Summer Magic Auction

Okito (Tobias Bamberg). Three Okito Letters to Victor Barbour. The first a TLS on uncommon two-color letterhead billing him as “The Royal Chinese Illusionist in a Series of Startling Celestial Mysteries,” signed “Okito.” The other two being first pages only, one on embossed stationery, the other on unusual printed letterhead. All three addressed to Okito’s best customer, magic collector Victor Barbour. The latter two letters with interesting content related to Howard Thurston, Al Saal, Doc Nixon, and Okito’s personal standards as a craftsman: “Will you believe that if I would charge the people the time I spent in bringing these effects to the highest degree, the price would be so ridiculously high that no man on earth would buy them?” On the reverse of one sheet is a pencil diagram of an unusual magic prop. Three 4to sheets.