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Public Auction #021 Magic Memorabilia Including Apparatus, Books, Ephemera, Posters and Conjuring Curiosa For sale at Magic Live! at The Orleans Hotel & Casino 4500 W. Tropicana Blvd. Las Vegas, Nevada 89103 August 14th 2013 - 1:00 pm Exhibition August 9 - 13 Guest Auctioneer: Rob Zabrecky Potter & Potter Auctions, Inc. 3759 N. Ravenswood Ave. -Suite 121- Chicago, IL 60613 2 (verso) 2 (recto) 1 3 4 5 4 • Potter & Potter Auctions 6 1. Alexander (Claude Alexander Conlin). Alexander the Man back inside the other two nested boxes. The missing dove is Who Knows. Bombay, Av Yaga, ca. 1915. Striking one-sheet (28 inside it as well. Metal tray and wooden boxes, decorated in an x 40”) color lithograph depicting Alexander’s turbaned head on Okito-esque motif. Largest box measures 12 x 7 ½ x 6”. Good. a red field. Linen backed. A. 200/400 300/400 4. Billet Knife. American, ca. 1960. Brass letter opener that 2. Annemann, Ted (Theodore Squires). The Jinx “mystery” allows the mind reader to covertly insert a folded billet into renewal postcard. New York, 1930s. Business reply postcard an envelope in the action of ripping it open with the knife. printed for subscribers to Annemann’s magazine, The Jinx. Machined brass. 8 ½” long. Very good. Annemann’s address on recto; The Jinx cat on verso. One 100/200 corner bumped; good. Together with a reproduction photo of Annemann. 5. Blackstone, Harry (Henry Boughton). Blackstone. Big 100/200 Combination. [Long Island City, National Printing and This postcard represents perhaps one of the cleverest advertising Engraving], ca. 1929. Half sheet (20 ½ x 28”) three-color poster promotions in the history of magic. Subscribers who wished to renew depicting caricatures from Blackstone’s illusion show, including their subscriptions to The Jinx were instructed in the pages of the escapes, card magic, a spirit cabinet, and more. Cartoons drawn magazine to simply stroke the back of the cat printed on the postcard by the staff artist of the Montgomery Advertiser. Over-coloring and mail it back to Annemann – without writing their names, in margins and in image. Scarce. B. addresses, or any other information on the card. Even so, Annemann 2,000/2,500 was apparently able to tell who had returned the cards, and therefore renew their subscriptions. 6. Blackstone, Harry. Lobby Photo of Blackstone performing on stage. NewYork, Nasib Studio, ca. 1930. Blackstone stands 3. Banner Nest of Boxes. American, ca. 1960. A dove is placed between two cages, arms outstretched. In performance, birds in the smallest box from a nest of three. The magician covers vanished from one cage and appeared in the other. 14 x 11”. the box with a cloth. The box and dove vanish, only to be found Pinholes and wear at corners and margins; good. 200/400 August 14, 2013 • 5 8 7 7. Blackstone, Harry. Portrait of Harry Blackstone, signed and inscribed. Chicago, Bloom Studio, ca. 1939. Half-length portrait of Blackstone in profile. 8 x 10”. Very good. InscrIbed and sIgned by blackstone’s to hIs stage manager, eddy Wykoff. 150/300 8. Blue Phantom. Asuza, Owen Magic Supreme, ca. 1980. A large blue checker mysteriously travels through a stack of gold checkers when the stack is covered by a decorated metal canister. Overall height of 16 ¼”. Unusual paint scheme. Light wear at outside of canister near base, otherwise very good. 600/800 9. Cardini (Richard Valentine Pitchford). Cardini-made Wristwatch Reel. New York, Richard Cardini, 1972. Incabloc Waterproof watch remanufactured by Cardini to conceal a finely-made retractable reel. The verso of the case is signed “Made by Cardini 1972.” Very good. 1,500/1,800 9 10. Chrome Paul Fox Cups. Phoenix, Danny Dew, 1970s. Set of three chrome plated brass cups manufactured and sold by Danny Dew. Designed by Paul Fox. Light wear; good condition. 500/700 11. Chung Ling Soo (William E. Robinson). Chung Ling Soo “dragon” letterhead. England, ca. 1910. Elaborately decorated notepaper for the “Marvelous Chinese Conjurer” who was, in fact, a Scotsman from New York. A medallion portrait at the top is flanked by fire-breathing dragons and gold borders. Faint old folds, otherwise good. 10 100/200 6 • Potter & Potter Auctions 14 12 11 12. Copenetro. Indiana Pennsylvania, Klinecraft, ca. 1949. A shot glass rests on a small wooden pedestal and is covered by a clear tumbler. The magician vanishes four half dollars, which reappear in the shot glass one at a time. With coin rack and original glassware. Very good. 100/200 13. Daumier, Honoré. Cups and Balls Conjuror lithograph. France, 1836. Hand-colored lithograph depicting an itinerant magician selling books in the street; his table and Cups and Balls in the rear of the scene, his patter reproduced below, in French. 