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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[Bertram Mills Circus] Large and Important Archive of Vintage Bertram Mills Circus Photographs. Approximately 200 black-and-white images depicting specialty acts, animal acts, aerialists, ringmasters, elephants, equestrian acts, and other performers working in this British circus, primarily captured in mid-performance, though several photographs capture candid portraits of ringmasters, clowns, and other circus personnel. Some images inscribed and signed, many annotated or bearing inked notes on versos identifying the subjects, place of performance, etc. Photographer?s stamp of Baron Nicholas de Rakoczy, A.R.P.S. to versos of many images. The largest 10 x 8?. Neatly organized in two display albums, condition generally very good. Nice lot. Should be seen.