Summer Magic Auction
Tue, Jul 24, 2018 03:10AM EDT
Lot 222
Important Okito TLS to Victor Barbour.
Estimate: $400 - $600
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Okito (Tobias Bamberg). Important Okito TLS to Victor Barbour. Dated April 29, 1920, Okito writes from the Empress Theatre, Brixton, on a wide range of topics, including his love of America, props he built for Thurston that went unused (the Triple Production), and particularly his umbrage for an low opinion of ?Doc? Nixon: ?He bought my old Okito act about 12 years ago. Nixon has never invented anything in his life, he is too ignorant for that, only he has a nerve.? ??he claimed to be the inventor of the duck vanish which he deliberately stole from LeRoy?? And, tongue in cheek, ?I am writing a practical book on magic all invented by our mutual friend Doctor William Nixon. I call the book ?Quality Magic.?? One 4to sheet of letterhead, signed ?Theo Okito."
