Raynor HCA 2013-07
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 7/18/2013
Bound Volume of 40 Issues of Punchinello, New York, Volume 1 - Number 1, April 2, 1870 through Volume II - Number 39, December 24, 1870. Each issue is highly illustrated, 16pp., and contains one full page political engraving which is printed on one side only. The binding remains tight with only an occasional loose page, not tears, near fine. Although there are engravings throughout, we will list only a few of the full page, printed one side engravings. The most important is April 23, 1870, 16pp., 9” x 13.” An exceptionally strong political illustration regarding the 15th amendment. “The Great National Game,” with caption “Our colored brother, Hi Yah! Stan’ back dar; it’s dis chile’s innin’s now.” In baseball theme, a depiction of a black man as batter, the 15th amendment as the bat, the 41st congress as his belt, women on deck holding the 16th amendment bat, and congress in the out field. The Fifteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution provides that governments in the United States may not prevent a citizen from voting based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude (slavery), ratified on February 3, 1870. Women did not gain their voting rights until 1920, the Nineteenth Amendment. ... May 14, 1870 “The Finacial Inquisition” shows Uncle Sam laying on the ground with a large board on him. There are 5 weights “Income Taxs” being put upon him.... and another income tax cartoon, June 25, 1870, “Blood Money.” “how is Uncle Sam’s Income Pulse ... Very Very low. We have bled him pretty freely ...” July 9, 1870, “The Wedding Ring Again,” shows a woman chained to the wall while tending to the baby, her baking and her husband who is reading “The Rights of Man.” And this 1/2 page engraving deserves notation, “What we may expect in our Army of the Future,” shows a black officer dancing with a white woman. Punchinello was a short-lived American satirical magazine inspired by the English publication Punch. It ran in weekly editions from 2 April 1870 to 24 December 1870, thus this volume is the COMPLETE run of this title. The magazine's main illustrator was Henry Louis Stephens, who produced the full-page engraved cartoon every week. The magazine was founded by former editors of Vanity Fair, which went out of business in 1863. They found four investors willing to provide $5000 each, though they did not disclose that those four were robber baron Jay Gould, financial buccaneer Jim Fisk, and corrupt politicians Boss Tweed and Peter B. Sweeny.
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