I Know What You're Thinking: The Collection of the Amazing Kreskin
Sat, Aug 16, 2025 12:00PM EDT
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Lot 263
PHILION, Achille. An Attraction Without a Parallel. Buffalo...
Estimate: $1,500 - $2,500
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PHILION, Achille. An Attraction Without a Parallel. Buffalo: The Courier Co., 1899 (no. 2656). Color stone lithograph depicting the ?marvelous equilibrist and originator" during his act, with an inset portrait in the upper left. While balancing atop a sphere, the French daredevil would ascend and descend a spiral tower and venture out onto a ?slender cable forty feet from the ground." The climax of his turn involved ?rushing headlong down the tower enveloped in flames and fireworks." 48 x 28". Linen backed. A. See Ricky Jay's Learned Pigs & Fireproof Women at page 204.
