Spring Magic Auction 2018-04-28 Auction - 702 Price Results - Potter & Potter Auctions in IL - Page 9
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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Group of 35 Vintage Books on Conjuring.: Group of 35 Vintage Books on Conjuring. Including The Book of Conjuring and Card Tricks by Prof. Kunard (1900); The Magical Art By Donald Holmes (1920, ex-libris Sid Lorraine); Magical Masterpieces
0195: Group of 35 Vintage Books on Conjuring.Est. $300-$500
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Group of 22 Books on Magic History and Biography: Group of 22 Books on Magic History and Biography. Including The Power of the Charlatan by Grete de Francesco (1939); The Great Wizard of the North by Constance Pole Bayer (1989); White Magic: The
0199: Group of 22 Books on Magic History and BiographyEst. $200-$300
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Group of 13 Modern Magic Classics.: Group of 13 Modern Magic Classics. Including The Expert at the Card Table by S.W. Erdnase (1944); Our Magic by Nevil Maskelyne and David Devant (1946); Magic Without Apparatus by Camille Gaultier
0200: Group of 13 Modern Magic Classics.Est. $200-$300
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Group of 19 Magic Biography and Reference Books.: Group of 19 Magic Biography and Reference Books. Including Our Life of Magic by Howard Thurston and Jane Thurston Shepard (1989); Dante: The Devil Himself by Phil Temple (1991, laid in signature from
0202: Group of 19 Magic Biography and Reference Books.Est. $200-$300
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Ten Antiquarian Books on Amusements, Magic, and: Ten Antiquarian Books on Amusements, Magic, and Recreation. Including Cassell’s Book of Indoor Amusements, Card Games and Fireside Fun ([1882]); Cassell’s Complete Book of Sports and Pastimes
0203: Ten Antiquarian Books on Amusements, Magic, andEst. $200-$300
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Nine Contemporary Books on Card and Coin Magic.: Nine Contemporary Books on Card and Coin Magic. Bulk comprised of publications by Richard Kaufman, including The Collected Almanac (1992); Williamson’s Wonders (1989); Showtime at the Tom-Foolery
0204: Nine Contemporary Books on Card and Coin Magic.Est. $150-$250
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Over 30 Mid-Century Magic Books.: Over 30 Mid-Century Magic Books. Including Marvels of Mystery by John Booth (1944); Abbott’s Encyclopedia of Rope Tricks ([1945]); Mental Magic by Al Baker (1949); Rings in Your Fingers by Dariel
0205: Over 30 Mid-Century Magic Books.Est. $250-$350
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Group of 16 Contemporary Magic Books.: Group of 16 Contemporary Magic Books. Including Close Up Illusions by Gary Oullet (1990); Spectacle by Stephen Minch (1990); Encyclopedia of Impromptu Magic by Martin Gardner (1991); Impossibilia by
0206: Group of 16 Contemporary Magic Books.Est. $250-$350
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Muhammad Ali’s False Thumb Tip.: Ali, Muhammad. Muhammad Ali’s False Thumb Tip. Custom painted metal thumb tip, formerly property of the boxing legend. Ali loved to perform magic and the vanishing silk was one of his favorite
0207: Muhammad Ali’s False Thumb Tip.Est. $200-$300
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Rabbit Tray from the Harry Blackstone Show.: Rabbit Tray from the Harry Blackstone Show. Circa 1950s. Wooden frame with canvas compartment for concealing a rabbit, the main prop in one of Blackstone’s signature stage feats in which a box of
0208: Rabbit Tray from the Harry Blackstone Show.Est. $1,000-$1,500
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Arabian Vase.: Arabian Vase. London: Max Andrews, ca. 1955. Combination Lota Bowl and Prayer Vase. Water is emptied from the vase repeatedly, yet it refills. Later, it clings to a rope lowered in to its neck.
0209: Arabian Vase.Est. $100-$200
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The Architect’s Nightmare.: The Architect’s Nightmare. Canton: Paul Lembo, ca. 2005. Reproduction of Thayer’s 1930 trick by the same name and nearly identical to the classic Blue Phantom effect. A blue brick mysteriously
0210: The Architect’s Nightmare.Est. $300-$400
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Ball Vase and Hammer.: Ball Vase and Hammer. European, ca. 1920. A ball vanishes from a turned wooden vase when hit by a wooden mallet. It later reappears. Mallet 6 ¼" long.
0211: Ball Vase and Hammer.Est. $100-$200
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Beads of Prussia.: Beads of Prussia. Camp Hill: John Fedko Magic, 1979. Wooden beads in red, green and yellow are placed into a clear plastic tube one by one; when tipped out of the tube, they are inexplicably strung
0212: Beads of Prussia.Est. $50-$100
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Blue Phantom.: Blue Phantom. Munich: Zauberzentrale, 1985. Miniature version of Thayer’s popular trick in which a blue checker mysteriously moves through a stack of white checkers when covered by a tube. Turned
0213: Blue Phantom.Est. $300-$400
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Billiard Ball Holdout Device.: Billiard Ball Holdout Device. Circa 1970s. Secretly-worn leather and wire device delivers a ball held between the clamps when the red button is depressed. 8" extension. Fine.
0214: Billiard Ball Holdout Device.Est. $200-$300
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Blue Phantom.: Blue Phantom. Los Angeles: F.G. Thayer, ca. 1940s. Among a stack of wooden checkers, resting on a tiered wooden base and covered by a metal tube, the blue checker mysteriously changes its position
0215: Blue Phantom.Est. $200-$300
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Brahman Rice Bowls: Brahman Rice Bowls. New Haven: Petrie and Lewis, ca. 1940s. Copper-finish bowls cause rice to multiply then transform into water. With original instructions, packet of extra accessories.4 ½" wide.
0216: Brahman Rice BowlsEst. $100-$150
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Multiplying Bottles.: Multiplying Bottles. Carvachos Portugal: Magiarte, ca. 1990. A bottle and glass tumbler transpose when covered by tubes, then bottles multiply until 12 bottles are produced. Fine hand painted tubes
0217: Multiplying Bottles.Est. $400-$600