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Comedians de Mephisto Co.
Comedians de Mephisto Co. Bosco. Hamburg: Lith. Adolph Friedländer, ca. 1905. (no. 3294) — Comedians de Mephisto Co. The Most Dextrous Hand in the World. Talma. Queen of Coins. Hamburg: Lith. Adolph Friedländer, ca. 1906. (no. 3430)

2 color lithograph posters (28 x 19 in.; 710 x 484 mm & a bit smaller). Bosco with light fold creases and a couple of miniscule surface abrasions; Talma with light fold creases, evidently damp-spotted, some marginal tears, chips, and finger-soiling. Each laid down on linen.

Bosco's poster shows the comedic magician befuddled by a duck while his rabbits escape. The Talma poster is overprinted in blue in the top and bottom margins with the place and date of an engagement: "Queen's Theatre, Longton. For 6 Nights Only, Commencing Monday, No. 26."

PROVENANCE:
J. B. Findlay (Sotheby's London, 3 July 1980, lots 1353, 1357)

Condition Report:
Condition as described in catalogue entry.

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