BRYAN "OCTOPUS" 1900 POSTER PREVIOUSLY UNKNOWN VERSION IN B/W WITH DIFFERENT PORTRAIT.
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Winning Bid:
$1,103.30
(Includes 18% Buyer's Premium)
Bidding Ended:
Tuesday, March 13, 2018 10:00:00 PM (20 Minute Clock Begins At Tuesday, March 13, 2018 10:00:00 PM)
Item Description
The multi-color stone litho version of this poster is an iconic exemplar of the golden age of political poster design with undamaged examples valued in the $5,000 range. Here is a previously unknown version in black and white which has all the same intricate detail but a different photo of Bryan whose eyes "follow" the viewer. Here is how the two posters compare and contrast. The color poster is about 19.5 x 29.5" without margins. The b/w poster is 20 x 28" with wide margins and a design area of 14.25x21.75. Both versions include bottom text "Copyright 1900/Neville Williams/Columbus, Ohio". The color version, a stone litho, does not have a dot screen and has a tiny text credit "The Strobridge Litho. Co. Cin. O." The b/w version has a dot screen over the entire image and the Strobridge credit is not present. The other major distinction is that on the color poster Bryan's image is facing left from the viewer's perspective while on the b/w version a different photo was used. His shoulders are slightly angled but his head is turned to look directly at the viewer and his eyes "follow" and stare at the viewer even as the viewer moves left or right. The poster is on medium weight coated stock consistent with the era. Upper left margin has .5 x 1" oval tan mark, darker on the reverse but barely noticeable on the front along the slightest traces of tan tone scattered across the top margin. The margins, primarily top and bottom, have numerous but very fine, faint and short vertical hairline handling creases. The right margin has a mid-point .5" hairline edge tear with tiny archival tape repair on reverse. Across the reverse top margin is a 7/16" deep strip of white paper tape used when the poster was framed some 20 years ago after discovery by an APIC member near Columbus, Ohio. The poster was never folded. From the slogans "No Crown of Thorns/No Crown of Gold" to the great graphics of liberated Cubans and Filipinos saluting the Statue of Liberty and the female figure wielding her "Democracy" hatchet to severe the tentacles of the "Trusts" octopus, this poster is a spectacular rarity and possibly the unique surviving example. VF.
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