Set Reminder2023-12-09 12:00:002023-12-09 12:00:00America/New_YorkBidsquareBidsquare : Select Secrets https://www.bidsquare.com/auctions/potter-potter/select-secrets-21918 From J.N. Maskelyne's toolbox to rare Houdiniana (posters, handcuffs, autographs), David Devant's passport to a magic trick that helped predict the outbreak of WWII, Robert Harbin's sketch for the Zig-Zag Girl and Al Delage's Sub Trunk, our December sale of magicana was a closely-curated offering of real rarities.
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[LAFAYETTE] SELBINI, Lalla (Mary McCoy, 1878 – 1942). Three Selbini Postcards, one Signed. British, 1910s. Offset printed cards, one bearing a full-length portrait of Selbini in a Moorish costume from the Lafayette show with a sword on her hip and turban on her head; a second being a side-view bust portrait; and the third a portrait of a smiling Selbini with her hands at her face, INSCRIBED AND SIGNED in ink, “Yours truly / Lalla Selbini.” The latter trimmed and with scrapbook remnants to verso, the former two with divided backs both captioned “The only successor to The Great Lafayette.” All unused. A SCARCE grouping.