TAFT “THE IDOLS/BILLIBOIS” BOXED BILLIKEN FIGURE.
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Winning Bid:
$139.15 (Includes 15% Buyer's Premium)
Bids:
3
Bidding Ended:
Wednesday, March 19, 2014 2:00:00 AM (20 Minute Clock Begins At Wednesday, March 19, 2014 2:00:00 AM)
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Auction:
Auction #211 - Part I
Item numbers 1 through 1196 in auction 211
Value Code:
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Item Description
3.5X5.5X3.25” tall boxed. Paper label on lid with illustration of Taft and Bryan billikens with cherub like expressions and seated with bare feet exposed. Verse on label reads “Two Little Ivory Idols We,/Chock-A-Block With Vote-Get Glee/One’s Fat And Easy, T’other’s Full O’ Noise/Take Your Choice Of The Billibois/Pick Out A Smile And Try To Remember/To Broaden One Grin In Bleak November./Billiboi T and Billiboi B.” Manufactured by “Blackwell-Wielandy Book & Sta. Co./St. Louis/Wholesale Distributors.” Bottom notation “Copyright, 1908, by Amilio Lucchessi.” Box is NM. 4.5” tall painted chalk figure is of unclothed smiling Taft with broad handlebar mustache, hair parted in the middle and big grin. .25x.25” rubs of finish off back of head and buttocks. Bottom of figure is faintly printed “Copyright By Amilio Lucchessi.” NM. Julie Powell Collection.
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