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Lot # 661: 19th & 20th Century Theater Poster Collection (97)

Starting Bid: $500.00

Bids: 5 (Bid History)

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Item was in Auction "2018 Invitational",
which ran from 7/15/2018 9:00 AM to
8/17/2018 10:00 PM



Fine collection of early theater posters from early NYC collector. From all staged entertainment w/theater, burlesque & vaudeville. 1) Nice lot of early to mid-19th century British from venues as Covent Garden & the Strand. Many are two-sided with several Fra-Diavolo, plus 1870-80s burlesque. 2) 19th century American from Boston and Philadelphia includes Horace Greeley impersonator. 3) 1910s "Hello Paree - The Frenchy Girlie Show" starring John O. Grant. Nice stone litho. 4) Lot of 14x22" window cards from Broadway & theater going back to the 1930s w/scarcities: Remains to Be Seen (Charles Adams), Frederic March Major Jupudo, Yellow Jacket (Charles Coburn), Evening with Maria Callas (2), Fonteyn & Nureyev, Ingrid Bergman, Maurice Chevalier One Man Show (3), National Ballet Canada w/Nureyev, 1945 Are You With It, How to Succeed... (2), Ethel Merman Carnegie Hall, ten poster folio of the Fantastiks and more. Total of 42. 5) Miscellaneous early posters including the original "Adele," 1900s Shadow of the Night by Morrow (rough), Blithe Spirit by Noel Coward, 1916 Shakespeare Tercentenary Commemoration and two styles of Broadway's Pacific Overtures by Stephen Sondheim (huge sizes), NBC's Railroad Hour (Gordon MacRae), early Hurok "Bolshoi Ballet," 1942 MacBeth starring John Gielgud and many more. 97 pieces, should be viewed.

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