The Great Virgil (Virgil Mulkely). The Great Virgil's Vanishing Clock. American, ca. 1945. An alarm clock resting on a tray is covered with a cloth and picked up. The cloth is thrown into the air and the clock has vanished. Lacks cloth but includes duplicate clock face. With letter of provenance and instructions signed by Leola Lawain. Good condition.
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2012-01-28
Levante (Leslie Cole). The Great Levante presents his Magical Xmas Show. Lancashire, Central Printing (Chas. Sowden), ca. 1940. Three color window poster (14 x 22”) Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2013-07-27
Nicola (William Mozart Nicol). The Great Nicola. In Person. New York: Pace Press, ca. 1920. Two-color double-sided offset broadside advertising a performance of this globe-trotting Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2016-08-27
Carter, Charles. Group of 17 Carter the Great photographs. Vintage prints depicting Carter’s levitation, Astral Hand, and Lion’s Bride illusions, as well as later printings Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2012-10-27
Blackstone, Harry (Harry Boughton). The World's Most Mystifying Magician. In Person The Great Blackstone. New York, Pace Press, ca. 1940. Two-color, two-sided pictorial broadside (8 Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2010-05-16
Erie, Pennsylvania: Erie Litho. Co., ca. 1917. Iconic color lithograph depicts a striking portrait of the Chicago-born magician in his earliest days as Blackstone. Red Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2017-02-04
Round De Kolta-type Vanishing Birdcage. Lake Forest, John McKinven, ca. 1985. An oval metal cage vanishes from between the magician’s hands. Brass and wire cage Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2012-05-13
Chicago: National Printing & Engraving, ca. 1898. The tricks and trappings of the magician's trade fill the scene, including an elaborate center table, skull, crystal Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2017-02-04
Cincinnati, Strobridge Litho., 1914. Color lithographed advertising a transposition illusion from Thurston's show which included a boy, girl, and donkey vanishing and reappearing in several Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2017-02-04
Thurston, Howard. Thurston the Great Magician. Balaam and his Donkey. Cincinnati, Strobridge Litho., ca. 1910. Eight-sheet (74 x 107”) color lithographed billboard advertising a transposition Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2013-02-02
Trewey, Felecien. Photographic portrait of Felecien Trewey. Paris, Albert Prouzet, ca. 1885. Albumen photographic ¾ length portrait of the great French magician/comic/shadowgraphist/troublewit artist in carte Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2011-10-29
