Aug 07, 2002 - Sale 1941

Sale 1941 - Lot 194

Price Realized: $ 489
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
CLAUDE BRAGDON THE CHAP BOOK. 1895.
42x28 1/4 inches. Stone & Kimball, Chicago.
Condition B+: restoration along vertical and horizontal folds; repaired tears in margins.
Men in black and red are carrying sandwich boards advertising the Chap Book magazine. The first of two posters Bragdon designed for the magazine, it is referred to as "The Sandwich Man", and Stone & Kimball offered the poster for sale for $1. (Kiehl p. 111). Kiehl 36.