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AEDRising Card Magician Automaton.
Lot 40
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By Potter & Potter Auctions
Jul 21, 2019
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2019-07-21 21:30:00
2019-07-21 21:30:00
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Bidsquare : Automata: Life & Other Illusions
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This sale features the automaton collection of Michael Kam. Over 150 vintage and modern mechanical marvels will go on the block, including rare and unusual examples by Vichy, Lambert, Phalibois, and their contemporaries. Prices Realized Potter & Potter Auctions info@potterauctions.com
This sale features the automaton collection of Michael Kam. Over 150 vintage and modern mechanical marvels will go on the block, including rare and unusual examples by Vichy, Lambert, Phalibois, and their contemporaries. Prices Realized Potter & Potter Auctions info@potterauctions.com
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- Lot Description
Rising Card Magician Automaton. Los Angeles: Alan Wakeling, ca. 2002. Handsome magician automaton stands behind a fanciful table holding a vase with flowers and a houlette on a separate table containing a pack of miniature cards. As the crank is turned in the base, the magician looks toward the cards, raises one hand, and a card rises from the houlette, matching a card selected by a member of the audience. The card descends into the houlette, and then the automaton turns his view to the flowers, which bloom from tiny buds into full flowers. Operated with a hand-crank mechanism, the action accompanied by the music of Pachabel from a concealed music box. Components crafted by Alan Wakeling and his wife Helen; Alan constructed the mechanism and working parts, Helen sculpted the face. Height 33?, base 17 x 14 x 7?. One of Wakeling?s automatons was featured, to great acclaim, in the Off-Broadway show, Ricky Jay and his 52 Assistants. Wakeling designed many of the world?s best known stage illusions, and was a renowned magician in his own right.
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