A few examples of appraisal values for
CIRCUS BROADSIDE

• COLLECTION OF MORE THAN 15 CIRCUS
  COLLECTION OF MORE THAN 15 CIRCUS BROADSIDES.Collection of More than 15 Circus Broadsides. Circa 1900s Ð 30s. Including an unusual Forepaugh broadside (ca. 1890s) that overtly criticizes a competing "little tottering" circus (John B. Doris) as "rats" and "rot," admonishing readers to "wait for Forepaugh"; together with a miscellany of broadsides from various circuses, most pictorial, all encased in glass (some cracked and chipped), unmounted. Most approx. 10 x 30". Light to heavy soiling and discoloration. Marginal losses, tears, and other wear. Not examined out of glass.
• TWO BARNUM AND BAILEY
  TWO BARNUM AND BAILEY BROADSIDES.Two Barnum and Bailey Broadsides. Including a broadside used in Marysville for the 1910 season with illustrations for acrobats and large cats, as well as a broadside from 1893 advertising Kiralfy's "Columbus and the Discovery of America." 10 _ x 28". Both with chipped margins and tape-repaired tears, one with plastic covering one side.
• CIRCUS BROADSIDE AND PROGRAM.Circus
  CIRCUS BROADSIDE AND PROGRAM.Circus Broadside and Program. Includes a broadside for the Yankee Robinson Ten Big Shows featuring a large illustration of Tom-Tom the elephant (Erie Lithography, ca. 1905), 10 _ x 28", chipped margins with some tears repaired with tape; and an official program for The Cook and Whitby Colossal English Circus (W. W. Parmlee, ca. 1890s), 10 _ x 14 _", folded, light staining with small chips and creases, marked with two different dates in pencil. Fair.
• TWO CIRCUS BROADSIDES.Two Circus
  TWO CIRCUS BROADSIDES.Two Circus Broadsides. Includes broadsides for The King Brothers and Cristiana Combined Circus (ca. 1930) 10 _ x 28", creased with light marginal chipping; and the Cole Brothers Greatest World Toured Shows (Erie Litho, ca. 1920s, 10 _ x 28", creased with resulting tears, other light tearing, light marginal chipping. Good.
• GROUP OF THREE CIRCUS
  GROUP OF THREE CIRCUS BROADSIDES.Group of Three Circus Broadsides. Including broadsides for Chamberlin's Consolidated Shows (ca. 1910s), 10 _ x 28", creased with small tears, marginal paper discoloration; The Walter L. Main big Three-Ring Circus (ca. 1920s-30s), 10 _ x 28", one edge and corner heavily chipped with losses affecting images and text; and The Great Wm. P. Hall's Combined Shows (ca. 1920s), 10 _ x 27 _", laminated with small chips and light creases. Fair.
• TWO CIRCUS BROADSIDES.Two Circus
  TWO CIRCUS BROADSIDES.Two Circus Broadsides. Including broadsides for Wintermute Brothers and Hall's Big United Shows (Erie Litho, ca. 1910s), 10 _ x 28", creased, light marginal chipping; and John Robinson's Circus (ca. 1919), 10 _ x 28", creased, light marginal chipping and soiling. Good.
• RINGLING BROTHERS. TWO PICTORIAL
  RINGLING BROTHERS. TWO PICTORIAL CIRCUS BROADSIDES.Ringling Brothers. Two Pictorial Circus Broadsides. Circa 1910s. Letterpress illustrated broadsides mounted on board. 10 _ x 28" each. Right example faded, scattered mild soiling. Fair. Sold as-is.
• GROUP OF THREE MEXICAN CIRCUS
  GROUP OF THREE MEXICAN CIRCUS BROADSIDES.Group of Three Mexican Circus Broadsides. Various dates and publishers. Including broadsides for the Gutierrez e Hijos Circo (ca. 1941), 9 x 19 _", foxing, soiling, torn lower portion reattached with tape; Gran Circo Trevi–o (ca. 1907), 12 x 32", chipped edges with losses, significant fading to red color on bottom half, creased; Gran Compania Europea (ca. 1930s), 10 _ x 23", ink transference and stains, creased with light marginal chipping. 1098 and 1094. Fair to good.
