Cartoon Art, Posters and Ephemera Auction
9:30 AM SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2009
MERRILL’S AUCTION GALLERY
137 JAMES BROWN DRIVE
WILLISTON,VERMONT
DIRECTIONS:
From Interstate 89 exit 12 proceed north on Rte 2-A towards Essex Jct. for 2.5 miles, turn left by Shell station.
PREVIEW:
Friday, Dec. 3rd from 1:00- 5:00 pm & Saturday, Dec. 5th from 8:00 am until sale time, or by appointment.
We are pleased to present fresh to the market original cartoon art collected by Ford Button of Rochester, NY. Ford Button taught a cartoon art class, & solicited the best American cartoonists to send him examples of their work. Ford Button was a respected cartoonist in his own right, having work published in The Saturday Evening Post, Good Housekeeping, Writer’s Digest, Phi Delta Kappa, etc. We are also pleased to offer a trove of WWII , circus, vaudeville, & advertising posters & calendars, Vt. books, signed first editions, & much more from local institutions & estates. Postcards from the estate of Jack Hamelle of Swanton, Vt., & an extensive library of books removed from a Blue Hill, Me. estate.
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ORIGINAL CARTOON ART:
early 1960’s Charles Shulz “Peanut”s Sunday comic strip-“ That Kite Cost Me 79 Cents…You Can’t Argue With A Kite-Eating Tree”; 3-20-60 Hal Foster “Prince Valiant” Sunday comic strip; 5-4-63 V T Hamlin “Alley Oop” Sunday comic strip; 9-16-65 O. Soglow “Little King” Sunday comic strip; 11-12-? Bob Weber “Moose” Sunday comic strip; 3-6-55 Zack Mosely “Smilin Jack” Daily comic strip inscr to Ford Button w/ letter; 10-25-55 Ernie Bushmiller “Nancy” Daily comic strip inscr to Ford Button; 1956
John Liney “Henry” original art inscr to Ford Button & his cartoon class; 10-10-? Chic Young “Dagwood & Blondie” Daily comic strip; Johnny Hart “B.C.” Daily; Bob Weber “Beetle Bailey”, “Moose” Daily comic strips; 7-7-66 Brant Parker “Wizard of Id” Daily; Frank O’Neal “Short Ribs” Daily; 2 V T Hamlin “Alley Oop” Dailys; original Monthly cartoons by Bob Barnes (27 pcs); Dave Breger (8 pcs); Harry Mace (4 pcs); Geo Kessner (4 pcs); Bill Harrison w/ letter; James Estes w/ letter; J Whitney w/ letter; Dick Cavelli w/ letter; Herb Green; Dave Hirsch; Joe Buresch; Mike Berry w/c; Ted Key w/c; Walt Detterberg (2pcs); Dan Tobin (2 pcs); neat 1966 original cartoon by John Duncan w/ LBJ & HH Humphrey talking about Ford Button; group of Ford Button original cartoons, & letters to Ford Button from various artists;
POSTERS & ADVERTISING:
outstanding full color American Seal Paint 2-sheet adv poster w/ Uncle Sam, Lady Liberty, Eagle & Shield mfg by Wm Conner- Troy, NY (original cloth backed, original rollers); complete set of WWII 1943 Norman Rockwell “Four Freedoms” posters; WWI James Montgomery Flagg Uncle Sam June 28 WSS Enlistment poster; WWI Beat Back the Hun With Liberty Bonds poster; WWI Today Buy That Liberty Bond; WWI You- Buy A Liberty Bond! w/ Angry Statue of Liberty; WWI Sure, We’ll Finish the Job- Victory Liberty Loan w/ Farmer; WWI Cardinal Mercier Appeal for Food; WWII War Bond posters, Secrecy posters, United Nations posters, Become a Nurse posters, Patriotic posters, Propaganda posters, Food posters; 3 Norman Rockwell BSA posters; 5 Sat Eve Post posters; 2 Church & Dwight bird posters; 1950’s Travel posters- Stockholm, Sweden, Rome, Chartres; Pin-Up calendar girls