$700
Mentalists Radio Signal Shoes. New York: Rajah Raboid (Maurice P. Kitchen), ca. 1920s. In the manner of an enchanted teakettle, a set of leather dress shoes with the right foot specially prepared with copper plate and wiring, allowing the mentalist to receive audible radio signals. With Acousticon transmitter, not tested. Rajah, profiled by David Price as one of the top question readers in an era filled with many similar pretenders of supernormal ability, argued unsuccessfully that he was Thurstons legitimate successor based on an agreement made a month before Thurston died in which the two had planned on a combined show. [Price, Magic: A Pictorial History (1985), pp. 48790]
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2016-08-27
