Set Reminder2024-08-17 12:00:002024-08-17 12:00:00America/New_YorkBidsquareBidsquare : The Ricky Jay Collection Part III https://www.bidsquare.com/auctions/potter-potter/the-ricky-jay-collection-part-iii-21901 Our final offering from the collection of Ricky Jay will be a collection of curious characters; an anomalous auction of extraordinary objects advertising learned pigs, fireproof women, and so much more.
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[CIRCUS]. Cooke?s New Royal Circus. Hartlepool: J. Procter, 1848. One-color pictorial broadside advertising a season-opening performance of this historic circus helmed by English showman, Thomas Taplin Cooke?(1782 ? 1866). Bearing a wood-engraved image of an elaborately costumed horse rearing on a platform near a dancing man who plays a stringed instrument. The show featured equestrian acts, acrobatics, a ?Liliputian? horse, a strong man, and clowns. 29 ? x 9 ??. Older linen backing with tack holes. Small tears, chipping and soiling.