The Allen Koenigsberg Phonograph Collection
Lot 3533:
Description
An exceptional pair of turn-of-the-century paper ephemera items celebrating early industrial technology, entertainment, and advertising history. The collection features an 1894 Victorian chromolithograph advertising trade card for Hub Gore Makers of Boston, Massachusetts, brilliantly illustrating “Uncle Sam, The Wonderful Edison Talking Automaton at World’s Fair,” celebrating the company’s award at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago, backed by a detailed, graphics-heavy “Insurance Certificate” for Congress Shoes. Accompanying the trade card is an early German “Postkarte” from Schweinfurt, postmarked and addressed to Berlin, showcasing a bustling outdoor fairground centered around a “Kinematograph” exhibition building, capturing the foundational era of early motion picture cinema. Both pieces are printed on period-correct cardstock. In terms of condition, the Kinematograph postcard exhibits significant edge wear, moderate rounding, and minor paper loss at the upper left and right corners, alongside historical handwritten ink correspondence and a partial postal stamp on the reverse. The Hub Gore trade card remains structurally sound with minor edge toning and very light corner bumping. H 3.5″, W 5.5″, D 0.01″. From the Allan Koenigsberg collection.
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