Promotional Table Mallets; Bill Robinson & Cab Calloway

by Cotton Club

$1,500 · Offered by Biblioctopus

New York: ca. 1936-1940. Three original wooden mallets used by patrons to praise performances, each measuring approximately 6.75 inches in length with promotional text printed in black ink on the handles. The green cylindrical mallet reads COTTON CLUB / BWAY AT 48th STREET Circle 7-1000 / BILL ROBINSON & CAB CALLOWAY / AN ALL STAR SEPIAN REVUE ; the pink cylindrical mallet reads COTTON CLUB / BROADWAY & 48TH STREET / HOT SEPIAN REVUE ; and the spherical mallet reads COTTON CLUB /

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