• Early 20th Century Walter L. Main
  Early 20th Century Walter L. Main Traveling Circus broadside advertisement. 28" x 9 1/2".
• THREE THEATRICAL BROADSIDES,
  THREE THEATRICAL BROADSIDES, BALTIMORE, 1804 Advertising performances at the Baltimore Theatre in April and November; displayed together in a single frame.
• CIRCUS SIDESHOW BANNER.
  CIRCUS SIDESHOW BANNER. American early 20th century canvas. Hand painted sideshow banner of the ''Strange Girl-Alive''. Image of a spider with a woman's head. Wear and hole. 8'6''h. 6'8''w.
• JAMES ROBINSON'S GREAT CIRCUS.James
  JAMES ROBINSON'S GREAT CIRCUS.James Robinson's Great Circus. Russell and Morgan Printing Co., ca. 1894. Broadside used for performances in Keokuk, featuring images and descriptions of equestrian circus acts and their start times. 10 x 28". Light soiling, creases, large chip with loss to image and text, two smaller marginal chips. Poor.
• LARGE SCALE AMERICAN 19TH C.
  LARGE SCALE AMERICAN 19TH C. NAIVE WOODBLOCK THEATRICAL BROADSIDE Circa 1850 Folk Art Woodcut depicting a Tightrope Walker in Patriotic Costume pushing a fancy barrow across a diagonal wire, frame by drapes with a large floral urn below, in deep molded cove walnut frame with gilt liner, under old glass, OS: 25" x 40", SS: 19 1/2" x 34 1/2", good condition, minor frame loss.
• CIRCUS POSTERCIRCUS POSTER:
  CIRCUS POSTERCIRCUS POSTER: "Ringling Bros - World's Greatest Shows," world champion bareback somersault artists. Used for display at the Memorial Coliseum, Portland, Oregon. Image measures 19.25" x 29.25". In a wood frame; 27.75" x 37.75" overall.
• HOUDINI EAST HAM PALACE THEATER
  HOUDINI EAST HAM PALACE THEATER BROADSIDE.Houdini, Harry (Ehrich Weisz). Houdini East Ham Palace Theater Broadside. [London], ca. 1900s. Letterpress broadside issued by the vaudeville and entertainment publication Variety News, boldly advertising the magician and escape artist’s performance, by which the public was “completely mystified and baffled”. 31 x 20”. Linen backed. Repaired separation tears along folds, with some small losses; creases, small repaired tears.
• CIRCUS POSTERCIRCUS POSTER:
  CIRCUS POSTERCIRCUS POSTER: "Ringling Bros and Barnum and Bailey Combined Shows," an attacking tiger. Used for display at the Memorial Coliseum, Portland, Oregon. Image measures 22.25" x 33.25". In a wood frame; 31" x 42" overall.
• AL G. BARNES CIRCUS.Al G. Barnes
  AL G. BARNES CIRCUS.Al G. Barnes Circus. N.p., ca. 1936. Boasting a show twice its former size, this broadside advertises famous circus acts like Bert Nelson and his big cats and the Cristiani troupe of trick riders. 10 _ x 28 _". Marginal chipping, light staining.
• WALTER L. MAIN CIRCUS: MUSEUM,
  WALTER L. MAIN CIRCUS: MUSEUM, MENAGERIE, AND HIPPODROM...Walter L. Main Circus: Museum, Menagerie, and Hippodrome. N.p., ca. 1924. Broadside used for a June 14 performance, with a wide variety of entertainment described including, "A galaxy of world picked riders." 10 _ x 27 _". Marginal chipping with losses to some images and text, center crease. Poor.
• Scarce 1890' s ''Direct To
  Scarce 1890' s ''Direct To Barnum' s Circus Greatest Show on Earth'' trolley die cut (also marked ''Madison & 4th Avenues'' ''Brooklyn Bridge'' etc.. Image 5 1/2'' x 10 1/2''.
