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The Ricky Jay Collection

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Lot 331

[TATTOO] Miller Brothers & Stanley’s Big One Dime Show! Pro...

Estimate: $500 - $1,000

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[TATTOO] Miller Brothers & Stanley?s Big One Dime Show! Providence: Zimmer [?], ca. 1890. Pictorial letterpress broadside for ?minstrel, variety, museum and aquarium? presentation featuring Mina Stanley the tattooed woman (?with 524 different designs, two years and four months being necessary to complete the process.?), Millie Welch the living half woman (likely the Thauma illusion), and other classic sideshow/dime museum attractions, including snake charmers, magicians, ventriloquists and fire eaters. Framed to 26 ? x 9?. One loss visible, laid down and unevenly trimmed, but not examined out of frame.