Wednesday, September 28, 2016

#1 Circus World


9 comments:

Chic Silber said...


This great Roland Butler

leaping tiger has been

used in countless formats

over the years including

other show's paper

Chic Silber said...


Of my very favorite Feld

Christmas gifts is this

tiger on a framed mirror

4pawfan said...

First drawn by Charles Livingston Bull. p.j.

Richard Reynolds said...

Bull did this first around 1915.

Chic Silber said...


Who & when was he P J

Did he work for Butler

Chic Silber said...


A friend looked him up

He was a taxidermist &

prominent illustrator

mostly in paintings of

wildlife The tiger was

commissioned by RB in

1920 Bull died in 32

4pawfan said...

Hello Chic,

This was first drawn in 1914 and printed by the Strobridge Lithographing Company in 1915 and used continuously to 1928 by Ringling.
You can look in Jack Rennart's book "100 years of Circus Posters" (1974) which our mutual friend Harold Dunn helped a great deal with in putting together. The lithos that Rennart used in his book that belonged to Harold had been stored in your fortress. Also, another fine article regarding lithos can be found by going on line and doing a google search of "Ethical Considerations for the Conservation of Circus Posters" by Neil C. Cockerline. (May 1995) p.j.

Unknown said...

I have this on a belt buckle.

Chic Silber said...


Thanks P J I'm gonna

go pummel my friend

who "looked it up"

Can't trust anybody

Interesting that the

copyright didn't seem

to protect it