Circus, Sideshow & Oddities
Wed, Oct 23, 2019 02:30AM EDT
Lot 692
Group of Anatomical Wax Museum Catalogues, Ad Card, and Display Panels.
Estimate: $300 - $500
Bid Increments
| Price | Bid Increment |
|---|---|
| $0 | $5 |
| $30 | $10 |
| $100 | $25 |
| $500 | $50 |
| $1,000 | $100 |
| $2,000 | $200 |
| $5,000 | $500 |
| $10,000 | $1,000 |
| $20,000 | $2,000 |
| $50,000 | $5,000 |
| $100,000 | $10,000 |
Group of Anatomical Wax Museum Catalogues, Ad Card, and Display Panels. Circa 1870s/1910s. Includes the scarce Catalogue or Guide to the Liverpool Museum of Anatomy (Mather Brothers, [1877]), of which WorldCat locates only four copies, at the Wellcome Library, Harvard, the University of Rochester, and the Getty Research Institute; Descriptive Catalogue of the European Anatomical, Pathological, and Ethnological Museum (Philadelphia: Drs. LaGrange & Jordan, [1877]); an ad card to ?Belmont?s Big Show! Musee of Anatomy?; and three display panels of genital diseases by Michael Schliesser who was employed by the Hagenbeck circus in Germany and a taxidermist for the New York Museum of Natural History, stamped ?Michael Schliesser/Taxidermist.? Good.
