The Ricky Jay Collection Part III
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Lot 360
[MINSTREL SHOW]. Primrose & West’s Big Minstrels. Freeze Br...
Estimate: $5,000 - $10,000
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[MINSTREL SHOW]. Primrose & West?s Big Minstrels. Freeze Brothers. Cincinnati & New York: The Strobridge Lith. Co., 1897. Horizontal one-sheet stone lithograph depicts the ?all white performers? in their novelty tambourine spinning act (?no less than 16 tambourines at one time?), with vignettes on either side of the central image showing the brothers with tambourines spinning on wire armatures attached to their knees, heads, and gripped by their teeth. 30 ? x 40?. Linen backed. Extensive and nearly invisible restoration in upper portion, borders, and small tears. A-/B+.?Exemplars, p. 290-1.
