Set Reminder2023-10-28 12:00:002023-10-28 12:00:00America/New_YorkBidsquareBidsquare : The Ricky Jay Collection Part II https://www.bidsquare.com/auctions/potter-potter/the-ricky-jay-collection-part-ii-21921 Unusual relics were the hallmark of Ricky Jay's storied collection. This second auction from his archives features an astonishing array of the fantastic, the funny, and the flabbergasting.
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[GIANTS & LITTLE PEOPLE]?COLLECTION OF HANDBILLS, CABINET PHOTOGRAPHS, AND CDVS.?English and American, 19th century. Collection includes: eight handbills, four cabinet card photographs, and six cartes-de-visite advertising and depicting ?giants,? ?giantesses,? and ?Lilliputians.? Includes handbills for The North Highland Giantess Miss C.F. W. McDonald; ? The British Phenomenon Mr. Hunter, The Lincolnshire Giant; ? Gen. Mite & Millie Edwards; ? The Scottish Giant; ? Don Santiago de los Santos, ?from Philippine Islands near China, being the Smallest Man in Existence?; ? Frank Uffner?s American Midgets; ? German Lilliputians; ? and The Original Mr. and Mrs. Tommy Dodd. With various subjects in the photographs, some identified on signing on the verso, studios include Eisenmann (New York), Feinberg (New York), Wendt (Boonton, N.J.), and others. Size of largest 8? ? 5?".