Bidspirit auction | A Collection of Four Framed

A Collection of Four Framed Black Americana Prints and Postcards including Buzza Motto and E.C. Kropp - This collection of four framed ephemera items features early 20th-century Black Americana illustrations and mottos. The first item is a color postcard published by the E.C. Kropp Company of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, depicting a child with blue hair bows and a pink fan with the caption Honey, I'se Waitin' Fo' You Here. It bears the publisher mark and the designation C75. The second item is a monochrome miniature print titled The Shades of Night, showing two men in formal attire with top hats and monocles. The third item is a sepia-toned illustrated print with a 1924 copyright mark, featuring two vignettes of a child's face with the phonetic dialect text Laff an eve'body Laff wid yo' Cry an yo' criez all by yo'sef. The fourth item is a color illustrated motto print published by Buzza Motto and dated 1925, signed in the plate by artist G.B. Salisbury. This print depicts a child sitting on a watermelon with an eight-line poem in phonetic dialect. Three items are housed in modern black plastic frames with easel backs, while the Buzza Motto is held in a vintage-style decorative metal and wood frame with a paper-sealed back. Item 1 Frame: 4.5 x 6.5 inches Item 2 Frame: 4.25 x 5.25 inches Item 3 Frame: 7.5 x 5.5 inches Item 4 Frame: 6.25 x 8.25 inches. Pickup is Wednesday, April 22 from 10 am to 3 pm at our gallery in Lancaster, Ohio 43130 or we will provide in-house shipping for this item. We will charge a $5 fee if you want to pick this lot up another day. Once packed up we will send you an invoice for shipping & handling. Shipping questions: shipping@burnsbid.com. Sales tax is collected on this auction.