Magic Memorabilia 2018-08-25 Auction - 468 Price Results - Potter & Potter Auctions in IL - Page 18
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Chicago, IL, United States
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Magic Memorabilia

Our summer sale of magicana includes vintage posters, apparatus, antiquarian books, and ephemera. Among the highlights are rarities advertising the shows of the Hanlon Brothers, early and uncommon conjuring catalogs, and relics from the career of Howard Thurston.
Auction Curator:
Gabe Fajuri
Gabe Fajuri
President
Electronic Airborne Glass.: Electronic Airborne Glass. Vienna: Viennamagic, 1988. As the performer pours from a Martini bottle, the glass begins to magically float, move up and down on its own accord, and eventually lands in
0408: Electronic Airborne Glass.Est. $250-$350Lot Passed
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Floating Table.: Floating Table. Asuza: Owen Magic Supreme, ca. 1990. Wooden side table floats in the air, clinging to the magician’s hand, even spinning in place. 28 ½” high. Hallmarked. Very good.
0409: Floating Table.Est. $600-$800
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Rising to Any Occasion.: [Force Book] Klosterman, Ken. Rising to Any Occasion. Milford: Klosterman Bakery, ca. 1985. White cloth stamped in gold. 8vo. The magician instantly knows the word the viewer is looking at. Number
0410: Rising to Any Occasion.Est. $200-$300
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Nu-Way Book Test.: [Book Test] Nu-Way Book Test. New York: Magico, 1980. Copy of Introduction to Resort Management allows performer to correctly guess the word a spectator is thinking of. Instructions. Sold with
0411: Nu-Way Book Test.Est. $150-$250
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Surprise Box.: Surprise Box. Holland: Anverdi, ca. 1980. Cards are dealt into a two-deck case one at a time. Suddenly, the lid of the box snaps shut on its own. The card on top of the deck in the spectator’s
0413: Surprise Box.Est. $200-$300
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Golly Wobble.: Golly Wobble. Pasadena: Carl Williams Custom Magic, ca. 1990s. Williams’ replica of a rare piece of apparatus by Floyd Thayer, whose innovation on an Imp Bottle is to replace with a metal
0414: Golly Wobble.Est. $200-$300
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Time Won’t Tell.: Time Won’t Tell. Pasadena: Carl Williams Custom Magic, ca. 1985. A wooden clock dial is displayed. The hand of the clock is spun and miraculously stops on a time named by a spectator. One of 24
0415: Time Won’t Tell.Est. $500-$700
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Chinka Chink.: Chinka Chink. Holland: Tonny Van Rhee, ca. 1980. Four blocks decorated with Asian symbols transpose under the magician’s bare hands. Examinable; gimmick locks magnetically. Very good.
0416: Chinka Chink.Est. $100-$200
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Tien-Tse.: Tien-Tse. Germany: Herbert Martin Paufler, ca. 1970s. A miniature version of the Skeleton in the Closet/Wonder Blocks effect, in which a skeleton, trisected onto black blocks, magically rearranges
0417: Tien-Tse.Est. $200-$300
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Enchanted Card Slide.: Enchanted Card Slide. Holland: Eddy Taytelbaum, 1960s. A playing card instantly and visibly transforms into the spectator’s selected card when pushed into the slide. 2 x 3”. Painted green
0418: Enchanted Card Slide.Est. $150-$250
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Delben Blotter.: Delben Blotter. Ben Stone, ca. 1980. A wooden blotter that visibly transforms a blank slip of paper into a real dollar bill. Hallmarked. With instructions and resetting device. Good condition.
0419: Delben Blotter.Est. $100-$200
Slydini Magic Scarves.: Slydini, Tony. Slydini Magic Scarves. Circa 1982. Group of eight white nylon scarves (18” square) of the size and material preferred by Slydini, stored in a bag from the former owner’s
0420: Slydini Magic Scarves.Est. $100-$200Lot Passed
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Li Chang’s Boxes.: Li Chang’s Boxes. Cornwall: Alan Warner, ca. 1990s. One of six miniature cards is chosen and placed into either box, red or blue, and transposes at the magician’s command. Teakwood
0421: Li Chang’s Boxes.Est. $150-$250
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Group of Four Alan Warner Close-Up Tricks.: Group of Four Alan Warner Close-Up Tricks. Cornwall, England, 1990s. Including Block-Buster, Siamese Ribbon, Chinese Change, and Runic. Teak and lacquered hardwood construction. Lacking boxes and
0422: Group of Four Alan Warner Close-Up Tricks.Est. $250-$500
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The Chinese Money Box.: The Chinese Money Box. Middlesex: Alan Warner, ca. 1990. A giant silver coin with a hole in its center is placed in a cabinet, vanished, then transformed into a solid gold coin. Large stage version;
0423: The Chinese Money Box.Est. $300-$500
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Stone of the Pharaoh.: Stone of the Pharaoh. Belgium: Mephisto, ca. 1990s. One of four mummies is selected by a spectator and placed in the sarcophagus while the magician’s back is turned. Moments later, the nearby
0424: Stone of the Pharaoh.Est. $200-$300
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Giant Passe-Passe Ball Vases.: Giant Passe-Passe Ball Vases. Lake Forest: John McKinven, ca. 1995. Finely-turned maple vases with lids. One contains a red ball, the other a blue. At the magician’s command, the spheres change
0425: Giant Passe-Passe Ball Vases.Est. $2,500-$3,500
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Combo Cups and Balls.: Combo Cups and Balls. Escondido: John Dahms, ca. 1990. Three segmented and lathe-turned cups crafted from a variety of exotic hardwoods, one chopped. Together with a set of Mike Rogers-made
0426: Combo Cups and Balls.Est. $300-$500
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Chameleon Chest.: Chameleon Chest. Texas: Viking Magic (for Larry Becker), 1997. Handsome walnut chest resembling a humidor or keepsake box allows the performer to cleverly switch billets even though entirely handled
0427: Chameleon Chest.Est. $100-$200
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Socked Coins.: Socked Coins. Holland: Tommy Wonder, 2004. Apparatus made to order by Tommy Wonder for his multi-phase in-the-hands coin routine featuring US Half Dollar coins, brass washers, and a coin purse made
0428: Socked Coins.Est. $150-$250
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Collection of Wooden Close-Up Magic Props.: Collection of Wooden Close-Up Magic Props. An attractive grouping of collectable contemporary close-up props by Viking Haenchen, Clarence Miller, Milson Worth, and others, most complete with
0429: Collection of Wooden Close-Up Magic Props.Est. $500-$700
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Group of Magician’s Chop Cups / Cups and Balls: Group of Magician’s Chop Cups / Cups and Balls Sets. Including a brass Chop Cup and shot glass set in fitted wooden box with screw-apart cocobolo wand; Tenyo Telesphere (carrying bag,
0430: Group of Magician’s Chop Cups / Cups and BallsEst. $300-$500
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Limited Edition Dai Vernon Playing Cards.: Vernon, Dai (David Frederick Wingfield Verner). Limited Edition Dai Vernon Playing Cards. Congress Playing Cards, June, 1982. Four sealed decks of cards commemorating Vernon’s 88th birthday,
0431: Limited Edition Dai Vernon Playing Cards.Est. $200-$300