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The Salon de Magie Part IV

Sat, Jun 21, 2025 12:00PM EDT
Lot 165

GERMAIN, Karl (Charles Mattmueller, 1878 – 1959). Karl Germ...

Estimate: $500 - $1,000

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GERMAIN, Karl (Charles Mattmueller, 1878 ? 1959). Karl Germain's Ring Pull. Hamburg: Willmann, ca. 1930. Heavy machined metal locking pull with claw-like closure at line's terminal end. Length 4 ?". Purchased for the Salon de Magie from Stuart Cramer, Germain's biographer and prot?g?. A letter of provenance from Cramer dated December 3, 1976 notes that the Ring Pull was used for a trick called the Ring from Hand to Hand, ?One of the few tricks Germain still did after he became blind."