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an old time photo of a bunch of baseball cards on a tablemany old papers that are on a blue tablean old time photo of a group of people posing for a picturean image of a bunch of old papers with some writing on themseveral old black and white photographs of men and women
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55 - CIRCUS AND FAIRGROUND ATTRACTIONS, 1860–1880
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Estimate €600 - €800
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CIRCUS AND FAIRGROUND ATTRACTIONS, 1860–1880 ANTONY, BRADY, CARETTE, DISDERI, JAGEMANN, LAUDOYER, LONDON STEREOS— COPIC & PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPANY, MAYER, MEAUJAN AND DUBOIS, PESME, SARO- NY, TERRY, TERRIS… 31 albumen prints mounted on CDV-sized cards with captions printed on the mounts. Napoleon Circus; Gymnast Verrecke; Geo Fox, American animal trainer; Léotard, trapeze artist; the Dog Man; Chinese giant Chang and his wife, Siamese twins, dwarfs including 4 portraits of General Tom Pouce and his marriage in 1863 to Lavinia Warren (facsimile signatures on the reverse by Charles Stratton, Lavinia Warren, Commodore Nutt and Minnie Warren). Included is a rare visiting card of General Tom Pouce (2 x 3.5 cm) and two portraits of different types of dwarfs in India, silver prints circa 1930 (12.5 x 7 cm)
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About the sale The Paul BENARROCHE Collection and others | Old and modern photographs | Part I
Auction location
Auction time 10/22/2026 at 2:00 PM
Pictures credits: Contact the Auction House
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