Feb 27, 2007 - Sale 2105

Sale 2105 - Lot 365

Price Realized: $ 1,920
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
SALEMAN'S SAMPLER FOR PORTRAITS AND INSPIRATIONAL POSTERS (UPLIFT.) Salesman's portfolio, containing 20 samples of posters, prints, photographs, etc. which could be ordered. Each sample approximately 18x16 inches, with oil cloth cover, bound at the top on a wood rod stick in scroll fashion, permitting it to be rolled up for ease of carrying. Marginal damage, mostly at lower 2 inches. should be examined. [Chicago, circa 1905-11]
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The first 3 samples are portraits, which could be ordered in one of the styles shown (glossy chromolithograph, plain paper, photo transfer on silk) or they could be made from a family photograph. The rest are classic "uplift" posters: "Family Record," "In Sacred Memory," "Remembrance," "Beacon Light" (Frederick Douglass and Paul Laurence Dunbar), "The Little Shepherd," "Jesus Died for Both," "My Faith I Place in Thee," "The Protecting Angel," "Heavenward," "Inspiration," "A Mother's Joy," "Mama I Love You," "Booker T. Washington," "Marriage Certificate," "Onward," "Jack Johnson," and a large sheet with choices for frames.
Many such posters have been offered individually in previous Swann sales. This is the first salesman's sampler we have seen.