Salon de Magie: The Klosterman Collection Part I

DeVere Changing Tube. London: Charles DeVere, ca. 1870. Objects placed in the toleware tube can be made to vanish or transform into other articles. With embossed maker’s plaque inside one of the two lids. Height 6 ½". DeVere, a noted stage magician in his own right, operated a magic shop and factory in London from 1869 to 1873. In 1878, his factory was reestablished in Brussels before a final move to Paris in 1892. From his French store he crafted magic apparatus of every description, from stage illusions to small pocket tricks for virtually every top performer in the field.