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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Automaton Chess Player CDV. British, ca. 1870. Full-length albumen photograph depicts a faux automaton ?Turk? chess player, an imitation of Kempelen?s, seated atop a wooden stand. Contemporary note in lower margin states, ?Automaton Chess Player / Crystal Palace.?