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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COLLINS, Stanley (1881 ? 1966). Stanley Collins' Bookplate Printing Blocks. Pair of zinc plates mounted to hardwood blocks used to print the bookplate (in two sizes) of noted magic collector and ?concert party" performer Stanley Martin Collins. The image combines a range of magical symbols including an owl, card pips, and a magician's open hand. Designed by noted British illustrator Charles Folkard. The larger 4 ? x 2 ?". Good used condition.