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[Instructions] Conradi-Horster. Comprehensive Archive of Conradi-Horster Magic Trick Instructions. 1910s/30s. Large and important collection of original printed directions for the many hundreds of magic tricks and illusions manufactured in the workshops of F.W. Conradi-Horster of Berlin, one of the most prolific builders of professional magic props before WWII. Neatly organized by catalog number in eight thick ring binders, comprising more than 1000 total directions. Some illustrated, some represented in quantity. German text. Most sheets 8vo or smaller, but many multi-page documents included. Most in very good condition. A significant record of the output of this important magic factory and likely the largest collection of its directions known. Together with a binder of miscellaneous magic trick directions and illusion plans.