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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CARDINI (Richard Pitchford, 1885 ? 1973). Eight Color Slides of Cardini. 1968. Unpublished color slides captured by Edwin A. Dawes and depicting the great manipulative magician performing with his trademark Peau Doux playing cards as well as Billiard Balls, as seen in the film in the preceding lot. In two images he wears the white gloves from his Royal Command Performance. Also pictured in other images are Walter and Litzka Gibson, John Henry Grossman, Swan Cardini, and others.