The Ricky Jay Collection

The Ricky Jay Collection

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Siegfried, Max | Inscribed and signed by the modern William Tell

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October 28, 08:54 PM GMT

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2,000 - 3,000 USD

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Siegfried, Max

Max Siegfried der moderne Tell und Partnerin. Die unübertrossenen Meister moderner Schiesskunst einzig dastehend und unerreicht in Treffsicherheit und Tolkühnheit. Frankfurt: Litho-Kunstanst Block & Schmidt, ca. 1922


Color lithograph poster (36 3/4 x 24 3/4 in.; 933 x 630 mm). Fold and other creases, some marginal tears and chips, a few extending into image, light staining at right margin, rebacked with cloth.


This copy of the poster is inscribed by the Wild West sharpshooter from Germany, "Dem Welt-Artisten-Archiv Erdwin Schirmer … von Kapt. Siegfried im Jarhe (1922)." Schirmer was an acrobat, as well as a lithographer; he had a large collection of posters. 

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