TEDDY ROOSEVELT AND BLACK CARTOON CHARACTER "ASA SPADES" ORIGINAL DAILY STRIP ART.
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Starting Bid:
$230.00
(Includes 15% Buyer's Premium)
Bidding Ended:
Thursday, September 27, 2007 1:00:00 PM (20 Minute Clock Begins At Thursday, September 27, 2007 1:00:00 PM)
Auction:
Auction 192 - Part II
Item numbers 1053 though 2638 in auction 192
Item Description
5.5x22" pen and ink on artist's thin cardstock sheet signed by the Boston Globe's great cartoonist Wallace Goldsmith, undated but used during TR's 1912 Bull Moose campaign. Trivial margin tanning and a few pinholes on upper margin above artist-penciled title of "Mr. Asa Spades Is Elected." First panel Asa, whose text cartoon balloons are in black dialect throughout, says "Howdy Cunnl? Yo Sho Is Havin A Gran Fight!" The stick figure of TR and Rough Rider's hat replies in two panels: "I Haven't Begun To Fight Yet Asa, But As My History Has Been Brought Up To Date I Shall Disappear From My Usual Place In The Globe--And You Have Been Elected To Fill The Space I Leave Vacant." This extra public scrutiny and the increased "Accidens'" that will befall him each week causes Asa to rush to buy life insurance. After he is rejected, he implores "Misto An Missus Globe Readah" for suggestions about "stunts" that might come his way in the future. VF and unique.
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