An early 20th century painted metal violin with wooden pegs. 60 cm in length, iron bracket included. In attractive and characterful worn condition, lacking the bridge, with peelings, dents, wear due to age and use.
Advertising brochure with title "Paris de Paree: The Original Albert Alberta Sex Family. The European Enigma." Four pages as folded, 9.5 x 12.5 in. A few folds, but overall very good. Last page with "Albert-Alberta's" autobiographical information. S/he claimed to have been born in 1899 in France and named Alberta at birth. Brought up as a girl, about the age of 10 (plus a few months), the two sides of her body began growing out of proportion, eventually developing male characteristics on the right and female characteristics on the left. There followed four normal siblings, then a young brother, named Albert. At birth a beautiful baby boy (in Alberta's words), but at the age of seven, one breast grew, and at the age of 14, the other breast grew, then later, the neck lengthened and smoothed (changes occurring every seven years according to Alberta). Otherwise, he was a perfectly formed athletic male. They took their show on the road as the "Albert Alberta Sex Family" in the 1930s. Albert-Alberta worked at Coney Island, Hubert's Museum in Times Square, in the Loew's theater circuit - as her publicity touts, "all the major theatrical circuits of United States and Canada." Read More...