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1920rif. List2734Unknown location 1920. Approximately 10 x 13 inches. Some tears and chips at edges very good contrast editorial overpainting on recto overall very good. Marks on verso reading “Julian Eltinge Hippodrome March 12”. Very good. Julian Eltinge 1881/1883–1941 was an American actor and “female impersonator”—in today’s terms a drag performer—from Newtonville Massachusetts. Eltinge’s drag career began at age ten and by the early 1900s he was touring internationally performing a vaudeville act wherein the “audience was completely deceived as to Eltinge’s sex until he removed his wig”1. This portrait shows Eltinge seated in costume. On the reverse is written “Julian Eltinge Hippodrome March 12” and the front is signed “Herold Brown” this signature does not appear to belong to commercial photographer Harold M. Brown. A stamp is legible that dates the photograph to the 1920s though the exact year is not legible. Eltinge has been described as “without question the most famous female impersonator of all time” ibid. 1 Slide Anthony “Julian Eltinge” in The Vaudevillians: A Dictionary of Vaudeville Performers Westport Connecticut: Arlington House 1981 46. unknown
1995rif. 021719Silver Lake CA: VDragstrip 66 Publisher 1995. Unbound. Near Fine. Single sheet 5 ½ by 4 inches. Pink paper stock. Promo for Dragstrip 66 a LGBTQ club founded in 1993 and known for its embrace of the alternative and punk scene as well as drag. Founded by Paul Vitagliano and his friend Mr. Dan the bar focused on drag when it was still an outlier even within the gay community. Part of their strategy was to adopt an underground punk edge to drag where everything from booger drag to its glamorous counterparts were welcome. The club closed in 2013 and reopened again in 2023. see LA ist online article for previous history and information. An advertisement for an S&M Valentine's Ball suggesting people "Butch it up sweethearts with any leather latex or bondage gear!" Reverse of the leaflet advertises the Plush Life "LA's Only Weekly Sitcom Serial Soap Opera!" NEAR FINE with light edgewear. VDragstrip 66, Publisher unknown
rif. 15667Letter: Tredegar Monmouthshire Wales. 12 July 1844. Copy agreement: 29 October 1841. Copy agreement: 2pp. 4to. Letter: 1p. 4to. The two on a single bifolium with the agreement on both sides of the first leaf and the letter on the recto of the second. The reverse of the second leaf is addressed with Penny Red stamp and Newport and Tredegar postmarks to 'Henry Mostyn Esq Solr Usk'. In good condition lightly aged and worn. The agreement begins: 'Mrs Williams to let to Mr Powell and Mr William Protheroe her Coal under lands at Pen y Van Bedwellty whilst any Marketable Coal remains unworked paying 1s/- Royalty 2520 lbs to the ton weighed at Court y bella or any other public machine. . Mr Powell and Mr William Protheroe are to work the Coal belonging to Sir H. Protheroe's representatives under the undivided lands held by them with Mrs Williams as well as some other adjoining lands.' Other topics include the 'Usual covenants' 'Way leave' 'rubbish room'. In the letter signed 'R. Waters' Waters explains that he is sending 'a copy of the agreement which was entered into by Mrs. Lawrence & Messrs. Powell & Protheroe as the basis or instruction for the Coal Lease entered into between the parties'. While conceding that the agreement 'was not signed by Mrs. Lawrence' Waters explains that it was made 'with her sanction & approval & in the presence of all the parties interested therein.' Bedwellty Pits coal mine was sunk in 1850 by the Tredegar Iron & Coal Co. Letter: Tredegar [Monmouthshire, Wales]. 12 July 1844. Copy agreement: 29 October 1841. unknown
rif. 24185No date or place. Royal Military College Sandhurst; late 1880s. The present item is excessively scarce: there is no record of it on either OCLC WorldCat or JISC. The Staff College Drag Hunt at the Royal Military College Sandhurst was established in 1869 as a private pack which drag-hunted twice a week in the area surrounding Camberley and after more than a hundred and fifty years the hunt still rides. 1p 12mo. Text enclosed in rules with decorative corners. In fair condition lightly worn and spotted with traces of stub and mounting on blank reverse. Titled: ‘The Staff College Drag Hunt Song. / By Major M. Churchill 2/Northampton Regiment / Master S.C.D.H. 1885-86 / Music from Mr. F. Cotton’s “Forty Minutes.” ’ Seven numbered four-line stanzas and the following chorus: ‘Then let us drink drag-hunting boys and pass the bottle round / Drink to the horse the fox of course a bumper to the hound; / And let us toast our farmers as a right good jolly sort / When you haven’t time for hunting then the Drag is rattling sport.’ First stanza: ‘The gallant steed by nature made companion for the hound / Will give us great enjoyment as o’er the fields we bound; / There’s nothing like fox-hunting and some might say the stag / But when you can’t get either then there’s nothing like the Drag.’ The fourth stanza notes that ‘many a Staff aspirant has saluted mother earth’. There are also references to the Staff College Tangley Park and Easthampstead Park. The final stanza gives a toast to ‘our Secretary’s health’ as ‘He’s the proper sort of fellow to instruct the R. M. C.’ See image No date or place. [Royal Military College, Sandhurst; late 1880s.] unknown
rif. 13865'Royal Pier Hotel Ryde July 25th 1842.' 'Office of the Proprietor No. 22 Church Street Soho London' amended in manuscript to '138 Holborn Bars'. Text: 2pp. foolscap 8vo 35 x 20.5cm. Engraving: 12 x 16cm with corners clipped. Both items in fair condition on aged paper. The text is cropped at the head through a royal crest and has rounded corners at the head and trimmed corners at the foot. The engraving has traces of grey paper mount on reverse. The text has lithograph illustrations of two side-views of four-wheel carriages with the drag applied beneath the cropped crest and above the title 'WRIGHT'S PATENT DRAG.' Text consists of around 60 lines in copperplate. After explaining 'the great benefit obtained by unskidding the wheel before reaching the bottom of a hill' it gives 'Directions for use' referring to the accompanying engraving. 'It can be applied without regard to the pace in case of accident and may be accomplished by a child ten years of age.' Text ends with four testimonials: first from George Rendall William Lambert Coachman and John Whittington Coach Builder proprietors of 'the Rocket Coach running daily from Newport to this place Ryde and Ventnor'; second from the 'Mining Journal Railway & Commercial Gazette'; third from the 'United Service Gazette; fourth from the 'Sporting Review' 'Much trouble is saved and no little time consequently gained when Carriages are descending hills by the adoption of Wright's Patent Drag; an invention which we pronounce to be "all Wright and no mistake!"'. The engraving is a side-view of a four-wheel carriage with royal crest and 'VR' for 'Victoria Regina' on the side. Captioned at foot: 'WRIGHT'S PATENT DRAG.' From the archive of William Silk b.1824 coachbuilder of the firm Silk & Sons Long Acre London. Scarce: no copies traced on COPAC or OCLC WorldCat. 'Royal Pier Hotel, Ryde, | July 25th, 1842.' ['Office of the Proprietor, No. 22 Church Street, Soho, London' , amended in manusc unknown
1981rif. 2111902160604795Shueisha 1981. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Shueisha paperback
