Set Reminder2023-02-25 12:00:002023-02-25 12:00:00America/New_YorkBidsquareBidsquare : The Ricky Jay Collection https://www.bidsquare.com/auctions/potter-potter/the-ricky-jay-collection-21935 This was Potter & Potter's first sale from the singular, eclectic collection of Ricky Jay, the lauded actor, celebrated sleight-of-hand magician, and noted author, who curated his own extensive collection of magic, circus, and showbiz ephemera.
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[LION TAMER] FALK, Ella. Miss Ella. Hamburg: Adolph Friedlander, 1900. One-sheet color stone lithograph bears vignettes of Ella and her big cats in a variety of poses and stunts (including one in which she holds a lion on her back, slung over her shoulders), with a medallion bust portrait of Ella in the upper right and a large upper image of the Lions at a makeshift dinner table with Ella and her two hounds beside it as well; the tamer feeds one snarling beast a hunk of raw beef on a long metal fork. 48 ? x 33 ??. Chips in lower margin and at edges, tiny losses in image over-colored, old folds; B+. Linen backed.