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The David Baldwin Magic Collection II

Fri, May 18, 2018 03:00AM EDT
Lot 303

A Scrapbook of 19th and Early 20th Century Magic Ephemera.

Estimate: $250 - $350

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A Scrapbook of 19th and Early 20th Century Magic Ephemera. Folio volume, approximately 40 leaves, lacking covers and heavily worn at edges and spine, containing clippings from magazines and newspapers, trimmed letterhead and other magicians? advertising material, CDVs, and other ephemera, highlighted by a CDV of an Irish magician identified as Chris Balt, Secretary of Kinahan?s (Dublin), Sid Macaire testimonial handout with manuscript annotations, Charles McDonald CDV, and early W.W. Durbin programs. Magazine clippings primarily drawn from Mahatma, many pictorial.