Set Reminder2025-02-01 12:00:002025-02-01 12:00:00America/New_YorkBidsquareBidsquare : Wunderkammer: The Freeman & Fugate Oddities Collection https://www.bidsquare.com/auctions/potter-potter/wunderkammer-the-freeman-fugate-oddities-collection-21890 Ghosts, ghouls, taxidermy, spirit photos, "talking boards," circus memorabilia, and oddities of all types will cross the block this February at Potter & Potter. Featuring selections from the personal collection of James Freeman and Kate Fugate, this sale promises to be equal parts bizarre, amazing, and remarkable.
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[SIDESHOW / ODDITIES]. Anatomical Oddities / Medical Autopsy Stock Poster. Hamburg: Adolph Friedl?nder, [1913]. No. 6027. Color lithograph stock poster with a central image of a surgical autopsy performance; the surgeon holding a woman's heart in his hand. He is surrounded by anatomical oddities encased in glass including busts of a bearded lady, a sword swallower, a two-headed conjoined twin child, lion-headed boy, dismembered limbs, and various human musculoskeletal specimens. Above them is a scene of a war wounded soldier and a man facing amputation. 28 x 37 ?". Linen backed. Expertly repaired with inpainting to original folds. Marginal restorations and closed tears. Light staining and discoloration throughout. A-/B+.