Salon de Magie: The Klosterman Collection Part III

[SPIRITUALISM] TABLE LIFTING/TABLE TURNING SÉANCE ROOM GIMMICKS. Circa 1900. Four substantial metal table lifting gimmicks with leather wrist and arm straps used by the secret accomplices of a spirit medium to aid in the tipping and lifting or levitation of a séance table. Hinged at rear of each device, the bars forked at the wrist end. Leather straps with sturdy sewn connections and metal buckles. Length of each approximately 8”. Scarce. Meant for use in tandem by accomplices of a spirit medium who, seated across from each other at a séance table, could lift it together in the darkened room thereby causing it to tilt, tip, and even float as if motivated by a spirit or ghost.