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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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[SONGSTERS]. Group of 7 Barnum or Barnum & Bailey songsters.
Lot 378

[SONGSTERS]. Group of 7 Barnum or Barnum & Bailey songsters.

Estimate: $300 - $500
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[SONGSTERS]. Group of 7 Barnum or Barnum & Bailey songsters. V.p., ca. 1880s-90s. Original engraved and hand-colored or color lithographed wrappers. Size generally 6 1/2 x 5". Titles include:

W.E. Burke's Barnum & Great London Circus Songster. N.Y. Pop Pub. Co.

P.T. Barnum's Great Clown Songster. N.Y. Popular Pub. Co.

Barnum & London Songster. N.Y. Popular Pub. Co.

Barnum & Bailey Concert and Joker Songster. N.Y. Popular Pub. Co.

Barnum & Bailey Greatest Show on Earth Songster. Courier Co., Buffalo.

Barnum & Bailey's Great Clown Songster. Courier Lith. Co., Buffalo.

Barnum & Bailey's Clown Songster. N.Y. Popular Pub. Co.

 

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Scattered chipping and soiling to covers, some tears and losses, but generally very good.

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