Salon de Magie: The Klosterman Collection Part I

[Margery] Walter’s Thumb Prints. Circa 1926. Set of two dark maroon wax thumb prints from the right and left thumb of what was supposedly the deceased brother of the Boston medium Margery. The prints were made under test conditions during a séance conducted in Margery’s Boston séance room. Housed in the original mailing box addressed to Hereward Carrington by E.E. Dudley. Approximately 2 x 1 ?" each. A remarkable relic from the career of the famed medium Mina Crandon, giving apparently tangible evidence of her ability to contact her deceased brother Walter Stinson, and materialize his physical presence on the earthly plain. A 95-page manuscript titled The Walter – Kerwin Thumb Prints was published by the Boston Society for Psychical Research in 1934 discussing the “materialization” of these prints in great detail. As proven by Houdini in his exposé of Margery’s supposed psychic abilities, the prints were proven to be not those of her deceased brother but of another man – who was most definitely alive and well – Margery’s dentist. Ironically, it was most likely the dentist himself who explained to Margery how to make impressions in wax.