This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 10/28/2023
[AZTECS] [MAXIMO AND BARTOLA (Maximo Valdez Nunez and Bartola Velasquez)]. SMALL ARCHIVE OF THE AZTEC CHILDREN EPHEMERA INCLUDING HANDBILLS, TICKETS, AND CDVS. V.p., ca. 1850s–70s. Including: two cartes de visite of Maximo and Bartola (London Stereoscopic Co.); three letterpress tickets and two small handbills for an exhibition of the Aztecs and Earthmen at Leicester Square; lithographed sheet music, “The Aztec Polka” (London: J. Duncombe) [cover only]; pictorial letterpress ticket, in red, for the Earthmen, or Erdmanniges, at Leicester Square; three handbills; and Life of the Living Aztec Children (wrappers only). One ticket framed and glazed with Plexiglas. See Jay’s Journal, pp. 93-4.