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Sybil Bruncheon has been performing on stage, radio, TV, film, and in various Vaudeville, burlesque, church basement, county fair, and sideshow....uh..."venues" for most of her 29 years. She is available for bookings for just about anything and can be reached at bruncheon@hotmail.com and on her website sybilbruncheon.com. She is a proud member of the Actors Equity Association and the Screen Actors Guild. Her erdo number is 16.

This particular card is part of the Harburton Holiday Greeting Card Collections... This Thanksgiving card was painted by Siglitz Bünter using his own children Kåaren and Biff as models. This is the third in the series showing scenes from a typical Thanksgiving in 1905 America; In card #1 the children welcome their parents and relatives to the barnyard to select a turkey. 2) The unchaperoned children play tricks on the turkey and try to engage it in mischief before it's killed for Mother. 3) The turkey realizes what is about to happen and turns on the children who are out of earshot of the adults. ...and 4) The enraged turkey pecks out the eyes of Kåaren and pushes her down a well. It then tears Biff to pieces and eats some of them while other barnyard animals gather to clap and laugh...

Needless to say, although they were wildly popular at the time, a complete set of the Siglitz Bünter cards is extremely rare to find today. Sotheby's auctioned a complete set in 1998 for $36,000 even though cards 3 and 4 were strangely stained... and stuck together.

(with thanks to Bob Gutowski for the image)

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