$950
Herrmann, Alexander. Playing Card Used in Performance by Herrmann. Ten of diamonds (10D) used by Alexander Herrmann at the National Theatre (Washington, D.C.) in performance on Oct. 14, 1886. Signed and annotated on the verso by the original owner, Hon. William Joseph Hughes. Tape repairs, minor creases. Hughes (1863 1938) served as the first president of Washington D.C. Assembly (No. 23) of the Society of American Magicians at its inception in 1930. He was a long-serving attorney at the Department of Justice at the Office of the Solicitor General of Washington. Editors of the Linking Ring and The Sphinx profiled him on the publication of his fourteen-volume work Federal Practice, Jurisdiction, and Procedure, noting his lifelong interest in magic. [Linking Ring V11 N12 (pp. 41 42), The Sphinx V30 N5 (p. 25)]
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2016-08-27
