This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 10/30/2021
Herrmann, Alexander. Herrmann’s Giant Production Chafing Dish. Circa 1890. Large tin chafing dish, which, after being shown empty, produces a live duck, six doves, or several live rabbits. Height 17 ½", diameter 9 ?". Two joints in need of reattachment, else good. Said to be the property of Alexander Herrmann, the great French stage magician. With a LOA attesting to the history of the prop, and a magazine article, ca. 1965, picturing the prop in the collection of Joseph Dunninger, the noted mind reader. Sales History: Butterfield & Butterfield, November 1999, Lot 410.