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Salon de Magie: The Klosterman Collection Part I

Sat, Oct 30, 2021 12:00PM EDT
Lot 107

Herrmann, Alexander. Herrmann?s Giant Production Chafing Di...

Estimate: $2,000 - $4,000

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Herrmann, Alexander. Herrmann?s Giant Production Chafing Dish. Circa 1890. Large tin chafing dish, which, after being shown empty, produces a live duck, six doves, or several live rabbits. Height 17 ?", diameter 9 ?". Two joints in need of reattachment, else good. Said to be the property of Alexander Herrmann, the great French stage magician. With a LOA attesting to the history of the prop, and a magazine article, ca. 1965, picturing the prop in the collection of Joseph Dunninger, the noted mind reader. Sales History: Butterfield & Butterfield, November 1999, Lot 410.