Circus - Sideshow - Wild West
Sat, Nov 18, 2017 11:00AM EST - Sun, Nov 19, 2017 11:00AM EST
Live Auction
Lot 2
Barnum & Bailey’s Greatest Show on Earth. Blue Beard’s Chamber.
Estimate: $2,500 - $3,500
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| $500 | $50 |
| $1,000 | $100 |
| $2,000 | $200 |
| $5,000 | $500 |
| $10,000 | $1,000 |
| $20,000 | $2,000 |
| $50,000 | $5,000 |
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Barnum & Bailey’s Greatest Show on Earth. Blue Beard’s Chamber. Cincinnati: Strobridge, 1898. Color lithograph one-sheet circus poster, depicting the titular folktale character seated with the heads of his wives hung on platters, in a larger room filled with displays of illusions and magic by Henry Roltair (among them his invention the Spider Girl, or Spidora Illusion) and various sideshow acts. 30 x 37 ½”. Linen backed. Scattered over-coloring and touch-ups to minor losses and tears. A-. Rare.
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