Lot 449

"Tom Mix Circus" Promotional Poster & Program

Estimate: $250 - $500

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Included in this lot is a "Tom Mix Circus" Performance Advertisement Window Card wood framed and features a large photo image of Tom Mix w/text reading, "Tom Mix Will Positively Appear! In Person With The Tom Mix Circus One Day Only, Mon. Sept. 13", printed by U.S. Ptg. & Eng. Co. of Kansas City, MO. Also included is a Souvenir Program, "The Life of Tom Mix Illustrated" from the Sells-Floto Circus, 1930. The front cover features an illustrated picture of Mix sitting atop Tony, "the Wonder Horse", the most popular, photographed and recognized horse in the world (at the time before Roy Rogers' horse Trigger) receiving thousands of fan letters from children around the world. Acknowledged "King of Cowboys" when Ronald Reagan and John Wayne were still young (Mix made more than 160 cowboy films throughout the 1920s), Tom Mix was the Silent motion picture "Super Star" of the early twentieth century. A larger than life person throughout his personal life exploits, by the late 1920s his popularity had begun to decline. In 1929 he joined the Sells-Floto Circus as their feature attraction and stayed with them through the 1932 season, after which he made the transition into Sound films ("talkies") from 1932-1935. In 1934 Mix was with the "Sam B. Dill Motorized Circus", then purchased the show to take out his own truck show, the "Tom Mix Circus" through 1938. At its height the show was the largest and most successful circus on the road and made a number of successful tours of Europe. This advertising poster is in fine condition, the red, yellow and black inks are still clear with no seeming fading noted. Professionally framed. Age tanning and foxing are exhibited but do not inhibit the images. The souvenir program is in amazingly good condition, intact pages exhibit age tanning, no foxing noted. The solid wood frame is in good overall condition, scuffing noted to frame edges, no other obvious marring noted. Visible art measures 14"W x 22"L, frame is 18.75"W x 26.75"L x 1.5"D approximately.
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