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Your support makes all the difference.The intrepid Madame Morelli, "Queen of Jaguars", might well say: "I can get that kind of thing at home". Dressed in white (as befits a near-death experience), she is shown surrounded by her big cats in a fantasy drawing of her sitting room that appears on a 29in by 42in poster lithographed in 1900 for an American circus, Frank C Bostock's Great Animal Arena. It is offered at pounds 2,000 by Allie Barnicoat, who began trading in posters that qualify as art rather than ephemera last August. She is advised by her husband, John, author of Posters: A Concise History, re-issued by Thames and Hudson last year at pounds 6.95. Posters for Collectors, 3, Ashlone Road, Putney, London SW15 (0181-788 8348).
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