Cardini/Val Raymond post-war shipboard archive.

Cardini/Val Raymond post-war shipboard archive. Including documents pertaining to Cardini’s voyage to Australia and New Zealand in 1924: his health insurance card, unemployment books, certificate of discharge, a shipboard program from the T.S.S. Sophocles listing him as Signor ValRamondi the “Funjuror,” an earlier program crediting him as Val Raymond (his professional name before becoming Cardini), an account of his wages as ship’s steward, and a small photograph of Cardini performing on the deck of the ship with his vent figure. Several documents signed by Cardini as “R.V. Pitchford.” Condition varies from fair to good. An important an early archive of documents relating to Cardini’s years before attaining success and notoriety.