Aug 07, 2013 - Sale 2321

Sale 2321 - Lot 28

Price Realized: $ 1,440
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,000
DESIGNER UNKNOWN THE BARNUM & BAILEY GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH. 1900.
74 1/2x28 1/2 inches, 189 1/4x72 1/2 cm. The Strobridge Litho. Co., Cincinnati & New York.
Condition B+: vertical and horizontal folds; creases in image. Two-sheets. Paper. Framed.
An exceptional image featuring Barnum's "Human Phenomena and Oddities of Nature." The poster was used to promote the freak show on the circus' European tour and exists in both French and German. Although it was printed in the United States we have not seen an English language version of this poster. Circus 30 (var).