SIDESHOW ODDITIES WILD-WEST BARNUM MAGIC 2025-06-21 Auction - 1100 Price Results - Freedom Auction Company in FL - Page 16
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SIDESHOW ODDITIES WILD-WEST BARNUM MAGIC

ROBERT F. HOUSTON'S PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF THE CIRCUS - SESSION #2 WITH HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDING TOM THUMB WARDROBE, 30 SIDESHOW BANNERS, ODDITIES, TAXIDERMY, 101 RANCH, BUFFALO BILL, PT BARNUM, JUMBO, JENNY LIND, MAGIC, CARNIVAL, CIRCUS AND MUCH MORE.
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Animals - When Things Go Wrong: Folio containing approximately 50 prints, plates, pages and illustrations pertaining to animal attacks. 1800's to Mid-20th Century. Folio is 15"x18". Robert F. Houston Collection
0325: Animals - When Things Go WrongEst. $100-$200
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The Jumbo Circus: The Jumbo Circus - Syndicate Publishing Company, 1913. 20 acts-each 10 inches high, all in brilliant beautiful colors, everything complete, nothing to cut, nothing to paste. Including box
0326: The Jumbo CircusEst. $100-$200
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The Great American Menagerie: The Great American Menagerie, McLoughlin Bros., New York, 1889. Cover wear including creasing, complete. 10"x12"
0327: The Great American MenagerieEst. $100-$200
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King Kong's Wedding Ring: Inspired and created for the original 1933 blockbuster motion picture, this "King" among giant rings was hand crafted in brass as the gargantuan anthropoid's wedding band. As the world's largest
0328: King Kong's Wedding RingEst. $300-$600
Gargantua Cage Wagon Glass: RARE - ONE OF ONLY FOUR PIECES KNOWN FROM THE ORIGINAL GARGANTUA CAGE WAGON. FOUR SEGMENTS WERE GIFTED TO DONORS OF THE CIRCUS WORLD MUSUEM PROJECT THAT RECONDITIONED THE CAGE WAGON. THIS REMAINS
0329: Gargantua Cage Wagon GlassEst. $800-$1,200Lot Passed
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Ceramic Bust of Gargantua the Great: GARGANTUA (1929-1949) WAS A CAPTIVE GORILLA FAMED FOR BEING EXHIBITED ON THE RINGLING BROS. BARNUM & BAILEY CIRCUS. CREDITED WITH SAVING THE BUSINESS FROM BANKRUPTCY, AN ACID SCAR ON HIS FACE LEFT
0331: Ceramic Bust of Gargantua the GreatEst. $200-$400
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Gargantua the Great Memorabilia: GARGANTUA (1929-1949) WAS A CAPTIVE GORILLA FAMED FOR BEING EXHIBITED ON THE RINGLING BROS. BARNUM & BAILEY CIRCUS. CREDITED WITH SAVING THE BUSINESS FROM BANKRUPTCY, AN ACID SCAR ON HIS FACE LEFT
0332: Gargantua the Great MemorabiliaEst. $100-$200
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Death of Munrow Sculpture: This figure records a specific historic event in which Hugh Munrow, a British soldier, was killed by a tiger in India in 1791. Inspired by an almost life-size wooden sculpture depicting a tiger
0333: Death of Munrow SculptureEst. $100-$200
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Wheaties Cereal Cut-Outs: Maria Rasputin, Terrell Jacobs, Flying Butterfly Unit, Con Coleano, Zacchini, Dorothy Herbert, Mlle. Gillette. Cut from cereal boxes.
