The Oz Enthusiast

After their breakout success in the 1903 Broadway production of The Wizard of Oz , David Montgomery and Fred Stone starred in a string of su...

Last week I featured two 1903 Oz costume designs that I found in a group of drawings by designer Caroline Siedle. They were clearly identif...

As a collector, I find it's the unexpected discoveries that tend to be the most memorable. Last month I stumbled across a listing in an ...

Here's another postcard relating to the stage producion of The Wizard of Oz, complete with a little portrait of the Scarecrow! This tim...

It’s always amusing to run across an unsolicited comment about a show - whether favorable or not! I picked up a postcard recently whose auth...

On October 19th, 1909, the above announcement appeared in the town newspaper of Grand Junction, Colorado. The local Elks Lodge (#575) had de...

 Here's a costume design by Anthony Holland (1912 - 2001) for The Wizard of Oz , presumably for the Wizard himself! Holland was a well k...

The 1903 production of The Wizard of Oz made stars of Fred Stone and David Montgomery, and their performances certainly deserve credit for ...

Back in October of 2020, I showed the start of a new project; toy figures of characters from the 1903 Broadway production of The Wizard of ...

So much of collecting is a result of chance or serendipity; the element of surprise is part of what appeals to me. And it invariably happens...