Albini, LiEUTENANT. (FREDERICK BAXTER EWING). Leut.

1881. Two color broadside features a portrait of the British illusionist and touts his popularity. 11 x 33 ". Significant losses and tears; C. Sometimes confused with the Herbert Albini, Lieutenant Albini (1851 - 1930) was the first magician to use that stage name as a magician, and one of the first performers to present an act of stage filling illusions in British music halls of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. His career spanned several decades, included notable contracts of 100 weeks or more with more than one impresario, and he also appeared before British royalty on more than one occasion.