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[Brema Brasses]. Group of Brema Brass Tricks. Philadelphia: Carl Brema & Son, 1930s. Including Baffle Strings (with original instructions); Locking Bill Tube; two Devil’s Coin Banks; Tibetan Prayer Sticks; Utility Coin Box; Utility Tube; Spirit Nut; and fifteen additional props. Also including a retail tag, two original product packages including original instructions, and a business card. Condition generally very good. With BUFFUM, Richard. The Brema Brasses. Balboa Island: Abracadabra Press, 1981. Author’s own copy SIGNED and INSCRIBED to himself. Very good.
The “brasses” offered in this lot are the very same examples used by Buffum to illustrate his book chronicling the inventions and output of Will Brema and his father Carl. Each prop offered in this lot was obtained from Buffum’s own collection along with his copy of the book. For years Buffum served as a columnist for the Los Angeles Times; in later years he operated a fine press from his home on Balboa Island, printing and distributing works by Thomas Sawyer, Edwin A. Dawes, and Professor Hoffmann.