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4w122 RINGLING BROS & BARNUM & BAILEY CIRCUS linen circus poster '42 great hippo art!

Date Sold 9/13/2011
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An Original Vintage Linenbacked Circus Poster (measures 28" x 42") (Learn More)

Ringling Bros and Barnum and Bailey Circus, a 1942 circus poster ("The Greatest Show on Earth") featuring a great image of an attraction at the circus that year, an enormous hippo in a river with its mouth open. The modern version of the circus started in 1919 when the Barnum & Bailey's Greatest Show on Earth, a circus created by P. T. Barnum and James Anthony Bailey, was merged with the Ringling Bros. World's Greatest Shows. With weakening attendance and high operating costs, the circus closed on May 21st, 2017 after 146 years.
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Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good to very good. The poster was never folded. It had some faint smudges and water stains around the edges and some faint smudging in parts of the yellow background areas. There was once a snipe glued over the bottom blank border (no doubt telling when the circus was playing). Overall, the poster was in good to very good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was backed onto a very thin linen a long time ago with no excess. The new owner of this poster could certainly have it removed from the thin linen and properly re-backed, but I could certainly imagine many people displaying it just as it is!
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