This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 10/26/2024
[CARD MAGIC] Collection of Approximately 150 Vintage Card Tricks. 1900s – 60s, and including examples from American and European manufacturers, among them Martinka, DeLand, Ken Brooke, Davenports, The Magic Shop of Philadelphia (Lewis Lyons), Cliff Lount, S.S. Adams, Hamley’s, Crest, Supreme, Carl Lohery, Mac’s Mysteries, Ellis Stanyon, and others. Includes mechanical devices for Diminishing Cards, vanishing packs of cards, and others, as well as specially-printed and prepared cards for transformations, vanishes, etc. Among the effects included are the Wine Gauge, Extraordinary Marksmanship, Phantom Card Trick, Spirit Slide, Moving Pip Card, Diminishing Card (Baker, Victor, and others), Card to Matchbox, Torn Corner Card, Card on Hat, Card Star on Palm (magnetized cards), Wizard of the North’s Changeable Pack of Cards, Ink Card (for Ink to Goldfish), Wandering Aces, Edward Victor’s Turn About Card trick, and dozens more. Many with original packaging and instructions. Some duplication. A very good collection of ephemeral tricks, many of which are true survivors.