• 1869 BLACK AMERICAN & BURLESQUE
  1869 BLACK AMERICAN & BURLESQUE TROOP BROADSIDE: Broadside advertisement for a Testimonial to WM. M. Flood by Wood's Burlesque Troop and also featuring The Friendship Cornet Band Devers and Flood Frank Carroll T. Chambers. All at the Friendship Hall Philadelphia. Sight size 22 3/4'' x 8 3/4'' framed 24 1/4'' x 10 1/4''.CONDITION: Not examined out of frame note tears water stains and restoration to one section.
• SELLS BROTHERS' & PAWNEE BILL
  SELLS BROTHERS' & PAWNEE BILL CIRCUS AND WILD WEST.Sells Brothers' & Pawnee Bill Circus and Wild West. Cincinnati: Russell and Morgan Printing Co., ca. 1887. Broadside for Sells Brothers' Three Ring Circus and Roman Hippodrome, featuring Pawnee Bill's "Famous Original Wild West." With striking imagery of shooting glass balls on horseback, various equestrian acts and florid language extolling the magnificence of the show. 10 x 28". Chipped edges and folds. Fair.
• THREE WILD WEST SHOW
  THREE WILD WEST SHOW BROADSIDES.Three Wild West Show Broadsides. Including broadsides for King and Franklin's Monster Shows (Jeffrey Printing Co.; ca. 1888), 10 _ x 28, some staining, marginal chipping and tearing reinforced by tape; Jones Brothers Wild West Show (ca. 1935), 9 x 24 _", marginal chipping, light staining, ink transference, some small tears repaired by tape, red pencil marks; and the Allen Brothers Long Horn Ranch Wild West Shows (Harrison Show Print; ca. 1936) 9 x 24", some staining, creased with resulting tears, light marginal chipping.
• ROYAL COURT CIRCUS.Royal Court
  ROYAL COURT CIRCUS.Royal Court Circus. London: Willsons Printers, ca. 1940. Featuring acts including a horseback ballerina, trained horses and dogs, clowns, idiots, and fools. 10 x 30". Creasing at the bottom, light chipping, pencil marks, and some red ink transference. Good.
• GROUP OF FORTY-NINE MISCELLANEOUS
  GROUP OF FORTY-NINE MISCELLANEOUS SIDESHOW AND CIRCUS P...Group of Forty-Nine Miscellaneous Sideshow and Circus Prints and Postcards. Various dates and printers. Variety of postcards, photographs, and clippings of sideshow and circus related subjects, most performers, some apparently managers or proprietors. Some mounted to album pages. Condition: varies from fair to good, some pieces damaged and torn. Fair to good.
• Broadside stud advertising; Hoosier
  Broadside stud advertising; Hoosier bred coach stallion "Carnival Jr.", live foal guarantee and terms along with racing record, 1910 season. Ad 16 3/4" x 10 3/4". Good condition, soiling,wrinkling, small tear.
• NORTON BROTHERS BROADSIDE.Norton
  NORTON BROTHERS BROADSIDE.Norton Brothers Broadside. New York, ca. 1900. Broadside advertising the brothers with "Their Wonderful Revolving Breakaway Ladder Act" and other performers listed below. 9 x 15 _". Light creases, short tears, minor soiling. Very good.
• RARE CARNIVAL BANNERS AND
  RARE CARNIVAL BANNERS AND BROADSIDES CIRCA 1905 BANNERS TO 50” X 28”. BROADSIDES 14.5” X 11”.RARE CARNIVAL BANNERS AND BROADSIDES, Circa 1905, Found in a barn in Orleans, Massachusetts. Includes: 1) Red cotton banner with "Admission 10¢." around an image of a mermaid. 2) Red cotton banner with "Today 5¢". 3-4) Two cardboard broadsides "Please Read Carefully This strange creature was captured alive on the coast of Brazil, South America, June 17, 1904 [...]". 5) Cardboard broadside "Please Read Carefully Beautiful Mermaid said to have been captured alive on the coast of Brazil, South America, June 17, 1904 [...]". Dimensions: Banners to 50" x 28". Broadsides 14.5" x 11".
