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Gorgeous Vintage Rosewood Only $69.97 pair In Stock!	Burnt Cork & Melody: A New Minstrel Folio Only $29.97 In Stock!	Al Jolson's Old Time Minstrel Show Only $29.97 In Stock!	Bones: His Gags and Stump Speeches Retail Price $100.00 Sale Price $63.97 You Save $36.03! In Stock!

Vintage bones made from Danish rosewood.	Full minstrel show with dialog, words and music.	Complete folio with words and music.	Minstrel show jokes copyright 1879. Appears unread. Near mint to mint condition.


Tambo: His Jokes and Funny Sayings Retail Price $100.00 Sale Price $63.97 You Save $36.03! In Stock!	Burnt Cork: Or The Amateur Minstrel Retail Price $100.00 Sale Price $63.97 You Save $36.03! In Stock!	Bing Crosby's Minstrel Song Portfolio Only $29.97 In Stock!	Vintage Distressed Rosewood Only $79.97 pair In Stock!

Minstrel show jokes copyright 1882. Appears unread. Near mint to mint condition.	Minstrel show book copyright 1881. Appears unread. Near mint to mint condition.	Minstrel Song Folio inspired by the Paramount Picture, "Dixie."	Vintage distressed rosewood bones.


Vintage Rosewood Bones Only $69.97 pair In Stock!	Grandfather's Vintage Ebony Bones Only $249.97 Full set (2 pairs) In Stock!	Vintage Die-Stamped Rosewood Bones Only $159.97 pair In Stock!	Dan Emmett and the Rise of Negro Minstrelsy, paperback Only $67.97 Paperback In Stock!

Vintage rosewood bones found with old natural rib bones.	Matched set of four vintage ebony bones from 1930s or earlier.	Owned by Frank Fast of Indiana (1892-1963).	The definitive work about Dan Emmett and the early years of the American minstrel era.


Dan Emmett and the Rise of Negro Minstrelsy, hardcover Only $67.97 Hardcover	The Early Minstrel Banjo Only $29.95 each In Stock!	With My Banjo On My Knee, book w/cd Only $19.95 book w/cd In Stock!	Minstrel Banjo (Briggs' Banjo Instructor) Only $12.95 each In Stock!

The definitive work about Dan Emmett and the early years of the American minstrel era.	How to play the minstrel banjo from minstrel players who were part of various 1865 troupes.	Complete with historical notes, original lyrics, musical notation & tablature - plus a compact disc.	Learn to play banjo in authentic antebellum and Civil War minstrel style.


More Minstrel Banjo (Frank Converse's Banjo Instructor) Only $12.95 each In Stock!	A History of The Minstrel Show Only $3.95 each In Stock!	Yes Sir, Mr. Bones! DVD Only $14.97 DVD In Stock!

Learn to play banjo in authentic Civil War and mid-nineteenth century minstrel style.	The real story behind old-time minstrel shows and what they were truly like.	Features Scatman Crothers and legendary bones player Freeman "Brother Bones" Davis. Only known film recording of minstrel man Emmett Miller.