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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SELBIT, P.T. (1881 ? 1938). Three Pieces of Selbit Ephemera. Including a pictorial programme featuring the Million Dollar Mystery at the Bradford Alhambra for the week commencing Nov. 26, 1928; a pictorial programme for his Living Pin Cushion at the Sheffield Empire for the week of May 7, 1923; and a three-page press release issued by Julian Wylie regarding Selbit's version of the Walking Through A Wall illusion, dated June 23rd, 1914. A good group of SCARCE items related to this inventive British illusionist.