The Ricky Jay Collection
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Lot 54
BODIE, Walford (1869 – 1939). Dr. Walford Bodie. The Famous...
Estimate: $400 - $800
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BODIE, Walford (1869 ? 1939). Dr. Walford Bodie. The Famous Bloodless Surgeon. Hartlepool: F.W. Mason, 1914. Two-color broadside for a variety bill at the Hartlepool Palladium, Bodie topping a bill with his ?startling electric wonders,? said to be ?funnier than half-a-dozen pantomimes.? Also on the bill is his son, Albert, who presents a conjuring turn, and at the bottom of the bill Bodie appears again as a ventriloquist, with an act entitled ?The Laird?s Highland Party.? Framed to 12 ? x 36 ??. Not examined out of frame. See Learned Pigs & Fireproof Women, p. 128.