by Vargas, Elvgren; Jimmie Evans Revue- Park Theatre-Barre, Vt; The Great Heaney- Famous Master Magician; The Blue Bird- Russian Revue poster; Jesse Weldon-St Albans, Vt 10 cent cigar; Dartmouth Football poster; DeLaval Cream Separator; Sharples Cream Separator; Smith & Tillotson Western Horses & Automobiles; Visit Our Toy Dept; Zan-Z-Lac Enamel for Porch & Lawn Furniture; 1923 Eaton’s $1000 contest poster; Scribner’s, Bookman, Century Magazine pre-publication posters; 1943-54 Dionne Quintuplets adv calendars (12 pcs- Amherst Lumber Co- missing 1950);
BROADSIDES & CIRCUS POSTERS:
cache of Shaw-Morris Vaudeville Show posters (multiples, seven different); Cat & the Canary
(theatrical); Little Red Riding Hood (theatrical); Clyde Beatty Circus posters; Hoxie Bros Circus poster boards; June 25, 1887 Burlington, Vt Sports & Games broadside sponsored by the St John Baptiste Society; 1901 Burlington, Vt Excursion- Rutland RR- to Islands of Lake Champlain;1905 Baseball broadside- South Park, Burlington- Dorn’s Venetians vs National Bread; 1930 Champlain Border Hawks- Call for Baseball broadside; 2 Rainbow Brand Fireworks color broadsides; White’s Golden Tonic broadside; Vt Auction broadside;
BOOKS:
1833 Josiah Priest- American Antiquities Discoveries in the West; 1835 Wm Jay- American Colonization & American Anti-Slavery Societies; 1843 Historical Collections State of Pa; 1854 Sketches of Mission Life Among the Indians of Oregon; 1859 G S Rowe- My Life Among the Cannibals or the Life of John Hunt; 1860 Capt Reid- The Young Voyageurs or the Boy Hunters in the North; 1860 Coolidge & Mansfield Hist & Descr. of NE; 1860 quarto Turner Gallery (full calf); 1866 Headley- The Great Rebellion; 1876 G Lippard- Quaker City (Philadelphia); 1906 Landsdale- Chateaux ofTouraine illus by Guerin; 1907 Maj Genl Howard- Life & Experiences Among Our Hostile Indians; 1908 Book of the Pearl; 1915 Hanotaux- Histoire Illustree de la Guerre De 1914; 1923 Wildflowers of NY; 1927 Birds of Massachusetts; 1929 Lowell Thomas- The Sea Devil’s Foc’sle signed by Count Felix Von Luckner; 1931 Sinclair Lewis letter & books; 1931 Ernest Wilson- If I Were To Make A Garden; 1933 Poe- Tales of Mystery & Imagination illus by Harry Clarke; 1935 Clare Leighton- 4 Hedges (one author signed); 1935 Peter Scott- Morning Flight (ltd, #d, signed); 1938 Peter Scott- Wild Chorus (ltd, #d, signed); 1939 Van Campen Heilner- Book on Duck Shooting (one author inscr); 1941 Van Campen Heilner- Our American Game Birds; 1947 Connet- Duck Shooting illus by Lynn Bogue Hunt; 1980 Caryl Seidenberg- Operation Rescue w/ colored prints; signed, ltd, & #d books incl: Eugene O Neil- Mourning Becomes Electra, John Galsworthy- A Modern Comedy, Eugene Field- With Trumpet & Drum, Rhys Davies- Arfan, Donn Berne- Crusader, M DeWolfe Howe- Barrett Wedell; many first editions; sev Gustave Dore Illus books incl Oeurves de Rabelais (2 vol), Rime of the Ancient Mariner, etc; Pinocchio illus by Mussino; sev books illu by Lynd Ward; Mysticism by Emma Curtis Hopkins (12 vols w/ Resume- 7th ed); Gabriel Favre- Gardens of Rome; 47 Heritage Press Editions of literature & classics; books on Gardens, Trains, Civil War, American Foreign & Domestic Policy, Telephones, Art Reference, Rifles & Shooting; Travel; children’s illus books;
SETS OF BOOKS:
