Set Reminder2021-06-19 12:00:002021-06-19 12:00:00America/New_YorkBidsquareBidsquare : Summer Magic Auction https://www.bidsquare.com/auctions/potter-potter/summer-magic-auction-21966 Our June sale of magicana brought an array of ephemera dating to the Victorian era and beyond, features props and memorabilia from the careers of many heroes of magic, includes a wide array of choice and concludes with the third offering vintage and modern magic apparatus from the collection and workshop of Rüdiger Deutsch.
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Dunninger, Joseph. Collection of Dunninger Radio Scripts and ?Brain-Busters.? 1940s ? 50s. Approximately 200 typed and handwritten pages, primarily authored by David J. Lustig (?La Vellma?), the principal ghostwriter for Joseph Dunninger. Archive includes scripts for Dunninger?s Kem-Tone sponsored radio program, detailed methods for various magic tricks and mind reading feats (glass breaking, envelope tests, etc.; some accompanied by drawings in Lustig?s hand), a screen treatement for ?File 77k ? Homicide, from the casebook of Dunninger the Mental Detective,? and others. With scattered annotations in Lustig?s hand. 4to pages, both typed and mimeo, some bound in original wrappers or stapled at corners, with the Brain Busters in a Lustig printed folder. A fascinating and revealing archive from the career of the most celebrated mentalist of the twentieth century.