• CIRCUS POSTER, CLYDE BEATTY-COLE
  CIRCUS POSTER, CLYDE BEATTY-COLE BROS, MID-20THc. Fall River. A Benefit for the American Legion Post, nice colors, large clown head in center. Sight size 34" x 19", overall with frame 44 1/2" x 23 1/2". In two pieces as it appears that the bottom was changed according to dates.
• [Political Americana - Lincolniana]
  [Political Americana - Lincolniana] Our American Cousin Broadside  18.5'' x 6.25'' framed to 8.5'' X 23.25''. Advertising a performance of the popular play Our American Cousin the same play at which President Lincoln was assassinated on April 14th the same day he was shot but at Harvard's Howard Athenaeum two in 1863 two years prior to the assassination. This performance starred Mr. John E. Owens and the broadside notes that colored people will be admitted but to the gallery only. The Ed Steers Lincolniana & Civil War Collection Condition: Fold lines else very good.
• CIRCUS POSTERCIRCUS POSTER:
  CIRCUS POSTERCIRCUS POSTER: "Ringling Bros and Barnum and Bailey Combined Shows, The Greatest Show on Earth," chariots with a red background. Used for display at the Memorial Coliseum, Portland, Oregon. Image measures 22.75" x 32.5". In a wood frame; 32" x 41.25" overall.
• Early circus panel. 32'' x 55''.
  Early circus panel. 32'' x 55''.
• 1913 CIRCUS LITHOGRAPH TOY, ACROBAT
  1913 CIRCUS LITHOGRAPH TOY, ACROBAT ON HORSEAntique lithograph game toy showing a clown and a woman doing acrobatics on horseback. Stated copyright 1913 by Syndicate Publishing, at lower edge. Nicely framed. Excellent condition. Overall framed size is 15" x 12 1/2". Part of a large collection of Circus, Carnival and Midway themed artwork, many pieces of which are available in this sale. shipping info This item will need to be shipped by a packing company of your choice. We maintain a list of reliable shippers, or you may choose your own.
• CIRCUS AND MARDI GRAS GAMESCircus
  CIRCUS AND MARDI GRAS GAMESCircus and Mardi Gras games , to include a Flying Clown Circus Game , by Keck Novelty Company, in which a tin donkey slides down a shoot to hurl a painted wood clown with tin legs onto point circles or target, together with Game of Coney Island , with inset gameboard and dynamic cover graphic, unknown maker, 14" x 8". Competitive In-House shipping is available for this lot. Condition: very good to excellent (some wear to tin and wood figure)
• CIRCUS SIDESHOW BANNER. Fred
  CIRCUS SIDESHOW BANNER. Fred Johnson O. Henry Tent and Awning Company Chicago Illinois mid 20th century. Hand painted sideshow banner for the ''Human Blockhead''. 8'h. 9'8''w. Fred Johnson is among the most celebrated sideshow banner painters of the 20th century. For more information and other examples of his work see http://www.cultofweird.com/sideshow/fred-johnson-sideshow-banners/.
• SIDESHOW CIRCUS BANNER WITCH
  SIDESHOW CIRCUS BANNER WITCH DOCTORLarge painted canvas sideshow banner featuring Witch Doctor and Torture of India, unsigned, mid to late 20th C. vintage circus advertising, measures approximately 134 x 98 inches. Paint loss, some cracking of painted surface, stains along sides, creases and small tears in canvas, see images for more details on condition. This item will need to be shipped by a packing company of your choice. We maintain a list of reliable shippers, or you may choose your own.
• CIRCUS POSTERCIRCUS POSTER:
  CIRCUS POSTERCIRCUS POSTER: "Ringling Bros and Barnum and Bailey, The Greatest Show on Earth," lion and tiger. Used for display at the Memorial Coliseum, Portland, Oregon. Opening measures 30.5" x 22.5". In a wood frame; 39" x 29.5" overall.