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ANDRESS, CHARLES. ANDRESS AND HIS NOVELTY GIFT SHOWS. [DECAPITATION]. Cincinnati & New York: The Strobridge Litho. Co., 1917. Andress, in the style of his contemporary Harry Kellar, sits in a gold chair while a spirit floats above him and a devil looks on from below. He holds his own head in one hand and a bloody knife in the other, having severed the head from his own body. 29 x 8”. Evenly toned with old folds throughout. Linen backed. B+/B. An uncommon poster. Text below the image states, “Andress’ latest mystery sensation, in which, in full view of the audience, he apparently decapitates himself, and, while holding his head in his own hand, converses with the awe-stricken onlookers, and “in the twinkling of an eye” is again restored to normal conditions and walks smilingly to the footlights, to the great relief of the astonished auditors. No cabinet is used, no curtain is drawn, no one on the stage but Andress himself.”