Rare Autographs, Manuscripts and Aviation Auction
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Original Drawing of a Chicken swallowing tennis balls, irate spectator. “Three down and one to go”. LIFE MAGAZINE, May 15, 1891. Pen and ink. 10.5 “ x 19”. Signed by “C.D. Gibson” in the left center under fence.. “Jimmy Walker’(Mayor of New York written on back. Purchased from Illustration House. “His earliest known cartoon.” Walt Reed)
CHARLES DANA GIBSON(Earliest Known Cartoon)
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