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The Ricky Jay Collection Part III

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Lot 353

[MICROCALLIGRAPHY]. BLYSTONE, Ernest (d. 1963). Drawing on ...

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[MICROCALLIGRAPHY]. BLYSTONE, Ernest (d. 1963). Drawing on a Grain of Rice. Chicago, 1933. A grain of white rice decorated by ?Bly? The Rice Writer at the Century of Progress Chicago World?s Fair. The grain is embellished in black ink with a drawing of a lion and a woman riding in an automobile with the tiny caption below reading, ?See / Marjie Kemp & Riding Lions.? Affixed to the center of a printed card advertising the Ripley?s Odditorium at the Fair.Marjorie Kemp drove a racecar with sidecar on the wall of death in the ?Lion Motordrome.? What made her act unusual was the passenger in the sidecar: a full-grown male lion named Sultan.