May your day be filled with good food, good friends, and an understanding of what it is all about!
Sunday, May 30, 2010
Saturday, May 29, 2010
Barnett Bros. Circus
To go with Buckles set today, is this neat stand of Barnett paper over the top of the World of Mirth Shows. You should be able to double click the photo to make it larger.
Thursday, May 27, 2010
Posters for Sale
This is a half sheet with the date tag. You can see the Billposters union stamp on the right hand side.
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Posters for Sale
This picture is actually the top half of the three sheet poster.
Here are just a few more of the posters that I will be offering for sale on eBay over the next few weeks.
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Posters for Sale
This is just a smattering of some of the posters I need to sell. My Dad had rolls and rolls of posters and then a stack of flat ones. It appears that the flat ones were the cream of the crop with some of them being linen backed already. This one is. The barn still has one pony sized parade wagon, a 40' ring curb, my uncles table rock tables, the banners and bannerline poles, 3 aluminum poles, A 30' Anchor tent frame, some harness, block & tackles and gosh knows what all else. I live 650 miles from my folks. I don't have a barn or storage facilities. Sadly, something has to go. So I'll be moving a lot of this on eBay ( http://shop.ebay.com/merchant/tigeract ) and on my website at ( http://www.thecircusworld.com )
Posters for Sale
This was apparently pulled out before the printing process was finished. There is a full color Otto to go with this. I'll probably offer them together.
Posters for Sale
This has already been linen backed. This poster utilizes photo images rather than artwork.
Friday, May 21, 2010
Water for Elephants
Here's a few pictures that Dick Dykes had on his blog of the Water for Elephants movie being made in Fillmore, California.
Water for Elephants
From left to right is the Italian band Chariot, # 73 is not identifiable from this photo as 73 was the RBBB Hippo wagon, Next is one of the corporation three arch cages, baggage wagon and the # 2 Hagenbeck-Wallace generator wagon. They are all from the Circus World Museum collection.
Water for Elephants
You can see the top of the Sells-Floto Ticket wagon and the muffler of the #2 Hagenbeck-Wallace Generator plus a baggage wagon in between from the Circus World Museum.
Beggs Wagon Co.
Should you have inquired ith the Beggs Wagon Co., here are a couple letterheads they would have used to respond back to you with.
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Beggs Wagon Co.
The Beggs Wagon Co. out of Kansas City, Missouri was a leading manufacturer of circus wagons for many years. They even created a catalogue of their work. An original is now being offered on eBay for almost $500.00. This catalogue is a reproduction issued in 1973 with all the great images and information in tact. This is the Front Cover.
