This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 10/26/2024
DE VEGA (Alexander Mackay Stewart, 1892 - 1971). De Vega’s Egg Bag, Tricks, and Gimmicks. British, circa mid-1900s. Includes: black fabric Egg Bag (one of De Vega’s signature feats), with faux egg; jumbo “Stung Card,” hand-made by De Vega (magician displays a fan of three cards, removes two, then impossibly changes the appearance of the remaining card); color prediction trick (magician’s accurate prediction is found in a sealed envelope after a spectator selects a random card bearing a colored circle from a small packet); pull with adjustable leather arm-bands and metal pulley rigging system; metal finger-tip writing gimmick; set of Frank Deston production fans in original wrapper; short length of cord for the thumb-tie (another De Vega feature); spring production ball; two red production silks; and assorted throw-streamers, ribbons, and decorative papers from the magician’s collection. Expected wear to apparatus from use. Sold with the marketed effect De Vega’s Do-It-Again Card Folder. (Supreme, 1970s). Original instructions. Small folder is shown empty, closed and opened again to reveal it now holds two playing cards, and finally closed and opened to show the previous cards have become two others. Black folder decorated with red and yellow floral pattern, 9 x 6”.