This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 2/24/2024
[CURIOSITY—MUMMY]. Wonderful Natural Phenomenon. A Specimen of a Negro Man, Preserved by Guano, no Exhibiting in the Victoria Saloon Rooms. Lowgate, Hull: William Stephenson, Printer, Eastern Counties Herald Office, [1845]. Letterpress poster advertising the exhibition of a “human mummy” “brought from the Possession Island, in Elizabeth’s Bay, Southern Africa, forty-two miles south of Ichaboe,…in an entire state of Preservation, after being buried nearly One Hundred Years.” Old manuscript date top right (4 August 1845). 17 x 10 7/8”. Small loss at top left; slight tears and creasing.