1907 Works of Jon Ruskin- ed Cook & Wedderburn (39 vols) ltd w/ color plates; 1905 Francis Parkman’s Works- Frontenac Edition (17 vols); 1887 George Elliot’s Works- (12 vols) ltd, #d; 1843 Charles Dickens (12 vols); Prescott’s Works –Crowell (12 vols); 1922 O.Henry (12 vols);
VERMONT BOOKS:
1798 Josiah Fay- Rutland-Laws of Vt; 1814 (Vergennes Vt imprint) The Female American, or the Extraordinary Life of Unca Eliza Wakefield; 1824 Memoir Rev Levi Parsons; 1869 pamphlet John Ward
(Williston, Vt. Murdrer); 1869 Abbie Marie Hemenway – Vt Hist Gazeteer Vol I, 1871 Vol II; 1882-3 Child’s Chittenden Co Directory; collection of Vt RR books by Robt C Jones; 1902 Dufur- Over the Dead Line or Tracked by Bloodhounds;
NEWSPAPERS & MAGAZINES:
1861- 1865 Harper’s Weekly (loose in boards); 1861 Rutland Herald (Vt- 24 issues); 1930’s Harper’s Bazaar; lg group of magazine adv pages; Vt Life mags; UVM Alumni mags;
MAPS & ATLASES:
1828 Timothy Ensign Map of the US; 1833 J Johnson Village of Burlington, Vt. (Endicott); 1855 Dr Butler’s Atlas of Ancient Geography; 1865 & 1867 (2 pcs) Johnson’s New Illus Family Atlas of the World; Beers Addison Co, Caledonia Co, & Rutland Co Atlases; 1827 Bible Atlas (h/c);
PRINTS:
C&I- Bridge at the Outlet- Memphramagog (Vt); C&I Gen. Chester A Arthur (Vt); 1981 Catharine Robb Whyte & Peter Whyte color portfolio; famous artist portfolios;
PHOTOGRAPHS:
lg 1895 photo collage Burlington Fire Dept showing Fire Stations & Horse-drawn equipment; 1880’s cabinet photos of Boston & Maine train wreck by Fairbanks- Fitchburg, Ma; Morton- Underhill, Vt sawmill/ lumber yard cabinet photo; 1905, 1906 KUA baseball team photos; 1929 BHS girl’s basketball team photo; Sherman’s Military Band- Burlington photo; stereopticon cards & viewer; William H Crane signed vaudeville photo; JFK signed photo w/ White House letter; Spiro
Agnew signed photo; Gov Tom Salmon signed photo; 1940’s Burlington photos by McCallister; WWII bomber photos; oversized TV Guide cover photos;
POSTCARDS, ALBUMS, & SCRAPBOOKS:
collection of Burlington, Vt postcards; coll of Vt town postcards; coll of signed artist cards incl Brundage, Clapsaddle; real photo Int Harvester auto wagon; occasion cards incl Halloween; sev mixed
postcard albums; lg group of travel postcard albums; 1917 United States Military Academy (West Point) scrap book; Wilbur & Orville Wright signed bicycle & airplane postcards;
HAND-WRITTEN & HAND-DRAWN:
rare 1769-1775 Weathersfield, Vt (2 pgs) – from Caleb Munson’s book involving
weaving, oxen, framing, etc- names incl C Phelps, D Cook, A Frances, J Frances, H Hills, J Munson, C Munson, J Kittle (Kittel), S Celtrick, _ Norton; 1810 Milton, Vt h/c true copy of the Plan for the Township of Hyde’s Park, Vt ( Jedadiah Hyde Jr & Stephen Mears JOP); May 28, 1860 letter from Samuel Houston; 1850’s, 1860’s Vt. Writs & Sherriff’s Warrants; 1850’s remembrance book;
EPHEMERA:
large group of Vt IOOF books, ledgers, medals,& regalia; 1881 Louisiana State Lottery tickets, letters, broadsides; over-sized 9” Dewey/ Warren campaign pin; Dixie Cup lid collection- movie stars incl cowboys; Captain Marvel Buzz Bomb- 10 cents, Captain Marvel, Jr Ski Jump Action Toy- 10 cents- both complete in envelopes; ca 1926 Wallace Nutting period Furniture catalogue, & Early American Iron catalogue, w/ price list & invitation to Studio showroom; Vt sheet music; other interesting sheet music;
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