Set Reminder2024-07-11 12:00:002024-07-11 12:00:00America/New_YorkBidsquareBidsquare : Circus, Sideshow & Oddities https://www.bidsquare.com/auctions/potter-potter/circus-sideshow-oddities-21903 This year's auction annual of the odd, the unusual, and the amazing is set to feature spectacular sideshow banners (including an incredible 37' long example from Caldwell), vibrant stone lithographs (including RBB&B favorites, and several Friedlander rarities), curiosities galore, and relics from the greatest shows on earth.
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[CIRCUS & VARIETY ARTISTS]. Five albums of photographs of performer photographs. European, ca. 1930s?60s. Collection of albums, uniform buckram and cloth folios, with spine compartments denoting the type of performer contained within each: Trapezistes (trapeze artists); Equilibristes (equilibrists); Musicaux (musical acts); Perchistes (equilibrists/balancing acts); and Bascule (acrobats). Individual albums contain between 126 and 240 photos and postcards, and a total of 833 between all five, including signed pieces. A tremendous archive of varied images; must be seen. One album with the library label of Belgian circus collector Jose Dugardein; all presumably from his collection. Sizes vary; pieces generally affixed with corner mounts or laid in. Condition generally very good.