619. Freaks and Entertainers’ Postcards, a collection of over 310 postcards, the majority photographic portraits of dwarves, giants, human skeletons, other freaks, acrobats, snake charmers, jugglers, contortionists, and clowns, with a few music hall performers, actors and actresses, others reproducing circus and other posters, a few signed or inscribed, loosely inserted in three postcard albums, with slipcases, large 4to
est. £1000 – £1500
Performers include Schaeffer’s Wonder Midgets, John Lester’s Midgets, Chaffer’s Wonder Midgets, the Giant Machinow, Frederick the Great, the English Giant, Johnny Trunley, the Peckham Fat Boy, Topper Martyn as a young man, Marie Lloyd, Sarah Bernhardt, Vesta Tilley, Gladys Cooper, Harry Lauder and many others.