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Salon de Magie: The Klosterman Collection Part II

Sat, Mar 26, 2022 12:00PM EDT
Lot 73

Kassner, Alois. Kassner?s Vanishing Gramophone. Circa 1920....

Estimate: $2,000 - $4,000

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Kassner, Alois. Kassner?s Vanishing Gramophone. Circa 1920. Upright wooden gramophone sitting on a sturdy wooden stand, from which music emanates. The magician covers the player with a cloth, lifts it from the stand, and throws the gramophone in the air, where it vanishes. Elaborate pedal-operated mechanism with concealed record player housed in a false-fronted in box below the player. Height of stand 33?. Owned and used by German illusionist Alois Kassner. Working.