Mormon Newspaper

Lot 221

[Mormonism] Substantial and Nearly Consecutive Run of an Anti-Mormon Newspaper

Estimate$3,000 - $5,000

Current Bid$3,000

Status

Open

[Declaration of Independence] The Important and Increasingly Rare Robert Aitken Issue of the Journals of Congress for the Pivotal Year of 1776, Containing an Early and Complete Printing of the Declaration of Independence, 1777

Lot 142

[Declaration of Independence] The Important and Increasingly Rare Robert Aitken Issue of the Journals of Congress for the Pivotal Year of 1776, Containing an Early and Complete Printing of the Declaration of Independence, 1777

Estimate$6,000 - $9,000

Current Bid$3,000

Status

Open

[Curiosa] Group of 6 Items Related to Magic, Circuses, Minstrels, and Sideshows

This lot is located in Philadelphia.

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