Apr 17, 2014 - Sale 2345

Sale 2345 - Lot 135

Price Realized: $ 175
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 250 - $ 350
(POP PHOTOGRAPHICA)
Group of 20 items relating to smoking and "hot" women, with 5 mid-20th century cigarette lighters containing hand-colored images of women in bathing suits, 2 early 20th-century cigarette holders with original photographs of young beauties (one adorned with female nudes and the other depicting a woman in a red swimming suit), and 13 matchboxes with sepia-toned printed images of prima ballerinas in the Bolshoi Ballet. Silver prints, various sizes from 1 3/4x1 1/2 to 2 1/2x1 1/2 inches (4.0x3.8 to 6.4x3.8 cm.). 1900s-1950s

Additional Details

with--Group of 3 novelties featuring naughty women: a bottle opener, a pen and a miniature cigarette-lighter charm. 1950s.
From the Collection of John Silverstein.