Lot 1432
  • 1432

COCA-COLA'S 'LILLIAN NORDICA'

Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 USD
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Description

  • Lillian Nordica
  • Lithographed paper on canvas windowshade
  • 48 by 25 1/4 in.
Printed circa 1904.

Provenance

Schmidt Museum of Coca-Cola Memorabilia, Elizabethtown, Kentucky

Condition

appears to be in excellent condition; with some small cracking above the Coca-Cola logo, and small losses to the extreme edge
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Catalogue Note

Lillian Nordica was a famed opera singer, born in Farmington, Maine in December of 1857.  She debuted in La Traviata in Italy and made her American debut at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City in 1887.  She was one of the first celebrity endorsers for the Coca Cola Company.