Cardini’s parakeet houlette and cards. Cards selected from a deck of numbered cards would be pulled from the pack by Cardini’s trained canary, even though it was isolated in a Lucite houlette. With a deck of Tally Ho cards specially prepared for the trick by Cardini, and bearing his holographic note “Bird – 1967” inside the flap of the card box. Ca. 1950. 14” long.
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2013-04-06
Cardini’s parakeet houlette, wand and cards. Four chosen cards would be pulled from the pack by Cardini’s trained budgie, even though it sat in a Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2013-04-06
Tom Sellers' Rising Cards. Los Angeles, F.G. Thayer & Co., ca. 1939. Cards are selected and shuffled into the deck, which is placed in a Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2011-10-29
Tom Sellers' Rising Cards. Los Angeles: F.G. Thayer & Co., ca. 1939. Selected cards rise from a handsome wooden houlette one at a time. Cards Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2016-10-29
145. Neyhart Houlette. Los Angeles, A.P. Neyhart, ca. 1940. Mechanical bakelite card houlette and delicate custom manufactured deck of Bee-back playing cards. Very good condition, Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2013-10-26
Nu-Power Rising Cards. Colon, Abbott's Magic Mfg. Co., ca. 1965. Handsome chrome plated houlette from which selected cards mysteriously rise. Pneumatically operated. Wear to houlette Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2010-01-30
Cardini. Cardini’s Royal Command Performance Gloves and Cards. Including a pack of 51 silver Peau Doux-back playing cards and a pair of white kid leather Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2015-10-31
[Correspondence] Lifetime archive of Cardini’s personal correspondence. An important and historically significant accumulation of letters written to Cardini by a wide array of correspondents, among Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2013-04-06
146. Nu-Power Rising Cards. Colon Michigan, Abbott’s Magic Co., ca. 1955. Selected cards rise from a brass Houlette even though the magician stands some distance Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2013-10-26
Upton/Smith Rising Cards. Toronto, Thomas Baxter, ca. 2008. Cards rise from an ungimmicked pack that rests in a wooden houlette, either side of the cards Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2013-07-27
Cardini’s last stage-used Peau Doux playing cards. Chicago, Walgreen Co., ca. 1934. Group of over 80 Peau Doux cards used in Cardini’s last performance of Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2013-04-06
