| This is a 20-sheet billboard for Christy Bros circa 1925. Very few multi-sheets of this size survive from this era...and I don't believe that this particular poster (printed by Riverside of Milwaukee) was produced in a smaller format. |
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Christy Bros TIGERS 20-sheet (From Chris Berry)
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Chris: I have worked on the advance of eight different circuses with many old time billers and I never heard the term "multi-sheet" used even once.
I believe it was thought up by some late twentieth century poster collector and then other collectors picked it up thinking they were speaking "pure billposter."
It's like saying "full sheet" when they mean "one-sheet."
See ya over ribs and beer?
There is one of these on E-Bay now.
many times, people from different backgrounds and nowadays different generations seem to be using two different languages to describe things. people who aren't in the circus business and younger people who are tend to create new words to call things when there's nothing wrong with the original. i only worked for one circus but we used the same words that dave used. and the older old-timers could be very colorful when someone created a new term for an old word!
Chris,
Many thanks for the color photo of this great old Christy 20 sheet.
I can just imagine this with an 8 sheet date in with many other Christy posters.
I know Riverside was not Strobridge but this is a great looking bill.
Seeing this makes my Thanksgiving alot better and thank yuo for puting it on Buckles Blog for us.
Any of you great photo collectors have any pics of Christy paper posted along with Daley or King Bros????
In Fred Pfenings Bandwagon on his Christy history it was said George had tons of Christy paper for sale cheap. How many shows bought it and used it?????
Happy Thanksgiving one and all.
Harry
Word economy bro...
Call u in the AM to compare skeds. -CB
Hey guys,
I have a complete set of the RBB&B banners from 1952 and I don't know of anybody who would want to purchase these. They are too big for most of us lower middle class people to display in our very small mansions.
Bob Kitto
Right, Bob. Nice to have but what would you do with them? Unfortunately many very nice old historical circus pieces never see the light of day; they're just stacked away somewhere on in a filing cabinet which no one ever opens.
Even museums can only show so much and many items given them are just stored away. One very wise collector cautioned me never to leave anything to the Smithsonian for this reason.
Had an exchange with Flint about my "multi-sheet" comment and I thought of the following interesting situation. The booklets that in my day have always been called "couriers" are almost always listed on eBay as "programs." But the funny thing is that old time billers must have called them programs since they had a guy on the car called a "programmer" who would walk through town, often with a little cart like a Popsicle man, and hand these out.
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