This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 3/3/2018
Rickard, Frederic L. Portfolio of Original Illusion Drawings and Blueprints for Thayer Manufacturing. 1940s. Including detailed original schematic pencil drawings (a few with pen and ink) for over 20 illusions designed by Rickard for Thayer Manufacturing, including Hindu Rope Trick; Topsy-Turvy Miss; Wheel of Torture; Enemy Torture Cage Escape; Larsen’s Girl Without a Middle; Improved Substitution Trunk; The Chef’s Nightmare; Confusion in the Ark; Vanish of a Caged Parrot; Bullet-Proof Girl; Girl in the Hammock; Triple Trunk Mystery; David Devant’s “Chocolate Solider”; The Merry Widow Illusion; Through the Needle’s Eye; Pigeon Catching; Crash! The Death Slide; and others. Also with approximately 25 pages of typed, mimeographed, or handwritten sheets of instruction and operation to many of the illusions; 14 prints made from blueprints of designs by Rickard; and seven blueprints by W.J. “Doc” Nixon found within the same file. Size of largest 25 x 19”. Some drawings with toning, tears, and losses to edges, but generally good condition. Housed in a string-tied hardcover portfolio.