Weird Tales! UFOs, Curiosities and Tattoos
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Lot 335
TOM THUMB (Charles S. Stratton). Pair of advertising handbills.
Estimate: $500 - $750
Unsold
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TOM THUMB (Charles S. Stratton). Pair of advertising handbills. Including:
Young's Hall / Return From Europe / General Tom Thumb and His Little Wife. New York: Wynkoop & Hallenbeck, [after 1864]. Illustrated with a woodcut portrait of Tom Thumb, Lavinia Warren, Commodore Nutt, and Minnie Warren, and a woodcut crow. 13 x 3 3/4".
The Original and Celebrated General Tom Thumb, the World-Renowned American Man in Miniature / at the New Hall, Bumstead Place. [Boston], ca. 1860. Illustrated with a woodcut of Tom Thumb's miniature chariot. 12 x 4 1/2".
Condition
The first mounted to glassine; scattered small tears, light stains, minor losses.
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Sold: Sotheby's, Ricky Jay Collection, Lot 594 (part of).
