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Yankee Robinson's Big Show Circus Tokens (116500)

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Carnival & Circus Memorabilia Start Price:100.00 USD Estimated At:200.00 - 500.00 USD
Yankee Robinson's Big Show Circus Tokens  (116500)
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Lot of two: 1) Obv.: Yankee Robinson / (portrait) Rev.: Yankee Robinsons / Present / Future / 1869 / Triad / Past / Big Show; Br. rd., 19 mm. 2) Counterstamped seated liberty half dollar: "Free Ticket To / Yankee / Robinsons / Quadruple - Show." Date appears to be 1843. Fayette Lodawick Robinson was born on May 2, 1818, in Livingston County, New York. While a teenaged student in his native town, he made his first stage appearance in a school play, in the role of Jonathan Doolittle in A Yankee in England. This may have inspired his nickname. He went on to live his life on the stage and under the circus tent, in the 1850s and 1860s achieving great fame amid making money one year and losing it in the next.

Provenance: John Reynolds Collection
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