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Houdini-Owned Bean Giant Handcuffs.Thurston the Great Magician. Do The Spirits Come Back.Passe Passe Ball Vases.
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The Magic Collection of Jim Rawlins

Our inaugural magic auction of 2019 is the first of four sales from the collection of Jim Rawlins, a devoted student of magic and its history, who spent nearly three decades building an impressive, important, and diverse collection. A finely curated selection will go on the block, including choice objects in every collecting category. Association items from the careers of modern master magicians - Germain, Joseffy, Thurston, Blackstone, and more - will be offered side-by-side with vintage apparatus.
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Houdini-Owned Bean Giant Handcuffs.: Houdini, Harry (Ehrich Weisz). Houdini-Owned Bean Giant Handcuffs. Nickel-plated “escape proof” handcuffs with original key. 6 ¼” wide. Minor wear to plating. Lot 204 from the
0122: Houdini-Owned Bean Giant Handcuffs.Est. $4,000-$6,000
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Incubator/Drum Head Tube.: Incubator/Drum Head Tube. North Hollywood: Merv Taylor, ca. 1954. Stainless steel tube with open ends. These are capped by newspaper, then silks and a large metal cage with a live bird is produced
0123: Incubator/Drum Head Tube.Est. $500-$700Lot Passed
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Ink Ladle.: Ink Ladle. British, ca. 1880. Handsome metal ladle turns water into black ink. Twisted handle and decorative scalloped cup. 15” long. Vent at short end of handle. Very good.
0124: Ink Ladle.Est. $400-$600
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Joseffy’s Expanding Queen.: Joseffy (Joseph Freud). Joseffy’s Expanding Queen. Chicago, ca. 1906. A queen of hearts, held in the magician’s hand, visibly and instantly expands to many times it original size.
0125: Joseffy’s Expanding Queen.Est. $8,000-$12,000
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Little Gem Deluxe Beer Keg.: Little Gem Deluxe Beer Keg. Columbus: U.F. Grant, ca. 1946. Empty open-ended oak keg is capped with paper one either end and a spigot is inserted. Then, glasses of beer, cola, or virtually any drink
0129: Little Gem Deluxe Beer Keg.Est. $400-$600
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Khartoum Ring Fantasy.: Khartoum Ring Fantasy. Middleburg: Collectors Workshop, ca. 1996. A borrowed ring visibly appears on a loop of ribbon suspended from a thin brass ring. Instructions. 22” high.
0130: Khartoum Ring Fantasy.Est. $400-$600
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Card Duckling.: Card Duckling. Collectors’ Workshop, ca. 1990. A miniature wooden duck snaps up into its beak a chosen card from the “feed box” holding a deck of similarly wee-sized playing cards.
0131: Card Duckling.Est. $150-$250
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Ring Grinder.: Ring Grinder. Collectors’ Workshop, ca. 1900s. A borrowed ring is dropped into small brass box for “cleaning,” but with a loud cranking noise the machine malfunctions and grinds the
0132: Ring Grinder.Est. $50-$100
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Kim Kee’s Dove Transposition Chests.: Kim Kee (Alexander Nagy). Kim Kee’s Dove Transposition Chests. Circa 1945. Doves transpose from box to box. Hand painted with Asian motif. Self-working; gimmicks activated by simply placing
0133: Kim Kee’s Dove Transposition Chests.Est. $400-$600
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Paul LePaul’s Thumb Tie Rings.: LePaul, Paul. Paul LePaul’s Thumb Tie Rings. Pair of white wooden rings used by vaudeville card manipulator and magician Paul LePaul for his version of the Thumb Tie, in which the rings passed
0134: Paul LePaul’s Thumb Tie Rings.Est. $100-$200
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LePaul’s Spirit Barrel.: LePaul, Paul. LePaul’s Spirit Barrel. Circa 1950. The ends of the empty barrel are capped with paper. A wooden spigot is placed in one end, then a seemingly endless quantity of beer is poured
0135: LePaul’s Spirit Barrel.Est. $800-$1,200
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Levitation Automaton.: Levitation Automaton. Switzerland: Zdenka, ca. 1985. The magician waves his hand and the lady before him floats in the air. He passes a hoop over her, and she descends to the couch. Four movements:
0136: Levitation Automaton.Est. $1,500-$2,600
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LaFollette Rice Combination.: LaFollette Rice Combination. St. Petersburg: George LaFollette, ca. 1939. A quantity of rice poured in an empty cylinder becomes dry silks and water; the water, poured in to a bottle, changes back to
0137: LaFollette Rice Combination.Est. $250-$350
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Giant Lota Vase.: Giant Lota Vase. Bridgeport: Sherms, ca. 1940. Large spittoon-shaped vessel of spun copper and brass is emptied of its liquid contents entirely. It refills and is emptied again and again. Mouth
0138: Giant Lota Vase.Est. $200-$300
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Billy McComb’s Eggs & Glasses Props.: McComb, Billy. Billy McComb’s Eggs & Glasses Props. Circa 1958. Three stemmed glasses and ersatz eggs for the juggling/science feat popular with magicians. In the original wooden case bearing
0139: Billy McComb’s Eggs & Glasses Props.Est. $200-$300
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Billy McComb’s First Mouse Cage Box.: McComb, Billy. Billy McComb’s First Mouse Cage Box. Belfast, 1944. Made by Billy McComb to hold the cage for his “mouse cage,” as he called his own version of the Vanishing Bird
0140: Billy McComb’s First Mouse Cage Box.Est. $200-$300
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Billy McComb’s Whiskey Egg Bag.: McComb, Billy. Billy McComb’s Whiskey Egg Bag. Circa 1965. Cloth bag, three small glasses and a golf ball used for the Irish magician’s version of the venerable Egg Bag trick. With a
0141: Billy McComb’s Whiskey Egg Bag.Est. $150-$250
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Mignon Cabinet.: Mignon Cabinet. Kenosha: Okito-Nielsen, ca. 1965. Highly decorated cabinet is shown empty by opening its eight doors. Then a gigantic production is made from within. Metal and wood. Finely decorated
0142: Mignon Cabinet.Est. $1,000-$1,500
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Milk Penetration Cabinet.: Milk Penetration Cabinet. Circa 1920s. A tumbler filled with milk is placed in a cabinet. A wand is thrust through star traps in all sides, penetrating the cup, yet the glass and milk are unharmed.
0143: Milk Penetration Cabinet.Est. $100-$200
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Millet Bell and Barrel.: Millet Bell and Barrel. Circa 1900. A quantity of dry millet vanishes from a small barrel, and reappears under a small wooden bell. Turned wooden props finished in green, black, gold and red. The
0144: Millet Bell and Barrel.Est. $250-$350
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Millet Bell and Barrel.: Millet Bell and Barrel. Lake Forest: John McKinven, ca. 1993. Dry millet vanishes from a turned wooden barrel and reappears in an empty vase – or passes from the vase to the barrel and back
0145: Millet Bell and Barrel.Est. $500-$700
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