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The lady then gave more information on the individual pieces: “These three are hand carved plates that my uncle carved.

“There was 11 total kids that helped run the printing presses and do the carving of all the plates. Like these faces are faces of my aunts and uncles and family members,” she explained as she gestured over to the clown prints.

“That’s the information I’ve been given about it. I inherited them when my mother passed away in 2006,” the woman concluded.

Nicholas then applied his expertise, saying, “The company printed mostly for circuses that were on the smaller end, so Birnam Brothers. Nobody’s heard of them, but everybody knows Ringling Brothers.

“And all of the posters they did were woodblock prints. And what these were, are progressive colors. They would have been printed on top of each other to make an image like the one you have with red, yellow and blue ink,” Nicholas shared. So these three images combined to make a single clown’s face.”

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Nicholas then revealed some unknown information he had stumbled across about the lady’s items: “It was done for a wild animal exposition, and the poster that I found was for Tex Carson’s wild animal circus, and it was a poster that was printed in Eureka Springs.

“Wow!” the lady replied as Nicholas continued: “It’s in one institution, and online, they say that that circus only operated between 1951 and 1956 so it’s a five year window that we can definitively date.

“So the poster that’s next to you, which is imprinted with the Bentonville imprint, would be from at least 1963, so sometime in the 60s, what your grandfather’s company did was basically create images with blank text boxes on top, so different circuses could buy the image and fill in their own name,” he went on.

Finally, Nicholas got down to the nitty gritty: “So now the question, what are they worth? Let’s start with the poster next to they’re not particularly valuable.

“They’re not for famous circuses. So I found that poster online for the Burnham brothers selling for about $150 but it’s a great poster if you like clowns.”

While the lady’s poster wasn’t a life-changing amount of money, it was a different story for the wood blocks.

“Were these to come up at auction as a set just the wood blocks, not the poster, they’d sell for between $6000 and $9,000.

The lady gasped and almost lost her breath as she exclaimed, “Wow. That’s amazing!” as Nicholas playfully assured her, “And I’m not clowning around.”