0334: Wheaties Cereal Cut-OutsEst. $50-$100
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Goliath the Monster Sea Elephant Memorabilia: Ephemera related to Goliath, the Monster Sea Elephant: Courier magazines, Photographs including one from the Roland Butler Collection which may have been used in advertisements, c.1929
0335: Goliath the Monster Sea Elephant MemorabiliaEst. $200-$400
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Sells-Floto Circus Poster - Monster Sea Elephant: Authentic, original, Sells-Floto Circus - Greatest educational feature of all time - Monster Sea Elephant - captured alive in the Antarctic - A tremendous living, breathing giant of the sea. One
0336: Sells-Floto Circus Poster - Monster Sea ElephantEst. $600-$900
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Snyder Bros. Circus & Wild West Poster: Authentic, original, Snyder Bros. Circus and Wild West - magnificent specimens of ferocious bengal tigers. One sheet, Riverside Print Co., 1931. Professionally conserved on linen. 28"x42"
0336A: Snyder Bros. Circus & Wild West PosterEst. $600-$900
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Prof. Harry De Rosa - Count the First Poster: Authentic, original, Count the First - A living proof of the Darwin Theory - America's Greatest Monkey Contest. One sheet, Donaldson Litho, 1910's. Chartex mounted, toning. 28"x42"
0337: Prof. Harry De Rosa - Count the First PosterEst. $300-$600
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Ringling Bros. Barnum Bailey Circus Poster: Authentic, original RBBB Circus - Mr. and Mrs. Gargantua the Great wish you a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year - Winter Quarters, Sarasota, FL 1941. Horizontal panel, Bill Bailey design.
0337A: Ringling Bros. Barnum Bailey Circus PosterEst. $500-$800
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Ringling Bros. Barnum Bailey Circus Poster: Authentic, original, RBBB Circus - Herd of Pigmy Elephants. One sheet plus date tail, Erie Litho, 1937. Old linen mounting, scattered spotting and toning. 34"x42"
0338: Ringling Bros. Barnum Bailey Circus PosterEst. $300-$600
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Ringling Bros. Barnum Bailey Circus Poster: Authentic, original, RBBB Circus - title with gorilla, presumably Gargantua. One sheet plus date tail, Enquirer Printing Co., 1940. Chartex mounting, light wear consistent with posting. 36"x42"
0339: Ringling Bros. Barnum Bailey Circus PosterEst. $300-$600
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Ringling Bros. Barnum Bailey Circus Poster: Authentic, original, RBBB Circus - Gargantua - The largest gorilla ever exhibited - The world's most terrifying living creature. One sheet, Strobridge Litho, 1938. Old thin linen mounting, minor
0340: Ringling Bros. Barnum Bailey Circus PosterEst. $800-$1,200
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Ringling Bros. Barnum Bailey Circus Poster: Authentic, original, RBBB Circus - Gargantua - The largest gorilla ever exhibited - The world's most terrifying living creature. One sheet, Strobridge Litho, 1938. Chartex mounting with some areas
0341: Ringling Bros. Barnum Bailey Circus PosterEst. $800-$1,200
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Ringling Bros. Barnum Bailey Circus Poster: Authentic, original, RBBB Circus - Introducing Mr. and Mrs. Gargantua the Great. One sheet, c.1940. Chartex mounted, scattered spotting. 28"x42"
0342: Ringling Bros. Barnum Bailey Circus PosterEst. $200-$400
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Ringling Bros. Barnum Bailey Circus Poster: Authentic, original, RBBB Circus - Introducing Mr. and Mrs. Gargantua the Great. One sheet, c.1943. Chartex mounted, edgewear, remnants of date tail. 28"x42"
0343: Ringling Bros. Barnum Bailey Circus PosterEst. $200-$400
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Ringling Bros. Barnum Bailey Circus Poster: Authentic, original, RBBB Circus - Pink Elephant. Two sheet, 1958. Unmounted, folds as issued. 41"x54"
0343A: Ringling Bros. Barnum Bailey Circus PosterEst. $50-$100
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Ringling Bros. Barnum Bailey Circus Poster: Authentic, original, RBBB Circus - Tiger and the Moon. Half sheet, McCandlish Litho, 1944. Unmounted, folds as issued, remnants of date tail. 21"x28"
0343B: Ringling Bros. Barnum Bailey Circus PosterEst. $100-$200