The Collection of Edwin A Dawes, Part I

Lot #332:

Selbit’s Magic Bricks. Circa 1910. The order of four letter...

Selbit’s Magic Bricks. Circa 1910. The order of four lettered blocks in a wooden tube changes in sympathy with four numbered cards on an adjacent stand. Wooden shells, mechanical tube with inlaid pattern. Height 12 ½”. An early model of an effect now commonly known as Cuba Libre.