Auction Date:2011 May 11 @ 18:00 (UTC-05:00 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
American showman (1860–1942) who began his career as a trapper and Pawnee interpreter and later became a partner in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show. DS, signed “G. W. Lillie,” one page, 8.25 x 11, January 15, 1912. Agreement between the United States Lithograph Company and “Gordon W. Lillie and W. F. Cody (Buffalo Bill’s W.W. & Pawnee Bill’s F. E.,” to produce promotional posters for the upcoming seasons. Lillie orders 27,000 posters or prints described in the document as “Winter Campaign,” “Interior,” “Cody & Lillie, horseback,” “Indian Princess Cut-Outs,” and “Fox Hunt,” with a total due of $5295.00. Signed at the conclusion by Lillie and also signed by a company representative. Uniform toning, small edge separations along horizontal folds, and embossed seal to lower right, lightly affecting end of signature, otherwise fine condition.
Business circumstances and alliances gave Pawnee Bill the opportunity to purchase the failing show of Buffalo Bill Cody around 1908. Cody was tremendously grateful to his new partner for pulling him out of the financial morass that he had fallen into, and by 1910 began touring with Buffalo Bill’s ‘Farewell Tour’—a marketing stroke of genius that, by 1912, was continuing with more than $5,000 worth of promotional posters and prints advertising the ‘Winter Campaign,’ along with Buffalo Bill, Pawnee Bill, and the Indian Princess.
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