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OSCAR WILDE (1854-1900)
Group of Oscar Wilde advertising cards and theatrical photos. Includes 3 lithograph advertising cards featuring illustrations of Wilde, each with mount remnants on verso: "Strike Me with a Sun Flower," 114x76 mm; 4 1/2x3 inches, blank on verso, by E.B. Duval, 1882.
Full-length portrait titled simply "Oscar Wilde" with blank area for use by local advertisers, 145x82 mm; 5 3/4x3 1/4 inches, circa 1882.
"Marie Fontaine's Moth & Freckle Cure . . . Neilson's Secret for the Complexion," featuring insert portrait of Wilde, 136x75 mm; 5 1/4x3 inches, with ad text on verso. Buffalo, NY: Cusack & Co., undated.
Pair of cabinet card photographs of the tea party scene from "The Importance of Being Earnest," with the two original actresses Irene Vanbrugh and Evelyn Millard. Albumen photographs, 145x102 mm; 5 3/4x4 inches, on original photographer's mount of Alfred Ellis & Walery of London, circa 1895.
Separate photographs of the same actresses: a mounted silver print of Millard and a Real Photo postcard of Vanbrugh.
