Potter & Potter Auctions
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The Magic Collection of Jim Rawlins

Fri, Jan 25, 2019 10:30PM EST
Lot 447

Phillippe der ber?hmte Zauberer aus Paris.

Estimate: $400 - $600

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Phillippe (Jacques Andr? Noel Talon). Phillippe der ber?hmte Zauberer aus Paris. Vienna: Andreas Geiger after Schoeller, ca. 1842. Lovely colored print shows the magician in conical hat and costume surrounded by the tricks of his trade, a bowl of goldfish at his feet. Plate 82 from the Costume Bild zur Theaterzeitung. Framed to 16 x 14?. Edgar Heyl, a Baltimore bookseller who specialized in conjuring memorabilia, believed this print to be one of the earliest to depict a rabbit being produced from a hat.