Feb 27, 2003 - Sale 1961

Sale 1961 - Lot 136

Price Realized: $ 2,530
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
WITH MOVING TABLEAUX (BLACK MEMORABILIA.) McLaughlin Brothers. Shadow-box with rollers and moving tableaux; the 8 different tableaux featuring Black caricatures. Wooden box measuring 11 1/2x11 inches, the front of the box with mounted pictorial cardboard panels to represent the sides of a stage; 2 of the scenes with repairs, other minor flaws to tableaux, rubbing to the box. New York, circa 1870s
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Each of the 8 scenes depict Blacks in exaggeratedly stereotypical poses. The scenes show dancers, musicians, and other figures in brightly colored outfits.
McLaughlin Bros. was established in the 1850s. Their products provided amusement in American homes in the second half of the 19th century and well into the 20th century.