This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 6/19/2021
Marvello, Harry. Archive of Harry Marvello Ephemera. Including a prospectus for Walter Jeans’ Silver Hat Illusion (presented by Marvello), postcard handwritten by Marvello to Bayard Grimshaw, Marvello advertising booklet (disbound), ANS boldly signed by Marvello (“The Silver Hat”) mounted to a small album page, early pictorial Marvello handbill, and a program for Marvello presenting The Silver Hat at the New Theatre Cambridge in 1915. The largest 11 ½ x 5 5/8”.Marvello, whose advertising offered here bills him as performing “under royal patronage,” was the first magician to present Walter Jeans’ Silver Hat illusion on stage. It was from this effect that the Million Dollar Mystery was developed, elements of which are now considered some of the most important in the developments of stage illusions in the twentieth century.