10 ¾ x 14”. Framed; not examined out of frame. Very good. 400/600 This iconic image of the street magician was introduced to many magicians in the pages of Milbourne Christopher’s Panorama of Magic. This print was formerly the property of Bob Read. Daumier was one of France’s best-loved caricaturists of the 19th century. 14. Dircks, Henry. The Ghost! As Produced in the Spectre Drama…. London: E. and F.N. Spon, 1863. Blue embossed cloth, stamped in gold. Illustrated. 8vo. Corners and spine a bit worn, but overall very good. Uncommon. Toole Stott 245. 400/500 This book explains the “Dircksian Phantasmagoria,” the stage illusion now commonly known as Pepper’s Ghost. It was Dircks who developed 13 the projection technique that made the effect possible; Pepper expanded on the concept and they jointly patented the invention. Dircks then signed over financial rights to the ghost apparatus to Pepper, a decision he would later come to regret. August 14, 2013 • 7 18 15 15. Erdnase, S.W. Artifice Ruse and Subterfuge at the Card Table. Chicago: Frederick J. Drake & Co., ca. 1905. Green pictorial wraps with King of Hearts design, card lacking pips on cover. “With over one-hundred drawings from life by M.D. Smith.” 12mo. Very good. 150/300 16. Evans, Henry Ridgley. Magic and Its Professors. Philadelphia: David McKay, 1902. Green pictorial cloth. Portrait frontispiece. Illustrated. 8vo. Very good. nIce copy. 150/250 17. Fechner, Christian. The Magic of Robert-Houdin, An Artist’s Life. Boulogne: FCF Editions, 2002. Two volumes in publisher’s cloth with jackets. Copiously illustrated, including color plates. In publisher’s pictorial slipcase. From a limited 16 edition of 1000 copies. 4to. Very good condition. 300/400 18. [Fortune Teller] Traviès de Villers, Charles-Joseph. Bonne aventure (“good fortune”) print. Lithograph extracted from the French satirical paper La Caricature. Paris, 1832. A fortune teller speaks in to a trumpet, telling a passer-by of his future. In the foreground sits his table, on which rests a set of Cups and Balls and a magic wand. Folio. Light spotting and old folio fold; good. 200/400 17 8 • Potter & Potter Auctions 21 19. Fu-Manchu (David Bamberg). Hechizos de Fu-Manchu. El Espectaculo Mas Fantastico del Mundo. Half-sheet (19 x 26 ¾”) color lithograph bearing a portrait of Fu in the upper left with skeletons and dancing girls below. Signed in the image by Fariñas. Laid down; A. 19 250/350 20. Ganson, Lewis. The Dai Vernon Book of Magic. London: Harry Stanley Unique Magic Studio, 1957. fIrst edItIon. Pebbled black cloth with pictorial jacket. Illustrated with photographs. 8vo. Jacket worn at extremities and repaired with tape, book very good. InscrIbed and sIgned by daI Vernon. 200/300 21. Herrmann, Compars. Real photo postcard of Compars Herrmann. Real photo postcard bearing two bust portraits of the famous French magician and patriarch of the Herrmann dynasty of magicians. Ca. 1890. Divided back. Very good. 300/400 22. Gold Himber Ring. Solid 14-karat gold ring with large red stone. Gimmicked to allow a magician to link this ring with 20 others borrowed from spectators in his audience. Very good. 500/800 22 August 14, 2013 • 9 24 23. Hardeen (Theodore Weiss). Life and History of Hardeen. [New York], n.d. Light blue pictorial wraps. Pitch book illustrated with numerous photographs. 8vo. Good. 50/150 24. Houdini, Harry (Ehrich Weiss). Houdini-owned Cobb handcuffs. Handsomely framed with two later photographs of Houdini; in one, he wears a similar set of cuffs. With a letter of provenance from the former owner, who purchased the cuffs at sale of Houdini’s personal property in New Jersey in 1982. 2,500/3,000 25. Houdini, Harry. A Magician Among the Spirits. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1924. First edition. Blue cloth stamped in gold. Frontispiece portrait of Houdini and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Illustrated with plates. Thick 8vo. Very good. 250/500 23 10 • Potter & Potter Auctions

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300/400. 2. Annemann, Ted (Theodore Squires). and mail it back to Annemann – without writing their names, .. Exceptionally politically incorrect.
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