Aug 22, 2024 - Sale 2677

Sale 2677 - Lot 261

Price Realized: $ 875
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600

(PERIODICALS.)


Group of New York weekly nightlife guides and club matchbooks.
13 magazines, including 5 issues of "Michael's Thing: Weekly Entertainment Magazine," 1977-1982; 6 issues of "Topman," 1980-1983; and 2 issues of "Where It's At, New York's Weekly Gay Guide," 1977-1978. Each in original illustrated wrappers, about 210x130 mm; 8¼x7¼ inches; minor wear.

29 promotional matchbooks and 6 matchboxes from New York and beyond, including 4 duplicates; various conditions, some of them used.

Most are from New York, including The Spike, Uncle Charlie's (two designs plus one duplicate), Last Call, Pieces, Harry's Back East, Lure, The Club Baths (2 designs), Twilight (plus a duplicate), New TJ's, Regents, Company Restaurant (matchbook plus two copies of a matchbox), Pegasus (two designs), The 5 Oaks, Julius, G, The Toolbox, The Eagle, The Townhouse (2 designs), Sapphire (matchbox), and XL (matchbox). From Atlanta are matchbooks from Backstreet Atlanta, The Atlanta Eagle (plus one duplicate), and Transfer Atlanta. From London are two different matchboxes from The Hoist, and from Cleveland we have the Leather Stallion Saloon.