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Step Right Up: Circus and Sideshow Memorabilia

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Featuring the collection of lifelong circus collector John Diesso, this auction includes heralds, couriers, and posters advertising the "greatest shows" of yesteryear. Photographs, route books, scrapbooks, and circus costumes will be also be offered, spanning the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. A wide array of early European circus posters will be sold, along with a large library of circus books of several thousand volumes. Potter & Potter Auctions info@potterauctions.com
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Collection of Circus Ephemera Including Hunt Bros. American, 20th century. 
Lot 588

Collection of Circus Ephemera Including Hunt Bros. American, 20th century. 

Estimate: $100 - $200
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Collection of Circus Ephemera Including Hunt Bros. American, 20th century. Includes admission tickets, route cards, programs, stationery, blank leasing agreements and paychecks; advertisement heralds and broadsides; postcards, photographs and more for an array of American circuses from early to late 20th century. 

Circuses include: 

American Continental Circus

Barnett Bros.

Bartók Circus

Birnam Bros. Great Circus

Bradley & Benson Combined Circus

Continental Big Top  Circus

Cooper Bros.

Dales Bros Circus

E.E. Coleman's Circus

Franzen Bros. 

Hunt Bros.

Royson Bros.

Scribner & Smith's Circus, Museum and Menagerie

Sells Sterling Circus

Von Bros. Circus

Wallace & Clark Wild Animal Circus and others. 8 x 10" and smaller.

 

 

 

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