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File of American Magic and Illusion Patent Design Prints and Applications. U.S. Patent Office, 1880s—1910s. Approximately 40 applications, a portion bound, others stapled as individual packets, for stage illusions, theatrical apparatus, and amusement devices, including a trick knife, game wheel, trick cigarette case, magic toy, beheading apparatus, optical illusions, a spirit message device, and others, inventors and applicants including Howard Thurston, Joseph Buatier (De Kolta), T.N. Downs, Horace Goldin, William B. Wood, J.F. Blake, L.W. Kesler, N.P. Lithander, William Hanlon, and others. 4to. Some marginal chipping and tears, but good overall.