Set Reminder2024-06-08 12:00:002024-06-08 12:00:00America/New_YorkBidsquareBidsquare : Magicana: Featuring the Collection of Peter Hackhofer https://www.bidsquare.com/auctions/potter-potter/magicana-featuring-the-collection-of-peter-hackhofer-21905 This sale will highlight selected material from the collection of the late Peter Hackhofer. Built up over several decades as a dealer and seeker of the unusual, his holdings included an extensive library, unusual stone lithographs from the great illusion shows of yesteryear, and art of all types with a magic theme.
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CLARK, Keith (Pierre-Jacques Fays, 1908 ? 79). Personal Archive of Ephemera and Photographs of Magician Keith Clark. 1910s ? 50s. Including a small folio scrapbook kept by Clark and filled with press clippings and reviews for nightclub appearances in America and abroad; a folder of printed matter related to his career; and many images of Clark playing the violin early in his career, along with dozens of later photographs of poses from his nightclub act with silks, billiard balls, and cigarettes; and five large lobby photographs of the manipulator retouched for artistic effect, including two well-known images of Clark manipulating cigarettes. Approximately 50 items, the largest 14 x 12?. An interesting group from the career of this nightclub magician and author.