The Allen Koenigsberg Phonograph Collection
Lot 3052:
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A collection of four “Pore Lil Mose” color newsprint comic strips, created by Richard Felton Outcault for the New York Herald in the early 1900s, featuring two copies of “He Has a Touch of Home Sickness” and two copies of “He Calls on Edison.”They are housed in four distinct preservation formats: one is professionally matted and shrink-wrapped, one is in a standard black commercial frame, one is inside a rigid plastic protective sleeve, and the final piece rests in a flexible plastic sleeve with a perforated binder strip. Objectively assessing the physical condition, the newsprint demonstrates expected age toning, edge wear, minor creasing, and sporadic staining; the loose copy in the binder sleeve shows more severe tattering, chipping, and a significant section missing along the bottom-left edge. H 10.25″, W 14.25″, D 0.5”. Please see photos for condition. Before he became the legendary “father of the modern comic strip,” Richard Felton Outcault began his professional career working directly for Thomas Edison. In 1888 Outcault was hired by Edison Laboratories to paint electric light displays for Cincinnati’s Centennial Exposition. Edison was highly impressed by his talent and hired him full-time at his Orange NJ lab where he created official mechanical drawings and schematics. For the 1889 Paris Exposition Edison appointed him the “official exhibition artist”. Outcault was sent to Paris, France where he supervised Edison’s massive tech exhibitsand displays at the Exposition Universelle. From the Allen Koenigsberg collection.
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