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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[MICROCALLIGRAPHY]. BLYSTONE, Ernest (d. 1963). Drawing on a Grain of Rice. Chicago, 1933. A grain of white rice decorated by ?Bly? The Rice Writer at the Century of Progress Chicago World?s Fair. The grain is embellished in black ink with a drawing of a lion and a woman riding in an automobile with the tiny caption below reading, ?See / Marjie Kemp & Riding Lions.? Affixed to the center of a printed card advertising the Ripley?s Odditorium at the Fair.Marjorie Kemp drove a racecar with sidecar on the wall of death in the ?Lion Motordrome.? What made her act unusual was the passenger in the sidecar: a full-grown male lion named Sultan.