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The Ricky Jay Collection Part III

Sat, Aug 17, 2024 12:00PM EDT
Lot 439

[LIVING SKELETON]. Three Items Pertaining to Living Skeleto...

Estimate: $250 - $350

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[LIVING SKELETON]. Three Items Pertaining to Living Skeletons. Includes: Go and See the Living Skeleton! Dan J. Major. Boston: Farwell & Co., 1859. Small one-color pictorial letterpress broadside advertising appearances by ?the greatest living curiosity (as a skeleton) in the known world,? with two wood-engraved full-figure portrait images of Major before and after his mysterious affliction, for which the exhibitor offers a $1,000 reward to any physician capable of diagnosing and curing him. 12 ? x 6?. Toning, small tears, old tape residue; ? CDV of Isaac W. Sprague?(1841 ? 87) with his wife (Tamar Moore) and young son. Hand dated 1873. Sprague appeared with P. T. Barnum?s American Museum freak show in New York. 4 x 2 ??; ? Mr. I. W. Sprague. New York: Chas. Eisenman, ca. 1880s. CDV of Sprague with his wife and three sons, captioned below. 4 x 2 ??. Minor edge wear.