Set Reminder2021-06-26 12:00:002021-06-26 12:00:00America/New_YorkBidsquareBidsquare : Circus, Sideshow & Oddities https://www.bidsquare.com/auctions/potter-potter/circus-sideshow-oddities-21965 Several fine collections make up this year’s auction, including one of our largest offerings to date of vintage circus and sideshow photographs, banners, and posters, as well as show memorabilia, books and autographs, and an array of bizarre and unusual objects.
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Al G. Barnes Wild Animal Circus / Miss Mabel Stark. Erie Litho, ca. 1920s. Lithograph poster advertising the ?World?s foremost trainer of ferocious jungle beasts? resting her head against a large tiger, against a blue background. Half sheet. 20 ? x 27 ??. Crisp, clean colors. Mounted on board. Light staining at upper border. A-/B+. Mabel Stark joined the Al G. Barnes Circus in 1911, where she trained with Louis Roth in the training of big cats. Throughout a career spanning over half a century she was severely mauled numerous times, though never hesitated to step back into the ring. She was the subject of a 2017 documentary film which hailed her as the first female big cat trainer in the United States.