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Early Cowboy Real Photo Postcard Group
Estimate:
$400 - $800
Passed
Live Auction
April Exceptional Estates Auction
Category
Description
Group of four RPPC depicting men goofing off in Cowboy costumes. Posed wearing typical Western garb including wooly angora chaps, one card showing two men robbing a gentleman in a bowler hat at gunpoint and showing off their haul of cash and a pocket watch, one of two men in front of a painted background depicting a Rancher's Inn with signs "Do your killin outside this aint no slaugher house", one advertising a $500 reward for an outlaw, and a third saying "Go to the electric studio", another name for a photograph studio at that time. Third postcard shows one man riding a prop fake horse and the other with gun pulled to steal his steed. The fourth shows a young man, gun pulled, posing against a painted backdrop of a rancher's inn wearing large spurs. All three without stamps postmarks ect., one dated on back 1919. Each approx. 3-38" x 5-3/8". This item can be shipped in-house.
Condition
Some fading, discoloration, and marks typical for age. One corner folded but intact. See images for more details on condition.