Spring Magic Auction 2018-04-28 Auction - 702 Price Results - Potter & Potter Auctions in IL - Page 13
Sleight of Hand.Glass Negative of Houdini Outside Villa (Wiljalba)Spirit Photo of Houdini with Abraham Lincoln’s Ghost.
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Chicago, IL, United States
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Spring Magic Auction

Our spring sale features two recently-rediscovered Houdini scrapbooks as well as Houdiniana in the following categories - glass slides, autographs, books, and photographs. Also on the block is a diverse offering of vintage and antiquarian magic books, posters, broadsides, ephemera, and vintage magic apparatus.
Auction Curator:
Gabe Fajuri
Gabe Fajuri
President
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Modernistic Amputation.: Modernistic Amputation. Colon Michigan: Abbott’s Magic Novelty Co., ca. 1950. The center of an audience volunteer’s arm vanishes when severed with two blades. It is restored moments later. 26 x 9
0291: Modernistic Amputation.Est. $200-$300
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Millet Vase and Barrel.: Millet Vase and Barrel. German, ca. 1880s. Millet seed in a small wooden barrel vanishes, then reappears in a matching turned boxwood vase – or vice versa – at the magician’s command. Vase 3
0292: Millet Vase and Barrel.Est. $200-$300
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Morison’s Pill Box.: Morison’s Pill Box. Lake Forest, Ill.: John McKinven, ca. 1990s. Turned hardwood vase in which a red ball vanishes and reappears. Signed on the base underside. 8 ¼" tall.
0293: Morison’s Pill Box.Est. $400-$600
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Paper Thin Sawing.: Paper Thin Sawing. Middleburg: Collectors Workshop, 1990. A card set on a wooden base covered by a brass box is cut in half with a razor, then restored. With original box and instructions. As new.
0294: Paper Thin Sawing.Est. $100-$200
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Phantom Tube Combination.: Phantom Tube Combination. European, ca. 1940. Nickel plated Phantom tube for the production of handkerchiefs, accompanied by two matching tubes, one ungimmicked, the other accommodating a large
0295: Phantom Tube Combination.Est. $200-$300
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Paul Fox Beer Trick.: Paul Fox Beer Trick. Phoenix: Danny Dew, ca. 1965. Confetti scooped into an empty can transforms into cold beer. With gimmick, can, instructions, and a template for cutting extra gimmicks. Very good.
0296: Paul Fox Beer Trick.Est. $150-$250
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Pixie Silk Box.: Pixie Silk Box. Azusa: Owen Magic Supreme, ca. 1970s. A small wooden box is shown to be empty, yet a multitude of silks are produced from within. Wood painted with red lacquer and Asian motif; brass
0297: Pixie Silk Box.Est. $200-$300
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Rising Card Tray.: Rising Card Tray. Los Angeles: F.G. Thayer & Co., ca. 1935. A chosen card magically rises from a deck within a glass cup placed on a turned mahogany try. Tray 9 ¾" diameter. Glass not included.
0298: Rising Card Tray.Est. $200-$300
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Razor Blade Stand.: Razor Blade Stand. George Kirkendall, ca. 1960s. Steel frame for holding blades and thread during a razor swallowing act. 12 x 2 x 3". Includes contemporary spool of thread, blades not included.
0299: Razor Blade Stand.Est. $150-$250
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Roydon’s Double Box Prediction Chest.: Roydon’s Double Box Prediction Chest. Indiana: Harry Roydon, 1970s. The prediction of a newspaper headline or other event is revealed in the innermost of two locked, nested boxes. No special keys
0300: Roydon’s Double Box Prediction Chest.Est. $700-$900
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Morrell’s Return to Karnac.: Morrell’s Return to Karnac. London: Ken Brooke’s House of Veroni, ca. 1950. A wooden mummy figure is removed from a temple and placed on display some distance away in a "museum." The mummy is
0301: Morrell’s Return to Karnac.Est. $300-$500
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Rising Cards.: Rising Cards. Massachusetts: Val Evans, ca. 1939. Chosen cards rise from the pack while it is isolated in a wooden houlette on a tray. Locking gimmick defies detection. Tray 12 x 12". With
0302: Rising Cards.Est. $200-$300
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Russell’s Floating Ball.: Russell’s Floating Ball. Kansas City: Donald Holmes, 1919. Metal orb which the magician causes to float all over the stage, accompanied by a scarce set of 12 photographs ( 3 x 5 ½") depicting
0303: Russell’s Floating Ball.Est. $200-$300
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Silk Cabby.: Silk Cabby. Los Angeles: F.G. Thayer, ca. 1940. Wooden cabinet stencil-painted with dragons allows for the magical change, production, vanish, or restoration of silk handkerchiefs placed inside. 7"
0304: Silk Cabby.Est. $150-$250
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Sliding Clock Box.: Sliding Clock Box. Colon: Abbott’s, ca. 1950s. A version of the classic die box effect, in this case using a wooden clock in place of a die, vanishing from the box and reappearing elsewhere. 10 x 5
0305: Sliding Clock Box.Est. $100-$200
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Strange Cabinet of Deodar.: Strange Cabinet of Deodar. Pennsylvania: Edward M. Massey, ca. 1947. A tumbler placed in the cabinet, wooden with metal sides, is pierced by seven solid wooden stakes, yet is entirely unharmed. 8"
0306: Strange Cabinet of Deodar.Est. $200-$300
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Sand and Sugar Canisters.: Sand and Sugar Canisters. London: Davenports, ca. 1935. A quantity of sand is poured into a large canister from a smaller canister until the large canister is overflowing. Then, magically, the large
0307: Sand and Sugar Canisters.Est. $200-$300
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Seven Small Vintage Silk Magic Props.: [Silk Magic] Seven Small Vintage Silk Magic Props. Including a handsome nickeled Handkerchief Cassette, small Genii-type tube (with unusual load device for a vanish instead of production), Demon
0308: Seven Small Vintage Silk Magic Props.Est. $200-$300
Snake Basket.: Snake Basket. England: Jack Hughes, ca. 1970. A woven basket contains a ‘live’ snake that, after comedic by-play (rising from the basket with balls balanced on his head, items from inside, etc.),
0309: Snake Basket.Est. $400-$600Lot Passed
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Squeeze-Away Block.: Squeeze-Away Block. Milson-Worth, ca. 1970. Two black blocks visibly "squeeze away" a yellow block between them in a hardwood frame. The yellow block reappears elsewhere. Blocks 3". Ed Massey design,
0310: Squeeze-Away Block.Est. $100-$200
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Professor Struck’s Close Up Magic Tricks.: Struck, Otto. Professor Struck’s Close Up Magic Tricks. Circa 1920. Group of props owned and used by this contemporary and friend of Alexander Herrmann, including a flap Card Box, playing cards,
0311: Professor Struck’s Close Up Magic Tricks.Est. $200-$300
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Sum Ting Wong.: Sum Ting Wong. Pasadena, Okito-Williams, 2001. A small Buddha figurine on a chain is dangled over a row of cards; a spectator’s selected card jumps up and sticks to the underside of the Buddha.
0312: Sum Ting Wong.Est. $300-$400
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Super Walking Knot.: Super Walking Knot. Geneva: Pavel’s Topmagic, 1982. Gimmicked rope, scissors, clothespin and original instructions for the trick that won first prize for invention at FISM 1982. Sold with Poker
0313: Super Walking Knot.Est. $50-$100