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KELLAR, HARRY (HENRICH KELLER). HARRY KELLAR’S VANISHING LAMP. Hamburg: Carl Willmann, ca. 1895. A brightly lit oil lamp rests on a handsome wooden column. The magician covers the lamp with a silk foulard; the chimney can be seen through a hole in the fabric. The lamp is placed on a glass-topped table near the apron of the stage and when the cloth is whisked away, the lamp has vanished. In fragile but working condition, the silken foulard considerably tattered, and other elements worn or loose (including glass tabletop), but complete. With the original traveling trunk faintly bearing the name “Kellar” stenciled in paint on one short end, and several documents describing the provenance of the apparatus. Owned and used by Harry Kellar, the first Dean of American Magicians. See Salon de Magie, page 168.