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Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Combined Circus / The Great Aloys. Erie Litho Co., 1938. Color lithograph panel poster of Aloys, “who culminates his startling series of breathtaking aerial feats with a frightful drop through space with his head in a hangman's noose!" 51 ½ x 17 3/8". Mounted on Masonite. Heavily worn, losses, soiled at bottom; sold as-is. Aloys Peters, billed as “the man who hangs himself and lives to tell the tale," died in 1943 while performing this stunt in front of 5,500 spectators.