Lot 270
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March 18, 2018
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270 •(SALESMAN SAMPLE SUITCASE--HEADSTONES)
A complete door-to-door gravestone salesman's leather briefcase, containing 46 large format photographs, and 6 granite slab samples.
With images illustrating the various headstone styles, pictorial designs, and lettering on offer by Jones Monumental Works of St. Cloud, Minnesota. Silver prints, the images measuring 11x14 inches (27.9x35.6 cm.), nearly all with heavy airbrush retouching and detailing, in the negative, and with pricing notations, in pencil, on verso. 1940s
WITH--Various ephemera relating to the company, including typed order inquiries, contracts, and letterheads.
[1,200/1,800]
