Lot 005 - Vintage Shrunken Head Gaff Tourist Souvenir, Sculpted from Animal Hide, 3-3/4" H

Lot 005 - Vintage Shrunken Head Gaff Tourist Souvenir, Sculpted from Animal Hide, 3-3/4" HVintage shrunken head gaff constructed from animal hide, made as a tourist souvenir item. The head is sculpted with modeled facial features including a nose, lips, brow ridges, and ears, with sparse hair remaining at the temples, chin, and crown. The back of the head shows a vertical seam of gathered and folded hide stitched together along the centerline. This is not an authentic tsantsa but a novelty item. The hide is dried and rigid with an overall

The other has a thin metal pipe extending from the boy's backside

There is significant paint loss

staining on covers

This grouping of nine antique valentine and holiday postcards features a variety of early 20th-century designs

One ram head ornament is slightly loose

His occupation is listed as bookkeeper

typewritten letter-sized pages folded in half and collected in a paper folder

The sign shows creasing

The photographs show overall fading and toning consistent with age

Production sequence numbering is visible on multiple pieces

Grouping of seventeen vintage glossy black-and-white photographs documenting retail window displays at a Liggett’s Rexall drug store

bound in dark green cloth with gilt lettering and a photographic portrait of Roosevelt mounted to the front cover