2021-05 Raynors HCA Live
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 5/22/2021
Two Issues, include; A complete and authentic issue PUCK, June 1, 1898, 16pp, disbound, VG. As normal format, this issue has lithographic color centerspread, front & back cover. Gracious centerspread, "The Survival of the Fittest", shows a scene at dueling grounds in a wooded area where a duel has taken place between a tattered buccaneer labeled "Spain" and "Medievalism" and Uncle Sam who is holding a sword labeled "19th century Enlightenment", on the ground between them is a broken sword labeled "Misrule". Two figures, possibly acting as seconds, one labeled "Austria" (Franz Joseph I) and the other representing Germany (William II), are supporting "Spain" between them, and a man carrying a doctor's bag labeled "France" is rushing from behind to attend to the wounded man. John Bull and "Japan" (Meiji) are standing behind Uncle Sam. ... plus, A complete and authentic issue PUCK, June 29, 1898, 16pp, disbound, VG. As normal format, this issue has lithographic color centerspread, front & back cover. Gracious centerspread, "The Next Thing To Go", shows Uncle Sam standing at the top a wall labeled "Prohibitive Tariff" on land labeled "U.S.", looking across a body of water at the "Chinese Wall" being torn down by European and Japanese rulers labeled and caricatured as "France" (Felix Faure), "Germany" (William II), and "Japan" (Meiji), "England (George V), and "Russia" (Nicholas II).
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