Schaffer, Severus, Sylvester Schaffer, & many smaller Schaffers | The famous Schaffer family of jugglers

Schaffer, Severus, Sylvester Schaffer, & many smaller Schaffers

Folies-Bergère. Les Sheffer. Paris: Imp. Chaix (Ateliers Chéret), ca. 1900 (no.26560-94) 

Color lithograph poster (32 1/8 x 23 5/8 in.; 819 x 600 mm). French revenue stamp; fold creases with some minor abrasions and tiny losses at intersecting folds, a few short marginal tears. Laid down on linen.

Severus Schaffer was one of the biggest stars of juggling in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He eventually expanded his act to include other members of his talented family, including his brother Sylvester and several nephews. The troupe was sometimes billed, as here, as the Sheffers.