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, March 22, 1898, 16pp, disbound, VG. As normal format, this issue has lithographic color centerspread, front & back cover. Gracious centerspread, "Poor Spain" shows a head labeled "Cuban Moloch", which is probably meant to suggest a demonic figure, with its mouth open wide to swallow a flotilla of Spanish ships headed toward Cuba; a frightened young King Alfonso XIII of Spain cowers on a throne in the lower right corner among mounting "Debts", an empty strong box, a broken sword labeled "Spain", orb, scepter, and a tattered Spanish flag. The "Moloch" reaches a hand out, across the ocean, toward the still child-like Alfonso. ...plus, A complete and authentic issue PUCK, June 15, 1898, 16pp, disbound, VG. As normal format, this issue has lithographic color centerspread, front & back cover. Gracious centerspread, "It's got to be sooner or later - and it looks like "sooner", shows Uncle Sam holding the hand of a female figure on a tiny island labeled "Cuba"; she is holding the flag of Cuban independence. Uncle Sam is gesturing to go home toward a ship on which is a defeated pirate wearing a crown and holding a large sword labeled "400 Years of Misrule", the tattered flag of Spain is trailing in the water.
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