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Fay, Anna Eva. Anna Eva Fay’s Séance Room Reaching Rod. Circa 1910. Brass telescoping rod with a hook at one end, used to apparently cause objects to float or other items to move in the darkened séance room or spirit cabinet of renowned “medium” Anna Eva Fay. Length 10 ½” (closed), 33” (open). Corrosion from age. Accompanied by a LOA signed by magician John Daniel, explaining the “telescopic device which I got from Leo C. Irby in 1945. At that time, it was stated to be that it belonged to Anna Eva Fay and was used to float a trumpet in her Spirit Cabinet act.