[DIME MUSEUM] Robinson’s Mammoth Museum and Theatre. New Orleans: Crescent Steam Print, ca. 1890. Double-sided letterpress handbill for “A Giant Show at Midget Prices,” being a New Orleans Dime Museum featuring the Thauma illusion, Charles and Martha Steen, a living mermaid, and other acts. 5 x 13 3/4". Chips and tears, central fold fragile; B.
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2016-06-25
[Dime Museum] Epstean’s Dime Museum & Bijou Theatre. Dime Museum Broadsheet. Chicago: Pitkin & Vaughan, 1886. Two-sided broadsheet herald (5 x 16 ”) illustrated with Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2016-04-09
[Dime Museum] Stanhope & Epstean. Dime Museum Broadsheet. Chicago: Dalziel Ptg. Co., 1886. Two-sided broadsheet herald (4 x 26 ”) illustrated with woodcuts. Attractions and Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2016-04-09
[Dime Museum] Kohl & Middleton. Dime Museum Broadsheet. Chicago, ca. 1880s. Two-sided broadsheet (6 3/8 x 19 ”) illustrated with woodcuts, including the silhouette of Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2016-04-09
[Dime Museum] G.B. Bunnell’s Brooklyn Museum. Brooklyn Eagle, 1882. Letterpress playbill on thin paper, the program commencing with the “wonder worker” Rivello’s “mystifications and transformations,” Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2017-06-10
Blitz, Signor Antonio. Two-page ALS from Signor Blitz. Being a stampless folded letter postmarked Cincinnati, May 17, 1839. Blitz writes to the owner of New Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2013-02-02
Sand Picture in a Glass Bottle with Patriotic American Eagle and Flag, Andrew Clemens, McGregor, Iowa, 1876, multicolored sand arranged in a colorless glass bottle, Read more…
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2011-08-14
Signed Sand Picture in a Glass Bottle Showing a Paddlewheeler, Andrew Clemens, McGregor, Iowa, c. 1888, the bottle filled with multicolored sand arranged in a Read more…
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2009-11-08
Sand Picture in a Glass Bottle with American Eagle, Flag, and Urn of Flowers, Andrew Clemens, McGregor, Iowa, c. 1885 multicolored sand arranged in a Read more…
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2008-11-01
Sand Picture in a Bottle with Paddle Wheeler Gray Eagle and Eagle and Flag, Andrew Clemens, McGregor, Iowa, c. 1885, multicolored sand arranged in a Read more…
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2007-11-04
Autographed letter signed ("P. T. B"), to manager William Cameron Coup, 1 page, postmarked Bridgeport, Connecticut, June 28, 1871. Barnum writes to Coup to hold Read more…
Auctioneer:
Leslie Hindman Auctioneers
Date:
2010-11-18
