Mar 31, 2016 - Sale 2408

Sale 2408 - Lot 189

Price Realized: $ 1,430
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 750 - $ 1,000
(BUSINESS.) WALKER, MADAME C. J. The Walker Manufacturing Co. . . . Manufacturers of Madame C. J. Walker's Wonderful Hair Grower. 16 pages, illustrated throughout. Small 4to, original printed brown wrappers stapled; some light wear, front cover detached; vertical crease where folded, showing some rubbing. Indianapolis, 1916

Additional Details

a rare early brochure for the walker manufacturing co, issued while mme. walker was still alive. Illustrations show the early headquarters of the company and a full-length portrait Walker. Despite physicians' warning about work and stress, Walker passed away three years later. Walker Manufacturing Company material pre-1919 is scarce.