Set Reminder2023-10-28 12:00:002023-10-28 12:00:00America/New_YorkBidsquareBidsquare : The Ricky Jay Collection Part II https://www.bidsquare.com/auctions/potter-potter/the-ricky-jay-collection-part-ii-21921 Unusual relics were the hallmark of Ricky Jay's storied collection. This second auction from his archives features an astonishing array of the fantastic, the funny, and the flabbergasting.
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[ACROBATICS]?Woodcut of a daring somersault over soldiers in uniforms with rifles and bayonets.?French[?], ca. 18th/19th century. Woodcut on wove paper, depicting a major springing from a platform and somersaulting over 20 soldiers with bayonet rifles. 9? ? 17" (image); 14? ? 17?" (sheet). Unsigned; trimmed at left edge, or from one of two sheets. Scattered pale spotting. This image was used as the basis of a Mulholland Library of Conjuring and the Allied Arts movable holiday greeting card in the late 1980s.