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Lot 35
Sale 6285 - Books and Manuscripts
Mar 27, 2025
10:00AM ET
Live / Philadelphia
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Estimate
$4,000 -
6,000
Price Realized
$5,120
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Lot Description
[Americana] (Lokhoff, Nicolas, after). Pyramid of Capitalist System
Cleveland, Ohio: Issued by Nedeljkovich, Brashich, and Kuharich/The International Pub. Co., 1911. Off-set lithographed color poster. 19 5/8 x 15 7/8 in. (498 x 403 mm). Scattered soiling and light wear along edges; small stains in top right and center left. In frame, 23 x 19 1/8 in. (584 x 486 mm).
A very rare and original example of this popular anti-capitalist poster. Based on a Russian flyer from 1901 designed by Nicolas Lockhoff, this poster was published in America in 1911 by The International Pub. Co., publisher's of the Industrial Worker (the mouthpiece for the radical trade organization, the Industrial Workers of the World) and issued by the Cleveland firm of Nedeljkovich, Brashich, & Kuharich.
According to RBH, this is only the third example to come to auction. OCLC locates only one copy at the University of Washington.
This lot is located in Philadelphia.

