Diminishing Cards. Circa 1910s. A fan of cards is reduced to one-fifth of its original size as the magician incrementally shrinks it. Incorporating a tin framework. White and blue plaid back. Scuffed, but complete and solidly constructed.
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2016-10-29
Victor, Edward. Edward Victor’s Diminishing Cards. The original prototype and stage-used gimmicked pack and box invented and handmade by the great sleight-of-hand magician for the Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2012-05-13
Dai Vernons Diminishing Cards. New York: C.J. Distel, ca. 1942. As a pack of cards is fanned, it shrinks four times, until the cards are Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2016-08-27
Metal Body Feke. Circa 1910s. Tubular iron (10” across) with cloth strap affixed to metal eyelets, as would be worn around the waist of an Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2016-04-09
[Magic] Collection of vintage trick cards and gimmicked decks. Over 70 items, including various prepared and marked decks of cards by DeLand and others; packet Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2014-06-01
Baker, Al. Group of Small Props and Signed Ephemera. Effects including Baker’s Traveling Pencils, in original box with facsimile instructions; Baker’s Vanishing Pencil, in original Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2015-12-05
Collection of 27 Martinka Tokens. Circa 1900s – 1910s. A variety of thicknesses, sizes, and compositions including nickel-plated, gold-plated, gilt, German silver, and more. Including Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2016-12-03
Vernon, Dai. Portrait of Dai Vernon Fanning Cards. Circa 1948. Oversize half-length portrait of The Professor in a tweed coat performing a pressure fan with Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2016-08-27
[Escape Artists] Collection of Photos, Postcards, and a Throw-Out Card. Circa 1910s 40s. Eight pieces, including portraits of Joseph Kolar and Earl Lockman in handcuffs Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2016-08-27
with 13 photographs total: a) 11 (eleven) albumen prints of St. Petersburg, circa 1890-1910, each photographed by A. Lorens of St. Petersburg and mounted onto Read more…
Auctioneer:
Shapiro Auctions
Date:
2010-11-03
J. FRASCHINI, ITALIAN OIL ON CANVAS, 'A GAME OF CARDS', CIRCA 1900, 30" X 40":Signed lower left, in an ornate gesso and wood frame. Read more…
Auctioneer:
Dumouchelle Art Galleries
Date:
2006-09-17
