224: LeDair, Jack. Jack LeDair’s Rising Cards. British,

LeDair, Jack. Jack LeDair’s Rising Cards. British, ca. 1940. Clockwork-driven mechanism concealed in a wooden cabinet that causes selected cards to rise from a pack placed therein. Cards raise lid of cabinet as they rise. Includes two folding stands for displaying cards, autograph notes and diagrams explaining working and patter, and wooden packing box. In need of re-threading; good working condition. With: A lengthy holographic manuscript and TLS from Louis Histed to Walter Wandman explaining Histed’s version of the Rising Cards, using apparatus similar to LeDair’s.