REAL ORIGINAL 40s Broadway stage-used prop The Glass Menagerie,TennesseeWilliams

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A sleek Art Deco small sculpture, this mini Modern art-glass was used on Broadway as a prop in the *original* staging of "The Glass Menagerie" by the great Tennessee Williams.  Fresh to the market, this rare item comes straight from the owner who got it as a friend-gift over 50 years ago from the assistant to the director and star actor, Eddie Dowling.  Said assistant was Peter Vedrinsky, longtime friend of Ed and Terry Ward.  Vedrinsky later  was a Merrick Art Gallery (MAG) principal.  (Through gallery activity, Vedrinsky met Ed and Terry Ward and their lifelong friend, Robert Cariola.  Ed Ward was a watercolor artist who participated in group shows at MAG.  Cariola is a still-active Modern artist who had occasional shows at MAG.)  Terry Ward, wife of Ed, was long known as a hobby-collector of elephant-related items.  Vedrinsky had many items in his own art collection that were used in Broadway shows over the years.  Theatre fans know of 1944-45 "The Glass Menagerie" as the show that made Tennessee Williams' reputation.  Vedrinsky gifted his Broadway-used Glass Menagerie elephant to Terry Ward, who now over 50 years later offers it for sale via her son, also called Terry Ward.  The piece will come with a COA with return-guarantee and with a 1967-dated Vedrinsky-signed handwritten invitation to the Wards to a private preview reception of a show of Cariola art at Merrick Art Gallery.  Authentic documented Broadway props even of today are scarce and collectable;  original and undamaged stage-used props of the CLASSIC OLD BROADWAY era are rare and seldom appear outside of museum collections.