Lot 425

Ephemera Lot Over 100 Items 19th & 20th Cent.

Estimate: $300 - $500

Bid Increments

Price Bid Increment
$0 $25
$300 $50
$1,000 $100
$2,000 $200
$5,000 $500
$10,000 $1,000
$20,000 $2,000
$50,000 $5,000
$100,000 $10,000
$1,000,000 $50,000
Huge Ephemera Lot to include postcards, trade cards, photos, letters, letterheads, billheads, (many from Maine). Washington DC bus passes 1931-1948, Barnum 1890 Greatest Show pass, Tuck, Horace Brown's notebook of red, white, and blue calligraphic entries, mostly religious (New Hampshire, 1883). 40 beautiful "poster advertising stamps" circa1930's. Great graphics, excellent condition. A fingerprint card from the FBI (J. Edgar Hoover, Director) with 2 fingerprints (no name). A small archive of letters, cards, etc. to Mr. George Marsh of Boston,1880's. Mostly from family and includes a trip to Europe with some hotel menus, bill heads, photos, etc.19th century chromolithographic children's book and others, The Curious Adventures of the Man with the Sewing Machine, 1883, (illus. in silhouette). An 18th century folio document from Jamaica listing the Tonnage of the cargo discharged at the Docks (Sugar) from the ship Ocean Bride. Two small (8vo)18th century engraved maps of Siciia and Leeward Islands. A small early stipple style engraving of a Paulus Potter scene of a bull and a dog (H 3" W 5"), 19th century print from Gazette des Beaux-Arts (Delacroix) H 9" W 12", Charcoal illustration of a coastline with a high promontory and buildings, signed Coombs. A signed, limited print (149/200) from 1969, of a caricature of a bearded, bespectacled man with a long-stemmed rose in his mouth. Signature is unintelligable. H 10-1/4" W 9". 19th century photos, tintype, carte de visites, cabinet cards from Maine to Oregon. Includes 1886 photo of P.T. Barnum, signature in the plate, but may be printed. Tom Thumb and his wife, signatures by both on the back, but may be printed. (Anthony, NY-from the Brady Negative). Signed G. Garibaldi card (the maker of modern Italy), Prince Albert card, a small card of a Maine Civil War Officer (Chamberlain?), 4 unnamed cards, one cabinet card of a huge 200 lb. Sturgeon, from Oregon City, Oregon, an unmounted photo of Yarmouth Ship Yard, an unmounted photo of a thriving European Port. A large mounted photo of John Robert's Filling Station and Home, Susquehanna Trail, Penna., Sept. 9, 1927, M.H. Kiff & Son Drug and Hardware Store, Tower City, North Dakota, ca. 1900, and 1 comic tintype with a man in a pork-pie hat in a tiny two-wheeled donkey cart. 1912 Socialist Party Platform flyer, Winchester Repeating Rifles illustrated envelope,Disney Dollars (1987-1993). Various sizes. Condition: Mostly fine condition, with wear commensurate with age and use. Link for high-res photos:

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