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Winter Magic Auction

Tue, Nov 19, 2019 10:30PM EST
Lot 382

Musical House of Cards.

Estimate: $250 - $350

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Musical House of Cards. Italy, ca. 1950s. Large and well-constructed collapsible wooden-framed house of cards with rising card mechanism and wind-up music box incorporated internally, painted wooden braces. Designed after the effect performed by Louis Nikola (see Magician Monthly, Feb. 1923, p. 32). Height 24?. Stored in the original corrugated box with paper label in Italian.