Salon de Magie: The Klosterman Collection Part I

Alan, Don (Donald Alan McWethy). Don Alan’s Super Deluxe Cups and Balls. Colon: Abbott’s Magic Novelty Co., ca. 1939. Frosted crackle-finish straight-sided set of three cups owned and used by Don Alan for his performance of what many magicians consider the “oldest trick in the book.” Height 5 ¼", mouth diameter 2 ?". Sold together with an inscribed and signed photograph of Alan as a young man performing with the cups. A scarce Abbott product (see Abbott’s Supplementary Catalog No. 5).