Set Reminder2025-02-15 12:00:002025-02-15 12:00:00America/New_YorkBidsquareBidsquare : The Collection of Edwin A. Dawes Part III https://www.bidsquare.com/auctions/potter-potter/the-collection-of-edwin-a-dawes-part-iii-21889 Our final single-owner sale from the Dawes collection is rich with conjuring curiosa of all types, including early broadsides, memorabilia from the Theatre Robert-Houdin, early and important magic textbooks, unusual Victorian apparatus, and bright stone lithographs from the golden age of the art.
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BLITZ, Antonio (1810 ? 77). Sig. Blitz Jun. ? Five Italian Dinner Plates. Hull: Thomas Topping, 1827. Letterpress handbill for a variety show at the Humber-Street Theatre, Hull featuring Blitz's turn with the plate juggling stunt that made him (and other members of his family) famous. 11 x 6". Dawes label to verso.Despite the billing here as ?Blitz Junior," this bill most likely advertises a performance by Antonio. His father, Abraham, also performed as Signor Blitz, but it was Antonio who became the more famous of the two, and who was initially billed as ?Junior."